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cannot
[kan-ot, ka-not, kuh-]
verb
a form of can not.
cannot
/ kæˈnɒt, ˈkænɒt /
verb
an auxiliary verb expressing incapacity, inability, withholding permission, etc; can not
Spelling Note
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cannot1
Idioms and Phrases
cannot but, have no alternative but to.
We cannot but choose otherwise.
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Example Sentences
“I cannot wrap my head around how this could happen,” said Alice Lynn, a therapist who called her Highlands neighborhood, and the broader Palisades community, “forever altered.”
The judge ordered that federal agents cannot use those factors to establish reasonable suspicion, as required to detain people.
That means water cannot escape easily, so its surface heats up quickly in the presence of warm air, sunny skies and light winds - as happened in June.
He questioned the Israeli military's statement on the strike, including its expression of regret, saying that it "cannot bring those patients, those beneficiaries back alive".
"The UK cannot afford the array of promises that are displayed to the public," based on reasonable assumptions about their cost and growth, he said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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