the very thing
Example Sentences
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Snook was dealing with the kind of calculations that mothers have to make all the time, the very thing the show itself is addressing.
From Los Angeles Times
“I insisted to everyone that it was unscrupulous to distort the truth in reports but those who rose through the ranks were those who did that very thing,” the voice over says in Russian.
From Reuters
He had that very thing the FBI was trying to bring down.
From Seattle Times
To love "Emily in Paris" would be to love the very thing the show tells us to hate.
From Salon
Although “Kate” borrows elements of Berlant’s biography, it’s fiction through and through, which means that it withholds the very thing the lobby teases: knowledge of Berlant herself.
From New York Times
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