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1. result


The result proved disappointing.
Among married couples, there has been an increase in divorce and separation with the result that there are many more one-parent families.
As a result, it is undeniable that important disciplines and moral education have been neglected. By placing excessive importance on scholastic achievement, many parents have forgotten such basic social courtesies as consideration for others.
By averaging the squared difference between each value and the mean and finding the square root of the result, we can find the standard deviation.
This inefficiency is a result of the animal's large body and massive legs and feet, which contribute a sideways motion to its walk.
The student submitted a paper to an English-language journal, and the result was "conditional acceptance".
Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented.
As a result, people have got so used to being paid this way that they're uncomfortable with any other.
It has been estimated that, as a result of the destruction, fifty species of wildlife are disappearing from the earth each day.
If there are too many irons in the fire in too short a time, good strategy cannot result.
Any result obtained through the execution of the Commissioned Business shall belong to each party hereto.
Somehow, a nearly bankrupt third-party publisher flashed the new Castlevania game onto the memory incompletely. As a result, an entire generation of kids in Macon, Georgia unanimously condemned it as "Simon Does Nothing but Fall into a Bottomless Pit."
There's no telling what kind of trouble this proposal might stir up. The result is certainly going to be something to see.
It's a strong medicine so you might feel a bit weird as a result.

2. persist


persistence | persistent | persistently
why do you persist and denying that you know him
Despite difficulties, she persisted in her efforts to get a university education.
He persists in calling me Jane, even though I've corrected him twice.
I persist in my popularity.
Our brains persist in using stereotypes.
The anthropologist says odd customs do persist in the region.
You should persist in your efforts to learn English.
stop persisting!
If symptoms persist, consult a doctor.
Madam, if you persist, I'll have to forcibly remove you from the premises. Mr West is not giving any interviews today.
People saying bless you don't really believe that their words will help but the custom persists as a politeness.
Frost will persist all day.
A single thought persisted in the back of his mind.
There is also one type of idealism that says even without strength or intelligence you can do anything if you can merely persist.

3. increase


The prices increased.
Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.
The report from the National Development and Reform Committee says that the advance in rural high-speed telecommunication infrastructure is the main reason for the increase in Internet users.
Translating sentences one by one is too slow for you? You want to increase your rank in Tatoeba, or the rank of your language, at the speed of light? So this is for you!
It's just if we have it every day we're bound to get fed up with it. I must increase the variety of my cooking.
Yesterday my brother went to Fukushima to help the inhabitants. I'm afraid that the radiation will increase.
This may be because of a change in people's attitude toward marriage and the sharp increase of fast food restaurants and convenience stores which are open 24 hours a day and enable young people to live more easily.
When I reached the hall right away the person in charge unrelentingly said things like "This painting is certain to increase in value in the future," and I went and signed the contract.
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.
This extraordinary increase is explained by the speedy economic unification which took place during the same period.
Our firm is a giant one, and there are some rules and regulations, which should be revised or rescinded to reduce red tape and increase efficiency.
increase by - wzrasta o. Exports of computers have increased by 15% since January. / increase in: The club has been increasing in popularity. / increase with: The chances of having twins increase with a mother’s age. / → Opposite - decrease
Apart from gold; customers may ask for their avatar’s skill level to increase; or for a virtual magic sword.

4. the sky



5. live


The performance will be broadcast live from Las Vegas.
They live there.
I now live in Helsinki, but I'm originally from Kuopio.
We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
I would very much like the place where I live to be less polluted.
Would you like to see a live performance of a play with me Saturday?
I like to go to a local jazz club where I can enjoy live music.
Japanese people are fortunate to live in a land with natural hot springs.
I never for a moment imagined I'd be able to afford to live in such a fancy house.
You learn a lot about your own country if you live abroad.
Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.
If you keep on like this, you'll probably live to reach 120!
I sometimes wish I could live a quiet retired sort of life but I doubt I could stand it for more than a few days.
Millions of beneficial organisms live in the human digestive tract.

6. exile


Santa Ana was living in exile in Cuba.
Napoleon lived in exile on the island of Elba.
He was exiled from the country in 1850 and did not return until 1858.
in exile
to exile sb to Siberia
The country’s former leader has been living in exile for two years.
My children and I are being sent into exile.
Napoleon was first exiled in 1814.
The criminal was sent into exile.
To lose means exile in the desert
Won't exile be better for you than the hate of the citizens?
The exile yearned for his home.
Deposed in a military coup in September 2006 and having effectively been in exile, the Former premier of Thailand Thaksin has returned after about a year and a half.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

7. conclusion


The conclusion is crystal clear.
We humans have a great way of twisting facts to fit our conclusion as soon as we have made one.
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
I don't dispute the facts you've presented but only the conclusion you draw from them.
In conclusion, Ahn, it very much falls to you and me to set the tone for the work environment. I will do my bit to defuse the present climate and crack on with the job at hand. I hope I can rely on your support for this.
Your role will be to direct this project to its conclusion.
Tom and Bill arrived at the conclusion independently of each other.
The flow of evacuation events from occurrence of a large earthquake to the conclusion of emergency counter measures.
Basing his conclusion of guilt on deductive reasoning, Sherlock Holmes ratted out his own partner, Watson.
Some learned writers have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram, because as the sting of the Scorpion lies in the tail, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
Syllogism is a logical argument in which two propositions determine one conclusion.
Shinichirō Watanabe once considered making an anime about Christopher Columbus, but came to the conclusion that not even anime was expressive enough to properly portray the surreal greatness of Columbus's exploits.
The conclusion of my report is that the school curriculum should include Chinese as a foreign language.
The conclusion reached by a study is "People who think their feet are smelly, have smelly feet; people who think they aren't, don't."

8. existence


Death ends man's finite existence.
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into existence. Perhaps it's even me.
Existence precedes essence.
By the by, this ability to will fire into existence is apparently called pyrokinesis.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Contemplating the reason for existence means contemplating non-existing things.
You're not a serious mathematician unless you crumple up a piece of paper in frustration every twenty minutes, look off into space, and appear to be questioning your very existence.
The main point of Dennett's book, in short, is to deny the existence of inner mental states.
and a sedentary existence, our friend here decides to act.
Definition the existence of something is the fact that it exists in the world and is a real thing. A person’s existence is their life, especially when talking about what sort of life they have
Existence is the state of being alive or being real. For example, you and your best friend disagree about the existence of Bigfoot if you think it's real and your friend doesn't.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
For my multi-talented sister, able do anything with ease, it seems that my commonplace self is something whose existence she finds very hard to forgive.

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