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Present participle for to pressure someone into doing something “Let's try tosqueezethe suspect and find out what he really knows.” Adjective ▲ Of or relating to compression Find more words! Another word forOpposite ofMeaning ofRhymes withSentences withFind word formsTranslate from EnglishTransla...
Although some people claim to have beaten a slot machine, there is no such thing as beating the odds of a slot machine. The odds are always in the casino’s favor, and while you can sometimes win big, you cannot consistently beat the house edge. In fact, most slot players lose money...
for example,the word'fail'﹣﹣﹣it can be a kind of festival,and adjective to describe the color of your hair or how you should play a game.Don't take it literallySo how do you know which meaning someone is referring to?﹣﹣﹣You don't,except by the context.Obviously,if someone ...
That’s the beating heart of YA. I honestly thought I’d been writing science-fiction/fantasy, my favorite genre, for all those years that I’d been putting pen to paper and fingers to keys until one fateful day when someone official mentioned that my protagonist was in that magical “...
started to think of what I could find time for. The easy thing might be to collect $1 from myself each day and at the end of the time, I would have $40 to share with someone in need. Or if I felt needy myself, maybe I would reduce that to a quarter or a dime or a nickel...
“I saw a guy die once” story. But he was fine. Later, though, they held the train for a bit at the station cuz there were “reports of someone riding the train.” Duh. We saw the guy. After the investigation was “resolved” we were on the move again and they played an ...
Right. Tell that to someone looking for that connection that brings one into contact with another in a way that feels–no, that is–ultimate. * What is ultimate? Isn’t that what we mean by the most real when it comes to a human’s relation to another human: something that feels like...
“problems”. Just because a person isn’t able to solve a problem as fast as someone else, does not mean that they are not good at math. Some people need a little more time to understand it, make sense of it, and mentally store it for access later. (By the way, that’s me. ...
Beating their wings to break her fall, the geese catch her. The animals then gather in council to consider what to do with her. A great turtle floats by and offers its back to her. She steps on to it. The animals realize she needs land for a home, so they in turn dive deeply ...