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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
20/20
twenty-twenty
I hear that '20/20' means:
1. meeting a standard of normal visual acuity
2. marked by accurate judgment
Could I have some sample sentences for both?
Thank you.
I hear that '20/20' means:
1. meeting a standard of normal visual acuity
2. marked by accurate judgment
Could I have some sample sentences for both?
Thank you.
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My dictionaries only offer the first definition: having the normal visual acuity of the human eye that according to one common scale can distinguish at a distance of 20 feet characters one-third inch in diameter. She has 20/20 vision.
- My dictionaries only offer the first definition: having the normal visual acuity of the human eye that according to one common scale can distinguish at a distance of 20 feet characters one-third inch in diameter.
- She has 20/20 vision.
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My dictionaries only offer the first definition:
having the normal visual acuity of the human eye that according to one common scale can distinguish at a distance of 20 feet characters one-third inch in diameter.
She has 20/20 vision.
having the normal visual acuity of the human eye that according to one common scale can distinguish at a distance of 20 feet characters one-third inch in diameter.
She has 20/20 vision.
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"20/20 hindsight" is a common phrase, which means that it's easy to make the right decision after you know the outcome of an event.
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Vorpar"20/20 hindsight" is a common phrase, which means that it's easy to make the right decision after you know the outcome of an event.Thank you very much. Is that hindsight too late? We should have made the decision before the outcome of the event, right?
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hindsight is looking back (figuratively) at an event.
Decisions can't be made after something happens, so it's futile to decide something later.
Decisions can't be made after something happens, so it's futile to decide something later.
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A good example is purchasing the shares of a company. Let's say you bought a 100 shares of the General Motors stock at $40 (I am just guessing...no idea where they are trading at now), obviously thinking that the price will go up. Then let's say one year later, it tanked and went down to $15. You might say to yourself "I was so foolish." But your good friend might say, don't worry next time y
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