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What is the idea called when something has happened to you but you just don't know? [duplicate]
There is a word/idea that something has happened to you, but you just don't know that it already has occured.
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Have you ever been phished before?
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Single-word or idiom request to mean "overshoot the runway" and its etymology
In yesterday's Outfront anchored by Erin Burnett, she and one of the panelists exchanged the below conversation:
Burnett: So, Van, Clinton was wrong technically in terms of there's
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When did "phone" become accepted as its own word? When did phone start to replace 'phone?
In older print publications, I have come across telephone shortened to 'phone, with an apostrophe to mark where the beginning of the word had been omitted. Now, however, phone does not need an ...
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What is the name of combination, in error, of similar or related words? (E.g.: segueway)
Is there a technical term for combination, in error, of similar or related words? This question is prompted by the following malapropism or solecism, from an article by Elizabeth Montalbano in ...
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