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    "We need to get that injunction THAT was issued against us last Wednesday in federal court struck down/dismissed" seems like the right one. I think even better would be "We need to get the injunction that was..." unless you were specifically making a distinction between two different injunctions.
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    July 26, 2020
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    To me, "defer" sounds like you made a choice a year ago to move out when you did. So a year ago, you decided that you'd move out now. "Delay" kind of seems like there was some external reason you were moving out, that you were able to successfully fight for a year. Maybe your landlord was trying to kick you out, but you were able to fight it in court for a year. "Put off" kind of sounds like you know you should have moved out a year ago, but for some reason you didn't. Maybe your own inaction, maybe you had other things going on in life. These are all shades of meaning, though, and are just my own thoughts. I think they all have the same literal meaning.
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    July 26, 2020
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    I think the two sentences mean the same thing, but the second is much more common in British English and would sound strange to an American. We don't use the contraction "needn't" very often.
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    September 3, 2019
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    I think you can say isolate in this context and it would be well understood. But I think that the most specific word you could go for is "quarantine." "I quarantined my brother because we didn't want to be infected."
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    May 2, 2019
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    Terkel (Studs Terkel?) is describing something that just happened. Oliver Sacks just read the preface to his book. Terkel is speaking to the audience when he says "as you (the listener) know, having read his other works." I don't know the proper name for this tense, but he is explaining why you know that stuff about Sacks. You know because you have read his other works. A few more simple sentences with this same structure: "You know the food is good, having gone to that restaurant yesterday." "You must hate him, having dealt with him all these years." "I finished the marathon easily, having practiced for so long."
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    May 1, 2019
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    None will work is fine. For the second sentence, I'd say "neither one is better than the other" (if two choices) or "None of them is better than any other" (if multiple choices).
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    April 3, 2019
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    It's a pretty general thing to say. There might be better phrases for the specific situation you're in, but I could only think of one that is as general and could be used in any situation you could say "sorry to spring this on you": Sorry to surprise you like this.
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    April 3, 2019
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    You wouldn't just say "leave mobile phones". "Put the mobile phone away" is fine, so is "leave the mobile phone alone". There are other options too.
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    April 2, 2019
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    I think it depends on the situation. If the killer did it in one event, he'd be a mass murderer. If he killed 100 people over the course of years, one at a time, he'd be a serial killer.
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    March 21, 2019
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    They can both be correct, depending on what you mean. "Revised" says that the accounting director made a change. The reader does not know whether the director changed the report a month ago, or 10 minutes before the report was sent. "Had just revised" implies one of two things. With a full sentence, "had just revised" means that the change was made right before it was sent. You could also use it if there is something else about to interrupt or change the action in the same sentence. "The director had just revised the report when new sales numbers came in. The director has to revise it again." In your example sentence, you have the first meaning. "Had just revised" tells us that the revision happened right before the report was sent.
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    March 21, 2019
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