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It is typically used as an interjection to signify a slight clearing of the throat. It can also be used as a polite way to get someone's attention. Example: "Ahem, may I have your attention, please?" the teacher said, trying to quiet down the noisy classroom.
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Ahem
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A use of the interjection, ahem.
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Comedy that cares is more compelling than, ahem, satire that ridicules everybody equally.
The Ruíz Mateos family, one of the most, ahem, "controversial" in Spain, went bankrupt and finally sold up after almost 20 years.
The difference in, ahem, end product was quite remarkable, however.
Television X, owned by Daily Express and Daily Star proprieter Richard Desmond, has a rich history of spoofing zeitgeisty TV shows and recasting them in its own, ahem, unique style.
Telly is also a good way to wind down from the real-life Hunger Games that is Christmas shopping, a sport that drops you, totally defenceless, into a shopping mall and demands you scale a mountain of produce – ahem, presents – by garrotting your fellow contenders with weaponised Christmas ribbon.
From, ahem, Sunsail.
It is now paying, ahem, £110m to Cazenove for a half share of the investment-banking joint venture and putting in £50m of capital and 70 of its staff.
He should remember that such, ahem, imprecision can fatally undermine an already difficult turnaround.
That is a cardinal error according to Germany's corporate-governance code, which was drawn up by a government committee chaired by, ahem, Mr Cromme.
But other imports tumbled by 4%, a fall centred on consumer goods (down by 6.8% on the month) and cars.In this section Seifert gets the blues A whiff of fear Too clever by half Net gains Surprise shrinkage Promises, ahem Poverty and the ballot box ReprintsThere is little evidence that this drop was caused by a cheaper dollar.
Halliburton has one main challenger for the title of the world's leading oil-services firm: Schlumberger, which is, ahem, French in origin.
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