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Words and sentences
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but
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- Apart from, except (for), excluding.
- Outside of.
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they
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- A group of entities previously mentioned.
- A single person, previously mentioned, but typically not if previously named and identified as male or female, especially if of unknown, irrelevant or (since 21st century) non-binary gender. Now increasingly used for an unnamed person even if the gender of the person is identified.
- People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.
- The authorities: government, police, employers, etc.
- The opponents of the side which is keeping score.
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don't
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- do not (negative auxiliary)
- does not
- Used before an emphatic negative subject.
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count
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- To recite numbers in sequence.
- To determine the number of (objects in a group).
- To amount to, to number in total.
- To be of significance; to matter.
- To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
- To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
- To reckon in, to include in consideration.
- (obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
- (obsolete) To recount, to tell.
- (obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
