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the form of a fraction after dividing the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor.

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In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

In fact, in a recent study of their users internationally, it was the lowest priority for most.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I was a journalist in New York City for the last of his three gubernatorial terms, a little more.
Mario Cuomo: An OK Governor, but a Far Better Person|Michael Tomasky|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Yet to hear one of the victims so publicly rejecting the kinds of terms used in the past was inspiring.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Righteous Fury Says Everything We Wanted to Say|Kevin O’Keeffe|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

We kind of reduce things to the lowest common denominator, in some ways for good and in some ways not for good.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Results are in terms of bulk of precipitate, which must not be confused with percentage by weight.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Modification in its terms growing in part out of these new conditions will subsequently be required from time to time.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
And lifting them carefully one off the other, he took out a deal box that had stood in the lowest stratum.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The society newspapers for the week alluded to the matter in veiled, but unmistakable terms.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Of the extent of this increased power of production we can only speak in general terms.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock