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"unravel":{
"antonyms":[
"entangle",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
"definitions":{
": to become unraveled":[],
": to cause to come apart by or as if by separating the threads of":[],
": to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle":[],
": to resolve the intricacy, complexity, or obscurity of : clear up":[
"unravel a mystery"
]
},
"examples":[
"Scientists are still unraveling the secrets of DNA.",
"Their plans unraveled when she lost her job.",
"His frequent absences from home caused his marriage to unravel .",
"I feel like my life is unraveling .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While their new neighbor wins the family over with his charms, sinister incidents begin happening around the house that unravel the family\u2019s fragile dynamic. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
"Scientists investigate first-hand accounts, uncovering clues and details that will unravel the mystery behind the terrifying shark attack spike. \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"The sisters know their life in the U.S. could unravel at any moment. \u2014 Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"Related: Draft opinion could ultimately unravel other rights, legal experts warn Supreme Court decisions are shrouded in secrecy and almost never leak out. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 3 May 2022",
"In exchange the Saudis would increase production to save European nations from energy shortages and almost certainly a recession that could unravel their cooperation against Russia. \u2014 Karen Elliott House, WSJ , 3 May 2022",
"While a rogue assassin stalks Elena (Morena Baccarin), Sergey and Owen (Costa Ronin, Kamal Angelo Bolden) grapple with a threat that could unravel their plan. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Buyk started to unravel on Feb. 24 when the United States immediately targeted 10 of Russia\u2019s largest financial institutions, cutting Sberbank, Russia\u2019s largest bank, off from the U.S. financial system. \u2014 Soo Youn, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Wakefield\u2019s position started to unravel in fairly short order. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022"
],
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"1603, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8ra-v\u0259l"
],
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"disentangle",
"ravel (out)",
"unbraid",
"unlay",
"unsnarl",
"untangle",
"untwine",
"untwist",
"unweave"
],
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"verb"
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},
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"circa 1704, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": the act of unraveling or the state of being unraveled : denouement , disentanglement":[
"he is a shrewd critic of historical ideas and an apt dialectician in the unravelment of their intention",
"\u2014 Irwin Edman"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1705, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": not ravished":[
"Thou still unravished bride of quietness \u2026",
"\u2014 John Keats , Ode on a Grecian Urn",
"unravished land",
"Of course, not everyone is appalled at the sudden quiet that settles over a house without kids. Some people aren't dismayed by the lack of dirty laundry, or the unravished refrigerator.",
"\u2014 Jackie Burrell"
]
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"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1563, in the meaning defined above":""
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"adjective"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\"+"
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": untouched by a razor : unshaven":[]
},
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"1637, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"un- entry 1 + razor + -ed":""
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"\u00a6\u0259n\u00a6r\u0101z\u0259(r)d"
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"adjective"
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"accessible",
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"approachable",
"attainable",
"convenient",
"getatable",
"handy",
"obtainable",
"procurable",
"reachable"
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"definitions":{
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"an unreachable dream/goal"
],
": impossible to contact or communicate with":[
"was unreachable by phone",
"emotionally unreachable teenagers"
],
": impossible to get to or get at":[
"a location unreachable by car"
],
": incapable of being reached : such as":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Email might be unreachable for a little bit because it is locally hosted. \u2014 Will Foret, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"That never-concede-a-thing attitude propelling Nadal from side to side, forward and backward, speeding to, and redirecting, balls off an opponent\u2019s racket seemingly destined to be unreachable . \u2014 Howard Frendrich, The Christian Science Monitor , 5 June 2022",
"That never-concede-a-thing attitude propelling Nadal from side to side, forward and backward, speeding to and redirecting balls off an opponent\u2019s racket seemingly destined to be unreachable . \u2014 Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"The family frets over an older brother now fighting and unreachable . \u2014 Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor , 26 May 2022",
"Dozens of people who stayed in Grand Isle, a narrow beachy islet of homes on stilts facing the Gulf of Mexico, remained cut off and unreachable for much of Monday as phone lines were down and the one road in and out was impassable. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Aug. 2021",
"But the staff also observed that the surrounding area could be vulnerable to regular flooding within a couple of decades, rendering the plant unreachable during emergencies. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
"Picture a sports field at night, how everything beyond the purview of the floodlights transforms into an unreachable void. \u2014 Suzannah Showler, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Carr raised $24 million to invent nimbler helicopter baskets after a buddy had a search-and-rescue accident and died unreachable . \u2014 Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022"
],
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"circa 1586, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u0113-ch\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"inaccessible",
"inapproachable",
"inconvenient",
"unapproachable",
"unattainable",
"unavailable",
"unobtainable",
"untouchable"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065414",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
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"unreached":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": not reached":[
"unreached depths"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some of the unreached \u2014 no matter what the Christian God said \u2014 were meant to stay that way. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Some burn with passion for unreached people groups who have never heard of Jesus. \u2014 Dana Hall Mccain | Dmccain@al.com, al , 18 June 2021",
"But three months into the effort, many remain unconvinced, unreached and unprotected. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Mar. 2021",
"The grades from the Kansas game reflect the unreached potential: RELATED VIDEO No compatible source was found for this media. \u2014 John Shinn Diehards, ajc , 19 Nov. 2017",
"One goal described in 2003 that remains unreached , Bodnar said, is developing housing for seniors. \u2014 Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com , 22 Aug. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u0113cht"
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"type":[
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"unreacted":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": not having reacted":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"un- entry 1 + reacted , past participle of react":""
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"\"+"
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"unread":{
"antonyms":[
"educated",
"knowledgeable",
"lettered",
"literate",
"schooled",
"well-informed",
"well-read"
],
"definitions":{
": lacking the experience or the benefits of reading":[
"unread in political science"
],
": not read : left unexamined":[]
},
"examples":[
"On her desk was a pile of magazines that had been left unread for months.",
"an officer who seemed to be completely unread in military theory",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many companies leave the human resources (HR) handbook to gather dust, largely unused and unread by management and employees. \u2014 Michael Lane, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"But if your ballot is still sitting on your desk, or the nightstand, or underneath a stack of unread New Yorkers, don\u2019t despair. \u2014 Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Reed Omary, a radiologist in Nashville, Tenn., logged into one of his work inboxes one day last winter, selected thousands of unread emails and, with the click of a mouse, removed them from his life. \u2014 Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
"Carey's followers were quick to point out the icon's full battery, low number of unread messages, and the fact that both stars had the other in their contacts. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"When the user looks at N1, the device will recognize and engage, also spontaneously offering suggestions and services based on personal profiles and individual prompts, such as notifying a specific user of how many unread emails are in their inbox. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"When the name of a channel is in bold font, that means there are unread messages in the chat . \u2014 Boone Ashworth, Wired , 19 Dec. 2021",
"Also, her notifications \u2014 436 unread messages are the exact opposite of mogul behavior. \u2014 Olivia Crandall, Vulture , 22 Nov. 2021",
"That film led Dornan to find some unread texts from his father, commenting on his work in the hit comedy. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 5 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8red"
],
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"benighted",
"dark",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"nonliterate",
"rude",
"simple",
"uneducated",
"uninstructed",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored"
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"first_known_use":{
"1825, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
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"antonyms":[
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
],
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": impossible to interpret":[
"The expression on her face was unreadable ."
],
": impossible to read and understand : incomprehensible":[
"\u2026 a flawed, unreadable , misleading bill that garnered support based on propaganda and clever\u2014but false\u2014talking points.",
"\u2014 Marilyn M. Singleton"
],
": not decipherable : illegible":[
"unreadable handwriting"
],
": not enjoyable or interesting enough to engage the reader":[
"an unreadable novel"
],
": not readable : such as":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But they were presented so briefly as to be nearly unreadable . \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 13 June 2022",
"Her protagonists are often aloof, even unreadable , in person. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 19 May 2022",
"Some Pennsylvania ballots could take longer to read At least 21,000 mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are unreadable and will take several days to process, officials in Lancaster County said. \u2014 Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"About 70 or 80 ballots from each batch of 125 were spit out as unreadable because their barcodes were more faint and slightly blurred. \u2014 Gillian Flaccus And Sara Cline, Anchorage Daily News , 20 May 2022",
"Mykyta, unreadable as always, simply nodded and started making calls. \u2014 Mac William Bishop, Rolling Stone , 12 Mar. 2022",
"The temporary license tag on the Trailblazer was destroyed and unreadable . \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Jackson was quiet for a moment, her expression unreadable behind her mask. \u2014 Sydney Brownstone, Anchorage Daily News , 31 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s a few golden nuggets to be mined even from the most unreadable , obscure, and self-serving of such memoirs. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 14 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1655, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u0113-d\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"indecipherable",
"undecipherable"
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"type":[
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},
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"1787, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\"+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042244",
"type":[
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"unreadably":{
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"definitions":{
": in an unreadable manner":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1780, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\"+"
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"unreadily":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": not readily or easily : hardly":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\"+"
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"definitions":{
": little given to reading":[
"the idle and unreading world",
"\u2014 Frederic Harrison"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1728, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\"+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125619",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"unready":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": not prepared or ready":[
"unready to go to college",
"My catcher \u2026 seemed unready ; through the openings in his mask I could just discern a look that mingled confusion and distress.",
"\u2014 Ejner Jensen",
"I'm like a jailbird after a long stretch: unready for life, resentful of the separation, nostalgic for the chums I'd been locked up with \u2026",
"\u2014 John le Carr\u00e9"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In some aircraft fleets, including the B-1B bomber, there are more mission-ready planes than unready ones. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 28 June 2022",
"The unready garrison at Mariupol was encircled by Russian forces on March 2, and the siege has now continued for 11 weeks. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"But to imagine that the innocence of the baby is enough, on its own, to always and completely turn an unready person into a different person who can overcome all challenging circumstances is taking a mighty risk with two people\u2019s entire lives. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Dec. 2021",
"As late as 2020, the ship was still not done, and, despite promises, the carrier went through full ship shock trials with 4 out of 7 lower-stage weapons elevators unready . \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021",
"If the offense is getting worse \u2014 and Fields looks unready to play \u2014 that\u2019s a big problem for them. \u2014 Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Ali Karimi, a University of Pennsylvania scholar, is among Afghans unready to trust the Taliban. \u2014 Frank Bajak, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Sep. 2021",
"One that did not, really, was handing the series to an unready producer with a history of speaking freely and loosely in a manner lacking a certain dignity. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 20 Aug. 2021",
"The devil is the state of being unready for revelation. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8re-d\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034003",
"type":[
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"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"realistic",
"reasonable"
],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"The town seemed as unreal as a movie set.",
"The fashion model looked unreal , like a doll.",
"I think it's unreal that he survived the accident.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The movie\u2019s shot in a pearly black-and-white, which makes Gijon seem slightly unreal and also universal. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Derealization and depersonalization refer to feelings that the external world and your own self, respectively, are unreal . \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 14 June 2022",
"After months of hearing US intelligence that this was going to happen, for it then to finally start happening, and in Kyiv, was unreal . \u2014 Jessica Sooknanan, CNN , 28 May 2022",
"These points of friction can make these human-computer interactions all feel frustratingly unreal . \u2014 Lauren Goode, Wired , 18 Mar. 2021",
"But Levinson, who writes and directs each episode, has always seemed more interested in usurping narrative conventions, needling his characters\u2019 psyches and dissolving the boundaries between real and unreal . \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Most of the time, the borders themselves occupy a borderland between real and unreal . \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Today, as devices ever-more-sneakily blur the real and unreal , our cultural nightmares have turned toward the indescribable evils of A24 movies and constant paranoia about living in a simulation. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Absurdly, the factory contains forests, a river, 24-hour bus service, dorms, and its own fauna, some of which might be unreal . \u2014 Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic , 15 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1605, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u0113-\u0259l",
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u0113(-\u0259)l"
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"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"wild"
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": not realistic : inappropriate to reality or fact":[]
},
"examples":[
"It's unrealistic to expect so much.",
"The dialogue in the movie was unrealistic .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Look at dating as a fun way of getting to know new people rather than holding everyone to the same unrealistic standards. \u2014 Meghan Rose, Glamour , 1 July 2022",
"They have been accused multiple times of cultural appropriation, of promoting unrealistic beauty standards, of being deeply out of touch. \u2014 Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY , 18 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t demotivate others by imposing unrealistic standards. \u2014 Nuala Walsh, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Some Biden administration officials are privately beginning to see that goal as unrealistic . \u2014 Patrick J. Mcdonnell, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"According to the Dove Self-Esteem and Social Media Report, 1 in 2 girls say toxic beauty advice that normalizes unrealistic beauty standards on social media causes low self-esteem. \u2014 Jasmine Washington, Seventeen , 12 May 2022",
"Some experts panned Musk's ideas as unrealistic for reasons unrelated to advertising, including that unchecked online harassment and bullying might drive away users and end up harming free expression. \u2014 NBC News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Kattan emphasized that there\u2019s still much progress to be made in the beauty industry, which continues to promote unrealistic standards. \u2014 Angela Haupt, Time , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Created by Zamudio and founder and CEO Tara Electra, Roll tries to reduce pressure on female creators to meet unrealistic beauty standards. \u2014 Lanae Brody, PEOPLE.com , 4 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1865, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02ccr\u0113-\u0259-\u02c8li-stik"
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},
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},
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"a sci-fi author who seems to have preferred the unrealities of his own fiction to the realities of the world about him",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Since Moscow\u2019s lockdown only happened very recently, Kovalev told me that there\u2019s still a sense of unreality about the whole situation. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 3 Apr. 2020",
"Trump\u2019s warped unreality , where the election was rigged against him and January 6 was a flock of freedom-loving tourists besmirched by Antifa commandos. \u2014 Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic , 5 Apr. 2022",
"In the golden age of fraud, grift sits comfortably alongside the general sense of unreality permeating the American economy. \u2014 Ben Mckenzie, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"There is an aura of unreality and mystery to Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s 100-point game, which happened 60 years ago Wednesday. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In Kyiv, there has been an air of unreality about the situation and stoic resolve. \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 20 Feb. 2022",
"The late Gaspard Ulliel is one of several major French stars voicing the dolls\u2019 dialogue, though the most striking presence here is Faure, bringing a casual unreality to her role as a vlogger who gradually becomes a kind of parallel protagonist. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 13 Feb. 2022",
"The effect is to emphasize the essential unreality of a play that has always been, in its own words, weird. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Dec. 2021",
"This might not be obvious given the GOP's indulgence of every kind of crank and fanatic, and its embrace of outright unreality on both COVID vaccines and election results. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 12 Oct. 2021"
],
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"1744, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"conceit",
"daydream",
"delusion",
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"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"figment",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"nonentity",
"phantasm",
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"vision"
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"Your partner or a close friend distract you a bit with unrealizable goals. \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 10 Nov. 2019",
"The fact that Kingelez\u2019s projects are unrealizable shields them from any nattering rationality. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 4 June 2017",
"That was a signature promise and was probably the most flagrantly unrealizable promise in all of American presidential politics, the idea that Mexico would pay for this wall. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Dec. 2017",
"The actual proposals in King\u2019s article are a convenient mix of the inoffensive and the unrealizable , and therefore are not particularly concerning. \u2014 Max Bloom, National Review , 20 July 2017"
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"With its double binds and reversals, life in a pandemic feels beholden to dream logic, to the unreason of lying awake in the dark. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 4 June 2020",
"There\u2019s a lot of collective anguish lurking under all the electronic flame-throwing, bizarre behavior on campus, and other manifestations of social unraveling and descent into unreason . \u2014 Nr Interview, National Review , 27 Aug. 2019",
"An answer to the mystery is found both in folklore (the emperor\u2019s new clothes) and in the pioneering work of Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and others in behavioral economics, which points to the economic basis of much characteristic human unreason . \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 6 Nov. 2018",
"Social media is no small force behind the present age of unreason and disharmony. \u2014 Alexander Heffner, Time , 2 July 2018",
"With reason in the service of unreason , killings were done with industrial efficiency. \u2014 Hugh Hunter, Philly.com , 27 Feb. 2018",
"While Newton and Locke were ushering in an Age of Reason in Europe, over in America unreason was taking new seductive forms. \u2014 Hanna Rosin, New York Times , 5 Sep. 2017",
"Small wonder some white people retreat into bunkers of unreason and fear. \u2014 Author: Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News , 19 Aug. 2017",
"Kurt Andersen has engaged in a great degree of magical thinking of his own, trying to make a connection between Christianity and his perception of unreason in American dialogue. \u2014 Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic , 10 Oct. 2017"
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"Recourse internally is more difficult for pilots at Wizz Air, as employees are effectively prevented from organizing in trade unions to defend themselves against potentially unreasonable demands by management. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"Not enough Asking consumers to park the potentially flammable vehicles away from the home is an unreasonable recommendation, the lawsuit says. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 8 June 2022",
"Scoping all this out in three days seems a risky and unreasonable ask. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 2 June 2022",
"The latter is reserved for rare situations in which the judge overseeing the case overrules the decision of the jury or amends its verdict because jurors reached an unreasonable decision. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"Thousands are still trapped outside the stadium, remaining calm in the face of a completely unreasonable situation. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
"Scrolling through Yelp reviews always reveals a plethora of unreasonable complaints, or an excuse to dump on working class people who have the very difficult job of serving rude, entitled patrons every day. \u2014 Emma Balter, Chron , 24 May 2022",
"If the child enrolls at this college, they, and their parents, will have to borrow an unreasonable amount of student loan debt. \u2014 Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022"
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"Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done. \u2014 Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic , 16 Aug. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Teachers here are often paid minimum wage, and the ruling Law and Justice party has been unreceptive to their calls for higher pay. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"India has long been unreceptive to outside criticism, even from its close partners. \u2014 Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Internal agency notes drafted before the meeting showed officials bracing for an unreceptive audience. \u2014 Bernice Yeung, ProPublica , 29 Oct. 2021",
"The Pentagon was caught off guard by the Haitian request for troops on Friday and quickly struck an unreceptive tone. \u2014 New York Times , 11 July 2021",
"Your companions, however, may be unreceptive or in a hurry to get things accomplished quickly in the week ahead. \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 27 Sep. 2020",
"Despite the efforts of national suffrage movements, Eastern and Southern governments proved unreceptive to such a radical concept. \u2014 Jennifer Helton, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Aug. 2020",
"Pitching your ideas to an unreceptive crowd could waste time, so gauge the mood of the room before making presentations. \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 29 May 2020",
"The story centers on two scientists who, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 Feb. 2020"
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"Such cases could very well go unrecognized and unreported. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Blacks have amassed a long list of achievements and contributions to this country that go unrecognized . \u2014 La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
"However, many of their contributions to society go unrecognized . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"Native Americans today are the descendants of men and women who have survived genocide, and through policies rooted in overt and covert racial biases that persist, that decimation, largely unrecognized , has in many ways continued to the present. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 30 Mar. 2022",
"In Donbas, Russia fomented a separatist conflict in 2014 and then covertly sent military units to slice two largely unrecognized territories from Kyiv\u2019s control. \u2014 James Marson, WSJ , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Employees need to take on unwanted assignments that help the organization, but an individual\u2019s career can suffer if the load of unrecognized work exceeds that of their peers. \u2014 Linda Babcock, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Transnistria remains an unrecognized breakaway state within Moldova, similar to the Luhansk and Donetsk People\u2019s Republics within Ukraine. \u2014 Peter Aitken, Fox News , 7 May 2022",
"This data raises the possibility that the cases are a rare but unrecognized condition that is only becoming apparent in the wake of the pandemic\u2014similar to the UKSHA's 1b hypothesis. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 6 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Falwell cast Trump, still regarded by many believers as an unreconstructed sinner, as a pragmatic businessman who would honor his promises to evangelicals. \u2014 Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker , 28 Apr. 2022",
"There are lots of compelling ideas like that, from flat-taxers and fair-taxers and unreconstructed Georgists and other sundry practitioners of wonkery. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Outside the home, French onion soup is best eaten in an unreconstructed bistro. \u2014 Joshua David Stein, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Other documents were delivered in unreconstructed pieces. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 6 Feb. 2022",
"And indeed, some of the people who came to work for Gr\u00f6ning were unreconstructed followers of Hitler. \u2014 Richard J. Evans, The New Republic , 1 Dec. 2021",
"But the crusher was George Norris, the unreconstructed populist senator from Nebraska, who insisted that the people, not some capitalist, should develop such a major public work. \u2014 Edward Kosner, WSJ , 22 Dec. 2021",
"Kennedy and his fellow Republicans have mined this history to suggest Omarova is an unreconstructed communist. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 22 Nov. 2021",
"The lead character\u2019s therapist is an unreconstructed Freudian. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Sep. 2021"
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"The lidar data revealed 134 previously unrecorded settlements, despite the fact that this area has been well studied in the past. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 26 May 2022",
"Health experts caution that the real COVID-19 tally is likely larger due to unrecorded home tests. \u2014 Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"Amy Winehouse had puzzled out lyrics to an unrecorded song alongside Ginsberg\u2019s lines. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2022",
"India suffered the highest toll of any country in the world, according to the report released Thursday, but most of the deaths have gone unrecorded . \u2014 Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"Chinese media reports on the unrecorded COVID-19 deaths have been swiftly censored, and many criticisms of Shanghai\u2019s stringent measures expunged online. \u2014 Huizhong Wu And Dake Kang, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The names of these dollmakers often went unrecorded . \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"And Coleman in turn sat in, unrecorded alas, with Coltrane\u2019s mighty quartet during that time. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Ubiquitous security cameras and smartphones mean that few crimes go unrecorded , and videos of people loading up bags and carts with products and walking out the door make for viral content. \u2014 Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times , 15 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But recently the markets have lost their nerve: As of late May, the company\u2019s stock was down 90% from its high, leaving Wall Street to wonder whether the current setback is a minor detour or an unrecoverable crash. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 24 May 2022",
"With the Red Raiders unable to do anything to slow down the Longhorns\u2019 defense, their lifelessness of offense dug them in an unrecoverable ditch way too early into this game. \u2014 Ryan Mainville, Dallas News , 25 Sep. 2021",
"Sewage from factories and plants, pesticides and other harmful substances used in agriculture, these pollutants are killing marine life at frightening, unrecoverable rates. \u2014 Soulaima Gourani, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Although different owners throughout the 2000s aimed to restore its original look, the renovation had destroyed all of the neoclassical architectural features, rendering them unrecoverable . \u2014 Spencer Bevis, Dallas News , 26 Sep. 2021",
"While the researchers were able to reconstruct almost all of the Christmas Island rat's genome, almost 5 percent of it was unrecoverable , according to the study. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Humans kill over 120 million sharks a year, mainly for their fins for soup and many shark species are now under considerable risk of unrecoverable decline with some species having declined to near extinction in recent years. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 10 Jan. 2022",
"On match days, the squad is a hotchpotch of bright sparks scrambling around to recover an unrecoverable ambiance only 17 seasons of the Argentine\u2019s flair can bring. \u2014 Henry Flynn, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021",
"In that case, Mexican democracy would not only have lost many unrecoverable years. \u2014 Enrique Krauze, The New York Review of Books , 2 July 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The three unrecovered vehicles are believed to be in the colors Brittnay Blue and Grey. \u2014 Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press , 16 June 2022",
"In this silent, eerie scene, the soldier\u2019s body still lay unrecovered . \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2022",
"How the Berry Brothers had been called in from Yolo County to drag the river but how the bodies remained unrecovered . \u2014 George Skelton, Los Angeles Times , 27 Dec. 2021",
"And experts are growing increasingly concerned that there may be more at stake than unrecovered money. \u2014 Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Hedaya was the only victim left unrecovered when firefighters concluded their search for bodies Friday as, nearly a month after the collapse, the stories-high debris pile was cleared so that the building's entire foundation was exposed. \u2014 NBC News , 22 July 2021",
"These works and one unrecovered drawing were stolen from the National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens on January 9, 2012, in a sensational early-morning heist. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 July 2021",
"At the high end, one estimate has pegged the potential global gains in unrecovered taxes at over $500 billion annually. \u2014 Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes , 10 May 2021",
"While state officials say employers won\u2019t have to cover unemployment benefits paid to fraudsters, taxpayers will still be on the hook for unrecovered funds. \u2014 Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner , 8 Mar. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like focus, much can be left to the camera in auto mode, and even seemingly unredeemable exposure can often be corrected during editing. \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 7 Jan. 2021",
"By now, Welch was smiling a bit, eager to discuss redemption in a moment that sometimes seems unredeemable . \u2014 Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times , 3 Nov. 2020",
"Soon after, Walt discovers Jane choking on vomit in her sleep and does nothing to save her, a decision that made his character unredeemable in the eyes of some viewers. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 10 July 2019",
"Soon after, Walt discovers Jane choking on vomit in her sleep and does nothing to save her, a decision that made his character unredeemable in the eyes of some viewers. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 10 July 2019",
"Soon after, Walt discovers Jane choking on vomit in her sleep and does nothing to save her, a decision that made his character unredeemable in the eyes of some viewers. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 10 July 2019",
"Soon after, Walt discovers Jane choking on vomit in her sleep and does nothing to save her, a decision that made his character unredeemable in the eyes of some viewers. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 10 July 2019",
"Soon after, Walt discovers Jane choking on vomit in her sleep and does nothing to save her, a decision that made his character unredeemable in the eyes of some viewers. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 10 July 2019",
"Soon after, Walt discovers Jane choking on vomit in her sleep and does nothing to save her, a decision that made his character unredeemable in the eyes of some viewers. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 10 July 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Their sound unrefined and their performance effortful, these singers were compelling in a way professionals couldn\u2019t be. \u2014 New York Times , 1 July 2022",
"Taxes can then be imposed on unrefined fossil fuels, to encourage industries to invest in low-carbon technologies for avoiding the tax burden. \u2014 Manish Kumar, Quartz , 15 June 2022",
"To be clear, this is still an enormous leap\u2014NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission is believed to be returning about 1 kg of unrefined material from the surface of an asteroid at a mission cost of about $800 million. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 31 May 2022",
"Made from a core triumvirate of tasty ingredients\u2014cocoa, raw honey, and unrefined coconut oil\u2014they\u2019re a textural masterpiece. \u2014 Ali Francis, Bon App\u00e9tit , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Sunflower, the official flower of Ukraine, grows well in that part of Europe, and unrefined sunflower oil will infuse your food with its unique flavor. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Thibodeaux arguably has a higher ceiling than Hutchinson but is currently a more unrefined product. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Narration expresses Nevena\u2019s newfound and fumbling grasp on her environs, in an unrefined but poignant poetry. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"At first, the soaking facilities were little more than unrefined structures of canvas and lumber, perched over individual mountainside springs or tubs carved into the rock. \u2014 Emily Pennington, Outside Online , 14 Dec. 2021"
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"The analysis was typical of her\u2014 unreflective , cryptic, deprecatory. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 6 Dec. 2021",
"The tribalism of today resides in a very old, unreflective part of the brain that the Founders worked to temper and subdue through the power of reason and debate. \u2014 Thomas Koenig, National Review , 24 July 2021",
"The song offers vignettes of unreflective heroism alongside vignettes of betrayal, human nature in all its complexity amid the disaster. \u2014 Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books , 19 June 2021",
"As in previous years, the finalists skewed white and male, a double-punch of biases both unreflective of back-of-house reality and hopelessly out of step with the times. \u2014 Aaron Timms, The New Republic , 4 Dec. 2020",
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"Perhaps an old-fashioned medium, especially when executed to perfection, provides an antidote to the unreflective dross of Facebook and Snapchat. \u2014 Randall Balmer, Washington Post , 21 May 2018"
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"The adoption of a new, post-dictatorship constitution \u2013 which would have reined in executive control \u2013 was scuttled by parliament last year, and the security sector, judiciary, and election laws remain largely unreformed , critics say. \u2014 Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 Dec. 2021",
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"Cruz\u2019s argument is essentially that Texans should stay in the Union\u2014but only as long as the flaws that give Republicans an unearned boost in political and electoral power remain unreformed . \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 9 Nov. 2021",
"But Fugazi drew lots of unreformed hardcore kids, and so the atmosphere inside the club was tense. \u2014 Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker , 6 Sep. 2021",
"Thus the Medicare Part A trust fund, projected before ObamaCare to become insolvent by 2017, lumbers on, largely unreformed . \u2014 Chris Jacobs, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2021",
"That, too, represents institutional failure \u2014 one that will be, if left unreformed , catastrophic. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 31 Aug. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"An actress, artist and, in an earlier life, unregenerate gadabout, Ms. Subkoff seemed intent on presenting the world with a shiny, self-assured and elegantly gift-wrapped version of herself. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Nov. 2019"
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"Broidy pleaded guilty in October 2020 to acting as an unregistered foreign agent, admitting to accepting millions of dollars to secretly lobby the Trump administration for Malaysian and Chinese interests. \u2014 Isaac Stanley-becker And Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News , 18 May 2022",
"In 2014, a 20-year-old Georgetown University student was sentenced to a year in prison for having an unregistered biological agent or toxin after making ricin during a school break. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Apr. 2022",
"But the other unregistered firearms were found under seats or on the floorboards of the two vehicles. \u2014 Peter Hermann, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"But the other unregistered firearms were found under seats or on the floorboards of the two vehicles. \u2014 Peter Hermann, Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
"The suspects were charged with conspiracy to damage and destroy by fire and explosive and with possession of unregistered firearms. \u2014 Geneva Sands, CNN , 25 Jan. 2022",
"In San Diego, ghost guns \u2014 unregistered firearms that lack serial numbers \u2014 are a growing problem in the city, police said. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Others allege that some digital tokens are unregistered securities or that cryptocurrency issuers were deceitful in their marketing. \u2014 James Fanelli, WSJ , 1 June 2022",
"Greene had an unregistered AR-15 rifle and two semi-automatic handguns in his home with thousands of rounds of ammunition, Kelly said. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 23 Dec. 2021"
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"Michael Fertik warns that the largely unregulated industry is primed for abuse around preventing abuse. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 4 June 2022",
"In this three-part investigation, Heidi Blake and Katie J.M. Baker expose a dangerously unregulated industry \u2014 one that is estimated to control more than a million people in the United States. \u2014 Longreads , 15 Dec. 2021",
"While unregulated industry is the main culprit, that same business world is in a unique position now to do something about it. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Though reliable information about this diffuse and unregulated industry is hard to come by, a report by the research firm IBISWorld found that in 2012, dance competitions alone generated nearly $500 million in revenue. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Aug. 2021",
"While there are professional certifications, such as the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers, dog training is an unregulated industry. \u2014 Kate Siber, Outside Online , 11 May 2021",
"But like all cryptocurrencies, stablecoins are largely unregulated and Tether settled a lawsuit with New York in 2021 over misleading claims about its reserves. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 13 May 2022",
"The issue is that these efforts are currently largely unregulated , which could summon the specter of greenwashing. \u2014 Henning Ohlsson, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"The goal is to destabilize public education and replace it with a universal, unregulated voucher system which would increase segregation and exacerbate already wide gaps between the rich and the rest of us. \u2014 Time , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"This is a shining moment for him and was very unrehearsed . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Mar. 2022",
"One evening, after a few drinks and an unrehearsed jam, Howard and David headed back to their shack and David climbed into bed to get some sleep. \u2014 Michael Kosser, Variety , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Her voice is clearly natural, conversational, unrehearsed . \u2014 Will Tizard, Variety , 2 Nov. 2021",
"The cause of this unrehearsed athletic and mental flatulence \u2014 field, to clubhouse, to front office \u2014 is another matter. \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Aug. 2021",
"There can be beauty in the deliberately unpolished and unrehearsed , but poorly shot videos of performers standing cold on a New York beach, making vague and portentous gestures to the ocean, were accidentally awkward rather than defiantly rough. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 17 June 2021",
"An unrehearsed conversation affects the listener very differently from a work of art. \u2014 Imani Perry, The New York Review of Books , 15 June 2021",
"There could be some fierce testimony, as the lawyers on each side try to bait executives like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Epic CEO Tim Sweeney to lose their cool and say something unrehearsed and unexpected. \u2014 Aaron Pressman, Fortune , 3 May 2021",
"The only unrehearsed moment: after the team had stitched on both hands and DiMeo's new face, his left hand started to change color. \u2014 Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY , 3 Feb. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Engineers call them URMs ( unreinforced masonry buildings). \u2014 Sasha Warren, Scientific American , 24 June 2022",
"Those include: Moving beyond unreinforced masonry buildings to look at other unsafe structures. \u2014 Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 Feb. 2022",
"In Seattle, about one-third of all unreinforced -masonry buildings have been retrofitted. \u2014 Bruce Barcott, Outside Online , 25 Aug. 2011",
"And, overall in the state, there are 140,000 unreinforced structures. \u2014 Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 Feb. 2022",
"In seconds, the unreinforced glass gave way in a single sheet. \u2014 Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2021",
"An unreinforced battalion usually includes around 50 armored vehicles and up to 400 soldiers. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Thousands of Oregon buildings were built before a Cascadia quake\u2019s scope of devastation was fully understood, and many of them were constructed using unreinforced masonry, which poses a risk of collapse. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Many California cities prohibit putting unreinforced brick chimneys in new homes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"American officials insisted the change was unrelated to the NATO expansion. \u2014 Michael D. Shear, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"American officials insisted the change was unrelated to the NATO expansion. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"The problem with the Tundra is unrelated to the issue affecting the BZ4X, the company added. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Cody, at the North Carolina Hospital Association, said mergers are part of long-term strategies that are unrelated to the short-term finances of covid care. \u2014 Christopher Rowland, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"The accident happened around 3:15 a.m. Thursday and was unrelated to any call, South Windsor sergeant Mark Cleverdon said in phone interview. \u2014 Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022",
"But the two phenomena are not unrelated : McConnell's limited concessions may have ensured the defeat of the rest. \u2014 Benjy Sarlin, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
"Those measures were unrelated to the benefits and compensation being proposed, the justice wrote. \u2014 Sarah Donaldson, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"Others are tying access to discounts to unlawful demands for patient claims data that are unrelated to the mission of 340B. \u2014 Maureen Testoni, STAT , 13 June 2022"
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"With today\u2019s unrelenting wave of gun violence, getting shot felt like an imminent possibility. \u2014 Kyle Casey Chu, Vogue , 1 July 2022",
"An unrelenting , early season heat wave will reach the eastern and southern tiers of the US over the next few days -- and nearly 60% of Americans are expected see temperatures at or above 90 degrees. \u2014 Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"The unrelenting artillery assault is likely to deter Ukrainian counterattacks in the area, the institute said. \u2014 Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"The unrelenting artillery assault is likely to deter Ukrainian counterattacks in the area, the institute said. \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2022",
"Days of unrelenting rain and snowmelt led to a more than 14-foot rise in the Yellowstone River, a historic event that climate experts warn could become more common. \u2014 Katie Jennings, Forbes , 18 June 2022",
"Beyond that, any aspiring super app faces unrelenting competition from domestic and foreign rivals, some of which already have a stranglehold on the digital landscape. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Analysts say the unrelenting criticism and political toxicity of immigration appears to have led to hesitancy among some in White House to place an emphasis on migration at this year\u2019s summit. \u2014 Courtney Subramanianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The laptop industry has been on an unrelenting mission to decrease the size of screen bezels over the past few years, and that has, again, led to a larger display in a smaller body. \u2014 Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG , 8 June 2022"
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"The other major factor behind German use of natural gas is the decision in the 1970s that oil from the Middle East was unreliable and should be avoided at all costs, or almost all costs. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Despite the Texas Republican rhetoric that wind and solar are unreliable , Texas has a massive and growing fleet of renewables. \u2014 Ella Nilsen, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"For years, activists and academics have been raising concerns that facial analysis software that claims to be able to identify a person\u2019s age, gender, and emotional state can be biased, unreliable , or invasive \u2014 and should not be sold. \u2014 Kashmir Hill, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
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"How, then, can the L.A. of unrelieved light be also the L.A. of noir film and fiction",
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"My guess is that Hunter meant for the Denhams\u2019 plight to symbolize the condition of England after World War II, when unrelieved gray austerity was a way of daily life. \u2014 Terry Teachout, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2021",
"Yet Clarke recalls this period as one of unrelieved disability. \u2014 Laura Miller, The New Yorker , 7 Sep. 2020",
"As material for art, emergency medicine, like the climate crisis, would seem, given its tendency toward unrelieved crescendo, both appealing and treacherous. \u2014 Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine , 18 Aug. 2020",
"His tone hinted at still- unrelieved , helpless terror. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 16 Dec. 2019",
"The reason for buying the reissue of an 18-year-old book: Fleming aims for intensity of flavor and respect for seasonality and primary ingredients over show or unrelieved sweet richness. \u2014 Corby Kummer, The Atlantic , 11 Dec. 2019",
"That voice is both dramatic and poetic, informational and expressive, collecting shards of observations and reminiscences, pushing unrelieved tensions to the fore and turning his story into a crisis of consciousness. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 19 Sep. 2019"
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"All of that would have been unremarkable \u2014 except for the fact that the man who slipped past security wasn\u2019t Klay Thompson. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"The Apple Pan\u2019s ham sandwich is simultaneously unremarkable and exquisite. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 10 June 2022",
"Senior living homes can be unremarkable and frankly, a bit depressing. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Forbes , 1 Sep. 2021",
"This hoodie\u2019s life span should have been unremarkable , like millions of others worn by young men \u2014 ballgames, concerts, parties then, maybe, an old-clothes donation box. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"The difference is that one was fun, stylish, quick and innovative, and the other was drab, boring and unremarkable . \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Mormonism and Mormon culture is for these characters what water is for a fish \u2014 just as unremarkable , and just as essential. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Tokyo Blur and Paris Promenade, feel unremarkable in comparison. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 18 Mar. 2022"
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"His call for further aid highlights the unremitting nature of a conflict that began Feb. 24, when Russian troops invaded Ukrainian territory on various fronts. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 May 2022",
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"The vice chairwoman of the House committee has been unrepentant in continuing to blame Mr. Trump for stoking the attack on Jan. 6, 2021. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
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"Fenn estimates that at least 30,000 people have looked for the chest, and searchers range from weekend enthusiasts to semiprofessional hunters to unrepentant fanatics. \u2014 Peter Frick-wright, Outside Online , 11 Aug. 2015",
"The infirm 66-year-old Hale died, unrepentant , in jail before serving out a 14-year sentence. \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 1 Apr. 2022",
"At Tuesday\u2019s hearing, prosecutors painted a picture of Crumbley as cruel, unrepentant and talented at hiding his plans to harm others. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Rothchild\u2019s unrepentant killer quickly seduces the reader through Ruby\u2019s intelligent reasoning, and, oddly enough, compassion, even when her actions are repellant. \u2014 Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Both Neumanns have been largely unrepentant since the company's implosion. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 19 Mar. 2022",
"These coyotes are roving the streets in packs, like unrepentant hoodlums looking for a mark. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Feb. 2022"
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"However, the music is always a lavish wellspring, and on Dedicated, Jepsen celebrates her capacity for unreserve , intertwining it with her erotic sensibilities. \u2014 Rachelvoronacote, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020"
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"Companies that issued unreserved statements of support during the Black Lives Matter protests in response to the murder of George Floyd have said next to nothing about the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s probable overturning of Roe vs. Wade. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
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"The first part, when the Constitution is scheduled to go up for bid, is a live auction that will be held in New York on November 23, while the second part is an unreserved online sale that runs from that day until December 2. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 20 Sep. 2021",
"An interview, on live TV, with a young gay man who has AIDS, to whom Tammy Faye, risking the rage of Falwell and his troops, offers her unreserved love. \u2014 Anthony Lan, The New Yorker , 17 Sep. 2021",
"The two have been private about their relationship for the most part, but ever since late June\u2014when Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were photographed in PDA mode\u2014they've seemed more unreserved about showing their love. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 26 Aug. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet what has been most striking, in the years since Heller, is how generally unresistant Justices and judges have been to that interpretation. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 7 May 2021"
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"Between seemingly unresolvable cystic acne, attempting \u2013 and failing \u2013 to fit in at a new campus my freshman year with an above-average 6-foot frame and the pressure of college admissions, the period was far from idyllic. \u2014 Cady Stanton, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"The Box, in effect, is a Doomsday Machine whose nature and origin are unresolvable mysteries. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Feb. 2022",
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"Some issues may be unresolvable -- such as climate change. \u2014 Manu Raju, CNN , 8 Sep. 2021",
"This practice seems so ingrained as to be unresolvable . \u2014 Washington Post , 28 July 2021",
"Perhaps, at heart, The Good Fight believes that love can transcend politics, even at a time when the conflict in values seems unresolvable . \u2014 Scott Tobias, Vulture , 22 July 2021",
"And the complications are what make her task so daunting, and perhaps unresolvable anytime soon. \u2014 Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2021"
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"Further, her works are suspended in time, the past is unresolved , and the future is uncertain. \u2014 Vogue , 19 June 2022",
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"The case is still unresolved , according to court documents. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 June 2022",
"And after a couple of days in Texas, many of those issues are still unresolved . \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Also unresolved are several filings asking to throw out various counts of the indictment. \u2014 Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune , 17 May 2022",
"The July 19 primary was already pushed back once by the Maryland Court of Appeals because court challenges were still unresolved . \u2014 Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Golden is close to Jordan, whose status has been unresolved since the Bulldogs\u2019 season ended. \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Still unresolved are the bankruptcy proceedings for Puerto Rico\u2019s Highways and Transportation Authority and the Electric Power Company, which owes nearly $9 billion, the largest debt of any government agency. \u2014 D\u00e1nica Coto, USA TODAY , 16 Mar. 2022"
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"\u2014 Doris Lessing"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As time goes on, it becomes dominated by more unrespectable things. \u2014 Christopher Bonanos, Curbed , 5 Nov. 2021",
"But for a kid in Kentucky, Stonewall\u2014even as recounted by White and others who were there\u2014represented, at best, a kind of aspirational gay life, a bevy of uppity queers fighting for their decidedly unrespectable libidinal community. \u2014 Michelle Tea, Harper's magazine , 22 June 2019"
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"The country has experienced years of civil unrest .",
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"In poorer countries, the threat is more fraught as governments are torn between offering additional public assistance, which requires taking on burdensome debt, and facing serious unrest . \u2014 New York Times , 2 July 2022",
"In June 2020, China\u2019s national legislature sought to quell that unrest by enacting a sweeping new National Security Law for Hong Kong that has been used to all but eliminate the city's pro-democracy opposition. \u2014 Clay Chandler, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"Mass transit is better for the environment and more cost-effective \u2014 but watch out for labor unrest . \u2014 Christopher Elliott, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Citing political unrest , the Covid-19 pandemic, and gun violence as examples, Bell emphasizes that these realities have an impact on our collective lives and mental health. \u2014 Katie Dupere, Men's Health , 27 June 2022",
"Typically, Moscow exploits mass protests in the U.S. to amplify discord and divisions in America through social media in the attempt to help foment social unrest . \u2014 Fox News , 25 June 2022",
"Beijing\u2019s main concern is social unrest if lockdowns pull prosperity out of the grasp of millions of Chinese waiting to move into the middle class. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
"One thing that ties these countries together is political unrest and authoritarianism. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022",
"When his dad goes to board up their liquor store in South Central in case there's unrest , the boy sneaks out of the house to deliver him a gun for protection. \u2014 John Cho, EW.com , 22 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The light-weight rigid foam remains solid, and the original unrestored paintwork is in excellent condition, with only subtle flaking in small areas. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
"Except for the paint, this 1966 Ford remains unrestored and original. \u2014 Maegan Gindi For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ , 26 Mar. 2022",
"According to the duo\u2019s 2021 paper in Water, a few of the new species proliferated, but most of the other species were similar to those in unrestored sections of the creek. \u2014 Erica Gies, Scientific American , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Mission Concepci\u00f3n, which dates to 1755, is the oldest unrestored stone church in America, and visitors can see original frescoes in several rooms. \u2014 Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Largely original and unrestored , this representative of the model is available for $350,000. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 18 Oct. 2021",
"The church, completed in 1755, is the oldest unrestored stone church in the nation. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com , 6 Apr. 2020",
"The church at Mission Concepci\u00f3n, known as the nation\u2019s oldest unrestored church, has been closed since January, to allow for placement of a metal rim around the base of its dome for stabilization. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com , 18 Mar. 2020",
"This mostly unrestored pickup comes with a brand-new paint job, an 80-inch wheelbase and 40,911 miles. \u2014 Lorraine Longhi, azcentral , 13 Jan. 2020"
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"The child in the car accident was unrestrained .",
"She was fined for driving with an unrestrained infant.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then, like today, inflation was driven by a dramatic spike in oil and gas prices and an unrestrained Treasury flooding the economy with money. \u2014 Zenger News, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"In a news release on Tuesday, the CPSC warned that these rockers should never be used for sleep and infants should never be left unsupervised or unrestrained in the seat. \u2014 Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
"In a 35 mile-per-hour car crash, an unrestrained 60-pound dog will become a projectile with 2,700 pounds of force. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 13 Dec. 2018",
"Mindlessly unrestrained shootings and assaults, often of bystanders, are a constant on big-city streets. \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
"The ambitions of the Court\u2019s five most conservative members seem unrestrained . \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 8 May 2022",
"To me, his decision expresses unrestrained freedom even within a predicament of wintry austerity. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Hope, at last unrestrained by not yets, lit the flame for a massive, vaccination effort like nothing the country had ever seen. \u2014 Annika Neklason, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Mar. 2021",
"Typically, across the political spectrum there is a recognition that the cost of allowing unrestrained discourse in a free society includes getting things wrong sometimes. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Mar. 2022"
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"the cheerful unrestraint of children",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"He had never spoken with such fathoms of unrestraint . \u2014 Benjamin Hedin, The New Yorker , 3 Apr. 2017"
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"1755, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Women\u2019s Sports Foundation goes a step further, calling for unrestricted participation through 12th grade. \u2014 David Wharton, Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"The unrestricted fund was approved for $579.4 million with amendments. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 15 June 2022",
"Cameron Payne and Landry Shamet were their primary backups, but Elfrid Payton ( unrestricted ) and Aaron Holiday (restricted) are both free agents. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2022",
"The best of both worlds is to offer unrestricted choice. \u2014 David Benjamin And David Komlos, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Access to its website was blocked in Hong Kong, which unlike mainland China has a relatively unrestricted internet. \u2014 Jennifer Jett, NBC News , 4 June 2022",
"What could be more fundamental to the protection of life than protecting innocent children from the wanton killing enabled by the unrestricted sale of firearms",
"The higher claimed top speed of 155 mph when fitted with optional summer tires (or 130 mph on the standard all-seasons) is less of a factor in markets lacking unrestricted autobahns. \u2014 Mike Sutton, Car and Driver , 24 May 2022",
"The gift was unsolicited and unrestricted , meaning that the organization can use the funds at their discretion to invest in what is important to the local community, Palmer-Shultz said. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 24 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its very orderliness, unrevolutionary nature seems to have won the Velvet Revolution a solid chance of sustaining its success and building a fortress of democracy in a region dominated by antidemocratic regimes. \u2014 Tom Ball, The New Republic , 1 July 2019"
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"adjective"
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"1680, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02cc\u0259n-ri-\u02c8t\u022fr-i-k\u0259l",
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"adjective"
]
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"I managed to unriddle the novel's central mystery before the main character did.",
"the all-encompassing genius of Leonardo da Vinci is something that no biographer could ever hope to unriddle"
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"circa 1586, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8ri-d\u1d4al"
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"answer",
"break",
"crack",
"dope (out)",
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"puzzle (out)",
"resolve",
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"work",
"work out"
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"verb"
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"the poet can no longer be the seer, the unriddler of the universe",
"\u2014 Peter Viereck"
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"first_known_use":{
"1657, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135612",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"unrideable waves",
"an unrideable horse"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Instead, owners will ship back a seat clamp and a special lug from the rear dropout of the bike, rendering the bike unrideable . \u2014 Mark Knapp, PCMAG , 14 Apr. 2022",
"My surf instructor, Jan Bernard, an experienced rider of Zicatela, told me to get there early \u2014 at least before 10 a.m. when the offshore winds would start to render the waves unrideable . \u2014 Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The importance of trail was elucidated by British chemist David Jones, who in 1970 recounted in Physics Today his efforts to construct an unrideable bicycle. \u2014 John Matson, Scientific American , 14 Apr. 2011",
"Stage 19 of the Tour de France was stopped on Friday as hail and dangerous weather conditions made the roads unrideable . \u2014 Jenna West, SI.com , 26 July 2019",
"In fact, a full 30 percent of bikes had multiple issues or were deemed unrideable . \u2014 Alissa Walker, Curbed , 30 May 2018",
"The horse, whose name is also Dave, turned out to be unrideable ; eventually, O\u2019Brien and his wife decided to donate him to a facility where students practice massage on him. \u2014 Laura Bradley, HWD , 18 Oct. 2017",
"The horse, whose name is also Dave, turned out to be unrideable ; eventually, O\u2019Brien and his wife decided to donate him to a facility where students practice massage on him. \u2014 Laura Bradley, vanityfair.com , 18 Oct. 2017",
"The horse, whose name is also Dave, turned out to be unrideable \u2014 Laura Bradley, HWD , 18 Oct. 2017"
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"1827, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u2014 Herman Melville"
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},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Having a wide, smooth, unrifled barrel, the Holman could shoot nearly anything a sailor could fit inside it. \u2014 William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics , 4 Apr. 2017",
"Having a wide, smooth, unrifled barrel, the Holman could shoot nearly anything a sailor could fit inside it. \u2014 William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics , 4 Apr. 2017"
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"1583, in the meaning defined above":""
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"adjective"
]
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"antonyms":[],
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": to strip of rigging":[
"unrig a ship"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But his broader views on the case for more public spending and unrigging Britain\u2019s rigged economy won widespread support. \u2014 The Economist , 13 Dec. 2019",
"These differences dominated the primary, overshadowing the question of how to unrig the economy. \u2014 Brian Beutler, New Republic , 16 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1562, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8rig"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181349",
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"verb"
]
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"\"+"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"sublime",
"upright",
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"\u2014 W. W. Wagar"
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},
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"an unrighteous act that cannot go unpunished by the congregation",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The millions who tune in to Carlson every night to get their outrage on should remember what their favorite host traffics in: bloviation, demagoguery and unrighteous indignation. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Many people, after all, think that the righteous should prosper and the unrighteous not. \u2014 Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times , 27 July 2021",
"As with all fan bases, there are exceptions, a troubled few who have lost their minds over their fanaticism for a team that on the whole has deserved their righteous support, but not their unrighteous idiocy. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 Mar. 2021",
"An early episode in this cycle played out in the seemingly unrighteous realm of Hollywood backstage drama. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 16 June 2020",
"Brief letter from the soldiers of Islamic State in the land of Andalus for the crusaders, the hateful, the sinful, the unrighteous , the corrupting ones. \u2014 Jeannette Neumann, WSJ , 23 Aug. 2017",
"To paraphrase my sacred texts, the shadow of this eclipse will fall on the righteous and the unrighteous alike. \u2014 Rev. Dr. David Williams, Washington Post , 18 Aug. 2017"
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"\"+"
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"\"+"
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"adjective"
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"1620, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
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"adjective"
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": disclose , reveal":[
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"\u2014 J. M. Barrie"
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"\"+"
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"transitive verb"
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"unripe plans"
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"unripe fruit"
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"examples":[
"Bananas are green when unripe .",
"unripe and unprepared recruits who were sent into battle as cannon fodder",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The compound in the skin that can make vitamin D is known as 7-DHC, or provitamin D3, and it's also found in tomato plant leaves and unripe green fruit. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 23 May 2022",
"Use unripe jackfruit in dishes that call for shredded, ground, or pulled meat. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Throw an unripe avocado into a paper bag with a ripe banana, fold down the opening, and leave it at room temperature on your countertop for a day or two to accelerate the avocado ripening process. \u2014 Antara Sinha, Bon App\u00e9tit , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Green peppercorns are picked when the fruit is unripe . \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Maybe animals that have been documented as disliking the taste\u2014horses, vampire bats, rabbits, and axolotls, to name a few\u2014take it as a hint that their food is still unripe , or has gone rancid and is therefore unsafe. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022",
"An unripe fig is one of the few things that get Methuselah's scales in a bunch. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 26 Jan. 2022",
"It's made with unripe plums, whose sour note balances the richness of fatty beef and ground walnuts cooked into the soup. \u2014 Jen Rose Smith, CNN , 5 Jan. 2022",
"In Russia, scientists have regenerated reproductive tissue from unripe fruits of a narrow-leafed campion freeze-dried under the tundra for 32,000 years. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Nov. 2021"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u012bp"
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"adolescent",
"callow",
"green",
"immature",
"inexperienced",
"juvenile",
"puerile",
"raw",
"unfledged",
"unformed",
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"adjective",
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"adult",
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"mature",
"ripe"
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"unripened fruit"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cream cheese is made from cow\u2019s milk and is unripened . \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2021",
"Verjus is the juice of unripened wine grapes and has a bright fresh flavor that lends itself well to nonalcoholic cocktails. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 July 2021",
"Just place the unripened avocados in a paper bag with a banana or an apple, fold over the top and leave it on the counter. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 15 Mar. 2021",
"Try using corn flour to thicken Cream cheese is a soft, unripened (or fresh) cheese made from cow\u2019s milk. \u2014 Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press , 8 Feb. 2021",
"Mineral notes and unripened peach precede a definite acidic finish. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 27 Sep. 2020",
"Very smooth, unripened blackberry and not very tannic. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 12 July 2020",
"Cream cheese is a soft, unripened or fresh cheese made from cow\u2019s milk. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 29 May 2020",
"Those ingredients include unripened green walnuts, which are steeped in a base liquor and infused with some variation of vanilla bean, citrus peels, cloves, cinnamon, and more, depending on the recipe. \u2014 Regan Stephens, Fortune , 21 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1561, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-\u02c8r\u012b-p\u1d4amd",
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u012b-p\u0259nd"
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"adolescent",
"callow",
"green",
"immature",
"inexperienced",
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"raw",
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"adjective"
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"circa 1775, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"unrisen":{
"antonyms":[],
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": not risen":[]
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"circa 1626, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015500",
"type":[
"adjective"
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"antonyms":[],
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": having no rival : incomparable , supreme":[
"unrivaled greatness"
]
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"examples":[
"a palace of unrivaled magnificence",
"Her athletic records are unrivaled .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And while every iPhone rumor should naturally be taken with a grain of salt, Kuo\u2019s track record with respect to upcoming Apple products and iPhone features is unrivaled . \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 5 Apr. 2022",
"On a trek through the South Luangwa National Park, travelers can check in to new luxury lodges \u2014 and experience the unrivaled thrill of a walking safari. \u2014 Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure , 4 June 2022",
"The series\u2019 finale aired this week, and Times television writer Yvonne Villarreal, who has covered the show with an unrivaled authority during its run, was of course there on the set during the shooting of that last episode. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022",
"Our global cannabis extraction and production processes are fully audited, ensuring a safe and regulated product with unrivaled potency and consistency. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"Vegas is home to some of the world\u2019s most expansive pools with an unrivaled events and entertainment calendar. \u2014 Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day , 19 May 2022",
"The glass company's unrivaled collection starts with ancient specimens and continues through contemporary cutting-edge art, while the institution pushes the medium forward through its education, research, and artist residency programs. \u2014 Jessica Ritz, Travel + Leisure , 6 May 2022",
"Inside, where curators have a collection of nearly 28,000 works to play with, the expressionist art is stellar, and a bar on the top floor provides unrivaled fjord views. \u2014 James Stewart, Robb Report , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Here are four dazzling seaside destinations worth visiting in the months ahead, offering unrivaled accommodations, exceptional programming, and breathtaking scenery. \u2014 Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1607, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u012b-v\u0259ld"
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"incomparable",
"inimitable",
"matchless",
"nonpareil",
"only",
"peerless",
"unequaled",
"unequalled",
"unexampled",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassable",
"unsurpassed"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"unrivaled greatness"
]
},
"examples":[
"a palace of unrivaled magnificence",
"Her athletic records are unrivaled .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And while every iPhone rumor should naturally be taken with a grain of salt, Kuo\u2019s track record with respect to upcoming Apple products and iPhone features is unrivaled . \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 5 Apr. 2022",
"On a trek through the South Luangwa National Park, travelers can check in to new luxury lodges \u2014 and experience the unrivaled thrill of a walking safari. \u2014 Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure , 4 June 2022",
"The series\u2019 finale aired this week, and Times television writer Yvonne Villarreal, who has covered the show with an unrivaled authority during its run, was of course there on the set during the shooting of that last episode. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022",
"Our global cannabis extraction and production processes are fully audited, ensuring a safe and regulated product with unrivaled potency and consistency. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"Vegas is home to some of the world\u2019s most expansive pools with an unrivaled events and entertainment calendar. \u2014 Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day , 19 May 2022",
"The glass company's unrivaled collection starts with ancient specimens and continues through contemporary cutting-edge art, while the institution pushes the medium forward through its education, research, and artist residency programs. \u2014 Jessica Ritz, Travel + Leisure , 6 May 2022",
"Inside, where curators have a collection of nearly 28,000 works to play with, the expressionist art is stellar, and a bar on the top floor provides unrivaled fjord views. \u2014 James Stewart, Robb Report , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Here are four dazzling seaside destinations worth visiting in the months ahead, offering unrivaled accommodations, exceptional programming, and breathtaking scenery. \u2014 Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1607, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u012b-v\u0259ld"
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"incomparable",
"inimitable",
"matchless",
"nonpareil",
"only",
"peerless",
"unequaled",
"unequalled",
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"unparalleled",
"unsurpassable",
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"adjective"
]
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"unriven":{
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": not riven : untorn , unbroken":[]
},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
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"adjective"
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": detach , undo , unloose":[
"the diversion unriveted his gaze"
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"1591, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\"+"
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"transitive verb"
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"antonyms":[],
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"adjective"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\"+"
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"adjective"
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": to spread out like a scroll for reading or inspection : unfold , reveal":[],
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"He carefully unrolled the ancient scroll.",
"I unrolled the new carpet.",
"When we arrived at the cabin, we unrolled our sleeping bags.",
"The hose will unroll if you pull on it.",
"Last week, the government unrolled a new vaccination campaign.",
"The scandal unrolled over the course of several weeks.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"How to do them: Start with your fingers pressed flat against your palm, curl them up into a fist, then unroll them joint by joint until your hand is fully open. \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 8 Aug. 2020",
"How to use a WAG bag: Open the outer bag, remove the toilet paper and sanitizing wipe, unroll the interior bag, and prop it up on the ground. \u2014 Krista Langlois, Outside Online , 25 Apr. 2022",
"So gather your props, unroll your mat, and get ready to show your muscles some love! \u2014 Christa Sgobba, SELF , 24 Dec. 2021",
"Completely unroll the cake and, using a pastry brush, brush with the soak. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 10 Dec. 2021",
"When the topper arrives, make sure to unpack the product and give it time to fully unroll before placing it on the bed. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Lightweight, flexible panels will unroll to power a next-generation thruster. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Nov. 2021",
"The cake will be easiest to unroll and fill at room temperature. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"The challenge was to unroll each hay bale and find a clue in the center. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 4 Sep. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u014dl"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104127",
"type":[
"verb"
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"antonyms":[],
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": not suitable for, conducive to, or given to romance or courtship : not romantic":[
"unromantic people",
"an unromantic gesture",
"She describes the extremely unromantic way she met her husband \u2026",
"\u2014 Sara Eckel"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Twitter users mocked the location of the proposal as inappropriate and unromantic . \u2014 Morgan Sung, NBC News , 11 May 2022",
"Your work is distinctly unromantic in its view of the natural world. \u2014 Michael Lapointe, The New Yorker , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Ergo, documenting marital status is essential, if unromantic . \u2014 Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The story begins nine months after the first season\u2019s rather unromantic conclusion. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The story begins nine months after the first season\u2019s rather unromantic conclusion. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The story begins nine months after the first season\u2019s rather unromantic conclusion. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Wright, to be unromantic about it, was about form, not function \u2014 the kind of architect who often perceived structural engineers as the enemy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The story begins nine months after the first season\u2019s rather unromantic conclusion. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022"
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"1731, in the meaning defined above":""
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"-r\u0259-",
"\u02cc\u0259n-r\u014d-\u02c8man-tik"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113137",
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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"antonyms":[
"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"perturbed",
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"unhinged",
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"unruffled water"
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},
"examples":[
"She remained unruffled despite the delays.",
"remained unruffled by the news that stocks were in a free fall",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That American Sage Erickson, heretofore marketed by sponsors and the WSL as a delicate, unruffled soul, is capable of unleashing cutting verbal lashings on competitors who have pulled less than sportsmanlike maneuvers in a heat. \u2014 Andrew S. Lewis, Outside Online , 10 June 2022",
"The monarch appeared unruffled as she was pictured being driven from the Royal Air Force station in London to her Windsor Castle home. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 1 June 2022",
"In each case, their parents are curiously unruffled about two 8-year-olds scampering around without supervision, and barely raise an eyebrow at the fact that the pair seem to be each other\u2019s exact doubles. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"On that note, the lines that struck me most in Sunday\u2019s episode may have been Lexi\u2019s exchange with her (totally unruffled ) stage manager after the play goes off the rails. \u2014 Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Wanda Sykes plays the unruffled mediator between the two women, while Adam Scott has a questionable supporting turn as Charlie's gay best friend. \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Her classmate Brasin-Tamarapre Odushu, 20, was equally unruffled when discussing the chance of hostilities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The Carnival remained unruffled during cornering, and road noise was minimal up front. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 18 Dec. 2021",
"Some people who went to the convention remain unruffled . \u2014 Fortune , 3 Dec. 2021"
],
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"1600, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for unruffled cool , composed , collected , unruffled , imperturbable , nonchalant mean free from agitation or excitement. cool may imply calmness, deliberateness, or dispassionateness. kept a cool head composed implies freedom from agitation as a result of self-discipline or a sedate disposition. the composed pianist gave a flawless concert collected implies a concentration of mind that eliminates distractions especially in moments of crisis. the nurse stayed calm and collected unruffled suggests apparent serenity and poise in the face of setbacks or in the midst of excitement. harried but unruffled imperturbable implies coolness or assurance even under severe provocation. the speaker remained imperturbable despite the heckling nonchalant stresses an easy coolness of manner or casualness that suggests indifference or unconcern. a nonchalant driver",
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"cool",
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"peaceful",
"placid",
"possessed",
"recollected",
"sedate",
"self-composed",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"smooth",
"together",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"unshaken",
"untroubled",
"unworried"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013239",
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"adjective"
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"antonyms":[
"amenable",
"biddable",
"compliant",
"conformable",
"docile",
"obedient",
"ruly",
"submissive",
"tractable"
],
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": not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed":[
"an unruly crowd",
"a mane of unruly hair"
]
},
"examples":[
"unruly pupils were given detention as a matter of course",
"a camp that was known as a place where unruly youths were given their last chance to shape up",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The number of unruly passengers on airplanes skyrocketed once air travel rebounded during the pandemic. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 1 July 2022",
"Year-to-date as of Monday, June 6, the Federal Aviation Administration had received 1,483 reports of unruly passengers, which included 1.3 incidents for every 10,000 flights during the week ending May 29. \u2014 Ted Reed, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"If the pile becomes unruly , two smaller heaps work just as well. \u2014 Allison Duncan, WSJ , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Your unruly subjects will bow down to you as the queen in Alice in Wonderland. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
"The younger Relf sister cracks a big, playful smile, her hair in braids \u2014 and not the usual three unruly braids from other pictures of the sisters during this time. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"Smaller people might find the large size unruly or unattractive. \u2014 Jakob Schiller, Outside Online , 6 June 2022",
"Not surprisingly, then, opera has throughout its history inspired unruly audiences. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"According to the complaint, Castle and DiFrancesco were both seen on surveillance footage entering the Capitol building through a Senate wing door shortly after it had been breached by the unruly mob. \u2014 Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English unreuly , from un- + reuly disciplined, from reule rule":""
},
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"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u00fc-l\u0113"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for unruly unruly , ungovernable , intractable , refractory , recalcitrant , willful , headstrong mean not submissive to government or control. unruly implies lack of discipline or incapacity for discipline and often connotes waywardness or turbulence of behavior. unruly children ungovernable implies either an escape from control or guidance or a state of being unsubdued and incapable of controlling oneself or being controlled by others. ungovernable rage intractable suggests stubborn resistance to guidance or control. intractable opponents of the hazardous-waste dump refractory stresses resistance to attempts to manage or to mold. special schools for refractory children recalcitrant suggests determined resistance to or defiance of authority. acts of sabotage by a recalcitrant populace willful implies an obstinate determination to have one's own way. a willful disregard for the rights of others headstrong suggests self-will impatient of restraint, advice, or suggestion. a headstrong young cavalry officer",
"synonyms":[
"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"recusant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"ungovernable",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104456",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"unruly":{
"antonyms":[
"amenable",
"biddable",
"compliant",
"conformable",
"docile",
"obedient",
"ruly",
"submissive",
"tractable"
],
"definitions":{
": not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed":[
"an unruly crowd",
"a mane of unruly hair"
]
},
"examples":[
"unruly pupils were given detention as a matter of course",
"a camp that was known as a place where unruly youths were given their last chance to shape up",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The number of unruly passengers on airplanes skyrocketed once air travel rebounded during the pandemic. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 1 July 2022",
"Year-to-date as of Monday, June 6, the Federal Aviation Administration had received 1,483 reports of unruly passengers, which included 1.3 incidents for every 10,000 flights during the week ending May 29. \u2014 Ted Reed, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"If the pile becomes unruly , two smaller heaps work just as well. \u2014 Allison Duncan, WSJ , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Your unruly subjects will bow down to you as the queen in Alice in Wonderland. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
"The younger Relf sister cracks a big, playful smile, her hair in braids \u2014 and not the usual three unruly braids from other pictures of the sisters during this time. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"Smaller people might find the large size unruly or unattractive. \u2014 Jakob Schiller, Outside Online , 6 June 2022",
"Not surprisingly, then, opera has throughout its history inspired unruly audiences. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"According to the complaint, Castle and DiFrancesco were both seen on surveillance footage entering the Capitol building through a Senate wing door shortly after it had been breached by the unruly mob. \u2014 Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English unreuly , from un- + reuly disciplined, from reule rule":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u00fc-l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for unruly unruly , ungovernable , intractable , refractory , recalcitrant , willful , headstrong mean not submissive to government or control. unruly implies lack of discipline or incapacity for discipline and often connotes waywardness or turbulence of behavior. unruly children ungovernable implies either an escape from control or guidance or a state of being unsubdued and incapable of controlling oneself or being controlled by others. ungovernable rage intractable suggests stubborn resistance to guidance or control. intractable opponents of the hazardous-waste dump refractory stresses resistance to attempts to manage or to mold. special schools for refractory children recalcitrant suggests determined resistance to or defiance of authority. acts of sabotage by a recalcitrant populace willful implies an obstinate determination to have one's own way. a willful disregard for the rights of others headstrong suggests self-will impatient of restraint, advice, or suggestion. a headstrong young cavalry officer",
"synonyms":[
"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"recusant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"ungovernable",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211342",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"unrushed":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": not rushed":[
"unrushed conversation",
"\u2026 you deal with caring, friendly, unrushed professionals \u2026",
"\u2014 James Villas"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Wiltfong appreciates Napier\u2019s unrushed approach based on past results, as well as the recent hire of Corey Raymond away from SEC West rival LSU. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Both are graceful, thoughtful, and unrushed , keeping their wits at the heart of an inflammatory tale\u2014not to douse it but to control the course of its fury. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Many songs roar past the three-minute mark, as the band jams and doodles unrushed . \u2014 Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune , 14 Apr. 2021",
"That\u2019s the new and unrushed world for Lovely Finish, a filly badly burned in the deadly Lilac Fire that swept across the San Luis Rey Downs training facility in rural Bonsall on Dec. 7, 2017. \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Mar. 2021",
"Imai Messina unfolds how Yui and Takeshi form a friendship of shared experience \u2013 and then navigate the trickier shoals of a deeper relationship \u2013 in lyrical, unrushed prose that avoids sentimentality. \u2014 Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Mar. 2021",
"The tale that Horv\u00e1t has to tell is elliptical, inward, and unrushed , played out on the smallest of scales. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 15 Jan. 2021",
"Bradley weaves these incredibly intimate videos with her own footage of Richardson and her family, always unrushed . \u2014 Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune , 5 Oct. 2020",
"In other words: plenty of chances to bond as a family in a serene, unrushed environment. \u2014 John Wogan, Travel + Leisure , 8 July 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u0259n-\u02c8r\u0259sht"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013640",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"unrecruited":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": not recruited":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"un- entry 1 + recruited , past participle of recruit":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1649, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202518"
},
"unrectified":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": not rectified":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"un- entry 1 + rectified , past participle of rectify":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1602, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083758"
},
"unrecyclable":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": unable to be recycled : not recyclable":[
"unrecyclable waste",
"unrecyclable plastics"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u0259n-(\u02cc)r\u0113-\u02c8s\u012b-k(\u0259-)l\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ocean protection agency suggested that California move this year to prohibit the sale and distribution of cigarette filters, electronic cigarettes, plastic cigar tips, and unrecyclable tobacco product packaging. \u2014 James Rainey, Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The change did also nudge many US cities to improve their recycling infrastructure to accept previously unrecyclable goods, like pizza boxes, but San Francisco leads the way. \u2014 Nathan Mattise, Rolling Stone , 15 Oct. 2021",
"That includes improving waste collection and recycling, redesigning products to eliminate packaging made from unrecyclable plastics, expanding refillables, and in some cases substituting other materials. \u2014 Laura Parker, National Geographic , 6 Oct. 2020",
"Unfortunately, that means more unrecyclable refuse getting thrown in the recycling bin: items such as bubble wrap, cellophane, Christmas lights, ribbons, clothing, foam and electronics. \u2014 Brian Chasnoff, ExpressNews.com , 29 Nov. 2019",
"Executives admit the new cup isn\u2019t perfect \u2014 it\u2019s still lined with plastic, rendering it unrecyclable by most standards \u2014 and the lid is still plastic as well. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 Nov. 2019",
"Since then, Southeast Asia has seen a huge spike in waste shipments \u2014 much of it contaminated plastic that is unrecyclable \u2014 from developed countries. \u2014 Hillary Leung, Time , 25 July 2019",
"Many toothbrushes are unrecyclable because the composite plastics most are now made of are difficult, if not impossible, to break apart efficiently. \u2014 National Geographic , 14 June 2019",
"The company\u2019s mission is recycling the previously unrecyclable , such as cigarette butts, contact lenses and chewing gum. \u2014 Laura Daily, Washington Post , 25 June 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1960, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-152225"
},
"unreleased":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": not released":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English unrelesed , from un- entry 1 + relesed , past participle of relesen to release":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210521"
}
}