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Chris -- 2025-05-10

#1 2006-10-07 23:38:46

Rosie Redfield
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Registered: 2006-10-07
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For not" for "for naught"

A grad student just used it in an email to me. “The problem had already been solved, so my efforts were for not.” This is my first time in the forum – what happens next?

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