idea
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You asked whether delaying until age 67 would be a bad idea.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
No one forced him to sign-up, he said, but the idea was constantly present.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
The idea is not strict enforcement, but deterrent measures to alter player behaviour.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The hypothesis views Earth itself as capable of gradually producing an organic world from an initially all-inorganic environment under harsh primordial conditions, an idea broadly consistent with earlier abiogenesis concepts.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
I have no idea how far we walked that first day of our long march—probably only a few kilometers, but it felt like a hundred.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Vocabulary lists containing idea
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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List 1
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Common Core Grade 6, List 1
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