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| believe it or not |
| 1. adv. You may not believe this, but it is true. |
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| Analysis |
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| believe |
| 1. v. To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing) |
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| If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change. |
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| I believe there are faeries. |
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| 2. v. To accept that someone is telling the truth. |
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| Why did I ever believe you? |
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| it |
| 1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals. |
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| Put it over there. |
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| Take each day as it comes. |
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| I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today. |
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| 2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender. |
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| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) |
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| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. |
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| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. |
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| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. |
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| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. |
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| not |
| 1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. |
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| Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. |
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| Not knowing any better, I went ahead. |
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| 2. adv. To no degree. |
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| That is not red; it's orange. |
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