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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of deter.
Examples
“In turn, the United States will be deterred from the use of conventional forces in such a scenario.”
“Nor was Palin deterred by the fact she had five kids at home, including an infant with special needs.”
“As Alfred Nobel finally discerned, people are never deterred from the folly of war by the stark terror of it.”
“They joined up to these Parties at a time when Commnunist Parties held down the whole of Eastern Europe and Russia by brute force AND threatened us with destruction unless we 'deterred' them with nuclear weapons.”
“They would be "deterred" from ever beginning a nuclear war.”
“(Syria), during which time she was "deterred" from writing her thesis by the Secret Police!!”
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“They've "deterred" an entire generation of teens, most everybody who's a real music fan, anybody interested in technological innovation, Internet-freedom advocates, public-domain advocates, etc. etc. at nauseum - from ever respecting, trusting, or valuing what they do ever again.”
“deterred" by U.S. lawmakers 'forthcoming proclamation.”
“Trainees who exhibited “potential homosexual tendencies” could be “deterred from active participation” in gay sex by instructing them to redirect their sexual desires into a “‘heteroworship’ type of reaction.””
“Potential readers should not be deterred by the vaguely Hallmarkish cover — and subtitle — of this book, both of which may be blamed on the publisher.”
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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chums, pernicious, spurious, fleeting, pedestrian, recuse, urbane, indecorous, sophisticated, decry, heartfelt, deterred and 46 more...
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