Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the wordsbetween; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out frombetween sticks to kindle a flame.
2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, inThe New Yorker[2], archived fromthe original on4 August 2017:
Accounts withbetween fifty thousand and two hundred thousand followers are considered “microinfluencers,” and tend to have higher engagement rates—that is, a larger share of their followers like, favorite, or comment on their posts—than those with millions of followers.
She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contactbetween things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
It is sometimes said thatbetween usually applies to two things, whileamong applies to more than two things. According to the Oxford English Dictionary: "In all senses,between has been, from its earliest appearance, extended to more than two. In OE and ME, it was so extended in sense 1, in whichamong is now considered better. It is still the only word available to express the relation of a thing to many surrounding things severally and individually,among expressing a relation to them collectively and vaguely: we should not say ‘the space lying among the three points,’ or ‘a treaty among three powers,’ or ‘the choice lies among the three candidates in the select list,’ or ‘to insert a needle among the closed petals of a flower’".[2]
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(Can wedate this quote?), “How to distinguish ‘between’ and ‘among’ ”, inDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology[1], University of Arizona, archived fromthe original on1 November 2023:
