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  • Asked on March 29, 2021 in Word choice.

    I am the owner

    of abc company (a bit like: “I

    own abc company”) “owner” and “for” are

    not particularly linked together, “for” being here to introduce a purpose or function (and that wouldn’t fit your example).
    For instance:

    expropriate
    verb (of the state) take (property) from its owner for public use or gain.

    How or why not?

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in Single word requests.

    If there is no official word for niece and nephew, then what other variants exist for them?

    You will find “nibling”, by analogy with sibling. (But it’s mentioned only in “New Words and Slang ” section of Merriam-Webster, or in sites like Urbandictionary.) In this

    Yahoo answers thread, KISS = Keep It Simple, Stupid's answer also mentions: that there is no

    • encompassing word for aunt/uncle either that there is no
    • male/female form of cousin.

    If there is no word for it, don’t you suspect there isn’t word for nephews and nieces? I find this unnecessary. The word sibling is from Old English, and means related by blood?

    I suggest taking the parental ‘p’ to replace the’s’, so aunts and uncles are ‘piblings’. Keeping up with the pattern, nephews and nieces become ‘nibling’, a nice word that describes what they do with their piblings’ bank balances at Christmas and birthdays.

    The christmas gift that keeps on giving is used recently in this blog post, but you can also find it in an episode of the 1980 adventure series “The Moomins”

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  • Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.

    Why does my ex try to see me so soon after breaking up?

    The other meaning would be to try to see me (as I really am) like in The Legion Within “Try to see me” song.

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.

    Considering a subsection is already a distinct part or portion of something written, subsection can seem redundant at first.

    The notion of “placed in or

    occupying a higher class, rank, or position” is important,

    and distinct from the definition of section.
    That is why you also find sub-section in sports (“subsection title”) “2.

    “3” is not “a section within “Section 2”.
    What is in 2.? 3 is subordinate to the general context presented at the beginning of section 2

    and is “subordinate” to section 2 or 3/ 2 “Subordinating” to section 1 and is “subordinate” to section 1 (as used), “subordinate” to the general context presented at the beginning of section 2″

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