nicht
Britishnoun
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But this year, in addition to people slinking to trance and grilling bratwurst in back yards, several thousand people gathered in Kreuzberg and nearby Friedrichshain with a new mantra: “Unser Kiez, nicht ihr Profit!”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 12, 2019
Almost invariably, I think of something the physicist Wolfgang Pauli supposedly once said: “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!”
From Scientific American • May 29, 2018
Wie sich die Mitglieder im Team Trump fühlen, die noch nicht gefeuert wurden.
From Time • Jul. 31, 2017
The book’s final remark is simultaneously a sincere directive and by its own rules also gibberish: Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2016
“Er wohnt hier nicht mehr!” she cried, shaking her head.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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