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don't

[dohnt] / doʊnt /
NOUN
a rule forbidding something
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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SOMETIMES, YOU DON’T know how much you’ve been missing something, or even that you’ve been missing it, until you have it back.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024

We DON’T lose two in a row if we have the leadership I know we have.

From Fox News • Oct. 2, 2021

The letters DON’T have to cross; just think of each answer on the grid as an individual word or phrase, just placed in an irritatingly unwieldy format instead of a nice tidy list.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021

DON’T: Use your Halloween mask as a replacement for the surgical-style face covering.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2020

It’s like, if someone came up to you and said, “All right, now whatever you do, DON’T think of the color red.”

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick




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