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I'm just stirring some sugar into my coffee.
You probably know this verb ‘to stir’. Did you
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know it also means to make a slight movement?
For example, the wind stirred the curtain. We
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also use this for people who are waking up from
being asleep. “My son was stirring, so I knew
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he was about to get up.” As a noun, a stir can
also mean a big commotion. “The professor just
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changed the guidelines that he'll use for grading
the final exam and it's caused quite a stir.”
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