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  2. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith ...

  3. Words of estimative probability - Wikipedia

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    Bush had specifically asked for an intelligence analysis of possible al Qaeda attacks within the United States, because most of the information presented to him over the summer about al Qaeda focused on threats against U.S. targets overseas, sources said.

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  5. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for ...

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    Here are the first two letters for each word: RA. BL. HU. SA. GO. ST. EL. BL. BE (SPANGRAM) NYT Strands Spangram Answer Today. Today's spangram answer on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, is BERRIES.

  6. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    When expressing possibility, English speakers often use potentially pleonastic expressions such as It might be possible or perhaps it's possible, where both terms (verb might or adverb perhaps along with the adjective possible) have the same meaning under certain constructions. Many speakers of English use such expressions for possibility in ...

  7. Modal adverbs - Wikipedia

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    It could possibly help me. It possibly helped me. See also. Modal word; References This page was last edited on 22 January 2025, at 18:36 (UTC). Text is ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Agathaumas - Wikipedia

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    The nasal horn and brow horns were based on "Monoclonius" sphenocerus (possible synonym of Centrosaurus apertus) and "Monoclonius" recurvicornis (unnamed genus similar to Einiosaurus) respectively, which were found in the Judith River Formation in Montana and named by Cope in 1889.