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Channel Cambridge Dictionary (@cambridge_dic) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 48 040 subscribers, ranking 89 in the Linguistics category and 189 in the United Kingdom region.
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Since its creation on Π½Π΅Π²ΡΠ΄ΠΎΠΌΠΎ, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 48 040 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 10 July, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 165 over the last 30 days and by 17 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
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- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 3.11%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 1.49% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 1 496 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 717 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 4.
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Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 11 July, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Linguistics category.
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π What makes someone tick, phrase.
β Definition (informal): What motivates someone.
βοΈ Examples:
1. People are curious to know what makes British men tick.
2. We're good at finding out about people, what makes them tick, what they are interested in, what they have bees in their bonnets about - a key networking skill.
3. I'd like the opportunity to find out a bit what they were like as people, what makes them tick, and, you know, enjoy their company.
4. No one really knows how these people think, what makes them tick, and which of the five contenders stirs their blood.
5. I get a thrill when I can get into the male psyche and learn about what makes them tick.
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π Eavesdrop, verb.
π /ΛiΛvzdrΙp/ π¬π§
β Definition (no object): Secretly listen to a conversation.
βοΈ Examples:
1. My father eavesdropped on my phone calls.
2. Trying to look like I was having fun jumping up and down, I secretly eavesdrop on their conversation.
3. I wanted to listen to you live, as though I was eavesdropping on your conversation.
4. Sent to his room by Aunt Lou, Joe eavesdrops on the conversation.
5. He watches a woman chase a runaway dog and eavesdrops on conversations even more banal than his prose.
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π¬ Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
π¬ Sorry to eavesdrop, but, you know, there's a much easier way to guarantee getting someone home.
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π Make common cause, phrase.
β Definition: Unite in order to achieve a shared aim.
βοΈ Examples:
1. Nationalist movements made common cause with the reformers.
2. Let the humanists make common cause with them to achieve freedom.
3. Today, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on what these developments have meant for your colleagues in public broadcasting, and share some ideas about how our institutions might make common cause in the future.
4. As a hunter-gatherer nation, Australia could play a further role in world affairs by making common cause without a hunter-gatherer peoples, all of whom are taking a terrible hammering.
5. On certain foreign policy issues, Switzerland and Bulgaria have a track record of making common cause.
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π Retain, verb.
π /rΙͺΛteΙͺn/ π¬π§
β Definition (with object): Absorb and continue to hold (a substance)
βοΈ Examples:
1. Limestone is known to retain water.
2. Containers that have soils high in organic matter retain soil moisture longer than other growing media.
3. In the burning process most carbon, nitrogen and sulphur are lost in gaseous form, whereas phosphorus, potassium and calcium are retained in the ash.
4. The job was one that must be done every fall when the crops are in - removing the long strips of black plastic mulch that warms the soil, retains moisture, and stifles the weeds.
5. The more water a place retains throughout the year, the more complex an ecosystem it can support.
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π Fortify, verb.
π /ΛfΙΛtΙͺfΚΙͺ/ π¬π§
β Definition (with object): Increase the nutritional value of (food) by adding vitamins or minerals.
βοΈ Examples:
1. Most commercial brands of almond milk are fortified with vitamins A, D, B2, B12, calcium, and zinc.
2. Because many American foods are fortified with vitamin A, deficiency is very rare in individuals who do not have certain chronic intestinal illnesses.
3. The body more readily absorbs folic acid from vitamin supplements and fortified foods than folate from food.
4. Margarine is fortified with added vitamins A and D to bring their levels up to those naturally present in butter.
5. Manufacturers should lower the amount of vitamin A in multivitamin tablets and fortified foods, such as cereals, says Michaelsson.
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π Be just what the doctor ordered, phrase.
β Definition (informal): Be very beneficial or desirable under the circumstances.
βοΈ Examples:
1. A 2β0 victory is just what the doctor ordered.
2. A media-savvy leader with a vision, with seriousness of purpose, with honesty and decisiveness as his strongest points, a diplomat par excellence, he is exactly what the doctor ordered.
3. The style is apparently a cross between ancient tragedy and TV news, which sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered for a sultry summer weeknight.
4. Meantime, let's just say that London is exactly what the doctor ordered - in other words, I am very happy to be here.
5. I know killer heels aren't exactly what the doctor ordered, but I'll take the psychological boost any day.
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π Indict, verb.
π /ΙͺnΛdΚΙͺt/ π¬π§
β Definition (North American β’ with object): Formally accuse of or charge with a crime.
βοΈ Examples:
1. His former manager was indicted for fraud.
2. And a grand jury or the state attorney makes the decision as to whether or not to formally indict you with the charges.
3. This one a Texas grand jury indicting him on a charge of money laundering, also in connection with this case.
4. That means not only making sure there is strong evidence against the defendant before indicting him, but also making sure that he receives a fair trial.
5. Moving on very swiftly, in relation to two charges, you were indicted to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court?
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π¬ Prince of the City (1981)
π¬ If you take the oath and you lie to protect Gus Levy or any of the partners, anybody, anybody, they'll indict you.
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π Come off it, phrase.
β Definition (British β’ informal β’ in imperative): Said when vigorously expressing disbelief.
βοΈ Examples:
1. βCome off it, he'll know that's a lie.β
2. Indeed, she claims that there is an unspoken English rule that she calls βthe importance of not being earnestβ, along with a peculiarly English injunction to say, βOh, come off it!β
3. Come off it, that's not something βworth rememberingβ.
4. My honest (and admittedly, somewhat cruel) reaction is βOh, come off it, you're not that special.β
5. βOh come off it, mate,β he said, because he is not only a hawk, but has a keen and impatient mind.
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π Aforementioned, adjective.
π /ΙfΙΛΛmΙnΚΙnd/ π¬π§
β Definition: Denoting a thing or person previously mentioned.
βοΈ Examples:
1. Songs from the aforementioned album.
2. All of the aforementioned public representatives present addressed the meeting.
3. Apart from the aforementioned health benefits, it has given his work an integrity that it did not need previously.
4. Smoking is already banned in most of the places that people have to use, such as the aforementioned public transport.
5. The aforementioned rules may only be altered by the holder of the agreement.
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π Tired and emotional, phrase.
β Definition (humorous): Used euphemistically to indicate that someone is drunk.
βοΈ Examples:
1. Tired and emotional party people.
2. It has the added advantage that he tends to update it when leglessly tired and emotional, so value added humour is practically guaranteed.
3. A source told The Mirror, βThey'd been at Studio 57 for an hour and a half and were both pretty tired and emotional when Charlotte wanted to move on.β
4. Finally, somewhat tired and emotional, we ended up having a nightcap around 3am - some 12 hours after we started drinking - before retiring to bed.
5. Increasingly tired and emotional, Cochrane gave Wilson a demonstration of the art of the βGlasgow kissβ - much to the amusement of all concerned.
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π Mankind, noun.
β Definition (mass noun): Human beings considered collectively; the human race.
βοΈ Examples:
1. Research for the benefit of all mankind.
2. Arms races have dogged mankind from the dawn of history, and history seems bound to repeat itself.
3. It is often acknowledged that the history of mankind is written by its victors.
4. Had he been listened to, the history of mankind might have been different.
5. Proof that history depends on mankind rather than a merely symbolic event was in evidence in two nations.
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π A real live β, phrase.
β Definition (humorous): Used to emphasize the existence or presence of something surprising or unusual.
βοΈ Examples:
1. A real live detective had been at the factory.
2. I think there is a real live monkey living in my computer and he messes with my head by dealing me hands that cannot be won.
3. After three years I am actually taking a real live vacation where I pack a suitcase, get on a plane, and sleep in a hotel.
4. Have I ever shared with you my actual fear of real live trains?
5. He had the advantage of hearing some actual real live witnesses, I gather?
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π Deed, noun.
π /diΛd/ π¬π§
β Definition (literary): An action that is performed intentionally or consciously.
βοΈ Examples:
1. Doing good deeds.
2. Her kind nature was ever to the fore and she performed many good deeds in her own quiet manner.
3. The Executive has made a virtue of preaching the need for reform without accompanying those words with deeds.
4. But some, who saw what took place, said: From where does this child spring, since his every word is an accomplished deed?
5. She also called on the congregation not to establish a political party but instead to perform good deeds to serve the society.
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π No rest for the weary, phrase.
β Definition (humorous): Used as a wry observation on the heavy workload or absence of relaxation that seem to characterize a person's situation.
βοΈ Examples:
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