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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
What is the notion of an opportunist: someone who “takes advantage of any opportunity to advance his own situation, placing expediency above principle” (as per the law)
Ruthless means, in part, “never thinking or worrying about any pain caused to others”; for example, she ruthlessly pursued her ambition, letting nothing get in her way.
So a selfish person has to be concerned with self interest. Per
previous answer, a Machiavellian person tries to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods. Do the above suggestions not have any scruples? If you don’t want to suggest that lack, ruthless could be a tiny bit better. I slightly prefer the term self-serving to self-centered in this context.)
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Word choice.
What makes your personal preference for each character more annoying than your own preference at all?
What do most of the nouns be after the one following them? I never imagined before doing these searches, that “each of the ones” could possibly occur more often than “each one”. Do the examples follow the pattern where the “each with the x ” form is far more common than the “each z ” form? I have studied 3 patterns (two patterns) that have a coefficient of 234 :1!
- “each name”… 2,080,000 results “each
- of the names”… 240,000,000 results “each one”…
- 65,500,000 results “each of the
- ones”… 170,000,000 results “each hat”… 274,000 results
- “each hat”… 1,350,000 results “each
- moment”… 3,900,000 results “each of the moments”…
- 11,800,000 results “each wombat”… 943
- results “each wo
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Asked on March 4, 2021 in Meaning.
According to another answer, hardly means barely ( or, per Wiktionary, “Barely, only just, almost not”).
What is the meaning of “The jury was barely moved”?
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Asked on March 4, 2021 in Other.
I agree with James Stott that you can define and use the initialism NLCR, although it would be better to use an acronym in a language other than Welsh or Czech, to avoid the repeated mental delay of reading four words or letters.
For example, in an outline, you could give special meaning to a term, and thereafter use that term in places of “natural-language controlled robots”. How do I make a special definition in the following lines?
In this paper, the phrase and ordered robots will refer to robots driven by verbal orders.
In this paper, the phrase sentence-controlled robots (or equivalently, SCR) will refer to robots controlled by natural-language verbal orders.What are the 10 main reasons an online entrepreneur must get suspended at Harvard University?
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Asked on March 4, 2021 in Other.
Consider pettifogging, present participle of pettifog, which per wiktionary is to quibble and nitpick over trivial details. A pettifogger is “Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections.”
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Other.
The examples may be instances of ignoratio elenchi, that is to say, irrelevant conclusion or irrelevant thesis informal fallacies.
Informally and less specifically, one could refer to faulty reasoning, being over-hasty, jumping to conclusions, or making premature judgements. Several of the examples of the design principle of least surprise that are being observed are ignored.
What are the facets of the Hindu Church and a human society?
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Grammar.
Both words have senses that match:
• skilled, “Having or showing skill; skilful” •
skillful (or skilful) but skilled has an additionalsense as well, ” Requiring special abilities or training ” as in (e.g. French). They have the same meaning, but both have the same meanings. What is there to be said for her work ” (She works in a skilled trade). ”
On an ensuing sentence, ” He is a specialist” can stand alone as an example of a person have an aptitude. I’d not expect to hear ” He is skilled ” as a sentence by itself, but would expect detail: e.g. math’s a part of in a sentence. Specifically, ” He is skilled”. He is experienced martial arts expert. Are
they musicians “? “As a teacher they are very knowledgeable ” suggests to me that they have Good musical skills and are adaptive
or flexible.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Word choice.
Participant might work. I’d leave off the “service” adjective if you use your terms mostly in contexts where it’s understood.
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Meaning.
The sense 3 and 4 become the same. and can the senses apply to anyone? The automotive aftermarket in the United States includes places where goods are offered for sale (for example, Pep Boys, Autozone, and J C Whitney, among many others both online and in brick-and-mortar stores that sell particular types of merchandise, such as automotive parts).
What does the word stock mean? Is there a direct way to buy exact-replace rear wheels? To buy such parts usually is more expensive than buying similar or equivalent aftermarket parts, even though the original equipment manufacturer’s cost for the stock parts probably was less than that for the aftermarket parts.
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Asked on February 28, 2021 in Word choice.
SPOISON: As a noun, standing has senses “Position or reputation in society or a profession”
and “The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list”, among others. What is his standing in the community? “) asks about the position of a person in a community. Where is his standing in the community?” “”) somewhat redundantly and nonsensically asks about the location of a position. (note that ) some trivially. What are some questions of fundamental meaning?That is, the word competition is replaced by community. So, the word competition is used for the same reason. How was his performance at the level of the competition? What does “How does he stand in the competition?”? “, or similar, when stand or standing is used.
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