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  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derail
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The additional derails will undoubtedly reduce the probability of future runaways.
The train derails and chugs right off the side of the mountain, over the rusty iron rails and teetering wooden supports.
When derails were removed from Jasper Yard, local instructions were issued that required a minimum of six hand brakes to be applied to all trains yarded at Jasper when the locomotives were removed from the train.
At every juncture, his attachment to an analysis through the prism of Marxist critical theory derails his book.
If red tape and government meddling derails the promising reforms to criminal prosecutions, it would, sadly, not be new or surprising.
In contrast, there were local instructions issued at Jasper when the derails were removed in 1990 to the effect that a minimum of six hand brakes should be applied for a train left without motive power.

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