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curious inflection of English words

The trick here lies in The agent-noun form of The past-tense form of The present-participle form of The past-participle form of
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21 votes
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Three 8-letter words with at least 23 different letters

Searching a list of over 8000 eight-letter words with no repeated letters yields the following six triples, each with 23 distinct letters:
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19 votes
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Can One Solve This Scary Sequence?

The correct order should be: Why? Because:
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9 votes
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MOVING PICTURES

Each clue And then And then In the title, So: (8 5 -> 9 6) also as electrophenic in introduced known kuhn's of operation phrase provide respiration revolutions scientific structure support the ...
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8 votes

Three 8-letter words with at least 23 different letters

Looking for three 8-letter word groups with 24 distinct letters. I was unable to find a solution in a dictionary, but did find several by using other word lists. Most are 'suspect' but this one uses ...
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Can you employ all 26 letters using three 11-letter, three 10-letter, or three 9-letter words?

From @computer_goblin's list of 46659 nine-letter words, the maximum number of letters covered by three words is If you instead consider only the subset of 43098 words that do not contain a capital ...
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Blunt Talk, Shrubby Barquentine

I stand in the East, facing West in all directions A day’s sail, just across the line This must refer to Possibilities at this stage are Unlucky year, a ship ran aground... So we're probably ...
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Can you employ all 26 letters using three 11-letter, three 10-letter, or three 9-letter words?

I compiled a txt file containing all 9 letter words recognized by Merriam Webster. However, proper nouns are included as well (Designated by a capital letter). I also quickly wrote a code but due to ...
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