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💡 Example 💡 decanonize

decanonize (verb): to decanonize a writer

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Lee made lots of pancakes and bacon for breakfast. They shared this meal with their significant other as a surprise.
- (Lee) I made breakfast the other day.
- What did you make?
- So many pancakes it was unreal.
- That does sound delicious
- It really was!
- I'll have to get you to make me breakfast sometime!
🌜 Future Simple 🌛

By next month, they will have finished their studies and graduated.
BAG
bag (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈbæɡ/
- /ˈbæːɡ/ (General-Australian, Southern-England)
- /ˈbɛɡ/
- /ˈbeɪɡ/

Forms:
- bags (plural)

bag (noun) senses:
1. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
2. A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
3. (colloquial) One's preference.
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bag (verb)

Forms:
- bags (present, singular, third-person)
- bagging (participle, present)
- bagged (participle, past)
- bagged (past)

bag (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To put into a bag.
2. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Sasha told Quinn to meet each other later because she was not off of work until then.
- (Sasha) Quinn, we will meet up later.
- What time do you get off work?
- I'm off at 6.
- You want to grab some dinner?
- Sounds great. Meet me in the lobby at 6.
- I look forward to catching up with you.
💡 Example 💡 Canossa

Canossa (noun): No statement was issued on this meeting, but the world deduced that Bethlen had won all along the line, for on the 14th Gömbös read out on the wireless a declaration which was hailed as “a veritable Canossa.”

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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

I drink tea before bedtime.
🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛

I have been exploring different career paths.
GREAT
great (adj)

Sounds:
- /ˈɡɹeɪt/
- /ˈɡɹæɪt/ (General-Australian)
- /ɡɹiːt/
- /ɡɹɛːt/
- /ɡɹet/

Forms:
- greater (comparative)
- greatest (superlative)

great (adj) senses:
1. Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big.
2. Title referring to an important leader.
3. Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind.
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great (intj)

great (intj) senses:
1. Expression of gladness and content about something.
2. sarcastic inversion thereof.
great (noun)

Forms:
- greats (plural)

great (noun) senses:
1. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
2. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
3. (in combinations such as "two-greats", "three-greats" etc.) An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
great (adv)

great (adv) senses:
1. (informal) Very well (in a very satisfactory manner).
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