Definitions
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- Contraction of it is.
- Contraction of it has.
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- adjective Alternative form of
its . - phrase It
is . - phrase It
has . - phrase colloquial
there's ,there is ;there're ,there are
Etymologies
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Examples
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It you're doing a label it's not for the manufacturer or dealers.
CNET News.com 2011
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Ms. Holston said her daughter had a tattoo on her right arm of a basketball with the phrase "it's not the game, it's my life" written in it.
High-School Basketball Star Is Slain Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011
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No one steals a word it's called language evolution.
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As a title it's OK, but that's the only interesting thing in the lyrics, I would say.
The Guardian World News Decca Aitkenhead 2011
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"If this goes down and helps the Yankees and helps us both long term and short term it's a win-win for everybody."
The Seattle Times 2012
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David Renz, director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, said it is obvious that things must change, but in the short term it's impossible to adequately fund a system.
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In the year since then, I've heard the phrase "it's unsustainable," or something close to it, repeated dozens of times by clients including corporate executives, government employees, small-business owners, hospital administrators and physicians, school administrators and teachers.
NYT > Home Page By TONY SCHWARTZ 2011
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A reader named Kevin, while enjoying the online vocabulary-building feature A Word a Day wordsmith.org, was surprised to see the expression "it's a dog's life" included in a list of terms indicating hardship and unpleasantness.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WARREN CLEMENTS 2011
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"If this goes down and helps the Yankees and helps us both long term and short term it's a win-win for everybody."
The Seattle Times 2012
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David Renz, director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, said it is obvious that things must change, "but in the short term it's impossible to adequately fund a system."
jennarenn commented on the word it's
Not to be confused with its.
April 3, 2009
ramsler commented on the word it's
"It's made me proud to know and admire her for decades, and even prouder to nominate her to our Nation's highest court." - President Barack Obama on Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court - 11 May 2010 Note: one rarely sees it's used for 'it has'
May 12, 2010
alexz commented on the word it's
Definitely to be confused with "its"
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ibc9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA61
"The oldest instances of it's quoted by Mr Aldis Wright are from Florio's Worlde of Wordes (1598), and the same writer's Montaigne (1603); but, as instances are frequent there - "for it's owne sake," "science had it's of spring," "doe it's best," "it's name," etc.- it seems likely that Florio only confirmed a previous custom. At all events, the mongrel had been born in Florio's time and had begun a career more remarkable than has fallen to the chance of perhaps any other word in the English language."
December 25, 2015