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thanks

(th

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pl.n.

Grateful feelings or thoughts; gratitude: a heart full of thanks for our escape.
An expression of gratitude: gave thanks to God; a note of thanks to a contributor.

INTERJECTION:

Used to express thanks.

IDIOMS:
no thanks to

Without the benefit of help from: finally found the house, no thanks to these confusing directions.

thanks to

On account of; because of: "our national good fortune in having avoided, thanks to the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the dismal possibilities of religious censorship" (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.).

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