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If you are referring to the 2nd 'should', then you can use 'if', 'in case', 'just in case', 'in the event', or 'in the circumstance that'. https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/in_case.ht …

This made the television advertising of mass consumer products relatively straightforward ― not to say easy ― whereas today it is necessary for advertisers to build up coverage of their target market …

We ofen read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been conceled from stangers for years. EDIT The phrase some terrible secret is in fact commonly …

So far, about 95 percent of this structure consists of empty boxes, and only 5 percent consists of bricks. About 60 percent of chosen white rocks were used in the roof, while the other 40 percent w …

In informal speaking, non-defining relative clauses are sometimes used to modify a whole clause. Some relative clauses refer to a whole clause, a whole sentence, or a longer stretch of language. We a …

This is indeed a rare word and is not in major dictionaries. Wiktionary defines it: to theorize incorrectly Google Books, however, has quite a number of pages among which Kulchur, published in 196 …

Use in drug use is a noun. LDOCE has an example sentence almost right at the back, under COLLOCATIONS, just after sense 17 of the section use2 /juːs/ ●●● S1 W1 noun: drug/alcohol use Drug use amo …

I add to what @Michael Harvey has said. Both survives and rescues are unsuitable. Other than prevents, we could consider also stops.

... Seymour Hersh quoted verbatim an American intelligence official telling him the following ... Traditionally, there is a clear distinction between a gerund and a present participle. As official i …

lone should be used before a noun. The graphs show some usages of lone as a post-modifier, but it is very much less common. I do not have the details, but someone lone is not part of the listed usa …

... we adopt the machine learning perspective, focusing on RNNs as practical tools that rose to popularity in the 2010s owing to breakthrough results ... owing to breakthrough results is a non-finit …

The phrase soup-sized hollow refers to a hollow in the bone structure of the lady. revealed clarifies it further. Something that is revealed in this context must be referring to a part of the body, r …

These two verbs devoted and dedicated seem to be associated with important and meaningful tasks. Hence I won't use them on the video games example. I would say Four hours every week were [spent pla …

The more usual terms are passengers and commuters. Edit Passengers is wider than commuters and is hence a better choice when we include also the infrequent travellers. Customers would be understood to …

I agree with @Peter Kirkpatrick that argue whether sounds natural. There are lot of hits in Google Books and also 16 exact matches in Ludwig. Ludwig says it is used when presenting a statement or qu …