parts
Britishplural noun
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personal abilities or talents
a man of many parts
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short for private parts
Example Sentences
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This includes asking the government to require police forces to make mandatory safeguarding referrals for any child subject to an 'exposure of intimate parts' search.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024
With the resets, they learn the parts’ locations, as well as where and when the Red Person might strike.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
For 70 days the researchers watched the seabass bloat, shed their flesh and disintegrate into piles of bones while the probes monitored the body parts’ changing chemistry.
From Scientific American • Nov. 24, 2022
On the heels of that divided unity, the third section, “Melodrama and Film Technique,” comes in, and it’s the philosophical lightning and thunder unleashed by the first two parts’ gradually brewing storm.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 17, 2020
I didn’t even know this chapter existed until I began the ‘good parts’ version.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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