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While duly may be pleonastic in combination with require, it is probably not so here. Military service may require various actions of you, as your superior or the rules make demands on you. In most c …

I'd say the difference depends on context. The most literal senses of world versus universe are, respectively, the planet Earth versus all that exists. However, for practical purposes, it is often cle …

It means that many people consider X the opposite of respected. Not a few means "many". An oxymoron is a witty combination of opposite terms. And, yes, this sentence is very convoluted; that is pro …

As Colin quoted, the use of abstractly in the sense "absent-mindedly" is now archaic—I don't remember ever seeing it. Such an archaic word would not fit the rest of the text. It is most likely that th …

Whichever conjunction comes after if only doesn't really matter. Since you haven't provided a specific example sentence, I can only give you a general answer. It (hypothetically) stands for (even) if …

There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding: change is a noun here, not a verb. As Krueger has explained, the adjective subject + to + noun x normally means "exposed to x / open to x / susceptible …

It would sound odd in your situation: normally, a text is dedicated to a person or cause, but not simply to whatever the comment is about. Saying that my text is dedicated to a cause means, "any good …

The Oxford English Dictionary has this: spec. a. A short piece of writing placed at the beginning of a book or other composition, descriptive of its nature, contents, authorship, etc.; a title, hea …

No: in the example, there is a typo; it should really be facilitate. So Cambridge just searches a couple of corpora and displays arbitrary instances of the word in question, without checking them at a …

Typically, a fund consists of assets that can be directly expressed in some currency—money, I would say—, although its meaning is usually not defined very strictly. …

The verb means "to make one's own". It doesn't make much sense to make something your own that was already yours before, so to appropriate means "to make something that was owned by someone else your …

Something in between the first one and the third one, to make a great impression, to be heavy upon one's mind. When something is imposing, it overwhelms you with its force or skill, it is formidable. …

The Oxford English Dictionary says it was once used in English: farth: alleged synonym of farrow n. 2. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 134/1: "The young ones...of a sow...are called a Farth, a Farrow of Pi …

I don't see why any new company couldn't be called a "start-up". It has just started up, after all. Otherwise the name would be counter-intuitive. However, the word has now become such a cliché that …

Because his Metaphysica were about causality and other principles at work behind the physical world, it seems people later interpreted the "meta-" in Metaphysica as meaning "on a higher level than", and …