to intersect
/ˌɪntɝˈsɛkt/
verbmeet at a point
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1. Well, we intersect the unit circle right over there.
2. It intersects the top of the surface.
3. But are there intersecting squares?
4. And then the lines intersected at one point.
5. For example, it intersects other dimensions of our political life.
to intersperse
/ˌɪntɝˈspɝs/
verbintroduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions
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1. Interspersed in there are videos of me being, me to you.
2. Your media controls are no longer interspersed throughout the top of your notifications.
3. In stage 2, theta waves are interspersed by sleep spindles and K complexes.
4. To shore up the strength of these weaker troops, the king interspersed smaller units of huscarls amongst them.
5. The cannons were interspersed throughout the Bavarian formation.
interstice
/ɪntˈɜːstɪs/
nounsmall opening between things
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1. Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying light in the interstices, looking out he foams.
2. But it's also implicitly a critique of the way knowledge is siloized between disciplines, and the kinds of theoretically objective knowledge that is unconscious of its own limitations it's produced within these clusters of debates, but is actually deeply, deeply shaped by those dark spaces that are not addressed in the interstices of fields.
3. And these cannot just be left to the market, or a state to regulate the interstices of where the market is failing.
4. If you want to extract the methane gas out of a coal bed, and that gas sits in the fissures, it's often kept there by the water that's also in those interstices within the coal bed.
to intervene
/ˌɪntɝˈvin/
verbto intentionally become involved in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse
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1. But senior Justice Department officials intervened.
2. But complexity intervened.
3. JAMES GREINER: Or data intervened.
4. However Adrian's parents intervened.
5. Then his hero intervened.
dialect
/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/
nounthe spoken form of a language specific to a certain region or people which is slightly different from the standard form in words and grammar
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1. I do dialects very well.
2. - Different pods of orcas actually have different dialects.
3. - Hi, Eric Singer, dialect coach.
4. They spoke German dialect.
5. Do different families use different dialects?
dialectical
/ˌdaɪəˈɫɛktɪkəɫ/
adjectivediscovering the truth of ideas by logically discussing the opposite ideas
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1. The gold standard therapy for borderline personality disorder is dialectical behavior therapy.
2. Dialectical behavior therapy was developed for borderline personality disorder.
3. Dialectical behavioral therapy doesn't work.
4. For borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy is extremely helpful.
5. But what is dialectical?
dialectician
/dˌaɪəlɪktˈɪʃən/
nouna logician skilled in dialectic
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1. Already in Greek philosophy the dialecticians emphasized that if you are looking at the world, this is not a picture, it is a movie-- right?--and every minute you see something different.
dialogue
/ˈdaɪəˌɫɔɡ/
nouna conversation between two or more people
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1. We need dialogue.
2. He loved dialogue.
3. Does dialogue make a difference?
4. I balked dialogue.
5. Develop a dialogue.
incoherent
/ˌɪnkoʊˈhɪɹənt/
adjective(of speech or written discourse) unclear or poorly organized in a way that is not comprehensible
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1. Could we tackle incoherent errors?
2. The opposite is 'incoherent'.
3. Her mumbles were practically incoherent.
4. So that's incoherent.
5. Hobbes' account for Rousseau is incoherent.
incombustible
/ɪnkəmbˈʌstəbəl/
adjectivenot capable of igniting and burning
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inconceivable
/ˌɪnkənˈsivəbəɫ/
adjectivetotally unlikely
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1. It's almost inconceivable.
2. It was inconceivable.
3. But that concept is just kind of inconceivable.
4. That's inconceivable, of course.
5. It's inconceivable.
advocacy
/ˈædvəkəsi/
nounactive support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
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1. A client is entitled to zealous advocacy.
2. A wise lawyer balances passionate advocacy and judicious counsel.
3. So this butterfly effect notion metaphorically organizes activist advocacy in this collection.
4. You had good advocacy.
5. Number two is also accessing the advocacy community.
to advocate
/ˈædvəˌkeɪt/, /ˈædvəkət/
verbto publicly support something
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1. The experienced statesman advocated a policy of peaceful relations with the other heads of state of Europe.
2. The Swedes advocate limited social distancing.
3. He advocated induction.
4. They advocated an ideal Christian commonwealth.
5. The model of the US Air Force advocates service before self.
chronic
/ˈkɹɑnɪk/
adjective(of an illness) difficult to cure and long-lasting
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1. The consequences of chronic sleep deprivation can be truly disastrous.
2. And chronic stress degrades the brain.
3. Chronic anger slows neurogenesis way down.
4. So does chronic illness cause mental health issues?
5. Painful emotions only become chronic.
to chronicle
/ˈkɹɑnɪkəɫ/
verbto record a series of historical events in a detailed way by a chronological order
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1. The novel chronicles the fortunes and misfortunes of the Buendía family over seven generations.
2. The film chronicled Arnold’s victory in the 1975 Mr. Olympia over Lou Ferrigno - the future Incredible Hulk.
3. The show chronicles the march to Danny's murder nonlinearly.
4. Our new exhibit upstairs in the O'Brien Gallery chronicles the events of the crisis through original documents from the National Archives and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
5. The series chronicled their everyday life as husband and wife.
chronicler
/ˈkɹɑnɪkɫɝ/
nounsomeone who writes chronicles
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1. Contemporary chroniclers claimed that John was his father’s favorite.
2. Chroniclers triumphantly declared the Muslim threat ended forever.
3. The chroniclers of the high middle ages described their religious counterparts with unflattering prose.
4. The chronicler was not far from the reality.
5. The chronicler was not far from the reality.
chronology
/kɹəˈnɑɫədʒi/
nounan arrangement of dates or events based on the order they took place
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1. The chronology works.
2. Chronology: when, what period do we cover?
3. And concern with witchcraft in this way had a quite distinct chronology.
4. Chronology means history or timeline.
5. The chronology was fortunate.
chronometer
/kɹənˈɑːmɪɾɚ/
nouna timepiece that shows the time in a very exact way, especially one used at sea
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1. The accuracy, the chronometer, the timing, it's all about telling the right time, keeping the right time.
2. And here he's wearing a Seamaster Aqua Terra, with a coaxial chronometer movement.
3. Or more particularly, for watches, because you know, about 90 years or 80 years later, John Harrison made this marine chronometer, which allowed to solve the problem of longitude.
4. He could even construct a lexical chronometer!
5. - I don't know, I have to put it in to the chronometer.