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Answer for the clue "McGovern's running mate in 1972 ", 7 letters:
shriver

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Word definitions for shriver in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A person who shrives; a confessor

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"confessor," mid-14c., agent noun from shrive (v.).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shriver is an occupational surname . The name derives from the Indo-European root word " shrive ", which came to mean "to write", and which relates to multiple modern words, including in English scribe and scrivener and in German schreiben (to write). The ...

Usage examples of shriver.

When the captain left with the bippy, Shriver still remained, looking ironically after him.

In this fashion she had quickly met two Shrivers and a distant Lawford, but to Edie they would have been borderline fucks.