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thing

An item; an object. She sent her things to New York.

thing

a special situation this thing has got to end it is a remarkable thing an action how could you do such a thing? an artifact how does this thing work? a special abstraction a thing of the spirit things of the heart an event a funny thing happened on the way to the... (= matter, affair) a vaguely specified concern several matters to attend to it is none of your affair things are going well an entity that is not named specifically I couldn't tell what the thing was a statement regarded as an object to say the same thing in other terms how can you say such a thing? any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence the thing I like about her is ... a special objective the thing is to stay in bounds a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion he has a thing about seafood she has a thing about him a separate and self-contained entity

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Simple sentences

A Japanese would never do such a thing.
For one thing, I'm penniless; for another, I don't have the time.
Nobody could explain how the thing was made.
You cannot learn such a thing too soon.
John did a brave thing.
You say one thing and then act just the opposite.
You can find the same thing anywhere.
What's the craziest thing you've done lately?
What is this thing used for?
Don't understand a thing.
Juggling is another thing I'm not very good at.
A really bad thing happened to him.
What is this thing for?
What's the last thing you remember?
That's the stupidest thing I've ever said.
Innocence is a beautiful thing.
Next thing you know, you'll be in the papers.
I suppose that behind each thing we have to do, there's something we want to do.
When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
No thing is impossible for one who has no need to do it himself.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
How dare you say such a thing to me?
You ought not to have said a thing like that to him.
Why did you say such a thing?
You don't need to worry about such a thing.
That won't change a thing.
You shouldn't do such a thing.
If I were in your situation, I would do the same thing.
What is that thing in your right hand?
It is foolish of you to believe such a thing.
No living thing could live without air.
That sort of thing can happen when you are in haste.
Learning is one thing, and common sense another.

Movie subtitles

There is no such thing as exercising too much discretion.
Just tell me one thing!
The thing of education.
The least little thing caused the trap to snap shut because there were no external resources to draw on.
Put that stupid thing down!
It's been a thing since I was a kid.
The funny thing is, I don't really remember getting here.
No no no, elder, this is just the sort of thing the Mormon leaders need to be seeing.
You know, it's sort of like a. like a Jesus thing.
The thing is I, I really liked her too, you know?
That play was the most. beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Did you know that the clitoris is a holy sacred thing?
And the same thing occurs here on Earth.
Kepler will simply do one thing unbelievably well - measure the brightnesses of 1 00,000 stars over and over and over, looking for a few of those 1 00,000 stars that dim.
The only thing Arabs respect is strength.
Good thing I'm here.
Violence is the only thing Arabs respect.
It's a religious thing.
Sure thing.
My father, rest his soul, used to say a neighborhood is like an organism, a living thing, always changing, always needing something.
Be honest. If he sees this thing, is he gonna guess what happened?
Hey, man, we directed the thing, and we still weren't sure, so.
Um, I actually have a thing, anyways.
It's not the same thing.
I guess that's a good thing.
That's not a thing for me to decide.
But the hardest thing to get past the screws is peanuts, or anything that contains peanuts, or anything that even MAY contain peanuts.
So, here's the thing that makes most kids happy, but the teachers act like the peanut is the devil's bean.
The thing is, they can never stop the peanut butter trade.
See, the thing is, me and my friends, we really like PBJs.
The thing is, usually I'm good at keeping secrets, but it feels weird keeping things from Nick.
Nick, this whole thing, it's torn our crew apart.
That's, like, the one thing he told us not to do.
It was a stupid thing to do. But four days suspension for getting kids peanut butter sandwiches?
And the thing is, it doesn't matter how many times kids get suspended.
The whole thing was an act.
I was hoping they'd do the right thing, but I'm not surprised they're being total jerks.
The thing is, there's a bit of a new rule.
What's that thing?
What thing?

News and current affairs

I just took it for granted that, by the time I was, say, 40, space travel would be a common thing.
Newspapers in most advanced countries are struggling or folding, and investigative reporting is often the first thing they cut.
From a child's perspective, it wasn't self-evident that losing was a good thing.
While democracy is, no doubt, the form of governance that best preserves human rights, the two are not the same thing.
One more thing: even if we managed to do all this (which we obviously cannot), the impact on global temperatures would be hardly noticeable by 2050.
One thing is clear.
The confused reaction to this verdict should, perhaps, give pause to all those who think that putting the past on trial is a straightforward thing.
The Bank rejected the idea of a moratorium on its own work with investors in agriculture, arguing that this would target precisely those who are most likely to do the right thing.
We cannot merely rely on regulators to do the right thing.
And that is a good thing.
For one thing, the divisive war in Iraq may turn out to be the last act of the twentieth century rather than a harbinger of the twenty-first.
In fact, having countries like Russia and China more vested in the well-being of the US economy would not be a bad thing.
With uncertainty plaguing Europe's finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy.
And a substantial change has indeed occurred over the past two generations: CEOs focus much more attention than they used to on pleasing the stock market, and this is likely to be a good thing.
Reducing deficits in order to raise the debt ceiling was the right thing to do, but the August 2 law does it in the wrong way.
One thing to be learned, if we didn't know this already, is how close racial sensitivities are to the surface of US life, despite the election of a black president.
Yet Suu Kyi, and much of the Burmese opposition, is beginning to admit that today's political liberalization might be the real thing.
If we have learned one thing in the development business, it is that real reform cannot be bought with donors' money, let alone with vague promises of money.
The classical concert that preceded the magisterial fireworks that ended the day was the closest thing to a French version of the Proms in London, mixing light classical and popular songs.
Although some of those tensions appear purely bilateral, the Georgian-Russian conflict demonstrates that there is no such thing anymore in this globalized world, and certainly not in this interconnected region.
One thing to be said for monarchs is that they provide people with a sense of continuity, which can be useful in times of crisis or radical change.
The only thing we got wrong was how bad banks' lending practices were, how non-transparent banks really were, and how inadequate their risk management systems were.
For one thing, possession of power resources does not always imply that one can get the outcomes one prefers.
It is one thing to borrow to make an investment, which strengthens balance sheets; it is another thing to borrow to finance a vacation or a consumption binge.

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