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  2. Sonnet 4 - Wikipedia

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    Simon Critchley says that the meaning of the couplet is that "if you don't reproduce you can leave no acceptable audit". [19] He evens compares Sonnet 4 to The Merchant of Venice in which Shakespeare is trying to emphasize themes concerning "increase, contract, abundance, waste, 'niggarding,' or miserliness". [ 19 ]

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    starter (q.v.) of a meal (traditionally, the course served between the fish and the joint, but now used for any starter) (usu. "the entrée") right of entry, insider-type access main course of a meal

  4. Opening sentence - Wikipedia

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    The opening sentence or opening line stands at the beginning of a written work. The opening line is part or all of the opening sentence that may start the lead paragraph . For older texts the Latin term incipit ('it begins') is in use for the very first words of the opening sentence.

  5. Volksgemeinschaft - Wikipedia

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    2.(a) owing to work-shyness or slovenliness, lead a worthless, unthrifty or disorderly life and are thereby a burden or danger to the community: Or Display a habit of, or inclination towards beggary or vagrancy, idling at work, larceny, swindling or other less seriously offences, or engage in excessive drunkenness, or for any such reasons are ...

  6. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo ...

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    Reed–Kellogg diagram of the sentence. The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word "buffalo". In order of their first use, these are: a. a city named Buffalo. This is used as a noun adjunct in the sentence; n. the noun buffalo, an animal, in the plural (equivalent to "buffaloes" or "buffalos"), in order to avoid ...

  7. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    According to the Oxford Guide to Plain English: If you can say what you want to say in a single sentence that lacks a direct connection with any other sentence, just stop there and go on to a new paragraph. There's no rule against it. A paragraph can be a single sentence, whether long, short, or middling. [30]

  8. DeepL Translator - Wikipedia

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    DeepL Translator is a neural machine translation service that was launched in August 2017 and is owned by Cologne-based DeepL SE.The translating system was first developed within Linguee and launched as entity DeepL.

  9. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    The original meaning was similar to "the game is afoot", but its modern meaning, like that of the phrase "crossing the Rubicon", denotes passing the point of no return on a momentous decision and entering into a risky endeavor where the outcome is left to chance. alenda lux ubi orta libertas: Let light be nourished where liberty has arisen