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Word For The Day: duumvirate
https://www.thefreedictionary.com ^ | MAY 20, 2021 | Red Badger

Posted on 05/20/2021 8:52:26 AM PDT by Red Badger

duumvirate

du·um·vi·rate (do͞o-ŭm′vər-ĭt, dyo͞o-) n. 1. Any of various two-man executive boards in the Roman Republic. 2. A regime or partnership of two persons.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. duumvirate (djuːˈʌmvɪrɪt)

n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the office of or government by duumvirs Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 du•um•vi•rate (duˈʌm vər ɪt, dyu-)

n. 1. a coalition of two people holding the same office, as in ancient Rome. 2. the office or government of two such people.

[1650–60; < Latin duumvirātus. See duumvir] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. duumvirate

1. a position in government held jointly by two men. 2. the two people holding such a position.

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1 posted on 05/20/2021 8:52:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: xsmommy; Louis Foxwell; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

School is in session.

Use #2 pencils only.......


2 posted on 05/20/2021 8:53:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Joe Stolen sure is duum.
And not very “virile” at all.
And I’m certain he is NOT the one
Who is in charge, after all.


3 posted on 05/20/2021 8:56:23 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: left that other site

dumbvirate: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, John Kerry


4 posted on 05/20/2021 8:58:20 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: ghost of nixon

or better - tri-dumbvirate


5 posted on 05/20/2021 8:59:15 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: Red Badger

Duumvirate

DU - Democrat Underground aka DUmmies
UM - to hesitate
Virate - to inundate with viruses.

duumvirate - DUmmies hesitantly inundating with viruses.

Example Those Dummies protested in the street and duumvirated everyone.


6 posted on 05/20/2021 9:02:40 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Excellent!......................


7 posted on 05/20/2021 9:04:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger

The duumvirate, an ancient Roman institution, is not to be confused with the dumbvirate, the council of Democrat apparatchiks who are making decisions for the senile Biden adminisitration.


8 posted on 05/20/2021 9:18:09 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

The biden administration is NOT a duumvirate between biden and harris. It is really administration by a committee of shadow “presidents”—i.e., a Politburo!!!!

Besides that, the “vir” in “duumvirate” means “man”. harris is a woman. So there is no duumvirate whatsoever!!!!


9 posted on 05/20/2021 9:31:55 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Red Badger

In our family, my wife and I are a duumvirate.


10 posted on 05/20/2021 9:34:39 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: Honorary Serb
Besides that, the “vir” in “duumvirate” means “man”. harris is a woman. So there is no duumvirate whatsoever!!!!

Then it's possibly a DUUMVAGRATE?............

11 posted on 05/20/2021 9:37:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger

A duumvirate is when two people are in charge, but the United States is currently suffering through a vacuumvirate where no one is in charge.


12 posted on 05/20/2021 10:00:58 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Honorary Serb

Would Harris be a dumbvirago?


13 posted on 05/20/2021 10:34:43 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger
Duumvirate haiku ...

Are Joe and the ho
a real duumvirate or
just a dumbvirate?

14 posted on 05/20/2021 11:58:23 AM PDT by SFConservative
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