Ali Smith

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Scottish Writer

Nancy Kress

Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.

American Writer

Sunil Mittal

As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me that I had the vision to accomplish great things in life. He always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do - and this has stood me in good stead.

Indian Businessman

Joe Root

Make sure you look after people around you and it holds you in good stead going forward in terms of leadership. Look at all the best leaders and they have those qualities.

English Athlete

Jay Weatherill

I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

Australian Politician

Harbhajan Singh

I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.

Indian Athlete

Henry David Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

American Author

Nicky Oppenheimer

The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.

South African Businessman

Lewis Capaldi

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

Scottish Musician

Loretta Young

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

American Actress

Stead usually denotes replacement or substitution within specific roles or positions.

Substitution Focus

'Stead' refers to a function or duty, not a physical location.

Not Physical Space

'Stead' is more often used in formal or literary contexts than in casual conversation.

Formal Context

 think I'm lying but I just struggle with the cold these animals they get quite used to it they tuck themselves in they're constantly eating a constantly metabolizing so they're constantly getting warm inside and that is what keeps them in good stead during the cold months but I'm not familiar with him actually having a really shaggy winter

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 even if you didn't do it right the first time, you've learned the lessons, which puts you in good stead the next time. Along with the experience of starting an enterprise or running something -- doesn't have to be a business, it can be an organization in a school, a not-for-profit. But experience in creating an organization. knowledge.

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 picture of what this dinosaur was like it was muzzle down most of the time it had hundreds of teeth in its jaws and one sharp edge like a scissors at the front of its jaws were operating now that's the first stage of reconstruction and this is painting we are good in good stead with Dinosaurs when we're doing

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 very good stead later on we've been benefitting from the fact that in the past we've put away a fair amount of reserves that have allowed us to dip into these so that we can actually fund some of this in all these different budgetary measures but probably the most important thing that I wanted to say

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 literally "wave stead." And, in the epic poem, "Beowulf," where the sea is described as a whale road and blood is described as battle sweat and slaughter dew. From its literal yet lyrical beginning, the word window has expanded

Mysteries of vernacular:...

 young hornbill in good stead for a good period of time antastic okay very characteristic of birds after feeding any type of feeding to go and wipe their beak off on the branch and that is the end of that

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 world we always tried to have some fun on this trips and we're always competing a little bit one time we come to this slow funky just right stead and just like Horsham going down that's that's so fun

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 that holds ancient traditions in good stead. When Mansa Musa made Timbuktu his capital, he looked upon the city as a Medici looked upon as the center of an open, intellectual, entrepreneurial empire

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 to report this news to the sultan, who has been injured in battle. But they don’t know the the sultan is already dead, and Shajar Al-Durr is secretly ruling in his stead.

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 distance maybes another one I don't know how that is oh is it a block let's get a little closer there's a sandbox up oops oh what's that stead Baca

Stead

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Not Physical Space

Formal Context

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