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skeptical is that there is not another English
The reason for preferring “skeptical” is that there is not another English word in which c in the combination sce is hard, and so “sceptical” is a very bad spelling, even if it is prevalent in Great Britain.
— from Proof-Reading A Series of Essays for Readers and Their Employers, and for Authors and Editors by F. Horace (Francis Horace) Teall

so indefinite that there is no agreement even
In the case of more complex phenomena, language is so indefinite that there is no agreement even as to the essential elements of the phenomena.
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

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