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return

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /rɪˈtɜːn/US /rɪˈtɜːrn/
noun

the action of arriving in or coming back to a place that you were in before

verb

to come or go back from one place to another

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So um, and then I didn't have any money, so I thought, 'Well, we've got to make something that's going to return money very, very quickly.'

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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It goes up, you know, sort of a fairly straight way, and then it starts tailing off, and you start getting diminishing returns.

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)Sentence 123 · Pro

I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement AddressSentence 31 · Pro

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