Word: depends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it would have to depend on the candidate," he says. "If it was a candidate that I believed in, I would make the time...
Like more and more American workers, Martin has come to depend on his employer to keep him healthy and, to some degree, sane. On days when he doesn't bicycle to work, the father of two jogs on a treadmill in the HP fitness center. He studies meditation and stress reduction, gets flu shots, has his blood and body fat checked, and gets advice from company crisis counselors--all at work and for little or no cost...
...irregulars are vulnerable too because they depend on fallible memory. If a verb declines in popularity, speakers may not hear its irregular form often enough to fix it securely in memory. They fall back on -ed, changing the language for following generations. That is why forms from Chaucer's time such as chide-chid and writhe-wrothe turned into chided and writhed...
...Harvard will not depend just on its front line to do the work...
Identifying a winner in last night's debate is a tricky prospect. Ultimately, your opinion may depend on where you were. Bradley was pure New Hampshire--detailed and untheatrical--and New Hampshire viewers approved...