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at the ready

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Ready

    Ready; in a state of preparation or waiting; in position or anticipation.

    • The soldiers held their rifles at the ready and listened for the enemy.
    • The soldiers' rifles were at the ready.
    • Her apartment is filled with evidence of a furiously busy creative life: […] a laptop perched on a crate atop the dining table; lyric revisions in notebooks on a music stand by an ever-at-the-ready guitar.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for at the ready. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA