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Significant Other

A significant other is what you someone you are in a relationship with without disclosing gender identity, relationship/marital status, or sexual orientation.

Commonly used to describe someone who is non-binary/genderqueer that you or someone else is in a relationship with, as well as with people who don't want people to know their sexual orientation (bisexual, pansexual, etc).
Though, it can have different meanings depending on how you use it. Such as describing someone you're dating/not in a relationship with yet.
Example 1:

"Jessa recently told me that she is in a relationship with someone!"
"Really? What's her boyfriend's name?"
"Actually, they are nonbinary/genderqueer so they prefer 'significant other'."

Example 2:

"I'm going on a date tonight with my significant other!"
"Awesome! Is it a boy?"
"It's none of your business."

Example 3:

"How is it going with you and Alexa?"
"At the moment, we're not making it official so she's just a significant other."
by Mimiki D. January 30, 2021
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Look the other way

Being blind to somebody or something.
Look the other way, and you shall see no more evil.
by Solid Mantis April 10, 2021
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Others-First Paradox

In the arrow paradox, Zeno states that for motion to occur, an object must change the position which it occupies. He gives an example of an arrow in flight. He states that in any one (duration-less) instant of time, the arrow is neither moving to where it is, nor to where it is not.15 It cannot move to where it is not, because no time elapses for it to move there; it cannot move to where it is, because it is already there. In other words, at every instant of time there is no motion occurring. If everything is motionless at every instant, and time is entirely composed of instants, then motion is impossible.
Whereas the first two others-first paradoxes divide space, this paradox starts by dividing time—and not into segments, but into points.
by Others-First Paradox April 26, 2021
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International Watch Twilight with your significant other day

May 1st is internationally recognized as “Watch Twilight with your significant other day” So cuddle up with your spouse boyfriend or girlfriend and turn on the twilight movie saga
Boy:Hey Babe it’s May 1st you know what that means
Girl:Heck ya I do it’s International Watch Twilight with your significant other day Time to cuddle up Boo!!
by hippoman38279190 April 28, 2021
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You shit me like no other

Out of all the people in the world who give me the shits, you’re No 1.
My mate was on my back like a singlet so I told him,” You shit me like no other.”
by Rob Edgar July 8, 2022
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Other people

YoU nEeD tO cArE mOrE aBoUt ThEm!!!
Other people "YoU nEeD tO cArE mOrE aBoUt OtHeR pEoPlE!!!"

Hym "But... YOU'RE 'other people'... You... You want me to care... more about YOU?" 🤨

Other people 😐 "Yes. And do what we want you to do."

Hym 🤨 "You...You see how... Ok. So, to YOU, I'M 'other people.' "

Other people 😐 "And?"

Hym "Sooo... Why don't you try caring more about ME (as other people) and doing what I want YOU to do?"

Other people 🤬 "You're a selfish narcissist!! You need to care more about us!!!"

Hym "So... Jesus Christ 😩+🤦+🤏 So, I start caring about you and doing what you want. At what point do you begin to care about me and start doing what I want?"

Other people 😐

Hym "Is that not a thing that happens?"

Other people "Not everything needs to be about you." 😐

Hym "Will anything EVER be about me?"

Other people 😐

Hym "............... Just going to fuckin stand there and look at me, huh? When do 'other people' start to care about me?"

Other people 😐

Hym "Yeah, ok... Alright... Um... Yeah, I don't know what to say here... I... I don't see what I have to gain from caring about you."

Other people"You're egocentric."

Hym 🤦 "That's... That's not a response to the thing I said... Ok. I don't see this going anywhere. No. I'm not doing that."
by Hym Iam July 13, 2022
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other side of the highway

A state of ignorance; being uninformed
I’m going out on a limb here to say I bet you do not have any experience with the biology of a brain past that of an amateur, so it sounds as though you may be making assumptions from the other side of the highway. -FB comment in an Evolution interest group
by Wordrunner July 23, 2022
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