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don't

[dohnt] / doʊnt /
NOUN
a rule forbidding something
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I don’t like that your adviser is pushing products owned by his financial-services firm.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

“For hourly matching, the infrastructure doesn’t exist and the markets don’t exist either. Mandating something in that situation is just a leap into the abyss, which is why we have a progressive approach,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

"We've been encouraged to reduce all the time by fencing cattle away from riverbanks, so they don't tread the banks and defecate in the river," said Henry Collins, of the Wylye Valley Farmers.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

South Korea's captain and icon Son Heung-min is at his fourth World Cup and brings experience, but their hopes don't just rest on him - Lee Kang-in of Paris St-Germain should shine too.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

They don't realize that floating in the air on dust particles, lurking on fingertips, or growing on the shiny steel blades of their unwashed surgical scalpels are single-celled bacteria and other microscopic life forms.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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