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| in the cards |
| 1. prep. Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen. |
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| I don't think another child is in the cards for them. |
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| Analysis |
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| in |
| 1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. |
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| 2. prep. Contained by. |
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| The dog is in the kennel. |
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| 3. prep. Within. |
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| 4. prep. Surrounded by. |
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| the |
| 1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already |
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| I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) |
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| The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) |
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| The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. |
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| 2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. |
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| cards |
| 1. n. plural of card |
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| 2. n. card games |
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| He's a fan of cards. |
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| 3. v. third-person singular present indicative of card |
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| card |
| 1. n. A playing card. |
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| 2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. |
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| He played cards with his friends. |
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| 3. n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose. |
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| The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy. |
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