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A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying.
In health insurance, copayment is fixed while co-insurance is the percentage that the insured pays after the insurance policy's deductible is exceeded, up to the policy's stop loss. [1]
A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife; the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean.In biology, a cuckold is a male who unwittingly invests parental effort in juveniles who are not genetically his offspring. [1]
The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce, consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions.. The lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspap
The arithmetic mean (or simply mean or average) of a list of numbers, is the sum of all of the numbers divided by the number of numbers.Similarly, the mean of a sample ,, …,, usually denoted by ¯, is the sum of the sampled values divided by the number of items in the sample.
The Navy Seal copypasta, also sometimes known as Gorilla Warfare due to a misspelling of "guerrilla warfare" in its contents, is an aggressive but humorous attack paragraph supposedly written by an extremely well-trained member of the United States Navy SEALs (hence its name) to an unidentified "kiddo", ostensibly whoever the copypasta is directed to.
A deductible should not be confused with a franchise. A deductible represents a part of the expense for which the insurer is not liable, but the franchise is a pure threshold beyond which liability for the entire expense is transferred to the insurer.
Writers use scare quotes for a variety of reasons. They can imply doubt or ambiguity in words or ideas within the marks, [16] or even outright contempt. [17] They can indicate that a writer is purposely misusing a word or phrase [18] or that the writer is unpersuaded by the text in quotes, [19] and they can help the writer deny responsibility for the quote. [17]