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What's the meaning of "hardly seem more implausible"?

In the following text, what does "the latter scenario could hardly seem more implausible" mean? The result suggests one of two scenarios. One is that arctic foxes gave rise to swift foxes, ...
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What is "and therefore profits"?

I have read an article called "Stocks have shrugged off the banking turmoil. Haven’t they?" in The Economist newspaper, but I find it hard to understand the meaning of a sentence. The ...
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About the meaning(s) of "to have much to recommend something" [closed]

Not sure if the mentioned expression in the title is just, I tried to figure it out based on my language skills/instincts. It is a citation found in a programming book. Sometimes between the title and ...
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Unsure of the meaning of ‘secure’ and ‘return’ in: ‘its object was…to secure her from any return of Mr Collins’s addresses…’

The full quote from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is as follows: This was very amiable, but Charlotte's kindness extended farther than Elizabeth had any conception of;— its object was nothing ...
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A binge is on its own

I am quite sure that the sentence There was a binge yesterday is grammatically correct. But what about semantics? I mean, there was an event like a drinking party yesterday. Do I use the binge word ...
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What is the negative form of "As soon as I saw her, I recognized her"? [closed]

Whether "No sooner had I seen her than I recognized her" is equivalent to the expression " As soon as I saw her, I recognized her" or " As soon as I had seen her, I recognized ...
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I may go to the party - permission or possibility? Or both? [duplicate]

Hope you can help me to answer this tricky question. I´m posting here as I got the impression that it needs a linguist or at least a native to answer it. When you say: I may go to the party. Does this ...
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What does 'picket fence' mean here? [closed]

Today I was listening to a song from Fall Out boy called Miss missing you. At one point in the song, they sing the line: "Baby you were my picket fence". I know what a picket fence is, but I ...
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The meaning of “how her foot feels rooted” [closed]

My question is, what is the meaning of the sentence? “How her foot feels rooted now as if it is really”. The person is talking about the right foot of Venus (The Birth of Venus). Sandro Leo can I ask ...
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Identify which one has the correct sentence structures

There are 4 options: a. Melanie wrote to her sister once a week while she was living abroad. b. While her sister was living abroad, Melanie wrote to her once a week. c. When traveling abroad, a letter ...
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How should this sentence be interpreted?

Imagine a scenario where Adam has to fight through multiple robots each day. Each of these robots is designed to throw punches. However, Adam has a secret power that can magically change their ...
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Meaning of Newton's sentence on God and natural phenomena

I read this sentence in Newton's Principia, in General Scholium: This concludes the discussion of God, and to treat of God from phenomena is certainly a part of natural philosophy. (Cohen translation,...
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What does "The 300 Light infantry" mean?

Text from Osprey Publishing, the book Saratoga 1777: Turning Point of a Revolution by Brendon Morrissey: Advance Guard: Col Daniel Morgan The riflemen had 374 all ranks fit and present out of 578 (...
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What does this sentence from a technical text book mean? [closed]

The minimum distance dmin of a linear block code is the smallest Hamming distance between any pair of codewords. Which of the following meanings are they implying? 1)You consider any pair of ...
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Difference between doing and getting things done by someone else [closed]

A traveler stops by an inn and the owner of the inn says something in two ways below. Sentence 1 - I will tie your horse. Sentence 2 - I will have your horse tied. In sentence 1, speaker will tie the ...
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Meaning of "as late as"

What have I searched so far? https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/as-late-as Can you please explain the meaning of as late as in simple words in below sentence? Sentence - the ...
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Can someone explain to me the meaning of the verse "in over your chest is way too deep"?

I was listening to the song "Wetsuit" by the band "The Vaccines" when I met with these weird lines: "Submerged, your vision's just obscured You're a lot like me In up to our ...
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Can we use under before deception?

Can we say something like this? he was under the deception of a false idea he sold his belongings. or he was under the deception of a false promise he sold his belongings. Are these grammatically ...
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Same sentence with different punctuation resulting in different meanings

(1) While the thought of an affectation for vanity's sake, on the surface, elicits shame, I have to remember I was a different person then. This sentence appears to imply that the result of the ...
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How to interpret the sentence starting with participle construction and “where”

I am reading this news article, and I found the paragraph below does not make sense to me. It will reduce the stigma, the pain and the harm caused on these patients, like stigmatizing and insulting ...
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Meaning of the phrase “not this little black duck”?

What does the phrase “not this little black duck” mean? I know it’s common among Australian people but I am not sure what does it mean.
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May I change the past perfect continuous to the past continuous and the past perfect to the past simple with the adverb "before"?

There are a lot of lessons about the PPC on the Internet and in textbooks, however, I've been stymied because an American friend of mine insists I can easily get away with changing the PPC to the PC ...
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didn't forget to do = remembered to do?

An English grammar book says the following. (50) John remembered to mail the letter. (= He remembered he had the task and then did it.) What about the following sentence? (60) John didn't forget to ...
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Is ‘trumpeted’ giving the intended meaning in this context? [closed]

This international accomplishments are often trumpeted by political officials as a cause for pride. I want to say that political officials always mention those accomplishments as a source of pride. I ...
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What's the meaning of this phrase in the chapter "The Last Lesson" written by Alphonse Daudet

I was reading "The Last Lesson" written by Alphonse Daudet. In the following para: Once some beetles flew in; but nobody paid any attention to them, not even the littlest ones who worked ...
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Meaning of "…as well had it not been for the machinations of journalists"

I've found the article written with advanced writing skill and it is way harder to understand for me. I want to know the simplified meaning of sentence in the context that I'm giving you. Can you ...
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Meaning of "Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach." [closed]

I read the following quote today from a book about productivity: Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. I know that the first sentence talks about noting down all the ...
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Meaning of "separate from everything, separate from anything you can put down on paper or maybe even drive off a lot, is the value of a human life"

While I was watching an episode from CSI Miami: Season 9, I heard Horatio Caine saying this: You know, Ruben, separate from everything, separate from anything you can put down on paper or maybe even ...
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Meaning of go around in the sentence [closed]

I am trying to understand the meaning of go around in following sentence. After checking the dictionary, I found 2 possible meanings. spin a flight path taken by an aircraft after an aborted approach ...
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Difference between “my feet” and “my two feet”

I'm trying to translate the following Prophetic tradition from Arabic to English: ألا كل شيء من أمر الجاهلية موضوع تحت قَدَمَيَّ، وربا الجاهلية موضوع كله، وأول ربا أضع ربا العباس بن عبد المطلب. A ...
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What is the meaning of "encourages it for… on" in this context?

Agriculture expands yield production to meet demand to limit overlapping, and the government encourages it for crop yield forecast on TamilNadu dataset imports." What does "encourages it ...
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"after all I have seen" vs "after I have seen all"

After all I have seen, I know but one thing. After I have seen all, I know but one thing. For me, these two sentences mean the same thing. Could there be any difference?
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What is the proper meaning of this sentence? Please explain this briefly [closed]

In a Batman(2022) movie, in public memorial for mayor,there is a announcement that "As a reminder, the family asked that those wishing to honor the mayor's memory... consider a donation to the ...
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"The box contains, at most, one marble." Can the box contain no marbles?

Does the sentence "The box contains, at most, one marble." apply if the box contains no marbles?
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"We" vs "One of us" vs "Someone" [closed]

Is there a difference between We One of us Someone ... will be here throughout the day to provide service Is one of them grammatically incorrect, or would they change the meaning? Thank you
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"Something won't happen because something is good." It seems the 'something is good' would affect the first 'Something' negatively but doesn't

I am writing about minimal web design, and these are the first lines I wrote: Minimalism was one of the major web design trends throughout the 2010s. And it likely won't fade away in the 2020s because ...
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How to use "Some more so than others"?

Consider the following sentence: Americans all around the world felt a sense of pride, some more so than others. Is such a usage of the phrase correct?
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Is it understandable to say "I'm listening to the 70's"?

Is it grammatically correct and understandable to say the following, where the word "music" is omitted.? I'm listening to the 70's"
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What's the meaning of the following sentence by Isaac Newton?

What's the meaning of the following sentence by Isaac Newton? Is not the Sensory of Animals that place to which the sensitive Substance is present, and into which the sensible Species of Things are ...
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Placement of the phrase "three years ago"

"This question was posed to a friend I respected greatly three years ago." In this sentence, what does the "three years ago" refer to? Does it mean the question was asked three ...
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Does the verb “have” make an emphasis in “What have you there in your pocket?”

“What have you there in your pocket?” I got confused when first saw this sentence. I thought “have” is a auxiliary verb but there is not other verb in the sentence. So it must be a verb meaning “own ...
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What is the meaning of “he had loathed the world, should it loathe him first”?

Recently, I stumbled upon the excerpt below, and the last part confused me considerably. Although I generally understand the separate parts and the syntax of the sentence, I can't quite decode the ...
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How to understand “wouldn’t” here [closed]

“Ah, poor James!” she said. “God knows we done all we could, as poor as we are—we wouldn’t see him want anything while he was in it.” I just interpret the sentence “ we wouldn’t see him want anything ...
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Help me with understanding the context

I'm having difficult time to understand the dialogue below. It comes from "Project Runway season 19." KRISTINA: Did you start to put your zippers? CHASITY: It's not gonna be the last moment. ...
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"All hazards and dangers we barter on chance"

This is from the lyrics of "Arthur McBride" by Paul Brady. ...“But,“ says Arthur, “I wouldn’t be proud of your clothes For you’ve only the lend of them, as I suppose And you dare not change ...
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"Resistance decreases with temperature". How to interpret this sentence?

If someone says "resistance decreases with temperature", is it possible to interpret the relationship between resistance and temperature? Does it mean that as temperature falls, resistance ...
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What is the meaning of "music streets" here?

While watching the 2021 AMAs, I heard Billy Porter as a presenter saying, "It always feels good to be recognized by your peers whether in my hometown, your hometown, or up in these music streets. ...
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He turned up one night stone broke in Medellín [closed]

My father was a renegade priest. I don’t know if he was Colombian or came from some other country. But he was Latin American. He turned up one night stone broke in Medellín, preaching sermons in bars ...
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Is "I would request you to" totally wrong in both American and British English when I want to want to request something from someone? [closed]

I wrote an email to someone like- Thanks! I would request you to [do this] so that I can [do that]. They replied making fun of English by saying "okay I will thank you for that" so I thought ...
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"as much as my place is worth"

Quote: “Bless you, sir, if any one is about he will be, for he is always the first stirring. But here he is, sir, to answer your questions for himself. No, sir, no; it is as much as my place is worth ...
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