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noun • understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | ||||||||
| 37% | 4 | Regularly downplays exclusive | ||||||
adverb • and nothing more • without any others being included or involved • with nevertheless the final result • in the final outcome • except that • never except when • as recently as adjective satellite • being the only one; single and isolated from others • exclusive of anyone or anything else | ||||||||
| 29% | 5 | Famous species include polar bears and grizzly bears | ||||||
noun • type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears | ||||||||
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LITOTES which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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LITOTES
Updated: October 14, 2023
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