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English word

thing

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /θɪŋ/US /θɪŋ/
noun

an object whose name you do not use because you do not need to or want to, or because you do not know it

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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, in '95, it wasn't at all clear that the internet was going to be a big commercial thing.

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And I wondered how that makes you feel, because I know that's probably the closest thing to numerology you've been dealing with this year—because it's just left, right, front, back.

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