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ingredient (noun)

Sounds:
- /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

Forms:
- ingredients (plural)

ingredient (noun) senses:
1. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
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🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

They had watched a documentary on wildlife before going to sleep.
🗣 Conversation 🗣

- maybe because they didn't have to brush and floss.
- who invented flossing?
💡 Example 💡 sloppery

sloppery (noun): We must not allow ourselves to get into that kind of mood again, mutual self-pitying is no more admirable than self-pitying as a sole indulgence of that disgusting form of sentimental sloppery.

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FOLLOWING
following (adj)

Sounds:
- /ˈfɒləʊɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈfɑloʊɪŋ/ (General-American)

following (adj) senses:
1. Coming next, either in sequence or in time.
2. About to be specified.
3. (of a wind) Blowing in the direction of travel.
following (prep)

following (prep) senses:
1. After, subsequent to.
following (noun)

Forms:
- followings (plural)

following (noun) senses:
1. A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
2. Vocation; business; profession.
3. (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
following (verb)

following (verb) senses:
1. present participle of follow
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🌜 Future Perfect Continuous 🌛

By next week, I will have been living in this house for two years.
🗣 Conversation 🗣

- ... so, I said, let ' s take a break.And since that night, I ' Ve been waiting for him to call, but I still haven ' t heard from him. You don ' t think he ' s seeing someone else, do you?
- Come on, don ' t be so dramatic! I ' m sure everything is going to work out just fine.
- You think so? Oh, no! How can he do this to me? I ' m sure he ' s cheating on me! Why else wouldn ' t he call?
- But, you two are on a break. Theoretically he can do whatever he likes.
- He ' s the love of my life! I ' Ve really messed this up.
- Come on, hon. Pull yourself together. It ' s going to be alright.
- But I ... I still love him! And it ' s all my fault! I can ' t believe how immature and selfish I was being. I mean, he is a firefighter, it ' s not like he can just leave someone in a burning building and meet me for dinner. I ' Ve totally messed this up!
- You know what, Veronica, I think you should make the first step. I ' m sure he ' ll forgive you ...
- No, this is not gonna happen! I ... I ' Ve ruined everything ...
- do you hear something?
🌜 Future Perfect 🌛

He had worked late last night before going to bed.
PRINCIPLE
principle (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈpɹɪnsɪpəl/
- /ˈpɹɪnsəpəl/

Forms:
- principles (plural)

principle (noun) senses:
1. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
2. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
3. (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
...
principle (verb)

Forms:
- principles (present, singular, third-person)
- participle principling (present)
- principled (participle, past)
- principled (past)

principle (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.