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conjunction
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conjunction as in:  working in conjunction

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    She studied how climate patterns change in conjunction with ocean temperatures.
    conjunction = combination
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    The economic crash came from a conjunction of both market and governmental failure.
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    In conjunction means together.  (source)
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    All these people, in conjunction with the State Department of Education in Tallahassee, have helped to devise this emergency relocation plan.  (source)
    conjunction = combination
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    Architects always designed the chapels in conjunction with the tomb.  (source)
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    Such a conjunction has not occurred for two hundred years, and your Highness will not live to see it again.  (source)
    conjunction = when things happen at the same time
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    These things, in conjunction with the wild work we have in hand, help to unnerve a man.  (source)
    conjunction = at the same time
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    "Conjunction? Tenebrous? Hue?" Violet repeated. "I have no idea what you're talking about."  (source)
    Conjunction = when things are joined or happen together
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    "The Mamba du Mal," he read, "is one of the deadliest snakes in the hemisphere, noted for its strangulatory grip, used in conjunction with its deadly venom, giving all of its victims a tenebrous hue, which is ghastly to behold."  (source)
    conjunction = combination
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    "The Mamba du Mal," he read, "is one of the deadliest snakes in the hemisphere, noted for its strangulatory grip, used in conjunction with its deadly venom, giving all of its victims a tenebrous hue, which is ghastly to behold."  (source)
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conjunction as in:  "And" is a conjunction

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    The teacher asked them to rewrite the paragraph using conjunctions to avoid so many short sentences.
    conjunctions = joining words
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    FOR A NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSE OR PHRASE, BUT NOT FOR INDEPENDENT CLAUSES JOINED BY COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS….  (source)
    CONJUNCTIONS = words (such as "and" or "but") that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    Many older citizens … expend a great deal of effort in demonstrating to their children the illogical character of aren't I, or like as a conjunction.  (source)
    conjunction = a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    Until he understood how hateful it was and how it soiled him when he used it as casually as a conjunction.  (source)
    conjunction = a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    Simple conjunctions and prepositions are replaced by such phrases as WITH RESPECT TO, HAVING REGARD TO, THE FACT THAT, BY DINT OF, IN VIEW OF, IN THE INTERESTS OF, ON THE HYPOTHESIS THAT;  (source)
    conjunctions = words (such as "and" or "but") that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    The chair worked in conjunction with my Shaptic Bootsuit, a fullbody haptic feedback suit.†  (source)
    conjunction = a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    I know by my art that there have not been such disastrous conjunctions of the planets for five hundred years.†  (source)
    conjunctions = words (such as "and" or "but") that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    There will never be another such moment of time, another such conjunction.†  (source)
    conjunction = a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain—which taste cannot tolerate—which ridicule will seize.†  (source)
    conjunctions = words (such as "and" or "but") that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    "Next Monday," he said as he scribbled, "I am likely to develop a cough, owing to the unlucky conjunction of Mars and Jupiter."†  (source)
    conjunction = a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    There are in all our lives such moments, such influences, coming from the outside, as it were, irresistible, incomprehensible—as if brought about by the mysterious conjunctions of the planets.†  (source)
    conjunctions = words (such as "and" or "but") that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    Back then, the big event of the year was sponsored by the Baptist church downtown-Southern, if you really want to know-in conjunction with the local high school.†  (source)
    conjunction = a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    Gigantic fish and animals seemed to form strange conjunctions.†  (source)
    conjunctions = words (such as "and" or "but") that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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