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establish
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establish as in:  establish a positive tone

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    Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest college in the United States.
    established = started
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    The rule is so well-established, it is no longer open to reasonable legal dispute.
    established = existing firmly
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    As used in line 24, "rule" most nearly refers to an "established habit."
    established = existing
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    We want to establish our company as a leader in the industry.
    establish = set in reputation
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    Our school is one of the finest ever established.  (source)
    established = created
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    It had been stupid of me to write him a check —greediness on my part; I'd been thinking about establishing a lineage for the piece, though at this point even an envelope of cash placed under a napkin and slid across the table was no assurance he was going to let the matter drop.  (source)
    establishing = creating
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    MEPHISTOPHELES Yes, my good dame, a pair of witnesses Always the truth establishes.†  (source)
    establishes = creates, starts, or sets in a place
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    The rocks of the Spy-glass re-echoed it a score of times; the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.  (source)
    re-established = restored
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-established means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    "Racial integrity" laws were part of a plan to replicate slavery's racial hierarchy and reestablish the subordination of African Americans.  (source)
    reestablish = restore
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in reestablish means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    If out of the struggle we again re-establish in the world the rules of good faith and the renunciation of force, why, then even the sacrifices that will be entailed upon us will find their fullest justification.  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-establish means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    And look how quickly the communities reestablished themselves in Los Angeles and San Francisco.†  (source)
    reestablished = restored
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in reestablished means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    Mark is moving in that direction, planting his feet one at a time, reestablishing his position with every step.†  (source)
    reestablishing = restoring
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in reestablishing means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    Still, with her sense of justice, she saw that, since she was managing a property bringing in three thousand a year with a view to re-establishing it as a property of five thousand a year and since the property really, if not legally, belonged to Edward, it was reasonable and just that Edward should get a slice of his own.  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-establishing means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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establish as in:  establish that there is a need

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The passage is primarily about establishing the relationship between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global temperature.
establishing = showing or demonstrating
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    The sixth paragraph (lines 67-68) is primarily concerned with establishing the contrast between men and masculine traits.
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    Since we previously established that she was at work on Monday morning, we can eliminate her as a suspect.
    established = determined (figured out)
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    Can you establish her location on Monday morning?
    establish = determine (figure out)
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    Unfortunately, she gave herself away. In the eyes. They were agitated. She knew the exact moment when Viktor Chemmel established that the book was a prize possession. "I'll tell you what," he said. "For fifty marks, you can have it back."  (source)
    established = determined (figured out)
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    I've asked my brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins, but I have not been able to definitively establish a timeline, and have therefore relied on my own memories.  (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
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    Nonetheless, establishing Christ's divinity was critical to the further unification of the Roman empire and to the new Vatican power base.  (source)
    establishing = demonstrating
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    It's just, like, this isn't going to be some story where the poor, penniless girl gets rich and then realizes that truth matters more than money and establishes her heroism by going back to being the poor, penniless girl, okay?  (source)
    establishes = demonstrates
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    We've established that.  (source)
    established = proven or demonstrated
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    There are a number of ways to establish someone's approximate survival expectations without actually asking.  (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
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    I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make mention of one or two other things, which to me seem important, as in printed form establishing in all respects the reasonableness of the whole story of the White Whale, more especially the catastrophe.  (source)
    establishing = demonstrating
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    In another dissertation, he examines the theological works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemais, great-grand-uncle to the writer of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be attributed the divers little works published during the last century, under the pseudonym of Barleycourt.  (source)
    establishes = demonstrates
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    Evidence unearthed by the forty-odd expeditions sent to search for them eventually established that all had perished, the victims of scurvy, starvation, and unspeakable suffering.  (source)
    established = showed
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    Harry, we need to establish whether Sirius really has left Headquarters.  (source)
    establish = determine (figure out)
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