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Example sentences from the Web for termsLacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication. ‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST Yet to hear one of the victims so publicly rejecting the kinds of terms used in the past was inspiring. Jennifer Lawrence’s Righteous Fury Says Everything We Wanted to Say|Kevin O’Keeffe|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Maybe I have come more to terms with, somewhere over the years, that people will think whatever they think. Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST The rift put Washington at odds with countries like Brazil, Uruguay or Chile, which seemed to have come to terms with their past. Venezuela Says Goodbye to Its Lil Friend, While the Rest of the Continent Cheers|Catalina Lobo-Guererro|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Joseph LaRocca says some companies are upping the ante in terms of fending off return fraudsters. The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks|M.L. Nestel|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST It is to be reckoned, not in terms of knowledge and organization, but of character. Progress and History|Various Now, clean-ness, or neat-ness, is one of the elements that make hypocoristic terms (or terms of endearment) applicable. Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham For a man to call himself a Christian Evolutionist is (we have been told by high Orthodox authority) a contradiction in terms. The line of Messrs. Featherstonhaugh and Mudge is even less in conformity to the terms of the treaty. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Tyler|Compiled by James D. Richardson “It will frighten the rest, who will soon come to terms, and agree to pay any tribute I may demand,” observed the rajah. The Young Rajah|W.H.G. Kingston
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pl n(usually specified prenominally) the actual language or mode of presentation usedhe described the project in loose terms conditions of an agreementyou work here on our terms a sum of money paid for a service or credit; charges (usually preceded by on) mutual relationship or standingthey are on affectionate terms in terms of as expressed by; regardingin terms of money he was no better off come to terms to reach acceptance or agreementto come to terms with one's failings Words nearby termsterm limit, term of art, termor, term paper, term policy, terms, terms of service, terms of trade, termwise, tern, terna Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with terms
see bring to terms; come to terms with; contradiction in terms; in no uncertain terms; in terms of; on good terms; on speaking terms. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to termsnitty-gritty, stipulation, rate, fee, charge, details, conclusion, proviso, provisions, premises, price, understanding, premise, reservation, provision, payment, condition, circumstances, treaty, particulars |