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a linguistic form actually in use or found in written records, in contrast to one that is hypothesized or reconstructed.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.
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I mean, physically, mentally, you know, in every way, shape, and form.
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And with regular clients that see him at least twice a month, relationships inevitably form.
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I ask Atefeh and Monir if they see dancing as a form of income in the future, a potential career.
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But probably because we co-edited the Deadline Artists anthologies with our friend Jesse Angelo, we feel a fidelity to the form.
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Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Arches more graceful in form, or better fitted to defy the assaults of time, I have never seen.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
As company after company appeared, we were able to form a pretty exact estimate of their numbers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
And remember it is by our hypothesis the best possible form and arrangement of that lesson.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells