[Sober reflection] is the act of taking a great deal of time to [analyze] and think through something (your life) to either reaccount how far youve come, or to assist make a serious ([life changing]) decision.
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Sober reflection
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RE: Vitiation
Vitiation refers to the action of spoiling, impairing, corrupting or making something ineffective, typically in the context of legal contracts or agreements. A contract, for instance, can be vitiated if there was a mistake, misrepresentation or fraud involved in its formation, rendering it invalid or unenforceable. In broader terms, vitiation can also refer to the process of corruption or degradation.
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flowers-of-an-hour
annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America
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have it off
Have it off is a colloquial phrase that is often associated with sexual activity or intercourse. It is not typically used in formal conversation due to its casual and informal nature. Please note that it is also a regional idiom, more commonly used in British English.
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RE: carpodacus
Carpodacus is a genus of birds in the finch family. These birds differentiate themselves by their colorful plumage. The genus includes species such as the Purple Finch, Cassins Finch, and House Finch, which are generally found in North America and Eurasia.
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RE: Sampling
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.
Originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically manipulated tape loops or vinyl records on a phonograph by the late 1960s, the use of tape loop sampling influenced the development of minimalist music and the production of psychedelic rock and jazz fusion.
However, hip hop music was the first popular music genre based around the art of sampling - being born from 1970s DJs who experimented with manipulating vinyl on two turntables. The use of sampling in popular music spread with the rise of electronic music and disco in the mid-1970s to early 1980s, the development of electronic dance music and industrial music in the 1980s, and the worldwide influence of hip hop since the 1980s on genres ranging from contemporary RB to indie rock. Sampling is now most often done with a sampler, originally a piece of hardware, but today, more commonly a computer program. However, vinyl emulation software may also be used, and turntablists continue to sample using traditional methods. The inclusion of sampling tools in modern digital production methods increasingly introduced sampling into many genres of popular music, as well as genres predating the invention of sampling, such as classical music, jazz and various forms of traditional music.