The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immenselyprofitable. Webcompanieslike toboast about […], or offering services that let you […], "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the realway to build a successfulonlinebusiness is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
Think ofbankingtoday and the image is of grey-suitedmen in toweringskyscrapers. Its future, however, is beingshaped in convertedwarehouses and funkyoffices in San Francisco, New York and London, where brightyoungthings in jeans and T-shirtshuddlearoundlaptops, sipping lattes or munching on freefood.
I am a thingobscure, disfurnished of / All merit, that can raise me higher. — Massinger.
"I hearthings are good." / Moran shrugged. "Depends on who you're talking to. Who would you be talking to, Squire?" / "Frank" / "I thought that might be it. You still carrying his water?
that's the thing: we don't know where he went;  the thing is, I don't have any money
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Things would soonbecomebigger than the local nighteries.
Thingsstartedlooking upafter Jim movedback in with his parents.
Things have been better since the boss has been laying offa little.
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I’ve had a look-see at your work, and I think you’ve done a prettygood job of things.
Heneeds to get a grip if he's getting that angryover such a littlething.
Regulations have been madeunder the Civil AviationActs of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empowerInspectors of Accidents to do these things.
Meaning of thing for the defined word.
Grammaticalement, ce mot "thing" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un noms dénombrable. C'est aussi un verbe.