dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/cen_MW.json

{
  "Central Asian":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to the countries of central Asia or their inhabitants":[
        "\u2014 usually used in reference to the now independent countries that were part of Soviet Central Asia"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1872, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130304",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Central Basin":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to a phase of Woodland culture preceding and related to Hopewell and characterized by small habitation sites, flexed burials, and incised and stamped grit-tempered pottery":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably so called from sites in the Illinois river valley in central Illinois":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105545",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "cenacle":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Joseph belonged to the Two Hearts as One and Prayer House of All Graces Ministry in Southington, Connecticut and has traveled to many states praying the Most Holy Rosary and other Catholic prayers at religious prayer cenacles . \u2014 courant.com , 16 Aug. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1855, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin cenaculum the room where Christ and his disciples had the Last Supper, from Latin, top story, probably from cena dinner":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8se-ni-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113258",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "censive":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to or held by cens":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French censif , from cens":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u00e4\u207fs\u0113\u0113v"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130234",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "censo":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Spanish, from Late Latin census land tax":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-n\u02ccs\u014d",
      "\u02c8sen(t)s\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204858",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "censor":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a hypothetical psychic agency that represses unacceptable notions before they reach consciousness":[],
      ": a person who supervises conduct and morals: such as":[],
      ": an official (as in time of war) who reads communications (such as letters) and deletes material considered sensitive or harmful":[],
      ": an official who examines materials (such as publications or films) for objectionable matter":[
        "Government censors deleted all references to the protest."
      ],
      ": one of two magistrates of early Rome acting as census takers, assessors, and inspectors of morals and conduct":[
        "Cato the Censor accused Africanus and his senior officers of running an army riddled with moral laxity",
        "\u2014 Colleen McCullough"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "Government censors deleted all references to the protest.",
      "Verb",
      "The station censored her speech before broadcasting it.",
      "His report was heavily censored .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Suggestions, thank heavens, come directly from the audience, not via a censor /moderator. \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
      "The word dates to ancient Rome, where the censor was a powerful government post with responsibility for conducting the census \u2014 and upholding public morality. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 May 2021",
      "The quiet self-certainty of fellow citizens stifled dissent with a reach and power that a censor \u2019s office could only envy. \u2014 Jedediah Britton-purdy, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "And the Chinese companies that hold the rights to international films in the country often self- censor to appease regulators before general releases. \u2014 Michelle Toh, Nectar Gan, And Cnn's Beijing Bureau, CNN , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "The move has had a predictable chilling effect on what is left of the country\u2019s independent media, causing journalists to self- censor , sources to clam up, and alternative views of the conflict to be drowned out by official Russian disinformation. \u2014 Ilan Berman, National Review , 3 Apr. 2022",
      "Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia\u2019s last independent newspapers, closed its doors on Monday after warnings from the state censor . \u2014 Francine Hirsch, The New Republic , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "All of this is having an effect: Librarians in many places are starting to self- censor . \u2014 Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "The algorithmic censor in my head kept pinging away. \u2014 Jessica Winter, The New Yorker , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "But prosecutors object to the defense's efforts to censor their court filings and courtroom comments. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022",
      "The move was in response to complaints from conservatives and former President Donald Trump that the social media sites censor their voices and viewpoints. \u2014 Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
      "Efforts to censor material usually fail, but the process can still be divisive and counterproductive, said Whitney Strub, a history professor at Rutgers University. \u2014 Jeremy Schwartz, ProPublica , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "The White House began publicly pressuring social-media companies to censor vaccine skeptics. \u2014 Alex Berenson, WSJ , 15 May 2022",
      "In the seventies, Indian leaders used colonial emergency powers embedded into their constitution to censor the press, jail political opposition, clear urban slums and even sterilize their residents. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "But critics say that the rules would allow the government to censor dissent. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 26 May 2021",
      "Yet the scientist doesn\u2019t believe that Twitter should censor erroneous views, because the scientific process necessarily involves argument. \u2014 Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor , 4 May 2022",
      "Food has run low at times and heavy-handed enforcement and a lack of preparation have prompted heavy criticism, despite government efforts to censor it. \u2014 Ken Moritsugu, ajc , 29 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1882, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin c\u0113nsor \"Roman magistrate tasked with registering citizens, removing persons from the register whose conduct was found wanting, and leasing public contracts,\" from c\u0113ns\u0113re \"to give as an opinion, assess, appraise, perform the duties of a censor\" (going back to an Indo-European verbal base *k\u0301ems- \"announce, evaluate publicly,\" whence Sanskrit \u015ba\u1e41ati \"declares solemnly, praises,\" Avestan s\u0259nghait\u012b \"announces, names\") + -tor , agent suffix":"Noun",
      "derivative of censor entry 1":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen(t)-s\u0259r",
      "\u02c8sen-s\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bowdlerize",
      "clean (up)",
      "expurgate",
      "launder",
      "red-pencil"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101434",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "censorable":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-n(t)s(\u0259)r\u0259b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214441",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "censorate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a body of censors : a department for censoring":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "censor entry 1 + -ate":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-n(t)s(\u0259)r\u0259\u0307t",
      "-n(t)s\u0259\u02ccr\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110600",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "censored":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": suppressed, altered, or deleted as objectionable : subjected to censorship":[
        "\u2026 the annual announcement of the list of censored stories is a genuine media event \u2026",
        "\u2014 William Powers",
        "\u2026 during the nineteenth century intellectuals would meet to read a variety of foreign newspapers, searching for information withheld from the heavily censored press.",
        "\u2014 Michael Balter"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1882, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen(t)-s\u0259rd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072916",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "censorian":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": censorial":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "censor entry 1 + -ian":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0113\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182309",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "censorious":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by or given to censure (see censure entry 1 sense 2 )":[
        "censorious comments",
        "a censorious critic"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The stunt earned her the scorn of her censorious older sister.",
      "I was surprised by the censorious tone of the book review.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ironically, like every such censorious effort, Drs. \u2014 WSJ , 17 May 2022",
      "That\u2019s because, according to a letter New York\u2019s Office of Cannabis Management sent TikTok this week and shared exclusively with Rolling Stone, the notoriously censorious platform won\u2019t allow it. \u2014 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone , 26 May 2022",
      "Broadly speaking, Musk has said that Twitter is a censorious entity that has too many stringent rules about what its users can post on the platform. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 10 May 2022",
      "Now Musk is earning more affection in the heartland for his latest gambit: purchasing Twitter for $44 billion, carrying coastal elites kicking and screaming into a bold new era for the censorious social giant. \u2014 Dale Buss, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
      "Musk\u2019s argument is that under this method of corporate accountability, Twitter has lost its way and become censorious ; that the company needs to hand power to a benevolent dictator \u2014 himself \u2014 to bring freedom back for more users. \u2014 Matt Pearcestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "Better to provoke students with his censorious antagonist, James Fitzjames Stephen. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "The woke left may be the new religious right: preachy, censorious , humorless, judgmental, constantly policing popular culture for impure thoughts. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "Since beginning on the South Side of Chicago in the early 2010s, drill music has frequently been criticized by censorious listeners who see its bleak sounds and menacing lyrics as dangerous. \u2014 Simon Vozick-levinson, Rolling Stone , 11 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1536, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin c\u0113ns\u014drius \"of a censor, severe,\" derivative of c\u0113nsor censor entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "sen-\u02c8s\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for censorious critical , hypercritical , faultfinding , captious , carping , censorious mean inclined to look for and point out faults and defects. critical may also imply an effort to see a thing clearly and truly in order to judge it fairly. a critical essay hypercritical suggests a tendency to judge by unreasonably strict standards. hypercritical disparagement of other people's work faultfinding implies a querulous or exacting temperament. a faultfinding reviewer captious suggests a readiness to detect trivial faults or raise objections on trivial grounds. a captious critic carping implies an ill-natured or perverse picking of flaws. a carping editorial censorious implies a disposition to be severely critical and condemnatory. the censorious tone of the review",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113541",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "censorship":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": exclusion from consciousness by the psychic censor":[],
      ": the institution, system, or practice of censoring":[
        "They oppose government censorship ."
      ],
      ": the office, power, or term of a Roman censor":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hollywood studio executives are still mostly hesitant to address the China censorship issue directly. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 28 June 2022",
      "The film had already received approval under the previous version of the censorship regulations and had screened in the city in March 2021. \u2014 Vivienne Chow, Variety , 27 June 2022",
      "Most internet users trying to get past China\u2019s Great Firewall search for a cyber tunnel that will take them outside censorship restrictions to the wider web. \u2014 Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "Conservatives in Congress have good reason to rage at Big Tech censorship . \u2014 Robert H. Bork Jr., National Review , 17 June 2022",
      "Film censorship agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia have also flagged the movie for review, the New York Times reported. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 16 June 2022",
      "DeSantis signed laws to dissolve Disney World\u2019s Reedy Creek Improvement District and void Disney\u2019s exemption under social media censorship legislation. \u2014 Katie Rice, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
      "The pullback is the latest for American tech giants operating in China, which has some of the world\u2019s most stringent censorship rules and a fiercely competitive homegrown technology ecosystem. \u2014 Dan Strumpf, WSJ , 2 June 2022",
      "Under former Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, state censorship put a stranglehold on literature. \u2014 Abbas Al Lawati, CNN , 1 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1591, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "censor entry 1 + -ship":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen(t)-s\u0259r-\u02ccship",
      "\u02c8sen-s\u0259r-\u02ccship"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204230",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "censos":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of censos plural of censo"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-141816",
    "type":[]
  },
  "censual":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to a census : containing or constituting a census roll":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin censualis , from Latin census":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-nch\u0259w-",
      "\u02c8sen(t)s\u0259w\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110418",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "censurable":{
    "antonyms":[
      "blameless",
      "faultless",
      "impeccable",
      "irreproachable"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": deserving or open to censure":[
        "censurable behavior"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "censurable conduct that should get that student expelled",
      "the censurable language on the poster resulted in it being taken down"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1602, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "censure entry 2 + -able":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen(t)-sh(\u0259-)r\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blamable",
      "blameworthy",
      "culpable",
      "reprehensible",
      "reproachable"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221548",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "censure":{
    "antonyms":[
      "condemn",
      "denounce",
      "objurgate",
      "rebuke",
      "reprimand",
      "reproach",
      "reprove"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a judgment involving condemnation":[
        "unorthodox practices awaiting the censure of the city council"
      ],
      ": an official reprimand":[
        "The lawyer's misconduct resulted in a letter of censure from the judge."
      ],
      ": estimate , judge":[],
      ": opinion , judgment":[],
      ": the act of blaming or condemning sternly":[
        "The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination."
      ],
      ": to find fault with and criticize as blameworthy":[
        "She would tell him it was \u2026 no sign of a good pastor to be eternally censuring his flock.",
        "\u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb"
      ],
      ": to formally reprimand (someone) : to express official censure of (someone)":[
        "While a vote to censure the president has no legal ramifications, it is a significant and rare symbolic vote of disapproval.",
        "\u2014 Emma Loop"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination.",
      "a rare censure of a senator by the full United States Senate for misconduct",
      "Verb",
      "He was censured by the committee for his failure to report the problem.",
      "a vote to censure the President for conduct that was unbecoming to his office",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Instead, the House could take other actions, including a vote of public censure of McCarthy and the four GOP lawmakers, a referral to the Ethics Committee, the imposition of fines or even the stripping of their committee assignments. \u2014 Lisa Mascaro, ajc , 14 May 2022",
      "While only one other country has faced that kind of censure -- Libya in 2011 after Muammar Gaddafi's forces opened fire on protesters -- Russia has already dismissed the efforts, with Nebenzya vowing nothing will stop the Kremlin's campaign. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "The rest are pure Muck \u2014 instances of censure motivated by fear. \u2014 David Thomas, National Review , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "The most consequential element of the censure is a call for the party to no longer support Cheney and Kinzinger as Republicans. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 5 Feb. 2022",
      "That Representative Paul Gosar forthwith present himself in the well of the House for the pronouncement of censure . \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "All Democrats and two Republicans voted in favor of the censure , and Gosar was stripped of his two committee assignments, reports BuzzFeed News. \u2014 Summer Meza, The Week , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "But singling them out for censure , in a party that also includes the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, was a serious misjudgment. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "While all 221 House Democrats voted for censure , they were joined by only two of their Republican colleagues. \u2014 Kara Alaimo, CNN , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Members of the Arizona Democratic Party executive committee passed Saturday a resolution to censure Sen. Kyrsten Sinema over her vote to keep the filibuster. \u2014 Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Arizona Republic , 22 Jan. 2022",
      "The resolution to censure Gosar currently has 78 co-sponsors, all Democrats. \u2014 Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "Aides say that's largely because the resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, and strip him of his committee assignments is going to take center stage, but be on the lookout for how that affects the calendar. \u2014 Lauren Fox And Phil Mattingly, CNN , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "Costa has been among the residents making impassioned pleas asking council to censure DiPierro, likening their tolerance of racist language to acceptance of white supremacy. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
      "The House voted this week to censure Gosar, with virtually no Republicans backing the resolution. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 20 Nov. 2021",
      "The Republican majority can also potentially censure Democrats and strip them of committee assignments. \u2014 New York Times , 13 July 2021",
      "The Republican National Committee punished both for their participation; earlier this month, a resolution to formally censure the two passed without any debate or discussion. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Does a resolution to censure one of those members violate the First Amendment"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun",
      "1587, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French censure , borrowed from Latin c\u0113ns\u016ba \"office of censor, assessment, moral oversight,\" from c\u0113ns\u0113re \"to give as an opinion, perform the duties of a censor\" + -\u016bra -ure \u2014 more at censor entry 1":"Noun",
      "derivative of censure entry 1 , probably after Middle French censurer":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen-ch\u0259r",
      "\u02c8sen(t)-sh\u0259r",
      "\u02c8sen-sh\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for censure Verb criticize , reprehend , censure , reprobate , condemn , denounce mean to find fault with openly. criticize implies finding fault especially with methods or policies or intentions. criticized the police for using violence reprehend implies both criticism and severe rebuking. reprehends the self-centeredness of today's students censure carries a strong suggestion of authority and of reprimanding. a Senator formally censured by his peers reprobate implies strong disapproval or firm refusal to sanction. reprobated his son's unconventional lifestyle condemn usually suggests an unqualified and final unfavorable judgment. condemned the government's racial policies denounce adds to condemn the implication of a public declaration. a pastoral letter denouncing abortion",
    "synonyms":[
      "commination",
      "condemnation",
      "denunciation",
      "excoriation",
      "objurgation",
      "rebuke",
      "reprimand",
      "reproach",
      "reproof",
      "riot act",
      "stricture"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225045",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "census":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a count of the population and a property evaluation in early Rome":[],
      ": count , tally":[
        "a census of deer in a game refuge"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen(t)-s\u0259s",
      "\u02c8sen-s\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "count",
      "tale",
      "tally"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "According to the latest census , the racial makeup of the town has changed dramatically in the last 50 years.",
      "a thorough census of all the grizzly bears living within the national park",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Aaron Navarro is an associate producer for the political unit at CBS News, focusing on House and gubernatorial campaigns as well as the census and redistricting. \u2014 Aaron Navarro, CBS News , 1 July 2022",
      "Seventy-two years after each census , the government releases every sheet of data collected by enumerators in a single, magnificent data dump. \u2014 Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
      "The heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District that Jackson will now run in November to represent was redrawn after the 2020 census and now stretches from Chicago\u2019s South Side to Kankakee. \u2014 Will Weissert, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
      "For decades, after each new census , the Florida legislature has redrawn voting districts. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
      "San Antonio may find out During redistricting \u2014 conducted every 10 years soon after the latest census \u2014 district boundaries are redrawn based on the latest population numbers. \u2014 Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News , 15 June 2022",
      "The districts are redrawn every 10 years after the census . \u2014 Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online , 12 June 2022",
      "That changed, however, when a citizen commission took over the redistricting process starting after the 2010 census . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
      "The top two candidates in each race will face each other in November\u2019s general election, regardless of party, to represent districts that were redrawn after the last census . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin c\u0113nsus , from c\u0113ns\u0113re \"to give as an opinion, assess, appraise, perform the duties of a censor\" + -tus , suffix of verbal action \u2014 more at censor entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1634, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155403"
  },
  "centennial brown":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a strong yellowish brown less strong and slightly redder and lighter than buckthorn brown and yellower and paler than orange rust":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
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      ": a conical recess in the end of work (such as a shaft) for receiving such a center":[],
      ": a facility providing a place for a particular activity or service":[
        "a day-care center",
        "a shopping center",
        "a medical center"
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      ": a group of neurons having a common function":[
        "respiratory center"
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      ": a player occupying a middle position on a team: such as":[],
      ": a point, area, person, or thing that is most important or pivotal in relation to an indicated activity, interest, or condition":[
        "a railroad center",
        "the center of the controversy"
      ],
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      ": a source from which something originates":[
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      ": the adherents of such views":[],
      ": the center of the circle inscribed in a regular (see regular entry 1 sense 3b ) polygon":[],
      ": the football player in the middle of a line who passes the ball between his legs to a back to start a down":[],
      ": the middle part (as of the forehead or a stage)":[],
      ": the usually tallest player on a basketball team who usually plays near the basket":[],
      ": the views of such politicians":[
        "The party's new policies show a shift toward the center ."
      ],
      ": to adjust (things, such as lenses) so that the axes coincide":[],
      ": to give a central focus or basis":[
        "centers her hopes on her son",
        "the plot was centered on espionage"
      ],
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      ": to have a specified center : focus":[],
      ": to pass (a ball or puck) from either side toward the middle of the playing area":[],
      ": to place or fix at or around a center or central area":[
        "center the picture on the wall"
      ],
      ": to play center (see center entry 1 sense 4 ) on":[
        "center a line in hockey"
      ]
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      "Noun",
      "the center of the room",
      "The staircase is in the center of the building.",
      "They are at the center of a furious debate over whether or not to expand the city's public transportation system.",
      "The vaccine is being tested at several medical centers around the country.",
      "Verb",
      "Center the picture on the wall.",
      "centered administrative duties under the command of a single person",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The company has said the sedan will be Cadillac\u2019s premier offering and custom-built at its engineering center near Detroit. \u2014 Mike Colias, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s the messaging that led employees to believe their center was targeted for their pro-life views. \u2014 Sarah Raza, Detroit Free Press , 23 June 2022",
      "This classic bistro-style warm cheese salad satisfies with its warm center , crispy coating, and a tumble of cool tender greens. \u2014 Kim Sun\u00e9e, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
      "The co-director wishes the film would get its due for centralizing a non-romance at its center . \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 22 June 2022",
      "Spain\u2019s largest lender will implement this policy, which equates to a little more than one WFH day a week, for staff in its home market and at its corporate center , according to a person familiar with the plan. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
      "Check the stunning globe mural displaying Houston at its center . \u2014 Robin Soslow, Chron , 19 June 2022",
      "Its call center also helps close the sale, with 35% of revenue connected with it. \u2014 Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "But Sophie Hyde's two-handed chamber piece turns out to be bolder and sweeter and less predictable than that: a tender coming-of-late-middle-age drama with a quietly radical idea of self-acceptance at its center . \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The key is to center the conversation around community-specific facts and data, and then listening. \u2014 Bill Frist, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "The new space will center on an unassigned desk arrangement, allowing for those who do come in the freedom to work from different areas throughout the day, said Dustin Sarnoski, the company\u2019s head of global realty. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
      "Most tales of dynastic drama\u2014criminal or otherwise\u2014 center around a patriarch. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 19 June 2022",
      "Skewing toward the absurd, the grotesque, sometimes the scatological, her books often center on drug- or alcohol-addicted protagonists mired in their own misery. \u2014 Annabel Graham, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
      "These things center around a family and that family wants value for their grocery business. \u2014 Jenna Schnuer, Fortune , 9 June 2022",
      "Taylor\u2019s hope is that the 200 pages of Watermelon & Red Birds will center Black celebrations, Black creations and Black life, with food as the gateway to all that. \u2014 Essence , 2 June 2022",
      "For Heard, the appeal would likely center on the same issue. \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
      "The response should center on neutralizing the gunman, the program says, and then on getting medical aid to anyone who has been injured. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 28 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "1555, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
    },
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      "Middle English centre , borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin centrum \"point of the stationary leg of a pair of compasses, midpoint of a circle or sphere,\" borrowed from Greek k\u00e9ntron \"sting, goad, point, stationary point of a pair of compasses, midpoint of a circle or sphere,\" probably reshaping (after the base verb kente\u00een ) of k\u00e9stron \"toothed implement, name for several nettle-like plants,\" from kent\u00e9\u014d, kente\u00een \"to sting, goad, prick\" (going back to Indo-European *k\u0301ent-, *k\u0301nt- \"sting, prick,\" whence Old High German hantag \"pointed,\" Latvian s\u012bts \"hunting spear\") + -tron , suffix of instruments":"Noun",
      "derivative of center entry 1":"Verb"
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      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259r",
      "\u02c8se-n\u0259r"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "base",
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      "core",
      "cynosure",
      "epicenter",
      "eye",
      "focus",
      "ground zero",
      "heart",
      "hub",
      "locus",
      "mecca",
      "navel",
      "nerve center",
      "nexus",
      "nucleus",
      "omphalos",
      "seat"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105434",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": the part of the baseball outfield between right and left field":[],
      ": the position of the player for defending center field":[]
    },
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      "a fly ball to center field",
      "She used to be a shortstop but now she plays center field .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hiura, a righty batter sandwiched between lefties, drilled a first-pitch fastball over the fence in center field . \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 18 June 2022",
      "None was more glaring than in the seventh, when Kyle Farmer misread a double off the wall in center field and held up at first base just long enough for a Diamondbacks\u2019 relay to beat him at the plate. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 15 June 2022",
      "Pache started 49 of the A\u2019s first 57 games in center field . \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 15 June 2022",
      "Milwaukee got out to a great start as Christian Yelich slugged the fifth pitch from Corbin 422 feet over the wall in center field for his first homer since May 11 at Cincinnati, a span of 26 games. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
      "Wegner, who throws and bats from the right side, started 42 games in left field and five games in center field . \u2014 Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online , 7 June 2022",
      "Pinch hitter Wyatt Grant crushes a solo homer to center field , but that\u2019s all the Redhawks can manage. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 June 2022",
      "Maryland reliever Nigel Belgrave struck out the next two batters, but Donlan, 0-for-7 in the regional to that point, hit an 0-1 pitch over the high wall in center field to give UConn a 6-2 lead. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 June 2022",
      "Ohtani was the only Angel who came close to registering a hit through seven innings, driving a fly ball to the wall in center field in the first inning and hitting a hard one-hopper up the middle in the seventh. \u2014 Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "noun"
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      ": someone who plays in the middle of the front line of players in field hockey, soccer, and other sports":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121633",
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      "noun"
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      ": a gauge for testing angles (as of lathe centers, screw threads, or the points of cutting tools) or for testing the setting of a thread-cutting tool with reference to work under way":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130227",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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      ": the center of the circle whose center lies on the concave side of a curve on the normal to a given point of the curve and whose radius is equal to the radius of curvature at that point":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1850, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111929",
    "type":[
      "noun phrase"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": a place of high achievement (in some subject or area)":[
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      ]
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    "first_known_use":{},
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115335",
    "type":[
      "noun phrase"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": the point in a body or system of bodies at which the whole mass may be considered as concentrated":[]
    },
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1862, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123733",
    "type":[
      "noun phrase"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": the most important part of someone's life":[
        "Her young son is the center of her universe ."
      ]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114848",
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      ": center entry 1 sense 1a":[]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1891, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-155945",
    "type":[
      "noun phrase"
    ]
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      ": the point of a 3-dimensional figure that would coincide with the center of mass of a homogeneous material body having the same boundaries \u2014 compare center of figure":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064229",
    "type":[]
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a hand punch consisting of a short steel bar with a hardened conical point at one end used for marking the centers of holes to be drilled":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Use a center punch and a hammer to mark the location of the hole and to give the drill bit a place to start without wandering. \u2014 Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics , 30 Sep. 2021",
      "The Penguins\u2019 1-2 center punch , until the big dogs return, might be Jake Guentzel and Jeff Carter. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Sep. 2021",
      "Start each hole with a center punch , and bore the 1-inch intake holes with a step bit [8]. \u2014 Joe Kohl-riggs, Popular Mechanics , 26 June 2021",
      "Prevent the drill bit from wandering by first marking the center of each part with a center punch . \u2014 David Agrell, Popular Mechanics , 12 Dec. 2020",
      "Oryx center punched with a triad of .300 Winchester Magnum loads loped into the sands of the Kalahari, never to be seen again. \u2014 Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life , 13 Jan. 2020",
      "Buy a center punch and strike it with a ball-peen hammer. \u2014 Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics , 5 Feb. 2014"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1825, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085813",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": steady rest":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214220",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  "center staff":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the arbor upon which are mounted the minute hand and cannon pinion of a timepiece":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113945",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": a central or highly prominent position":[
        "an issue that has taken center stage in the campaign"
      ],
      ": the central part of a theatrical stage":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The actor stood alone at center stage .",
      "As we wrap up work on the old project, a new one moves to center stage .",
      "The issue is expected to take center stage in the elections.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Better is the mid-film section when Minions take center stage , including an extended training riff with Michelle Yeoh playing an acupuncturist who is also a kung-fu master. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
      "Many of the bedrooms, especially the primary suite, wouldn\u2019t look out of place in a five-star hotel, with sumptuous drapery and a white-and-ivory color palette that allows the greenery through the windows to take center stage . \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 20 June 2022",
      "Whereas meat dishes are the focus at Sloppy Chops \u2014 as the name implies, thick-cut pork and lamb chops shine here \u2014 seafood staples take center stage at Sloppy Crab. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 19 June 2022",
      "The collection is both wearable and dramatic, with many notable looks that will take center stage for upcoming events. \u2014 Jailynn Taylor, Essence , 8 June 2022",
      "Hearings into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol take center stage in Washington this week. \u2014 John Dickerson, CBS News , 5 June 2022",
      "Aurora\u2019s museums will take center stage as Aurora Museum Week begins Sunday. \u2014 Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune , 4 June 2022",
      "After a successful bid for the 2020 DNC, Milwaukee was set to take center stage in national politics, but with on-going concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, the convention became a mostly virtual event. \u2014 Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 27 May 2022",
      "The music takes center stage here, with nine different bands performing over the course of the festival. \u2014 Jeff Banowetz, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "catbird seat",
      "limelight",
      "spotlight",
      "top billing"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113010",
    "type":[
      "adjective or adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "center strap":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a band on the center of a tennis net that anchors to the ground to keep the net secure at the right height":[]
    },
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115526",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": quartersawed":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041859",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that is of central importance or interest in a larger whole":[
        "the centerpiece of a political agenda"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "resolution of the original dispute became the centerpiece of the negotiations",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The pit would be filled with water and be the centerpiece of park restorations alongside the White River. \u2014 John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star , 29 June 2022",
      "Williamson was the centerpiece of the Reds\u2019 return for Jesse Winker and Eugenio Su\u00e1rez in their six-player trade with the Seattle Mariners. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 28 June 2022",
      "Martin was the centerpiece of the trade that sent right-hander Zack Greinke to the Houston Astros three years ago. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 22 June 2022",
      "The dessert, known for being a centerpiece of celebration and sharing, is one of our most popular and recognizable Pride symbols. \u2014 Courtney Lane, Bon App\u00e9tit , 22 June 2022",
      "The battery of Goodwin and Kavanagh was the centerpiece of a team brimming with talent. \u2014 Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
      "In late March 2022, it was announced that one of the world\u2019s premier T. rex skeletons, nicknamed Stan, would be the centerpiece of a new museum being constructed in Abu Dhabi. \u2014 Steve Brusatte, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
      "The centerpiece is the Juneteenth Jubilee Parade, from 9 to 11 a.m., starting at North 14th Street and West Atkinson Avenue and ending at Burleigh Street and King Drive. \u2014 Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
      "The centerpiece of the park in Columbia Falls, Maine, will be a soaring flagpole that equals the height of One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the nation. \u2014 Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News , 11 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1803, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8se-n\u0259r-",
      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259r-\u02ccp\u0113s"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "bull's-eye",
      "core",
      "crux",
      "essence",
      "gist",
      "heart",
      "kernel",
      "keynote",
      "meat",
      "meat and potatoes",
      "net",
      "nub",
      "nubbin",
      "nucleus",
      "pith",
      "pivot",
      "point",
      "root",
      "sum"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223054",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "centerplate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a metal centerboard":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003441",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that punches indentations in metal to indicate where holes are to be drilled or punched":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111442",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a device to magnify layout lines for accurate placing of center-punch marks for drilling":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sent\u0259(r)\u02ccsk\u014dp"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135049",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[
      "axis",
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      "capital",
      "center",
      "core",
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      "epicenter",
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      "focus",
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      "mecca",
      "navel",
      "nerve center",
      "nexus",
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      ": a center or hub for a specified activity or group":[
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        "the family room becomes kid central"
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      ": a central office or bureau usually controlling others":[
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      ": centrally placed and superseding separate scattered units":[
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      ": controlling or directing local or branch activities":[
        "the central committee"
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      ": holding to a middle between extremes : moderate":[],
      ": of primary importance : essential , principal":[
        "the central character of the novel"
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      ": situated at, in, or near the center":[
        "the central part of the state"
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    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "The house has four rooms and a central chimney.",
      "City planners are looking for a central location for the new hospital.",
      "The evidence was central to the defense's case.",
      "The country's schools are financed by both local and central governments.",
      "The central authority of the company's board is being challenged.",
      "Noun",
      "Our family room becomes kid central on weekends.",
      "a health club that has become dating central for singles in the area",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "That is because central banks from the U.S. to India and New Zealand plan to keep raising interest rates to try to rein in inflation. \u2014 Akane Otani, WSJ , 30 June 2022",
      "The Federal Reserve and other central banks have been aggressively raising interest rates to try and slow economic growth in order to cool inflation. \u2014 Alex Viega, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
      "This reflects the outsized role of government and central banks in our economy. \u2014 Alex Tapscott, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
      "Such innovations have been developed, at least in part, to remove the involvement of traditional frameworks like court systems, real estate agencies and central banks from a wide variety of transactions. \u2014 Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
      "That's forced central banks to more aggressively withdraw support for the economy, generating angst on Wall Street. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 28 June 2022",
      "Rising inflation raises possibility of recession Stubborn inflation pressures have driven a stark shift in policy from central banks, which are raising rates to try and temper inflation after years of holding rates down to help economic growth. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
      "The numerous tests and pilots underway involving a digital format of the euro have taken place within regulatory compliant conditions, in close collaboration with central banks, legislators, and policymakers. \u2014 Diana Barrero Zalles, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
      "Since gold is widely held in reserve by central banks around the world, Russia had a ready market. \u2014 Patricia Cohen, New York Times , 27 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Most models put the strong winds in the central to southern part of the Willamette Valley. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 May 2022",
      "In 1986 Dakine had moved to windsurfing- central in Hood River, Ore., and begun years of expansion into bike and snow sports, apparel and more. \u2014 Valerie Stivers, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
      "Reactions to their antics are part of the massive PR machination central to their relevancy and economic status. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "The designation ensures independent federal oversight of cleanup of some 262 acres of Bradford Island, the central of three islands in the Columbia comprising the hydroelectric dam near Cascade Locks. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Indiana was on the second night of a back-to-back after winning at San Antonio on Saturday night and lost two hours of recovery time due to switching from the central to eastern time zone and daylight savings. \u2014 James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Below normal precipitation - central to southern Rockies, Great Plains, Florida, and the Southwest (first three months). \u2014 Marshall Shepherd, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
      "Even a persona as dazzling as Lil Nas X makes biographical show-and-tell central . \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 29 Sep. 2021",
      "Former President Barack Obama made Youngkin's integrity and his ties to the Trump base of the Republican Party central to his rebuke of the Republican, questioning a disconnect between his public and private personas. \u2014 Dan Merica, CNN , 30 Oct. 2021"
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      ": a national bank that operates to establish monetary and fiscal policy and to control the money supply and interest rate":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "On the monetary policy front, China\u2019s central bank last month cut interest rates for first-time home buyers, while slashing its benchmark reference rate for mortgages by 0.15 percentage point. \u2014 Jonathan Cheng, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
      "Russia\u2019s central bank cut interest rates back to their prewar levels Friday, saying inflation and economic activity were developing better than expected despite sweeping Western sanctions imposed in response to the war in Ukraine. \u2014 Ella Lee, USA TODAY , 11 June 2022",
      "India\u2019s central bank is most likely to raise the benchmark interest rate by 40 basis points tomorrow to 4.8% in its monetary policy statement, according to a Bloomberg survey. \u2014 Mimansa Verma, Quartz , 7 June 2022",
      "Canada\u2019s central bank hiked interest rates a half-percentage point this week as well. \u2014 Kathy Orton, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
      "Russia\u2019s central bank cut interest rates again, in the latest effort by Moscow to try to stabilize its economy, which has been harmed by sanctions and months of fighting in Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
      "But those risks were thrown into sharp relief when Germany\u2019s central bank warned Friday that a cutoff of Russian natural gas could cause Germany\u2019s economic output to fall by up to 5%. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Chile\u2019s central bank publishes its survey of traders\u2019 inflation and interest rate expectations on Monday. \u2014 Fortune , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "Chile\u2019s central bank will probably raise its key interest rate by 150 basis points to 7.0% on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg Economics, followed by a 150 basis point hike by Colombian policy makers expected on Thursday to 5.5%. \u2014 Sydney Maki, Bloomberg.com , 27 Mar. 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Su\u00e1rez looks like central casting \u2019s version of a race car driver at a cockpit-friendly 5-foot-9 and 166 pounds, with intense brown eyes and an angular face covered in scruffy stubble. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "The rental is straight out of real estate central casting . \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
      "As the creepy events around Harper grow more malevolent, easy explanations are scarce, but the film is littered with symbolism beyond its central casting , giving viewers plenty to gnaw on during repeat viewings. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 14 May 2022",
      "McManamy, too, was a character out of heli-ski guide central casting . \u2014 Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online , 10 Apr. 2021",
      "While Asia was on holiday, western media called central casting for the China bears. \u2014 Brendan Ahern, Forbes , 21 Sep. 2021",
      "That the storyline is familiar, and the characters straight out of central casting , does not detract from the novel\u2019s appeal. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "General Maslin was, to look at him, every bit the Russian general, as if pulled from central casting . \u2014 New York Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "The gym-fit Paulides, who moved from California to Colorado in part for the skiing, is right out of central casting for a detective film. \u2014 Jon Billman, Outside Online , 13 Mar. 2017"
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      "1941, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": the part of the nervous system which in vertebrates consists of the brain and spinal cord, to which sensory impulses are transmitted and from which motor impulses pass out, and which coordinates the activity of the entire nervous system \u2014 compare peripheral nervous system":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "While most people infected with the virus likely experience no symptoms or a mild flu-like illness, some people will develop severe illness affecting the central nervous system . \u2014 Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant , 8 June 2022",
      "Cannabinoids are a chemical found in hemp that can affect the entire body including the central nervous system and the immune system. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "Most people infected with the virus experience no symptoms or a mild flu-like illness, but some develop severe illness affecting the central nervous system . \u2014 Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
      "While most people infected with the virus likely experience no symptoms or a mild flu-like illness, some people will develop severe illness affecting the central nervous system . \u2014 Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant , 8 June 2022",
      "These are nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, coma, seizures, permanent blindness, permanent damage to the central nervous system , or death. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Substantial exposure to methanol can cause serious health problems, including nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, coma, seizures, permanent blindness, permanent damage to the central nervous system , or death. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 2 Apr. 2022",
      "It might be caused by damage to the central nervous system during the initial infection, an over-active immune response, a persistent viral load or some combination of the three. \u2014 Prudy Gourguechon, Forbes , 10 June 2021",
      "While most people infected with the virus likely experience no symptoms or a mild flu-like illness, some people will develop severe illness affecting the central nervous system . \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant , 5 May 2022"
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      "1826, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "All shipping operations have been centralized at the Miami office.",
      "The controversial reforms could be used to further centralize power in the hands of one party.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Teams can decide to centralize decisions on critical global purchases, streamlining costs and reducing duplicate efforts. \u2014 Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "The latter reference was to Johnson\u2019s Trump-like attempts to centralize power in his own office, neutering his Cabinet as well as Parliament itself. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 7 June 2022",
      "Discovery+ has launched Always Proud, a hub that will live on the streaming service year-round with regular updates to centralize LGBTQ stories. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 26 May 2022",
      "For example, one major advertising and PR firm eliminated 6,000 roles (paywall) and is coalescing under six brands following years of acquisitions to centralize , consolidate offerings and streamline operations. \u2014 Brian Dolan, Forbes , 22 June 2021",
      "Even before the pandemic, Vyaire identified a need to centralize data and set out to build a technology platform around it. \u2014 Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "Web3 has different colored hair, but the same DNA as these earlier web paradigms, which decentralized services at an unprecedented scale in order to turn around and centralize wealth again at an unprecedented scale to a select few. \u2014 Scott Galloway, CNN , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "The potential to establish monopoly power by owning the rails -- that is, to centralize -- is increasingly what venture capitalist (VC) funds seek out and fund. \u2014 Scott Galloway, CNN , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "The move was reportedly made to centralize park operations and take advantage of lucrative state tax credits. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 21 Mar. 2022"
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      "1795, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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      ": the apparent force that is felt by an object moving in a curved path that acts outwardly away from the center of rotation \u2014 compare centripetal force":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "SpinLaunch, as the startup is called, wants to \u2014 as the name implies \u2014 spin projectiles, using centrifugal force to drum up enough energy to send an object to space. \u2014 Jackie Wattles; Video By Milly Chan, CNN , 14 June 2022",
      "Simply place each can on a table and rotate it along its axis, and the centrifugal force will make the pernicious bubbles go away. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 24 May 2022",
      "The mysterious event becomes the centrifugal force of the book. \u2014 Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "For instance, with a shearing force, the area of the raft was much smaller than when the ants encountered just centrifugal force . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Manage the dough from the top, and allow gravity and a little centrifugal force to do the work. \u2014 Carlo Mirarchi, Robb Report , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "This means that that block of water on Earth\u2019s surface facing the moon would have a centrifugal force of 3.55 Newtons pulling it toward the moon. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Tides are caused by a combination of three forces: the gravitational force from Earth, the force from the moon, and a centrifugal force due to Earth's motion as the moon pulls on it. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Clive later discouraged a young adult Fred from working in the record business, though Fred, like his siblings, would later let himself be tugged by sheer centrifugal force into the industry\u2019s orbit. \u2014 Amy X. Wang, Rolling Stone , 9 Sep. 2021"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1698, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "The candidate hopes to appeal to centrists nationwide.",
      "the centrists will most likely rally behind the candidate who favors reforming the government program\u2014not abolishing it entirely",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Caruso, who has presented himself as a centrist in opposition to the progressive Bass, has made tackling crime and homelessness a central theme of his campaign. \u2014 Siladitya Ray, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "Both candidates represent a stunning rebuke of the centrist left and right parties that have alternated governing Chile since 1990, after the 17-year military rule of the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet. \u2014 Jorge Poblete, Los Angeles Times , 19 Dec. 2021",
      "On the City Council, Wu and Janey are considered progressives, and Essaibi George more of a centrist . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 25 Sep. 2021",
      "Projections at the close of voting, which are generally reliable, showed Mr. Macron, a centrist , gaining 58.5 percent of the vote to Ms. Le Pen\u2019s 41.5 percent. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Vers une Europe forte et unie! Macron, a centrist in French politics, has been an emissary to Zelensky and Putin. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Macron, 44, a centrist who is ardently pro-EU, has relentlessly blasted his adversary as a danger and framed their election showdown as an ideological battle for the soul of the nation. \u2014 Elaine Ganley, USA TODAY , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "Macron, 44, a centrist who is ardently pro-EU, has relentlessly blasted his adversary as a danger and framed their election showdown as an ideological battle for the soul of the nation. \u2014 Elaine Ganley, ajc , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Macron, a centrist , is asking France\u2019s 48 million voters for a second five-year term \u2014 but there are 11 other candidates and widespread voter apathy standing in his way. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Apr. 2022"
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      "1872, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      ": a system of polar coordinates used in describing processes involving moving swarms of particles (as cosmic-ray bursts) with the moving common center of mass as origin and the path of that center as polar axis":[],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1931, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171002"
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      "1633, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Minx so special slip away, including dismissing Bambi as centerfold coordinator. \u2014 Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "In the first episode, sensitive hunk Shane (Taylor Zakhar Perez) stumbles half-naked into the Bottom Dollar offices for an audition and soon becomes Minx magazine's first centerfold . \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "This is most aptly depicted shortly into the first episode, when the Minx team tries to cast their inaugural male centerfold . \u2014 Katherine Singh, refinery29.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "These moonlighting gigs were often a necessary financial fallback because Playboy had structured centerfold compensation in a way that meant full payment could take as long as two years, according to Thom. \u2014 Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "Instead, the capsule contained a centerfold from an 1865 issue of Harper\u2019s Weekly featuring a woman over the 16th president\u2019s coffin. \u2014 Joseph Pisani, WSJ , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "For 2022, the calendar distributed in restaurants across the country features Gianna Tulio of Boca Raton on the cover and Deeanna Krakowski of Weston as the centerfold . \u2014 Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com , 18 Nov. 2021",
      "His sense of humor was always front and center, including famously posing nude for a centerfold in Hits magazine. \u2014 Roy Trakin, Variety , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "For decades, the standard test image in the signal processing community was a picture, cropped to a headshot, of Lena Forsen, a Playboy centerfold model in 1972. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Sep. 2021"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1941, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182836"
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      "noun"
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      ": a 100th anniversary or its celebration":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For those planning their own pilgrimages, note that next year will mark the centennial of the country music legend\u2019s birth, and the state is already gearing up to celebrate. \u2014 Richard Selden, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
      "Miranda, behind on her latest novel and suffering from writer\u2019s block, returns home to reset and reinspire herself while helping her mother plan the centennial of the local Shakespeare festival. \u2014 Mary Cadden, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
      "Those repairs, officials said, cost $13.7 million and took 10 months, a delay that postponed plans to celebrate the centennial of the castle\u2019s construction. \u2014 Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Variety is marking the half- centennial of the movie by talking with three key actors on the film about their memories of making a movie classic. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Known for perpetually being in good spirits, Prcela was joined by about 250 friends March 13 to celebrate his centennial birthday at the Mayfield Village Community Room. \u2014 cleveland , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Countless others have been honoring White on what would have been her centennial birthday through the #BettyWhiteChallenge. \u2014 Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com , 17 Jan. 2022",
      "After the 100th class of Elder students graduated May 17 at Xavier University, the yard signs are bringing further recognition to the centennial as events take place until May 2023. \u2014 Abby Miller, The Enquirer , 6 June 2022",
      "Two made it to the event to hear Vice Adm. Kenneth Whitesell, commander of Naval air forces, talk about the legacy of the battle and tie it to another anniversary: the centennial of the commissioning of the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the Langley. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022"
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      "Latin cent um + English -ennial (as in biennial )":""
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      "1791, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-192430"
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      "noun"
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      ": any of a class (Chilopoda) of long flattened many-segmented predaceous arthropods with each segment bearing one pair of legs of which the foremost pair is modified into poison fangs":[]
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      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259-\u02ccp\u0113d",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The centipede represents technology - both the life giving-force and the dangers of it, the juxtaposition of dark and light. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 12 May 2022",
      "Bay to Breakers also features a centipede division: teams of 13 or more runners that run the full 12K course as a unit, usually linked by a bungee cord. \u2014 Molly Hanson, Outside Online , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "The number of legs on a centipede varies from 30 to 354. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2021",
      "For lawn grasses that can be seeded, such as common bermuda, seed grow cultivars of bermuda and centipede , the time to do this is when the weather warms up in April or May. \u2014 Dan Gill, NOLA.com , 3 Feb. 2021",
      "In it, Gan, a young man on an unnamed planet, must decide whether to allow himself to be impregnated by his family\u2019s alien patron, a velvety centipede -like being with a stinging tail named T\u2019Gatoi. \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 8 Mar. 2021",
      "Bermuda is easier and faster to grow a lawn from seeds than centipede . \u2014 Dan Gill, NOLA.com , 28 Oct. 2020",
      "Atrazine is labeled for use on centipede and St. Augustine lawns. \u2014 Dan Gill, NOLA.com , 30 Dec. 2020",
      "Five 5-gallon buckets of outdoor paint in primary hues helped transform the courtyard into a home for the centipede as well as four-square areas, ladders and other fun designs. \u2014 Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com , 2 Nov. 2020"
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      "Latin centipeda , from centi- + ped-, pes foot \u2014 more at foot":""
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      "1601, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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      ": a pump having vanes that rotate in a casing and whirl the fluid around so that it acquires sufficient momentum to discharge from the extremities into a volute casing which surrounds the impeller and in which the fluid is conducted to the discharge pipe":[]
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      ": to hand or pass (a football) backward between one's legs to a back (see back entry 1 sense 3 ) to start a down":[],
      ": to play center (see center entry 1 sense 4 ) on":[
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      "capital",
      "central",
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      "cynosure",
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      "eye",
      "focus",
      "ground zero",
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      "hub",
      "locus",
      "mecca",
      "navel",
      "nerve center",
      "nexus",
      "nucleus",
      "omphalos",
      "seat"
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      "centralize",
      "compact",
      "concenter",
      "concentrate",
      "consolidate",
      "polarize",
      "unify",
      "unite"
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      "Noun",
      "the center of the room",
      "The staircase is in the center of the building.",
      "They are at the center of a furious debate over whether or not to expand the city's public transportation system.",
      "The vaccine is being tested at several medical centers around the country.",
      "Verb",
      "Center the picture on the wall.",
      "centered administrative duties under the command of a single person",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The company has said the sedan will be Cadillac\u2019s premier offering and custom-built at its engineering center near Detroit. \u2014 Mike Colias, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s the messaging that led employees to believe their center was targeted for their pro-life views. \u2014 Sarah Raza, Detroit Free Press , 23 June 2022",
      "This classic bistro-style warm cheese salad satisfies with its warm center , crispy coating, and a tumble of cool tender greens. \u2014 Kim Sun\u00e9e, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
      "The co-director wishes the film would get its due for centralizing a non-romance at its center . \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 22 June 2022",
      "Spain\u2019s largest lender will implement this policy, which equates to a little more than one WFH day a week, for staff in its home market and at its corporate center , according to a person familiar with the plan. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
      "Check the stunning globe mural displaying Houston at its center . \u2014 Robin Soslow, Chron , 19 June 2022",
      "Its call center also helps close the sale, with 35% of revenue connected with it. \u2014 Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "But Sophie Hyde's two-handed chamber piece turns out to be bolder and sweeter and less predictable than that: a tender coming-of-late-middle-age drama with a quietly radical idea of self-acceptance at its center . \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The key is to center the conversation around community-specific facts and data, and then listening. \u2014 Bill Frist, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "The new space will center on an unassigned desk arrangement, allowing for those who do come in the freedom to work from different areas throughout the day, said Dustin Sarnoski, the company\u2019s head of global realty. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
      "Most tales of dynastic drama\u2014criminal or otherwise\u2014 center around a patriarch. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 19 June 2022",
      "Skewing toward the absurd, the grotesque, sometimes the scatological, her books often center on drug- or alcohol-addicted protagonists mired in their own misery. \u2014 Annabel Graham, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
      "These things center around a family and that family wants value for their grocery business. \u2014 Jenna Schnuer, Fortune , 9 June 2022",
      "Taylor\u2019s hope is that the 200 pages of Watermelon & Red Birds will center Black celebrations, Black creations and Black life, with food as the gateway to all that. \u2014 Essence , 2 June 2022",
      "For Heard, the appeal would likely center on the same issue. \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
      "The response should center on neutralizing the gunman, the program says, and then on getting medical aid to anyone who has been injured. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 28 May 2022"
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      "Middle English centre , borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin centrum \"point of the stationary leg of a pair of compasses, midpoint of a circle or sphere,\" borrowed from Greek k\u00e9ntron \"sting, goad, point, stationary point of a pair of compasses, midpoint of a circle or sphere,\" probably reshaping (after the base verb kente\u00een ) of k\u00e9stron \"toothed implement, name for several nettle-like plants,\" from kent\u00e9\u014d, kente\u00een \"to sting, goad, prick\" (going back to Indo-European *k\u0301ent-, *k\u0301nt- \"sting, prick,\" whence Old High German hantag \"pointed,\" Latvian s\u012bts \"hunting spear\") + -tron , suffix of instruments":"Noun",
      "derivative of center entry 1":"Verb"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "1555, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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      "noun"
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      ": a genetic unit equivalent to \u00b9/\u2081\u2080\u2080 of a morgan":[]
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      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u022fr-g\u0259n",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4n-"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The results show the number of genome locations that match, with each match called a centimorgan . \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2019",
      "The genealogy database was able to compare the DNA profile of the suspect with a large network of genetic profiles, and then measure the similarity of those DNA profiles through a measurement called centiMorgans . \u2014 Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Oct. 2019",
      "The number of centiMorgans indicates how closely the person in the database is related to the DNA sample collected from the murder scene. \u2014 Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Oct. 2019",
      "Everything was labeled in centimorgans -- a unit for measuring genetic linkage -- and broken up into categories of potential relation. \u2014 Jackie Montalvo, NBC News , 17 June 2018"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1919, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205120"
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      ": the force that is necessary to keep an object moving in a curved path and that is directed inward toward the center of rotation":[
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      "\u2014 compare centrifugal force":[
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "American leadership provides the centripetal force to consolidate documentation efforts and incorporate the rapidly coalescing array of private documentation efforts. \u2014 Michael A. Newton, CNN , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "For any object moving in a circle, there needs to be a centripetal force , or a force pulling it towards the circle\u2019s center. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "Instead, activists and political neophytes drawn into the centripetal force of Black Lives Matter in 2020 have been chastised, denigrated, and dismissed as na\u00efve and out of touch. \u2014 Keeanga-yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "Without any mind-blowing sci-fi level breakthroughs, the only practical way to imitate gravity on a trip to Mars is by spinning the spacecraft and creating a centripetal force . \u2014 ABC News , 25 July 2021",
      "The virus has been a centripetal force pushing us physically together \u2014 my children, my spouse, my work, and me \u2014 but in the best case scenario, that force will weaken soon. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 May 2021",
      "The modern city was a centripetal force spinning beyond control, operating at a scale and pace that could only be inhuman. \u2014 Richard Cooke, The New Republic , 4 Jan. 2021",
      "The spod flies through the air- centripetal force holds the crud glob in place until splashdown-then the rocker rights itself, raining a sloppy food cloud onto the lake bottom. \u2014 Kirk Deeter, Field & Stream , 5 Dec. 2020",
      "Think back to the vaguely familiar high school science terms of centripetal force and angular momentum. \u2014 Jeff Berardelli, CBS News , 8 Oct. 2020"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1686, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": the point of a plane figure that would coincide with the center of mass of a thin uniform distribution of matter over the area of the figure \u2014 compare center of figure":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210658"
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      "noun"
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      ": an electronic system that locks all the doors of a car at the same time":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211917"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": the volleyball or water polo player stationed in the middle of the back line":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213021"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213027"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a police officer in the island of Jersey":[]
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      "Middle English centener , from (assumed) Old French centenier (whence Middle French centenier ), from Late Latin centenarius , from Latin centenarius of a hundred":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1876, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213342"
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      ": a metric unit of area equal to \u00b9/\u2081\u2080\u2080 of an are : square meter":[]
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      "French centiare , from centi- + are":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213734"
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      ": a point in which concur all lines joining corresponding points in two similar figures similarly or oppositely placed and which divides all such lines in a fixed ratio that is direct or inverse according as the division is outside of or between the points":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220312"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": the tendency to centralize":[]
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      "-\u02ccliz\u0259m"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220556"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220659"
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    "type":[
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      "adverb"
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      ": afferent":[
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      "sen-\u02c8trip-\u0259t-\u1d4al"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The actor seems always right at home in Almod\u00f3var\u2019s off-kilter universe, where the gravitational pull of philosophical pathos and nakedly honest emotion balances out the centripetal forces of absurdist humor and erotic camp. \u2014 Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times , 18 June 2022",
      "But filmmakers soon grasped the centripetal seductions of the human face in tight focus. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "What about the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration",
      "The contemporary designs in the show, with their striking colors, detailed craftsmanship and conceptual twists, can seem light years away from their sturdy, functional ancestors, like a centripetal spring chair made by Thomas Warren in 1849. \u2014 Emily Ferguson, WSJ , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "Centrifugal throws things out and away, and centripetal pulls inward like a whirlpool. \u2014 Julie Beck, The Atlantic , 23 July 2021",
      "These emerging centripetal forces couldn\u2019t have come at a more inopportune time, with the U.K. hailing its departure from the EU as a fundamental reason behind its successful vaccination rollout. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 21 May 2021",
      "But even this most epic of tales is shaped by the centripetal forces of human nature. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 5 May 2021",
      "The clean, centripetal choreography that once stood for the global has given way to contaminated streams and surges. \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 25 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin centripetus , from centr- + Latin petere to go to, seek \u2014 more at feather":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1705, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-222054"
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      "noun"
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      "\u02ccse-",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek kainos + English -zoic":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1841, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-225943"
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": free from censure":[]
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      "pronunciation at 1 censure +l\u0259\u0307s"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-230225"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the middle section of an ice hockey rink":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-231039"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": hundredweight sense 1":[]
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      "\u02c8sen-t\u1d4al"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin cent um + English -al (as in quintal )":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1858, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232536"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
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      ": a monetary unit equal to \u00b9/\u2081\u2080\u2080 litas used in Lithuania from 1923 until 1940 and from 1991 through 2014":[]
    },
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      "\u02c8sen-\u02cct\u00e4s"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Lithuanian (nominative plural centai , genitive plural cent\u0173 ), probably from French centime or English cent":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-233814"
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  "centenary":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
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      ": centennial":[]
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      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259-\u02ccner-\u0113",
      "-\u02ccne-r\u0113",
      "especially British sen-\u02c8t\u0113-n\u0259-r\u0113",
      "sen-\u02c8te-n\u0259-r\u0113"
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    "examples":[
      "This year marks the centenary of the building's construction.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "On the outskirts of town, the Ojai Valley Inn will celebrate its centenary next year. \u2014 Dania Maxwell, Los Angeles Times , 22 May 2022",
      "Meghan and Harry also joined royals on the iconic balcony to watch a flypast to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force in July 2018. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "The movie event will screen in 900 movie theaters nationwide on Jan. 17, 2022, the day of White\u2019s centenary . \u2014 J. Kim Murphy, Variety , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "Last year, Gucci\u2019s current creative director Alessandro Michele celebrated the house\u2019s centenary with a nostalgic runway extravaganza. \u2014 Alice Cary, Vogue , 13 Jan. 2022",
      "There have been several such tours in this century, including one, meant to mark the centenary of the tomb\u2019s discovery, that was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. \u2014 Casey Cep, The New Yorker , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "There\u2019s the centenary of all sorts of events in his career coming up, but the connection to our own era feels deeper. \u2014 Jo Livingstone, The New Republic , 21 Jan. 2022",
      "Grainger made further sense because this year is the centenary of his birth. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "That third special will coincide with the BBC's centenary . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 3 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin centenarium , from Latin centenarius of a hundred, from centeni one hundred each, from centum hundred \u2014 more at hundred":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1661, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-233901"
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  "central processing unit":{
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      "noun"
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      ": cpu":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The infotainment central processing unit may overheat during the preparation or process of fast-charging, causing the CPU to lag or restart. \u2014 USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
      "On Tuesday at a company event, Chief Executive Jensen Huang unveiled a new generation of chip technology for artificial-intelligence calculations and a central processing unit aimed at the AI market. \u2014 Asa Fitch, WSJ , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "The chip at the heart of most computers, known as the central processing unit (CPU), is designed to be flexible enough to carry out any logical operation. \u2014 Will Knight, Wired , 27 Dec. 2021",
      "To get there, Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger laid out a plan Monday for the company to introduce at least a new central processing unit \u2014the brains of the modern computer\u2014every year between 2021 and 2025. \u2014 Asa Fitch, WSJ , 26 July 2021",
      "Ingenuity uses cell phone processor technology including a quad-core central processing unit (CPU) employing the Linux operating system. \u2014 Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 1 May 2021",
      "On Monday, Nvidia added to that pressure by announcing plans to launch its first central processing unit (CPU) chips for servers \u2014 a move that will put it in direct competition with Intel in the key data center market. \u2014 Clare Duffy, CNN , 12 Apr. 2021",
      "Your child\u2019s age is an essential factor to consider when buying a laptop, because a younger child will usually require minimal features and the central processing unit (CPU) performance doesn't need to be super-fast. \u2014 Kevin Luna, chicagotribune.com , 9 Apr. 2021",
      "All computers have a brain, which is called the central processing unit . \u2014 Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com , 25 Feb. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1956, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001243"
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  "center bet":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a crapshooter's bet placed in the center of the playing surface for fading":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001354"
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  "centaur":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly":[],
      ": any of a class of asteroids with elliptical orbits that typically lie between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune":[
        "The Centaurs are distinguished dynamically as a group of objects whose orbits cross those of the Jovian planets and whose perihelions lie outside the orbit of Jupiter.",
        "\u2014 Robert H. Brown et al."
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      "\u02c8sen-\u02cct\u022fr"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Its stars have faded, with a single exception whose centaur masculinity proves the rule. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "On the 13th, healing centaur Chiron shares a minor aspect with the Sun, giving us the chance to mend and evolve our hearts. \u2014 Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com , 13 Feb. 2022",
      "It's also represented by an archer, but this archer is a mythical centaur , a creature that is half-man, half-horse. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "Markece tattooed a centaur with a bow and arrow on his client's neck. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "This backwards shift occurs the same day that the centaur Chiron ends its five-and-a-half month moonwalk in Aries, and as a result, the forty days and nights of Venus retrograde will centre around healing relationships with money and others. \u2014 Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com , 4 Dec. 2021",
      "But all of this is trivial when held in comparison to Pythia giving runway innovation, giving Fantasia, giving War Horse puppetry, giving Adam Driver cologne ad even, with a centaur reveal. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 3 Dec. 2021",
      "The scene cuts back and forth between Driver and the horse until the two become one as a centaur \u2014 imagery that left social media users swooning for the actor. \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 7 Aug. 2021",
      "Berry is Shlub, Tyrannis\u2019 father, a mantitaur (half centaur [horse + human], half manticore [lion + human + scorpion]). \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 8 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin Centaurus , from Greek Kentauros":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003827"
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  "Central Park":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
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      "large park in central Manhattan area 843 acres (341 hectares)":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-004727"
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      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
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      ": a judgment involving condemnation":[
        "unorthodox practices awaiting the censure of the city council"
      ],
      ": the act of blaming or condemning sternly":[
        "The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination."
      ],
      ": an official reprimand":[
        "The lawyer's misconduct resulted in a letter of censure from the judge."
      ],
      ": opinion , judgment":[],
      ": to find fault with and criticize as blameworthy":[
        "She would tell him it was \u2026 no sign of a good pastor to be eternally censuring his flock.",
        "\u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb"
      ],
      ": to formally reprimand (someone) : to express official censure of (someone)":[
        "While a vote to censure the president has no legal ramifications, it is a significant and rare symbolic vote of disapproval.",
        "\u2014 Emma Loop"
      ],
      ": estimate , judge":[]
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      "\u02c8sen-ch\u0259r",
      "\u02c8sen(t)-sh\u0259r",
      "\u02c8sen-sh\u0259r"
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      "commination",
      "condemnation",
      "denunciation",
      "excoriation",
      "objurgation",
      "rebuke",
      "reprimand",
      "reproach",
      "reproof",
      "riot act",
      "stricture"
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      "condemn",
      "denounce",
      "objurgate",
      "rebuke",
      "reprimand",
      "reproach",
      "reprove"
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for censure Verb criticize , reprehend , censure , reprobate , condemn , denounce mean to find fault with openly. criticize implies finding fault especially with methods or policies or intentions. criticized the police for using violence reprehend implies both criticism and severe rebuking. reprehends the self-centeredness of today's students censure carries a strong suggestion of authority and of reprimanding. a Senator formally censured by his peers reprobate implies strong disapproval or firm refusal to sanction. reprobated his son's unconventional lifestyle condemn usually suggests an unqualified and final unfavorable judgment. condemned the government's racial policies denounce adds to condemn the implication of a public declaration. a pastoral letter denouncing abortion",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination.",
      "a rare censure of a senator by the full United States Senate for misconduct",
      "Verb",
      "He was censured by the committee for his failure to report the problem.",
      "a vote to censure the President for conduct that was unbecoming to his office",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Instead, the House could take other actions, including a vote of public censure of McCarthy and the four GOP lawmakers, a referral to the Ethics Committee, the imposition of fines or even the stripping of their committee assignments. \u2014 Lisa Mascaro, ajc , 14 May 2022",
      "While only one other country has faced that kind of censure -- Libya in 2011 after Muammar Gaddafi's forces opened fire on protesters -- Russia has already dismissed the efforts, with Nebenzya vowing nothing will stop the Kremlin's campaign. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "The rest are pure Muck \u2014 instances of censure motivated by fear. \u2014 David Thomas, National Review , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "The most consequential element of the censure is a call for the party to no longer support Cheney and Kinzinger as Republicans. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 5 Feb. 2022",
      "That Representative Paul Gosar forthwith present himself in the well of the House for the pronouncement of censure . \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "All Democrats and two Republicans voted in favor of the censure , and Gosar was stripped of his two committee assignments, reports BuzzFeed News. \u2014 Summer Meza, The Week , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "But singling them out for censure , in a party that also includes the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, was a serious misjudgment. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "While all 221 House Democrats voted for censure , they were joined by only two of their Republican colleagues. \u2014 Kara Alaimo, CNN , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Members of the Arizona Democratic Party executive committee passed Saturday a resolution to censure Sen. Kyrsten Sinema over her vote to keep the filibuster. \u2014 Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Arizona Republic , 22 Jan. 2022",
      "The resolution to censure Gosar currently has 78 co-sponsors, all Democrats. \u2014 Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "Aides say that's largely because the resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, and strip him of his committee assignments is going to take center stage, but be on the lookout for how that affects the calendar. \u2014 Lauren Fox And Phil Mattingly, CNN , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "Costa has been among the residents making impassioned pleas asking council to censure DiPierro, likening their tolerance of racist language to acceptance of white supremacy. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
      "The House voted this week to censure Gosar, with virtually no Republicans backing the resolution. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 20 Nov. 2021",
      "The Republican majority can also potentially censure Democrats and strip them of committee assignments. \u2014 New York Times , 13 July 2021",
      "The Republican National Committee punished both for their participation; earlier this month, a resolution to formally censure the two passed without any debate or discussion. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "Does a resolution to censure one of those members violate the First Amendment"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French censure , borrowed from Latin c\u0113ns\u016ba \"office of censor, assessment, moral oversight,\" from c\u0113ns\u0113re \"to give as an opinion, perform the duties of a censor\" + -\u016bra -ure \u2014 more at censor entry 1":"Noun",
      "derivative of censure entry 1 , probably after Middle French censurer":"Verb"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun",
      "1587, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-004823"
  },
  "centering machine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a machine like a small speed lathe used especially to drill and countersink work to be turned on lathe centers":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005241"
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  "centriole":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": one of a pair of cellular organelles that occur especially in animals, are found near the nucleus, function in the formation of the spindle (see spindle entry 1 sense 2a ) fibers during cell division, and consist of a cylinder with nine microtubules arranged peripherally in a circle \u2014 see cell illustration":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen-tr\u0113-\u02cc\u014dl"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Larger cells lack flagella and instead use the centrioles full time for cell division. \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 28 June 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "German Zentriol , from Zentrum center":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1895, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010547"
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  "centage":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": percentage":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sentij"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "cent + -age":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-011543"
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  "center of flotation":{
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    "definitions":{
      ": the center of gravity of the water plane of a vessel":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012530"
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  "central line":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an IV line that is inserted into a large vein (such as the superior vena cava ) typically in the neck or near the heart for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes (as to administer medicines or fluids or withdraw blood)":[
        "Central lines transfuse IV fluids faster than standard IVs and are used to deliver medicines to sicker patients, usually in the intensive care unit or operating room.",
        "\u2014 Tim Friend"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The book looks directly, unflinching, at the blood draw, the placement of the central line , the sheer horror of being that close to death. \u2014 Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "Comments like this, that proliferated from conservatives on social media Thursday during Biden\u2019s news conference, hearken back to a central line of attack employed by the Trump campaign during the 2020 presidential race. \u2014 David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner , 25 Mar. 2021",
      "His decision not to prosecute became his Democratic opponent's central line of attack in the race. \u2014 Marc Levy, Star Tribune , 12 Feb. 2021",
      "Recently, a central line was placed in Takyra\u2019s chest to help ease the discomfort of constant blood draws and administering medicines, Vance said. \u2014 Deanese Williams-harris, chicagotribune.com , 16 Oct. 2020",
      "The hospital system\u2019s coronavirus recovery center, which began accepting calls Wednesday, is a central line that patients can call in order to be matched up with the appropriate specialist or specialists, Kumar said. \u2014 Emily Brindley, courant.com , 14 Oct. 2020",
      "The next morning, the day he is scheduled for surgery to install a central line for chemotherapy drugs, Amylynne takes Nicholas straight to the emergency room. \u2014 Mark Johnson And Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 Dec. 2010",
      "During that procedure, Jaden will also receive a central line for chemotherapy, Joey says. \u2014 Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com , 28 Aug. 2020",
      "Her challengers in the Democratic primary also made the Smollett case a central line of attack. \u2014 Michael Tarm, Star Tribune , 18 Aug. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1983, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012905"
  },
  "centrifugal field":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a space in which centrifugal forces may be detected (as in a rotating centrifuge or in a vehicle rounding a curve)":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013643"
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  "centered":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having a center":[
        "\u2014 often used in combination a dark- centered coneflower"
      ],
      ": having a center of curvature":[
        "\u2014 often used in combination a 3- centered arch"
      ],
      ": emotionally stable and secure":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8se-n\u0259rd",
      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259rd"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "She struggled with depression for years, but she's more centered now and able to live a full life.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Like Charlie, Reid is adept at play design, analyzing game film, tried to keep his ace centered ... \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
      "Key decisions and core tasks such as product design still remain centered in Cupertino, the people said. \u2014 Yoko Kubota, WSJ , 9 May 2022",
      "This time around, however, the scene is less centered on angry young White men and more on women and people of color, like the members of Pinkshift. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
      "Keep your torso straight and your knee centered and stable throughout the movement. \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 21 May 2020",
      "This plant formula was created to help relieve physical signs of burnout, improve energy and bring a calm, centered focus to your day. \u2014 Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Zelensky set them aside and emerged to lead as a centered and liberated version of himself. \u2014 Erica Ariel Fox, Forbes , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "But that opposition will likely stay centered on her judicial record, Republican strategists say. \u2014 Madeleine Carlisle, Time , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Just as the fashion world has evolved to be more and more centered on coziness, with athleisure becoming all the rage, people are asking the interior design world to create environments that promote comfort as well. \u2014 Jennifer Castenson, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021228"
  },
  "center of percussion":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the point in a body free to move about a fixed axis at which the body may be squarely struck without jarring the axis":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-023906"
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  "center of pressure":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the point in the chord (prolonged if necessary) that is at the intersection of the chord and the line of action of the resultant air force":[],
      ": the point of a surface exposed to external pressure (as of a fluid) at which a single force must be applied to equal or counterbalance the pressure forces acting on the whole surface":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024558"
  },
  "centipede grass":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a grass ( Eremochloa ophiuroides ) introduced into the southern U.S. from China especially for lawn use":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably so called from the appearance of the creeping stolons":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025821"
  },
  "centipede plant":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an erect shrub ( Homalocladium platycladum ) of the islands of the Pacific with flat ribbonlike jointed stems and with leaves only on the young branches":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031205"
  },
  "centrality":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality or state of being central":[
        "the centrality of television in our lives",
        "\u2014 Popular Photography"
      ],
      ": central situation":[
        "the centrality of the park in the city"
      ],
      ": tendency to remain in or at the center":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "sen-\u02c8tra-l\u0259-t\u0113"
    ],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The war in Ukraine and the rise in global oil prices have only underscored oil-rich Saudi Arabia\u2019s geopolitical centrality . \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
      "As businesses try to adapt to the centrality of logistics to their operations, both technology adoption and capital allocation have each accelerated to meet the moment. \u2014 Jake Medwell, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
      "Despite its centrality to Japan\u2019s popular identity, the anime industry has always had a darker side \u2014 studios known for punishing hours, exploitative conditions with few benefits and a workforce that many employers viewed as disposable. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 May 2022",
      "Instead, Ambitious Like a Mother is a fiery defense of the centrality and importance of women working. \u2014 Melody Schreiber, The New Republic , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Even the name signified its centrality to the telecom\u2019s strategy \u2014 invoking Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, the founder of AT&T, and by far the most sacred figure in company lore. \u2014 Variety , 9 Apr. 2022",
      "The towns along the route display the centrality of farming in the Central Valley. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Studies of the self-portrait have often emphasized the centrality of the mirror to the development of the genre, but Jennifer Higgie argues that its reflecting surface proved particularly liberating for female painters. \u2014 Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Interwoven into the message of the Passover holiday is the centrality of Israel. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel , 18 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-041414"
  },
  "center of action":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of several large oval areas where the average seasonal or annual barometric pressure is distinctly low or high":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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      "1766, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": a family (order Solenichthyes) of tropical marine fishes comprising the shrimpfishes":[]
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      "New Latin, from Centriscus , type genus + -idae":""
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      ": the face-off in lacrosse at the center circle following a score or beginning a quarter":[]
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      "noun"
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        "\u2026 lists more than 100 species threatened with extinction in Panama, including the jaguar, the spectacled bear, the Central American tapir and all five species of sea turtle that nest there.",
        "\u2014 Jeannie Kever , Houston Chronicle , 1 Apr. 2007"
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      "1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Agave deserti, commonly called the century plant , though my private name for it is suicide bloom, since the whole plant will die after this display, after its bushy yellow panicles spread as high as 30 feet into the sky. \u2014 Claire Vaye Watkins, Outside Online , 15 May 2017",
      "The agave, a type of century plant , lives a long life \u2014 then blooms once and dies. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Nov. 2020",
      "These insects bore into the bases of the leaves of large species of agaves, most notably Agave americana ( century plants ) and lay their eggs. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 2 Jan. 2020"
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      "1827, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "It took more than a century to complete the cathedral.",
      "The pottery dates back to the sixth century B.C.E.",
      "When the prince got married, it was called the wedding of the century .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "When roughly 300,000 New York City residents left during the early part of the pandemic, officials described the exodus as a once-in-a- century shock to the city\u2019s population. \u2014 Matthew Haag, New York Times , 28 June 2022",
      "But this time, these shortages have been preceded by a two-year procession of rolling shortages \u2013 everything from toilet paper and sanitizer to computer chips and lumber to baby formula and now tampons \u2013 brought on by a once-in-a- century pandemic. \u2014 Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
      "The imperfect work-from-home environment that was forced into being by the once-in-a- century Covid-19 crisis gave employers and employees alike an unexpected experience. \u2014 Jason Richmond, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "Kroger workers are part of a surge in organizing led by women, women of color and low-wage workers impelled by this once-in-a- century pandemic. \u2014 Chabeli Carrazana, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
      "Lebanese voted on Sunday to choose a new government in the country\u2019s first parliamentary election since the beginning of a once-in-a- century economic collapse. \u2014 WSJ , 16 May 2022",
      "Covid-19 wasn\u2019t the outlier, a once-in-a- century tragedy. \u2014 Melody Schreiber, The New Republic , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "Amid a scorching, once-in-a- century heat wave, a massive landfill in northern parts of the city has been on fire for the past four days. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Fans love the ballpark for its vintage charm, complete with turn-of-the- century -style lamps, framed antique baseball gloves and sidewalk bricks in the shape of home plate. \u2014 Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic , 6 June 2022"
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      "Latin centuria , irregular from centum hundred":""
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      "noun"
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      "French, from Late Latin census land tax, from Latin, valuation of property for the purpose of imposing taxes":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103016"
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      "noun"
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      ": a clause in Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution requiring a count of the population in each state every ten years for the purpose of apportioning representatives : enumeration clause":[]
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      "1879, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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      ": centrifugal force, tendency, or action":[]
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      "sen\u2027\u02c8trif(y)\u0259j\u0259n(t)s",
      "-\u0259g\u0259n(t)s",
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      "New Latin centrifugus + English -ence":""
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-141956"
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      "noun"
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      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259r-\u02ccb\u022frd"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The archaeologists also found the remains of a centerboard of the correct size. \u2014 National Geographic , 22 May 2019",
      "One of Galveston Bay's oldest centerboard sailing clubs has fleets for all ages. \u2014 Houston Chronicle , 10 May 2018",
      "Their pedaling powers the hydraulic systems used to trim the wingsail and raise and lower the daggerboards, or retractable centerboards , that are tipped with hydrofoils. \u2014 Bernie Wilson, The Seattle Times , 21 June 2017",
      "One night, a line got tangled around his centerboard in rough conditions. \u2014 Brian Overfelt, National Geographic , 10 Mar. 2017",
      "Jorge Lima of Portugal recalls dropping from first place to last in a race here after a tarp that was floating beneath the surface caught his centerboard . \u2014 Ken Belson, New York Times , 2 Aug. 2016"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1828, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154850"
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      "noun"
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      ": an officer commanding a Roman century":[]
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      "-\u02c8tyu\u0307r-",
      "-\u02c8tu\u0307r-",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Rossella Tercatin, Caesarea is mentioned several times in the New Testament, including a section in which the apostle Peter baptizes the Roman centurion Cornelius in the city. \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "The centurion -in-waiting gestured at the abundance of keepsakes and thriving plants around her. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Nov. 2021",
      "Their recent redesign incorporates some interesting elements from a Roman centurion . \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 19 Apr. 2021",
      "Some tombs at Hegra are the final resting places for high-ranking officers and their families, who, according to the writing on their tombs, took the adopted Roman military titles of prefect and centurion to the afterworld with them. \u2014 Lauren Keith, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Nov. 2020",
      "Upon entering, visitors are will notice a wall of mosaic tiles glazed in the style of the New York City subway\u2014and produced locally in the Bronx\u2014that have been arranged to depict American Express\u2019s famous centurion mascot. \u2014 Eric Rosen, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 5 Oct. 2020",
      "The phrase was evidently uttered by a defiant Roman centurion in the fourth century, during the sack of Rome. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 1 Apr. 2020",
      "Tremmel explained that the dagger was probably used by an infantryman or an officer known as a centurion . \u2014 Fox News , 1 Mar. 2020",
      "The mise-en-scene was explicitly modern: Roman centurions as immigration officers; Herod sleepless and fearful in a velvet bathrobe; a narrator in blazer and tennis shoes. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Dec. 2019"
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      "Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin centurion-, centurio , from centuria":""
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      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-160524"
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      "adjective"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-161902"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173159"
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    "type":[
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      "noun"
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      ": the point or region on a chromosome to which the spindle (see spindle entry 1 sense 2 ) attaches during mitosis and meiosis":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Altemose plans on using the complete genome to explore a particularly mysterious region in each chromosome known as the centromere . \u2014 Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune , 24 July 2021",
      "Adam Phillippy and his team at NHGRI deserve special credit for their focused work to resolve the sequences of the ribosomal DNA arrays on each of the five acrocentric chromosomes, where the centromere is much closer to one end than to the center. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 Sep. 2021",
      "In their first look, Altemose and his colleagues were struck by how different centromere regions can be from one person to another. \u2014 Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune , 24 July 2021",
      "In their first look, Dr. Altemose and his colleagues were struck by how different centromere regions can be from one person to another. \u2014 New York Times , 23 July 2021",
      "Chromosomes, of which humans have 23 pairs, each consist of a long, continuous stretch of DNA that can be condensed into a rod shape; the DNA at the centromere is particularly dense. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 11 June 2021",
      "But on five of the 23 total human chromosomes, the centromere is not precisely in the middle, instead favoring one end over the other, per the Atlantic. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 June 2021",
      "These sequencers still can\u2019t handle chunks big enough to cross an entire centromere or a short arm, but at least the algorithms have larger puzzle pieces to assemble. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 11 June 2021",
      "On five human chromosomes, the centromere is not in the middle but very close to one end, dividing the chromosome into one long and one very short arm. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 11 June 2021"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1936, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181147"
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  "center bit":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a bit with a sharp conical or threaded center spur for guiding it, a scorer for marking the circumference of the hole, and a lip for cutting away the wood inside the circumference":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181805"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": any of a large genus ( Centaurea ) of composite herbs (such as bachelor's button) including several cultivated for their showy heads of tubular florets":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "sen-\u02c8t\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Globe artichokes tower on six-foot-tall spikes topped by lapis blue centaurea -like flowers. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, genus name, from Medieval Latin":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1806, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182915"
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      "noun"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At the outset, a massive censer swung slowly like a pendulum over the stage to the toll of a distant bell, leaving a trail of smoke that settled into the misty forest where the lovers discover each other. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "That airless environment of secrecy and subterfuge is thick with smoke that emanates first from a censer hanging center stage before the play begins and then clogs the sepulchral shafts of John Torres' expressive lighting throughout. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Feb. 2020",
      "Recall the Dior fall 2000 show by Galliano, which opened with a model swinging a censer while dressed as the Pope. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 8 May 2018",
      "Velvet drapes and kneeling pillows, shafts of white hyacinth and censers wafting clouds of heady frankincense felt like a lot to absorb on a Monday morning. \u2014 Guy Trebay, New York Times , 17 Jan. 2018",
      "Recall the Dior fall 2000 show by Galliano, which opened with a model swinging a censer while dressed as the Pope. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 8 May 2018",
      "Velvet drapes and kneeling pillows, shafts of white hyacinth and censers wafting clouds of heady frankincense felt like a lot to absorb on a Monday morning. \u2014 Guy Trebay, New York Times , 17 Jan. 2018"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183214"
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      "noun"
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183813"
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      "geographical name"
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      "former province of India reorganized 1950 and renamed Madhya Pradesh":[]
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      "b\u0259-",
      "b\u0101-\u02c8r\u00e4r"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184701"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the type genus of Centriscidae":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek kentriskos , a fish":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-185555"
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      "noun"
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      ": a deep sinkhole in limestone with a pool at the bottom that is found especially in Yucat\u00e1n":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "si-\u02c8n\u014d-t\u0113"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "High points included driving through the jungle in Tulum and going in a cart pulled by a donkey to a cenote , or sinkhole. \u2014 Erin Delmore, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
      "Each cenote is different, and the scenery can be otherworldly. \u2014 Sara Clemence, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "The bathhouse\u2014a cool cavern with a simple skylight\u2014was designed to feel like a cenote , another nod to the landscape of the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. \u2014 Jessie Heyman, Vogue , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "From ground-level pools that reach down 100 feet to caverns created by sinkholes, these crystalline lagoons look like a cross between a Yucat\u00e1n cenote and a Caribbean reef. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 5 Feb. 2020",
      "But Mexico as a country didn\u2019t exist when the Mayans launched these artifacts into the Chich\u00e9n Itz\u00e1 cenote . \u2014 Max Pearl, Vulture , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "Everyone except for Laterrian and Jasmine gets out of the cenote to run back to attempt to solve their puzzles. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 30 Dec. 2021",
      "Immerse yourself in this homage to the Mayan cenote -riddled landscape. Leave it to Francis Ford Coppola to orchestrate a dramatic entrance. \u2014 Becca Hensley, Travel + Leisure , 26 Dec. 2021",
      "In 2016, Porras-Kim saw a Mexican TV documentary from the \u201960s about the excavation of a cenote at the Mayan temple Chich\u00e9n Itz\u00e1, now one of Mexico\u2019s busiest tourist destinations. \u2014 Max Pearl, Vulture , 21 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Mexican Spanish, from Yucatec ts'onot":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1841, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191819"
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      "adjective"
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      ": middlemost , midmost":[]
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    "examples":[],
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      "center entry 3 + -most":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-192447"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a historian who distinguishes time by centuries":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin centuriatus (past participle of centuriare to divide into hundreds) + -or":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195543"
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      ": to achieve steadiness, sobriety, and concentration : amend habits of flighty irresponsibility":[],
      ": to turn one's attention in reverent silence toward the religious meaning of life":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Ninety-seven per cent of lower income respondents reported food price increases. \u2014 Daphne Ewing-chow, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "The Germans argued that the gas would be only 5 to 6 per cent of their total energy supplies and said their Western European allies have promised to make up the shortfalls should the Russians shut down the pipeline. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Existing-home sales declined by more than three per cent last month, the National Association of Realtors announced on Tuesday. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 22 June 2022",
      "As a result of the acquisition, Qanawat\u2019s workforce will grow by 100 or more per cent . \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "Buffalo is not like Scranton, which has never had a population that was more than eight per cent African American. \u2014 Keeanga-yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker , 9 June 2022",
      "But what happens when that one-time federal money -- the last cent of which must be spent by the end of 2026 -- dries up",
      "On Monday, two days after Western allies passed their latest round of sanctions, the Russian ruble had collapsed, plummeting roughly 30% to trade at 104 against the U.S. dollar, making the currency worth less than one U.S. cent . \u2014 Yvonne Lau, Fortune , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "In 2019, around six hundred thousand French people undertook cures, targeting specific pathologies and subsidized by the state at sixty-five per cent . \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022"
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      "French, hundred, from Latin centum \u2014 more at hundred":"Noun"
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      "1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203153"
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      "mecca",
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      "Adjective",
      "The house has four rooms and a central chimney.",
      "City planners are looking for a central location for the new hospital.",
      "The evidence was central to the defense's case.",
      "The country's schools are financed by both local and central governments.",
      "The central authority of the company's board is being challenged.",
      "Noun",
      "Our family room becomes kid central on weekends.",
      "a health club that has become dating central for singles in the area",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "That is because central banks from the U.S. to India and New Zealand plan to keep raising interest rates to try to rein in inflation. \u2014 Akane Otani, WSJ , 30 June 2022",
      "The Federal Reserve and other central banks have been aggressively raising interest rates to try and slow economic growth in order to cool inflation. \u2014 Alex Viega, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
      "This reflects the outsized role of government and central banks in our economy. \u2014 Alex Tapscott, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
      "Such innovations have been developed, at least in part, to remove the involvement of traditional frameworks like court systems, real estate agencies and central banks from a wide variety of transactions. \u2014 Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
      "That's forced central banks to more aggressively withdraw support for the economy, generating angst on Wall Street. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 28 June 2022",
      "Rising inflation raises possibility of recession Stubborn inflation pressures have driven a stark shift in policy from central banks, which are raising rates to try and temper inflation after years of holding rates down to help economic growth. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
      "The numerous tests and pilots underway involving a digital format of the euro have taken place within regulatory compliant conditions, in close collaboration with central banks, legislators, and policymakers. \u2014 Diana Barrero Zalles, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
      "Since gold is widely held in reserve by central banks around the world, Russia had a ready market. \u2014 Patricia Cohen, New York Times , 27 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Most models put the strong winds in the central to southern part of the Willamette Valley. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 May 2022",
      "In 1986 Dakine had moved to windsurfing- central in Hood River, Ore., and begun years of expansion into bike and snow sports, apparel and more. \u2014 Valerie Stivers, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
      "Reactions to their antics are part of the massive PR machination central to their relevancy and economic status. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "The designation ensures independent federal oversight of cleanup of some 262 acres of Bradford Island, the central of three islands in the Columbia comprising the hydroelectric dam near Cascade Locks. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Indiana was on the second night of a back-to-back after winning at San Antonio on Saturday night and lost two hours of recovery time due to switching from the central to eastern time zone and daylight savings. \u2014 James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Below normal precipitation - central to southern Rockies, Great Plains, Florida, and the Southwest (first three months). \u2014 Marshall Shepherd, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
      "Even a persona as dazzling as Lil Nas X makes biographical show-and-tell central . \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 29 Sep. 2021",
      "Former President Barack Obama made Youngkin's integrity and his ties to the Trump base of the Republican Party central to his rebuke of the Republican, questioning a disconnect between his public and private personas. \u2014 Dan Merica, CNN , 30 Oct. 2021"
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      "borrowed from Latin centr\u0101lis , from centrum center entry 1 + -\u0101lis -al entry 1":"Adjective",
      "derivative of central entry 1":"Noun"
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      "1623, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective",
      "1883, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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      ": a long ruler that has two adjustable arms fastened to one end of it by wing nuts and is used for drawing convergents toward inaccessible vanishing points in perspective":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211301"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212804"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-213958"
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      "Latin centuriation-, centuriatio , from centuriatus + -ion-, -io -ion":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220518"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-221851"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222233"
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      "in the Graian Alps between France and Italy":[
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      "railroad tunnel 8.5 miles (13.6 kilometers) long piercing the Fr\u00e9jus Massif southwest of Mont Cenis":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223749"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a grinder for production of cylindrical work in which centers are replaced by a work-supporting member and two abrasive wheels one of which grinds work while the other regulates the speed of its rotation":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sent\u0259(r)l\u0259\u0307s-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232732"
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      "adjective"
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      ": of, relating to, or being a system of units based on the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of mass, and the second as the unit of time":[
        "\u2014 abbreviation cgs"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u0113-t\u0259r-\u02c8gram-\u02c8se-k\u0259nd"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1875, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-000410"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-000746"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001643"
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      ": azurite blue":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, literally, ash, from Latin cinis":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011327"
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      "verb"
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      ": to perfume especially with a censer":[
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, probably short for encensen to offer incense, from Anglo-French encenser , from Late Latin incensare , from incensum incense":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013400"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis":[
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      ": using or acting by centrifugal force":[
        "a centrifugal pump"
      ],
      ": efferent":[
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      ": tending away from centralization : separatist":[
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      ],
      ": a centrifugal machine or a drum in such a machine":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "sen-\u02c8tri-fy\u0259-g\u0259l",
      "sen-\u02c8trif-y\u0259-g\u0259l, -\u02c8trif-i-g\u0259l",
      "especially British \u02ccsen-tri-\u02c8fy\u00fc-g\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8tri-fi-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Cold press juicers tend to be more expensive than their centrifugal counterparts because their machinery is designed to slowly and gently separate juice. \u2014 Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping , 31 May 2022",
      "Another common form of hair loss is central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, or CCCA, which is a form of scarring alopecia that occurs on the scalp and causes permanent hair loss. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "The modern era was characterized by fluidity, by centrifugal forces that redistributed power away from long-standing centers of authority. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Souter is a centrifugal intellectual force in Rosengart\u2019s career, a proverbial north star, the person to whom Rosengart turns when grappling with legal questions and quandaries about life. \u2014 Malina Saval, Variety , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "For you, fruit juice friend, the Breville Juice Fountain Plus is the best centrifugal juicer. \u2014 Lauren Joseph, Bon App\u00e9tit , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "But besides that noisiness, centrifugal juicers do have their appeal. \u2014 Lauren Joseph, Bon App\u00e9tit , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Because of the Navi\u2019s centrifugal clutch, all standing starts begin from a puttering idle. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "There will be a lot less exploratory behavior if the ant raft is spinning in response to centrifugal or shear forces. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Made from food-grade stainless steel, the 65-pound PURE does, as the name suggests, require more steps than a typical centrifugal or masticating juicer. \u2014 Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report , 5 Aug. 2021",
      "That\u2019s what centrifugal means\u2014to flee (fugere) the center. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 11 Apr. 2020",
      "Five years ago, his kits for Porsche 911s and BMW M3s, which employed a Vortec centrifugal supercharger, were the most popular. \u2014 Scott Oldham, Car and Driver , 21 Feb. 2020",
      "There will be a lot less exploratory behavior if the ant raft is spinning in response to centrifugal or shear forces. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 8 Dec. 2019",
      "Plenty of people remain almost crazy with anger, and the country\u2019s political and cultural forces overall remain centrifugal , driving people to extremes. \u2014 Lance Morrow, WSJ , 17 Oct. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin centrifugus , from centr- + Latin fugere to flee \u2014 more at fugitive":"Adjective"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1709, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1813, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020032"
  },
  "centigrade":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0\u00b0 representing the freezing point and 100\u00b0 the boiling point":[
        "10\u00b0 centigrade",
        "\u2014 abbreviation C"
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      "\u2014 compare celsius":[
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        "\u2014 abbreviation C"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sent-\u0259-\u02ccgr\u0101d",
      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259-\u02ccgr\u0101d",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4n-",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4nt-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The deal calls for nations to keep global warming well below 2 degrees centigrade by the end of the century compared with the preindustrial era and strive to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. \u2014 Matthew Dalton, WSJ , 25 Oct. 2021",
      "Originally known as Cocona, it was rebranded in 2013 as 37.5 (for the ideal centigrade temperature of the human body), and the material helps with odor absorption and UV protection. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2021",
      "This affordable pair by Canadian brand Kamik, which have been operating for over a century, is effortless to slip in and out of and has a comfort rating of -32 degrees centigrade . \u2014 Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "Their only thermometer was in centigrade , so Klobuchar had to Google the conversion. \u2014 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker , 28 Dec. 2020",
      "In north Indian states such as Haryana and Punjab, crop yields will decline by 15-17% for every 2 degree centigrade increase in temperature. \u2014 Rohit Inani, Quartz India , 12 Feb. 2020",
      "That\u2019s roughly the level that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says global emissions of carbon dioxide need to be reduced to keep global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees centigrade . \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Oct. 2019",
      "In Bordeaux, the mercury climbed above 40 degrees centigrade (104 Fahrenheit) twice in the past six weeks. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 29 July 2019",
      "Seared by gases at hundreds of degrees centigrade and superheated volcanic materials that in time hardened into 60 feet of rock, the distorted, crumbling rolls were believed by most scholars to be the very definition of a lost cause. \u2014 Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian , 26 June 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from Latin centi- hundred + French grade":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1799, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021728"
  },
  "Central African Republic":{
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      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "landlocked republic in north central Africa; capital Bangui area 240,535 square miles (622,984 square kilometers), population 5,745,000":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022037"
  },
  "centrallasite":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mineral composed of a hydrous silicate of calcium, probably Ca 4 Si 7 O 18 .5H 2 O":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "sen\u2027\u02c8tral\u0259\u02ccs\u012bt"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "centr- + Greek allassein to change + English -ite":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022044"
  },
  "centroplasm":{
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      "noun"
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      ": the protoplasm of the central apparatus":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary centr- + -plasm":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022311"
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  "centerline":{
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      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a real or imaginary line that is equidistant from the surface or sides of something":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8sen-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u012bn",
      "\u02c8se-n\u0259r-",
      "-\u02ccl\u012bn"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "To check for doneness, stick a sharp knife into the top fillet, along the centerline , and push gently to one side; the flesh should separate easily from the center bone and no pinkness should be visible. \u2014 Janelle Davis, CNN , 25 May 2022",
      "Investigators said the 2007 Dodge pickup\u2019s left front tire, which was a spare, blew out, pulling the truck across the centerline of rural road FM 1788 in Andrews County, in West Texas. \u2014 Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "The linea alba, connective tissue that forms the vertical centerline of the six-pack, begins to thin and separate. \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 20 May 2021",
      "In March, a cop pulled him over for crossing the centerline , in Cleveland County. \u2014 The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
      "South of Bridgemont Place, Henderson\u2019s truck crossed the centerline , police said. \u2014 Alexis Stevens, ajc , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Donna Marie Castleberry, 32, of Austin was driving west at 1674 Arkansas 319 at about 5:25 p.m. Wednesday when the vehicle crossed the centerline , leaving the road, according to a preliminary crash report from state police. \u2014 Brianna Kwasnik, Arkansas Online , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Police said the officer was headed west on Grand when the other driver\u2019s vehicle, which was traveling east on Grand, crossed the centerline and struck the rear driver-side quarter panel of the officer\u2019s 2015 Ford SUV police vehicle. \u2014 Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "Because Soldotna city limits run down the centerline of some local roads, city manager Stephanie Queen told the local council in November that there could be some confusion at the start of the year. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Dec. 2021"
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