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err

Definitions

verb

  1. to make a mistake or be incorrect
  2. wander from a direct course or at random

Examples

When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.

Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.

The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence.

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heir

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noun

  1. a person who inherits some title or office
  2. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

Examples

Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living.

Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.

Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.

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