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element

[el-uh-muhnt] / ˈɛl ə mənt /


NOUN
place where one feels comfortable
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
foreign land


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In a statement to AFP, the writer's lawyers said Houellebecq's statements contained no element of incitement.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

We can see how the “what if” element works in Mr. Coben’s books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

A panel of three judges at the High Court in Dar es Salaam acquitted him of the more serious offence of treason, saying prosecutors had failed to prove a key element of that charge.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Yet a fascinating element of “Godzilla Minus Zero” — as well as director Hideaki Anno’s 2016 “Shin Godzilla” — is how they make a point of featuring saviors who are adamantly dull.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

This was toeing the line of confrontation land, and I was completely out of my element.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

SAVANNAH, Ga.—Architect Patrick Shay has put much time and effort into hiding the steel, concrete and other structural elements of the hotels he has designed around this tourist mecca.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Jerry will point out poetic elements of the songs, explain rhythm, similes and metaphors, internal rhymes, clichés, split perspective and different types of rhyme schemes.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

One major challenge remained among the elements in the first row of the periodic table's p-block.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

It’s strange, because the right elements are all there to make it work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The key to solving the actual genetic code was to map the elements of a sequence in an RNA chain to the sequence of a protein chain.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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