A.D.
/ˌeɪdˈiː/
adverbused to refer to a date that is after the birth of Jesus Christ
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1. Wars were a fact of life, even in A.D. 73.
2. The history behind the Saint Joseph statue started hundreds of years ago, in about 1515 A.D.
3. Thank you so much for coming, A.D.
4. - What's up A.D.?
5. Since 980 A.D., the name has stuck around.
B.C.
/bˌiːsˈiː/
adverbused with a date to refer to things happened or existed before the birth of Christ
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1. So our story begins in 51 B.C.
2. That story first surfaced in about 490 B.C.
3. Dates to 50 to 40 B.C.
4. By the way, the traditional date for Solon's appointment as sole archon in these years is 594 B.C.
5. The first tunnels date back to 60 B.C.
c.e.
/sˌiːˈiː/
adverbused with a date to refer to things happened or existed after the birth of Christ
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1. Because of this, there are good records of its water levels for almost 1000 years, between 622 and 1470 C.E.
2. But arguably one of India’s greatest minds lived in the 5th century C.E.
3. The ancient game was called chaturanga, and it appeared at around the 6th century C.E.
4. By around 1200 C.E., this warm period came to an end, and the average global temperature steadily declined until a minimum was reached by around 1600 C.E.
5. Chinese monks in the sixth century C.E. brought the concept of flower arranging to Japan.
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.
forthcoming
/ˈfɔɹθˈkəmɪŋ/
adjectiveabout to take place
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1. Her book is forthcoming.
2. My review is forthcoming.
3. So this forthcoming essay has three components.
4. Okay, now a public apology is forthcoming.
5. Details on that will be forthcoming, of course.
chronologically
/ˌkɹɑnəˈɫɑdʒɪkɫi/
adverbarranged based on the time at which some things take place or come to existence
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1. Chronologically, Jerry's work on design protection is right at the beginning of his scholarly career.
2. I'm going chronologically.
3. Chronologically, I think.
4. These are organized chronologically.
5. The mandalorian takes place like chronologically after Yoda's death in the Star Wars timeline.
indefinitely
/ˌɪnˈdɛfənətɫi/
adverbfor an unspecified period of time
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1. No wonder development on Austin Powers 4 has stalled indefinitely.
2. This one was going to go indefinitely.
3. Our next word is indefinitely.
4. So the cost per wear is indefinitely high.
5. With gaming events like the Game Developers Conference indefinitely postponed over Corona virus concerns.
to date
/tə dˈeɪt/
adverbup until now
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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.
from time to time
/fɹʌm tˈaɪm tə tˈaɪm/
phrasesometimes, but not very often
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1. Dead reckoning can be used to navigate when landmarks are out of sight, although it still requires people to accurately know their location from time to time.
2. From time to time, King Walter went into town in dirty old clothes.
3. As he made polite replies to Mr Bounderby's endless talk, he looked from time to time at Louisa.
4. He was working in his office at Stone Lodge, listening to the deadly 'tick, tock' of the clock, and looking out of his window from time to time at the thunderstorm over the high chimneys of Coketown.
5. I've had people say from time to time when I have an interpreter around or when I have a captioner or even when I was using TTY to talk to people, make appointments and stuff.
in due time
/ɪn dˈuː tˈaɪm/
adverbat the right time
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yearlong
/ˈjɪɹˈɫɔŋ/
adjectivecontinuing the whole year
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1. Instead, we look at the change in the star's apparent location over six months, the halfway point of the Earth's yearlong orbit around the Sun.
2. Today's program is a part of a yearlong celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Schlesinger Library.
3. In 1986, DC Comics launched an ambitious attempt to restructure their entire universe with a yearlong event called Crisis on Infinite Earths.
4. For me, it was a yearlong street fight.
5. RICHARD LAZARUS: I'd like to welcome everyone to our first event in a yearlong series of events in recognition of our bicentennial.
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.
spell
/ˈspɛɫ/
nouna short period of time of something particular
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1. Its main goal is to teach literacy and encourage kids to learn how to spell.
2. Spell the end', 'downplays' and 'echoes'.
3. Fortunately, these things spell a word.
4. A hurricane could spell the end of the Guna Yala archipelago of Panama.
5. For them, the combination of climate change and human arrival spelled doom.
chapter
/ˈtʃæptɝ/
nouna specific period of time in history or in someone's life
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1. Books have chapters.
2. Magazines even have chapters.
3. So chapter two is called, "Rogue Buffalo."
4. This example and the next one uses chapters as a section of a book.
5. The inter-chapters, at least this particular one, is obviously written as a continuation of a meditation on the pain of childbirth.
dusk
/ˈdəsk/
nounthe time after sun sets that is not yet completely dark
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1. Day was turned to dusk.
2. The dusk light flitting across the battleship gray paint job.
3. - I specifically wrote dusk.
4. A dusk rose.
5. The bat expert’s work begins shortly before dusk.
eternity
/iˈtɝnəti/, /ɪˈtɝnəti/
nountime that is endless
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1. Two are an eternity.
2. We want eternity.
3. Five minutes is an eternity.
4. Every second seems an eternity.
5. Five minutes for a baby is eternity.
midsummer
/ˈmɪdˈsəmɝ/
nounthe middle part of summer when it is hottest
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1. These midsummer celebrations take place on a Friday in June, in commemoration of the longest day of the year.
2. Mine was "Midsummers."
3. "Midsummers" was really, really fun.
4. In terms of gators, there was some at "Midsummer."
5. So it's not midsummer or early summer.
midwinter
/ˈmɪdˈwɪntɝ/
nounthe middle part of winter when it is coldest
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1. And the midwinter alignment shows up in other monuments, like the Newgrange tomb in Ireland which has a window that allows the sunrise to illuminate the inner chamber on the sunrise of winter solstice.
2. This coalition of common purpose finally walked across the Rhine in midwinter of 406/407, probably between the cities of Mainz and Worms.
3. The most important of the Norse holidays was Jul, the celebration of midwinter and the Norse New Year.
4. The lodge is warm and safe, even in midwinter, and the only sign of activity in the snug home beneath the snow is hot air rising from the vent at the top.
5. It's far enough north to be beyond the reach of the sea ice even in midwinter, and many animals live here the year round.
solstice
/ˈsɔɫstɪs/
nouneither of the two times of the year when the sun reaches its farthest or closest distance from the equator
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1. The next stage of Stonehenge's turbulent history is just a solstice away.
2. Long ago, our ancestors celebrated the birth of the sun god during winter solstice.
3. The word solstice comes from Latin
4. They take solstice very seriously.
5. The summer solstice is about June 21.
quarter
/ˈkwɔɹtɝ/
nounone fourth of a year, which is a period of three months
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1. Oh sure, you guys know quarters?
2. Quarter to score.
3. They had quarters?
4. Quarters leave a residue.
5. Each quarter, analysts publish reports about various stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds.
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.
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.
continual
/kənˈtɪnjuəɫ/
adjectivehappening repeatedly in an annoying or problematic way
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1. This continual action has stopped.
2. It's undergoing continual evolution.
3. The nurses’ attentions were continual.
4. With the integration of the Internet in most aspects of daily life, our collective use and reliance on information technology grows on a continual upward arc.
5. That continual current flow causes a potential difference across the membrane.
consecutive
/kənˈsɛkjətɪv/
adjectivecontinuously happening one after another
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1. That's a second consecutive month that sales have topped a billion dollars.
2. We're told that the sum of three consecutive odd integers is 231.
3. Treat consecutive delimiters as one so multiple commas or multiple tabs.
4. The stock market crash of 1929 had two consecutive days.
5. You have to take 10 hours off-duty consecutive.
successive
/səkˈsɛsɪv/
adjectivehappening one after another
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1. The government has been waging successive wars on the north of Yemen.
2. Those billions of cells come from successive rounds of cell division.
3. Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.
4. And here are successive pictures in that book.
5. Social scientists call it successive approximations.
eternal
/iˈtɝnəɫ/, /ɪˈtɝnəɫ/
adjectivecontinuing or existing forever; with no end
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1. This project has eternal benefits.
2. The Eternals are the weirdo brain children of Jack Kirby.
3. Now back on Earth, the Eternals created the mighty cities of Olympia in the mountains of Greece, Polaria in the Siberian tundra, and Oceana in the Pacific Ocean.
4. Every moment becomes eternal
5. Every moment becomes eternal
eventual
/əˈvɛntʃuəɫ/, /iˈvɛntʃuəɫ/
adjectivehappening at the end of a process or a particular period of time
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1. For that matter, so did eventual peers John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, and James Mellon.
2. But an incredibly rocky path came before Rowling's eventual success.
3. The costly damage contributed to the eventual cancellation of the scheme.
4. So obviously the underlying tone in this type of a style of relationship is eventual demise.
5. In addition to Pitt, and Courteney Cox's eventual husband David Arquette, Matthew Perry's father John Bennett Perry made a brief cameo in Season 4.
imminent
/ˈɪmənənt/
adjective(particularly of something unpleasant) likely to take place in the near future
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1. A crash is imminent.
2. The showdown was imminent.
3. The next siege of Constantinople was imminent.
4. The rains are imminent.
5. The apocalypse is imminent.
lengthy
/ˈɫɛŋθi/
adjectivecontinuing for too long
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1. -Mine is too lengthy.
2. The defendants here received lengthy sentences.
3. And each individual session was honestly quite lengthy.
4. Discussions of the justices' monthly conference were lengthy.
5. And the list of distinguished travelers is lengthy.
long-standing
/lˈɑːŋstˈændɪŋ/
adjectivehaving continued or existed for a long time
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1. It was a long-standing plan On Collection Boxes and postal hours.
2. Is it a long-standing POLICY that Incoming Administration can't TALK to foreign leaders about changing POLICY?
3. That are diminishing the City 'S long-standing and very Proud Status.
4. That's a very long-standing ARGUMENT and debate within the Republican Party.
5. These are long-standing CHALLENGES.
long-time
/lˈɑːŋtˈaɪm/
adjectivehaving had a specific role for a long time
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1. Any long-time Wendover viewer by this point knows about Curiosity Stream.
2. We are three long-time educators.
3. Like his father before him, long-time local fishermen and fleet manager Eric Guicgnac knows these waters intimately.
4. Champollion had a long-time obsession with hieroglyphics and Egyptian culture.
5. It's another long-time trick.
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.
prospective
/pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
adjectivelikely to occur soon
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1. We got prospective payment system because of the Medicare hospital trust fund in 1983.
2. Compare that with prospective holdouts under the Constitution.
3. This is a prospective pardon.
4. That's prospective.
5. Some states also require prospective parents to complete a parenting workshop.
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.
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.
nightly
/ˈnaɪtɫi/
adjectiveoccurring every night
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1. I'm up here nightly.
2. Nightly I can anticipate around a dozen calls for gang fighting on the street or group disorder outside somebody's home.
3. It hinders nightly rest.
4. - Served nightly.
5. This happens almost nightly.
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.
year-round
/jˈɪɹˈaʊnd/
adjectivehappening the whole year
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1. Your lucky balls have year-round climate control.
2. Oreine and Adulis housed year-round Roman inhabitants and temporary merchants.
3. These days, Hawaii's bays and inlets offer year-round opportunities for every palate.
4. In Canada, yard work is a year-round occupation.
5. The warmer tone of the charcoal color keeps it versatile year-round as opposed to its cousin, the light gray colored suit.
extension
/ɪkˈstɛnʃən/
nouna period of time added to something to prolong it
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1. Can browser extensions see my bank account?
2. Different extensions may do totally different things.
3. Hide or Show extensions.
4. Here come the extensions.
5. Get your extension.
around-the-clock
/ɐɹˈaʊnd ðə klˈɑːk/
adjectivenon-stop and continues through the whole day and night
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1. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, several companies have ramped up production, hiring more employees and moving workers to around the clock shifts.
2. But if we tilted Earth's axis even more, to 90 degrees, the US would get sunlight 24/7, around the clock, for months on end.
3. So they have electricity around the clock.
4. Now, one study equates the energy bill of the cycle to 11 coal-fired power plants running continuously around the clock, at full tilt.
5. In 2010, police in England stood guard around the clock to protect the country’s last wild lady’s slipper orchid from thieves.
get-go
/ɡɛtɡˈoʊ/
nouna point in time when something begins or is started
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1. Her campaign was exciting from the get-go.
2. The benefits start from the get-go.
3. You’ll also get a massive jolt of adrenaline from the get-go.
4. It literally went off, from the get-go.
5. So we know that from the get-go.
in the (same / next) breath
/ɪnðə sˈeɪm nˈɛkst bɹˈɛθ/
phraseused when something happens almost at the same time as another
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1. And then, you know, in the same sort of sentence, in the same breath, people wonder why we don't even try.
2. You're not used to dealing with somebody who will tell you in one breath You are perfect for me-
3. But in the same breath also, it's like, we need you here at home too though.
4. And Amazon starts to become uttered in the same breath as Google, and even now Apple.
5. They would say it sometimes in the same breath.