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  • See also: August WOTD – 1 August 2018 (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːˈɡʌst/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɔˈɡʌst/, /ə-/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key):...
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  • (not comparable) (followed by to) without the knowledge of He went home early, unbeknownst to his mother. 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones...
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  • travel past without stopping. [from 14th c.] I noticed my wife pass by with a bag of shopping. (transitive) To travel past (something) without stopping;...
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  • safelier, superlative most safely or (rare) safeliest) In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else. 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The...
    3 KB (263 words) - 00:28, 13 November 2024
  • him, I asked him to accompany me. It would have been disloyal to let him broil in the heat of Cairo, while I went off to a summer resort. 2024 August...
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  • From Middle English hertles, herteles, from Old English heortlēas (“without courage; listless”), equivalent to heart +‎ -less. (General American) IPA(key):...
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  • was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what...
    8 KB (484 words) - 11:16, 27 September 2024
  • John Dryden, The Spanish fryar: I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once...
    665 bytes (104 words) - 00:05, 2 August 2024
  • messengers to hunt for him, and finally had got him in his office, arguing and pleading, cajoling and denouncing him by turns. 2010 August 4, Michael Scherer...
    5 KB (457 words) - 22:26, 11 October 2024
  • council offered him £740 for 74 perches of land... 'They are just Ned Kellys,’ he said. 'They certainly won't put it back on the market without making a handsome...
    732 bytes (90 words) - 04:05, 19 August 2024
  • and uneasy. You're a skunk at a garden party, to put it bluntly." 1996 August 13, Michiko Kakutani, “Books: Confessions of a Big Mouth”, in New York Times...
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  • period. (sports) Executed immediately after touching the ball, without holding it 2022 August 31, Simon Stone, “Manchester City 6-0 Nottingham Forest”, in...
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  • (to do something) without proper authority or permission. [from 14th c.] I wouldn't presume to tell him how to do his job. 1982 August 21, Sylvia Barren...
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  • WOTD – 5 August 2008 occurre (obsolete) Originally "meet, meet in argument", borrowed from Middle French occurrer, from Latin occurrō (“run to meet, run...
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  • bloody thing from him, just when he really, really needed it) he had no hope whatsoever of establishing contact between himselves. 2013 August 21, “Why is the...
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  • couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47 The safe and general antidote...
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  • cook (redirect from let him cook)
    (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /kʉk/ Homophone: cuck (most accents without the foot-strut split) Rhymes: -ʊk From Middle English cook, from Old English...
    33 KB (1,893 words) - 21:36, 14 November 2024
  • Plan in Name Only”, in New York Times, retrieved 1 August 2012: [T]he only future for Syria is without the Assad political dynasty. […] The government is...
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  • called in a professional mesmerizer to put him into a hypnotic sleep, from which Sawyer knew how to arouse him at a fixed time. This habit, as well as the...
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  • superlative most perfunctorily) In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality. 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger...
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