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- give them an inch, and they'll take a mile
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- inch by inch, we're making progress toward our fund-raising goal
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- every year the water inches further up the embankments, threatening to permanently engulf the island city
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- the car inched carefully across the snow-covered causeway
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7 Words Based on Units of Measure
7 Words Based on Units of Measure
Words from the language of precision.
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“Inch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inch. Accessed 1 Mar. 2021.
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The first known use of inch was before the 12th century
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