Definitions
Etymologies
- From it + ’s. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It you're doing a label it's not for the manufacturer or dealers.”
“Ms. Holston said her daughter had a tattoo on her right arm of a basketball with the phrase "it's not the game, it's my life" written in it.”
The Wall Street Journal: High-School Basketball Star Is Slain
“If this goes down and helps the Yankees and helps us both long term and short term it's a win-win for everybody.”
“In the year since then, I've heard the phrase "it's unsustainable," or something close to it, repeated dozens of times by clients including corporate executives, government employees, small-business owners, hospital administrators and physicians, school administrators and teachers.”
“As a title it's OK, but that's the only interesting thing in the lyrics, I would say.”
“A reader named Kevin, while enjoying the online vocabulary-building feature A Word a Day wordsmith.org, was surprised to see the expression "it's a dog's life" included in a list of terms indicating hardship and unpleasantness.”
“David Renz, director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, said it is obvious that things must change, "but in the short term it's impossible to adequately fund a system.”
“David Renz, director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, said it is obvious that things must change, but in the short term it's impossible to adequately fund a system.”
“No one steals a word it's called language evolution.”
“Bernanke also said the Fed should answer to Congress in the long run, but in the "short term it's important to make our decisions clear from politics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘it's’.
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Most Annoying Misspelled Words
alot, wurd, dieing, wuz, liek, febuary, teh, becuase, wensday, genious, it's, there, their, the... and 2 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Amity's words
My daughter's expressive vocabulary as of Dec 2012 (born May '11), including quasi-lexical interjections. No attempt is made to reflect (mis)pronunciation by phonetic spelling, even though it would...
ball, eye, car, apple, cheese, milk, bottle, water, light, no, dad, mom and 43 more...
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burrito's Words
salubrious, peops, histrionic, thesaurus, judicious, word, husbandry, leverage, source, acronym, hominy, duplicitous and 5 more...
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Guano
As a teacher, I see a lot of misspellings. These are the words that drive me ________-________ crazy.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for it's.
ramsler "It's made me proud to know and admire her for decades, and even prouder to nominate her to our Nation's highest court." - President Barack Obama on Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court - 11 May 2010 Note: one rarely sees it's used for 'it has' May 12, 2010
jennarenn Not to be confused with its. Apr 3, 2009