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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    subject a volume of gas or liquid to physical pressure, as the atmospheric pressure within an aircraft ("To protect the Aircraft's structure, the plane was pressurized to 8000 ft.") proctor variant of the word procurator, is a person who takes charge or acts for another; title of various legal and ecclesiastical appointments.

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    part of the name of some state secondary schools (US approx.: high school) and many independent schools (US approx.: prep school) constituent part of some larger universities, especially ancient universities. educational institution between school and university (e.g. sixth form college (UK), technical college, college of further education (UK ...

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Girls dropping out of sports spark concerns and conversations

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    Nike and the Tucker Center on Girls and Women in Sports are joining forces to help keep girls in sports. A 2022 survey by Women in Sports found that more than 1 million teenage girls, 43%, who ...

  6. Internalized sexism - Wikipedia

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    Internalized sexism is a form of sexist behavior and attitudes enacted by women toward themselves or other women and girls. [1] [2] Internalized sexism is a form of internalized oppression, which "consists of oppressive practices that continue to make the rounds even when members of the oppressor group are not present."

  7. School corporal punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The number of instances of corporal punishment in U.S. schools has also declined in recent years. In the 2002–2003 school year, federal statistics estimated that 300,000 children were disciplined with corporal punishment at school at least once. In the 2006–2007 school year, this number was reduced to 223,190 instances. [50]

  8. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Developed by Brady and his body coach, Alex Guerrero, their revolutionary approaches to wellness in the areas of nutrition and supplementation, as well as physical and mental fitness training, have helped athletes maximize their potential and maintain peak performance levels for more than a decade."

  9. School corporal punishment - Wikipedia

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    Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks. Corporal punishment in the context of schools in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been variously defined as: causing deliberate pain to a child in response to the child's undesired behavior and/or language, [12] "purposeful infliction of bodily pain or discomfort by an official in the educational system upon a student as a penalty for ...