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‘A person may use a word.’

[⟨det person.nuse.v ⟨det word.n⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I use words as a layer of abstraction over meanings and concepts.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And I wouldn’t use that word lightly.] The Mists of Avalon Moby Dick * [Okay, honestly, I’d probably skip the cetology stuff the second time through] The Name of the Rose Neverwhere [This book is one of several reasons I in fact did not read American Gods.] 1984 Northanger Abbey * The Odyssey * Oliver Twist * The Once and Future King One Hundred Years of Solitude * On the Road One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest * Oryx and Crake A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – present Persuasion The Picture of Dorian Gray The Poisonwood Bible A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * Pride and Prejudice * The Prince * Quicksilver Reading Lolita in Tehran The Satanic Verses The Scarlet Letter * Sense and Sensibility * A Short History of Nearly Everything The Silmarillion Slaughterhouse – five [It’s on my nightstand.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I kept using that word AMAZING!, and I rarely use that word because I feel it’s overused and, well, if everything is amazing then that really means that nothing really is, right?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If he uses judgmental words, he is part of the problem and not looking for a solution.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If you use some other word I hate, like’ ‘relationship’’ or’ ‘communication’’ or’ ‘synergy’ ’, you will probably elicit some sort of strangled cry out of me, but my opinion of you probably won *n’t go down in the slightest.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As for (X) HTML, it can be added, not only within the post or Page but you can also edit the theme template files with an editor and add as much (X) HTML as you like (although I strenuously recommend you don’t use MS Word as your (X) HTML editor like you have been doing for your current site.)
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You don’t use words that are not going to be employed in the narrative or context.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I haven’t used that word in ages.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And yes, I will FOREVER reference that post when I use the word’ ‘dream’’ in my posts.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But I could use every word ever invented and not be able to really have you know how living like I do with that man is.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(Actually, all while I was getting ready and all through the drive to St Kilda I was using another word.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You can use the same words every time if that comes easily to you or you can use different words every time to tell a story.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Another institution – and I’m not using that word lightly – has become the latest casualty of the mortgage collapse.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I used another word earlier but I guess it made a few libs cry.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Hey, genius, just because you used the word’ ‘specifically’’ doesn’t mean you gave any specifics.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I just mean that multiethnic empires, though they tend to be shorter – lived than the local cultural substrates they attempt to negotiate or alter (for it is culture that tends to create and recreate political reality), are incredibly effective at holding power internally and externally, whereas Balkanized microstates (and I do not use either word in a derogatory sense) tend to be gobbled up by those empires.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Real quick blog but last night while bouncing a’ ‘woman’’ (I’m using that word losely because she was hardly a woman) got so drunk that by the end of the night she was challenging a mayfield gehtto…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Probably because they were the first concepts we thought about and needed to name? and by necessity became obtuse to spice up less interesting concepts to make them feel special. * * I don’t use that word lightly – but?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When you are confused – I will use little words. 7.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.