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2021-03-26 10:00:00 Conspire, verb.

/kənˈspʌɪə/

Definition (no object): Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.

Examples:

1. They conspired against him.
2. They deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue.
3. They didn't lose their case because everyone conspired against them.
4. This type of public affirmation of the underdog was partly why his enemies conspired against him.
5. Before he died, he believed that his doctors had conspired against him.
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2021-03-25 21:00:00 On the back foot, phrase.

Definition (British): Outmanoeuvred by a competitor or opponent; at a disadvantage.

Examples:

1. Messi's early goal put Milan on the back foot.
2. The government found itself on the back foot as peaceful demonstrations continued.
3. By the early summer of 1918, the German submarines were clearly on the back foot.
4. The Irish government appeared to be put on the back foot.
5. The polls may not show much change but the government gives all the appearances of being on the back foot.
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2021-03-25 17:00:06 Concatenation, noun.

/kənkatəˈneɪʃn/

Definition: A series of interconnected things.

Examples:

1. A concatenation of events which had finally led to the murder.
2. Extending from one end to the other is a great concatenation of human bodies linked by their reaching, touching, grasping, and leaning, each creating a dangerous possibility of human-to-human contagion.
3. All of these things came together to create this awful concatenation of these various factors, simply diabolically coming together.
4. In language, a lone signifier would be an utterly meaningless sound or concatenation of sounds.
5. Now, why, in that concatenation of facts, do you not have a basis on which the primary judge can find that to some extent there is evidence?
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2021-03-25 10:00:00 Fund, verb.

/fʌnd/

Definition (with object): Provide with money for a particular purpose.

Examples:

1. The World Bank refused to fund the project.
2. By contrast, the citizen scientists would be funded by public money to do just that.
3. The money also funded film workshops at secondary schools and colleges across the region.
4. The project is funded by a four year grant from regeneration money provided by the government.
5. The answer is simple since any job in the public services is funded by tax payers' money.
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2021-03-24 21:00:01 Jump on the bandwagon, phrase.

Definition: Join others in doing or supporting something fashionable or likely to be successful.

Examples:

1. Scientists and doctors alike have jumped on the bandwagon.
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2021-03-24 17:00:09 Peduncle, noun.

/pɪˈdʌŋk(ə)l/

Definition (Botany): The stalk bearing a flower or fruit, or the main stalk of an inflorescence.

Examples:

1. In angiosperms, trichomes may occur on leaves, petals, stems, petioles, peduncles and seed coats, depending on the species.
2. The reddish colour of the depistillated flower and its peduncle is a response to high light intensities during anthesis and should not be interpreted to indicate senescence.
3. Briefly, after harvesting, fruit peduncles were trimmed to uniform length with a scalpel, and each fruit was immediately placed in an autoclaved container with a nutrient solution.
4. The plant was separated into roots, leaves, fruits, peduncle, and stem.
5. Grape berries are borne on the end of a stalk, the pedicel, which in turn is borne on the bunchstem, or peduncle.
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