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You could also say: A red dot can be placed on the board so it's touching four squares.

I don't think we can do it without repeating X: *Notwithstanding, and indeed because of, X.... The above would be very stilted. Notwithstanding X, and indeed because of X, ... The second X could …

For use on an ad hoc basis in some situations: She's only his plus one tonight. I'm not sure they're seeing each other.

I would call the building(s) where many whelping boxes can be placed such that the individual litters are kept separate from one another but remain readily accessible to staff a whelping facility.

You can bully someone. You can mistreat someone. You can use someone. You can abuse someone. You can exploit someone. You can browbeat someone.

Guernica was sold yesterday for what is believed to be the highest price ever recorded for a Picasso painting in the postapocalyptic era, a dozen cans of baked beans.

A single non-classist word for "selfish, belligerent, lacking in basic humanity" ... The word sociopathic comes to mind. The final phrase, "lacking in basic humanity", is what pushes things over into …

I think you mean to say emigration not immigration. The construction you want is to be second only to {something}. The emigration rate of this country is second only to that of war-zone countries. Th …

When I taught freshman lit courses as a grad student, there wasn't any commonly used phrase to indicate that the student's prose in a piece of expository writing had fallen into patois. The main thing …

You seem to be referring to the breakdown of the class structures and the end of smaller communities. You can call that disintegration or social disintegration if you wish to emphasize the negative …

Break a leg! You go, girl! I’ve bet ten grand on youse guys.

I would call them "impossible requests" or, as you have said, "unreasonable requests". One could say "They intentionally made impossible requests in order to stall the peace process."

The woman is often referred to as "a new mother". P.S. I would be reluctant to advise that she be called a "postpartum mother" or a "postpartum woman" because there are bound to be readers who would …

When a metal surface becomes distorted (not as part of the design, as in corrugation) it can be said to have crinkles or to be crinkled. But that would be a lay term, not one that a metallurgist migh …

Such a person can be said "to sow doubt" or "to sow the seeds of doubt".