How can I express the time between late 80s and beginning of 90s (somewhere around 1988-1992)?
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When to use 'divisible' vs 'dividable'
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Is there an acceptable corresponding negative to "well off"?
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"Simultaneously" vs "concurrently"
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English counterpart to Japanese signal word, “Dokkoisho”
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Is an "informed guess" the same as an "educated guess"?
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Meaning and origin of "belt and braces"
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Can we omit "with" in the expression glow with (something)?
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What single noun denotes a person who is interested in something?
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Can I say this in English: "Hard- and Software"?
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Is “Better never than late” the saying as popular as “Better late than never”?
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What does "several states of mind away" mean? Does it mean a strange place or something else?
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"Need of" vs. "need for"
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Literal echelons?
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Appropriateness of "putting my child down to sleep"
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Alternatives to use technical protocol terms as verb in a sentence
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Correct abbreviation of "engineer"
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What's the opposite of "pro bono"?
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The Cobbler's children have no shoes
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Why does this abbreviation "tl;dr" have a punctuation mark in it?
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Word for a person that is being taken advantage of financially / leeched off
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Does the word ‘clobber’ have the meaning of “secure” or “garner” as a verb other than ‘hitting hard” and “defeat sb completely”?
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Is there a grammatical term for 'extra information' in a sentence?
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What overarching category do "street," "road," "avenue", etc. belong to?
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Why is "dingbat" used to refer to characters like "☺"?
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What is the suspension of finer particles in the air called when a powdery substance is poured?
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Was the word for the BDSM costume "gimp suit" coined by Tarantino in Pulp Fiction?
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"Balconies", "porches", "decks", "terraces", "verandas", "lanais", "galleries", and "piazzas" in GAE and dialectal AE
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Proper way to pronounce "Pyrzqxgl!"
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Synonym for "half-ass"
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When did modern punctuation emerge?
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Pronunciation of the letter 'W'
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"On a lighter note": what is the meaning of this and how to use it?
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Term like air lock, but underwater?
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login and payoff are nouns. But can they be used as verbs?
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For how long have "death and taxes" been accepted as a "certainty"?
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Why is it "the day is young", not "still early"? What is the history of the phrase?
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Is there an equivalent of 'onomatopoeia' for words inspired by the appearance of thing?
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"Why is this not" versus "why is not this"
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