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What's the difference between "most of the time" and usually? Also what's the register of those two?
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What do you call an object that "compares"? [closed]
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not so much [adjective] as [other adjective]
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"Confuse A & B" vs. "Confuse between A & B"
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What's difference between " I knew i loved you" and " i knew i love you"?
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Is it correct to say, "Any which one of you can attend"?
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A word for entering a submarine
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What is the meaning of To Keep Tally
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Look out! That tree __________ (fall)
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"I am a lover of..." vs. "I love...." What is the difference? [closed]
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How many syllables do these rules say that ‘every’ has?
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Information on the word 'scower'
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What's the meaning of "this side of Albania"?
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Word or phrase for a particular type of spiral
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"We must eat to live, not live to eat." — What kind of rhetorical figure is that?
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How do I describe a match between two parties that are more or less equal in strength?
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Is there a word for a bright spot in the shadow of a lens or lens-like object?
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Word for participating in a war [closed]
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What is the origin of the phrase "up the guts"
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"Monsta" as "Monster" abbreviation?
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How to write a period of time in formal writing?
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Does the word "again" have a tense?
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Use of gender-specific and gender-neutral words together
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What is the name for a barrier where a railway line crosses a road?
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Is "A is associated with B" equivalent to "B is associated with A?" [closed]
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Pronunciation of berk and Berkshire
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Unusual/uncommon words to denote a specific length of time? Like fortnight but for different amounts of time [closed]
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When to leave "out" out of "out of"
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Gender-neutral word for patronymic/matronymic
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How do I decide whether I should spell the word "idolator" or "idolater"?
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Describing a group of windows?
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What do you call it when you are saying something palpably untrue on purpose?
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What's a word for fake politeness?
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What do you call a garment that is like a hoodie but has a zipper and doesn't have a hood?
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Term or phrase for simply moving a problem from one area to another
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Is there a label that describes a person with whom I am sharing something [duplicate]
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“Make sure to” vs. “Make sure you”
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Something appears valuable or precious but it isn't, symbolically equivalent to Pyrite?
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Word for simultaneously same and different
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Genderless version of "Better man than I"
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Rebel pronunciation [duplicate]
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How "So it would seem" phrase work?
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What does "lifted you sanction to your account" mean?
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clear up (v) vs. clear (v)
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Phrasal verbs meaning stop being consistent in doing something?
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Word for being asked many difficult questions
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Morpheme 'li' in friendliness
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What is the difference between a dash and a semicolon?
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What is the difference between "list" and "lookup list"?
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What does "turn down a glass" mean?
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The name of the area leading to a building's entrance
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How to refer to the original object from which a model is created
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What's the difference between using "of" and using "with" when showing a cause?
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How to interpret "...the disinfectant burnt her inside out, of course"
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I am looking for a word (a noun preferably but an adjective would suffice) that denotes a person that knowingly allows another to use them regularly
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Should "shape" be plural in "the shape and dimensions of the skyscrapers"?
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When can auxiliary "have" for a past participle in a modifier be omitted?
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"Has pushed" vs. "pushed"
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Word for "nuance" of movement
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Confused as to whether I should use commas or not
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