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  2. Fewer versus less - Wikipedia

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    The first known suggestion that fewer should be used in place of less, in Robert Baker's 1770 Remarks on the English Language [1]. Fewer versus less is a debate in English grammar about the appropriate use of these two determiners.

  3. Six degrees of separation - Wikipedia

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    In each episode, hosts Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson selected one random elderly person (in Bolivia, Nepal, Senegal, Namibia, Mongolia, Madagascar, and Vietnam) and traced their relationships to different celebrities, including Gordon Ramsay and Buzz Aldrin, with the goal of doing so in six or fewer degrees of separation, within a time ...

  4. This Is the Real Difference Between “Less” and “Fewer”

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  5. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Other languages (e.g. English) can express lesser degree, e.g. beautiful, less beautiful, least beautiful. The comparative degrees are frequently associated with adjectives and adverbs because these words take the -er suffix or modifying word more or less. (e.g., faster, more intelligent, less wasteful).

  6. See a teacher's brilliant '30 seconds or less' kindness rule ...

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    A Minnesota teacher’s lesson on kindness is going viral. Natalie Ringold calls it the “30 seconds or less” concept and it’s meant to demonstrate the power of words.

  7. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Wikipedia

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    The game's name is a reference to "six degrees of separation", a concept that posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart. In 2007, Bacon started a charitable organization called SixDegrees.org. In 2020, Bacon started a podcast called The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon. [1]

  8. Dave Reardon: NFL is less of a kick with its new rules - AOL

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    KIRBY LEE-IMAGN IMAGES KIRBY LEE-IMAGN IMAGES Kickoff returns generate four times as many injuries as other plays, so the NFL made rules over the years that resulted in fewer of them—returns and ...

  9. Thinking outside the box - Wikipedia

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    The "nine dots" puzzle (left) has the goal of linking all 9 dots using four straight lines or less, without lifting the pen. Its solution (right) is to draw those lines "outside the box". Since at least 1954, the nine dots puzzle has been used as a metaphor of the type "think beyond the boundary".