Word (or morpheme) that is used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns.
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Their colleagues in Congress hope to counter the new rules with legislation.
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An over-the-counter equity market, the New Third Board, saw a similar fate.
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His book is a case study of a counter-insurgency war gone wrong.
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Israel takes in droves of Palestinian refugees fleeing the counter-humanist Palestinian laws.
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PwC partner David Stebbings advised companies to monitor bank counter-party risk daily.
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It may mean counting words, but it may mean something else entirely.
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She didn't think there were even enough counting words for them all.
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How could someone raised by flatheads have any understanding of counting words?
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She remembered the years better her way, but she liked the counting words.
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It made the counting words so much more powerful when used like that.
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Then keep your vocabulary clean of bargain- counter words.
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The measured words of Accountant Somers were still ringing in his ears:
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This is a classic Two-Step move: maintain independence, but use mild, measured words.
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Water, Ivor was thinking, as the measured words flowed over him.
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There was something final and convincing in his companion's measured words.
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We have reached a stage where measured words stand out.
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I am... She stopped to think of the right counting word.
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Mamut said five was Her counting word of hidden authority.
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We say five is Her sacred counting word.
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Five is also the Mother's sacred counting word.
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The number of fingers on one hand, five, is an important counting word in its own right.
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There is a certain prestige in having a lower counting word and Twenty-nine was rather large already.
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Pointing to each mark, he made a mark in the dirt floor as he said the counting word aloud.
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She had used countings words and marked a gouge on a flat piece of antler, and Ayla found the information fascinating.
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"They are good mothers, have many babies, two hands..." Ayla stopped to think of the name of the counting word.
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"Why didn't Dalanar just continue to call himself Zelandonii and make his people another Cave with the next higher counting word?" Ayla asked.