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31 Oct, 10:00

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📚 Ubuntu, noun.

🔉 /ʊˈbʊntʊ/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (South African • mass noun): A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity.

❗️ Examples:

1. There is a need for understanding not vengeance, ubuntu not victimization.
2. Speaking during the Senior Citizens' Day at the weekend, hosted by Rhema Mthatha Christian Church, MaMbeki singled out ubuntu as one solution to the problems facing society.
3. I hope the summit will bring together a spirit of humanity - ubuntu - for sustainable development.
4. He referred to Africa's concept of ubuntu, equating compassion with it, and bringing smiles to many audience members' faces.
5. ‘This is a demonstration of ubuntu, a show of humanity to other people,’ says Mdlulwa.
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📚 Where there's a will there's a way, phrase.

❓ Definition (proverb): Determination will overcome any obstacle.

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1. I know it will be difficult but where there's a will there's a way.
2. There would be a problem playing all those games but where there's a will there's a way.
3. As they say, where there's a will there's a way, and if anything can be read into Sunday's game, and its scintillating finish, the will is certainly strong in Galway and Kerry.
4. The problem for the fixtures board might be finding an alternative but where there's a will there's a way.
5. It seems to me that in politics, as in life, where there's a will there's a way.
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30 Oct, 17:00

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📚 Unceremoniously, adverb.

🔉 /ˌʌnsɛrɪˈməʊnɪəsli/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition: With a lack of courtesy; roughly or abruptly.

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1. He was unceremoniously dumped by the record company.
2. She was shoved unceremoniously towards the door.
3. A disappointing trading update in March saw the chief executive fall unceremoniously on his sword a few weeks later.
4. The case, which went unreported, had already been unceremoniously rejected in the High Court.
5. There's a squealy axe solo unceremoniously tacked on the end, naturally.
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🎬 Arbitrage (2012)

💬 Assuming we shed debt through some small liquidations, we're looking at a significant uptake in ROI.
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📚 ROI, abbreviation.

❓ Definition (Finance): Return on investment.

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📚 The best thing since sliced bread, phrase.

❓ Definition (informal): Used to emphasize one's enthusiasm about a new idea, person, or thing.

❗️ Examples:

1. They think that she is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
2. She finally locates the Assistant Wine Whatever-His-Title-Is, and he of the broad-smile-on-a-wide-face recommends the wine as if it were the next best thing since sliced bread.
3. Some people are a little confused by this latest trend, wondering what all the fuss is about and why it's becoming the next best thing since sliced bread.
4. While some analysts think it's the next best thing since sliced bread, it has the feeling of WAP redux.
5. That's not to say there isn't a market there, rather that we haven't been convinced it's quite the next best thing since sliced bread.
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29 Oct, 10:00

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🎬 The Full Monty (1997)

💬 The good news is that the outlook for the rest of the week is much better, with the storms clearing by Friday to leave the weekend warm and sunny.
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📚 Outlook, noun.

🔉 /ˈaʊtlʊk/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition: A person's point of view or general attitude to life.

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1. He had a practical outlook on life.
2. Still active and alert Mary attributes her longevity to plenty of hard work, good genes, a healthy lifestyle and a positive outlook on life in general.
3. His reflections on that, his life, his ongoing dialysis treatments and his general outlook on the world are well worth perusing.
4. Their bitterness poisons their attitude and their outlook on life.
5. Johnny was a lovely man and his warm smile will not be forgotten or his great outlook on life in general.
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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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28 Oct, 17:00

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📚 Disabuse, verb.

🔉 /ˌdɪsəˈbjuːz/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (with object): Persuade (someone) that an idea or belief is mistaken.

❗️ Examples:

1. He quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions.
2. Two days after our return to Trinidad, a triumphant call disabused me of any idea of his suffering.
3. If Wright had aspirations to fight in one of the war's main theaters after enlisting with the Sixth Iowa Cavalry Regiment, he was quickly disabused of the idea.
4. Of course, once I started doing the job I was quickly disabused of any romantic ideas I had about it.
5. Cameron is quick to disabuse anyone of the idea that she had a happy, randy, angst-free childhood.
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📚 Award, noun.

🔉 /əˈwɔːd/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition: A prize or other mark of recognition given in honour of an achievement.

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1. The company's annual award for high-quality service.
2. Women from across Yorkshire were honoured yesterday in awards recognising their outstanding achievements.
3. Nobody ever said it would be easy to establish an annual awards ceremony honouring the best productions in Scottish film and television.
4. The annual award recognizes outstanding achievements in sports turf management among the 180 state members.
5. He was presented with a special recognition award to mark his achievements since his days as young student at the old Waterville Vocational School.
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📚 Make ends meet, phrase.

❓ Definition: Earn just enough money to live on.

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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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27 Oct, 10:00

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🎬 Brooklyn (2015)

💬 May they do your will and live in peace with you in mutual love.
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📚 Mutual, adjective.

🔉 /ˈmjuːtʃʊəl/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition: (of a feeling or action) experienced or done by each of two or more parties towards the other or others.

❗️ Examples:

1. A partnership based on mutual respect and understanding.
2. My father hated him from the start and the feeling was mutual.
3. His contract with City has been terminated by mutual consent.
4. ‘We met around town in Detroit and just had a mutual admiration and respect, then just sort of gravitated toward one another,’ says Benson.
5. But this has not affected the mutual love and respect he and his children feel for one another.
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📚 Above and beyond, phrase.

❓ Definition: In excess of the expectations or demands of.

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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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🎬 Bob's Burgers (2011) - S04E02

💬 Crawl to freedom! - Crawl to Halloween!
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📚 Crawl, verb.

🔉 /krɔːl/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (no object): Move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground.

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1. They crawled from under the table.
2. I leaned forward, crawling on my knees to a bottle of beer resting on the desk next to the door.
3. Rolling across the ground, she crawled forward on her belly, ignoring the taste of grime and blood in her mouth.
4. Mack and I dove on the ground and began to crawl forward.
5. Out of morbid curiosity she pushed herself back into the storm drain and crawled forward on hands and knees toward the body.
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📚 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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📚 Beatification, noun.

🔉 /bɪˌatɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧

❓ Definition (mass noun): (in the Roman Catholic Church) declaration by the Pope that a dead person is in a state of bliss, constituting a first step towards canonization and permitting public veneration.

❗️ Examples:

1. A ceremony of beatification in St Peter's Square.
2. Both the Blet and Cornwall volumes are also part of the current struggle over the possible beatification and canonization of Pius XII.
3. In the 1990s, a number of bishoprics in Germany, Luxembourg and France began to support his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
4. We wrote a pretty irreverent piece on the Pope's beatification of two dead shepherd children.
5. The life of Fr Mullen was featured recently on the RTE programme ‘Nationwide’, which, combined with the book, is hopefully seen as a step towards beatification.
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🎬 American Pie (1999)

💬 Be sensitive to her feelings. Relationships are reciprocal.
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