dinted; dinting; dints
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Noun
left a small dint in the car's fender
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Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Voters who, by dint of geography and race, were assumed to be shoo-in Democrats were having second thoughts.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 July 2024
Then he was moved to the second unit, which seemed to dint his confidence.
—Patrick Murray, Forbes, 23 May 2021
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Noun
This team is all in from the start and the time in the middle is marked not by dint of duration, but by boldly going where batsmen have feared to tread.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Voters who, by dint of geography and race, were assumed to be shoo-in Democrats were having second thoughts.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
Verb
But as similar fights play out in battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Michigan, repeated complaints about fraud could dint public faith in the electoral process.
—Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 July 2024
Then he was moved to the second unit, which seemed to dint his confidence.
—Patrick Murray, Forbes, 23 May 2021
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“Dint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dint. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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dint
1 of 2 noun1
: the force or power of something
—used chiefly in the phrase by dint of
succeeded by dint of hard work
dint
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