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Example sentences for: phrasal
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Also, the alphabetical order might prove a bit off-putting for some, for phrasal verbs are set flush left with a hanging indention (like headwords) immediately after the main verb: for instance, take , which has fifteen main entries of its own (for reasons we shall get to), is followed by headword-style entries for take after, take against , etc., through take up with ; it is only then that one reaches the entry for takeaway .
There is a difference between using a word in a phrasal definition and suggesting it as a— presumably substitutable—synonym.
On the other hand, the cryptogram composer is free to conceal these signals in all sorts of phrasal hocus-pocus:
The question is trivial, for the systems need not be mutually exclusive, nor need they exclude phrasal sets like Shut up!
A careful estimate indicates that the TBDNE contains about 9,000 headwords with an additional 2,000 or so other entry words; of these 11,000 or so entries, some 2,300 (about 21%) are phrasal.