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This tag is for questions about choosing the best word FROM A GIVEN SELECTION for a particular context or meaning. The selection to choose from must appear in the question. If you do not know the word already, use single-word-requests.
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What is the upper bound on "several"?
"Several" implies 4 to 12. I think the word has maintained this definition because it comes in pretty handy. It loses value when it's any more ambiguous than that.
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How to say that something that was inappropriate for some particular purpose now works?
For centuries, man has dreamed of performing financial transactions with handheld electronic devices. The elusive dream has finally become a reality.
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Subsequent, Consequent... Presequent?
Precedent also works as an adjective.
The rain is precedent to the wet grass.
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"Unsubscribe to" vs. "unsubscribe from"
Marketing emails often come with an unsubscribe link in the footer. This is what Twitter uses:
You can also unsubscribe to these emails or change your notification
settings.
"Unsubscribe from …
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"At the beginning" or "in the beginning"?
They are valid but not interchangeable. I think the most important difference is that "in the beginning" seems to be an expression describing a whole period of time, while "at the beginning" more lite …
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