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Sides of this Letter Box are:
IGHPLMNZAUXY
The answers are:
PHYLUMMAXIMIZING
Phylum Maximizing after “unmaximizing” glyph wasn’t accepted.
OA.
That’s exactly what I did!
(After also trying a lot, a LOT of words in between )
Exactly the same here
OA easier today.
PHYLUM – MAXIMIZING too.
Same
OA immediately.
Phylum Maximizing
PHYLUM—MAXIMIZING
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half-solution:
UNMAXIMIZINGʷ—GLYPH
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pseudo-solution:
HYPNUM°—MAXIMALIZINGʷ
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° OED, ʷ Wiktionary
ʷ : hypnum (plural hypnums), Any member of the genus Hypnum of mosses.
*HYPNUM-MAXIMALIZING*
*HYPNUM good in Merriam-Webster
*MAXIMALIZING good in Merriam-Webster
PHYLUM-MAXIMIZING
*UNMAXIMIZING-GLYPH
*UNMAXIMIZING good in Wiktionary
PHYLUM-MAXIMIZING after trying MINIMALIZING and a few others.
Let’s broaden those categories!
To those who remember: King Philip Came Over From Geneva Switzerland
Ha! The one I use: Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup (D stands for Domain)
I was in school before it became a big thing in 1990, so we started with Kingdom…love yours – and good soup is a thing!
OA. King Philip Catches Otters For Girl Scouts.
Pretty quick OA. I learned it as King Philip came over from Great Spain.
OA – I had to look up the King Philip thing, never heard of it and I was a biology major!
Quick OA
Phylum Maximizing
… grow a backbone
PHYLUM – MAXIMIZING
ahead of the class
Phylum Maximizing
Quick OA today
Oa
OA-quickly
OA in five minutes.
Only variation I could think of is MAXIMALIZING.
Unmaximizing(W) glyph. Will look more
Phylum maximizing. Will look still more but at least that’s one that’s LB acceptable
OA after trying MAXIMALIZING
OA pretty quick here too after not seeing much to work with at first glance.