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  2. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Formal Pay the ultimate price [1] To die for a cause or principle Neutral Similar to "To make the ultimate sacrifice" Peg out [1] To die Slang: British. Also means 'to stop working' Peppered To be shot to death Slang Usually refers to being shot multiple times (i.e. peppered with bullet holes). Perish Synonym for death Neutral Pop one's clogs ...

  3. Religious disaffiliation - Wikipedia

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    Religious disaffiliation is the act of leaving a faith, or a religious group or community. It is in many respects the reverse of religious conversion.Several other terms are used for this process, though each of these terms may have slightly different meanings and connotations.

  4. Out of left field - Wikipedia

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    [1] The variation "out in left field" means alternately "removed from the ordinary, unconventional" or "out of contact with reality, out of touch." [ 1 ] He opines that the term has only a tangential connection to the political left or the Left Coast , political slang for the coastal states of the American west.

  5. Left-in/left-out - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 17 January 2012, at 01:27 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "left alignment" is often used when the left side of text is aligned along a visible or invisible vertical line which may or may not coincide with the left margin. For example, if a paragraph that is flush left were indented from the left, it would no longer be flush left, but it would still be left aligned.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    For example, to write that a person noted, observed, clarified, explained, exposed, found, pointed out, showed, confirmed, or revealed something can imply objectivity or truthfulness, instead of simply conveying the fact that it was said.

  8. Context-sensitive grammar - Wikipedia

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    Let us notate a formal grammar as = (,,,), with a set of nonterminal symbols, a set of terminal symbols, a set of production rules, and the start symbol.. A string () directly yields, or directly derives to, a string (), denoted as , if v can be obtained from u by an application of some production rule in P, that is, if = and =, where () is a production rule, and , is the unaffected left and ...

  9. Intentionally blank page - Wikipedia

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    For example, a three-page work (starting on the left-hand sheet) followed immediately by a two-page work involves one page turn during each work. If a blank page immediately follows the three-page work (on the right-hand sheet), the two-page work will span the left and right pages, alleviating the need for a page turn during the second work.