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I am an undergraduate at Grand Valley State University.


Jan
2
comment “to be all but X”
I assumed that the idea was that "all but X" means "everything similar to X, but not X", so that, for example, if a house is "all but destroyed", it suffers every possible type of damage short of actual destruction.
Dec
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Mar
24
answered Is 'petrichor' the only noun in English that means a specific scent?
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24
awarded  Autobiographer
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