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🌜 Future Perfect Continuous πŸŒ›

He will have been training for the marathon for six months by race day.
✴ IE
✳ ie (adv)

ie (adv) senses:
1. Alternative form of i.e.
πŸ—£ Conversation πŸ—£

Jesse was feeling very hungry but didn't like the school cafeteria food, so he left the premises with permission.
- (Jesse) I don't know how people can eat that cafeteria food at school.
- I know. I pack my own lunch.
- I didn't have time this morning and got permission to go out and order something.
- You were lucky. Sometimes they're sticklers about letting students out.
- I have diabetes so they can't play around.
- Oh definitely not. You could have an episode.
🌜 Past Simple πŸŒ›

The chef experimented with new flavors.
πŸ’‘ Example πŸ’‘ motherfuckery

motherfuckery (noun): Damn Will for his motherfuckery.

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✴ HIGH
✳ high (adj)

Sounds:
- /ˈhaΙͺ/
- [haΙͺΜ―]

Forms:
- higher (comparative)
- highest (superlative)

high (adj) senses:
1. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
2. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
3. (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.
...
✳ high (adv)

Forms:
- higher (comparative)
- highest (superlative)

high (adv) senses:
1. In or to an elevated position.
2. In or at a great value.
3. At a pitch of great frequency.
✳ high (noun)

Forms:
- highs (plural)

high (noun) senses:
1. A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
2. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
3. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
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✳ high (verb)

Forms:
- highs (present, singular, third-person)
- highing (participle, present)
- highed (participle, past)
- highed (past)

high (verb) senses:
1. (obsolete) To rise.
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of hie (β€œto hasten”)
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🌜 Present Simple πŸŒ›

She designs websites for clients.
πŸ—£ Conversation πŸ—£

- no, the white walk sign was blinking.
- you should fight that ticket. i'll be your witness.
🌜 Past Simple πŸŒ›

The chef cooked a five-course meal for the guests.
🌜 Past Simple πŸŒ›

She solved the puzzle quickly.
πŸ’‘ Example πŸ’‘ set the world aflame

set the world aflame (verb): There is no danger that these visionary cranks will set the world aflame, but a compelling world is tucked away within their music, a world that sets them apart, too, from the bland and homogeneous conventions that mark the path to pop stardom.

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