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  2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Standard: I found a list of the sights of Rome on a tourist site. Standard: Please cite the sources you used in your essay. Standard: You must travel to the site of the dig to see the dinosaur bones. Standard: It is necessary to have line-of-sight if you want to use semaphore. Non-standard: One must be careful on a construction sight.

  3. List of last words - Wikipedia

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    Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...

  4. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    "I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been." [24] — Virginia Woolf, English writer (28 March 1941), addressing her husband Leonard in her suicide note, drowning herself later that day "It's coming to an end for me, I'm sinking, I'm sinking!" [180] ("Es geht mit mir zu Ende, ich versinke, ich versinke!")

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

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    (n.) one (as a graduate or college student) temporarily employed for practical training, e.g. in the science, engineering, or technology fields; esp., in the medical field, a physician (rough UK equivalent: houseman) in their first year of postgraduate training (v.) to work as an intern international

  6. Why are teens losing their minds about college applications ...

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    The college counselor at my high school told me that she’s seen kids not apply to certain universities after hearing that fellow classmates whom they considered to be better students were applying.

  7. Fear of missing out - Wikipedia

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    People want to be a part of the in-group and feel like they belong, making them fear missing out on being part of the in-group. [14] People do not want to feel like they are missing out of being part of the belonging group with respect to video games, which causes a video game addiction. [14]

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    They spent their nights filling notebooks with diary entries, essays on passages from the Big Book, drawings of skulls and heroin-is-the-devil poetry. Hamm rose up the ranks, graduating from barracks-style accommodations with bunk beds and communal showers to semi-private quarters.

  9. Criticism of college and university rankings in North America

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    Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.