Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The pronoun "it" used without any referent, serving only to satisfy rules of syntax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: ambient it, empty it
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dummy pronoun, pronoun
History
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