ClearTips: Stunning sentences

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Repeating the root of a word is a way to signal different meaning and to link two ideas more strongly than would occur otherwise. Because the reader must slow down to register and consider the link, be sure you're not just being cute.

Far from discrediting liberalism, corruption is discredited by it.

A nice turn—from discrediting to discredited.

It was a dramatic, not to say melodramatic, story.

Whatever it was, it caused 96% of marine species to disappear and dinosaurs to appear.

Book or music or painting, play or film, what arrests us and awes us is the realization that the inexpressible is arising from what is being expressed.

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