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- noun Plural form of
feel . - noun colloquial
Feelings . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
feel .
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Examples
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Protesters of a proposal that would defang public employee unions have called the Capitol the "people's house," and at night the label feels especially apt.
latimes.com - News 2011
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But when the song's refrain reaches its fifth go-round, the title feels appropriate.
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But when the song's refrain reaches its fifth go-round, the title feels appropriate.
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Still, for some MommyBloggers, the term feels like a branding noose detracting from how they would like to be perceived as writers.
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Still, for some MommyBloggers, the term feels like a branding noose detracting from how they would like to be perceived as writers.
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The British government says all have come from and were returned to the northern, Kurdish-controlled area of Iraq, which Britain feels is sufficiently stable.
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Still, if the term feels freighted, you can always think of it in the way physicists use it when they talk about the 'evolution' of a system--a series of state changes over time where prior states influence future ones.
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The word feels foreign on my tongue, as foreign as the maps spread over the dining room table, the sword propped in the corner of my drawing room.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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The word feels foreign on my tongue, as foreign as the maps spread over the dining room table, the sword propped in the corner of my drawing room.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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But in this case, given the enormity of the nation's health insurance problem, the word feels fair enough.
NYT > Home Page By CORNELIA DEAN 2012
alexz commented on the word feels
Starting to see this even more as a noun. "A breakup story told through dance is sure to give you feels" ; "got me right in the feels"
October 12, 2015
slumry commented on the word feels
Glad you mentioned this because I've been wondering exactly what that construction is supposed to convey. "Got me right in the feels" makes more intuitive sense than the first sentence--does it mean something like "A breakup story...will touch you emotionally?"
October 12, 2015
bilby commented on the word feels
Just when verbing was driving you batty, a drive-by nouning.
October 13, 2015
bilby commented on the word feels
Says bilby, gerunding for all he is worth.
October 13, 2015
madmouth commented on the word feels
I loves the smell of morphological prejudice in the morning
October 14, 2015
bilby commented on the word feels
Morphological prejudice just got madmouth in the smells.
October 14, 2015