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What does (R-TN) after a name mean?
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US Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wants to make sure the Federal Communications Commission never interferes with "states' rights" to protect private Internet service providers from having to compete against municipal broadband…
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banned in vs banned from?
I see a lot of "banned from", but it seems to be rarely used in some context. I am trying to figure out why.
I see a lot of people say "Tiktok was banned in the U.S.", but not "Tiktok was banned from the U.S.", yet I see a lot of people say "banned…
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Walk around nonchalantly in one word
Is there a word that means "walk around nonchalantly" in the same way to breeze means "to walk somewhere quickly and confidently"
I want to use the word in this sentence:
The crime is intense over here; you can't walk around non chalantly.
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Meaning of "I just look out and go" in "Doctors will be, walk a couple of miles every day. And I just look out and go, can't be bothered."
From a speech by a depressed man who was told to exercise more:
And the doctors will be, just go out and do a couple of mile walk every day. And I just look out and go, can’t be bothered. Can’t be bothered. Because still in the back of my mind, I…
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English equivalent of the Russian idiom "притянуть за уши" + opposite of "to abbreviate"
I have encountered a couple of problems regarding the proper translation from the Russian language into English. Here are 2 cases:
There's an idiom that literally translates as "pull the ears" ("притянуть за уши"), which means that you are in a…
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She got an A for effort. (meaning of the sentence)
She got an A for effort.
She tried to get an A (made an effort to get an A, studied hard and really got it)
We don't know whether she got good grades or not, but the teacher gave her A because she showed an effort.
Which one is close to the…
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Difference between "this" and "that"
I always use them reversibly since I'm not too sure about their differences.
For instance, in an email I just wrote:
solution 1
solution 2
Which one of those solutions do you prefer?
I'm not too sure whether I should use these or those. In the…
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"were dumb as" similar to "were as dumb as"?
If they were as dumb as him, we would have a bigger mess in our hands.
If they were dumb as him, we would have a bigger mess in our hands.
I thought the second was completely fine until I used Google search and couldn't find a similar wording. Is…
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Difference between continuous and simple
If I ask someone "How do your parents punish you this year", am I asking him what his parents do when they catch him doing bad, but only this year?
Whereas in "How are your parents punishing you this year", it means he is being punished at the…
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What is the meaning of "nail" in "if they nail vaccinations"?
I was watching YouTube and suddenly got an ad advertising the following - the ad is from Bloomberg
If they nail vaccinations, drugstores will be the heroes of 2021.
Checking the definition of nail in the dictionary does not make any sense to…
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What does "I am all stomach" mean?
What does I am all stomach mean?
A: ‘’It’s my turn for a gift. I would like to take you to lunch. To my favorite spot.’’
B: ‘’I am all stomach, professor!’’
Lonely Man Full of Love
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What's the difference between "used to like" and 'liked'?
What is the difference between used to like and liked?
What is the difference if I say...
When I was 4 years old, I had one pink dress. My cousins used to like it (my dress) very much.
Or
When I was 4 years old, I had one pink dress. My cousins…
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Is it correct to say "My teacher yesterday was in Beijing."?
In my opinion, it is incorrect. I think that only one of the following two ways is grammatically correct:
My teacher was in Beijing yesterday.
Yesterday my teacher was in Beijing.
However, my son who is in an international school in China…
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Is "triggerer" correct, or is there some other word to identify the person who triggered something?
This might sound a bit silly, but I'm writing a program, and I'm looking for a way to name a variable which contains the entity that triggered a certain process.
I googled around a bit, and there are relatively few references to "triggerer",…
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What's the meaning of "has by"?
She tries not to react but knows she has by the smirk on Frank’s face,
the threat in the not-so-veiled statement plain.
It seems to me as an unusual structure. Could you please explain it to me?
Hadley & Grace by Suzanne Redfearn
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