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- adjective philosophy Resembling a
thing ; having the properties associated with a physical object;objectlike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Which word you say was once considered a regional thinglike using bubbler for water fountainbut the terms are interchangeable, with frosting being a more American term.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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Which word you say was once considered a regional thinglike using bubbler for water fountainbut the terms are interchangeable, with frosting being a more American term.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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A kind of a thinglike all traylogged then pubably it resymbles a pelvic or some kvind then props an acutebacked quadrangle with aslant off ohahn-thenth a wenchyoumaycuddler, lying with her royalirish upper — shoes among the theeckleaves.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"No, no," she said, backing a step or two; "I'd have no call to a pretty thinglike that -- why, it _is_ fine!
A Girl of the People L. T. Meade 1884
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I just want to make sure, "and issued a soft wild-thinglike growl along with the cheering of the crowd.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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