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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Plaques can show up around your eyes, in and around your mouth, around and behind your ears, and in the ear canal . \u2014 Sarah Jacoby, SELF , 3 June 2022",
"Earwax is made by glands in the outer part of the ear canal to help protect your ears from dust, germs, excessive water, and other questionable substances, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 24 June 2022",
"Beryllium drivers used in the MW75 are positioned at an optimized angle to project the sound forward into the ear canal . \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Designed by a Grammy-winning sound engineer, 1MORE's headphones are some of the comfiest on the market with angled fittings that come in nine different sizes to fit any ear canal . \u2014 Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure , 21 June 2022",
"Symptoms can include a painful rash inside the ear canal and outside the ear, at times attacking the tongue and roof of the mouth, according to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 11 June 2022",
"But the takeaway is that earbuds need cleaning, not least of all because dirty earbuds can lead to ear infections by literally forcing germs into your ear canal . \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 2 May 2022",
"And then, there are people who just want a variety of ear tips to ensure the perfect ear canal fit. \u2014 Terri Williams, SELF , 4 Apr. 2022",
"But cholesteatoma tends to erode the bony wall (scutum) separating the ear canal from the mastoid, and the scutum was intact on both sides of the woman's skull. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 24 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are little ear hooks, ear candy , on those original records. \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 16 Mar. 2022",
"As eye and ear candy , BTS gave the Grammys tons of free promotion, and the Recording Academy was happy to take it. \u2014 Natalie Morin, refinery29.com , 16 Mar. 2021",
"Addressing issues like self-esteem, good relationships, sh--ty relationships, depression, self-love and other real life material with an accessible vulnerability, to many Scholler's work is less ear candy and more of a rally cry to just keep going. \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 1 Oct. 2020",
"The song is ear candy , and a certain kitsch factor is probably part of its enduring appeal. \u2014 Paul Grein, Billboard , 29 Sep. 2020",
"Built out of urgent piano stabs, laser synths, kick drum and a truly delectable melody -- layered underneath lyrics about meeting the man of your dreams in your actual dreams -- the song was pure ear candy . \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 29 Sep. 2020",
"Fortunately, Ripa\u2019s reconstructive surgery allows her to still wear sparkly ear candy . \u2014 Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE.com , 11 Dec. 2019",
"The season\u2019s It piece is meant to hang prettily off of one\u2019s lobes, but Scott\u2019s creations are far more than mere ear candy . \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 13 Mar. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Jaybird Vista is our runner-up, despite lacking a behind-the-ear wire or over- ear clip for security. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 31 Oct. 2020",
"But really, dirty glasses can also negatively impact your health: Bacteria can grow on nose pads and ear clips of eyeglasses, leading to staph infections and other skin issues, according to a 2018 study. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 31 Mar. 2020",
"The guests giddied into the night no doubt writing fantasy Christmas lists: a playful pair of ear clips made of amethyst, Ceylon sapphire, and diamonds by JAR or a mighty Cartier emerald-and-diamond necklace",
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"With up to 24 hours of playing time and around 6 hours of charge per earbud , the Redemption 2 ANC can be charged via a USB-C cable or any Qi-compatible wireless charging mat. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The driver inside each earbud is a 13mm dynamic type, which is a beast of a driver that can shift a lot of air and creates a loud sound. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
"Each company is trying to put out its version of the best possible wireless earbud . \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 17 May 2022",
"These are a great wireless earbud from the House of Marley (created in collaboration with the Marley family to carry on Bob\u2019s legacy and love for music and the planet). \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 13 May 2022",
"The NextSense team is gambling that, with a gadget as familiar as an earbud , people will follow the same path with their brains. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Each pair of earbuds offers six hours of playtime on a single charge, plus 18 more hours within the earbud charging case. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 12 Oct. 2021",
"On the end of the cylinder, LEDs display the state of battery charge in each earbud as well as the battery in the charging case. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"And that\u2019s a perfectly good choice, as the Pros are a very good earbud . \u2014 Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 Mar. 2022"
"a word first recorded early in the 17th century",
"They were trailing by a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.",
"The package should be arriving early next week.",
"She arrived early to help with the preparations.",
"I got up early to finish packing.",
"Adjective",
"the early symptoms of the disease",
"The early part of the book is better than the later part.",
"We had an early spring this year.",
"We're early . The show doesn't start for half an hour.",
"I've always been an early riser.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The Covid-19 vaccines currently authorized for use in the U.S. are all based on the sequence of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was obtained early in 2020. \u2014 John P. Moore And Paul A. Offit, STAT , 3 July 2022",
"His pop-star makeover, from early in his career to later in life, was as unlikely as the song itself becoming part of the 20th century song canon. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"The prosecution countered with a request for 30 to 55 years based on the harm done to victims, a lack of remorse for her crimes, and the argument that disliking jail time isn\u2019t a valid excuse to get out early . \u2014 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone , 28 June 2022",
"Make sure to bring cash - only some vendors accept credit cards - and get there early for the best deals. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
"Get there early \u2014 this one will likely fill up fast. \u2014 Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Get there early with your blanket or chair to snag a spot in front of the stage. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Now, as then, tech entrepreneurs have displayed an urgency to get in early and make a splash. \u2014 David Ingram, NBC News , 21 June 2022",
"In 2013, he was offered the chance to plead guilty to the murder charge and get out of prison early . \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The conventional wisdom at the time was that personality was fairly fixed from an early age and that personality tests, which ignored the body, could largely bracket one\u2019s range of leadership. \u2014 Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"Aleena was attacked early Sunday morning, just 10 minutes from her home, and died later that day in the hospital. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"San Jose police are searching for two assailants who stabbed two men early Saturday morning during at closing time for bars downtown. \u2014 Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 July 2022",
"All travel lanes are clear on I-285 in DeKalb County after an early morning tractor trailer fire shut down the interstate ahead of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. \u2014 John Spink, ajc , 1 July 2022",
"Brown said that especially for trees growing in optimal conditions, like the wet ravine around Alerce Milenario, growth tends to be fast in its early age. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"That Gray, now 23, felt so deeply at such an early age isn\u2019t so surprising. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"From an early age, Tur was given the taste of excitement that came with her parents\u2019 day job. \u2014 Wendy Kaur, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"Demond shared that his entrepreneurial drive started at an early age. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 21 June 2022"
"a word first recorded early in the 17th century",
"They were trailing by a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.",
"The package should be arriving early next week.",
"She arrived early to help with the preparations.",
"I got up early to finish packing.",
"Adjective",
"the early symptoms of the disease",
"The early part of the book is better than the later part.",
"We had an early spring this year.",
"We're early . The show doesn't start for half an hour.",
"I've always been an early riser.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The Covid-19 vaccines currently authorized for use in the U.S. are all based on the sequence of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was obtained early in 2020. \u2014 John P. Moore And Paul A. Offit, STAT , 3 July 2022",
"His pop-star makeover, from early in his career to later in life, was as unlikely as the song itself becoming part of the 20th century song canon. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"The prosecution countered with a request for 30 to 55 years based on the harm done to victims, a lack of remorse for her crimes, and the argument that disliking jail time isn\u2019t a valid excuse to get out early . \u2014 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone , 28 June 2022",
"Make sure to bring cash - only some vendors accept credit cards - and get there early for the best deals. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
"Get there early \u2014 this one will likely fill up fast. \u2014 Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Get there early with your blanket or chair to snag a spot in front of the stage. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Now, as then, tech entrepreneurs have displayed an urgency to get in early and make a splash. \u2014 David Ingram, NBC News , 21 June 2022",
"In 2013, he was offered the chance to plead guilty to the murder charge and get out of prison early . \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The conventional wisdom at the time was that personality was fairly fixed from an early age and that personality tests, which ignored the body, could largely bracket one\u2019s range of leadership. \u2014 Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"Aleena was attacked early Sunday morning, just 10 minutes from her home, and died later that day in the hospital. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"San Jose police are searching for two assailants who stabbed two men early Saturday morning during at closing time for bars downtown. \u2014 Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 July 2022",
"All travel lanes are clear on I-285 in DeKalb County after an early morning tractor trailer fire shut down the interstate ahead of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. \u2014 John Spink, ajc , 1 July 2022",
"Brown said that especially for trees growing in optimal conditions, like the wet ravine around Alerce Milenario, growth tends to be fast in its early age. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"That Gray, now 23, felt so deeply at such an early age isn\u2019t so surprising. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"From an early age, Tur was given the taste of excitement that came with her parents\u2019 day job. \u2014 Wendy Kaur, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"Demond shared that his entrepreneurial drive started at an early age. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 21 June 2022"
"a word first recorded early in the 17th century",
"They were trailing by a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.",
"The package should be arriving early next week.",
"She arrived early to help with the preparations.",
"I got up early to finish packing.",
"Adjective",
"the early symptoms of the disease",
"The early part of the book is better than the later part.",
"We had an early spring this year.",
"We're early . The show doesn't start for half an hour.",
"I've always been an early riser.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The Covid-19 vaccines currently authorized for use in the U.S. are all based on the sequence of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was obtained early in 2020. \u2014 John P. Moore And Paul A. Offit, STAT , 3 July 2022",
"His pop-star makeover, from early in his career to later in life, was as unlikely as the song itself becoming part of the 20th century song canon. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"The prosecution countered with a request for 30 to 55 years based on the harm done to victims, a lack of remorse for her crimes, and the argument that disliking jail time isn\u2019t a valid excuse to get out early . \u2014 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone , 28 June 2022",
"Make sure to bring cash - only some vendors accept credit cards - and get there early for the best deals. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
"Get there early \u2014 this one will likely fill up fast. \u2014 Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Get there early with your blanket or chair to snag a spot in front of the stage. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Now, as then, tech entrepreneurs have displayed an urgency to get in early and make a splash. \u2014 David Ingram, NBC News , 21 June 2022",
"In 2013, he was offered the chance to plead guilty to the murder charge and get out of prison early . \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The conventional wisdom at the time was that personality was fairly fixed from an early age and that personality tests, which ignored the body, could largely bracket one\u2019s range of leadership. \u2014 Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"Aleena was attacked early Sunday morning, just 10 minutes from her home, and died later that day in the hospital. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"San Jose police are searching for two assailants who stabbed two men early Saturday morning during at closing time for bars downtown. \u2014 Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 July 2022",
"All travel lanes are clear on I-285 in DeKalb County after an early morning tractor trailer fire shut down the interstate ahead of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. \u2014 John Spink, ajc , 1 July 2022",
"Brown said that especially for trees growing in optimal conditions, like the wet ravine around Alerce Milenario, growth tends to be fast in its early age. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"That Gray, now 23, felt so deeply at such an early age isn\u2019t so surprising. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"From an early age, Tur was given the taste of excitement that came with her parents\u2019 day job. \u2014 Wendy Kaur, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"Demond shared that his entrepreneurial drive started at an early age. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 21 June 2022"
": a biennial European weedy cress ( Barbarea verna ) that is naturalized widely in North America, has pinnatifid leaves and deep yellow flowers, and is sometimes used for a salad plant or potherb":[]
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"The project uses funds that had been earmarked for education.",
"the earnings from my second job have been earmarked for a down payment on a car",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Cloud is a member of the Freedom Caucus, a group of the most conservative House Republicans that includes five Texans who did not request or receive earmark funding. \u2014 Andrew Zhang, San Antonio Express-News , 16 Apr. 2022",
"And earmark years back called pathway to the building trades. \u2014 cleveland , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Only in recent decades that funding dried up, as earmark programs \u2014 specific funding directed at local projects \u2014 basically ended about a decade ago. \u2014 Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The earmark became a talk-show punchline and was eventually removed amid uproar over pork-barrel projects. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Mar. 2022",
"The biggest health care earmark of all actually went to another southern institution: the medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. \u2014 Nicholas Florko, STAT , 4 May 2022",
"From the dock, the visitors drove up to the village health clinic, which was upgraded after a $37.5 million congressional earmark in the late 1990s. \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"In 2008, Congress asked the Justice Department to investigate Young\u2019s role in securing a $10 million earmark to widen a Florida highway; the matter was dropped in 2010, and Young denied any wrongdoing. \u2014 Becky Bohrer, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The earmark was included in the $1.5 trillion omnibus federal spending bill approved Thursday night by the U.S. Senate. \u2014 Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The bill also would earmark $750 million to provide incentive grants to provide three free months of free public transportation and a $439-million pause to the state\u2019s diesel sales tax. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"Or at least earmark some of that ridiculous money for other, more worthwhile university endeavors. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 10 May 2022",
"The online betting measure would earmark 85% of the online betting tax dollars for homelessness and mental health support, while 15% would go to tribes not participating in the marketplace. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"The Biden administration\u2019s decision to place thousands of U.S. troops on high alert and earmark them for potential NATO duty is significant for three reasons. \u2014 John R. Deni, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Ledwith wants to earmark $3 million toward the start of a long-term plan for improving the air-circulation system at the elementary schools. \u2014 Don Stacom, courant.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The Biden administration would also earmark almost $82 billion over five years on preparing for another pandemic and for biodefense, including investing in the making of vaccines. \u2014 Amara Omeokwe, WSJ , 28 Mar. 2022",
"But the request, as connected to a StartEngine fundraising campaign, doesn't clearly earmark any of its $5 million toward paying down the company's considerable debts. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 8 Feb. 2022",
"State lawmakers are expected to consider legislation that would earmark $5 million to help police and fire agencies provide mental health resources to its employees. \u2014 Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 Jan. 2022"
"So electronic earmuffs , which let in normal sound but block loud noises such as gunshots, are such an advantage for shooters. \u2014 The Editors, Field & Stream , 29 Apr. 2020",
"Follow these foolproof guidelines: Parents everywhere: earmuffs . \u2014 Ali Francis, Bon App\u00e9tit , 10 Apr. 2020",
"If the Target in Lake Forest has a sale on earmuffs and blinders, Nagy would be wise to fill a shopping cart or two. \u2014 Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
"But while traditional headphones block sound by using earcup designs that fully enclose your ears \u2014 like a set of earmuffs \u2014 active noise cancelling is something different entirely. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Mar. 2020",
"Prizes like electronic earmuffs , knives and fire starters were given to the best score out of 10, said Rachael Tuckett, a wildlife recreation specialist with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, which organized the event. \u2014 USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Today\u2019s fight over Life of Washington pits old-school lefty artists who understand the First Amendment\u2019s value in shocking the bourgeoisie against a new generation of lefties for whom history \u2014 and language \u2014 must come with earmuffs . \u2014 Will Swaim, National Review , 3 Jan. 2020",
"Toward the end of the parade route, Esprit Jones, 39, held her 7-year-old daughter, Brielle, who was wearing pink earmuffs with a unicorn horn. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Jan. 2020",
"Protecting vision and hearing at the same time is easy with a forestry helmet that includes integrated earmuffs . \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 19 Nov. 2019"
"Government officials in Ukraine say the country could earn the equivalent of $1.6 billion from electricity exports a year given that European market prices are well above Kyiv\u2019s generation costs. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"The $200 million Toy Story spin-off will earn just $18 million (-64%) on weekend two for an $89 million ten-day cume. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"Sharpe must earn his way onto the court for a team with three strong guards, including six-time All-Star Damian Lillard. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
"Customers earn 10 points per dollar for every qualified stay at a Wyndham Rewards hotel. \u2014 Rayna Song, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Mid-career federal firefighters currently earn roughly half the pay of third-year firefighters employed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, according to analysis from Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"Players who wager up to $250 on their first bet will earn the same value in free bets win or lose. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 23 June 2022",
"And by the way, companies can never buy our recommendation: Their products must earn it, fair and square. \u2014 Madison Yauger, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"Robinson came to Auburn after previously coaching linebackers at Florida and will earn $525,000 in the first year of his contract before receiving a pay increase to $550,000 for the 2023 season. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 22 June 2022"
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"Barnum's antics provoked tongue-in-cheek reporting and nods and winks in the newspapers, but no earnest cries of humbug. The artful deceiver turned fraud into family fun. \u2014 Jackson Lears , New Republic , 12 Nov. 2001",
"Students of all ages were forced to watch these earnest but bizarre short films, which apprised them of such things as the folly of playing on steep precipices overlooking the ocean, the need to minimize one's square-dancing during the early days of the menstrual cycle, the inadvisability of shooting heroin before an important track meet and the necessity of placing the fork to the left of the plate. \u2014 Joe Queenan , New York Times , 20 Jan. 2000",
"\u2026 a Prussian \u00e9migr\u00e9 who became a middle-class English gentleman; an angry agitator who spent much of his adult life in the scholarly silence of the British Museum Reading Room; a gregarious and convivial host who fell out with almost all his friends; a devoted family man who impregnated his housemaid; and a deeply earnest philosopher who loved drink, cigars and jokes. \u2014 Francis Wheen , The Nation , 10 July 2000",
"\u2026 a bland expression on my face, looking more innocent than an innocent person has any business looking, I imagined that the sales-women who sometimes glanced over at me saw an earnest young shopper instead of a transparent little klepto. \u2014 Tobias Wolff , Forbes , 20 Mar. 1989",
"an earnest plea for help",
"I'll accept only an earnest apology from you.",
"Noun (1)",
"On Easter Monday the rain began in earnest . \u2014 Katherine Paterson , Bridge to Terabithia , (1977) 2003",
"The sidewalks were crowded as women and men argued and bargained with each other as the shopping day began in earnest . \u2014 Harold Robbins , The Storyteller , 1985",
"Books are an addiction, that, when aroused in earnest , is rarely calmed. \u2014 Joseph Epstein , The Middle of My Tether , 1983",
"The divorce proceedings began in earnest , and they were earnestly vile. \u2014 Angie Bowie et al. , US , 23 Nov. 1982",
"Noun (2)",
"In 1942, Roosevelt, Stimson, and Marshall all recognized the degree of fraud in MacArthur but let him get away with his act because in those black days morale required an invincible hero in the Pacific as an earnest of eventual victory there. \u2014 Paul Fussell , Wartime , 1989",
"A large portion of the spoil was set aside to be sent to Carthage as an earnest of the riches of further conquest. \u2014 Ernle Bradford , Hannibal , 1981",
"When I had promised to pay for his information and given him an earnest , he told me that he had made two journeys between Carfax and a house in Piccadilly, and had taken from this house to the latter nine great boxes, \"main heavy ones,\" with a horse and cart hired by him for this purpose. \u2014 Bram Stoker , Dracula , 1897",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"When the race began in earnest again on lap 17, Hamilton burst straight past Ricciardo into third while Vettel brilliantly defended the corner twice to fend off Bottas. \u2014 Associated Press, latimes.com , 16 Apr. 2017",
"And Wura O. is surprisingly earnest : Africa is a place full of beauty, exuberance, and culture. \u2014 Sebastian Modak, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 7 Apr. 2017",
"With a new administration in office and so much at stake, now is a good time to approach that task in earnest . \u2014 Liz Spayd, New York Times , 18 Feb. 2017",
"Yet in an era of fake news, overheated partisanship and general rancor, Mr. Mazza seems unfailingly earnest and without an agenda \u2014 aside from trying to become a reporter, with his own notion of what that means. \u2014 Marc Santora, New York Times , 17 Feb. 2017",
"This championship marked the culmination of a slow rebuilding process, which started in earnest when the Cubs hired Theo Epstein as president of baseball operations before the 2012 season. \u2014 Jared Diamond, WSJ , 3 Nov. 2016",
"Few music figures have made a more earnest attempt to break into fashion than Yeezus, and these sorts of collections follow in those Westian footsteps. \u2014 Pete Forester, Esquire , 22 Aug. 2016",
"The campaign kicked off in earnest Thursday night on a conference call with at least 30 delegates from 15 states, according to multiple participants. \u2014 Ed O'keefe, Washington Post , 17 June 2016",
"A team spokesman declined to be quoted, but expressed earnest affection for the Hall of Science; the Mets have a representative on the hall\u2019s board. \u2014 Jim Dwyer, New York Times , 19 May 2016",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The most immediate question is whether the British can map out in advance their negotiating partners\u2019 positions before the talks start in earnest . \u2014 Stephen Fidler, WSJ , 6 Oct. 2016",
"Then, the defending of the lead continued in earnest . \u2014 Andrew Das, New York Times , 11 June 2016",
"But Sanders appeared to be offering in earnest , prompted in part by the Clinton campaign\u2019s decision, announced Monday, not to follow through on an earlier pledge to debate him in California. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 27 May 2016",
"The battle for control of the living room just began in earnest . \u2014 David Streitfeld, New York Times , 18 May 2016",
"The term post-racial is almost never used in earnest . \u2014 Ta-nehisi Coates, The Atlantic , 26 June 2015",
"A guest brings up a television show in which each episode features a different sect of Americans, preparing in earnest for a different kind of doomsday. \u2014 Eric Boman, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2015",
"Will Ferrell has been making the publicity rounds in earnest since his new comedy Get Hard premiered at SXSW earlier this month. \u2014 Ryan Bort, Esquire , 27 Mar. 2015",
"Ersatz, every word, and yet all meant in good earnest . \u2014 Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic , 19 Feb. 2014"
"Middle English ernes, ernest , from Anglo-French arres, erres , plural of erre earnest, from Latin arra , short for arrabo , from Greek arrhab\u014dn , of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew \u02bd\u0113r\u0101bh\u014dn pledge":"Noun",
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for earnest Adjective serious , grave , solemn , sedate , staid , sober , earnest mean not light or frivolous. serious implies a concern for what really matters. a serious play about social injustice grave implies both seriousness and dignity in expression or attitude. read the proclamation in a grave voice solemn suggests an impressive gravity utterly free from levity. a sad and solemn occasion sedate implies a composed and decorous seriousness. remained sedate amid the commotion staid suggests a settled, accustomed sedateness and prim self-restraint. a quiet and staid community sober stresses seriousness of purpose and absence of levity or frivolity. a sober look at the state of our schools earnest suggests sincerity or often zealousness of purpose. an earnest reformer",
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"Adjective",
"Barnum's antics provoked tongue-in-cheek reporting and nods and winks in the newspapers, but no earnest cries of humbug. The artful deceiver turned fraud into family fun. \u2014 Jackson Lears , New Republic , 12 Nov. 2001",
"Students of all ages were forced to watch these earnest but bizarre short films, which apprised them of such things as the folly of playing on steep precipices overlooking the ocean, the need to minimize one's square-dancing during the early days of the menstrual cycle, the inadvisability of shooting heroin before an important track meet and the necessity of placing the fork to the left of the plate. \u2014 Joe Queenan , New York Times , 20 Jan. 2000",
"\u2026 a Prussian \u00e9migr\u00e9 who became a middle-class English gentleman; an angry agitator who spent much of his adult life in the scholarly silence of the British Museum Reading Room; a gregarious and convivial host who fell out with almost all his friends; a devoted family man who impregnated his housemaid; and a deeply earnest philosopher who loved drink, cigars and jokes. \u2014 Francis Wheen , The Nation , 10 July 2000",
"\u2026 a bland expression on my face, looking more innocent than an innocent person has any business looking, I imagined that the sales-women who sometimes glanced over at me saw an earnest young shopper instead of a transparent little klepto. \u2014 Tobias Wolff , Forbes , 20 Mar. 1989",
"an earnest plea for help",
"I'll accept only an earnest apology from you.",
"Noun (1)",
"On Easter Monday the rain began in earnest . \u2014 Katherine Paterson , Bridge to Terabithia , (1977) 2003",
"The sidewalks were crowded as women and men argued and bargained with each other as the shopping day began in earnest . \u2014 Harold Robbins , The Storyteller , 1985",
"Books are an addiction, that, when aroused in earnest , is rarely calmed. \u2014 Joseph Epstein , The Middle of My Tether , 1983",
"The divorce proceedings began in earnest , and they were earnestly vile. \u2014 Angie Bowie et al. , US , 23 Nov. 1982",
"Noun (2)",
"In 1942, Roosevelt, Stimson, and Marshall all recognized the degree of fraud in MacArthur but let him get away with his act because in those black days morale required an invincible hero in the Pacific as an earnest of eventual victory there. \u2014 Paul Fussell , Wartime , 1989",
"A large portion of the spoil was set aside to be sent to Carthage as an earnest of the riches of further conquest. \u2014 Ernle Bradford , Hannibal , 1981",
"When I had promised to pay for his information and given him an earnest , he told me that he had made two journeys between Carfax and a house in Piccadilly, and had taken from this house to the latter nine great boxes, \"main heavy ones,\" with a horse and cart hired by him for this purpose. \u2014 Bram Stoker , Dracula , 1897",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"When the race began in earnest again on lap 17, Hamilton burst straight past Ricciardo into third while Vettel brilliantly defended the corner twice to fend off Bottas. \u2014 Associated Press, latimes.com , 16 Apr. 2017",
"And Wura O. is surprisingly earnest : Africa is a place full of beauty, exuberance, and culture. \u2014 Sebastian Modak, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 7 Apr. 2017",
"With a new administration in office and so much at stake, now is a good time to approach that task in earnest . \u2014 Liz Spayd, New York Times , 18 Feb. 2017",
"Yet in an era of fake news, overheated partisanship and general rancor, Mr. Mazza seems unfailingly earnest and without an agenda \u2014 aside from trying to become a reporter, with his own notion of what that means. \u2014 Marc Santora, New York Times , 17 Feb. 2017",
"This championship marked the culmination of a slow rebuilding process, which started in earnest when the Cubs hired Theo Epstein as president of baseball operations before the 2012 season. \u2014 Jared Diamond, WSJ , 3 Nov. 2016",
"Few music figures have made a more earnest attempt to break into fashion than Yeezus, and these sorts of collections follow in those Westian footsteps. \u2014 Pete Forester, Esquire , 22 Aug. 2016",
"The campaign kicked off in earnest Thursday night on a conference call with at least 30 delegates from 15 states, according to multiple participants. \u2014 Ed O'keefe, Washington Post , 17 June 2016",
"A team spokesman declined to be quoted, but expressed earnest affection for the Hall of Science; the Mets have a representative on the hall\u2019s board. \u2014 Jim Dwyer, New York Times , 19 May 2016",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The most immediate question is whether the British can map out in advance their negotiating partners\u2019 positions before the talks start in earnest . \u2014 Stephen Fidler, WSJ , 6 Oct. 2016",
"Then, the defending of the lead continued in earnest . \u2014 Andrew Das, New York Times , 11 June 2016",
"But Sanders appeared to be offering in earnest , prompted in part by the Clinton campaign\u2019s decision, announced Monday, not to follow through on an earlier pledge to debate him in California. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 27 May 2016",
"The battle for control of the living room just began in earnest . \u2014 David Streitfeld, New York Times , 18 May 2016",
"The term post-racial is almost never used in earnest . \u2014 Ta-nehisi Coates, The Atlantic , 26 June 2015",
"A guest brings up a television show in which each episode features a different sect of Americans, preparing in earnest for a different kind of doomsday. \u2014 Eric Boman, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2015",
"Will Ferrell has been making the publicity rounds in earnest since his new comedy Get Hard premiered at SXSW earlier this month. \u2014 Ryan Bort, Esquire , 27 Mar. 2015",
"Ersatz, every word, and yet all meant in good earnest . \u2014 Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic , 19 Feb. 2014"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English ernes, ernest , from Anglo-French arres, erres , plural of erre earnest, from Latin arra , short for arrabo , from Greek arrhab\u014dn , of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew \u02bd\u0113r\u0101bh\u014dn pledge":"Noun",
"Middle English ernest , from Old English eornost ; akin to Old High German ernust earnest":"Noun and Adjective"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for earnest Adjective serious , grave , solemn , sedate , staid , sober , earnest mean not light or frivolous. serious implies a concern for what really matters. a serious play about social injustice grave implies both seriousness and dignity in expression or attitude. read the proclamation in a grave voice solemn suggests an impressive gravity utterly free from levity. a sad and solemn occasion sedate implies a composed and decorous seriousness. remained sedate amid the commotion staid suggests a settled, accustomed sedateness and prim self-restraint. a quiet and staid community sober stresses seriousness of purpose and absence of levity or frivolity. a sober look at the state of our schools earnest suggests sincerity or often zealousness of purpose. an earnest reformer",
"In other words, both benefits are calculated based on the same earnings and using the same basic calculation formula. \u2014 Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"The earnings for the third and final installment of the Jurassic World trilogy aren't a far cry from 2018's Fallen Kingdom, which debuted to $148 million at the domestic box office. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 12 June 2022",
"In states where gas now costs at least $5 a gallon, that works out to 50 gallons worth of gas on the low end ad earnings . \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 10 June 2022",
"Under the old system, lawmakers could\u2019ve capped the potential earnings a player received and prohibited schools from facilitating deals. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 27 May 2022",
"Meanwhile on Wall Street, the S&P 500 has slumped to the lowest level in over a year, and the disappointing retail earnings almost pulled it into a bear market, or 20% below its recent high. \u2014 Damian J. Troise, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Hence, buying a claim on the revenues or the earnings has to be correlated with the inflation rate. \u2014 Cristina Lourosa-ricardo, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"The earnings revealed a striking difference between the company\u2019s two main lines of business: launch and space systems. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022",
"According to Uber, drivers saw the highest hourly earnings in New York City at $37.44. \u2014 Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY , 20 May 2022"
"The earphone case feels premium and comes with the Snapdragon Sound logo etched on the outside. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 2 Oct. 2021",
"To make an earphone with the ideal balance between size and capability, the team stripped out any unnecessary features that might degrade sound quality. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The Zara of earphone companies, boAt can serve as a poster child for Indian startups in many ways. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Only the stem comes with transparent plastic covers that show some of the earphone \u2019s internals. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 1 Dec. 2021",
"The amp stage can deliver 400mW into a 32\u03a9 headphone load, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of headphone and earphone types with sufficient power to spare. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 2 Oct. 2021",
"Apparently, the AirPods Pro 2 case and each earphone can be located with Find My. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 23 Oct. 2021",
"Here\u2019s an interesting piece of news that could signal a bit of a shakeup in the true wireless earphone market. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The heat in the earphone market just turned up a notch today with Sony\u2019s announcement of the WF-1000XM4, the brand\u2019s latest true wireless earbuds. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 8 June 2021"
"The train's whistle made an earsplitting noise.",
"the earsplitting noise coming from the jackhammers at the construction site",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Those rounded up included Mr. Ding, who later told his lawyer that investigators forced him to stay awake by constantly showing him an adulatory documentary about China\u2019s leader, Mr. Xi, at an earsplitting volume for 10 days and nights. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The Aztecs have played in some earsplitting environments since their ascension into college basketball relevance. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The Bell model produced an earsplitting 130 decibels. \u2014 David A. Taylor, Washington Post , 24 Jan. 2022",
"In Libya, the radio from a passing car spurs rage in Majid Mokhtar Sasy al-Maghrebi, reminding him of the C.I.A. prison where earsplitting music was just one assault to his senses. \u2014 Sam Roberts, New York Times , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The earsplitting sound of rockets shrieking above the tidal flats has caused some, such as shorebirds, to flee in terror or to stop nesting in the area altogether. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2021",
"Many fans call the amorphous sound social reject music, which captures their ironic sense of themselves as the lowest of the low, playfully dissing one another for devouring such low-quality, earsplitting , coarse rap tunes. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2021",
"Periodical cicadas are known for their earsplitting sounds, which are produced by the male of the species to attract females. \u2014 USA Today , 30 Mar. 2021",
"Instead of asking fans to rattle Aaron Rodgers with earsplitting noise, the Vikings will rely on a recorded soundtrack that can't be played above 75 decibels and showcase cardboard cutouts that fans can purchase for $150 apiece. \u2014 Ben Goessling, Star Tribune , 12 Sep. 2020"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for earsplitting loud , stentorian , earsplitting , raucous , strident mean marked by intensity or volume of sound. loud applies to any volume above normal and may suggest undue vehemence or obtrusiveness. loud shouts of protest stentorian implies great power and range. an actor with a stentorian voice earsplitting implies loudness that is physically discomforting. the earsplitting sound of a siren raucous implies a loud harsh grating tone, especially of voice, and may suggest rowdiness. the raucous shouts of drunken revelers strident implies a rasping discordant but insistent quality, especially of voice. the strident voices of hecklers",
"And when their high-flying brands fell back to earth over the next few years, the schadenfreude was relentless. \u2014 Maggie Mcgrath, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"And Hanks, who\u2019s made unvarnished, down-to- earth honesty something of a career specialty, feels uniquely ill served by such gimmickry. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Skubal has come back to earth after a dominant first eight weeks or so. \u2014 Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022",
"Cohen says the suede version is a down-to- earth twist on the romantic style, while associate beauty commerce editor Tiffany Dodson considers the leather version her go-to work shoe. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"Sunbasket is a meal delivery service that specializes in organic ingredients and easy, down-to- earth recipes that\u2019ll please foodies and picky eaters alike. \u2014 Jake Smith, Glamour , 21 June 2022",
"This isn't a fancy place, but a down-to- earth one that has roots dating back to the 1940s, offering affordable drinks and an authentic Yukon experience. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Amazon's comedy about a near future when the wealthy can upload their consciousness to a digital heaven is a unique combination of sweetness and pessimism \u2013 a high-concept science-fiction comedy with down-to- earth stories of love and loss. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"Your Audience Stay down to earth , even humorous, but straightforward. \u2014 Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
"Step into nature, hike, perhaps try earthing (which is a practice of removing your shoes and walking on the earth to help rid you of stresses or clear your mind). \u2014 Krystyna Ch\u00e1vez, Marie Claire , 14 Jan. 2020",
"The outer cylinder is earthed while the inner one is not, creating a capacitor. \u2014 The Economist , 1 Aug. 2019",
"Practitioner John Manning will discuss earthing on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 7 p.m. at the Enfield Public Library, 104 Middle Road. \u2014 Courant Community , 9 Jan. 2018",
"When the aerial is earthed , part of the carrier wave will be absorbed. \u2014 The Economist , 13 Sep. 2017",
"But Truth in Advertising, a consumer advocacy group, cited earthing in a database of 50-some instances in which Goop promoted unsubstantiated products or claims. \u2014 Olga Khazan, The Atlantic , 12 Sep. 2017",
"Inside, the ch\u00e2teau is an equal marvel, perfectly restored and filled with contemporary art and, for balance, fragments of a meteorite that fell to earth 200 million years ago. \u2014 Jon Maksik, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 20 Apr. 2017"
": any of several leguminous plants (genera Astragalus and Geoprumnon ) of the southwestern U.S. and adjacent Mexico with pods which suggest plums and are edible when unripe":[],
"we have too many earthbound worries to speculate on the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On offense, Williams stayed relatively earthbound by his usual soaring standards. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
"Bocco and others believe the prices for projects stateside have become more earthbound post-pandemic. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 23 May 2022",
"Three days later, Burna is in South London and decidedly more earthbound , slouched in an antique red leather chair. \u2014 Heran Mamo, Billboard , 12 May 2022",
"The lemon was a high note singing clearly and steadily over the earthbound meatiness of the lamb. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 9 May 2022",
"Their speeches have been practical yet soaring, theological yet earthbound . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Despite the performers spending time suspended about the stage, the production remains stubbornly earthbound . \u2014 New York Times , 11 Apr. 2022",
"As hip-hop and pop have edged toward the surreal, prizing fearlessness and deviation\u2014the most exciting young artists in those genres tend to be provocateurs, of a sort\u2014country has remained earthbound . \u2014 Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The transcendent poet of \u2018Ode on a Grecian Urn\u2019 was a young man with distinctly earthbound interests. \u2014 Wsj Books Staff, WSJ , 29 Mar. 2022"
": ceramic ware made of slightly porous opaque clay fired at low heat":[]
},
"examples":[
"The dish is made of earthenware .",
"a wide array of hand-painted earthenware available at the craft fair",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Milet\u2019s father, Felix Milet, had founded an earthenware factory in the late 19th century. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 7 June 2022",
"In December 1945, Muhammad Ali\u2014not the boxer but a peasant farmer from Nag Hammadi, a town of Upper Egypt\u2014uncovered an ancient earthenware jar. \u2014 Michael J. Kruger, WSJ , 6 June 2022",
"Named after the earthenware pot used to mold its distinctive, loaflike shape, this dish has a specific look, but the flavor combinations are almost limitless. \u2014 Foren Clark, CNN , 30 May 2022",
"Thousands of workers at plants in the U.K. and in the U.S. died or suffered permanent injuries in the century between 1851, when majolica was introduced, and 1947, when lead was eliminated from the glazes and the earthenware fell out of style. \u2014 Mary Carole Mccauley, baltimoresun.com , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Inspired by terracotta pots, this installation is made of small handmade earthenware rings. \u2014 Sandra Macgregor, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"Berrow took up ceramics in early 2020 while on lockdown at her mother\u2019s house in Dorset; her mother, Miranda, is also a ceramist, so Berrow availed herself of her earthenware , kiln and high-sheen glazes. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Roman made pour-over coffee, decanting it into an earthenware mug. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 13 Dec. 2021",
"All dishes and drinks are enhanced by equally noteworthy tableware, like earthenware festooned with fish motifs and colorful glassware. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 14 Jan. 2022"
"\u2014 used with the real suede, which costs the earth to clean \u2014 Joanne Winship"
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": ground sense 4":[],
": the lair of a burrowing animal":[],
": the mortal human body":[],
": the people of the planet Earth":[],
": the planet on which we live that is third in order from the sun \u2014 see Planets Table":[],
": the pursuits, interests, and pleasures of earthly life as distinguished from spiritual concerns":[],
": the solid footing formed of soil : ground":[],
": the sphere of mortal life as distinguished from spheres of spirit life \u2014 compare heaven , hell":[],
": to draw soil about (plants)":[
"\u2014 often used with up"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"The moisture will eventually fall to earth in the form of rain or snow.",
"We could feel the earth shake.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And when their high-flying brands fell back to earth over the next few years, the schadenfreude was relentless. \u2014 Maggie Mcgrath, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"And Hanks, who\u2019s made unvarnished, down-to- earth honesty something of a career specialty, feels uniquely ill served by such gimmickry. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Skubal has come back to earth after a dominant first eight weeks or so. \u2014 Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022",
"Cohen says the suede version is a down-to- earth twist on the romantic style, while associate beauty commerce editor Tiffany Dodson considers the leather version her go-to work shoe. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"Sunbasket is a meal delivery service that specializes in organic ingredients and easy, down-to- earth recipes that\u2019ll please foodies and picky eaters alike. \u2014 Jake Smith, Glamour , 21 June 2022",
"This isn't a fancy place, but a down-to- earth one that has roots dating back to the 1940s, offering affordable drinks and an authentic Yukon experience. \u2014 Kimberly Lyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Amazon's comedy about a near future when the wealthy can upload their consciousness to a digital heaven is a unique combination of sweetness and pessimism \u2013 a high-concept science-fiction comedy with down-to- earth stories of love and loss. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"Your Audience Stay down to earth , even humorous, but straightforward. \u2014 Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Step into nature, hike, perhaps try earthing (which is a practice of removing your shoes and walking on the earth to help rid you of stresses or clear your mind). \u2014 Krystyna Ch\u00e1vez, Marie Claire , 14 Jan. 2020",
"The outer cylinder is earthed while the inner one is not, creating a capacitor. \u2014 The Economist , 1 Aug. 2019",
"Practitioner John Manning will discuss earthing on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 7 p.m. at the Enfield Public Library, 104 Middle Road. \u2014 Courant Community , 9 Jan. 2018",
"When the aerial is earthed , part of the carrier wave will be absorbed. \u2014 The Economist , 13 Sep. 2017",
"But Truth in Advertising, a consumer advocacy group, cited earthing in a database of 50-some instances in which Goop promoted unsubstantiated products or claims. \u2014 Olga Khazan, The Atlantic , 12 Sep. 2017",
"Inside, the ch\u00e2teau is an equal marvel, perfectly restored and filled with contemporary art and, for balance, fragments of a meteorite that fell to earth 200 million years ago. \u2014 Jon Maksik, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 20 Apr. 2017"
"Their political subservience is mirrored in countless instances of domestic abuse and in a religious faith that encourages earthly suffering as a path to heaven. \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Within days of the sudden disappearance of every last earthly bearer of XY chromosomes (fetuses included), things are pretty much back to normal. \u2014 Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic , 16 June 2022",
"In it, Jesus shares how God chides a rich man for accumulating earthly possessions while ignoring his soul. \u2014 Cathi Douglaswriter, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"While the Arabidopsis sprouts weren\u2019t particularly impressive by earthly standards, that Robert Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul, the study\u2019s authors, were able to grow plants at all is impressive. \u2014 Nicholas Gordon, Fortune , 8 June 2022",
"The story follows what happens after Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed almighty powers of the Egyptian gods and immediately imprisoned. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022",
"But a recent tweet from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Southeast Region zeroed in on something not so earthly : the Lake Interchange. \u2014 Jordan Tilkens, Journal Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
"Collaboration in space typically transcends earthly politics, and cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War served major symbolic significance. \u2014 Derek Saul, Forbes , 3 June 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for earthly earthly , worldly , mundane mean belonging to or characteristic of the earth. earthly often implies a contrast with what is heavenly or spiritual. abandoned earthly concerns and entered a convent worldly and mundane both imply a relation to the immediate concerns and activities of human beings, worldly suggesting tangible personal gain or gratification worldly goods and mundane suggesting reference to the immediate and practical. a mundane discussion of finances",
"the San Andreas Fault is notorious for its earthquakes",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The earthquake occurred 20 miles from Paso Robles and Avenal, 32 miles from Atascadero and 36 miles from King City. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2022",
"The earthquake destroyed at least 90 houses in Paktika and dozens of people are said to be trapped under the debris. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 22 June 2022",
"When an earthquake nearly destroyed the mission, and much of the city, in 1925, local visionaries insured that Santa Barbara would rebuild and rebound in the same design. \u2014 CBS News , 22 May 2022",
"Elon Musk\u2019s $44 billion\u2013odd purchase of Twitter was an earthquake for the social-media behemoth. \u2014 Nate Hochman, National Review , 12 May 2022",
"After the 1964 Good Friday earthquake destroyed the family home, Ed returned to Alaska, then went to work for the family business, first in Wrangell, then Ketchikan and in 1967, back to Anchorage. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The worst earthquake , in 1935, destroyed the provincial capital of Baluchistan and killed more than 35,000 people. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 7 Oct. 2021",
"The worst earthquake , in 1935, destroyed the provincial capital of Baluchistan and killed more than 35,000 people. \u2014 Kathy Gannon And Abdul Sattar, USA TODAY , 7 Oct. 2021",
"In 2010, during the devastating earthquake in Haiti, medical devices were printed quickly, allowing doctors to provide health care without waiting for equipment to ship from abroad. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 12 June 2022"
"earthshaking news\u2014the President has been assassinated",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As with the box discovered underneath the Lee statue, the results were disappointing, mostly photographs and documents of no earthshaking importance. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Like others in his line of work, Paul said March 2020 was an earthshaking development: the moment live performance screeched to a halt. \u2014 Brian Mccollum, Detroit Free Press , 16 May 2021",
"The effect is shattering, creating a visceral immediacy that parachutes the viewer into that earthshaking moment, with no clear resolution in sight. \u2014 Jason Bailey, New York Times , 1 Feb. 2021",
"His early songs, released as Elvis Presley was shaking up the music scene, were a sort of comfort food, jaunty yet melodic and not too earthshaking . \u2014 New York Times , 22 Jan. 2021",
"Something earthshaking has happened, but the first guest booked to talk about it has canceled, so Sanjay Gupta will be calling for an emergency Zoom chat in 30 minutes. \u2014 Joe Queenan, WSJ , 3 Dec. 2020",
"Nothing earthshaking happens in any of Brown\u2019s videos -- at least, not in the first eight -- but fans appear to be tuning in, eager to find out more about Alabama Hannah. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 17 Nov. 2020",
"Wucker's gray rhino is not an earthshaking event out of nowhere. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 6 May 2020",
"Of course, the answers are up to the individual reader and will vary based on things like family dynamics and how earthshaking the consequences of knowing might be. \u2014 Pam Belluck, New York Times , 3 Mar. 2020"
"The same earthy clay and charcoal that purify pores can also whiten teeth and degrease roots. \u2014 Jolene Edgar, Allure , 24 June 2022",
"What the production lacks in grace it more than makes up for in earthy energy. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
"In this peaceful blue master bedroom designed by Cathy Chapman, the gorgeous stone walls bring in an earthy feel. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
"Dark cherry nose with a rich body and good mid-palate weight with hints of earthy notes on the finish. \u2014 Cathrine Todd, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The deep, earthy base notes of leather, oakmoss, and musk round out this rich and striking cologne. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Details include gold tile, raw wood, greenery and earthy tones paired with bright colors. \u2014 Annie Nickoloff, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"For the beauty look, Styles stripped things back and opted for earthy , natural tones. \u2014 Elle Turner, Glamour , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The inaugural chapter of r.e.m. beauty, aptly named Ultra Violet, is filled with shimmer shades and earthy tones that will make technicolor fans and nude lovers alike very happy. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 17 Apr. 2022"
"The Kin Euphorics partner accessorized with brown sunglasses, Missoma\u2019s baroque pearl single-drop earrings and baroque pearl single-ovate earring , and various rings. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 21 June 2022",
"Machine Gun Kelly wore what appeared to be a syringe filled with blood as an earring at the premiere of his new movie Taurus. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 10 June 2022",
"A few days after that moment, Baez got a game-ending hit that featured a celebration where his earring was lost at the plate and had Sandy Alderson looking for it. \u2014 Larry Fleisher, Forbes , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Handcrafted from rich 22 karat polished gold, the Hoop Earring Micro has a gold weight of approximately 2.1 grams per single earring . \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Witnesses recalled that Rosenbaum, who wore a distinctive green earring and a reddish T-shirt with a black pocket, was setting fires and screaming threats. \u2014 Paige Williams, The New Yorker , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Rachel decides to freeze her eggs; Terry gets an earring , a wax and buys a Lamborghini so Bradshaw Bourbon can appeal to a younger crowd. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Nov. 2021",
"The mine cuts sit slightly higher that the rest of the hoop and pop from black rhodium plated finish from the rest of the earring which is in yellow gold. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Grasses are a pretty versatile group, and river oats in particular have cute earring -like, flat, dangling clusters. \u2014 Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com , 28 Oct. 2021"
": the average number of earned runs per game scored against a pitcher in baseball determined by dividing the total of earned runs scored against him by the total number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine":[]
"The Brewers placed Josh Hader on the paternity list prior to the second game of their three-game series with the Mets at Citi Field, meaning the team will be without his 19 saves and 0.92 earned run average until Saturday. \u2014 Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"The second-year starter has been Seattle\u2019s best arm, his 2.40 earned run average sitting in the top 10 in the American League. \u2014 Julian Mcwilliams, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
"Milwaukee is 4-6 in games started by Caratini, with pitchers posting a collective 3.74 earned run average . \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 May 2022",
"In a 13-year career spent entirely with the Dodgers, Kershaw has led the National League in wins and strikeouts three times each and earned run average four times \u2013 in consecutive years from 2011-14. \u2014 Dan Schlossberg, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Senior-laden Wildcats batted .329 as a team and finished with a collective 1.08 earned run average . \u2014 J.c. Carnahan, orlandosentinel.com , 27 May 2021",
"For pitchers, win-loss record, saves recorded, earned run average , hits allowed, walks given, and more esoteric measures like run expectancy are all available to inform the manager. \u2014 Nate Bennett, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021",
"An eight-time All-Star, Kershaw has a career earned run average of 2.47, best in the majors, and owns an MVP trophy and Gold Glove in addition to three Cy Youngs. \u2014 Dan Schlossberg, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Bassitt has been having an outstanding season, with a 12-4 record and 3.22 earned run average in a major league-best 25 starts. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Aug. 2021"
"Findlay, the Irish\u2019s star freshman left-hander, had allowed only one earned run over his 14\u2153 innings in the NCAA Tournament before giving up the two in the fifth. \u2014 Eric Olson, Chicago Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Taunton pitcher Liv Mendonca allowed three hits and one earned run in 6 1/3 innings Friday in the Division 1 state final in Amherst. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Killeen finished all six innings having allowed just six hits and one earned run while striking out four. \u2014 Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"Gray, who was traded from the Reds to the Los Angeles Dodgers a little more than three years ago, permitted two hits and one earned run across six innings while striking out nine. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 4 June 2022",
"Ramirez, 27, was 1-0 with a 7.56 ERA (seven earned run in 8 1/3 innings) in seven appearances for the Mariners this season. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 16 May 2022",
"Senior Gracelyn Wallace allowed just 4 hits, 2 walks and 1 earned run while striking out 21 batters in 12.2 innings pitched in the loss. \u2014 Orlando Sentinel , 6 May 2022",
"Peterson had limited the Dodgers to one earned run over three and two-thirds innings, and was facing Betts with one on and two outs and the Mets clinging to a 5-4 lead. \u2014 New York Times , 6 June 2022",
"The 42-year-old lefty gave up that one earned run on three hits in six-plus innings. \u2014 Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 June 2022"
"The 11-day Kentucky State Fair will include the popular Texas Roadhouse Concert Series, a new outside family entertainment space, a popular mobile exhibit and early bird ticket pricing for the best deals. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 25 May 2022",
"Those wanting an early start will have one when the sale opens at 8 a.m. for a $5 early bird admission fee. \u2014 cleveland , 9 May 2022",
"According to the festival website, the general admission price for weekend passes will increase to $215 in the future, presumably when early bird tickets sell out. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Sponsored by the City of North Ridgeville and Pepco Elyria, early bird pricing is now available through May 31 for the Freedom Festival and Fireworks at Victory Park Ohio, 7777 Victory Lane. \u2014 cleveland , 8 May 2022",
"Each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, shoppers lined up outside Debra\u2019s Natural Gourmet for an early bird discount. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Tickets for MusicCon are on sale now with a limited number of tickets available at early bird pricing. \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Tickets are $40-$50; $10 early bird discount before Feb. 4. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The early bird gets the kolache at Karma Kolache, which opens at 5 a.m. on weekdays and has several locations across town. \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 5 Apr. 2022"
": a condition of corn that is characterized by molding and decay of the ears and that is caused by fungi (genera Diplodia, Fusarium , or Gibberella )":[]
"Government officials in Ukraine say the country could earn the equivalent of $1.6 billion from electricity exports a year given that European market prices are well above Kyiv\u2019s generation costs. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"The $200 million Toy Story spin-off will earn just $18 million (-64%) on weekend two for an $89 million ten-day cume. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"Sharpe must earn his way onto the court for a team with three strong guards, including six-time All-Star Damian Lillard. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
"Customers earn 10 points per dollar for every qualified stay at a Wyndham Rewards hotel. \u2014 Rayna Song, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Mid-career federal firefighters currently earn roughly half the pay of third-year firefighters employed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, according to analysis from Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"Players who wager up to $250 on their first bet will earn the same value in free bets win or lose. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 23 June 2022",
"And by the way, companies can never buy our recommendation: Their products must earn it, fair and square. \u2014 Madison Yauger, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"Robinson came to Auburn after previously coaching linebackers at Florida and will earn $525,000 in the first year of his contract before receiving a pay increase to $550,000 for the 2023 season. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 22 June 2022"
": a technique of postoperative care in which a patient gets out of bed and engages in light activity (such as sitting, standing, or walking) as soon as possible after an operation":[]
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"babysitters should remain within earshot of young children",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Williams seems to have grown up hyper-attentive to every sound within earshot . \u2014 Chris Richards, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Michael was out of earshot , and didn't hear the commotion, hence his delay in finding her and calling the cops. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 10 May 2022",
"Once out of earshot , though, the doctor lamented that those discharged rarely remain away for long. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Dawson, a half-hour or so after the Derby, rhetorically asked a question to anyone within earshot . \u2014 Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"And the clap-o-meter, at least within the A-lister\u2019s earshot , was off the charts. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Cinematographer Ari Wegner is within an earshot of becoming the first woman to win her category as well. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Open Meetings Act permits discussions out of the earshot of the public concerning the selection of someone to fill a vacancy in a public office. \u2014 Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
"What\u2019s really strange is that Discovery actor Wilson Cruz was not among those invited to appear, an unexpected slight, given what happened at a Star Trek celebration last fall when someone used a homophobic slur within earshot of the out gay actor. \u2014 Dawn Ennis, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022"
"a word first recorded early in the 17th century",
"They were trailing by a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.",
"The package should be arriving early next week.",
"She arrived early to help with the preparations.",
"I got up early to finish packing.",
"Adjective",
"the early symptoms of the disease",
"The early part of the book is better than the later part.",
"We had an early spring this year.",
"We're early . The show doesn't start for half an hour.",
"I've always been an early riser.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The Covid-19 vaccines currently authorized for use in the U.S. are all based on the sequence of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was obtained early in 2020. \u2014 John P. Moore And Paul A. Offit, STAT , 3 July 2022",
"His pop-star makeover, from early in his career to later in life, was as unlikely as the song itself becoming part of the 20th century song canon. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"The prosecution countered with a request for 30 to 55 years based on the harm done to victims, a lack of remorse for her crimes, and the argument that disliking jail time isn\u2019t a valid excuse to get out early . \u2014 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone , 28 June 2022",
"Make sure to bring cash - only some vendors accept credit cards - and get there early for the best deals. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
"Get there early \u2014 this one will likely fill up fast. \u2014 Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Get there early with your blanket or chair to snag a spot in front of the stage. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Now, as then, tech entrepreneurs have displayed an urgency to get in early and make a splash. \u2014 David Ingram, NBC News , 21 June 2022",
"In 2013, he was offered the chance to plead guilty to the murder charge and get out of prison early . \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The conventional wisdom at the time was that personality was fairly fixed from an early age and that personality tests, which ignored the body, could largely bracket one\u2019s range of leadership. \u2014 Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"Aleena was attacked early Sunday morning, just 10 minutes from her home, and died later that day in the hospital. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"San Jose police are searching for two assailants who stabbed two men early Saturday morning during at closing time for bars downtown. \u2014 Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 July 2022",
"All travel lanes are clear on I-285 in DeKalb County after an early morning tractor trailer fire shut down the interstate ahead of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. \u2014 John Spink, ajc , 1 July 2022",
"Brown said that especially for trees growing in optimal conditions, like the wet ravine around Alerce Milenario, growth tends to be fast in its early age. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 29 June 2022",
"That Gray, now 23, felt so deeply at such an early age isn\u2019t so surprising. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"From an early age, Tur was given the taste of excitement that came with her parents\u2019 day job. \u2014 Wendy Kaur, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
"Demond shared that his entrepreneurial drive started at an early age. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 21 June 2022"
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"Middle English erly , from Old English \u01e3rl\u012bce , from \u01e3r early, soon \u2014 more at ere":"Adverb"
"The tribe Midianites whom Moses meets in the desert are a riot of warm and earth colors by contrast, as if someone bloodlessly blew up a Delhi fabric store and then stitched together the fragments. \u2014 Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Feb. 2020"
": a smooth early flowering North American goldenrod ( Solidago juncea ) with oval lanceolate toothed leaves and yellow flower heads in branched clusters":[]
"His illness started with a nagging headache and an earache . \u2014 Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"Each person\u2019s story was very different \u2014 from an addict with pneumonia to a little girl with an earache \u2014 but the care and time Gerada was able to take with each of them remained the same. \u2014 Longreads , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The plan to build out its health care footprint seemed to have a shot at success: What busy parent wouldn\u2019t jump at the chance to tackle the grocery list and their child\u2019s earache in a single trip",
"Tuesday night appearance on Fallon\u2019s talk show after the country singer\u2019s usual guitarist \u2014 his producer Dave Cobb \u2014 bowed out with an earache . \u2014 Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone , 6 Oct. 2021",
"My symptoms included runny nose, earache , loss of smell and taste, congestion, diarrhea, fever and chills, joint pain, back pain, and exhaustion. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF , 22 Jan. 2021",
"Mark Cheatham, who at first only developed mild symptoms such as a sore throat and earache before being hospitalized, was soon put on a ventilator after suffering extreme shortness of breath, a dangerous symptom of the virus. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Dec. 2020",
"In May, the earache came back stronger, this time with a cough. \u2014 Lizzie Presser, ProPublica , 15 Dec. 2020",
"An earache , a sore throat, low oxygen in the blood, and much more \u2014 all are opportunities for remote diagnosis and monitoring. \u2014 Marie Fishpaw, National Review , 18 Oct. 2020"
"An invasive earthworm native to east Asia that was discovered in Iowa in 2018 has now spread to at least 11 counties. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"An ominous shot of an earthworm feasting on a large pile of fresh horse manure suggests trouble ahead. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
"There has been a lot of press of late concerning an invasive earthworm from Asia now found in 15 states in the Midwest and in Nova Scotia. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"In the grand scheme of things, and with all the latest and greatest innovations, lures and technology, is there any room at all for the simplest of the simple \u2014 the common earthworm ",
"From honoring the often misunderstood earthworm to installing wire to keep away gophers, Tipping explains the best way to create your own ecosystem. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Southern Native American tribes named the worm moon after the earthworm casts -- essentially feces -- that emerged as the ground thawed at winter's end, according to NASA. \u2014 Angie Orellana Hernandez And Ashley Strickland, CNN , 17 Mar. 2022",
"One 2012 study estimated that New Zealand flatworms Arthurdendyus triangulatus killed 20 percent of some earthworm populations in the United Kingdom and Ireland. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Jim is an earthworm in a universe where Earth is nothing more than a myth. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 18 Nov. 2021"
": an officer of state in England serving chiefly as a royal attendant on ceremonial occasions, as marshal of state processions, and as head of the College of Arms":[]
"Besides the rosary, thieves also lifted a set of coronation cups given by Mary to the then- earl marshal , a member of the Howard family. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2021"
": a device often of precious metal for removing wax or foreign bodies from the ear":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In one sweep, our ears pick up all of its hierarchical features: pitch, timbre, volume, melody, rhythm, and chords. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 9 Apr. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 1967, the Army Corps of Engineers completed an earthen dike along the Tar's southern bank. \u2014 Tom Foreman Jr., USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Two of the members of the $1.5 million pre-design team, AECOM and RiverReach Construction, recently installed an emergency breach in the earthen dam to handle storm runoff. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Another alarm went off last week after explosive vapors were detected outside the boundary of an earthen berm surrounding the tanks, Beauvais said. \u2014 Elizabeth Harball, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Previous satellite images showed that, around military vehicles and artillery positions, the Russians had constructed protective earthen berms. \u2014 Vasco Cotovio, CNN , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Instead of focusing on the most obvious architectural features around the site\u2014heaps of bricks and earthen depressions marking the foundations and basements of Main Street\u2014the archaeologists would focus on the Chinese neighborhood. \u2014 Matt Stirn, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 Mar. 2022",
"While the Blue Lagoon Village in Kos is most certainly beautiful with its earthen rooms and massive picture windows, the real star of the show here is the drop-dead gorgeous landscape. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 21 Mar. 2022",
"More tantalizing is an earthen dump at the northern edge of the Citadel mound, created by workers in the third century B.C. to level the surface for a Temple of Athena. \u2014 Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The village at the Ocmulgee Mounds site once held a grand plaza that stood in the shadow of the Great Temple Mound, a massive nine-story earthen trapezoid built of countless baskets of soil carried uphill by thousands of laborers. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2022"
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"type":[
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"\u02c8ir-\u02ccp\u0113s",
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"examples":[
"the earpiece of a stethoscope",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The actor struggled to remember his dialogue and required accommodations like an earpiece to feed him his lines and shortened lines. \u2014 Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online , 30 May 2022",
"The group obtained keys to the classroom from a janitor, and continued working to breach the door, despite commands coming over an officer\u2019s earpiece not to do so, the Times reports. \u2014 Anna Kaplan, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"At one point, the actor had to start wearing an earpiece to have his lines fed to him. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"Randolph employs a unique bayonet temple that eliminates the traditional hooked earpiece . \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 11 Aug. 2020",
"Dennison also questioned why Spiegel felt that Depp's use of an earpiece on movie sets was a sign of cognitive problems. \u2014 CBS News , 24 May 2022",
"Men in tight button-ups and women in skirts and heels tumbled out of Corvettes and Teslas in the parking lot and lined up in front of earpiece -wearing security guards. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"The solid stainless-steel chassis of each ADVAR earpiece has been inspired by various raw shapes found in nature, such as the rounded surface of minerals like hematite. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Adjusting an earpiece would sometimes trigger a tap command. \u2014 Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica , 15 Feb. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1824, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": any of a family (Otariidae) of seals including the sea lions and fur seals and having independent mobile hind flippers and small well-developed external ears \u2014 compare hair seal":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Northern fur seals, like sea lions, are eared seals . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Northern fur seals, like sea lions, are eared seals . \u2014 Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Northern fur seals, like sea lions, are eared seals . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Northern fur seals, like sea lions, are eared seals . \u2014 Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Northern fur seals, like sea lions, are eared seals . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Northern fur seals, like sea lions, are eared seals . \u2014 Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Northern fur seals, like sea lions, are eared seals . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Northern fur seals, like sea lions, are eared seals . \u2014 Dan Joling, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Oct. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1808, in the meaning defined above":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1720, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a work of art consisting of a portion of land modified by an artist":[]
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"\u02c8\u0259rth-\u02ccw\u0259rk"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Currently, the earthwork is nearly gone and sits beneath a cemetery, per the Washington Post. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The remaining images and evidence of the earthwork were illustrated in 1823 by United States Army Corps of Engineers and were drawn in a book called Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1848. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Weiss/Manfredi\u2019s earthwork at the edge of Brooklyn represent mourning as a constriction, a movement from light to darkness and back again. \u2014 Justin Davidson, Curbed , 15 Mar. 2021",
"Snipers, missileers and artillerymen on both sides wait for, and take potshots at, the enemy on the opposite earthwork . \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"The figure was long presumed to be ancient, but until recent decades no technologies existed for dating such an earthwork . \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 12 May 2021",
"Yet Dia remains very much the keeper of the Minimal-Conceptual- earthwork flame. \u2014 Roberta Smith, New York Times , 15 Apr. 2021",
"Harvey Fite\u2019s large-scale, walkable earthwork sculpture handcrafted with local bluestone is imbued with a mythic sensibility that will inspire awe in visitors of all ages. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Native Americans shaped the 35-foot-tall earthwork as a ceremonial site between 1200 and 1730. \u2014 Andrew Nelson, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
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"adverb"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Others catch a glimpse of it early on but allow themselves to be pulled in different directions and never fully commit to it. \u2014 Melanie Fine, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"That wouldn\u2019t appear to be the case early on , as the funniest scene is also the first. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 30 June 2022",
"Lalonde, mentioned early on as a candidate by the Free Press, was an assistant at Ferris State early in his coaching career, and has been a head coach at the USHL and ECHL level. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 30 June 2022",
"Pogacar won Tirreno-Adriatico and the UAE Tour this year, and showed his class with an unprecedented long-distance solo attack to win the Strade Bianche in March \u2014 despite being involved in a crash early on in the one-day race. \u2014 Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
"Armstrong was identified as a person of interest early on in the investigation. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
"Michael endured so much pain early on in his life and career: the loss of his lover to AIDS, the loss of his mother. \u2014 Brandon Tensley, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"Pogacar won Tirreno-Adriatico and the UAE Tour this year, and showed his class with an unprecedented long-distance solo attack to win the Strade Bianche in March \u2014 despite being involved in a crash early on in the one-day race. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
"Few questions were asked about the medical credentials of the man who performed most of the abortions early on , a former construction worker who\u2019d seemingly trained with a Mafia doctor and appeared largely in it for the money. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 30 June 2022"
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"noun"
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"Just a few seconds earlier, the staunchly pro-Badgers crowd cheered at an eardrum -puncturing level as UW took a 22-17 lead over Iowa State in the NCAA Tournament second-round matchup. \u2014 Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Mar. 2022"
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"My mother got an earful from the teachers early on. \u2014 ELLE , 6 July 2022",
"The first public meeting was held last week, and members of Site Design and Environmental Committee received an earful from upset residents. \u2014 J. Scott Trubey, ajc , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The appropriations process typically starts in the House, where Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda D. Young got an earful from Budget Committee Republicans on Tuesday who echoed Shelby\u2019s critique of Biden\u2019s defense spending plan. \u2014 al , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The host Redwings got off to an awful shooting start and were getting an earful of taunts from Nazareth\u2019s student section. \u2014 Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Each of these flag officers had an earful of advice for those still serving on active duty. \u2014 Charles Beames, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
"But city officials, during a Monday work session, got an earful from some rental operators who believe the city could be placing itself at a competitive disadvantage. \u2014 al , 16 Nov. 2021",
"No time is wasted by players running to the sidelines to get an earful from the coaching staff. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Nov. 2021",
"However, the senior 7-footer also got yanked for an errant 3-point attempt early in the shot clock, and A.J. Hoggard also got an earful from Izzo for poor flow. \u2014 Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press , 5 Nov. 2021"
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"Her last gift to me is a single gold earring, taken off her left earlobe at her 94th-birthday banquet. \u2014 Yuxi Lin, Longreads , 25 Mar. 2019",
"His system uses two electrodes: a baseline sensor that clips onto the earlobe and another on the forehead that collects EEG data. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022",
"Blowing as many balloons as possible in one minute seems like an easy enough task, but what about fetching a human earlobe ? \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Utterly absent my pudgy earlobe , a silly circle of silver dangles, dumb and smiling and smack in the way. \u2014 Maryann Corbett, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Ever the fan of monogram jewelry, Hailey donned double Bs\u2014encrusted with diamonds\u2014on each earlobe . \u2014 Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Contrast Spielberg\u2019s take on the same blow; his Jet gets jabbed with a nail, right through the earlobe , and Schrank, the bad Samaritan, yanks it out. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 10 Dec. 2021",
"At the back of this cavity \u2014 more or less in line with your earlobe \u2014 is your nasopharynx, where the back of your nose meets the top of your throat. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
"There was the time in law school when Daniel decided to pierce his earlobe with something\u2014a safety pin? \u2014 Kate Walbert, The New Yorker , 29 Nov. 2021"
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"Some people also just naturally produce more earwax , which also can lead to a blockage. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 30 Mar. 2022",
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"Tools to remove earwax from thousands of years ago have been discovered in ancient Roman and at Viking archaeological sites. \u2014 Henry Ou, The Conversation , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Other sources, including plugs of whale earwax (which record environmental conditions, such as pollutants, like rings of a tree stump), provide lengthy records from the course of a whale\u2019s lifetime. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 8 Dec. 2021",
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"Mineral or baby oil will soften the earwax , Dr. Ren says. \u2014 Madeleine Burry, Health.com , 14 Sep. 2021",
"There's nothing grosser than pulling out your earbuds to share with a friend, only to realize there's nasty earwax lodged inside. \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 1 Dec. 2020",
"Family Feud host Steve Harvey was grossed out by a recent prompt about earwax on the show. \u2014 Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping , 25 Nov. 2020"
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"For me, the quickest and easiest way was to record the lines, put in an earwig (a near-invisible wireless speaker) and act in the scene imagining myself there. \u2014 John Wenzel, The Know , 24 Oct. 2019",
"The earwigs should fall onto the cloth and can then be disposed of. \u2014 The Editors, Good Housekeeping , 27 July 2018",
"The downside is that earwigs are in heaven, enjoying the mulch cover. \u2014 Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman , 22 June 2018",
"Other kids were debating whether an insect was a centipede, an earwig , or some other sort of beetle. \u2014 Conor Williams, The Atlantic , 26 Apr. 2018",
"In my experience, by the time the corn is ripe there are no visible silks because earwigs have eaten them. \u2014 Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman , 28 Mar. 2018",
"Pollination occurred before the earwigs had their way. \u2014 Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman , 28 Mar. 2018",
"Potential pests include snails, slugs, earwigs , aphids, leafminers, thrips and whiteflies. \u2014 Debbie Arrington, sacbee , 28 July 2017"
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"Over her two-and-a-half-decade career in the fashion industry, Karen Elson\u2019s work as a model has seen her transform into many things: an Old Hollywood vamp, a 1950s pin-up, an earth mother , a fairytale princess. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 13 May 2022",
"One\u2019s a fancy reporter known by all the waitstaff at Le Bilboquet, the other\u2019s a philanthropic earth mother . \u2014 Marshall Heyman, Vulture , 19 May 2021",
"But in that telepathic moment between the sisters, Serena was not tennis\u2019s earth mother . \u2014 New York Times , 14 Feb. 2021",
"Fast Facts: Hawai\u2019i also contains Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument, a name that honors Papah\u0101naumoku and W\u0101kea, the earth mother and the sky god. \u2014 Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Nov. 2020",
"An earth mother with an impenetrable aura of self-containment, she\u2019s been deeply traumatized by her direct involvement in Perry\u2019s death and her inability to share what happened with her husband and daughter. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 7 June 2019",
"Owned and operated by a warm, earth mother type named Rebecca Raspberry, who worked for 14 years at House of Ghandi, her father\u2019s health food store in Chicago, Vibrations feels like equal parts lunch counter and social center. \u2014 New York Times , 17 July 2019",
"The gods loom large throughout the story, from earth mother Asaka (charismatic Leslie Ivy) to Erzulie, goddess of love (kindly Natalie Oei). \u2014 Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News , 5 July 2019"
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"Moulton was on the team rewriting the earth science and astronomy courses. \u2014 Katie Worth, Scientific American , 20 June 2022",
"Hagemann has a master's in science communication and a background in earth science , most recently earning her wildland firefighter certification. \u2014 Hannah Hagemann, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 June 2022",
"In January 2021 the board held the first hearings for high school electives: environmental science, aquatic science, earth science and astronomy. \u2014 Katie Worth, Scientific American , 20 June 2022",
"My plan is to go to Portland Community College and then transfer over to Portland State University, get a bachelor\u2019s in earth science and a master\u2019s in secondary education. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Mar. 2022",
"From the north and south poles to the depths of the ocean to the deep interior of the Earth, JAMSTEC researchers go to Earth\u2019s extreme environments to learn more about ocean and earth science in pursuit of sustainability. \u2014 Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"After college in France, Banas worked as an earth science engineer in the oil and gas industry, which afforded him the flexibility to live in Qatar, Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Mexico and the United States. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 Feb. 2022",
"In research presented this week at the world's biggest earth science conference, Pettit showed that the Thwaites ice shelf could collapse within the next three to five years, unleashing a river of ice that could dramatically raise sea levels. \u2014 Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com , 14 Dec. 2021",
"In research presented this week at the world\u2019s biggest earth science conference, Pettit showed that the Thwaites ice shelf could collapse within the next three to five years, unleashing a river of ice that could dramatically raise sea levels. \u2014 Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Dec. 2021"
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"But the early morning crack that shattered through a San Tan Valley neighborhood was a Caterpillar earthmover ramming an ATM. \u2014 Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic , 12 May 2022",
"Ahmed said the graves had been dug by an earthmover , contrary to traditional practice in which they are dug by shovels and generally marked with marble gravestones. \u2014 Shah Abbas, Star Tribune , 7 Jan. 2021",
"Beyond the parking lot, a red, barren moonscape spreads out in three directions, and in the distance dozens of enormous trucks and earthmovers rumble about. \u2014 Paul Kvinta, Outside Online , 12 Nov. 2019",
"The earthmovers arrived to begin construction during the last monsoon, accompanied by the police. \u2014 Somini Sengupta, New York Times , 15 Aug. 2019",
"One day, the road to Barker Ranch was blocked by rocks moved by a large earthmover . \u2014 Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times , 11 Aug. 2019",
"Noisy earthmovers aren\u2019t the only liability encountered by adventuresome resort beta-testers. \u2014 Amy Gamerman, WSJ , 2 Aug. 2018",
"The tomb was discovered in the Case Rosse area west of the center of Rome by an earthmover working to extend an aqueduct about 6 feet underground. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 13 June 2018",
"On a patch of high ground in Ukhali, earthmovers are crushing hills into more flat land, but aid groups say there is only enough new space to move about 20,000 refugees. \u2014 Shashank Bengali, latimes.com , 30 May 2018"
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"The first color photograph of the first earthrise ever witnessed by human beings taken during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968 sold at the highest price of 88,400 crowns ($13,095). \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 10 Mar. 2022"
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"The earworm , which marks Daya\u2019s first release this year, features a nostalgia-inducing, retro-pop feel and an Eighties beat. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 29 June 2022",
"His signature mix of NC-17 subject matter and earworm choruses heralded a fresh songwriting voice that blended the underbelly frankness of Jane\u2019s Addiction with the guitar-forward hooks of peak Smashing Pumpkins. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 16 May 2022",
"This collab works for so many reasons: an earworm chorus, the refreshing nu-disco undertones, two really fun and experimental artists working together. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 23 May 2022",
"The song is an epic return to the classic power ballads of the \u201980s with a strong guitar solo, and the catchy earworm is on track to being an Oscar frontrunner in the original song race. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 6 May 2022",
"Sinking into your thoughts like the best earworm , Crazy in Love will stay with you long after its fades from your pulse points. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Likewise, when Walker Hayes played his earworm Fancy Like, lyrics from the song ran across the banners. \u2014 Mark Gray, PEOPLE.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Powered by an earworm finger-snapping beat, a regretful Maluma is asking his significant other for a second chance. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Uploaded on June 17, 2016, this song is an earworm for anyone who hears it. \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 25 Jan. 2022"
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"Meghan joined the royal family as a 36-year-old biracial American actress; Diana, as the 20-year-old daughter of a British earl . \u2014 Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com , 1 July 2022",
"The Kentucky Derby and all the other Derbys around the world take their name from the earl . \u2014 William Booth, Washington Post , 4 June 2022",
"Her parents chose more subdued royal titles and, with the permission of the Queen, gave their children titles in the style of an earl rather than prince and princess, according to The Independent. \u2014 Cnn Staff, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"Beneath the crane is Villa Altachiara, a 30-room mansion built in the late 19th century by a British earl . \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
"So when Michael becomes an earl and Francesca is suddenly single, one passionate night might prove that these two are meant to be. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The object of his affections, Sophie, is a humble earl 's daughter who's treated like a servant by her cold stepmother. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Though the daughter of an earl , Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. \u2014 Chaise Sanders, Country Living , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Sophie Beckett, the daughter of an earl who is disdainfully treated as a servant by her stepmother, sneaks out to Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Mar. 2022"
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"Their results were in line with earthshine fluctuations measured by the CERES satellite, which is part of the NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Measured from the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California between 1998 and 2017, the researchers monitored the precise daily, monthly, seasonal, yearly and decadal changes in Earth\u2019s albedo using earthshine . \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"The amount of earthshine will vary from night to night and season to season. \u2014 Jennifer Gray, CNN , 4 Oct. 2021",
"In a shocking turn of events, the last three years of their study showed the earthshine had gone down dramatically. \u2014 Jennifer Gray, CNN , 4 Oct. 2021",
"The conclusion came from a group of researchers that studied two decades' worth of data on earthshine , or the light reflected off Earth that illuminates the moon. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 4 Oct. 2021",
"On the moon, that means from bright sunshine to dim earthshine . \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 20 July 2019",
"This effect is caused by earthshine \u2014 the light of the sun shines on the Earth and reflects upon the moon. \u2014 Dean Regas, USA TODAY , 23 Oct. 2017"
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