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Example sentences for: scintilla

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As the standards slip in the marketplace, so they move on down the slippery slope in the education place, with older, wiser, more dedicated, better educated teachers gradually but ineluctably replaced by those who have not a scintilla of enlightenment regarding the meaning of contrary-to-fact condition, comma splice , or double genitive .
But perhaps there will be a rethinking of the word communication and an instinctive scintilla of caution when communicating outside one's social group.