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As vs That in this sentence
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Is there a term for an adult without children, similar to "orphan" for the other way around?
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Programming vs. Coding
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Meaning of "take it to go"? [closed]
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what is the different between "urge" and "craving"?
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Grammatical analysis of "feared drowned"
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What is it called when people who speak with a Connecticut accent cut off "t"s at the end of words or skip them in the middle of words?
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Is there a adjective for someone with high pain tolerance? [closed]
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Onomatopoeia/interjection for snatching something?
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Code vs. Coding
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What does the idiomatic phrase "err on the side of" mean?
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What does the phrase "play the ... card" mean? [closed]
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'irritated' vs. 'aggravated' [closed]
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Is there such a word as 'untabulated'?
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What word is the positive equivalent of flattery?
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Can we use 'inquisitive questions'? [closed]
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What is it called when you tell someone not to do something but actually want them to do it?
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An expression for teacher in charge of a class
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Is "he registered in my mind" a common idiom?
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How to pluralize the following initialism [duplicate]
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What literary device/term is this? "To die would be an awfully big adventure."
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What are some ways to say, "a return to what things were"? [closed]
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Formal version of "stuck in one's old ways" [duplicate]
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what does "gopher" means in computer programming context?
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Have American English speakers always used the term "last name" instead of "surname"?
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Word describing sitting on a couch comfortably
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such as A and B OR such as A or B
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What does it mean by latest appointment? Does it mean earliest or last?
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What exactly do "not very good" and "not very good at all" mean in English?
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Do you ever say "coffee with milk" or "coffee and milk"?
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"crash" vs. "wreck" for [road/air] accident in AmEng
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On a mission vs in a mission
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Is there a word for being completely drained of breath?
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Is it physics’s or physics’? [duplicate]
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How many legitimate uses of "could of" / "would of" / "should of" are there? [closed]
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"Issued" or "were issued"? [closed]
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Disraeli's "Never complain, never explain"
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How to say "I am ok with NDA" formally [closed]
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They cheerleaded for it? or cheerled?
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Equivalent to the Chinese quote, (mis)attributed to JFK: "We fear not God-like rivals, but pig-like team members"
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Word or phrase designating the consensus reached at the last conversation about a topic
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Is "to play with one's feet" usable in English?
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Which is correct: "your -ing" or "you -ing"? [duplicate]
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"Yard" in the sense of pulling hard on something
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What does the phrase "Shop the edit" mean?
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Why is "thank you" pronounced as /θaŋ kjuː/ ("thang-Q")?
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What's the meaning of this quote? "May he who loves not others love himself."
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Word for act of pulling hair back using scalp muscles
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What does the colloquial "b" mean? Is it a gangland expression?
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"it is become" v.s. "it becomes", which one is correct?
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what is the word for someone not trying their best or performing badly on purpose?
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Origin of the phrase "fire away"?
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Correct word for a design in progress [closed]
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Can you say "very thrilled"?
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Is the English imperative ever different from the infinitive
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Lie-Gap for Gap-Toothed
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Is "similar in A and B" means equal to "similar between A and B"?
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Mandatory date or binding date?
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Single word for a synonym with opposite connotation?
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How is 'wl-' pronounced?
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