certain Examples
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[ˈsɜːtn̩] [ˈsɝtn̩] [ˈsɝtən] [-ɜː(ɹ)tən] 
CA US - Examples of certain
- She has a certain something.
- In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.
- Even if, later on, she was able to examine and analyze certain aspects of popular culture (as in “Notes on Camp,” 1964), she could undertake such a thing only in service to a higher goal — she was immune to subintellectual cultural pleasures.
- the supraauricular feathers of certain birds
- (However, Sellars vehemently rejects that this would imply they are merely ‘in the eye of the beholder’—despite starting as mere posits of a theoretician, once the theory acquires a certain social status, they become as thingish as a thing can be.)
- the trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands
- "...among the Records stolen from the Gods were certain tablets of ultratelluric stone..." ("Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom", Lin Carter).
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