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Taxa stems from the Latin verb taxāre, meaning “to assess” and related of course to tax but also to touch, task, taste, tangible, and the much-used Global English word contact.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Taxa stems from the Latin verb taxāre, meaning “to assess” and related of course to tax but also to touch, task, taste, tangible, and the much-used Global English word contact.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Like our environmental laws, the federal prohibition on child labor, enacted earlier in the 20th century, also inconvenienced the coal industry, taking away a much-used source of cheap labor.
Scott Edwards: Kentucky's Coal Cabinet Scott Edwards 2011
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To use the much-used post-9/11 phrase, they connected the dots.
A Stealth Attack on Enemy Secrets Tom Nagorski 2011
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Like our environmental laws, the federal prohibition on child labor, enacted earlier in the 20th century, also inconvenienced the coal industry, taking away a much-used source of cheap labor.
Scott Edwards: Kentucky's Coal Cabinet Scott Edwards 2011
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The second edition of Pearson's much-used grade 10 Social Studies text is about to be published.
Lessons 2010
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He threw away his musty bath towel, the dead shower curtain, and his ragged, much-used sheets.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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(Even Jews have a hard time translating that much-used Yiddish word.)
Lanny Davis: Rahm Lanny Davis 2010
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A much-used “giant eye” with real star power—it has served, after all, as a backdrop to movies ranging from Contact to the James Bond film GoldenEye and an X-Files episode called “Little Green Men”—it nonetheless belongs to the past and is struggling to hold on to the limited National Science Foundation funding that it receives.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Running backs don't experience "the frequent sub-concussive blows" that linemen do, but "when they get hit, they get really hit," Stern says, and as a much-used blocker, Portis has been hit both ways.
Clinton Portis' life as a running back: time and punishment Sally Jenkins 2010
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