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tells
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Tells
Tells are a British experimental band formed by the former core members of Delicate AWOL, Jim Version and Caroline Ross.
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Rank popularity for the word 'tells' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2984
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'tells' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1586
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tells in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tells in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of tells in a Sentence
There was a poll that came out today that had us all of one point in the lead. That tells me this is going to be a very, very tight election, and it tells me that the candidate will win, which campaign has the best get out the vote effort. Polls are one thing, getting out the vote is something else.
What you see with Gov. Christie is what you get. He's a different sort of candidate that tells the truth and talks to voters like adults, he has a proven record of getting things done when the odds are not in his favor.
We want Twitter to be the little bird on your shoulder that tells you what you need to know when you need to know it.
I spoke to the president of the school and he tells me they hope to meet with the pastor next week to reach an agreement, the Maryland School for the Blind needs to do the right thing and reinstate the Bible Study club immediately.
It would be better for all of us if I was exaggerating the urgency of this threat, but the science tells us unequivocally that those who continue to make climate change a political fight put us all at risk.
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