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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
I’m there at home is correct, but perhaps awkward. What are some of the things that actually occur in ngrams? Is There I am at home used in movie theatres and films?
I can imagine I am already a rhetorical example at home being used in a similar context to Rome! What is the best Peoria? I am there at home where it doesn’t.
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
In the longer example in the question, “indifferent between” seems a better phrase than “indifferent to” but, as shown in other answers, more felicitous words exist. The risk adjustment should reflect the compensation that an insurer requires for
bearing this uncertainty and reflects the point at which the insurance company may, indifferently, fulfill an insurance contract with a range of possible outcomes or fulfill a liability with fixed cash flows.
What makes you fall in love with some of the people?
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Asked on March 13, 2021 in Word choice.
In the longer example in the question, “indifferent between” seems a better phrase than “indifferent to” but, as shown in other answers, more felicitous words exist. The risk adjustment should reflect the compensation that an insurer requires for
bearing this uncertainty and reflects the point at which the insurance company may, indifferently, fulfill an insurance contract with a range of possible outcomes or fulfill a liability with fixed cash flows.
What makes you fall in love with some of the people?
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Word choice.
Basically all of them are correct, except that get a new… seems more natural than get new…. Also note that assemblies derived from random sampling are often referred to as drawn (e.g. the magnet system) or created (e.g. a circuit). (Eleven sets/subsets/datasets were drawn from the population) to underpin the notion they are random rather than deterministically constructed.
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Single word requests.
Persnickety, “fastidious or fussy”; “Obsessive about mundane details, demanding for precision” is good in this context, and also fastidious, “Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details”; “Difficult to please; quick to find fault”.
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Asked on March 8, 2021 in Meaning.
If you are selling a product, ask the company whether a life cycle evaluation has been done or not. What does a corporation’s set of developed products look like? Regarding current development it is likely to mean “We carry out life cycle assessments as part of our product development process.” If “life cycle assessment” is a new activity at a company, it might instead mean, “We now carry out life cycle assessments as part of our product development process, and we are doing life cycle assessments on our existing products as we find the time or receive grants to fund the work.” “But if “life cycle assessment” is a new activity at a company, it might instead mean, “We carry out life cycle assessments as part of our product-development process, and we do life cycle assessments on our existing products as The
above assumes you are trying to interpret what some company has told you. If instead you are trying to describe the practice of a company, reasonable alternatives are to leave out the word developed if you mean the statement to apply to all products, or replace it with previously-developed if you mean to exclude products currently in development. (Although you should leave out developed) in either case; most people don’t view items under development as products, ie, a product (of a manufacturing company) typically is a previously-developed item now available for sale.)
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Asked on March 7, 2021 in Single word requests.
What are some reasons to consider some of these concepts.
• understudy, “a performer who understudies; a standby”. One sense of the verb understudy is “to study or know a role; to the extent that to be able to replace the usual performer when required.” Understudy usually refers to a substitute less capable than the normal performer but sometimes the understudy is quite capable.
• stand-in (already mentioned in other answers) means “A person of similar size and shape to an actor that “stands-in” for the actor during the lengthy process of setting up a shot, who, unlike a double, does not appear in the film” and ordinarily is a person less talented than the actual performer.
• deputy, “One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office…” •
substitute, “A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose” • knockoff, “An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually lower in quality and price than the original”
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Single word requests.
• Do “Thumb twiddling” in “Dally”? If so, one
- can use ‘Triple with ‘, “to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness;
- to mock” lea, “An example of a useless, time wasting activity” [edit: I see “lea)u00bb
- or dally, “To delay unnecessarily; to while away”
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are some above but not all apply to the first example too. ”
I’ve heard the term goldbricking used of bureaucrats, but from the definition “shirking or malingering” it may be an imperfect fit.
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Grammar.
How can I use some of this addition at the end of my sentences?
I find either “What’s the point if she’d just remove it in a couple of hours anyway?” or “What was the point if she’d remove it in a couple of hours?” stylistically and semantically preferable to “What was the point if she’d only remove it in a couple of hours?” “, a form that falls off.
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Word choice.
Consider time mode or Timing mode as the function in place of the Operation labels, with real-time or active or work time as possible values, with or without various spaces or hyphens. So, always-timing and when-working case could be denoted via some of the options shown below. What are some examples of other terms that have been used historically ( space, e.g. the time b.s. distance.) and are relevant too.
Realtime Timing: Real-time
Timing: Real-time Timing:
Wall-time Timing:
When busy
Timing: Elapsed
Timing: Real
Timing: Running:
Raning, running is
running: time
is running
– whenit runs not, but when I’m running a race, and when I’m not running a race, time is running a race!
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