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Shear vs. Sheer
Shear
/ʃɪə/Examples:
The farmer had to shear the flock before summer.Without the proper tools, trying to shear the sheep became a task.In spring, it's customary to shear the wool from alpacas.
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Sheer
/ʃɪə/Examples:
By sheer audacity.It was sheer jugglery of fate.The first side is, sheer Insolence.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Shear has to do with cutting or clipping. Imagine a shearer cutting wool off a sheep.
- Sheer often relates to something thin or transparent, like sheer curtains.
- Sheer can also describe something steep or precipitous, like a sheer cliff.
- Think of shear in relation to physical cutting actions, like using garden shears.
- Remember sheer as describing something extreme – sheer force, sheer fabric or a sheer drop.
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