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01 📚 Take a back seat, phrase.
❓ Definition: Take or be given a less important position or role.
❗️ Examples:
1. In future he would take a back seat in politics.
2. Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation.
3. But she piled on the pounds after the birth of her son, George, nine months ago and singing took a back seat as her confidence dwindled.
4. The role of the citizen is taking a back seat to decisions being made about our communities and the environment.
5. Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing?
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02 📚 Gambol, verb.
🔉 /ˈɡamb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (no object, usually with adverbial): Run or jump about playfully.
❗️ Examples:
1. The mare gambolled towards her.
2. While monster-hunting on this far-flung island's shores in 1998, I was enthralled to see otters gambolling playfully in the sand dunes.
3. We gambolled and frolicked until about four-thirty am.
4. So while my fellow geeks gamboled and romped and played in the hotel lobby - within the warm and nurturing hug of the conference's bubble of wireless broadband access - I was alone in my room doing email.
5. At Dagne's Reef we passed time with Ben and Jerry, a pair of groupers who clearly enjoy divers' company and gambolled around like playful puppies.
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03 📚 Infidelity, noun.
🔉 /ɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (mass noun): The action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her infidelity continued after her marriage.
2. I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities.
3. Sure, there are drugs and infidelities and deviant sexuality, but that's the exception for this otherwise decent lot.
4. Affairs, infidelities, sexual peccadilloes fall generally outside the purview of inquisitive political eyes; at any rate, they do not make for fodder for a dirty election campaign.
5. My lovely partner, Patrick, suffered the knowledge of my infidelities and witnessed my mental, physical, and spiritual decay.
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04 🎬 Girls Trip (2017)
💬 All allegations of infidelity are false. | 1 374 | 0 | Loading... |
05 🚀There is news that a young guy together with a team of the best programmers in Europe, invented a unique way to earn money, thanks to which everyone can earn from 300 dollars a day, having only a smartphone. 🔥 Together they created a Telegram channel, a closed community, where they tell about their strategy. Training is fast and easy, absolutely everyone will master it, you do not need special skills and knowledge. 👌The creator of the channel told us that he earns from 1000 dollars a day and it is absolutely real and available to everyone. He was able to change his life, drives expensive cars, travels, buys himself anything he wants and he assures that he can help to reach a high income to all those in need. ☄️Now there is a new recruitment for training in the team, all you need to do is to subscribe to his Telegram channel, hurry up, the number of places is limited.👉 https://t.me/+m2VfkimmwUU5OWE1 | 1 444 | 1 | Loading... |
06 📚 Make ends meet, phrase.
❓ Definition: Earn just enough money to live on.
❗️ Examples:
1. They were finding it hard to make ends meet.
2. Some want to make enough money to make ends meet; others want money for extras or just a way to stay busy.
3. Liz and Nick were always out to work but they barely had enough money to make ends meet.
4. This will lead to loss of trade to the shopkeepers who are all having a hard enough time to make ends meet as it is.
5. By doing some casual work, like designing computer software, he has managed to make both ends meet and has enough left over to invest in his bicycle journeys.
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07 📚 Tutelage, noun.
🔉 /ˈtjuːtɪlɪdʒ/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (mass noun): Protection of or authority over someone or something; guardianship.
❗️ Examples:
1. The organizations remained under firm government tutelage.
2. Adoption too was possible and various forms of tutelage or guardianship existed.
3. What the village has are divisions called houses of 10 children under the care and tutelage of one mother.
4. She is hobbled by inexperience and a lowly position, but Wilmot takes her under his patronage and tutelage.
5. Under his tutelage, Australia has fulfilled its historic heritage as ‘the lucky country.’
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08 🎬 Bitter Moon (1992)
💬 I'd always found infidelity... the most titillating aspect of any relationship. | 1 695 | 2 | Loading... |
09 📚 Titillating, adjective.
🔉 /ˈtɪtɪleɪtɪŋ/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: Arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious.
❗️ Examples:
1. She let slip titillating details about her clients.
2. Then came a lot of titillating tabloid speculation.
3. Sure, crass commercialism has pushed the mainstream media into an obsession with titillating stories about celebrities.
4. Yet there is more here than just titillating visuals.
5. By the time that same child is 18 years old, approximately 40,000 sexually titillating scenes will have been viewed.
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10 📚 Above and beyond, phrase.
❓ Definition: In excess of the expectations or demands of.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was always there to help us out in difficult times, above and beyond the call of duty.
2. And just ahead are our weekly tribute to a member of our Armed services who served above and beyond the call of duty.
3. She has been my campaign manager for three elections, and has served above and beyond the call of duty.
4. She said she appreciated their passion and their concern even above and beyond the official job.
5. No words can do justice to their efficiency, thoroughness, and all-around human compassion above and beyond the call of duty.
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11 📚 Piscine, adjective.
🔉 /ˈpɪsʌɪn/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: Of or concerning fish.
❗️ Examples:
1. The mystery of fish slumber lies within the greater mystery of the piscine mind.
2. Three summers ago, there were so many insects that piscine sumptuary laws could have been declared.
3. But that could be difficult for the piscine inhabitants of Yorkshire rivers these dark, cold December nights.
4. Viewing this piscine cornucopia, Baldwin was struck with the thought, ‘There's so much here every day.’
5. The balloonfish swallows air, when attacked by avian predators, or water, when attacked by piscine predators.
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12 📚 Foolproof, adjective.
🔉 /ˈfuːlpruːf/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: Incapable of going wrong or being misused.
❗️ Examples:
1. A foolproof security system.
2. Bee-eaters have worked out a foolproof security system for the nest.
3. True, democracy and the rule of law provide no foolproof security guarantee.
4. Come up with a foolproof security system and stop other men like you from stealing priceless works of art.
5. Now, no one wants the president assassinated, but the reality is no security is foolproof.
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13 🎬 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
💬 Listen, I've got a foolproof plan. | 1 871 | 1 | Loading... |
14 📚 Slippery slope, phrase.
❓ Definition: A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous.
❗️ Examples:
1. He is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime.
2. This leads them down a slippery slope until, at the end of the play, they ‘tear each other's throats out’.
3. Not me, evidently: and so my first step was taken on that slippery slope leading down to a kind of gentle madness.
4. Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada.
5. In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair.
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15 📚 Clamour, noun.
🔉 /ˈklamə/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (in singular): A loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting.
❗️ Examples:
1. The questions rose to a clamour.
2. But underneath all the clamor and the noise, a single heart beats.
3. The noise had reached a clamour, and the smoke was making their eyes water.
4. With each passing moment, as the horizon became a little brighter, the clamor became louder, until all the knights of the camp were up and about, making ready for their departure.
5. When he had finished talking, there arose a great clamor of noise as everyone grabbed their belongings, and started to make their way out of the room and into the hall outside.
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16 📚 Rainy day, noun.
🔉 /ˌreɪnɪ ˈdeɪ/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (figurative): A possible future time of hardship or relative poverty. Frequently in "for (also against) a rainy day".
❗️ Examples:
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17 🎬 Heavenly Creatures (1994)
💬 I'm saving them for a rainy day. | 2 090 | 1 | Loading... |
18 📚 Turn traitor, phrase.
❓ Definition: Betray a group or person.
❗️ Examples:
1. She'd had the gall to deny she had turned traitor.
2. But there were other, subtler ways of turning traitor, and he felt her coming absence, looming two afternoons a week, as proof of that.
3. One of the key prosecution witnesses at his trial was a trusted comrade who had turned traitor.
4. Others have turned traitor, switching allegiances from synthesisers to guitars.
5. Friends turn traitor and fellow countrymen become the enemy in a war-torn world where the old rules are worthless.
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19 🎬 Scent of a Woman (1992)
💬 When the wife gets restless, the wife gets racy. | 2 190 | 1 | Loading... |
20 📚 Racy, adjective.
🔉 /ˈreɪsi/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: Lively, entertaining, and typically sexually titillating.
❗️ Examples:
1. The novel was considered rather racy at the time.
2. As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here.
3. The film is probably most notable for its attempts to entertain adults with racy jokes and visuals.
4. Entertainment Weekly wrote about racy Y / A novels in this week's issue.
5. Readers looking for a racy, entertaining romp full of plot twists, scandal and exposed secrets will not be disappointed.
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21 📚 Trip the light fantastic, phrase.
❓ Definition (humorous): Dance, in particular engage in ballroom dancing.
❗️ Examples:
1. They enjoyed a four-course dinner, charity auction and a dance band so they could trip the light fantastic.
2. They are great fans of this style of dancing and trip the light fantastic each Thursday night to keep in practice.
3. She tap-dances and trips the light fantastic in a couple of big-production numbers, wearing a Gloria Swanson-style wig and fabulous frocks.
4. In recent years, ‘6O's nights’ have become very popular, bringing out some not so young rockers for a nostalgic night of tripping the light fantastic.
5. Many who attended the festival in those years have still remained fans and those same drama fans, who were big on dancing, are more at ease in the seats at a play than tripping the light fantastic in earlier years.
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22 🎬 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
💬 The horses are restless... and the men are quiet. | 2 404 | 0 | Loading... |
23 📚 Restless, adjective.
🔉 /ˈrɛs(t)ləs/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: Unable to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom.
❗️ Examples:
1. The audience grew restless and inattentive.
2. The animals were restless, disturbed by the smell of fire permeating the building.
3. There is a restless feel about this group, but I let the first forty minutes continue as planned.
4. In an age of restless channel surfing, you couldn't ask for anything better than this.
5. She felt restless just sitting there and tried to think of something to do.
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24 📚 On offer, phrase.
❓ Definition: Available.
❗️ Examples:
1. The number of permanent jobs on offer is relatively small.
2. In Britain it is a few hundred pounds and that can be quickly withdrawn if you don't accept one of the jobs on offer.
3. He and the other sporting figures will tell young people about the wealth of jobs on offer in sport.
4. The event organised by the Department of Tourism had the right mix of fare on offer.
5. Spot prizes will be on offer at the function and the organisers appeal for support.
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25 🎬 True Grit (2010)
💬 The particulars is that we bring Chaney down to the magistrate in San Saba, Texas, where they have a considerable reward on offer, which we split. | 2 226 | 0 | Loading... |
26 📚 Preponderant, adjective.
🔉 /prɪˈpɒnd(ə)r(ə)nt/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: Predominant in influence, number, or importance.
❗️ Examples:
1. The preponderant influence of the US within the alliance.
2. ‘It would be easy to see that this preponderant influence which would accrue to a very large unit could be abused, and would in any case be resented by all the other constituent units.’
3. Unions exercise a preponderant influence only because, in the Eighties, the country abandoned socialist political programmes under a socialist president.
4. The nation, moreover, continues to enjoy the preponderant influence among national actors in determining what issues do and do not dominate the organization's agenda.
5. The preponderant influence of these players speaks to something else about the nature of football, a characteristic that lends the game a persistently subversive, rebellious quality.
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27 🎬 Scent of a Woman (1992)
💬 Uhoh, we got a moron here, is that it? | 2 203 | 2 | Loading... |
28 📚 Moron, noun.
🔉 /ˈmɔːrɒn/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (informal): A stupid person.
❗️ Examples:
1. We can't let these thoughtless morons get away with mindless vandalism every weekend.
2. Stupid moron, the chances of me falling for anyone at this party were one in twenty million.
3. I bet that those on the receiving end of such behaviour don't mind whether the villains are dubbed cretins or morons.
4. Adam's a damn fool, a moron for not realising what he could be throwing away.
5. Speaking of idiots, Tom proves he is a moron with his comments on antidepressants.
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29 📚 Hands down, phrase.
❓ Definition: Easily and decisively.
❗️ Examples:
1. Swindon won hands down.
2. The envious look on my fellow competitors' faces reflected my own view: I was going to win this race hands down.
3. I will say hands down they are the most wondrous thing in the world I have ever seen.
4. McCrann has exhibited how superior intellect will defeat sloganeering hands down.
5. Aliens is hands down one of the most quotable movies of all time.
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30 🎬 Garden State (2004)
💬 lf there's some sort of retarded Oscar, you would win hands down, kick his ass. | 2 284 | 0 | Loading... |
31 🎬 The Ghost Writer (2010)
💬 Look, I'm his ghostwriter. I'm not an investigative reporter. | 2 350 | 1 | Loading... |
32 📚 Ghostwriter, noun.
🔉 /ˈɡəʊs(t)ˌrʌɪtə/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
❗️ Examples:
1. He said one reason to be more lenient is that everyone assumes that most words uttered by politicians or published under their names were actually written by speechwriters or ghostwriters.
2. Journal articles are no longer published anonymously, and ghostwriters demand that their contributions be acknowledged.
3. Keeping in mind that people trust experts, you can have a ghostwriter write your web content and you present it under your name.
4. He wanted to stay the course with his main character and write it himself without a ghostwriter or co-author.
5. Estimates suggest that almost half of all articles published in journals are by ghostwriters.
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33 📚 From time to time, phrase.
❓ Definition: Occasionally.
❗️ Examples:
1. Although he is now fluent in Bulgarian, Matt still confuses the odd word from time to time.
2. Chances are you won't get one, but I understand that you feel the need - we all do from time to time.
3. Place on a high heat and bring to the boil, stirring from time to time.
4. Friday night was one of those pleasant surprises the Internet throws my way from time to time.
5. Pack little surprises from time to time like stickers, a novelty pen or a joke.
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34 📚 Jouissance, noun.
❓ Definition (formal • mass noun): Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy.
❗️ Examples:
1. He looks just exploding with jouissance, wouldn't you say.
2. And I had a stab of sheer jouissance because I knew what I was about to do.
3. I see accessible, crowd-pleasing entertainment that is rich with meaning and jouissance.
4. The jouissance of this movie lies in what we learn about acting, not about human evil.
5. I can feel the jouissance as she reads what has come to her, the deep ecstasy that writing has occasioned, even though the subject is grief, death.
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35 📚 Napkin, noun.
🔉 /ˈnapkɪn/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: (also table napkin) a square piece of cloth or paper used at a meal to wipe the fingers or lips and to protect garments.
❗️ Examples:
1. She unfolded her napkin and put it on her lap.
2. In the last year or so a number of people have pointed out this truly disgusting trend, that an increasing number of men are using their table napkin to blow their nose.
3. It belongs in the position of a table napkin, beside a plate.
4. She was fiddling with her table napkin nervously.
5. Mike got out a pen from his pocket and drew four columns on a table napkin.
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36 🎬 Another Stakeout (1993)
💬 You'll be on it round the clock. | 2 337 | 1 | Loading... |
37 📚 Round the clock, phrase.
❓ Definition: All day and all night.
❗️ Examples:
1. I've got a team working round the clock.
2. Round-the-clock surveillance.
3. Meanwhile Glasgow City Council has pledged that staff will continue to work around the clock to ease road and footpath problems.
4. We fought around the clock and continued to support the Marines as they cleared houses.
5. The second day, we could have legitimately reported flights were taking off round the clock day and night.
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38 📚 Smorgasbord, noun.
🔉 /ˈsmɔːɡəsbɔːd/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: A range of open sandwiches and delicacies served as hors d'oeuvres or a buffet.
❗️ Examples:
1. With hosts Kannikar and Ib Ottesen supplying a Danish smorgasbord which included Norwegian salmon and Japanese Sashimi, it was certainly an international gathering.
2. We were invited for one of Bjarne's famous Saturday afternoon smorgasbords - a cosmopolitan late lunch, set around a large circular table, with the food in the centre on a carousel, Chinese banquet style.
3. Buffet costs range between $2.99 for some breakfast specials to $14.99 for some seafood-heavy smorgasbords.
4. Since thematic units should run for more than a week, the author has provided below a smorgasbord of foods that can be mixed and matched for breakfast, lunch, and snacks.
5. Anchoring for lunch, the guests were presented with a smorgasbord, with the prawns and crab being particularly well received.
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39 📚 Eyesore, noun.
🔉 /ˈʌɪsɔː/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: A thing that is very ugly, especially a building.
❗️ Examples:
1. The office crumbled into an eyesore.
2. At a time when Ireland is so wealthy, the excuses for building those eyesores are gone.
3. In most cases, the rules are in place to ensure everyone can appreciate their homes and surroundings without the detrimental impact of unlawful buildings, developments or eyesores.
4. With many of the old eyesores now disappearing from sight more effort will be called for to really get the town looking its best for the spring, summer and autumn.
5. BBC News has been asking its readers to nominate Britain's worst buildings, the eyesores that they would like to see demolished.
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40 🎬 Ricochet (1991)
💬 Days of glory behind them, some people feel the towers have become an eyesore, a dangerous jumble of rusting steel and broken glass. | 2 222 | 1 | Loading... |
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📚 Take a back seat, phrase.
❓ Definition: Take or be given a less important position or role.
❗️ Examples:
1. In future he would take a back seat in politics.
2. Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation.
3. But she piled on the pounds after the birth of her son, George, nine months ago and singing took a back seat as her confidence dwindled.
4. The role of the citizen is taking a back seat to decisions being made about our communities and the environment.
5. Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing?
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📚 Gambol, verb.
🔉 /ˈɡamb(ə)l/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (no object, usually with adverbial): Run or jump about playfully.
❗️ Examples:
1. The mare gambolled towards her.
2. While monster-hunting on this far-flung island's shores in 1998, I was enthralled to see otters gambolling playfully in the sand dunes.
3. We gambolled and frolicked until about four-thirty am.
4. So while my fellow geeks gamboled and romped and played in the hotel lobby - within the warm and nurturing hug of the conference's bubble of wireless broadband access - I was alone in my room doing email.
5. At Dagne's Reef we passed time with Ben and Jerry, a pair of groupers who clearly enjoy divers' company and gambolled around like playful puppies.
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📚 Infidelity, noun.
🔉 /ɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (mass noun): The action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner.
❗️ Examples:
1. Her infidelity continued after her marriage.
2. I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities.
3. Sure, there are drugs and infidelities and deviant sexuality, but that's the exception for this otherwise decent lot.
4. Affairs, infidelities, sexual peccadilloes fall generally outside the purview of inquisitive political eyes; at any rate, they do not make for fodder for a dirty election campaign.
5. My lovely partner, Patrick, suffered the knowledge of my infidelities and witnessed my mental, physical, and spiritual decay.
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📚 Make ends meet, phrase.
❓ Definition: Earn just enough money to live on.
❗️ Examples:
1. They were finding it hard to make ends meet.
2. Some want to make enough money to make ends meet; others want money for extras or just a way to stay busy.
3. Liz and Nick were always out to work but they barely had enough money to make ends meet.
4. This will lead to loss of trade to the shopkeepers who are all having a hard enough time to make ends meet as it is.
5. By doing some casual work, like designing computer software, he has managed to make both ends meet and has enough left over to invest in his bicycle journeys.
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📚 Tutelage, noun.
🔉 /ˈtjuːtɪlɪdʒ/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (mass noun): Protection of or authority over someone or something; guardianship.
❗️ Examples:
1. The organizations remained under firm government tutelage.
2. Adoption too was possible and various forms of tutelage or guardianship existed.
3. What the village has are divisions called houses of 10 children under the care and tutelage of one mother.
4. She is hobbled by inexperience and a lowly position, but Wilmot takes her under his patronage and tutelage.
5. Under his tutelage, Australia has fulfilled its historic heritage as ‘the lucky country.’
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🎬 Bitter Moon (1992)
💬 I'd always found infidelity... the most titillating aspect of any relationship.
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📚 Titillating, adjective.
🔉 /ˈtɪtɪleɪtɪŋ/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: Arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious.
❗️ Examples:
1. She let slip titillating details about her clients.
2. Then came a lot of titillating tabloid speculation.
3. Sure, crass commercialism has pushed the mainstream media into an obsession with titillating stories about celebrities.
4. Yet there is more here than just titillating visuals.
5. By the time that same child is 18 years old, approximately 40,000 sexually titillating scenes will have been viewed.
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📚 Above and beyond, phrase.
❓ Definition: In excess of the expectations or demands of.
❗️ Examples:
1. She was always there to help us out in difficult times, above and beyond the call of duty.
2. And just ahead are our weekly tribute to a member of our Armed services who served above and beyond the call of duty.
3. She has been my campaign manager for three elections, and has served above and beyond the call of duty.
4. She said she appreciated their passion and their concern even above and beyond the official job.
5. No words can do justice to their efficiency, thoroughness, and all-around human compassion above and beyond the call of duty.
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