to look forward to
to look forward to
/lˈʊk fˈoːɹwɚd tuː/
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I live in calm, looking forward to the end.'
I knew I had no one to love me and nothing to look forward to.
Looking forward to the future.
to cheer up
to cheer up
/tʃˈɪɹ ˈʌp/
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I need cheering up.
It cheers up the experience of playing through the wasteland.
Jerry encourages them to cheer up! - I wish I was dead. -
to put up
to put up
/pˌʊt ˈʌp/
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They set up social media profiles, they put up whatever photos they want.
Poker staking is having someone put up money for another poker player to use normally to enter a poker tournament.
We’ve got to put up a picture of Jimmy Carter.
to let down
to let down
/lˈɛt dˈaʊn/
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She felt guilty that she had to stop breastfeeding and let down by the alternatives she saw.
Take this fairytale: "Rapunzel, Rapunzel," the Prince called, "let down your hair."
Brad: Let down the rest of your hair for me.
to break up
to break up
/bɹˈeɪk ˈʌp/
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So we actually almost ended up breaking up in January.
Like let's break up."
We didn't break up in January.
to fall out
to fall out
/fˈɔːl ˈaʊt/
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A chair flip does NOT mean we flip the chair upside down, and our friend falls out.
and they fall out, you see.
and then the nails fall out and that's
to cut down
to cut down
/kˈʌt dˈaʊn/
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That cut down on the time it took to change over machines to make the different products.
Processors cut down orders with growers.
He helped Nike R&D cut down from 350 sneaker ideas to 50.
to come across
to come across
/kˈʌm əkɹˈɑːs/
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When an ant comes across food, it returns to the nest, leaving a scent trail.
You coming across people with masks and having to communicate orally.
Which I get, because most people that you come across, probably are not going to be deaf.
to pay off
to pay off
/pˈeɪ ˈɔf/
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Sometimes, you’ll take the risk and it pays off.
Is there a risk that you've taken that totally paid off?
He studied over 11,000 penalty kicks, and in 2008 during the UEFA Champions League Final, it paid off, sort of.
to pick up
to pick up
/pˈɪk ˈʌp/
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Meanwhile, Brad picks up the ball and brings it to Shawn.
First the clerk picked up an item.
Now a clerk picks up an item and passes it over a scanner.
to set off
to set off
/sˈɛt ˈɔf/
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Although you can turn that setting off in Big.
I am a pretty depressed individual… and the smallest things can really set off an episode.
It set off a domino effect and McDonald's ultimately introduced a veggie McSpice and two vegetarian wraps in 2017.

to embark on
to embark on
/ɛmbˈɑːɹk ˈɑːn/
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to break down
to break down
/bɹˈeɪk dˈaʊn/
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The organic component of soil, called humus, is mostly made up of broken down lignin.
and she broke down in tears.
He broke down the locked door and escaped, just as the master and his men returned.
to look into
to look into
/lˈʊk ˌɪntʊ/
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She looked into the car.
" Jimmy looked into the pool carefully.
He looks into the cave and sees a young woman.

to map out
to map out
/mˈæp ˈaʊt/
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to talk into
to talk into
/tˈɔːk ˌɪntʊ/
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RYAN HOLIDAY: Talk into his hip microphone please.
Now tell your friend to put their cup over their ear while you talk into your cup.
Going to talk into it here.

to talk out of
to talk out of
/tˈɔːk ˌaʊɾəv/
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to give up
to give up
/ɡˈɪv ˈʌp/
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It would be easy to close our eyes or to give up in despair.
it's four 'cause she basically gave up her child.
The second year I think I went on a little bit longer and I gave up.
to brush up
to brush up
/bɹˈʌʃ ˈʌp/
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I'm off to get me a suit to see if I brush up all right.
The Programming with Python course really helped me brush up my programming basics ...
And be sure to brush up on algorithms linked to specific data structures like graph traversal.
to end up
to end up
/ˈɛnd ˈʌp/
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The night before I was supposed to fly out, I ended up with a 103-degree fever.
But it just ended up not happening, mostly because I couldn't think of what I wanted to say.
I voiced and there were people who ended up angry with me.

to bone up
to bone up
/bˈoʊn ˈʌp/
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to do away with
to do away with
/dˈuː ɐwˈeɪ wɪð/
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“The third agency of government I would do away with.”
You can't do away with them.
So Franco decided to do away with elections altogether.
to figure out
to figure out
/fˈɪɡjɚɹ ˈaʊt/
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I couldn't figure out how it worked.
So, I'm trying to figure out what to do in terms of streaming on Twitch.
Always trying to figure out what our diagnosis is.
to make up
to make up
/mˌeɪk ˈʌp/
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Make up your mind, pick a side.
So with two kids, you've got to make up the money somehow.
Still, floral waste makes up only about 16% of pollution that runs into the Ganges.
to account for
to account for
/ɐkˈaʊnt fɔːɹ/
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Fooling aside, what actually accounts for Google's success?
Those games accounted for 40% to 50% of Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant profits.
Electric vehicles accounted for only 2.5% of all global car sales in 2019.
to bring up
to bring up
/bɹˈɪŋ ˈʌp/
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And bring up some wine from the cellar!'
This cannot be the only thing that people bring up.
They're memes that hearing people have made and we'll answer some questions that they bring up.
to come about
to come about
/kˈʌm ɐbˈaʊt/
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Rhiannon: I can see why trends come about.
- Electric GT came about essentially four years ago when we saw that electric racing was starting with
Given its success, we asked Eddie how the name came about.
to get across
to get across
/ɡɛt əkɹˈɑːs/
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But can you get across the roof?'
How can we get across?'
It's hard to get across how big a technical revolution CRISPR is.
to narrow down
to narrow down
/nˈæɹoʊ dˈaʊn/
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Narrator: Vince narrowed down his product portfolio.
So he narrowed down his claim to argue that, when you adopt a belief, you have options.
But narrowing down values like R0 isn’t all there is to it.
to rule out
to rule out
/ɹˈuːl ˈaʊt/
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That ruled out the first hypothesis.
So contractarianism necessarily rules out things like slavery.
Now you might have noticed that Warren’s criteria definitely rules out fetuses.
to turn out
to turn out
/tˈɜːn ˈaʊt/
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and it turns out it's actually cake.
And yeah, it turns out they're not actually waving at me.
Turns out it's VRI.
to turn down
to turn down
/tˈɜːn dˈaʊn/
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But do you want to turn down one point five trillion benefit to the economy?
So you might turn down their attempts to hang out and become more lonely.
I think he turned down-- - No, he-- protective custody-- - No, he turned down Witness Protection.
to carry on
to carry on
/kˈæɹi ˈɑːn/
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Those that remain are determined to carry on this piece of Egypt's history.
You don't respond to "carry on!"
It does a great job of carrying on the Mustang legacy.
to fall behind
to fall behind
/fˈɔːl bɪhˈaɪnd/
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The car also began to fall behind competitors in safety and fuel economy.
People with few skills fall behind in terms of income.
Lina fell behind on rent after she got Covid and had to take time off work.
to face up
to face up
/fˈeɪs ˈʌp/
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So if you reach your hand out palm face up close to the fox he'll actually jump in. -
Okay, I got my corgi face up.
Place your fabric down with its pattern facing up.
to count on
to count on
/kˈaʊnt ˈɑːn/
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So that you will always have someone you can count on.
And the U.S. counts on China to buy up its debt.
But can you really count on cooperation?
to die out
to die out
/dˈaɪ ˈaʊt/
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The ones that did not died out.
We don't know what caused them to die out.
We will either die out or leave Earth and look for a new home.
to leave out
to leave out
/lˈiːv ˈaʊt/
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Perhaps we'll leave out the window.
He's questioning the shopping list that Mum's left out for him.
Now, you may have noticed that we left out some important stuff: digging around under the hood.
to get through
to get through
/ɡɛt θɹˈuː/
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Sinbad is very thin and he can get through the cage easily.
Everything I have today I got through my own hard work, and I'm proud of it.
Or he did find it and couldn't get through it.
to put down
to put down
/pˌʊt dˈaʊn/
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Mel puts down the phone.
Put down the candles, Mary,' he sighed. '
He puts down his phone and picks up the bag. '
to abide by
to abide by
/ɐbˈaɪd bˈaɪ/
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China constantly uses national security as a reason for saying, I don't have to abide by any rules.
So it's important for Google, as a corporation, to abide by its fiduciaries to pursue profit at the same time.
This mentality comes from the framework most startups these days abide by, laid out on 'The Lean Startup' by Eric Ries.
