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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Cad_Lin on 2025-10-18 12:52:06+00:00.

Original Title: In everyday speech, we often use verbs of action to describe situations with no real activity. A new registered project is designed to investigate the linguistic properties that make sentences like “This lid opens easily” express a state rather than an event.