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the idea lingers
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An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
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The idea lingers that even if he does gain the record, he is not among the top five most talented running backs in pro football history.
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Different incarnations of the idea lingered until the 19th Century, when scientists instead proposed that yawning aids respiration – triggering a rush of oxygen into the blood supply, while flushing out the carbon dioxide.
He does not use the tag so much nowadays, but the ideas linger on.
Then comes, usually, a long period of desperation, but the idea is lingering.
But the idea has lingered (really), and now Google is taking a shot at their own version of the service.
As far-fetched as this may sound, the idea has lingered over the years – most notably in the mid-1970s by the late Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill, and again by the space think tank British Interplanetary Society.
The first studies carried out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries found that bilinguals performed poorly in tests which measured their IQ (Darsie 1926; Saer 1923), and such an idea lingered along the first decades of the 20th century.
But, in Arab hearts if not in Arab heads, the idea of unity lingers mischievously on.If not unity, why not co-operation?
The idea of love lingered in his brain, but he could neither feel nor dispense it.
Last winter the average house price in Aspen was $4.3m£2.6m6m) and the place oozes so much wealth that it's hard to find the idea of a lingering countercultural spirit plausible, let alone visible.
And then comes, usually, a long period of desperation, but the idea is still lingering in my mind.
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