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  • of Alternative Services (1985) uses the 1975 ICET version, but unusually, it omits the Filioque ("and the Son") phrase in accordance with the 1978 Lambeth...
    33 KB (5,083 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2024
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    use of all letters in the alphabet is desired. The earliest known appearance of the phrase was in The Boston Journal. In an article titled "Current Notes"...
    10 KB (1,017 words) - 23:05, 25 May 2024
  • Current use is a phrase used to describe the present condition of land use and the corresponding scheme for property tax incentives for qualifying land...
    3 KB (485 words) - 02:50, 6 January 2023
  • common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as those by Bryan A. Garner in Garner's Modern...
    2 KB (3,600 words) - 12:56, 18 May 2024
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    All rights reserved (category English phrases)
    a phrase that originated in copyright law as part of copyright notices. It indicates that the copyright holder reserves, or holds for their own use, all...
    7 KB (801 words) - 04:37, 4 June 2024
  • sentence contains at least one noun phrase. Current economic weakness may be a result of high energy prices. Noun phrases can be identified by the possibility...
    19 KB (2,495 words) - 11:21, 14 February 2024
  • No homo (category Hip hop phrases)
    slang phrase used at the end of a sentence to assert the statement or action by the speaker had no intentional homosexual implications. The phrase is also...
    11 KB (1,386 words) - 23:38, 3 April 2024
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    From the river to the sea (category Phrases related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
    "destruction" of Israel. Islamist militant faction Hamas used the phrase in its 2017 charter. Usage of the phrase by such Palestinian militant groups has led critics...
    80 KB (8,614 words) - 15:44, 5 June 2024
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    Let's Go Brandon (category Use mdy dates from October 2021)
    slogan and Internet meme used as a euphemism for the phrase "Fuck Joe Biden" in reference to Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the United States...
    56 KB (4,645 words) - 06:13, 9 June 2024
  • and formed the Phrase Localization Suite. Phrase started out as an in-place editor for translations using the Ruby i18n localization library and JQuery...
    3 KB (200 words) - 09:14, 14 July 2023
  • Fossil word (category Archaic words and phrases)
    remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom or phrase. An example for a word sense is 'ado' in 'much ado'. An example for a phrase is 'in point'...
    7 KB (730 words) - 23:03, 5 June 2024
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    It ain't over till the fat lady sings (category Use mdy dates from April 2020)
    often used as a proverb. It means that one should not presume to know the outcome of an event which is still in progress. More specifically, the phrase is...
    6 KB (796 words) - 05:13, 8 June 2024
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    conventional symbol for current is I, which originates from the French phrase intensité du courant, (current intensity). Current intensity is often referred...
    47 KB (5,461 words) - 01:57, 28 May 2024
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    of the current and vice versa (the full period is called a cycle). In certain applications, like guitar amplifiers, different waveforms are used, such...
    48 KB (5,964 words) - 18:05, 2 June 2024
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    The oldest profession in the world (or the world's oldest profession) is a phrase that, unless another meaning is specified, refers to prostitution. However...
    15 KB (1,774 words) - 03:34, 17 March 2024
  • translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric...
    58 KB (356 words) - 16:02, 14 March 2024
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    "out of the phrase posse comitatus 'the force of the county' arose our present use of posse for a group of men whom the sheriff calls upon in a crisis."...
    41 KB (262 words) - 03:12, 23 February 2024
  • Drinking the Kool-Aid (category English phrases)
    drank the Kool-Aid." The widespread use of the phrase with its current meaning may have begun in the late 1990s. In some cases it began to take on a neutral...
    20 KB (2,068 words) - 23:06, 27 May 2024
  • translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric...
    21 KB (136 words) - 06:13, 8 June 2024
  • languages that use a different word order have postpositions instead (like Turkic languages) or have both types (like Finnish). The phrase formed by an...
    44 KB (5,580 words) - 04:44, 6 June 2024
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