And some structures are more common than others: "noun verb noun noun" may be much more common than "noun noun verb noun".
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Prepositions, in contrast, take a simpler object, a noun or noun phrase.
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The answer to "What you may call it?" is NOUN, because "it" is a noun.
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Singular entries get singular clues, noun entries get noun clues and plural entries get plural clues.
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Noun began alongside Paternoster's musical inclinations and as she grew and found her voice and style, so did Noun.
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This often occurs with adjunct nouns, a phrase where a noun acts as an adjective describing another noun — like "chicken soup" or "dance club."
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Word of the Day noun: a hollow filled with mud noun: a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) noun: necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass noun: any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the castoff skin of a snake) verb: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers _________ The word slough has appeared in 13 articles on nytimes.
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The can be merged with cat to give a noun phrase, which other grammar rules can operate on as if it were a bare noun like water.
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Word of the Day deluge \ˈdel-ˌyüj \ noun and verb noun: a heavy rain noun: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land noun: an overwhelming number or amount verb: fill or cover completely, usually with water verb: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid verb: charge someone with too many tasks _________ The word deluge has appeared in 190 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day noun: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal noun: colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g.
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Word of the Day victual \ ˈvi-tᵊl \ noun 1.
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Word of the Day verb: get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions verb: consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning verb: solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign noun: an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people noun: a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) noun: a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel noun: an oil painting on canvas fabric noun: a tent made of canvas fabric noun: the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete noun: the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account _________ The word canvass has appeared in 29 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov.
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Word of the Day noun: the topmost projecting part of an entablature noun: a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall noun: a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing verb: furnish with a cornice _________ The word cornice has appeared in 10 articles on nytimes.
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WHAT is the collective noun for a group of economists?
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The other three are gerunds, a kind of verbal noun.
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What's the collective noun for a group of Arab leaders?
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What's the collective noun for a group of voice AIs?
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Today, we're supposed to be thinking of EIDERdown, the noun.
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By 2014, the company had moved from noun to verb.
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"Americans" should be capitalized because it is a proper noun.
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The word exists both as a noun and a verb.
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Clinton's use of the word as a noun is rare.
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At first I was confused about whether the noun applied.
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Word of the Day verb: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans or desires) of verb: cover or back with foil verb: enhance by contrast noun: a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal noun: anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities noun: picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector noun: a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button noun: a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through _________ The word foil has appeared in 352 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day panegyric \ ˌpa-nə-ˈjir-ik , -ˈjī-rik \ adjective and noun adjective: formally expressing praise noun: a formal expression of praise _________ The word panegyric has appeared in six articles on nytimes.
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English is a Germanic language that allows for many different kinds of compounds, including those made from two adjectives ("blue-green"), two nouns ("kitchen sink"), adjective-noun ("darkroom"), noun-adjective ("slate-blue") and so on.
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Word of the Day adjective: unrestrained by convention or morality adjective: recklessly wasteful noun: a dissolute man in fashionable society noun: a recklessly extravagant consumer _________ The word profligate has appeared in 31 articles on nytimes.
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First I think of a noun in my milk voice: cupcake.
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As a noun, a flex is the thing being shown off
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And remember: Being an ally is a verb, not a noun.
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In this puzzle, it's a noun and a synonym for MAID.
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It's a weird company because it is both a noun, right?
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In the same way that Kleenex or Xerox is a noun.
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Use a comma between two adjectives that modify the same noun
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It's calling for a plural noun, and the answer is TEES.
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The collective noun for cuckoos, by the way, is an asylum.
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Word of the Day benediction \ ˌbe-nə-ˈdik-shən \ noun 1.
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In this preliminary statement, she defined the term as: noun: 216.
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Word of the Day verb: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds noun: reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence noun: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) noun: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence _________ The word conjecture has appeared in 56 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day noun: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) noun: the absence of mental stress or anxiety noun: a disposition free from stress or emotion verb: lean in a comfortable resting position verb: lie when dead verb: put in a horizontal position verb: put or confide something in a person or thing verb: to put something (e.g.
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Some got left out and new ones were invented, so I wrote "John's Wife" as a kind of formal sequel, titling it, like "Gerald's Party," with a proper noun in the genitive, plus a common noun.
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Everyone puts in an adjective and a noun and then they shake it up and you pull out an adjective and a noun, so it's like Moist Anonymous was one of the bands, or like Scary Rainbow.
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Butch [boo ch] | noun (butches) Someone who identifies and presents as masculine.
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It's more of a genre of content, but not a 'verb'/noun.
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"Ship" in this context can be both a verb and a noun.
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" Next comes the formula, which is "modifier, plus noun, plus action word.
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As a noun it meant vulva, in a neutral sort of way.
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In this case, it was a verb before it was a noun.
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In the vernacular, Uber is now both a noun and a verb.
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Unicorn (noun) uni·corn | \ ˈyü-nə-ˌkȯrn Finding a unicorn was not easy.
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"Free Gucci" is no longer a demand, but rather a proper noun.
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Technically, the collective noun for a group of hedgehogs is a prickle.
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The first definition, "the introductory section of a story," is a noun.
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It didn't take long before we'd turned Everydays into a proper noun.
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It could be noun, verb or adjective, indicating pep, liveliness and noise.
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Word of the Day amphibian \am-ˈfi-bē-ən\ noun and adjective noun: cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae that undergo metamorphosis into adult form noun: a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water noun: an airplane designed to take off and land on water adjective: relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia _________ The word amphibian has appeared in 22 articles in The New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct.
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Word of the Day adjective: pleasing to the sense of taste adjective: having an agreeably pungent taste adjective: morally wholesome or acceptable noun: an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre noun: any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees noun: either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family noun: dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions _________ The word savory has appeared in 247 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Feb.
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Word of the Day noun: a sudden outburst of anger noun: tightly woven fabric with raised cords verb: cause to feel resentment or indignation verb: raise interest or curiosity _________ The word pique has appeared in 199 articles on NYTimes.
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Drip, noun: undeniable, iced-out swagger; style so strong it positively oozes confidence.
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Like, it's not its own proper noun, like a "Flying Dutchman" or anything.
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Participants given the noun-structure statements again showed notably more support for concessions.
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For New Yorkers, "brunch" is both a noun, verb, and way of life.
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You can Google "blockchain [noun]" and find someone working on something blockchain related.
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" As a noun, the word is defined as "a negative quality or characteristic.
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In this case, the word was a verb before it was a noun.
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For a lot of white folks, the word "nigger" was just a noun.
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It's like Mad Libs: Think of a verb and an oddly specific noun.
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Throw a location in, if you want, where you will verb that noun.
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One of the accounts, for a fake Bruce Lopez in Louisiana, has a bio that describes him as a "Correspondent Traveler noun|linking verb|noun/verb/adjective|," which appears to reveal the formula used to write Twitter bios for the accounts.
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Word of the Day adjective: resembling human beings adjective: resembling apes noun: any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids noun: person who resembles a nonhuman primate _________ The word anthropoid has appeared in 17 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day noun: a line of people or vehicles waiting for something noun: (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted noun: a braid of hair at the back of the head verb: form a queue, form a line, stand in line _________ The word queue has appeared in 112 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Jan.
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Word of the Day verb: make (textiles) by knitting verb: tie or link together noun: a fabric made by knitting noun: a basic knitting stitch noun: needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine verb: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds _________ The word knit has appeared in 445 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Jan.
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"Like" is a preposition that should be followed by a noun or pronoun. Rephrase.
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Now I think Stamos will just become a useful noun in our house, i.e.
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Some American universities are paying more attention to the noun than to the adjective.
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It's because "to greenlight" was formed anew from a noun phrase, "a green light".
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Are we supposed to be thinking of a sewing needle, which is a noun?
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Mr. Trump used it as a noun, which, the dictionary says, is frowned upon.
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People try to put meaning into the name, but it's really just a noun.
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It's a noun, and the set we are thinking about is of TIRES. 39A.
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Today it's a noun clue and the steps are the RUNGS of a ladder.
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Here's a hint: They're disguised in the starred clues as noun or verb synonyms.
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Do not let yourselves get down; Faith's more a verb than it's a noun.
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If we read it as a noun, a possible condition of air is WIND.
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Word of the Day noun: use of physical or mental energy; hard work noun: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child verb: work hard _________ The word travail has appeared in 122 articles on NYTimes.
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The Braves on the other hand, just went full Mad Libs with their food options, just jamming up [noun for shit people like] with [noun for shit people like] and [adverb for being lazy as all get out] and birthing something like Burgerizza.
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Word of the Day noun: an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) noun: branched lighting fixture, often ornate, that hangs from the ceiling adjective: held from above _________ The word pendant has appeared in 100 articles on nytimes.
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Does saying 'nigger' 'cunt' as a noun, the same as using it as a verb.
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In fact, it is hard to prove that an abstract noun is creating a feeling.
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"Like," properly used, is a preposition, followed by a noun or pronoun as its object.
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For Mexicans, "desaparecido" is very much a noun, employed in countless headlines and everyday conversations.
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Throughout the English-speaking world it has become a mass noun, like "water" or "sand".
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But this is nonsense: "Photoshop" is used as a noun endlessly on Adobe's own website.
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Half of the statements were given in noun form ("I support the division of Jerusalem").
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As the researchers had hypothesised, presenting the statements in noun form reduced feelings of anger.
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Sausage fest (noun): An event or group in which the majority of participants are male.
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For example, "gist" is often used both as a noun and a verb meaning "gossip".
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Sure, it's part of a proper noun, but is it an adjective describing the donuts?
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The European Union was an entity, a bloodless noun, yet it had a beating heart.
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M_eme_ /noun; Internet slang /: a humorous image or text that is copied and shared widely.
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Legend'lɛdʒ(ə)nd' Noun A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated.
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A Word With Issa Rae is, be it noun or adjective, the definition of boss.
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In this puzzle, "Button-downs?" is not a collective noun referring to strait-laced people.
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LOQUACIOUS was indeed 10 letters, but alas, an adjective — not a noun like the others.
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This gave us a few years of "such adjective, very noun" language as a result.
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Sometimes we can take advantage of this convention by "hiding" a proper noun up front.
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Sloths are so slow, they earned their very own noun to describe, well, their slothfulness.
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Dyke [dahyk] | noun (dykes) Formerly and sometimes still considered a derogatory word to describe queer women.
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You basically pick three chords, pick a noun, and you are on your way to stardom.
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Nosh Verb: to snack; noun: a snack Oy Vey/Oy Gevalt An expression of great dismay
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For example, it's possible to create a successful new noun, verb, or adjective without much difficulty.
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Lot of alliteration, some kind of Mad Lib-y [Masculine Noun] [Whimsically Adjectival Compound Surname] types.
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More U.S. involvement on such a scale would merely change the proper noun, not the problem.
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Children use nouns (usually their first words) long before they have ever heard the word "noun".
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Drunk text (noun): A text message sent while drunk, typically one that is embarrassing or foolish.
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The "doxing" definition spelled publicly as "publically," and "demonetization" — a noun — was misidentified as a verb.
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Mark: I would never write the kind of music I wrote for Noun with anyone else.
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Thus, as long as he does not use that noun, Article I effectively does not apply.
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I speak to you tonight at a moment of [noun meaning extreme peril] for our country.
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It was during the period when friend was moving from a noun to a verb. Right?
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"Treasure" could be the buried kind, but in this puzzle, it's a verb, not a noun.
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The word "fantasque," originally French, is both noun (meaning fancy, fantasy) and adjective (meaning fanciful, fantastic).
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" At the top right: "Federal is capitalized only when used as part of a proper noun.
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Here's what you find cringeworthy: The use of the word "race" as a noun or adjective.
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Jews, like other minority or marginalized groups, are entitled to a noun to call our own.
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"If the following noun begins with a vowel, the article 'a' takes an 'n' " is another.
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"You might think that you're hot," he said, adding a noun that is better left unprinted.
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" Off the table entirely are "illegal," when used as a noun, and the sinister-sounding "alien.
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In this clue, it's acting as a noun, and the works about one's passion are ODES.
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Word of the Day noun: formal and explicit approval noun: a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications noun: a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts noun: a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price verb: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for verb: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of _________ The word warrant has appeared in 1,222 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day noun: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) noun: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) adjective: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language _________ The word vernacular has appeared in 120 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day verb: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of noun: a thwarting and distressing situation noun: a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole _________ The word stymie has appeared in 298 articles on nytimes.
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For example, the choice of a preposition can be influenced by the subsuming verb, or by the noun it follows, or by the noun that follows the preposition—a complex set of factors that our language-loving brains process intuitively, without obvious recourse to rules at all.
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The fact that Robbie can't decide if he wants "rudebox" to be a noun or a verb?
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And "Harvey Weinstein" has expanded to become a catch-all noun for men who abuse their power.
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The verb "bear" has 44 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), not counting the ursine noun.
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Long live [NOUN RELATED TO ARTIST, OR MAYBE JUST THEIR NAME]-[HIVE/COVEN/GAGGLE/BRANCH OF MILITARY]!
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The controversy stems from whether or not data is to be considered a countable or uncountable noun.
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When discussing Noun, she hesitates to call it a solo project because that's not 100 percent accurate.
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And when that noun becomes a pronoun, it is in what is usually called the objective case.
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"There are still vocal proponents of uppercase Internet, arguing it is a proper noun," the Journal wrote.
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Bless the artist whose work is so sui generis that there's no noun to accurately describe it.
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Liberals have ominously relabeled themselves "progressives," forsaking a noun that had its roots in "liber," meaning free.
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On a visit to Calder's studio, Duchamp coined the noun "mobile," and the rest is art history.
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"The confusion tends to be around what's considered a proper noun and what's not," Ms. Stamper said.
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Like Spanish, it is a gendered language, in which every noun has a masculine or feminine ending.
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Three noun phrases end (or terminate) in the names of airlines, with the revealer being AIRPORT TERMINALS.
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Mr. Arbesfeld offers us a set of four common noun phrases that begin with types of animals.
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"Adagio" can also be used as a noun to refer to any composition played at this tempo.
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It's worth noting that her use of "transgenders" as a noun in the song is dodgy, though.
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Word of the Day alias \ˈā-lē-əs, ˈāl-yəs\ noun and adverb noun: a name that has been assumed temporarily adverb: as known or named at another time or place _________ The word alias has appeared in 83 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Sept.
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Word of the Day noun: (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge noun: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) verb: make a return thrust verb: answer back _________ The word riposte has appeared in 39 articles on NYTimes.
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Word of the Day noun: soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants noun: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience verb: remove the pith from (a plant) _________ The word pith has appeared in 20 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day noun: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs noun: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of verb: fool or hoax verb: make a fool or dupe of _________ The word gull has appeared in 41 articles on nytimes.
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Ally [al-ahy] | noun (allies) A straight and/or cisgender person who supports and advocates for LGBTQ people.
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" The game spells "oxide" as "oxcide," and, perhaps more forgivably, mistakes the verb "affect" for the noun "effect.
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He treats rituals like the ceremony and the "blessed be the [fill in the noun]" greetings with disdain.
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In this case, the word "play" is the theatrical noun, and a play with emotions is a DRAMA.
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Some of the world's most influential news outlets on Wednesday stopped treating the internet as a proper noun.
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A good rule of thumb is that "affect" is usually a verb and "effect" is usually a noun.
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The Latin noun sortes means lots—as in "drawing lots," a reference to the game's element of chance.
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See Also: Belieber (noun) Up until last year, I really did not give any fucks about Justin Bieber.
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In its early years, NASA bestowed simple names to American spacecraft: a broad-sounding noun plus a number.
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SWOLE sounds like the past tense of "swell," although it's a noun and means extremely buff and muscular.
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I'm interested in painting (the verb) more than Painting (the noun), and my studio practice fully encompasses this.
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He emerged from Elizabeth, N.J., with a city kid's appreciation for a curse as noun, verb and adjective.
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The word "help" in "Help around the house" could be a verb or it could be a noun.
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And now "canon" has migrated from noun to adjective, giving the word thunder and muscle and curatorial certitude.
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Nearly two years later, deepfake is a generic noun for video manipulated or fabricated with artificial intelligence software.
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There were "Christians" — people with their own noun — and there were "Jewish" people — collectives described by an adjective.
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JOB (now JACKED UP) to avoid the proper noun build-up near the southwest, but nothing would budge.
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Use the word freely as an adjective (ethnic group), but not as a noun except in direct quotations.
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It's bursts of noun phrases, self-interruptions, sudden departures from the theme, flashes of memory, odd side remarks.
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Word of the Day astringent \ə-ˈstrin-jənt\ adjective or noun adjective: tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue noun: a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals _________ The word astringent has appeared in 16 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov.
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Word of the Day adjective: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle adjective: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic noun: a country person noun: a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life _________ The word bucolic has appeared in 101 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day noun: a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt noun: writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) adjective: written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols adjective: resembling hieroglyphic writing _________ The word hieroglyphic has appeared in five articles on nytimes.
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Drag king [drag king] | noun (drag kings) A (usually cisgender) woman who performs as a man for an audience.
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Drag queen [drag kween] | noun (drag queens) A (usually cisgender) man who performs as a woman for an audience.
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Fag(got) [fag-uh t] | noun (faggots) Formerly and sometimes still considered a derogatory word to describe queer men.
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Sex assigned at birth [seks] [uh-sahyn d] [at] [burth] | noun (sexes assigned at birth) Also seen as (SAAB).
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Instead, the pumpkin cider tasted exactly like vomit — not just vomit, the noun, but the actual act of vomiting.
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Some think the Urban Dictionary definition is wrong, and say "headass" is more of an adjective than a noun.
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How Omada Health changed "design" from a noun to a verb to "politely disrupt" the trillion-dollar healthcare industry.
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The predicate noun "bonds" is plural, but the subject is the singular "mechanism," so we need a singular verb.
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"Oh, Mom, just for a minute— until her people—" the Noun linked his orange fingers into her green ones.
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Fitspiration (noun): A person or thing that serves as motivation for someone to sustain or improve health and fitness.
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Between 1828 and 1829, he discovered wall texts that coupled hieroglyphs of a male king with feminine noun endings.
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And did Rudy "Noun, Verb, Radical Islamic Terrorism" Giuliani sound about ready to be fitted for a straight jacket?
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I still don't care for "narrative" as a noun but I'm reconciled to it, these days, as an adjective.
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It's just a proper noun followed by the densest clinical explanation, like a viral news blotter written by aliens.
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Fans of the pick-a-thing genre of nonfiction know that the narrower the noun the better the book.
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And other than the proper noun pile up in the SW corner, pretty happy how this one turned out.
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To flex is to show off, and as a noun, a flex is a specific instance of showing off.
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Politicians have successfully diverted attention from the origin of the second part of the noun, which is mentir (lying).
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" As a noun, an effect is the result of something: "The sunny weather had a huge effect on sales.
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Having an obscurity cross a proper noun can be very frustrating to solvers who might not know either entry.
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And that he spent nearly 278 years in Washington, a proper noun that's a dirty word in presidential politics?
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Today, I was hyper-focused on the noun "leaves," not the verb, but I couldn't make sense of that.
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Do you think we might see something as drastic as people using an adjective after a noun in English?
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It feels as if just about everyone in Sweden fikas — the word is both a verb and a noun.
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A "Mark," noun, is someone who is easily knocked around or swindled, idiomatically, like a "patsy" or a PIGEON.
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But "evangelical" has gone from being an adjective to a noun, a simplistic tribal identity that commands Republican affiliation.
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It was a page from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: Capillarity noun ka-pə-'ler-ə-tē, -'la-rə-.
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It needs to be read as a noun, so the answer is STAIR, because a step is a STAIR.
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Sanders's previous foreign policy arguments tended to be limited to "noun, verb, 2002 Iraq war," but tonight seemed different.
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Word of the Day verb: cook over a grill verb: examine thoroughly noun: a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate noun: a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill _________ The word grill has appeared in 533 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov.
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Gender identity [jen-der - ahy-den-ti-tee] | noun (gender identities) A person's internal, deeply held sense of their gender.
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A brand reaches its apotheosis when it slips into the vernacular as a generic noun—Band-Aid, Kleenex, even Dumpster.
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Mrs Merkel has a habit of using compound adjectives (noun-adjective words) when more committal, less wooly alternatives would do.
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While people will associate Paternoster more as the lead singer/guitarist for Screaming Females, Noun came into existence long before.
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This slang noun possibly derives from the Norse word for "pouch," or by analogy with the small, warm, furry animal.
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Proponents of uppercase-Internet contend that the Internet is a singular place, like the Earth, making it a proper noun.
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If there is need for a new word use "plausibull": a noun combining "plausible" and the popular word for nonsense.
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"Suck up" sounds as if we are looking for someone who fawns over someone else, which would be a noun.
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"Calmer, in brief" refers to the shortening of the noun "tranquilizer" to TRANQ, although "calmer" could also be an adjective.
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It's a cloying and misunderstood singular noun, one that can be spoken aloud by sane people only with ironic intent.
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For example, at 16A, the answer to the theme clue "Expense independent of production" is FIXED COST, a noun phrase.
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But as a noun, embodied by actual living people, it has become one of the nastiest epithets in American politics.
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"LeeAnne, you are not allowed to put a noun or a verb in front of nationalities," Westcott told the cameras.
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To give you some concrete examples, the privileged poor know that summer can be both a noun and a verb.
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He sailed somewhat above them, but he also dove into greater specifics than some of the other candidates, especially about foreign policy, which is his favorite turf, upon which he gets to plant proper noun after proper noun and to push back at the charge that he's too green to be commander in chief.
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Word of the Day noun: a person without a home, job, or property noun: a ship abandoned on the high seas adjective: worn and broken down by hard use adjective: in deplorable condition adjective: failing in what duty requires adjective: forsaken by owner or inhabitants _________ The word derelict has appeared in 165 articles on NYTimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: of or relating to the period before the biblical flood adjective: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period noun: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge noun: a very old person _________ The word antediluvian has appeared in 12 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day verb: cause to undergo fermentation verb: go sour or spoil verb: be in an agitated or excited state verb: work up into agitation or excitement noun: a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol noun: a substance capable of bringing about fermentation noun: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development _________ The word ferment has appeared in 60 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug.
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Word of the Day noun: a short light gust of air noun: a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike noun: a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil verb: drive or carry as if by a puff of air verb: utter with a puff of air verb: perceive by inhaling through the nose verb: smoke and exhale strongly verb: strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third _________ The word whiff has appeared in 160 articles on nytimes.
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Neutrois [noo-trwah] | noun An umbrella term used for people who do not identify as either a man or a woman.
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"There's only three things he mentions in a sentence -- a noun and a verb and 9/11," Biden said to laughter.
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MONDAY PUZZLE — What's better than starting off our solving week with a whole bunch (that's the collective noun) of cuddly animals?
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It was only a singular noun, from a past participle in French, meaning "chosen"; from the same root as "to elect".
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Here's a simple way to differentiate between the two: "Affect" is almost always a verb, whereas "effect" is usually a noun.
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It's not difficult to understand, then, why pizza has since been a popular noun to include in one's dating app bio.
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Mark Forsyth, in "The Elements of Eloquence", describes it as: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose and then Noun.
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At this point, if it's a noun, someone is probably trying to arrange your next meal in, on, or around it.
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"Stan" can be a noun for an overzealous and obsessive fan, or a verb meaning to be that kind of fan.
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Lower standings injury (noun) – Hockey fans are familiar with the league's insistence on never telling us which players have which injuries.
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Like a clue that can be read as a noun or a verb, it's all in how you look at it.
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When we're evaluating books of poems, a great deal depends on which noun — books or poems — we think should be stressed.
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In choosing the noun, Merriam-Webster said it was looked up on its website 74 percent more often than in 2017.
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But the bigger picture is The Electability Question, a conversation so well worn it may as well be a proper noun.
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" Communication is a kind of beauty, he said -- and "beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.
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In this clue, it's meant to be a noun, as in the returns on an investment, and the answer is PROFIT.
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While Mr. Muysken used Mr. Shlain's fidget spinner icon from the Noun Project, he did not work directly with Mr. Shlain.
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Image credit: Lisa Rayle with icons created by Laurent Canivet, Luis Prado, Gregor Cresnar and Stanislav Levin from Noun Project Image credit: Lisa Rayle with icons created by Laurent Canivet, Luis Prado, Gregor Cresnar and Stanislav Levin from Noun Project According to California law, black cars must be "prearranged," whereas taxis can be hired on demand.
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Word of the Day verb: give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency verb: sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below noun: a tremulous sound noun: a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note _________ The word quaver has appeared in 24 articles on NYTimes.
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Word of the Day noun: popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet noun: flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil verb: hunt grouse verb: complain _________ The word grouse has appeared in 39 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov.
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Word of the Day noun: someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action noun: an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it adjective: independent in behavior or thought _________ The word maverick has appeared in 224 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct.
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The dark comedy and social charge of his street scenes need a different noun: 'disquiet' tamps down Vallotton's humour and political anger.
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Iggy, who was punk before the word existed, uses "fuck" as an adjective, verb, and noun—but always through a sardonic grin.
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Brewer's droop (noun): Inability in a man to achieve or maintain an erection as a consequence of drinking an excess of alcohol.
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"The noun that comes to my mind is screw loose," he said Wednesday during a CNN town hall hosted by Anderson Cooper.
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One favorite device, for instance, is called "enallage," in which an adjective is pointedly displaced from the noun it should, logically, modify.
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