Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after six years of waiting for compensation from Harvard, Swomley says Abramian has more in mind than money...
...always, there's a catch: in exchange for the hardware, consumers must share personal data, like income and interests. And ads will stream across the screen while users are online. With hardware so cheap these days, and advertising so pervasive, consumers will have to decide if the trade-off--mind share for monitor--is worth...
...thought it was. But when you get in these games, you find there's a time or two you'd be willing to sell your soul for a victory. When it first got diagnosed, baseball was the furthest thing from my mind. When I did come back, I was able to put the game in perspective, that it is only a game. But later in the season, when you realized how important each win was, it didn't change from the past. It's the same hunger, the same passion, the same fire. And I'm happy about that...
...These lapses, you might dimly recall, have something to do with irregular verbs. But please don't stop reading just yet. Children's errors are not just anecdotes for grandparents or reminders of long-forgotten grammar lessons. They're windows into the workings of language, history and the human mind...
...when an irregular word is still fresh in the mind, it is fragile. If a child's memory cannot cough up held quickly enough, he or she adds -ed by default and says holded instead...