Words similar to it--the
Example sentences for: it--the
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Avoiding the truth is more like it--the Post didn't turn on the TV or tell the girl to suck her thumb.
Or just parts of it--the hostile work environment clause, say, or the gender-biased evidentiary rules?
She hardly needs to mention it--the media bring it up anyway--but she invokes it subtly, alluding (as she did on two Sunday talk shows) to "women who drive their daughters halfway across the state to shake my hand, a woman they dare to believe in."
A fine goal, but the group has its work cut out for it--the most prominent Jewish woman this year pretty much fits those pejoratives to a T and the media didn't make her up: Monica Lewinsky.
Mills, a research professor in English at Sheffield Hallam University, looks at these issues in relation to conventional models of text in which a piece of written material is treated as if it existed in its own right with little reference to factors or constraints outside it--the socioeconomic factors of gender and race, for example.