Word: objectively
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Hopefully, you no longer object to sentences that begin with the modifier hopefully. If you do, forget it; the battle is lost. On the other hand, if you still insist that infer and imply mean two different things, hang tough, despite accusations of being a word prig; this is one the word prigs could win. As for the plural-singular identity crises suffered by words like data and media, stand by; they could go either...
...object of the game is to shepherd two balls twice around a wicketed turf. Rather than hit opponents' balls into the woods, as in backyard croquet, players hit them to get an extra turn...
During a telecast of the last baseball game of the season between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays (when Detroit had to win three straight to win the AL East flag) the camera focused on a security officer carrying an object off the field...
...ALMOST tempting to feel sorry for Robert Bork. He stood on the brink of attaining the power and prestige afforded a justice of the United States Supreme Court, only to be denied the object of a life's work and thought--and, some would say, politicking. But if the predicament Judge Bork found himself in when he learned the Senate would not assent to his nomination deserves our understanding, it does not merit our sympathy...
...Hite's statistics to be of limited value. The sample is highly self-selected, she says (indeed, only 4.5% of the 100,000 questionnaires mailed were returned), and probably reflects a disproportion of malcontents. "Unhappy people are more willing to answer these questions than happy people," says Reinisch. Others object to the vagueness of Hite's subject matter and the questions she asks...