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How to pronounce ancients in English?

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It is universally known the ancients employed slingers in all their engagements.
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In one way, the choice of the star was more appropriate than the ancients knew.
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Even more radical designs the ancients would not even recognize as trebuchets.
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We climbed and climbed, gazing at the same view of the sea the ancients had chosen.
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The popular image of these late years may be of crusty and decrepit ancients.
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And he notes how the ancients were more attuned to the physicality of others.
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To the ancients, citizenship was a bond between a person and the city-state.
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To the ancients, the parallel postulate seemed less obvious than the others.
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Even the ancients criticised those who saw only kindling wood in the sacred forests.
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More examples
  • Belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"
  • A very old person
  • A person who lived in ancient times
  • Very old; "an ancient mariner"
  • (anciently) in ancient times; long ago; "a concern with what may have happened anciently"
  • (ancientness) extreme oldness
  • Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history in the Old World to the Early Middle Ages in Europe.
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