rather
/ˈɹæðɝ/, /ˈɹəðɝ/
interjectionused as a positive response to a suggestion or question
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1. Rather, the exact quote makes reference to a forbidden fruit.
2. Rather men mostly wore the wigs because of syphilis.
3. Rather, strengthening your abs, pecs and shoulders.
4. Most people would rather have a great vegetarian dish, rather than a bad meat dish.
5. Outcome goals rather.
receptive
/ɹiˈsɛptɪv/, /ɹɪˈsɛptɪv/
adjectivebeing open to listening or considering suggestions and new ideas
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1. My heart is receptive.
2. My heart is receptive.
3. The national park service and the Bureau of land management were receptive to Freeman's lofty goal.
4. Just be receptive.
5. Governments are receptive.
receptiveness
/ɹɪsˈɛptɪvnəs/
nounthe quality of being open to new ideas and suggestions
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1. There’s actually research showing that the receptiveness and responsiveness of whoever’s listening to your self-disclosures is really important.
2. That's a fine amount to see where her level of receptiveness is.
3. But I wonder whether you might be more optimistic that as pop culture spreads the idea for people that we are sort of physical entities with limited willpower, system one and system two, maybe that will slowly trickle into a more modest understanding of our choices and limitations and a receptiveness to nudges.
4. Japan-- there is a real receptiveness to hearing what others think of them.
5. But nonetheless, there is this real receptiveness and at least willingness to hear, and eagerness to hear.
receptivity
/ˈɹiˌsɛpˈtɪvɪti/
nounthe quality of being able or inclined to accept new ideas, suggestions, or perspectives
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1. You're inviting the force of receptivity.
2. It simply is in the state of receptivity and offering.
3. restoration, life, renewal, creation, birth, healing, receptivity, openness, nurturing, love, understanding, compassion, insight, intuition, wisdom, forgiveness, the moon, connection, harmony and sensuality.
4. receptivity means, we do not build walls around ourselves instead we are in a state of profound openness.
5. When it comes to authenticity, we have to consider the receptivity of the other partner or the other person in the scenario.
road map
/ɹˈoʊd mˈæp/
nouna thorough plan devised to aid progress toward a goal
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1. Their road map is simply the sum of active initiatives.
2. Narrator: A laminated version of the gridded image becomes the road map for the whole project.
3. First, the road map heads downstairs.
4. They have a road map.
5. There was no road map.
to say
/ˈseɪ/
verbto suggest an example or assume something to be the case
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1. They said it was impossible to know a person's personality by analyzing head bumps.
2. On the way, the driver said to Harry politely, 'Could you please tell me why we are doing all these things?
3. One day one of the girls in her class said to her, "Miss Smith, why does a man's hair become gray before his mustache and beard do?"
4. "This is my first trip abroad without my parents," says Paul.
5. Its critics say the group is a pyramid scheme masking as a cult.
say
/ˈseɪ/
interjectionused to draw someone's attention to one's remark or comment
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1. They said it was impossible to know a person's personality by analyzing head bumps.
2. On the way, the driver said to Harry politely, 'Could you please tell me why we are doing all these things?
3. One day one of the girls in her class said to her, "Miss Smith, why does a man's hair become gray before his mustache and beard do?"
4. "This is my first trip abroad without my parents," says Paul.
5. Its critics say the group is a pyramid scheme masking as a cult.
to slate
/ˈsɫeɪt/
verbto anoint someone for a particular job, position, etc.
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1. It cleans the slate.
2. - Check the slate.
3. Just clean the slate.
4. Just clean the slate.
5. Just clean the slate.
to submit
/səbˈmɪt/
verbto formally present a proposal, document, etc. to someone of an authority for further consideration or final verdict
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1. Over 50 private sector vendors submitted responses.
2. So chef submitted 1,200 recipes.
3. Instead, both applicants and programs submit a rank list.
4. Submit a term paper.
5. People were submitting unreliable news to their community.
to suggest
/səˈdʒɛst/
verbto mention or put forward an idea, proposition, plan, etc. for further consideration or possible action
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1. Research also suggests that switching between tasks significantly delays completion.
2. It's worth pointing out here that some meta-analyses suggest that antidepressants aren't any more effective than psychotherapy when symptoms are mild to moderate.
3. And so, the Apollo astronauts suggested a heads-up display.
4. Contemplation the history of the pineapple suggest a curious overlap between love and economics.
5. Apparently her trainer, Peter Geracimo, often suggests this dietary plan to his clients.
sure thing
/ʃˈʊɹ θˈɪŋ/
nounused as a positive respond to something; something definite
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1. Ascendant The Divergent adaptations seemed like a sure thing.
2. An apple next year is not a sure thing.
3. Sure thing, you’ve overslept!
4. Sure thing, that is a brutal truth.
5. The con artist's pocket is definitely a sure thing.
tacit
/ˈtæsɪt/
adjectivesuggested or understood without being verbally expressed
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1. For many years, that tacit agreement with the Russian people held.
2. He's got home turf, tacit psychological advantage.
3. There’s a tacit pressure to tip.
4. In law school, her early writing-- her intellectual practice-- enacted a tacit theory.
5. Hoover had the tacit permission of President Eisenhower and, soon after, President Kennedy.
tacitly
/ˈtæsɪtɫi/
adverbunderstood or implied without expressing directly
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1. It's been sort of tacitly allowed by the league and in many cases encouraged by the teams.
2. He did tacitly back an effort by Republican leaders to in fact challenge the result.
3. The US actually tacitly supported it in many ways.
4. But that would tacitly accept that his followers were abusing people.
5. And tacitly, there's a gesture of genuine economic equality because she talks about access to the middle class.
to take sth on board
/tˈeɪk ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ ˌɑːn bˈoːɹd/
phraseto begin to understand or accept an idea, suggestion, or problem
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1. Where the Nikola Two will be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, which takes hydrogen on board and combines it with oxygen from the air and makes the electricity that way.
2. And then you say, well, suppose we take those on board.
3. You can take your sample on board your research vessel and sequence it there.
4. It took a while for her friends and family to convince her that it would be a wonderful experience, but Violet eventually decided to take a job on board the ship.
5. But the idea that we could make a container full of it and then take it on board a spaceship, it's still a science fiction dream.
to theorize
/ˈθiɝˌaɪz/
verbto form a supposition about something, especially to justify a decision or a course of action
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1. We can theorize a couple of things at this point.
2. We theorize.
3. And some theorize humans played a large part in this.
4. He theorizes an idea of history, a tripartite idea of history according to the three persons of the Trinity: the age of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
5. Locals theorize that the blaze may have been the result of an unattended meth lab in the trailer.
theorizing
/ˈθiɝˌaɪzɪŋ/
nounthe act or process of forming or presenting facts and ideas about something
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1. But conspiracy theorizing ran so rampant this week that during a press briefing for the Nevada Voting Registrar, this happened.
2. In the US, there is this kind of new theorizing in terms of super diversity, that all countries, many countries, many cities become minority majorities.
3. One is, of course, to see it as part of the early formulation of intersectionality theorizing and to think about it in the intellectual history of critical race theory, to think about in terms of the work that Kimberly Crenshaw will come along as a legal professor and do a couple of decades later.
4. But, you know, again, if we're going down this theorizing road
5. Their distinctive customs, manners, laws, habits, moral dispositions and sentiments, and Aristotle's constitutional theorizing begins by asking a simple question.
to volunteer
/ˌvɑɫənˈtɪɹ/
verbto state or suggest something without being asked or told
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1. volunteers are offering help face-to-face.
2. Volunteers went in.
3. Volunteers prefer the 90 dollar wine.
4. - Volunteered?
5. Volunteers, make some noise.
what about
/wˌʌt ɐbˈaʊt/
phraseused for making a suggestion
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1. What about emphasizing lost details that would not be visible to an eyewitness?
2. Tulips seem reasonably priced today, but what about star athletes?
3. 'Then what about tomorrow night?' asked Jake.
4. 'Then what about tomorrow?' said Jake.
5. 'Then I ask myself: what about the real thief?
what are we waiting for?
/wˌʌt ɑːɹ wiː wˈeɪɾɪŋ fɔːɹ/
sentenceused to say that the matter that was being talked about should be done without hesitation because there is no reason to delay it any longer
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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.
why not
/wˌaɪ nˈɑːt/
phraseused to present a suggestion or an alternative
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1. If sound and visual images are possible, then why not smell?
2. Why not just show the ghosts?
3. If we could create neuro-bionic chips to cure brain disorders, why not pills that induce creativity on demand?
4. Maybe, but why not see for yourself?
5. And why not?' screamed the woman.
you never know
/juː nˈɛvɚ nˈoʊ/
sentenceused to say that even if the happening of something is unlikely, it is not impossible
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1. We might have burglars at Thornfield one day, you never know.'
2. You know, you never know.
3. You never know if there's a possibility that the guy is gonna eventually escalate and do a little bit of testing on ACHS.
4. So, what I wanted to do from now on, is instead of boasting or getting really excited about creators in general who will make a big announcement tweet or video saying that they're going to caption because you never know what's going to happen down the line in the future, you don't know what's going to happen two days from now, two months from now.
5. Especially 'cause you never know what's gonna happen electronically like your phone could break, not turn on, or sometimes things don't save, you know?
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.