to take sides with sb/sth
/tˈeɪk sˈaɪdz wɪð ˌɛsbˈiː slˈæʃ ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/
phraseto support a particular person, group, or idea in a dispute or conflict
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tell me about it
/tˈɛl mˌiː ɐbˈaʊt ɪt/
sentenceused to show that one understands or agrees with what is being said because one has already experienced it
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1. Tell me about it, Adam.
2. A lot of my friends know about her, and we'll take pictures and post them on Instagram and at least tell me about it
3. - Tell me about it.
4. And I go tell me about it because I've only lived in Chelsea, I'm about to move to SoHo, what was it like when you lived there?
5. Tell me about it.
terms
/ˈtɝmz/
nounthe conditions included in a contract or agreement
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1. All of these are private companies, with very clear TERMS OF SERVICE, that you agree when signing up.
2. SENATOR McCAIN SERVED TWO TERMS BEFORE HE ENTERED THE SENATE.
3. 'You need to accept the Terms and Conditions.'
4. Terms of getting some tremendous people over the finish LINE.
5. AMENDMENT WHICH LIMITED PRESIDENTS TO ONLY TWO TERMS, THE 25th AMENDMENT WHICH CORRECTED SOME ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO VICE PRESIDENCY, AND
that makes two of us
/ðæt mˌeɪks tˈuː ʌv ˌʌs/
sentenceused to show agreement with someone or state that what applies to the speaker also applies to one
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1. "Yeah that makes two of us."
2. Well, your Honor, that makes two of us.
tie-up
/tˈaɪˈʌp/
nounan agreement in which two companies become business partners
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1. This is a new division, new tie-up inside the company, and so they're gonna release more products under the new branding as time goes on.
2. "Avengers: Endgame," which is a whole tie-up to the Marvel comic universe, really built upon successes of previous Marvel films with their digital characters.
3. So, perhaps I want to hear your views on, do you think this wave of tie-ups is going to carry on, and if so, what form do you think it will take in the coming years?
4. But it is a positive alternative for some people, particularly those who find that their depression is very tied-up in recurrent themes in their relationships that seem to happen over and over and over again.
together
/təˈɡɛðɝ/
adverbin agreement
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1. Railroads needed to create an official time system to link the rail system together.
2. Normally, cells work together to form structures like organs, tissue or elements of the immune system.
3. The tuna fish on the avocado go really well together.
4. The team is together.
5. So, you guys live together?
tolerance
/ˈtɑɫɝəns/
nounwillingness to accept behavior or opinions that are against one's own
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1. Information can encourage tolerance.
2. Information can encourage tolerance.
3. It means tolerance.
4. So we have tolerance.
5. It depends on your timeframes, your risk tolerances.
tolerant
/ˈtɑɫɝənt/
adjectiveshowing respect to what other people say or do even when one disagrees with them
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1. Now, I had very tolerant parents.
2. His body became tolerant to it.
3. Becoming tolerant to the alcohol.
4. My daughter is very tolerant.
5. A web browser is very tolerant of mistakes by developers.
tolerantly
/tˈɑːlɚɹəntli/
adverbin a way that shows tolerance
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1. And so (chuckles) this fellow very tolerantly says, "No, Clive, I mean polonium-210."
2. Nature looks on tolerantly as she says: "So far you may go, but no farther, my foolish children."
toleration
/ˌtɑɫɝˈeɪʃən/
nounwillingness to allow something that one does not like or agree with to happen or exist
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1. Toleration was an Enlightenment ideal that also served to increase the number of useful citizens in an empire.
2. Here, he advocated toleration on the basis of three points.
3. He already writes an important paper on toleration.
4. It was the place of toleration.
5. In addition to this, John Locke was a famous advocate of religious toleration.
treaty
/ˈtɹiti/
nounan official agreement between two or more governments or states
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1. Therefore, they needed treaties.
2. According to the US Department of State’s website, the treaty had a very colonial purpose in mind.
3. This treaty threatened your subjugate.
4. The case involves issues of personal jurisdiction in the context of Indian law, the treaties.
5. On July 7, 2017, 122 countries adopted the treaty.
truce
/ˈtɹus/
nounan agreement according to which enemies or opponents stop fighting each other for a specific period of time; the period of time that such agreement lasts
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1. Gangs could have truces.
2. Life on the savannah offers no truces.
3. Life on the savannah offers no truces.
4. Life on the savannah offers no truces.
5. Truce on that.
true
/ˈtɹu/
adverbin a way that is truthful
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1. Muslims believe that God sent Muhammad as the final prophet to bring people back to the one true religion, which involves the worship of, and submission to, a single and all-powerful God.
2. During that time, his mother told him folktales and true tales of horror, including her experiences during an outbreak of cholera in 1832.
3. Hollywood dreams come true.
4. Your wish came true.
5. - Number two is true!
unanimity
/ˌjunəˈnɪməti/, /ˌjunəˈnɪmɪti/
nouna situation in which all those involved are in complete agreement on something
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1. Only 48 out of 50 states required unanimity to convict in criminal trials until 2018.
2. The unanimity of the decision gives it a particular force.
3. Under the Articles, there is a unanimity requirement.
4. At the Philadelphia Convention, there was unanimity in the adoption of Article I, section 10.
5. We are amazed by the unanimity.
unanimous
/juˈnænəməs/
adjective(of a group) fully in agreement on something
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1. [Narrator] After a nine-month trial, the jury reached a unanimous verdict.
2. We produce unanimous reports.
3. Now, the articles had required unanimous consent by all 13 state legislatures.
4. The decision is not unanimous.
5. And medical experts are unanimous.
uncontentious
/ʌnkəntˈɛnʃəs/
adjectiveunlikely to cause an argument
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1. That should be a pretty uncontentious statement, certainly with this audience.
uncontested
/ˌənkənˈtɛstɪd/
adjectivewith no argument or opposition
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1. The uncontested patriarch of the household, Monet was closely tracked by his family, who would try to guess at whether he was in a good mood or not.
2. This is not an uncontested view.
3. But today their prize is uncontested.
4. We have the stereotype of uncontested patriarchal domination.
5. In 1996, after being separated for several years, Princess Diana agreed to an uncontested divorce.
uncontroversial
/ˌənˌkɑntɹəˈvɝʃəɫ/
adjectivenot causing or unlikely to cause disagreement
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1. This is uncontroversial among economists.
2. And again, that point's fairly uncontroversial.
3. But not all land uses are as uncontroversial as the harvesting of elephant grass.
4. But not all land uses are as uncontroversial as the harvesting of elephant grass.
5. So the first premise is uncontroversial.
to understand
/ˌəndɝˈstænd/
verbto assume something to be the case because it is obvious
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1. Throughout history, human behavior seemed impossible to understand.
2. They thought his phrenology map was a scientific way to understand human behavior.
3. It was only one man's attempt to understand human behavior.
4. Long ago, people did not understand infection.
5. Dogs understand people
understanding
/ˌəndɝˈstændɪŋ/
nounan informal agreement that may be unspoken
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1. After spending more time with Howard, I developed a better understanding of his belief that everyone deserves a zealous defense.
2. A chunk requires understanding.
3. Understanding is the first step.
4. So would a computer's molecular orbitals provide understanding?
5. The goal is understanding.
to undertake
/ˈəndɝˌteɪk/
verbto accept or promise to do something particular
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1. These young militants undertake a war on bourgeois specialists.
2. And so the administration undertook an extensive review.
3. And so the administration undertook a review.
4. They undertook a long trip, a dangerous trip, a difficult trip from Antarctica to Thailand.
5. They undertook a trip from Antarctica to Thailand.
undertaking
/ˈəndɝˌteɪkɪŋ/
nouna formal promise to do something particular
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1. From an engineering perspective, the inter-city railway was a massive undertaking.
2. Remember, huge undertaking.
3. This whole new record is an undertaking in length.
4. Theory is very often a purely speculative undertaking.
5. You do have an ethical undertaking.
united
/juˈnaɪtɪd/
adjective(of groups or people) acting together and in agreement
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1. United we stand.
2. Another fundamental difference between the male sexual brain and the female sexual brain: the male sexual brain's physical arousal and psychological arousal are united.
3. United we stand!
4. Caesar’s whole army in the region, aside from the 27th , was now united.
5. And the family was united.
unity
/ˈjunəti/, /ˈjunɪti/
nouna situation in which those involved are in agreement or joined together
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1. Steal my Unity.
2. Unity diminishes.
3. Consilience basically means unity of knowledge.
4. Unity was difficult.
5. Again, the poor guy only wanted unity.
unspoken
/ənˈspoʊkən/
adjectivenot put into words; understood or agreed without being put into words
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1. To my mind, the most salient image in The Star Pit is an unspoken word.
2. Extra unspoken syllables emerge.
3. Well, this unspoken action actually speaks volumes in terms of his interest in you.
4. Sometimes that's unspoken.
5. It is unspoken.
unstated
/ənˈsteɪtɪd/
adjectivenot put into words; agreed or understood without being expressed in speech
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1. A frame is, basically, all of the unstated beliefs that give context to any interaction.
2. Therefore, in order to successfully read, it requires more than just recognizing a series of words, but also understanding the relationships among them and the unstated implications involved in the described situation.
to upvote
/ˈəpˈvoʊt/
verbto show one's agreement or approval of an online post or comment by clicking on a specific icon
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1. Now, anyone can get 70,000 upvotes with a good enough story.
2. Upvotes might be democratic, but that doesn't mean that they work.
3. 20,000 upvotes, I will begin the process of starting a podcast.
4. And as we quickly learned in 2020, Twitter read tweets, Reddit upvotes and Facebook likes and dislikes and YouTube likes and dislikes.
5. I like to call these little upvotes for your site.
upvote
/ˈəpˈvoʊt/
nounthe action of showing one's agreement or approval of an online post or comment by clicking on a specific icon
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1. Now, anyone can get 70,000 upvotes with a good enough story.
2. Upvotes might be democratic, but that doesn't mean that they work.
3. 20,000 upvotes, I will begin the process of starting a podcast.
4. And as we quickly learned in 2020, Twitter read tweets, Reddit upvotes and Facebook likes and dislikes and YouTube likes and dislikes.
5. I like to call these little upvotes for your site.
warranty
/ˈwɔɹənti/
nouna written agreement in which a manufacturer promises a customer to repair or replace a product, under certain conditions, within a specific period of time
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1. Companies like Tesla typically warranty their batteries for 10 years.
2. A warranty won't recover your data.
3. hey so this product has a one year manufacturer's warranty.
4. Warranty covers that.
5. Review the warranty for your eyeglasses.
well
/ˈwɛɫ/
interjectionsaid to express agreement to something, usually reluctantly
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1. If every infected person quickly took malaria medicine, most would be well in a few days.
2. The brain not only gives signals to the missing arm, it receives them as well.
3. After spending more time with Howard, I developed a better understanding of his belief that everyone deserves a zealous defense.
4. Well, in a crass political sense, Judy, it's bad for the president.
5. A fetid hyena den is even better.
well said
/wˈɛl sˈɛd/
interjectionsaid to express admiration for or agreement with what someone has just said
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whatever you say
/wʌtˈɛvɚ juː sˈeɪ/
sentencesaid to agree to someone's suggestion, particularly to avoid an argument
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1. But whatever you say, nothing can keep me from my home, my place of rest, out there in the open air, with a gravestone at my head!'
2. Whatever you say, Mrs. S!
3. We're not your monkeys doing whatever you say for your silly little online T.V. channel.
4. The picture's really more important than the profile, so whatever you say is fine.
5. They're dedicated to doing whatever you say.
to wipe the slate clean
/wˈaɪp ðə slˈeɪt klˈiːn/
phraseto forget about past disagreements or mistakes and start fresh
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1. So, forget everything you ever learned about acids, wipe the slate clean, the most common acid on earth is water.
2. I'm gonna say like we just need to wipe the slate clean conceptually altogether and come up with a new way of thinking about the system.
3. This is not just the latest Chromebook from Google, it's the company's opportunity to wipe the slate clean, sorry, when it comes to its tablet strategy.
4. I'm saying, wouldn't it be wonderful to wipe the slate clean?
5. So it's about wiping the slate clean and understanding how when we change that self image, that's when everything really begins to change.
with one accord
/wɪð wˈʌn ɐkˈoːɹd/
phraseagreeing to something in a united and simultaneous manner
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1. She seemed rather shamefaced and embarrassed, and advanced with timid step toward her companions, who with one accord turned aside as if they had not seen her.
with one voice
/wɪð wˈʌn vˈɔɪs/
phrasewith everyone expressing the same opinion
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1. And the group acted with one voice, arriving at common policies, which was key to their strength.
2. TONY BLINKEN, U.S. Secretary of State: We need to be able to bring the world together and speaking with one voice in condemning what has taken place and what continues to take place.
3. With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs.
4. Now, we know that the internet doesn't speak with one voice and that there are still people who aren't on board with the new She-Ra reboot, but no matter your opinions, it's important to remember that this show was designed for a new generation of kids to give them a positive role model to look up to.
5. And in the same time of FDR's presidency, the US Supreme Court, in this case called Curtiss-Wright, hands down a decision that says the president has plenary power in foreign affairs, that he speaks with one voice for the American people in foreign affairs, and that that's what the founders wanted.
with pleasure
/wɪð plˈɛʒɚ/
phraseused to politely accept or agree to something
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1. 'With pleasure,' he answered, bowing, and the group moved towards the piano.
2. His handsome face shone with pleasure, and his eyes often left the book to look at the small white hand that lay on his shoulder.
3. He notes that in contrast to more utilitarian constructed languages like Esperanto, his interest was in associating language invention with pleasure.
4. And we smile, beaming with pleasure.
5. Feeling I did and is natural for me to do it's with pleasure I can declare every person then under my survey and now living can witness the exceeding candor and even tenderness which that part of the duty that fell to my share was executed.
to wrap up
/ɹˈæp ˈʌp/
verbto conclude or complete a meeting, job, agreement, etc.
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1. We also wrapped up with a quick history of the origins and development of astronomy, from ancient observers to the Hubble Space Telescope.
2. The prosecution and defense wrap up their cases in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
3. Tomorrow, the House impeachment managers wrap up their opening arguments.
4. Wrap up your present.
5. Wrap up.
to write into
/ɹˈaɪt ˌɪntʊ/
verbto include a condition in an agreement or contract
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yeah
/ˈjæ/
interjectionanother way of saying 'yes'
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1. Yeah, that guy likes tongue.
2. - Yeah, literally woke up neighbors.
3. Is that mustard of some sort? - Yeah.
4. Yeah, lets do whisky.
5. - Yeah, see?
yes
/ˈjɛs/
interjectiona word that shows we agree with something or think that it is true when answering a question
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1. Yes, now this game requires bones, real human bones.
2. Yes, jazz shoes get super slippery.
3. Ding ding ding, yes.
4. Yes, we women use different shower heads.
5. Yes, you guys get points.
yes-man
/jˈɛsmˈæn/
nouna person who always agrees with their leader or employer unquestionably in order to please them
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1. no so he's a yes-man he always says yes the next one very negative let's use a girl she's a bootlicker
2. This story is a pointed critique of the prophetic yes-men who are serving as court prophets for, and automatically endorse the policy of, King Ahab.
3. It's almost an open admission that the prophets are, you know, little more than yes-men.
4. And so, they're kind of yes-men.
5. It is probably much better to have a friend who is brutally honest than to have yes-men and yes-women in your life.
yessir
/jˈɛssɜː/
interjectionused to show complete agreement or emphasize one's opinion
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1. "Cookie dough panini, yessir"?
2. Yessir y'all take a seat.
3. - Yessir, sit down.
4. - Yessir, born and raised.
5. Eh, eh, eh, yessir, reel him in!
you can say that again
/juː kæn sˈeɪ ðæt ɐɡˈɛn/
sentenceused to express one's complete agreement with someone's statement
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1. - You can say that again.
2. Jefferies: You can say that again.
3. - You can say that again, I'm a Birdy in a Bottle Baby You Gotta Rub Me the Right Way.
4. - You can say that again. -
5. - You can say that again, pal.
you said it
/juː sˈɛd ɪt/
adverbsaid to express agreement with someone's suggestion
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1. - Got it, you said it.
2. Nope, it's perfect, you said it.
3. - You said it, now what arm is clearly eight feet long?
4. - You said it, that gives you an advantage.
5. - You said it with an intent to hurt.
you’re telling me
/jʊɹ tˈɛlɪŋ mˌiː/
phraseused to display complete agreement or awareness of something
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