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noun • a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | ||||||||
| 30% | 8 | Cops break into a shower, which makes for a bad atmosphere | ||||||
noun • rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water | ||||||||
| 29% | 3 | a word used as the subject or object of a sentence to mean 'it does not matter which person or thing', 'no matter which person or thing', 'it makes no difference which one', etc. | ||||||
adverb • to any degree or extent adjective satellite • one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | ||||||||
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SIMILE which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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SIMILE
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