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So just as Marketplace grew out of the rampant emergent behavior of people creating buy-and-sell Facebook Groups, the Marketplace team followed usage trends to build the new vehicle features.

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He compiled a missal, the liturgical book for the mass, and a breviary, the liturgical book for the canonical hours, both of which closely followed Roman usage but allowed for a Sarum Use conditioned by Norman traditions and Gallican, or Frankish rite, influences.

The word octopus is from ancient Greek, not Latin, so it would be 'octopodes' if we followed that usage, but we don't: the plural is 'octopuses'octopuses

(In the title of his play of that name, first performed in 1899, George Bernard Shaw avowedly followed American usage).

I soon followed the usage of other travelers: a white mask over the face.

You can buy one in the store to treat stains, but make sure you choose one that is safe for the type of material you plan to use it with, and always follow the usage instructions on the label.

But in the long term, the dictionary, by its very definition and goal, follows popular usage.

The name is corrected to "[A]bu Taleb" by the label writer, presumably unaware that Bu Taleb is not incorrect Arabic but follows Persian usage at that time.

-- The Second Amendment Foundation, a group that promotes the right to firearms Following common usage, the framers of the Second Amendment used the phrase "bear arms" to refer to possession of weapons for military use...

Both sides "believe that reality follows language usage," that if they "can stop people from ever seeing offensive words and ideas, they can prevent them from having the thought or committing the act that the words imply".

However, Mr. Heaney writes -- in a preface that is part biography, part a testament of faith in language and all shining essay -- "I have tended to follow modern usage and in the main have called a sword a sword".

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