Determiner
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en-det)
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* {{quote-magazine|date=2014-06-14|volume=411|issue=8891|magazine=(The Economist)
|title=
It's a gas
|passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved
more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
(senseid)
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* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-29|volume=407|issue=8842|page=72-3|magazine=(The Economist)
|title=
A punch in the gut
|passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot
more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
Adverb
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To a greater degree or extent.
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* {{quote-magazine|date=2013-07-19|author= Ian Sample
|volume=189|issue=6|page=34|magazine=(
The Guardian Weekly)
|title=
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains
|passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls
more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
* , Bk.XV, Ch.II:
- Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more .
(senseid) Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
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|title=(
The Celebrity)|chapter=5
|passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and
more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
* {{quote-magazine|year=2013|month=July-August|author=(Henry Petroski)
|title=
Geothermal Energy
|volume=101|issue=4|magazine=(
American Scientist)
|passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With
more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
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