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English word

the

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /ðə/US /ðə/
definite article

used to refer to somebody/something that has already been mentioned or is easily understood

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Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022) video example

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We're here at the Texas Gigafactory the day before this thing opens.

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)

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Um, and Zip 2—I'll tell you a little bit about the thought process of exactly what happened there.

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Today we have a special guest visiting—uh, called Joe Tsai—chair and co-founder of one of the world's largest companies, with more than 1 billion consumers, called Alibaba—a giant.

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