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- Events that happen before other events 49
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- rectify 140
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- upstanding 50
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- time 859
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- ineluctable 28
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- elevating 37
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- immediately 1394
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- youth 450
- journal 481
- hole 426
- pecker 150
- Musket 70
- be with someone 124
- redial 10
- Unevenly 88
- hostility 246
- prevalent 216
- nice 121
- back to back 153
- indirect 407
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- health care 221
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- effects 81
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- digit 109
- inspire 406
- billy 70
- defensive 240
- ISSUE 88
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- withdrawal 201
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- spark plug 4
- viewer 216
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- undoubted 266
- billion 331
- grandeur 206
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- aver 115
- optimum 131
- chilli 182
- tzardom 14
- infection 224
- dorm 425
- gateway 105
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- straightforward 268
- income 423
- dog collar 52
- vigilante 7
- fob sb off 34
- improbable 102
- mysterious 373
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- debs 36
- daisy chain 49
- furtherance 69
- To fail to obey a rule, law or command 76
- peace 415
- offensively 87
- vibrate 546
- depended 42
- bureaucratize 38
- awkward 412
- AS 51
- fiord 71
- next 77
- energising 19
- textbook 402
- dropper 75
- stench 72
- Excitable 127
- grammatical 642
- big bucks 80
- Good old 24
- iceberg lettuce 60
- perpetrate 181
- conscience 444
- criticism 401
- Virgo 4
- bottle 122
- ulterior 286
- Insights 50
- premonitor 7
- overpopulated 15
- Deputy 160
- catty-corner 71
- dormancy 58
- Dupe 66
- Adam's apple 104
- licence 466
- intermission 9
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- quotidian 9
- condemned cell 67
- bundu 41
- deliver the goods 14
- bingo 96
- sated 10
- stitch 456
- lack 933
- take back 107
- Portable 113
- grandchild 140
- Debut 29
- misconstrue 26
- compensate 289
- Damascus 35
- enfranchise 100
- Evening 84
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- routine 416
- add-on 46
- Come in 52
- Walkway 130
- leave 497
- lair 7
- dodo 113
- accretion 74
- mud 859
- gear 385
- fleecy 148
- aerie 34
- down under 55
- benignities 30
- darkest 129
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- card 104
- jangle 76
- hatch 403
- dingy 92
- jurisdiction 282
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- Week 48
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- gum 428
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- collective 490
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- lately 331
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- softly 409
- hateful 376
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- (it) cuts both ways 22
- truly 339
- Meant 128
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- pedant 42
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- moving 146
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- embrace 820
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- chocolate box 65
- neighborhood 342
- Note 85
- authorities 133
- At the present time 40
- bilingual 148
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- assignment 528
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- extreme 424
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- soupçon 6
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- protrude 159
- time card 12
- Japanese 111
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- anyone 326
- wormhole 9
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- sickie 106
- answerer 49
- GB 51
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- nasty 429
- scalding 9
- Paint 72
- royal 342
- black-sheep 117
- tba 10
- weary 505
- sweetness 8
- ochre 23
- To happen in a particular way 22
- tendency 444
- drop goal 124
- salty 154
- feudalism 69
- tuber 17
- strand 233
- postpartum 8
- premodifier 116
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- paint 453
- eds 27
- diary 449
- sweetish 6
- smalls 12
- tainted 93
- soliloquy 11
- conquest 495
- fondue 74
- baking-soda 35
- stick 787
- reassemble 10
- egg on 75
- straits 21
- hepatic 13
- exports 92
- so 205
- Heat 133
- Meddle 120
- establishment 463
- tripwire 8
- Impossible 91
- smack of 65
- Expressions 28
- polynomial 10
- cheerlead 73
- tyrannize 5
- emu 44
- crust 355
- grandpa 87
- shoddily 76
- plasticine 11
- ad infinitum 127
- Necessary 240
- appendix 424
devil's advocate
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ˌdevil’s ˈadvocate noun [countableC]
someone who pretends to disagree with you in order to have a good discussion about something 故意唱反调〔以加深讨论〕者，故意持不同意见的人
Examples from the Corpus
devil's advocate• He is not a negotiator or a devil's advocate.• Well, he's entitled to play devil's advocate.• Somehow you have to play devil's advocate against your presentation and try to knock it to pieces.• Afterwards I continue to argue for rugby, feeling ever more like the devil's advocate.• Often the interviewer will need to play the devil's advocate, to put the other side's case forward.• Perhaps he should try to play the devil's advocate?
play devil’s advocate• Well, he's entitled to play devil's advocate.• Somehow you have to play devil's advocate against your presentation and try to knock it to pieces.
ˌdevil’s ˈadvocate noun
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