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10 words in the English language with the most definitions (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 month ago by HoneyMustardGas to c/mildlyinteresting

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I challenge someone to make a sentence or paragraph with all these.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I TAKE my STAND. “GET SET, GO” My TURN to RUN. I PUT a lot of effort in but FALL and STRIKE my knee.

[–] slazer2au 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If it weren't paywalled I'd give it a go.

[–] toofpic 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't see a paywall (maybe stopped reading too early), but I hate the websites where content is mixed with ads, so you just scroll down trying to find "useful" bits. So it's a no from me anyway

[–] slazer2au 1 points 1 month ago

I can't see past the first word of run.

[–] davidgro 2 points 1 month ago

Try Firefox's reader mode

[–] idiomaddict 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My dad’s sworn for decades that it must be “jack,” but he excludes meanings which require an additional preposition, like make out or stand up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Just FIY those are called phrasal verbs and they're probably the second worst thing Europeans invented after capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I knew of get, some of the others were quite surprising to me.