The cabin seems a little ADJECTIVE, considering the out-of-place ADJECTIVE NOUN, but our heroes ignore it.

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Six years after that incident, Noun is helping many of Phnom Penh's poorest children do just that.

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Noun: The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another.

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Can the complexities of a human being really be summarized in a single noun?

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Noun: A person who has directly or indirectly positively impacted the lives of at least one billion people.

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Good proportions, clarity at a small scale and a certain indescribable universality, said Noun Project co-founder Edward Boatman, as he clicked through a presentation of some previously-prepared medical icons.

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To help with the graphics part, Code for America teamed up with the Noun Project, an open-source icon repository, and solicited the help of activists and designers in major cities across the country.

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The subject of time is also a common theme, with "year" being the third most common noun, "day" in fifth place and "week" at 17.

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They considered whether what we call prepositions occur before or after a noun ("in the boat" versus "the boat in") and how the word order of subject and object work out in either case ("I put the dog in the boat" versus "I the dog put the canoe in").

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