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It was the time were people still wanted to use social media but grew tired of facebook.

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A surname.

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noun

A surname.

verb

Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”). [(intransitive, archaic except Northern England, Scotland) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.]

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Core meanings and parts of speech for grew.

noun

A surname.

verb

Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”). [(intransitive, archaic except Northern England, Scotland) To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.]

Example sentences

It was the time were people still wanted to use social media but grew tired of facebook.

Additionally, Firefox grew its users base by 40% in the last year--adding nearly 100 million users.

If you grew up during the Great Depression, you were born in the early 1920s.

The industry progressed, storage capacity grew dramatically, and executable sizes stopped mattering, but the use of shared libraries / DLLs continued out of inertia.

I grew up in a wet climate and when we got snow it was too heavy to stick to anything but the ground.

I have great friends that are wonderful and amazingly supportive, but there is something just...different about the church community I grew up in.

I grew up with authors looking for the small human stories in spaceflight and star colonization, and now here's a true personal one, for real...

> As Google stumbled and failed and stumbled again, Facebook grew larger and more influential.

I think I'd be happier about immigration if my kids grew up learning the language of the immigrants in our land, alongside their native tongue, anyway..

Ronda, on the other hand, grew up in an athletic household as the daughter of the first women's judo champion, and that mother routinely pushed her towards a similar path.

I've been in a very similar situation before (one of the first engineer hires in a company that grew to about 15 people when I left).

All I can think of is that most members had been there all their lives, it was what they grew into, and it was welcoming to outsiders.

Quote examples

Don't try to use credit cards with the "grew up in the great depression" generation.

But everyday life was much easier in "socialism" I should know - I grew up there.

We are a small “startup within a startup” team which grew from an experimental side project at Tilt, and many of us have backgrounds as former founders.

In my own life, at the age of 13 I ate at a Chinese restaurant for the first time (on a school trip to the 'big city' a couple of hours distant from the town I grew up in) and got a fortune cookie that read, in its entirety, "An ambition far beyond your reach".