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Free sign upThe phrase "a yes and a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express agreement or affirmation, but it lacks context to be effectively used.
Example: "In the meeting, we need a yes and a no to finalize the decision."
Alternatives: "an affirmation and a" or "a confirmation and a".
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The difference between the campaigns' pitches to voters may be relatively modest, but that between a "yes" and a "no" is vast.
"We don't have a yes and a no," a painter observed to me on a visit to Zambia last year for an artists' workshop.
The very texture of Mariani's prose pays homage to Hopkins's verse, to the point that his book sometimes reads like an excitable pastiche of its subject: "So give it a day, a date, a going forth, a crossing over, all in an instant, finally, a yes and a yes again".
A button box with a "YES" and a "NO" button was used to measure the responses.
You really do sense every option has a yes and a no and more often, the no is dictated by the amount of pain you want to feel, the amount of pain you know you are going to feel and whether or not you want to go through it.
Here, we look at what might happen to Scottish sport after a "Yes" and a "No" vote.
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He's not a yes-and guy, an improv-team guy — he's an unhinged garage-podcast messiah.
He contemplated the thought and shrugged, an approximation of an Asian nod: a yes-and-no answer to a possible alternative.
"We have produced a flyer with the disadvantages of a yes and the advantages of a no.
The F13 participant, for example, marked one class as a "yes" and one class as a "maybe" god class.
"A yes and maybe list is a list of actions in your 'playbank,'" Fancy Feast told me over the phone.
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