Word: admit
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...true. I'll be the first to admit it. I've become a freak who sits in front of the computer for hours typing and typing my little heart away while my roommates whisper about what a good move it was to put that anal chick in the single. But lately, I haven't even been writing to friends at UCLA or Vassar. I've been spending my nights fingering strangers and loving...
...there with the innocent lilt of that riddle format, now didn't we? We bet you expected that the answer would be some sort of pun, as we'll admit we are wont to make--some petty witticism, with which you could chuckle your ennuiaway. Instead, though, you were shocked with a hideous hypothetical...
...Apply post-modernism to post-modernism," saysHerschbach, suggesting that a philosophy thatdenies all absolutes cannot admit its ownexistence...
...claiming that most students learn the basics in high school. Come now, let's be serious. I haven't had European history since ninth grade and that was with a teacher who was arguably deader than the white males we were studying. Granted, I'm an electrical engineer. I admit that many history majors probably do enter the university with the facts required to jump right into micro analysis...
...single penny in damages. Says Maura Ellis, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.: "Juries have consistently found that smokers should be held responsible for their own actions." But public sentiment began to shift during last year's congressional hearings, in which tobacco executives stubbornly refused to admit that smoking was addictive, even as internal company memos revealed that cigarette makers have long understood-and hidden-nicotine's addictive properties. Says Sheldon Schlesinger, a lawyer working on Florida's case: "For years we said to smokers, 'If you want to quit, why don't you quit?' But now people understand...