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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a thing that is" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe or define an object, concept, or situation in a general sense.
Example: "In philosophy, we often ponder the nature of existence, questioning what constitutes a thing that is."
Alternatives: "an entity that exists" or "a matter that is".
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A joke is a thing that is meant to make life tolerable.
But he also saw something else, a thing that is often now forgotten.
Ant-Man is small, and also quite strong for a thing that is small.
And then a thing that is really important for me: community.
The ability to take offence at the sight of breastfeeding is a thing that is taught and learned.
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
But I am not a thing that is just lying around somewhere, like a pen, or a toaster, or a housewife.
And even the idea of music as a thing that is chiefly there to be enjoyed rather than used turns out to be culturally limited.
Abstractive cognition, in contrast, is knowledge about a thing that is abstracted from, or logically independent of, that thing's actual existence or nonexistence.
Thus the species of a thing that is known is not itself an object of knowledge, though it can become an object of knowledge by being reflected upon.
Well-being is not a thing that is well understood... Probably not more than half a dozen men in the last hundred years have been well.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com