academic year
/ˌækədˈɛmɪk jˈɪɹ/
nounthe period of the year during which schools and universities hold classes
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1. One survey looked at 3,375 college students during the academic year between 1987 and 1988.
2. One full academic year of public prototype testing completed.
3. 800 would be nice-- 80 to 100 enrolled students every academic year.
4. You could see massive economic fallout in the 2021 academic year there.
5. Indian academic year begins in June.
alternate
/ˈɔɫtɝˌneɪt/, /ˈɔɫtɝnət/
adjective(of two things) regularly happening one after another
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1. The book of Micah itself structurally alternates three prophecies of doom with three prophecies of restoration or hope.
2. The devotees alternate their religious customs without any problems.
3. The devotees alternate their religious customs without any problems.
4. The next move is alternating leg raises.
5. The next exercise is alternating knee tucks.
beforehand
/bɪˈfɔɹˌhænd/
adverbbefore an event or an action
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1. Give every apple a light rinse beforehand.
2. Beforehand, consider alternatives like niacin, bile acid resins, and fibrates.
3. Do your research beforehand
4. We told our friends beforehand
5. She has a long history of perfection beforehand.
bce
/bˌiːsˌiːˈiː/
adverbbefore common, current, or Christian era, especially used by non-Christians referring to a date before the birth of Jesus Christ
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1. In 73 BCE, the gladiator Spartacus famously led a slave revolt in Italy.
2. The year is 1400 BCE.
3. Most historians put his birth at around four to six BCE, Before the Common Era.
4. The first gladiatorial games took place in 264 BCE, during a private funeral.
5. Findings in the ancient village of Gilgal in the Jordan valley, place the domestication of figs around 9400 BCE.
ce
/ˌsiˈi/
adverbcommon or Christian era, especially used by non-Christians referring to the years after the birth of Jesus Christ
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1. The Zuni and Hopi civilization roundabout here peaked about 1200 CE.
2. So the first official crusade began with a call to arms from Pope Urban II in 1095 CE.
3. Early Life Our story begins around 1000 CE.
4. The letters CE here, the S sound, which goes right into the next sound, the consonant cluster.
5. Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
chronological
/ˌkɹɑnəˈɫɑdʒɪkəɫ/
adjectiveorganized according to the order that the events occurred in
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1. - I prefer chronological.
2. We're chronological.
3. It's roughly chronological.
4. And our next chronological person, our next chronological person skips the 1970s.
5. It is all chronological.
indefinite
/ˌɪnˈdɛfənət/
adjectivenot clearly defined; without clear limits
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1. It permits indefinite detention.
2. Is it indefinite?
3. Usually indefinite pronouns take singular verbs.
4. Indefinite, where did that come from?
5. Your time in the Special Housing Unit, aka, the SHU, the hole, will be indefinite.
instant
/ˈɪnstənt/
nouna moment or a certain point in time
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1. Was the chemistry between them instant?
2. The result again is instant.
3. Those motors deliver instant torque.
4. That mistake is instant.
5. The hate is instant.
latter
/ˈɫætɝ/
adjectiveclosest to the end of a particular period of time
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1. In 1954, the British government made the latter choice.
2. Life in Poland was tough during the latter part of the 19th century.
3. The latter also had artillery advantage with 60 guns, alongside 6 thousand infantry in 8 brigades and 10 thousand cavalry in 47 squadrons.
4. Then the latter goes to five meter.
5. However, the latter didn't have an easy path to the marketplace.
occasional
/əˈkeɪʒənəɫ/
adjectivehappening or done from time to time, not frequently
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1. We find occasional events.
2. Flurries means occasional snowflakes.
3. They were occasional.
4. I do love my occasional.
5. In the first place, a masque is nearly always occasional.
simultaneous
/ˌsaɪməɫˈteɪniəs/
adjectivetaking place at precisely the same time
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1. Because simultaneous interpretation requires intense concentration, every 30 minutes, the pair switches roles.
2. On August 7th, simultaneous attacks in Kenya and Tanzania killed hundreds of people.
3. These triumphs speak two simultaneous volumes.
4. Moves aren't simultaneous.
5. The moves are not simultaneous.
yearly
/ˈjɪɹɫi/
adjectiveappearing or happening once a year
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1. In the U.S., where about 200,000 people die from air pollution yearly, an unknown number of lives are also being spared.
2. Amount saved yearly, $708.
3. Amount saved yearly, $360 to $420.
4. Amount saved yearly, $260.88.
5. Because only two to three percent of the age-eligible population in the US actually donates blood yearly.
afterwards
/ˈæftɝwɝdz/
adverbafter the time or event that has already been mentioned
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1. Soon afterwards, the Median king had another dream.
2. Both places have actually experienced overall economic growth afterwards.
3. Wash your hands afterwards, of course.
4. Afterwards the right wing followed.
5. The problems began afterwards.
annually
/ˈænjuəɫi/
adverbonce in a year; yearly
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1. This facility processes up to a million tons of waste annually.
2. Postal service workers earned about $59,000 annually.
3. These companies spend over $60 billion annually on these three materials alone.
4. The fortunate ones, however, can earn up to $75,000 annually.
5. Four million of these babies die annually.
era
/ˈɛɹə/, /ˈɪɹə/
nouna period of history marked by particular features or events
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1. Every era saw different things.
2. Every era had some imprint on comedy and popular culture.
3. The Trump era restriction affected thousands of migrants.
4. Well, in the late eighties, era 2 time management thinking emerged.
5. Each era has to find its own answers such questions in architectural terms.
fortnight
/ˈfɔɹtˌnaɪt/
nouna period consisting of two weeks or 14 days
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1. Fortnight is a great example.
2. Fortnight is everywhere.
3. Fortnight season five has brought some huge changes to the map.
4. One fortnight later, we're back.
5. A fortnight is a period of two weeks.
lateness
/ˈɫeɪtnəs/
nounthe fact or quality of arriving, happening, or being done after the usual or expected time
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1. So he introduced fines, lateness fines.
2. Here's the lateness situation.
3. Here is the lateness situation.
4. Here's the lateness situation.
5. But even the lateness of the hour does not dim the energy and activity of the people at Hollywood and Highland.
millennium
/məˈɫɛniəm/
nouna period of 1000 years, usually calculated from the year of the birth of Jesus Christ
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1. McDonald's fries will last a millennium.
2. The tale has been an exegete's puzzle for over two millennia.
3. It was a new millennium.
4. His vast scholarship reaches across three millennia of Chinese history.
5. And obviously, the millennium bug is a great example.
subsequently
/ˈsəbsəkwəntɫi/
adverbafter something specific; afterward
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1. The body is subsequently taken away for a detailed examination that will establish the cause and time of the victim's death.
2. The Blows subsequently granted them their freedom.
3. The farmer subsequently mortgaged the same farm for GBP 880.
4. A disruption of that harmony would destroy their existence and, subsequently, their greatest ambition: eternity.
5. A disruption of that harmony would destroy their existence and, subsequently, their greatest ambition: eternity.
continuously
/kənˈtɪnjuəsɫi/
adverbwithout any pause or interruption
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1. Mindset Three Rich people continuously learn.
2. Human errors recur continuously.
3. The strong uneven gravitational pull on Earth would continuously deform the planet.
4. The same body of water would then continuously run the machine.
5. Countless bacteria are continuously fermenting the undigested food.
decade
/ˈdɛkeɪd/, /dɛˈkeɪd/
nounten years of time
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1. Meanwhile, China's megacities have seen explosive growth in the last few decades.
2. Decades now, but- Decades now?
3. Decades may pass.
4. - It took decades.
5. Decades go by.
eventually
/iˈvɛnʃəɫi/, /iˈvɛntʃəwəɫi/, /ɪˈvɛnʃəɫi/, /ɪˈvɛntʃəwəɫi/
adverbafter or at the end of a series of events or a long time
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1. A small break in a pipe can eventually create a sinkhole that swallows whatever stood above it.
2. And so eventually the leadership of Germany negotiated an armistice.
3. Eventually, this strange dream completely consumed the dreamer.
4. Now the males have a much larger rack than the females and eventually.
5. Eventually, the new model will replace the old model.
immediate
/ˌɪˈmiˌdiət/
adjectivetaking place or existing now and needing quick action
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1. Corrective action was immediate.
2. We're bemoaning the fact that there's so many ballots that they can't be counted in time to satiate everyone's thirst for immediate answers.
3. The reconnection is immediate.
4. The effect of scopolamine is immediate.
5. Her attraction to the part was immediate.
semester
/səˈmɛstɝ/
nouna period of six month; half a year
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1. One study tracked a group of college students throughout a semester.
2. Her roommates stayed home fall semester.
3. Her roommates stayed home fall semester.
4. So then this semester is taken care of.
5. Semesters will last three days.
while
/ˈhwaɪɫ/, /ˈwaɪɫ/
nouna length of time
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1. After a while, companies wanted to find a way to include more information in the bar code.
2. Lost in the world of imagination, I forgot my sad, lonely existence for a while, and was happy.
3. While some wealthy homeowners can afford private firefighting crews, the vast majority of firefighters work for the government.
4. You cover for them at work while they're on sick leave.
5. While another cafe simply makes donuts.
calendar
/ˈkæɫəndɝ/
nouna page or set of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, especially one put on a wall
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1. Here the calendar date shifted.
2. We explained why this should be our current calendar in our A new calendar for humanity video.
3. We explained why this should be our current calendar in our A new calendar for humanity video.
4. Calendars are very complex.
5. Calendar put?
eve
/ˈiv/
nounthe evening or day before an event, particularly a religious one
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1. - Where is Eve?
2. - Where is Eve?
3. Its name is Eve.
4. Eve had that weird song about the collarbone and the finger bones and all of this stuff.
5. My first Love was never Eve.
seasonal
/ˈsizənəɫ/
adjectiverelating to or happening during a particular season of the year
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1. In North America and Europe, seasonal flus occur every autumn and winter.
2. The patterns are seasonal.
3. Some storms are just seasonal.
4. Seasonal books keep the color palette.
5. Seasonal changes bring with it the promise of a better tomorrow but also a range of allergies.
leap year
/lˈiːp jˈɪɹ/
nouna year in every four years that has 366 days instead of 365
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1. So 1896 and 1904 were leap years but 1900 wasn't.
2. So 1900 and 2100 aren't leap years, but 2000 is.
3. Looking at you here, leap years.
4. Is 2020 a leap year?
5. With help from the astronomer Christopher Clavius, the new calendar dropped the leap year on the century years that were not divisible by 400.
for the time being
/fɚðə tˈaɪm bˈiːɪŋ/
phrasetemporarily or for a short period of time
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1. The measure has, for the time being, lost the lead.
2. For the time being, the show's quick demise is a sizable financial loss for Netflix.
3. For the time being, the situation for Caesar was precarious.
4. For the time being, traders and passengers remain dependent on boats like the Eduardo III.
5. We do not, for the time being, have the answer.
