Word: singularize
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...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...
...matters of grammar, everyone can now do their own thing -- or so RHD-II argues in a note that endorses using their with a singular antecedent like everyone, something that was "nonstandard" in RHD-I. Hopefully seems a hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...
...Such close attention by a painter to one model over so long a period is a remarkable, if not singular, circumstance in the history of American art," writes John Wilmerding, deputy director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and author of "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures...
...similar division races, they all faced a singular moment of truth, when the Twins, Giants, Cardinals and Tigers looked the A's, Reds, Mets and Blue Jays square in the eyes. The Twins' and Giants' courses were set with August sweeps, while the Cardinals' and Tigers' seasons turned on a last out in New York and teetered on a final weekend in Detroit. Impeccable Tiger Pitcher Doyle Alexander (9-0) made sure the race would at least go the natural limit, if not to a 163rd game, while the Twins stood...
After centuries of hewing to tradition, followed by decades of Western | imitation, Japanese designers now feel free to create singular, exciting hybrids of East and West. The new architecture is ambitious and confident, with stars like Arata Isozaki getting international notice. Graphics aspire to art, interiors are rich with allusion, and never before has there been such ferment...