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the surface layer of water, seasonally varying in thickness, that is at almost uniform temperature owing to agitation by waves and wind.

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Are you aware how often people swap around “their,” “there,” and “they’re”? Prove you have more than a fair grasp over these commonly confused words.

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
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Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?
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Residents of the neighborhoods where cops are needed the most are mixed on the impact of the apparent slowdown.
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Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.
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Furthermore, mixed race children are the fastest growing population in the country.
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It separates into three layers upon standing—a brown deposit, a clear fluid, and a frothy layer.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Broken crocks should be strewn upon the tray, and on to this is heaped peaty soil mixed with sand.
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"I'm not proud," replied Davy, provoked at being mixed up with Gobobbles in this way.
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One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
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Yet the feeling is in most children weak and vacillating, and is wont to be mixed with other and less noble ones.
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