I challenge someone to make a sentence or paragraph with all these.

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    22 days ago

    My dad’s sworn for decades that it must be “jack,” but he excludes meanings which require an additional preposition, like make out or stand up.

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      22 days ago

      Just FIY those are called phrasal verbs and they’re probably the second worst thing Europeans invented after capitalism.

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      22 days ago

      I don’t see a paywall (maybe stopped reading too early), but I hate the websites where content is mixed with ads, so you just scroll down trying to find “useful” bits. So it’s a no from me anyway