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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 22

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    Think of "reckon (with)" as a synonym for "estimate" or "consider" and the usages should become clearer. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:56, 22 January 2010 (UTC) The phrase to be reckoned with is a stock phrase or cliché. The phrase has a meaning as a whole that has only a loose connection with the individual words that form it.

  3. Thomas Carlyle's prose style - Wikipedia

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    Declaiming the aimlessness and infirmity of English leadership, Carlyle made use of satirical characters like Sir Jabesh Windbag and Bobus of Houndsditch in Past and Present. Memorable catchphrases such as Morrison's Pill, the Gospel of Mammonism , and "Doing as One Likes" were employed to counteract empty platitudes of the day.

  4. File:Upton Sinclair - The Book of Life.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Original file (685 × 1,043 pixels, file size: 16.95 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 462 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Presentism (historical analysis) - Wikipedia

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    In literary and historical analysis, presentism is a term for the introduction of present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the past. Some modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work because they consider it a form of cultural bias, and believe it creates a distorted understanding of their subject matter. [1]

  7. Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation - Wikipedia

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    The child usually feels a considerable pull back toward the events of the life and he frequently importunes his parents to let them return to the community where they claim that they formerly lived. If the child makes enough particular statements about the previous life, the parents (usually reluctantly) begin inquiries about their accuracy.

  8. Roget's Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published. [4] Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5]

  9. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler (Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [3] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...