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English word

sound

C1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /saʊnd/US /saʊnd/
adjective

sensible; that you can rely on and that will probably give good results

noun

something that you can hear

verb

to give a particular impression when heard or read about

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In fact, most of the venture capitalists that I talked to hadn't even heard of the internet—which sounds bizarre—on Sand Hill Road.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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