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the idea



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, the very idea . See under what's the idea .
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"Children still need care before and after school so the idea that childcare costs end when your child starts school is nonsensical," Suzi told BBC News NI.

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The fattest part of the barrel is actually closer to the handle, with the idea of redistributing more mass to an area where some hitters make more frequent contact.

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They shipped the bats to their Yankees clients, but were unsure if the idea would catch on in baseball’s mainstream.

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For many, it was the first they’d heard about the idea — even before the Yankees’ season-opening home run explosion.

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He doesn't believe in the idea that has organized global trading for almost a century now, which Amanda Taub of the New York Times defined as, "the 'positive-sum' game: a collection of overlapping systems that benefit all who participate in them, even if the costs and benefits of participation aren’t distributed equally."

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