mean
Example Sentences
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“I like it if people can say, ‘I never met anyone like him,’ and by that they should mean that it wasn’t an unpleasant experience.”
From Los Angeles Times
The power of the workers in the church means they are rarely challenged.
From BBC
Greater defence spending, the prime minister argued, would mean less reliance on the United States: "We should deliver generational investments that move us from over-dependence to interdependence."
From BBC
Now that he’s engaged to someone else, he realizes that Conti and Macii weren’t meant to be a couple—only a pair.
“They pay the money, they spend the money. I mean, they’re a great team. They run their team like a business, and they run it the right way.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.