Attorneys insert me into legal agreements, grammarians dissect me for subjects and predicates, and children wait all winter for a red-suited gentleman who shares my exact sound. What word am I?
Clause
'Clause' (a legal stipulation or grammatical structure) sounds identical to Santa 'Claus'.
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