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pencil-sharpening (procrastination) link wanted

In spite of using the advanced search options of Google search, I cannot pin down a single instance of the ironic meaning of “pencil-sharpening” of “unnecessary preparation as a pretext for delaying getting down to work”. So, if someone could come…
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Is there a thesaurus-like reference for generalizings of terms by common type?

For example - "First, second, third, ..." generalize to "ordinal numbers". "Primary, secondary, tertiary, ..." are "rankings". Is there a well known reference for meaning-based categorizations?
Vatsal Manot
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Whats does d mean in a journal citation?

I would like to cite a journal and I was hoping to find page numbers, instead it is formatted like this: BMJ. 2011; 343: d5094. Does the 'd' indicate the page or something else?
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What is the correct way to reference more than 1 source?

Please keep in mind that this is for a commercial project and must be legally sound. When referencing through a footnote (e.g. a little '1' in superscript), what is the correct way to reference in this scenario? There is 3 references which are all…
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What is being referred to by the words "that amount"

"John has 12,000 in cash, and his sugar mommy gave him 8,000. He then decides to spend half that amount to 'insert action here'." What amount is the problem referring to? Does it refer to the article preceding that, which would be 8,000? Or would it…
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Does 'coming from ' necessarily refer to the speaker?

If I were to say something like "That's false, coming from someone who has lived in China for 3 years", then does the 'someone' in the sentence necessarily refer to myself?
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reference of that

I am reading Out of my Mind by Sharon Draper. I have questions about the last sentence in Chapter 11. (For your information, Rose is a normal kid and "I" am a physically challenged kid. They became friends after "I" joined the inclusion…
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Reference of "permanent numbers"

In the following paragraph: She gestures across the mass of daisies in the field. This is already a potent summation given the permanent numbers on Maude’s arm signaling a past outside the film’s time frame. But when Ashby cuts to a wide…
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Reference for "it" in the sentence

In the following paragraph, the reference of "it" in the last sentence is not clear to me. Is it the "Fallen Angel" film? Its style? or "technology"? In Fallen Angels, images accumulate as bits and pieces of a thoroughly imagined whole. We are…
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How to refer to a part previously mentioned in a report

I am writing my thesis and when I want to refer to something I will talk about later I use: see section/chapter.... But can I use it for a chapter that the reader should already have read? Because in French, it would be strange to use voir, and we…
Dark Patate
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Selling off the china

Today the Guardian reported BA selling off crockery from its first class cabins. The meaning here is clear. However, is there any word play in here? Does selling one's china have historical connotations of someone being miserable? In my mind, not…
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How to use et.al (special case)?

I'm writing about a javascript library. and i have the following example: "The founder of this JavaScript library, Jason M. Saragih, wrote an article [1] with et. al, reviewing considerations on how to accelerate their approach." I can see that this…
Loizos Vasileiou
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pro-verb: what does "did" refer to in this context?

In the following article, the underlined 'did' refers to the word 'mature' in the same sentence. But, how about the word 'reach' in the previous sentence? Is it ok to say the word 'did' can also be replaced with 'reach' for having the similar…
Kiyoung Kim
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SO referenced as "they" - right or wrong?

So I read a few posts over at IPS and I saw that SO (significant other) is referenced as "they". For example here the author of the accepted answer said that "they told them to ..." and with "they" referencing to the SO. Question: Why is SO…
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Referencing titles that include sparse quotes

I don't come across this particular problem very often, but everyonce and a while I come across a journal article that contains sparse/double quotes around a particular word. In particular this is problematic when the quotes are in place around the…
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