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Also, on one's part; on the part of one.

So far as one is concerned, as regards one's share in the matter. For example, You may want to go out, but for my part I want to stay home, or On the part of the others, they expect a small share of the profits. [Mid-1400s]

Regarding or with respect to the one specified, as in For the Confederates' part, a daring strategy accounted for their victory at Chancellorsville, or, as Thomas Macaulay put it in History of England (1849): “No excess of tyranny on the part of a prince can justify active resistance on the part of a subject.” [c. 1400]

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Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
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Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.
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Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
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He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
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There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
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Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
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Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
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