alex

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A unisex given name from Ancient Greek.

Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. The pseudonym Alex Blake was chosen after much deliberation, most of which excluded Martin. 'A strong, no-nonsense sort of name', his editor said, 'to compensate'. For what, she didn't say.

'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.' 'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.'

name

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Nickname for Alexandria: a major city in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt.

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ADJ.

enough, last, many, pseudonym, unusual, used

Alex used an unusual pseudonym when publishing his first novel online.

VERB + ALEX

ask, called, calling, gave, giving, help, named, orders

I asked Alex to help me fix the broken shelf in my bedroom.

ALEX + NOUN

blake, karp, nut, palantir, pepperberg, words, year

Alex Pepperberg conducted groundbreaking research on animal cognition using an African Grey parrot.

ADV.

correctly, instead, often, such

Alex often forgets to lock the front door when leaving for work.

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Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. The pseudonym Alex Blake was chosen after much

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'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.' 'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra,

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CEO and cofounder Alex Karp distanced Palantir from other Silicon Valley technology companies in a letter included in the filing, writing that “we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology secto

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Pepperberg hoped that a similar system would help Alex grasp the meaning of words, not just their sounds.

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Pepperberg can show Alex two objects (for example, a green square and a red square) and ask, "What's different?"

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But in many ways, the bird called Alex is unusual, for it has shown the kind of mental abilities that scientists once thought only humans had.

Tatoeba · #53607

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