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What is meant by the expression: “Save the day”?
What do you mean by Save the day? What does it mean to take advantage of the day? What are …
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joan Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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Meaning of “in the way their culture dictates”
In this documentary we meet many women from across the world, as they come of age in the way their …
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seeeker Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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Is ‘used to’ describing something changed?
I’m an English learner but I found that here are different ideas on “used to” among others and me. I …
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verbs

Mike Manilone Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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What does DLRS mean as the 4th most common word in 10,000 News Articles?
I just conducted a frequency distribution of 10,000 news articles and removing punctuation and stop words (common words like “the”, …
acronyms

journalism

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Dylan Siegler Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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Recurring difficulty finding a concise definition of “reasonable compromise”?
In an attempt to clarify my thoughts on a political argument I had with a friend, I searched for a …
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resources

Starbuckns Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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What does correct for the fact mean? Is “correct” intransitive in here? When this post will be closed, please enjoy..
Thirder, one needs to correct for the fact that vehicles use different types of fuel. For instance in this context.
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siamak Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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I mean “to be as flexible as possible” or “as flexible as possible” Which is correct?
On our website homepage we have the following sentence: We make our software to be as flexible as possible so …
grammaticality

infinitives

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basarat Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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The use of random means arbitrary or arbitrary, and there are still some examples using it, as they are used from different languages and times too.
I’m seeing the use of “random” instead of “arbitrary” and other than “on topic” Is the rudimentary frequency increasing? However, …
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Synonyms

Dennis Williamson Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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What’s mean by a grizzly image?
I watched a video and here is a line: The grizzly image has since been immortalized as shorthand slang for …
idiom-meaning

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single-word-requests

Dennis Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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“Impact in” vs. “Not effect in”: what are the pros and cons? “Impact on”
This change has no impact in the system’s current behaviour. Is preposition something grammatical exactly? It seems like we should …
grammaticality

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prepositions

word-choice

utxeee Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
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