Fine and Ruling

Fine

Fine adjective - Consisting of very small particles.

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Ruling and fine are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruling" instead an adjective "Fine".

Nearby Words: fineness, finery, finely, fined, fining

Ruling adjective - Held by or applicable to a majority of the people.

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Fine and ruling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fine" instead an adjective "Ruling".

Nearby Words: rule, ruler, ruled

full	full fine	full ruling
exact	exact fine	exact ruling
original	original fine	original ruling
large	large fine	large ruling
Other adjectives: bad, minor, less, opposite.

In fact, he's such an excellent king that he refuses to take the throne (or even acknowledge his right), as Vimes and Vetinari are doing a fine job of ruling the city.

Source: Literature / Discworld
This one is a fine case of Loophole Abuse: Although the law made no provision for a ruling queen (Regina Poloniae), no law said that the king had to be male.

Source: She Is the King
This worked fine until a series of cards that dealt with "Daemon" cards started to come out, so a ruling had to be issued to declare "Archfiend" as a "special category of card" which included all the cards that had "Daemon" in the Japanese name.

Source: Obvious Rule Patch / Card Games

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