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- noun Plural form of
yet .
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Examples
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For "yets" and "ifs" and "howevers" had already begun to intrude, befogging many a consideration hitherto clear as cut glass.
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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Kittehs - November 5, 2009 added by natedog | Images mcs+ to rate is it are can be caturday yets?
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The Marvelettes began in high school as the Cansinyets—"can't sing yets"—a playful name that singer Gladys Horton came up with in jest because the group hadn't fully gelled.
Is There a Letter in Your Bag For Me? Marc Myers 2011
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By including conjunctions that imply an opposition is to follow, but not delivering upon it, the transitional buts, howevers, and yets ring false.
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I would vote for keeping all of buts, howevers, and yets in this paragraph, because each is serving its proper function: they are introducing new facts that are genuinely opposed to those that came just before the conjunction.
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I would vote for keeping all of buts, howevers, and yets in this paragraph, because each is serving its proper function: they are introducing new facts that are genuinely opposed to those that came just before the conjunction.
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By including conjunctions that imply an opposition is to follow, but not delivering upon it, the transitional buts, howevers, and yets ring false.
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He adds, "We should give a special thanks to Portnoy in Mongolia, Vladamir in Russia, David in France, Ahmed in Kuwait and Mariano in Argentina for pressuring us to push translation at the front of our priority list and google chatting us at weird hours of the evening with 'Are we there yets?'"
SeeClickFix.com Goes Multilingual (Now Available in 83 Languages) 2009
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July 3, 2009 at 12:43 am hay! kitteh slave! whi u nawt makz da bed yets?
Why didn’t yu wake me sooner - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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An example is as you mention cif is a haven for feminists, gay rights etc and supports Islam yets Islam is anti-woman, homophobic and basically against every rights for non Muslims.
More whiney New Labour tofu eating cuntmonkeys: British Empire Ball. FIDO The Dog 2009
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