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One word substitutions for number of days?

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Can “alma mater” refer to any school you’ve graduated from, not just college?

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Can "man" always be used to mean both men and women?

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What is the correct term for paper that has become wet and deformed as it dried out?

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Is there a term for letting out an exasperated sigh through the nose?

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What should I call someone addicted to mobile appliances?

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What’s the difference of ‘Truth with capital T” from truth with small t?

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A situation when two or more people speak at the same time

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Why is the right jack in cribbage also called "his Knobs"?

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Distinction between pagan and heathen?

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What is the proper emphasis for the word "indent"?

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What's the difference between "general" and "generic"?

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Etymology of 'doylum'

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What is the history of the IndianEnglish usage of "doubt" to mean "question"?

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Is there a word that means 'deliberately ignorant, choosing to ignore the facts'?

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What to reply to a person saying "Good Morning" when my time zone is different?

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Both or only the first, but never just the second

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Something which is not terminal or fatal but lifelong

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What does "Google-fu" mean?

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What does “Turn a lemon(s) into lemonade” exactly mean?

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Is a snake's venom poisonous (or venomous)?

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If I help "evacuate" a building, what am I doing to the people?

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"Prevalent" vs "prevailing"

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Is there a word for "becomes empty"?

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"ou" versus "o" in spelling words like "color"/"colour"

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What does ‘On its good days’ of “On its good days, all this (live for love, die for love, kill for love) seems to make perfect sense mean?

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What word or phrase means "a loss of what was on your mind"?

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What's the etymology of "dash"?

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What's a good idiom or saying to say "don't leave your current job before getting another"?

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Meaning of 'patchy at best'?

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Is there a word for "air can pass through it"?

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Open for "anyone"? Or open for "everyone"?

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What is the difference between a ¶ Pilcrow Sign and the § Section Sign?

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Store names & possessive

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Word meaning: A slip of the tongue which suggests how you actually feel, often humorous

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Is "certainly possible" an oxymoron?

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"How do you solve a problem like Maria?"

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"Be like" usage

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Etymology of "butthurt"

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Antonyms of “intersection ”

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Word for a person who raises his/her skill/performance according to degree of hardness of situation

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"in the year 1908" or "in the year of 1908"

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Do you capitalize the names of holidays?

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Meaning and etymology of "kemosabe"

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"Measure" vs. "measurement"

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A word for passing through a tollgate, turnpike, etc

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English translation for Kockásfülű Nyúl (Hungarian)

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“In the outskirts” versus “on the outskirts”

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Where does "reach-me-down" (as a variant of hand-me-down) come from

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Difference between "try to do" and "try and do"

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