": a large marmot ( Marmota caligata ) of northwestern North America having a shrill alarm call":[],
": a very-low-frequency radio signal that is generated by lightning discharge, travels along the earth's magnetic-field lines, and produces a sound resembling a whistle of descending pitch in radio receivers":[],
": one that whistles : such as":[],
"James (Abbott) McNeill 1834\u20131903 American painter and etcher":[],
"municipality and resort noted for its ski slopes in the Coast Ranges of southern British Columbia, Canada population 9824":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Although the reality check was discouraging, Lowery credited Lebermann with sending him on the path of being a big-band whistler . \u2014 Michael Corcoran, ExpressNews.com , 29 Apr. 2020",
"Lowery went on to a great career as a whistler , making his name in the 1930s with the Vincent Lopez Orchestra, whose arranger was a trombone player named Glenn Miller. \u2014 Michael Corcoran, ExpressNews.com , 29 Apr. 2020",
"Let Sean Lomax, a world champion whistler , explain the finer points of this pastime and musical art. \u2014 Patrick Farrell, Wired , 22 Mar. 2020",
"Then four sacks of puddler decoys and one of whistlers , plus a dozen Canada goose floaters. \u2014 Will Ryans, Field & Stream , 17 Mar. 2020",
"Any devoted audiobook listener can attest: Spending nine hours (or more) in the company of a terrible reader \u2014 a shrieker, mumbler, droner, tooth whistler or overzealous thespian \u2014 is an experience that can truly ruin a book. \u2014 Dallas News , 20 Aug. 2019",
"Any devoted audiobook listener can attest: Spending nine hours (or more) in the company of a terrible reader \u2014 a shrieker, mumbler, droner, tooth whistler or overzealous thespian \u2014 is an experience that can truly ruin a book. \u2014 Dallas News , 20 Aug. 2019",
"Any devoted audiobook listener can attest: Spending nine hours (or more) in the company of a terrible reader \u2014 a shrieker, mumbler, droner, tooth whistler or overzealous thespian \u2014 is an experience that can truly ruin a book. \u2014 Dallas News , 20 Aug. 2019",
"Any devoted audiobook listener can attest: Spending nine hours (or more) in the company of a terrible reader \u2014 a shrieker, mumbler, droner, tooth whistler or overzealous thespian \u2014 is an experience that can truly ruin a book. \u2014 Dallas News , 20 Aug. 2019"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
"The old man lifted his cane and whacked the mugger on the head.",
"They were whacking through the jungle with their machetes.",
"He got whacked by mobsters.",
"Noun",
"The pile of books hit the floor with a whack .",
"took a whack at solving the math problem",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But while a tennis player may try to whack the ball as hard as possible, a skilled pickleballer will use slight movements to control the lighter, plastic ball. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"This news, delivered by Fed Chair Jerome Powell yesterday, teamed up with Omicron jitters to whack the markets\u2014though futures are looking up today. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 1 Dec. 2021",
"One by one, whack each egg all over with the spoon and return it to the ice water. \u2014 Andy Baraghani, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Coaxing sound from it looks like playing whack -a-mole. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
"The war could whack a full percentage point off global GDP growth this year, the OECD calculates, and push the global inflation rate up by a further 2.5%. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 29 Mar. 2022",
"These felt weak: the combat in Pok\u00e9mon has been honed over many generations; these parts felt akin to stopping a game of Halo to play whack a mole. \u2014 Will Bedingfield, Wired , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Even Andy Roddick, the former world No. 1, got cheeky on the subject, taking to Twitter last week with a tongue-in-cheek tutorial on how to safely smash a racket and whack a ball without endangering anyone. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Cross-border drug smuggling has been a whack -a-mole process for decades and, as always, there will be efforts by cartels to work around the latest U.S. tactics. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the rapid evolution of the coronavirus has turned variant-specific vaccine development into a game of whack -a-mole, and drug companies are losing. \u2014 Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"Keeping extremist content off of social platforms will always be a necessary game of whack -a-mole. \u2014 The New Yorker , 19 May 2022",
"But ProPublica found that the company\u2019s moderation efforts can amount to little more than a game of whack -a-mole. \u2014 Cezary Podkul, ProPublica , 28 Mar. 2022",
"But comparable sources of methane emissions are often more sporadic\u2014a pipeline leak here, a landfill plume there\u2014a game of whack -a-mole for environmental watchdogs inhibited by limited surveillance. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 17 Feb. 2022",
"But Baric does say the variant-chasing strategy might turn into a game of whack -a-mole: as one variant is vanquished by a new vaccine formula, another variant rises to take its place. \u2014 Charles Schmidt, Scientific American , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Burry\u2019s social media presence is akin to a game of whack -a-mole. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 15 Nov. 2021",
"The labor market for young people to scoop ice cream, wait tables, and watch over a pool from a lifeguard chair is, like so many things, out of whack in the wake of the pandemic. \u2014 Annie Probert, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
"The traditional upfronts were thrown out the window, and scheduling thrown out of whack due to production starts and stops. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 16 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1719, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1736, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably imitative of the sound of a blow":"Verb"
"The Bitcoin whale has long supported the cryptocurrency, even during the latest market downturn. \u2014 Taylor Locke, Fortune , 29 June 2022",
"Despite Nathaniel Philbrick\u2019s persuasive essay on the virtue of the text, that whale just keeps eluding me. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"These guppies are small enough for little fingers to hold, and the whale has an easy-squeeze trigger. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 26 May 2022",
"Yanni and Jones departed June 8 from Old Comfort Point Marina in Hampton and set sail for the Azores, an archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean known for dolphin and whale watching. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 16 May 2022",
"Culture Editor Sean Means and Culture Reporter Palak Jayswal join the podcast to break down how the whale got there and the controversy surrounding its debut. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Supply chain issues impact whale protection rules, feds say The federal government is acknowledging that supply chain issues will prevent all lobstermen from having gear needed to protect North Atlantic right whales before a May 1 deadline. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Lobster shacks stud the sandy shores, emanating tantalizing smells of crustaceans, while stops for whale watching and boating adventures are equal temptations. \u2014 Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure , 2 Apr. 2022",
"One trader likened buying Russian oil to an instance when he was asked to sell oil to a Japanese whale -hunting fleet. \u2014 Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ , 27 Mar. 2022"
"Eventually, wreckage from the S.S. Clifton, began drifting ashore on the Canadian side of Lake Huron, indicating that the whaleback freighter sank. \u2014 Brent Ashcroft, Detroit Free Press , 21 Sep. 2017"
": to propel, strike, or beat so as to produce a loud impact":[],
": with violent abruptness":[
"everything was going well; then wham the deal fell through"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"gave the TV a good wham with her fist, and suddenly the picture came back on",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno and company made their wham -bam-glam debut on \u2018Roxy Music\u2019 50 years ago. \u2014 Jill Krajewski, SPIN , 8 June 2022",
"Perhaps my overall disappointment stems from this pilot stiffness, but the more likely culprit is the standard brashness of American reality television, which is less cinema v\u00e9rit\u00e9 and more wham -bam-thank-you-ma'am. \u2014 Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 Feb. 2020",
"But the movie, for all its retrograde politics and wham -bam machismo, can also be slick, silly fun \u2014 a giddy exercise in freewheeling nihilism, played to the hilt. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 23 Jan. 2020",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"The movie comes at you with a quick, wham -bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Aug. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Goalscorer Asamoah Gyan took the resulting penalty, only to wham it off the top of the bar. \u2014 SI.com , 21 June 2019",
"Goalscorer Asamoah Gyan took the resulting penalty, only to wham it off the top of the bar. \u2014 SI.com , 21 June 2019"
"if you tell anyone about this, I swear I'll put the whammy on you",
"put the whammy on herself by publicly predicting that she would win the tennis tournament",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its closure was seen as an economic double- whammy for Doraville coupled with the Great Recession. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 1 June 2022",
"Stress is kind of a double- whammy trigger, according to a study published in the journal Acta Dermato-Venereologica. \u2014 Kathryn Watson, SELF , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The news from Rakoff\u2019s chambers confirms that Palin isn\u2019t backing away from her defamation claims, despite the double- whammy decisions from a sitting federal judge and a nine-person jury. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Also Thursday, a triple- whammy of strong winds, hail and possible tornadoes is threatening parts of North Carolina, Virginia and Florida, the Storm Prediction Center warned. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"What this means is that U.S. exporters are faced with the double- whammy of a stronger dollar and higher fuel costs. \u2014 Frank Holmes, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Monday and Tuesday brought a double- whammy of severe storms and dozens of tornado reports across Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama -- downing trees and power lines as well as damaging homes and businesses. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Two years ago, the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas suffered a triple whammy . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022",
"In the South and Midwest, a triple whammy of snow, ice and sleet is hammering the region and could leave many without power. \u2014 Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 3 Feb. 2022"
": a lever attached by the bridge or tailpiece of an electric guitar that can be depressed to increase the tension of the strings and produce such effects as vibrato, portamento, and dive bomb":[
"\u2026 he was also a distinctive guitarist with a biting, nasty tone, and was one of the first to make the whammy bar an integral part of his sound.",
"\u2014 Vladimir Bogdanov , All Music Guide to Soul , 2003"
": a structure built along or at an angle from the shore of navigable waters so that ships may lie alongside to receive and discharge cargo and passengers":[],
": the bank of a river or the shore of the sea":[]
},
"examples":[
"tied the rowboat up at the wharf",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ship\u2019s golden cargo was loaded in Skagway at a wharf built by Moore. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 12 June 2022",
"From there the ships sail down the San Joaquin River to the Levin terminal where the ships are topped off at Richmond\u2019s deepwater wharf . \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 June 2022",
"By 1877, the outdated steamer was rotting away unused at a Seattle wharf , even sinking in 1882 and left resting on the mud for a year. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, has become really popular because of new chefs opening restaurants. \u2014 Lea Lane, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
"Officials haven\u2019t found any dead birds next to the dam itself or the fishing wharf , Constellation said. \u2014 Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun , 10 May 2022",
"In the Houston Ship Channel, the Port of Houston Authority used $10 million in program funds in 2013 to extend the Baytown wharf . \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Within view was the wharf at which Kader arrived in 2019. \u2014 Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Republic , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Many tourists rushing through Bergen take a quick snap of the iconic Bryggen wharf buildings and move on. \u2014 David Nikel, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English hwearf embankment, wharf; akin to Old English hweorfan to turn, Old High German hwerban , Greek karpos wrist":""
": how remarkable or striking for good or bad qualities":[
"\u2014 used especially in exclamatory utterances and dependent clauses What mountains! Remember what fun we had? What a suggestion! What a charming girl!"
"Read his full remarks from the Phoenix rally below: TRUMP: What a crowd. \u2014 Time , 23 Aug. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who's still traveling in Europe, says that schools will open September 5, no matter what Rauner does about funding. \u2014 Kate Shepherd, Chicago Reader , 20 July 2017",
"Senior Matt Boyle, the biggest newcomer on offense as Jack Sznajder's successor at quarterback, knows what a Cooney brings to the table. \u2014 Blake Baumgartner, Naperville Sun , 18 July 2017",
"IndyStar: What stands out to you in Matt Balis\u2019 workouts? \u2014 Laken Litman, Indianapolis Star , 14 July 2017",
"The costumes were incredible, and a highlight for the kids was guessing what kinds of insects were performing. \u2014 Jennifer Jhon, South Florida Parenting , 14 July 2017",
"Customers over 65 years old will be asked additional questions to catch any discrepancies between what they were told by contractors and what contractors submit to the lender. \u2014 Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com , 13 July 2017",
"In what ways does this distinct setting influence the story? \u2014 Patricia Shannon, Southern Living , 11 July 2017",
"If our medieval predecessors felt it important enough to create and save these texts centuries ago, there\u2019s no telling what discoveries could be revealed under the light of the Manuscript Illuminator. \u2014 Ken Krebs, Scientific American Blog Network , 7 July 2017",
"Francona has been undergoing tests to determine what has been causing lightheadedness and increasing his heart rate. \u2014 New York Times , 5 July 2017"
"there's always one random whatsit left over every time I put a bookcase together",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Disaster strikes when Loretta is kidnaped by eccentric zillionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes to use her anthropological knowhow to recover an ancient whatsit from a remote jungle island. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 24 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral\u2019s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Equal parts art-house whatsit and car-fetish classic, the film works so well thanks to director Sarafian\u2019s ability to shoot a chase, as well as his feel for the landscape. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 2 July 2021",
"The numbers of whosits and the intensity of the whatsits really does depend on who is running. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018",
"Thirty-seven percent of whosits voting at a greater intensity than 41 percent of whatsits , etc. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018"
": something that is hard to classify or whose name is unknown or forgotten : thingamajig":[
"\u2026 dozens of multi-colored plastic thingies, metal gizmos in various shapes and a rubber whatchamacallit with a hole in the middle.",
"\u2014 Dick Wolfsie",
"Joni had reached the point in her life when the wrong words flew out of her mouth. And when she tried to find the correct word, it inexplicably vanished. \"Where's the whatchamacallit ?\"",
"I can't find the whatchamacallit that holds the door open.",
"I need one of those whatchamacallits to connect the two patch cords.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ranking only includes the 193 breeds that the AKC recognizes, so unfortunately, mixed breeds like maltipoos, goldendoodles and whatchamacallits aren't on it. \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 9 May 2020",
"Fired on Wednesday by Toronto, Mike Babcock will have plenty of time to rest and recharge before the Totems, er, the whatchamacallits , drop the puck for their inaugural season in 2021. \u2014 Ross Mckeon, SFChronicle.com , 22 Nov. 2019"
"\u2014 sometimes used interjectionally to suggest the unimportance of an issue or decision between alternatives go see a movie, watch TV,\u2014 whatever"
"\u2014 used after the substantive it modifies with any or with an expressed or implied negative in any order whatever \u2014 W. G. Moulton no food whatever"
"\u201cWhat's that smell?\u201d \u201cI don't know, but whatever it is, it's awful!\u201d",
"Whatever you do , don't press that button!",
"Adjective",
"She will buy the painting at whatever price.",
"There's no evidence whatever to support your theory.",
"Adverb",
"whatever the reviews say, I still think it was a great play",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Central to whatever the answer might be is the issue of race and policing \u2013 the same as when Watts exploded in 1965 and then in 1992, with south Los Angeles again the epicenter of violence that spread to other parts of Southern California. \u2014 Theresa Walker, Orange County Register , 30 Apr. 2017",
"The symptoms, for whatever reason, took a turn for the worse maybe five days ago. \u2014 Anthony Slater, The Mercury News , 23 Apr. 2017",
"Whatever spoils of tour come back with them are to be conscientiously invested. \u2014 Joe Rubino, The Know , 30 Mar. 2017",
"Basically helping out with whatever needed to be done. \u2014 Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities , 25 Jan. 2017",
"The show often has a little segment on the history of whatever pile of carbohydrates the contestants have to construct. \u2014 The Washington Post, The Denver Post , 3 Jan. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Wants to be sure her friends notice her new whatever -she's-wearing. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 8 May 2021",
"And so the Administration of Harvard, by its own admission, has taken no action whatever . \u2014 William F. Buckley Jr., National Review , 23 Oct. 2017",
"Obviously nobody is going to listen to me on the subject of clowns, so whatever . \u2014 Marc Snetiker, EW.com , 17 Oct. 2017",
"Most fares are less than $330, which is whatever -the-Norwegian-word-for-remarkable-is for flights that usually cost at least $750. \u2014 Meredith Carey, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 15 Mar. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"To go to the movies or to buy something and buy food or whatnot . \u2014 Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 June 2022",
"But some projects have been talked about, [involving] some of his upcoming scripts and whatnot . \u2014 Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"The set appears to consist of the aforementioned easel and sewing table complete with tiny sewing implements inside, plus a bookcase/cabinet filled with books and whatnot , a sofa, two side chairs, a table and a piano with sheet music. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 1 June 2022",
"There are certainly enough big-name sequels and prequels and whatnot coming up between now and September to make that a possibility. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 15 May 2022",
"Death isn\u2019t necessarily an obstacle, with flashbacks and fantasies and whatnot . \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Definitely taking it to the next level with them flowers and whatnot . \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Definitely taking it to the next level with them flowers and whatnot . \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 3 Mar. 2022",
"People would slowly go off to get water and whatnot . \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022"
"there's always one random whatsit left over every time I put a bookcase together",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Disaster strikes when Loretta is kidnaped by eccentric zillionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes to use her anthropological knowhow to recover an ancient whatsit from a remote jungle island. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 24 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral\u2019s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Equal parts art-house whatsit and car-fetish classic, the film works so well thanks to director Sarafian\u2019s ability to shoot a chase, as well as his feel for the landscape. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 2 July 2021",
"The numbers of whosits and the intensity of the whatsits really does depend on who is running. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018",
"Thirty-seven percent of whosits voting at a greater intensity than 41 percent of whatsits , etc. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018"
"Disaster strikes when Loretta is kidnaped by eccentric zillionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes to use her anthropological knowhow to recover an ancient whatsit from a remote jungle island. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 24 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral\u2019s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Equal parts art-house whatsit and car-fetish classic, the film works so well thanks to director Sarafian\u2019s ability to shoot a chase, as well as his feel for the landscape. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 2 July 2021",
"The numbers of whosits and the intensity of the whatsits really does depend on who is running. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018",
"Thirty-seven percent of whosits voting at a greater intensity than 41 percent of whatsits , etc. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 24 Aug. 2018"
": a small nematode worm ( Anguina tritici ) that is parasitic on wheat , oats, and other grasses, that invades the plant at the leaf axil as a larva where it induces stunting and distortion of leaves, and that subsequently passes to the inflorescence and causes the seeds to be replaced by galls in which the larva matures and produces a new generation of larvae to be distributed in the soil when the gall is shed and decays":[]
"Harper rents a British country house to work through her trauma, but the men of the local village (all of whom are played by the actor Rory Kinnear) insinuate, belittle and wheedle her, too. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"But Kirpal would wheedle the staff, charm Mrs. Tan, tease the aides. \u2014 Rachel Heng, The New Yorker , 31 May 2021",
"Plaintive, breathless, and more than a little disappointed by the shabbiness of the place, Fagan is a nonthreatening figure, the sort of bloke who might wheedle a free pint in a Clerkenwell pub. \u2014 Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner , 10 Dec. 2020",
"His Frank exhibits no concern for his son, but does want to make sure Maggie gets none of the benefit of the trust-fund money Tom had to wheedle out of his father and more sympathetic brother Nate (Josh McKenzie). \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 2 Sep. 2020",
"Still, when the weather starts to feel more summery \u2014 however punishing that summer might be \u2014 burger cravings always seem to wheedle their way out of the woodwork. \u2014 Dominic Armato, azcentral , 28 May 2020",
"But when Rose-Lynn opens her mouth to sing\u2013her speaking voice has a Glaswegian burr, but her singing voice is all Tennessee\u2013you\u2019re wheedled into forgetting her flaws and sins and wanting only the best for her and her kids. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 20 June 2019",
"One of the latter, Hugh Dancy\u2019s Charlie, tries, almost successfully, to wheedle her into bed; another, Reid Scott\u2019s Tom, the show\u2019s head monologue writer, feels threatened and tries to block her best ideas. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 7 June 2019",
"Another is about a very loud teenage neighbor in the West Village who wheedles his way into her psyche. \u2014 Sophie Haigney, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 May 2018"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for wheedle cajole , coax , soft-soap , blandish , wheedle mean to influence or persuade by pleasing words or actions. cajole suggests the deliberate use of flattery to persuade in the face of reluctance or reasonable objections. cajoled him into cheating on the final exam coax implies gentle and persistent words or actions employed to produce a desired effect. coaxed the cat out of the tree soft-soap refers to using smooth and somewhat insincere talk usually for personal gain. politicians soft-soaping eligible voters blandish implies a more open desire to win a person over by effusive praise and affectionate actions. legislators blandished with promises of support wheedle suggests more strongly than cajole the use of seductive appeal or artful words in persuading. hucksters wheedling her life's savings out of her",
"The car's rear wheels started to spin on the icy road.",
"the wheels of a train",
"a suitcase with wheels on the bottom",
"a wheel of cheddar cheese",
"Verb",
"Doctors wheeled the patient into the operating room.",
"He wheeled his motorcycle into the garage.",
"Our waiter wheeled out a small dessert cart.",
"She wheeled around in her chair when I entered the room.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The rear drive variants will start at $60,000 and the all wheel drive at $64,000. \u2014 Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Dropping the coin for the ID.4's available all- wheel -drive system adds a second motor that powers the SUV's front axle. \u2014 Car and Driver , 24 June 2022",
"By the early 2000s, hundreds of locals were driving to Truck Beach on sunny weekends, parking their four- wheel -drive trucks side-by-side, Daytona Beach style. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Prices for the 2023 HR-V start at $23,650 for a front- wheel -drive LX model. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
"For a car of its size, the EQS 580 offers a tiny turning radius of just 35.7 feet (10.9 m), thanks to rear- wheel steering with a 10\u00b0 range of motion. \u2014 Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica , 17 June 2022",
"The basic Monarch, by comparison, costs $58,000 and its four- wheel -drive model $68,000. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2022",
"Dogs and helicopters were deployed and four- wheel -drive vehicles were used to comb through desert land near her home. \u2014 Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2022",
"Despite all the modifications to the four- wheel -drive Sierra, Overland Expo has mainly left its 420 hp, 6.2-liter V-8 powertrain alone, with the exception of adding a MagnaFlow exhaust. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 19 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Birds are perched on rocky crags, while others wheel around a tree. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Nov. 2021",
"When a windstorm hits, simply wheel the greenhouse into a garage or shed and wait for the storm to pass. \u2014 Rachel Center, Better Homes & Gardens , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The 99-day impasse meant Cohen couldn't wheel , nor deal, nor even talk to his new ace, who was a pivotal figure at the negotiating table for the MLB Players' Association. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Seagulls wheel overhead as the waters of nearby Muir Creek flow into the Salish Sea. \u2014 Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Feb. 2022",
"United also kicks in meals, and Delta has been known to wheel snack and drink carts through gate areas during delays, but most other carriers make no promises regarding food. \u2014 Kelly Bastone, Outside Online , 4 Nov. 2014",
"The night was comfortably warm and the front door had been propped open, allowing Ms. Wiesner to wheel herself up the sidewalk\u2019s slight incline to the threshold and into the dining room in a single, unassisted shot. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Vegetable vendor Raghu Dayal, who\u2019s 50, defied a weekend curfew to wheel his cart around the streets of New Delhi on Sunday evening. \u2014 Biman Mukherji, Fortune , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Groups of protesters wheel jerrycans in wagons past them, honk their truck horns in time with the music as people dance and remain squarely parked on the street. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Feb. 2022"
"Middle English, from Old English hweogol, hw\u0113ol ; akin to Old Norse hv\u0113l wheel, Greek kyklos circle, wheel, Skt cakra , Latin colere to cultivate, inhabit, Sanskrit carati he moves, wanders":"Noun"
"The rear drive variants will start at $60,000 and the all wheel drive at $64,000. \u2014 Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Dropping the coin for the ID.4's available all- wheel -drive system adds a second motor that powers the SUV's front axle. \u2014 Car and Driver , 24 June 2022",
"By the early 2000s, hundreds of locals were driving to Truck Beach on sunny weekends, parking their four- wheel -drive trucks side-by-side, Daytona Beach style. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"Prices for the 2023 HR-V start at $23,650 for a front- wheel -drive LX model. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
"For a car of its size, the EQS 580 offers a tiny turning radius of just 35.7 feet (10.9 m), thanks to rear- wheel steering with a 10\u00b0 range of motion. \u2014 Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica , 17 June 2022",
"The basic Monarch, by comparison, costs $58,000 and its four- wheel -drive model $68,000. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2022",
"Dogs and helicopters were deployed and four- wheel -drive vehicles were used to comb through desert land near her home. \u2014 Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2022",
"Despite all the modifications to the four- wheel -drive Sierra, Overland Expo has mainly left its 420 hp, 6.2-liter V-8 powertrain alone, with the exception of adding a MagnaFlow exhaust. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 19 May 2022",
"Birds are perched on rocky crags, while others wheel around a tree. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Nov. 2021",
"When a windstorm hits, simply wheel the greenhouse into a garage or shed and wait for the storm to pass. \u2014 Rachel Center, Better Homes & Gardens , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The 99-day impasse meant Cohen couldn't wheel , nor deal, nor even talk to his new ace, who was a pivotal figure at the negotiating table for the MLB Players' Association. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Seagulls wheel overhead as the waters of nearby Muir Creek flow into the Salish Sea. \u2014 Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Feb. 2022",
"United also kicks in meals, and Delta has been known to wheel snack and drink carts through gate areas during delays, but most other carriers make no promises regarding food. \u2014 Kelly Bastone, Outside Online , 4 Nov. 2014",
"The night was comfortably warm and the front door had been propped open, allowing Ms. Wiesner to wheel herself up the sidewalk\u2019s slight incline to the threshold and into the dining room in a single, unassisted shot. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Vegetable vendor Raghu Dayal, who\u2019s 50, defied a weekend curfew to wheel his cart around the streets of New Delhi on Sunday evening. \u2014 Biman Mukherji, Fortune , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Groups of protesters wheel jerrycans in wagons past them, honk their truck horns in time with the music as people dance and remain squarely parked on the street. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Feb. 2022"
"Middle English, from Old English hweogol, hw\u0113ol ; akin to Old Norse hv\u0113l wheel, Greek kyklos circle, wheel, Skt cakra , Latin colere to cultivate, inhabit, Sanskrit carati he moves, wanders":"Noun"
"Ron would wheeze while hiking, and sometimes at night, but a nebulizer made his breathing less strained. \u2014 Patrick Hruby, Washington Post , 30 Aug. 2021",
"But all of us are likely to feel the effects of a sick and wheezing economy. \u2014 Jarvis Deberry, cleveland , 18 Apr. 2020",
"By March 29, though, Massamore was wheezing and having trouble holding a conversation. \u2014 Mandy Mclaren, The Courier-Journal , 9 Apr. 2020",
"No social media existed at the time, but people were frantically texting to each other about a new type of acute influenza that was making people cough and wheeze . \u2014 Ilaria Maria Sala, Quartz , 12 Feb. 2020",
"The room was small and dimly lit, with pocked floors, bare walls, and a fold-out table littered with empty juice bottles; a small pink fan wheezed in the corner. \u2014 Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker , 3 Oct. 2019",
"When her daughter started wheezing , Sainz stopped taking her to the park. \u2014 Erin Stone, azcentral , 31 Dec. 2019",
"There are photos of the president grinning out from the middle of some ruddy array of wheezing burghers or gouty lawmen, always shot from far enough away that everyone\u2019s shoes are visible. \u2014 David Roth, The New Republic , 19 Dec. 2019",
"That may help explain the desperation to get ahead, manifested by their factcheckUK wheeze . \u2014 The Economist , 21 Nov. 2019",
"The loud wheeze of air brakes proceeds a concussive thud. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Or heard a lithium battery wheeze its last, horrifying breath? \u2014 Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker , 1 Sep. 2021",
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the Institute of Medicine has linked indoor exposure to mold with upper respiratory tract symptoms, coughing, and wheeze in otherwise healthy people. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2021",
"Blunt, 38, has this past year to thank for the fear that every little rasp or wheeze could be a sign of the pandemic. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 14 May 2021",
"There are no heroes here, just Kidman fully immersing herself in a character for whom every action is an attack, for whom every word is a wheeze , and for whom every movement looks labored. \u2014 Roxana Hadadi, Vulture , 25 Feb. 2021",
"This was a questionable wheeze even when European airports lobbied for it in the 1950s. \u2014 The Economist , 27 Feb. 2021",
"That wheeze of mediocrity prompted the NFL to team with Jay-Z and his company, Roc Nation, giving the rap mogul an influential voice in the league\u2019s marquee music events, including the halftime show. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, ajc , 3 Feb. 2021",
"However, there were no significant associations between vaping nicotine and wheeze . \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 24 Dec. 2020"
"Middle English whesen , probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse hv\u00e6sa to hiss; akin to Old English hw\u01e3st action of blowing, Sanskrit \u015bvasiti he blows, snorts":"Verb"
"Rebecca Mead reports on the strangeness and abandon of spring break, and Colin Stokes provides a wheezy guide to allergy season. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The voice: a low, guttural rasp, it\u2019s the aural equivalent of slithering, the wheezy lamentation of a leprechaun long past his sell-by date. \u2014 Henry Alford, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Upgrading from the wheezy 285-hp V-6 to the optional 270-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter four and its mandatory eight-speed automatic cost $2000. \u2014 Mike Sutton, Car and Driver , 26 Nov. 2021",
"Eventually Diana makes her way to the compound, late, gumming up the works of the wheezy old machine of the House of Windsor. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Less expensive small pickups exist in the marketplace, but many are not as well equipped or limit you to a wheezy four-cylinder engine\u2014or, in the case of the also-new Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz, are unibody SUVs with cargo beds. \u2014 Mike Sutton, Car and Driver , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Big Boy is quick to take offense at human visitors, reacting with exaggerated raising and lowering of his head, which makes his neck look especially snake-like, and protesting like a chihuahua barking musically through a wheezy whistle. \u2014 Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com , 22 May 2021",
"Its limited array of chord buttons on the left and standard keyboard on the right have provided Joyce a surprisingly vast palette, and its sound \u2014 both scruffy and sturdy, dreamy and a little wheezy \u2014 has become something like an early signature. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Dec. 2020",
"The clown had been silent for years, Benson swears, but when Christopher arrived in June, the clown perked up and found its wheezy laugh again. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2020"
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English welke , from Old English weoloc ; akin to Middle Dutch willoc whelk and perhaps to Latin volvere to turn \u2014 more at voluble":"Noun",
"Middle English whelke , from Old English hwylca , from hwelian to suppurate":"Noun"
": to overcome in thought or feeling : overwhelm":[
"whelmed with a rush of joy",
"\u2014 G. A. Wagner"
],
": to pass or go over something so as to bury or submerge it":[],
": to turn (something, such as a dish or vessel) upside down usually to cover something : cover or engulf completely with usually disastrous effect":[]
"the news so whelmed them that they were stunned into silence",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This result should be a wake-up call for Emery and his team, with Arsenal being criticised heavily in the media after yet another under- whelming performance. \u2014 SI.com , 22 Oct. 2019",
"Its reputation is built on the backs of 3-series gone by, as this is the first ever 3 to merely whelm us. \u2014 Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver , 26 July 2017"
"playtime's over, it's time to gather up the whelps and head home",
"Verb",
"The dog whelped in March.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Given its importance as one of two Northwest Atlantic harp seal whelping grounds, the area is one of Nat Geo\u2019s Best Trips for 2020. \u2014 Jennifer Hayes, National Geographic , 19 Dec. 2019",
"And from Susan\u2019s line, the queen\u2019s breeding program at the Kennels of Windsor whelped hundreds of corgi puppies. \u2014 William Booth, Washington Post , 18 Apr. 2018",
"From the queen's breeding program at the Kennels of Windsor, hundreds of royal corgis have been whelped . \u2014 William Booth, chicagotribune.com , 18 Apr. 2018"
": at a former and usually less prosperous time":[
"brag fondly of having known him when",
"\u2014 Vance Packard"
],
": at any or every time that":[
"when he listens to music, he falls asleep"
],
": at or during the time that : while":[
"went fishing when he was a boy"
],
": at or during which time":[],
": at what time":[
"when will you return"
],
": considering that":[
"why use water at all when you can drown in it",
"\u2014 Stuart Chase"
],
": in spite of the fact that : although":[
"quit politics when I might have had a great career in it"
],
": in the event that : if":[
"a contestant is disqualified when he disobeys the rules"
],
": just at the moment that":[
"stop writing when the bell rings"
],
": the time in which something is done or comes about":[
"troubled his head very little about the hows and whens of life",
"\u2014 Laurence Sterne"
],
": the time or occasion at or in which":[
"tomorrow is when we must decide",
"humor is when you laugh",
"\u2014 Earl Rovit"
],
": what or which time":[
"life-long homes for those \u2026 who have lived here since when",
"\u2014 Kim Waller"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adverb",
"When did the American Civil War begin?",
"The detective asked me when I last saw her.",
"When is the next performance?",
"It was a time when people didn't have to lock their doors.",
"the happy days when we were together",
"We're still waiting for the test results, when we'll decide our next move.",
"Conjunction",
"When he finally showed up, he was drunk.",
"When I was in school, we didn't have computers.",
"You can go when the bell rings.",
"Call me when you get home.",
"Things were better when he got a job.",
"When he watches television, he falls asleep.",
"She quit politics when she might have had a great career in it.",
"Pronoun",
"He retired in 1998, since when he has been devoting his time to gardening.",
"You need the report by when ?",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Brogdon brings a level of court maturity to the Celtics that was lacking when Smart was on the bench. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"That\u2019s when one of the woman\u2019s friends started recording. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 1 July 2022",
"So yes, a lot of money gets all intertwined, particularly when lending is in the mix. \u2014 Jessica Mathews, Fortune , 1 July 2022",
"Cooking at home can get pretty bland, especially when couples have been together for a while. \u2014 Kaitlin Madden, Good Housekeeping , 1 July 2022",
"No one wins when shame and cold-heartedness are on the table. \u2014 Meghan Rose, Glamour , 1 July 2022",
"Even when the problem is principally airport-related, that can also mean flights delayed and canceled. \u2014 John Walton, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"What\u2019s more, at a time when action addressing climate change is at a premium, this decision will kneecap our ability to address harmful power plant emissions. \u2014 Sabrina Eaton, cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"Customers receive a text when their orders are ready to pick up at the sandwich shop, which can be approached from outside or from a shortcut through the bar. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Ordinarily, sussing out the who-knows-what-and- when of damaging revelations is a Beltway parlor game. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Bumblefest and normalcy are not words that often appear in the same sentence, but the Sept. 17 return of Steve Rullman\u2019s modern-rock hootenanny in downtown West Palm Beach now feels like a comforting symbol of back- when . \u2014 Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Frankly, the question was never an if, but a when and a how. \u2014 Nicholas Quah, Vulture , 30 Mar. 2021",
"How about a streaming product versus a must-see- when -and-where-cable-event? \u2014 Ars Staff, Ars Technica , 26 Dec. 2020",
"Williams, in short, paired all her how-to with a when -to wherewithal sometimes absent in her first two seasons. \u2014 Mike Anthony, courant.com , 20 Dec. 2020",
"Dan Marino lost his first game as a rookie starter way-back- when to Buffalo in overtime 38-35. \u2014 Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com , 22 Oct. 2020",
"These squishable- when -they're-not-spitting camelids hold antibodies that could hold the key to treating COVID-19, scientists suggested in a study published Tuesday in the journal Cell. \u2014 TheWeek , 6 May 2020",
"Saturday\u2019s 38-31 win at Nebraska put to bed a lot of since- whens and last-times in Bloomington. \u2014 Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star , 28 Oct. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Pronoun",
"1616, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Conjunction"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English hwanne, hwenne , from hwanne, hwenne , adverb":"Conjunction",
"Middle English, from Old English hwanne, hwenne ; akin to Old High German hwanne when, Old English hw\u0101 who \u2014 more at who":"Adverb"
"we've decided on the when, but we still haven't resolved the where for the party",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"The latest architectural addition to the KIVFF, located right next to the Hotel Thermal, is where the festival\u2019s public forums, filmmaker Q&As and after-hour concerts take place. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
"He was taken to the police station where he was held without bail, police said. \u2014 Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"At least eight people were killed and more than 20 wounded in Lysychansk when Russian rockets hit an area where a crowd gathered to obtain water from a tank, Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau And Francesca Ebel, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
"This highly competitive election could help decide who controls Congress in 2022, where Democrats hope to preserve their fragile majority. \u2014 ABC News , 28 June 2022",
"Wilson sustained severe injuries and was transported to Jefferson Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, police said. \u2014 I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online , 28 June 2022",
"Former President Donald Trump stands with Blake Masters in a new TV ad, where Trump reiterates his endorsement of Masters and attacks two of Masters\u2019 opponents, Mark Brnovich and Jim Lamon. \u2014 Ben Kamisar, NBC News , 28 June 2022",
"The situation is especially pronounced in the right wing of the Republican Party, where the post-Trump chaos has left few permanent factions, and allegiances are being constantly remade. \u2014 Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker , 28 June 2022",
"Drivers must stop and turn north or south at the intersection where the crash occurred, according to the Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office. \u2014 Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star , 28 June 2022",
"Because if not, then democracy in America is going down in a painful heap like a guy kneed in the you-know- where . \u2014 Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times , 18 Jan. 2021",
"Because one important lesson of life is the where and when of things. \u2014 Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press , 16 June 2019",
"The plot is a little messy and undisciplined, throwing into the second act a few wait- where -did-that-come-from incidents that may have been lifted from the book, but are baffling in the play. \u2014 Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com , 24 Aug. 2019",
"The next step is to get a development agreement with the orchestra that will outline the where and what. \u2014 Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com , 20 June 2018",
"Being ankle deep in mud, on a narrow trail traversing a precipitous hillside that was sloping down who-knew-how-far-or- where , and then trying to collect a specimen hidden just out of reach behind a tangle of greenery, would fray anyone\u2019s nerves. \u2014 The Economist , 17 May 2018",
"Yes, that's Iron Man and Dr. Strange using their superpowers to help a young female consumer arrive safely at the home that has just been approved for a mortgage from you-know- where . \u2014 Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press , 2 Apr. 2018",
"The Fab Five pepper their subjects with compliments, I-know- where -you\u2019re-coming-froms and hugs. \u2014 Bonnie Wertheim, New York Times , 6 Mar. 2018",
"Given the academy\u2019s loosey-goosey- where -did-the-money-go history, Mr. Colacello was wary at first. \u2014 Jacob Bernstein, New York Times , 26 Apr. 2017"
"whereabouts do you expect to be on your journey tonight?",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"Kelly later expressed anger and frustration over the shooting and urged parents to be aware of their child's whereabouts . \u2014 Eve Chen, USA TODAY , 30 May 2022",
"Anyone who sees him or has knowledge of his whereabouts is asked to call 911. \u2014 Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates. \u2014 Rosana Hughes, ajc , 23 May 2022",
"Anyone who sees Walker or knows of his whereabouts is asked to call 911. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Anyone who has seen Logan or is aware of his whereabouts is asked to call the Department of Corrections Fugitive Warrants Division at 405-425-2570. \u2014 Stephanie Pagones, Fox News , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The mother, Kimberly Cooper, was arrested, along with Paislee's noncustodial father and grandfather, who both denied having knowledge of Paislee's whereabouts when police executed their search warrant this week. \u2014 Mark Morales, CNN , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Anderson's car was later found burnt and destroyed in the UEI College parking lot, about 5 miles from where he was last seen near Seventh Street and Maryland Avenue, with no indications of his whereabouts . \u2014 Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Apparently he had already been picked up by medics, and the first word of his whereabouts came from police. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Police are currently trying to fill in a two-hour gap in their timeline of his whereabouts . \u2014 Will Mcduffie, ABC News , 28 Jan. 2022"
"Middle English wheraboutes (from wher aboute + -s , adverb suffix) & wher aboute , from where, wher where + about, aboute about \u2014 more at whence":"Adverb"
"whereabouts do you expect to be on your journey tonight?",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"Kelly later expressed anger and frustration over the shooting and urged parents to be aware of their child's whereabouts . \u2014 Eve Chen, USA TODAY , 30 May 2022",
"Anyone who sees him or has knowledge of his whereabouts is asked to call 911. \u2014 Please return to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for updates. \u2014 Rosana Hughes, ajc , 23 May 2022",
"Anyone who sees Walker or knows of his whereabouts is asked to call 911. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Anyone who has seen Logan or is aware of his whereabouts is asked to call the Department of Corrections Fugitive Warrants Division at 405-425-2570. \u2014 Stephanie Pagones, Fox News , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The mother, Kimberly Cooper, was arrested, along with Paislee's noncustodial father and grandfather, who both denied having knowledge of Paislee's whereabouts when police executed their search warrant this week. \u2014 Mark Morales, CNN , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Anderson's car was later found burnt and destroyed in the UEI College parking lot, about 5 miles from where he was last seen near Seventh Street and Maryland Avenue, with no indications of his whereabouts . \u2014 Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Apparently he had already been picked up by medics, and the first word of his whereabouts came from police. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Police are currently trying to fill in a two-hour gap in their timeline of his whereabouts . \u2014 Will Mcduffie, ABC News , 28 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Conjunction",
"1605, in the meaning defined above":"Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English wheraboutes (from wher aboute + -s , adverb suffix) & wher aboute , from where, wher where + about, aboute about \u2014 more at whence":"Adverb"
"whereas you chose to participate in this stupid prank, you will be held responsible as well",
"whereas there are many good reasons to switch to Plan B, we must stick with Plan A as long as it is feasible",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Conjunction",
"Brian Slade is not a human whereas all the other characters have their human elements. \u2014 Jaya Saxena, GQ , 20 June 2018",
"There were a couple of reasons why the Prohibitionists didn't want to do that, but the primary reason was that a law can be undone by the next Congress-- whereas , up until that point, no one had ever repealed a constitutional amendment. \u2014 Lillian Cunningham, Washington Post , 1 Jan. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Brian Slade is not a human whereas all the other characters have their human elements. \u2014 Jaya Saxena, GQ , 20 June 2018",
"There were a couple of reasons why the Prohibitionists didn't want to do that, but the primary reason was that a law can be undone by the next Congress-- whereas , up until that point, no one had ever repealed a constitutional amendment. \u2014 Lillian Cunningham, Washington Post , 1 Jan. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Conjunction",
"1795, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English where as , from where + as":"Conjunction"
"As in most of Tim and Eric\u2019s sketch humor, there are few whys and wherefores . \u2014 Austin Considine, New York Times , 26 Mar. 2020",
"Julian Fellowes, a master writer who understands so well all the peculiarities of time and place, manners and historical significance of the whys and wherefores of his fictional inhabitants, is to be applauded. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Oct. 2019",
"In addition to gleaning the why and wherefore behind America\u2019s foundational document, teenage listeners will meet up with the Declaration of Independence and a roster of seminal Supreme Court decisions. \u2014 Louis Bayard, New York Times , 28 May 2018",
"The book casts its spell in revealing the whys and wherefores of the killings, as investigated by Burke\u2019s onetime high school classmate, Rob Barrett, a Boston FBI agent whom Burke likes nothing better than to humiliate. \u2014 Lloyd Sachs, chicagotribune.com , 21 May 2018",
"Harris will explain the whys and wherefores of rituals and the choreography of services. \u2014 Courant Community , 5 June 2017"
"A project as big as this requires a lot of financial wherewithal .",
"He doesn't have the wherewithal to finish what he started.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Very few everyday individual citizens would have the wherewithal to do this. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Home ownership is the way to go for long-term investment and equity, if an individual has the wherewithal to get into the market. \u2014 Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Americans\u2019 appetite for goods, along with the wherewithal to pay for them, has contributed to shortages and transport logjams that have driven inflation to a 40-year high. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Only research scientists have the wherewithal to counter the claims of practitioner-experts. \u2014 David L. Faigman, Nicholas Scurich, Scientific American , 25 May 2022",
"Whether Shihab had the wherewithal to carry out such a scheme is in question; the documents indicate that the FBI secretly provided the firearms, which were rendered inert, to the informant. \u2014 Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY , 24 May 2022",
"Most athletes don\u2019t have the wherewithal to come up with a sophisticated program that will improve performance and avoid detection on their own. \u2014 Dan Weil, WSJ , 12 May 2022",
"Whether Russia has the wherewithal to swallow up such a large stretch of Ukrainian territory is debatable, especially in view of the enormous losses its military suffered in the battle for Kyiv. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
"In some recent years, no Lotus cars sold in the U.S. Questioned whether Lotus has the wherewithal to scale from less than 2,000 cars a year into a very competitive segment of the auto market, not only EVs but also SUVs, Windle is confident. \u2014 Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com , 29 Mar. 2022"
": to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone)":[
"whet a knife"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We had some wine to whet our appetites.",
"The ads are trying to whet booksellers' interest.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But this summation from our sister publication Variety, about the second half of Season 4, should whet your appetite quite nicely. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 2 July 2022",
"On a recent evening, customers trickled into the dining room, where they were offered a canap\u00e9 \u2014 a small, savory pastry \u2014 baked with aged parmesan to whet their appetites. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Before the game, a recreational bettor can hypothetically place a series of 10 microbets for $10 each to whet his gambling juices. \u2014 Matt Rybaltowski, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"And to whet the public\u2019s appetite, the German automaker released a teaser image of the vehicle. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Those who set up the Canadian Open this week have done their best to make the venerable St. George\u2019s Golf and Country Club whet the appetite of many who will tee it up in Brookline next week. \u2014 Jim Mcbride, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Read on for 10 pieces of restaurant news to whet your appetite for April 2022. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Perhaps doing so will further whet your appetite to look into the AI Ethics arena all told. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The taqueros here are masterful at mixing just the right ratio of fat to muscle in their taco meats; the carnitas border on just greasy enough to whet a late night appetite. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The bird ecology program has a partial classroom lesson, albeit with examples of woodpeckers, red tailed hawks, saw whet owls, and other birds on permanent display. \u2014 Denise Coffey, courant.com , 4 Nov. 2019",
"Threatened and Endangered Raptors: Wednesday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m. Meet an American kestrel, a peregrine falcon, a whet owl and an eagle and learn what causes raptors to be threatened and endangered, with Horizon Wings. \u2014 Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"The list includes three reds, five whites and four whet -your-palate 2017 pinks. \u2014 Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2018",
"Your appetite is whet by watching the chef masterly slicing the succulent pork right off the spit; the resulting taco does not disappoint. \u2014 Olivia Abel, Country Living , 22 June 2017",
"And a tiny northern saw- whet owl, blind in one eye after crashing into a window, will begin training to be an educational bird. \u2014 Colorado Springs Gazette, The Denver Post , 21 Jan. 2017"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"circa 1628, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English whetten , from Old English hwettan ; akin to Old High German wezzen to whet, waz sharp":"Verb"
"Delicious smells from the kitchen whetted our appetites ."
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"they've only been married a very few weeks, whether or no",
"\u2014 Thomas Hardy"
],
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"Conjunction",
"That supposes I would have the wisdom to decide what is in fact right and what is wrong, and the humility to consider whether any action I could take would make things better or worse. \u2014 P. D. James , The Private Patient , 2008",
"In his later years, Turing turned to the question of whether machines could be made to think the central question of artificial intelligence. \u2014 Chuck Leddy , Boston Globe , 15 Jan. 2006",
"If you tell me that something is a pleasure, I do not know whether it is more like revenge, or buttered toast, or success, or adoration, or relief from danger, or a good scratch. \u2014 C. S. Lewis , An Experiment in Criticism , 1961",
"I don't know whether they were invited.",
"She was uncertain whether to go or stay.",
"Pronoun",
"\u2026 we did not indeed know where it was, and so we might get a great deal, or a little, we did not know whether ; \u2026 \u2014 Daniel Defoe , The Adventures of Captain Singleton , 1720",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Conjunction",
"At the conclusion of the hearing, slated to last three days, Judge Lisa Novak will determine whether there is enough evidence for Li and Bayat to stand trial before a jury. \u2014 Aaron Kinney, The Mercury News , 23 Feb. 2017"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Conjunction",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Pronoun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English hw\u00e6ther, hwether ; akin to Old High German hwedar which of two, Latin uter , Greek poteros , Old English hw\u0101 who \u2014 more at who":"Pronoun and Conjunction"
"The ads are trying to whet booksellers' interest.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But this summation from our sister publication Variety, about the second half of Season 4, should whet your appetite quite nicely. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 2 July 2022",
"On a recent evening, customers trickled into the dining room, where they were offered a canap\u00e9 \u2014 a small, savory pastry \u2014 baked with aged parmesan to whet their appetites. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Before the game, a recreational bettor can hypothetically place a series of 10 microbets for $10 each to whet his gambling juices. \u2014 Matt Rybaltowski, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"And to whet the public\u2019s appetite, the German automaker released a teaser image of the vehicle. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Those who set up the Canadian Open this week have done their best to make the venerable St. George\u2019s Golf and Country Club whet the appetite of many who will tee it up in Brookline next week. \u2014 Jim Mcbride, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Read on for 10 pieces of restaurant news to whet your appetite for April 2022. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Perhaps doing so will further whet your appetite to look into the AI Ethics arena all told. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The taqueros here are masterful at mixing just the right ratio of fat to muscle in their taco meats; the carnitas border on just greasy enough to whet a late night appetite. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The bird ecology program has a partial classroom lesson, albeit with examples of woodpeckers, red tailed hawks, saw whet owls, and other birds on permanent display. \u2014 Denise Coffey, courant.com , 4 Nov. 2019",
"Threatened and Endangered Raptors: Wednesday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m. Meet an American kestrel, a peregrine falcon, a whet owl and an eagle and learn what causes raptors to be threatened and endangered, with Horizon Wings. \u2014 Courant Community , 3 Apr. 2018",
"The list includes three reds, five whites and four whet -your-palate 2017 pinks. \u2014 Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2018",
"Your appetite is whet by watching the chef masterly slicing the succulent pork right off the spit; the resulting taco does not disappoint. \u2014 Olivia Abel, Country Living , 22 June 2017",
"And a tiny northern saw- whet owl, blind in one eye after crashing into a window, will begin training to be an educational bird. \u2014 Colorado Springs Gazette, The Denver Post , 21 Jan. 2017"
": being whatever one or ones out of a group : no matter which":[
"its soothing \u2026 effect will be the same whichever way you take it",
"\u2014 Punch"
],
": whatever one or ones out of a group":[
"take two of the four elective subjects, whichever you prefer"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"Choose whichever one you want.",
"He will support whichever candidate wins.",
"Pronoun",
"We can go on Tuesday or Friday, whichever you prefer.",
"You may leave at 4:00 or when you've finished the job, whichever comes first.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Like James, Tatum cooked whichever defender tried to stop him, too tall and too smooth for Bradley, Westbrook or Talen Horton-Tucker. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Beyond the seaweed wrap and seasoned rice, filling a hand roll is part meal prep, part self-expression with your guests free to add whichever toppings are most appealing to them. \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 23 Sep. 2021",
"This can be easily replicated with whichever communications channel your company uses. \u2014 Rutger Bruining, Forbes , 15 June 2021",
"But Ohio's chief medical officer, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, encouraged people to get whichever vaccine is available to them. \u2014 Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer , 2 Mar. 2021",
"White House officials, who briefed reporters on the condition that they not be identified by name, urged the public to get whichever vaccine is first available. \u2014 Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY , 28 Feb. 2021",
"Health experts recommend, given the limited supplies, to get whichever vaccine is offered. \u2014 Peter Loftus, WSJ , 18 Dec. 2020",
"Many a Stanford fan\u2019s second-favorite team is whichever school is playing Cal that day. \u2014 Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com , 9 Jan. 2020",
"Take a bus, get off the bus, go into the museum, and walk, simply walk, straight to whichever picture is calling you. \u2014 Mar\u00eda Gainza, Harper's magazine , 10 May 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Pronoun"
"I got a whiff of new paint when I entered the room.",
"I detected a whiff of sarcasm in her voice.",
"The pitcher had eight whiffs during the game.",
"Verb",
"He whiffed a strong odor of perfume.",
"The golfer nearly whiffed the shot.",
"The golfer nearly whiffed on the shot.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One whiff of this candle, featuring a blend including coconut, pink peppercorn and orange blossom, and you'll be transported to your last beach getaway. \u2014 Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Tom\u2019s reaction to his mother\u2019s new focus carries the barest whiff of melancholy \u2014 just enough to suggest there might be something deeper and sadder simmering beneath his genial goofball persona. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s a whiff of desperation in the name chosen for this project. \u2014 Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ , 7 Oct. 2021",
"True to the Onion's nature as a brand sprung from the Midwest (Madison, Wisconsin) in 1988, there's a whiff of gentility to its Ukraine humor. \u2014 David Bauder, ajc , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Any time there is a whiff of gambling in the professional ranks, sports will suffer. \u2014 David Wharton, Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Much to our surprise, that fried fish taco smell that typically lasts until morning decreased to a faint fishy whiff by bedtime. \u2014 Kyle Beeche, SELF , 16 July 2021",
"Shanahan said Purdy had a whiff of Raiders quarterback Nick Mullens, a 2017 undrafted free agent who spent his four seasons with the 49ers. \u2014 Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 May 2022",
"Astute readers might catch a whiff of where this is going. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But White struck out Machado with an 85-mph slider, and Bruihl came on to whiff Jake Cronenworth with an 88-mph slider up in the zone. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"Of 17 swings against Zimmermann\u2019s change up, the Guardians didn\u2019t whiff once. \u2014 Matt Cohen, Baltimore Sun , 3 June 2022",
"In the fourth inning, Mahle got Pirates shortstop Diego Castillo to whiff at a fastball by his hands and a slider in the dirt on consecutive pitches. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 14 May 2022",
"That pitch only got the Pirates to whiff three times on Saturday. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 15 May 2022",
"The punches whiff , the sound effects are clumsy, and the score by Alyana Cabral and Pan De Coco is deadpan hysterical. \u2014 Christopher Vourlias, Variety , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The punches whiff , the sound effects are clumsy, and the score by Alyana Cabral and Pan De Coco is deadpan hysterical. \u2014 Christopher Vourlias, Variety , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The punches whiff , the sound effects are clumsy, and the score by Alyana Cabral and Pan De Coco is deadpan hysterical. \u2014 Christopher Vourlias, Variety , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The punches whiff , the sound effects are clumsy, and the score by Alyana Cabral and Pan De Coco is deadpan hysterical. \u2014 Christopher Vourlias, Variety , 16 Feb. 2022"
"Watson didn\u2019t suit up for a single game last season while at odds with the Texans, who remained determined to secure handsome compensation for one of the game\u2019s brightest stars. \u2014 Mike Jones, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"Go ahead and eat the same thing for lunch every day, for just a while , to free up some brain space by putting things on automatic. \u2014 Janine Maclachlan, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"But the power also drains her while in human form, accelerating the evolution of cancer. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 27 June 2022",
"Theegala, 24, is an inspiration, overcoming scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, to become one of the best golfers in college while at Pepperdine, and perhaps the top rookie in his first full year on the tour. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 26 June 2022",
"Davies has been around a while \u2014 four teams in eight seasons \u2014 but this will be just his second start vs. Detroit. \u2014 Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press , 25 June 2022",
"Then again, the market could start rising tomorrow and keep trending upward for a long while . \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"In January, Sonali Patel, an emergency department doctor at a big Houston hospital, became ill while on duty. \u2014 Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News , 24 June 2022",
"But not being able to overcome food delivery\u2019s thin margin pointed to a weakness: Kune hoped to burn money for a while towards profitability. \u2014 Alexander Onukwue, Quartz , 23 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The activity is in the Art Lab, which is brimming with other projects that will while away the time. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star , 11 Mar. 2022",
"In the photos, Saweetie is shown lounging under a palm tree, taking a dip in the water, and enjoying food and beverages \u2014 as one should while on vacay, of course. \u2014 Sara Miranda, Allure , 27 Dec. 2021",
"It\u2019s one of the most beautiful places in Napa to while away an afternoon. \u2014 Kim Westerman, Forbes , 1 Sep. 2021",
"In one viral photo, one person stands at the gas pump filling a red gas can while another tends to more cans in the back of a white vehicle. \u2014 Rick Rouan, USA TODAY , 12 May 2021",
"In March, S\u00e1nchez was furloughed from Made Nice and began to while away quarantine by drafting a dream menu. \u2014 Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker , 2 Oct. 2020",
"Some have taken to baking to while away the hours during lockdown; others embraced gardening. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2020",
"Farvardin Daliri SYDNEY, Australia \u2014 Some have taken to baking to while away the hours during coronavirus lockdown; others embraced gardening. \u2014 Isabella Kwai, New York Times , 28 May 2020",
"The restaurant, Trade Route, offers its own take on traditional southern cuisine, and the spa provides a refreshing way to while away an hour or two. \u2014 Patti Nickell, chicagotribune.com , 24 Sep. 2019"
"I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting for the coach \u2026",
"\u2014 Bram Stoker",
"\u2026 wisely decided to hold my peace, whilst Cynthia exhausted every possible hypothesis \u2026",
"\u2014 Agatha Christie",
"\u2026 the chief difference between the \"employed\" and \"self-employed\" categories being that the former may enjoy unemployment benefit whilst the latter may not.",
"No one signs a multi-million dollar Salesforce contract on a whim . \u2014 Prince Ghuman, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"On a whim , Puck replaced the bread with pizza dough and one of his signature dishes was born. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"After all, save for Wong and the sorcerers, the other Avengers can\u2019t travel anywhere on a whim . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 9 May 2022",
"Its roots in the Constitution give the concept of stare decisis greater weight such that precedent can\u2019t be trimmed or narrowed simply because a judge might want to on a whim . \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 3 May 2022",
"Thankfully, the Steam version offers online multiplayer for those who can't just gather 11 friends in their house on a whim . \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 29 Apr. 2022",
"For starters, Russia's gas fields won't stop pumping gas just because a pipeline is closed, because scaling down operations on a whim is too costly. \u2014 Nicholas Gordon, Fortune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Inside, the atmosphere is hushed and discreet, with the assurance that intuitive service attends your every whim . \u2014 Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The most lavish suites on cruise ships fuse the best cutting-edge technology with the timeless luxury of 24-hour butler service, catering to your every whim . \u2014 Zachary Laks, CNN , 19 Apr. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for whim caprice , whim , vagary , crotchet mean an irrational or unpredictable idea or desire. caprice stresses lack of apparent motivation and suggests willfulness. by sheer caprice she quit her job whim implies a fantastic, capricious turn of mind or inclination. an odd antique that was bought on a whim vagary stresses the erratic, irresponsible character of the notion or desire. he had been prone to strange vagaries crotchet implies an eccentric opinion or preference. a serious scientist equally known for his bizarre crotchets",
"The migratory path of a whimbrel may extend from nesting areas in the Arctic to wintering grounds as far south as Bolivia. \u2014 CBS News , 9 Sep. 2021",
"In Hampshire County, notable sightings at the Oxbow Marina included a black-bellied plover, a ruddy turnstone, a whimbrel , and a laughing gull. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2021",
"From Georges Island in Boston Harbor, sightings included flyby eight great shearwaters, a Cory\u2019s shearwater, 16 Wilson\u2019s storm-petrels, a whimbrel , a Forster\u2019s tern, 12 roseate terns, and two cliff swallows. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2021",
"One year after trapping the visiting whimbrel , Winn was waiting on Ahanu again. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Sep. 2019",
"Last week, 10 white-rumped sandpipers, two pectoral sandpipers, two whimbrels , two glossy ibises, and four field sparrows were also spotted. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Aug. 2019",
"In addition to the Avocet and buff-breasted sandpiper, there were reports of three American golden-plovers, two whimbrels , a Hudsonian godwit, a marbled godwit, and two red knots. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Sep. 2019",
"There were three whimbrels and a western sandpiper among many other shorebirds. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2019",
"Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 20 piping plovers, 2 whimbrels , 18 Wilson\u2019s storm-petrels, 90 Cory\u2019s shearwaters, and 4 Manx shearwaters. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 July 2019"
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"The migratory path of a whimbrel may extend from nesting areas in the Arctic to wintering grounds as far south as Bolivia. \u2014 CBS News , 9 Sep. 2021",
"In Hampshire County, notable sightings at the Oxbow Marina included a black-bellied plover, a ruddy turnstone, a whimbrel , and a laughing gull. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2021",
"From Georges Island in Boston Harbor, sightings included flyby eight great shearwaters, a Cory\u2019s shearwater, 16 Wilson\u2019s storm-petrels, a whimbrel , a Forster\u2019s tern, 12 roseate terns, and two cliff swallows. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2021",
"One year after trapping the visiting whimbrel , Winn was waiting on Ahanu again. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Sep. 2019",
"Last week, 10 white-rumped sandpipers, two pectoral sandpipers, two whimbrels , two glossy ibises, and four field sparrows were also spotted. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Aug. 2019",
"In addition to the Avocet and buff-breasted sandpiper, there were reports of three American golden-plovers, two whimbrels , a Hudsonian godwit, a marbled godwit, and two red knots. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Sep. 2019",
"There were three whimbrels and a western sandpiper among many other shorebirds. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2019",
"Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 20 piping plovers, 2 whimbrels , 18 Wilson\u2019s storm-petrels, 90 Cory\u2019s shearwaters, and 4 Manx shearwaters. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 July 2019"
"\u201cWhere are you going?\u201d she whimpered .",
"Noun",
"I could hear the puppy's whimpers .",
"patiently posed for dozens of photographs without so much as a whimper",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Teddy\u2019s response is to whimper ; there\u2019s no flinching or cowering. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 25 Apr. 2020",
"There\u2019s a long alfresco sequence of a crowded lunch, groaning with good food and gossip, that will cause most moviegoers to whimper with envy and yearning. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 26 Nov. 2021",
"Whenever the chair would hit a small bump, Mom would whimper in pain. \u2014 Scott Bengston, Star Tribune , 3 Aug. 2020",
"This game started like many Yates games start - the opponent shows spunk before hope of quieting the Lions and this streak goes from plentiful to whimpering . \u2014 Adam Coleman, Houston Chronicle , 2 Mar. 2020",
"Chuck cried and whimpered and suddenly slipped out of his collar. \u2014 Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press , 30 Mar. 2020",
"In August, the small canine was found whimpering in the yard of a home in Wandiligong, a city in Australia\u2019s state of Victoria, according to CNN. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 4 Nov. 2019",
"By 1965, a few juveniles were rolling on their backs and whimpering for attention, just like puppies. \u2014 Popular Science , 10 Feb. 2020",
"To feel your heart breaking at the sight of a tiny gray-faced boy whimpering in front of a door\u2014what does this do but secrete a little more misery into the atmosphere? \u2014 Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine , 20 Jan. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Unfortunately for the Celtics, Pritchard went out with a whimper following a strong start to the postseason. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"But one thing is clear: The senator\u2019s big play for attention is ending with a whimper , not a bang. \u2014 Joseph Thorndike, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Betts closed out a historic May that included 12 home runs and 10 doubles \u2014 the 22 extra-base hits are a Dodgers record \u2014 with a whimper . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"With a whimper : The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday again rejected a state legislative map submitted by Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission, Jeremy Pelzer and Andrew Tobias write. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"He could get distracted by other projects and leave with a whimper , similar to his departure from the Endeavor Holdings board last year. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 5 Apr. 2022",
"With Jimmy Butler and Tyler Herro sidelined, and Morris missing an 11th consecutive game due to the whiplash sustained in that Denver dustup, the Heat ultimately went down with another whimper , this time 120-111 at FTX Arena. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
"That Monday night, there was no bang, but certainly no whimper . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Experts have long predicted that the pandemic will end with a whimper , not a bang. \u2014 Jamie Ducharme, Time , 12 Aug. 2021"
"The designer's new line showed a touch of whimsy .",
"a bit of decorative whimsy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The suites are sun-filled, decorated with local and found objects that are sometimes quirky, something that adds whimsy to the contemporary decor. \u2014 Jeanine Barone, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Poppy & Stella A charming pair of butterflies add delightful whimsy to your daily look in a gold and faux pearl. \u2014 Karen Jackson, Baltimore Sun , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Featuring Cuban mahogany and rich marbles, the public areas of the hotel are sophisticated, with just the right amount of whimsy . \u2014 Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Sara Story Design adds a touch of whimsy to the family room of this Manhattan apartment by accenting the lacquered cobalt walls with playful pops of pink. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 1 June 2022",
"The polka dot pattern adds a touch of whimsy to eight different color options, or go with a classic black or white. \u2014 Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure , 5 May 2022",
"The sense of whimsy continued as revelers sat down for dinner. \u2014 Ian Malone, Vogue , 4 May 2022",
"In her scripts, Oseman is able to capture the sense of whimsy and earnestness that made her graphic novels, which began as a webcomic, so popular and heartwarming. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 1 May 2022",
"Reviewers love the slender steel hairpin legs, which add a touch of whimsy and fun. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 28 Apr. 2022"
"You can practically taste the tropics in these whimsical doughnuts. Ripe bananas, toasted coconut and your favorite rum transform traditional doughnuts into paradisiacal ones. \u2014 Janice Wald Henderson , Chocolatier , March 2001",
"Unlike the broad slapstick humor of Musical Mose and other early Herriman strips, Krazy Kat was gentle, fey, and whimsical . \u2014 Jeet Heer , Lingua Franca , September 2001",
"In the whimsical linguistics of theoretical physics, the \"naked\" electron is an imaginary object cut off from the influences of the field, whereas a \"dressed\" electron carries the imprint of the universe, but it is all buried in extremely tiny modifications to its bare properties. \u2014 Leon Lederman et al. , The God Particle , 1993",
"She has a whimsical sense of humor.",
"it's hard to make plans with such a whimsical best friend",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The trendy, embellished accessories come in all shapes and sizes with patterns and designs that are undeniably whimsical and quirky. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 28 June 2022",
"Their puffy sleeves and flouncy skirts are whimsical and a little flirtatious at their best; pure wedding guest material. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 6 May 2022",
"Over the decades the dispute between Canada and Demark has been fought in often whimsical ways. \u2014 Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"Over the decades the dispute between Canada and Demark has been fought in often whimsical ways. \u2014 Ian Austen, New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"One of the more whimsical came from the San Diego band Rosa Rosa. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 May 2022",
"And there were always two ways to go, which was more slicked back and out of the face or down and more whimsical . \u2014 Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The most whimsical dish on the menu may be a traditional West African peanut soup topped with a dollop of coconut cr\u00e8me fraiche, cola brittle and cracklin\u2019 cornbread. \u2014 Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Gregory Jacobs, a rapper and producer known as Shock G who blended whimsical wordplay with reverence for \u201970s funk as leader of the off-kilter Bay Area hip-hop group Digital Underground, was found dead April 22 at a hotel in Tampa. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Apr. 2021"
"The suites are sun-filled, decorated with local and found objects that are sometimes quirky, something that adds whimsy to the contemporary decor. \u2014 Jeanine Barone, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Poppy & Stella A charming pair of butterflies add delightful whimsy to your daily look in a gold and faux pearl. \u2014 Karen Jackson, Baltimore Sun , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Featuring Cuban mahogany and rich marbles, the public areas of the hotel are sophisticated, with just the right amount of whimsy . \u2014 Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Sara Story Design adds a touch of whimsy to the family room of this Manhattan apartment by accenting the lacquered cobalt walls with playful pops of pink. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 1 June 2022",
"The polka dot pattern adds a touch of whimsy to eight different color options, or go with a classic black or white. \u2014 Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure , 5 May 2022",
"The sense of whimsy continued as revelers sat down for dinner. \u2014 Ian Malone, Vogue , 4 May 2022",
"In her scripts, Oseman is able to capture the sense of whimsy and earnestness that made her graphic novels, which began as a webcomic, so popular and heartwarming. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 1 May 2022",
"Reviewers love the slender steel hairpin legs, which add a touch of whimsy and fun. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 28 Apr. 2022"
"Sloane is left to listen to Ben whine about how daddy doesn't appreciate him enough. \u2014 Maggie Fremont, EW.com , 22 June 2022",
"Find a scenario that perhaps indicts Amazon, or one of its third-party sellers, and write an op-ed for editorialists all too eager to whine about what made one of the world\u2019s richest men one of the world\u2019s richest men. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"If any of them would whine or cry or bark the moose would trample them. \u2014 Blair Braverman, Outside Online , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Turning these pages is like watching an old man dust his Hummel figurines and whine about the neighbors. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"While runners regularly take themselves past their comfort zone in training, everyone seems to whine about how uncomfortable heat makes them. \u2014 Allie Burdick, Outside Online , 13 July 2020",
"That's what these -- Democrats whine too much, Chuck. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Jan. 2022",
"That\u2019s why some forward-thinking oil companies have warmed to biofuels, as the editorial board acknowledges, while unprofitable refineries whine because biofuels take away market share. \u2014 WSJ , 22 Dec. 2021",
"Democratic moderates whine about wanting to pass the infrastructure bill right away and put off the health, education and childcare package for later. \u2014 Paul Begala, CNN , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On my evening runs, the mechanical whine of the cicadas would reach a crescendo that drowned out all other sounds, then cease abruptly, plunging the purple air into a silence broken only by my own footfall and the sea murmuring to itself below. \u2014 Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure , 20 June 2022",
"Air raid siren here in Odesa, a long, steady whine . \u2014 Steve Harrigan, Fox News , 19 June 2022",
"The Rock Island line is so close to Hero Street the clang of railroad crossings, whine of braking trains and metal groan of shuffling cars is a constant song on replay, all day and all night. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"There are jets pulling 10Gs, the metal sound of cockpit sticks pulled in gear, epic dogfights and the whine of machinery balking at the demands put on it. \u2014 Mark Kennedy, Chron , 12 May 2022",
"The torpid silence was punctuated by the slow whine of air-raid sirens\u2014and by crows. \u2014 Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"The fake shift integration helped with the continuous whine that normal CVTs exude, but don\u2019t be fooled. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The heavy, sweaty air stirs and an otherworldly organ whine rises above the audience roar. \u2014 Karen Schoemer, SPIN , 1 May 2022",
"With the press of a green button, Sam Bruneau\u2019s snowmobile sprung silently to life and took off at a low whine . \u2014 Tik Root, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Feb. 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb",
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},
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"Middle English, from Old English hw\u012bnan to whiz; akin to Old Norse hv\u012bna to whiz":"Verb"
"Sloane is left to listen to Ben whine about how daddy doesn't appreciate him enough. \u2014 Maggie Fremont, EW.com , 22 June 2022",
"Find a scenario that perhaps indicts Amazon, or one of its third-party sellers, and write an op-ed for editorialists all too eager to whine about what made one of the world\u2019s richest men one of the world\u2019s richest men. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"If any of them would whine or cry or bark the moose would trample them. \u2014 Blair Braverman, Outside Online , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Turning these pages is like watching an old man dust his Hummel figurines and whine about the neighbors. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"While runners regularly take themselves past their comfort zone in training, everyone seems to whine about how uncomfortable heat makes them. \u2014 Allie Burdick, Outside Online , 13 July 2020",
"That's what these -- Democrats whine too much, Chuck. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Jan. 2022",
"That\u2019s why some forward-thinking oil companies have warmed to biofuels, as the editorial board acknowledges, while unprofitable refineries whine because biofuels take away market share. \u2014 WSJ , 22 Dec. 2021",
"Democratic moderates whine about wanting to pass the infrastructure bill right away and put off the health, education and childcare package for later. \u2014 Paul Begala, CNN , 12 Oct. 2021",
"On my evening runs, the mechanical whine of the cicadas would reach a crescendo that drowned out all other sounds, then cease abruptly, plunging the purple air into a silence broken only by my own footfall and the sea murmuring to itself below. \u2014 Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure , 20 June 2022",
"Air raid siren here in Odesa, a long, steady whine . \u2014 Steve Harrigan, Fox News , 19 June 2022",
"The Rock Island line is so close to Hero Street the clang of railroad crossings, whine of braking trains and metal groan of shuffling cars is a constant song on replay, all day and all night. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"There are jets pulling 10Gs, the metal sound of cockpit sticks pulled in gear, epic dogfights and the whine of machinery balking at the demands put on it. \u2014 Mark Kennedy, Chron , 12 May 2022",
"The torpid silence was punctuated by the slow whine of air-raid sirens\u2014and by crows. \u2014 Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"The fake shift integration helped with the continuous whine that normal CVTs exude, but don\u2019t be fooled. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The heavy, sweaty air stirs and an otherworldly organ whine rises above the audience roar. \u2014 Karen Schoemer, SPIN , 1 May 2022",
"With the press of a green button, Sam Bruneau\u2019s snowmobile sprung silently to life and took off at a low whine . \u2014 Tik Root, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Feb. 2022"
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"So, whip out the sparkles, festive desserts, and all things red, white and blue and post away! \u2014 Maggie Horton, Country Living , 27 June 2022",
"Rather than haul a mess by carrying serviettes or serving ware to the beach with you, whip up a big batch of these handy wraps and wrap them in foil to be tucked into your tote or cooler of choice. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 6 June 2022",
"The lights definitely give off an elegant and romantic vibe, so whip them out on date night, or for drinks with good friends. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 31 May 2022",
"On April 16, chef Gaggan Anand is leading the charge, and on the final day of weekend one, chef Burt Bakman of Slab and chef Eric Greenspan will whip up meals for guests. \u2014 Andrea Navarro, Glamour , 15 Apr. 2022",
"And even as consumer confidence has dropped, as people worry about rising food and fuel prices, households have largely continued to whip out their wallets. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"Hey, no, probably not a good idea to whip the chainsaw out in this circumstance. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"Lay out on the grass and whip out your best strategies for this chess gathering. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Beat the cream at medium-high speed until soft peaks form, taking care not to over- whip it. \u2014 Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"Bianco, for example, also accused Manson of beating her with a Nazi whip . \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 8 June 2022",
"Bianco claimed in her lawsuit that Warner raped her, held her captive, and beat her with a whip , among other charges. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022",
"After the boy hits the front door with the whip the second time, Nash opens the door to confront the child. \u2014 David Dekunder, San Antonio Express-News , 16 May 2022",
"Breen wasn\u2019t bad at snapping the tops off flowers with a whip , but Rosie stole the show. \u2014 David Hill, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"As majority whip , Branch worked behind the scenes to make sure Democrats passed key bills and overrode gubernatorial vetoes. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Smart as a whip unites the older and newer meanings. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Shooting on film before a studio audience, using multiple cameras, Arnaz rewrote the technological rules of TV, and the show became part of the cultural DNA with its sharp-as-a- whip slapstick and banter. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 Jan. 2022",
"Once performers are self-deprecating, as is the case here with the likes of the whip -smart E.J. Cameron, the audience easily takes that cue. \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022"
"unquestionably the company has the whip hand in negotiations with the labor union",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hence, despite Twitter's poison pill and a staggered board, Musk always had the whip hand . \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Amazon has been using the cameras to monitor social distancing between workers during the pandemic \u2014 just one of the ways in which computers hold the whip hand in this workplace. \u2014 Sarah O'connor, Ars Technica , 19 Mar. 2022",
"In a chilling report released a few weeks ago about Hollywood\u2019s subordinate relationship to Beijing, PEN America described the forces that have given China the whip hand . \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 9 Sep. 2020",
"The president will be held responsible for whatever happens, so House Democrats have the whip hand in any negotiation. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, TheWeek , 17 Mar. 2020",
"In fact, from the start the EU saw itself as holding whip hand in the talks, convinced that a failure, while bad for both sides, would be worse for the Brits. \u2014 Laurence Norman, WSJ , 14 Dec. 2018"
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"\u2014 C. B. Davis"
],
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"\u2014 usually used with up a sketch \u2026 an artist might whip up \u2014 The New York Times"
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": to seam or hem with shallow overcasting stitches":[],
": to stir up : incite":[
"\u2014 usually used with up trying to whip up a new emotion \u2014 Ellen Glasgow"
],
": to strike as a lash does":[
"rain whipped the pavement"
],
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": to take, pull, snatch, jerk, or otherwise move very quickly and forcefully":[
"whipped out his gun",
"\u2014 Green Peyton"
],
": to thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash":[
"So, whip out the sparkles, festive desserts, and all things red, white and blue and post away! \u2014 Maggie Horton, Country Living , 27 June 2022",
"Rather than haul a mess by carrying serviettes or serving ware to the beach with you, whip up a big batch of these handy wraps and wrap them in foil to be tucked into your tote or cooler of choice. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 6 June 2022",
"The lights definitely give off an elegant and romantic vibe, so whip them out on date night, or for drinks with good friends. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 31 May 2022",
"On April 16, chef Gaggan Anand is leading the charge, and on the final day of weekend one, chef Burt Bakman of Slab and chef Eric Greenspan will whip up meals for guests. \u2014 Andrea Navarro, Glamour , 15 Apr. 2022",
"And even as consumer confidence has dropped, as people worry about rising food and fuel prices, households have largely continued to whip out their wallets. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"Hey, no, probably not a good idea to whip the chainsaw out in this circumstance. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"Lay out on the grass and whip out your best strategies for this chess gathering. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Beat the cream at medium-high speed until soft peaks form, taking care not to over- whip it. \u2014 Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"Bianco, for example, also accused Manson of beating her with a Nazi whip . \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 8 June 2022",
"Bianco claimed in her lawsuit that Warner raped her, held her captive, and beat her with a whip , among other charges. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022",
"After the boy hits the front door with the whip the second time, Nash opens the door to confront the child. \u2014 David Dekunder, San Antonio Express-News , 16 May 2022",
"Breen wasn\u2019t bad at snapping the tops off flowers with a whip , but Rosie stole the show. \u2014 David Hill, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"As majority whip , Branch worked behind the scenes to make sure Democrats passed key bills and overrode gubernatorial vetoes. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Smart as a whip unites the older and newer meanings. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Shooting on film before a studio audience, using multiple cameras, Arnaz rewrote the technological rules of TV, and the show became part of the cultural DNA with its sharp-as-a- whip slapstick and banter. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 Jan. 2022",
"Once performers are self-deprecating, as is the case here with the likes of the whip -smart E.J. Cameron, the audience easily takes that cue. \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022"
"some young whippersnapper piped up with a pointless comment",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The makeup artist turned beauty-brand entrepreneur is an undeniable legend \u2014 a luminary in a way that a teen TikTok whippersnapper could only hope to be. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Far from a whippersnapper , Flack\u2014a pioneering photorealist painter, sculptor of monumental bronze, and an artist who has works in museum collections ranging from MoMA to the National Gallery of Australia\u2014still sees no end to her creativity. \u2014 Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Now 90 years old, the renowned photorealist shows no sign of slowing down Audrey Flack laughs when remembering that painter Alice Neel called her a whippersnapper in the 1970s. \u2014 Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Help impart some old-school championship lessons on his young whippersnapper teammates. \u2014 Evan Grant, Dallas News , 25 Mar. 2021",
"The space is now occupied by the flagship of Hackett, a company that is a relative whippersnapper at 37 years old. \u2014 David Segal, New York Times , 15 Nov. 2020",
"Now stop being such an ungrateful whippersnapper , and call your grandma. \u2014 Courtney Shea, refinery29.com , 26 Mar. 2020",
"From its inception up until 2014 or 2015, the Ars virtual office was plain-jane IRC\u2014that's Internet Relay Chat for you whippersnappers . \u2014 Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Even then, millennials will be protecting scraps left behind by boomers from a new generation of young whippersnappers looking for a fair share of the 2040 American pie. Stuart Gray St. Augustine, Fla. \u2014 WSJ , 24 Jan. 2020"
"Animal-welfare activists, who opposed the whipping of horses, favored bicycles. \u2014 The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Philadelphia police have released video of a violent carjacking that shows a suspect pistol- whipping and robbing a taxi driver. \u2014 Fox News , 27 Mar. 2022",
"That was perhaps the silver lining for the Blue Jays, who had to sit and mull over the indignity of a 22-7 whipping \u2014 their most lopsided setback in history \u2014 by archrival Maryland on April 23. \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 5 May 2022",
"Drinking is prohibited under Iran's Islamic law, and its consumption can be punishable by public whipping , which is rarely carried out. \u2014 Hadas Gold, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"Included in that stretch was a 19-of-44 night in Wednesday\u2019s 133-96 whipping of Portland, in which the Spurs came one made 3-pointer shy of equaling another franchise mark. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 27 Mar. 2022",
"The Blazers brought a short-handed crew into the AT&T Center on Friday night and dutifully took their 130-111 whipping at the hands of the Spurs. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The chief of staff is taking a whipping this week in the press. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Now, that topic will be even more in the spotlight after the Spartans clinched their third straight Super 7 berth with a 47-17 whipping of Fairview at home Friday night. \u2014 Caleb Turrentine, al , 26 Nov. 2021"
"used the government's economic policies as the whipping boy for every bad decision the company made",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Paymer is an asset, playing with effortless conviction the eternal whipping boy who has a core of real strength. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The polar vortex \u2013 everyone's favorite wintertime whipping boy \u2013 is actually a gigantic, circular area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that typically spins over the North Pole (as its name suggests). \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Hollywood has long used the US business mogul as the whipping boy to illustrate society\u2019s ills. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Like any zombie-to-be, Tom seeks out the next human to turn, and that\u2019s his favorite confidante/ whipping boy Greg. \u2014 Scott Tobias, Vulture , 20 Dec. 2021",
"The polar vortex \u2013 everyone's favorite wintertime whipping boy \u2013 is a large area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that normally spins over the North Pole (as its name suggests). \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 19 Feb. 2020",
"PSV Eindhoven are their unfortunate whipping boys , while Leverkusen are winless in four Champions League games against Atl\u00e9tico (W0 D1 L3) since beating them 1-0 in February 2015 in their first meeting. \u2014 SI.com , 6 Nov. 2019",
"Cousins has gone from whipping boy to top-level performer, throwing 18 touchdown passes and only one interception in the last seven games while leading his team to six wins in that stretch. \u2014 Mike Jones, USA TODAY , 19 Nov. 2019",
"Eight plus one = nine, and therefore Brighton will inherently become Chelsea's whipping boys . \u2014 SI.com , 28 Sep. 2019"
"Forty-eight years after formally ridding whipping from its laws as a criminal punishment, the state of Delaware will be removing a public whipping post on Wednesday. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 1 July 2020",
"This is the last Delaware whipping post to be removed. \u2014 Allen Kim And Sheena Jones, CNN , 1 July 2020",
"In her 90s, Hollingsworth's recollection of Delaware's relationship with the whipping post began in the 1930s. \u2014 Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY , 30 June 2020",
"An 8-foot tall whipping post was removed from a Delaware county courthouse square Wednesday after activists said the post was a reminder of racial discrimination. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2020",
"The whipping post was originally located on the grounds of the Sussex Correctional Institution south of Georgetown, according to a news release. \u2014 Allen Kim And Sheena Jones, CNN , 1 July 2020",
"The last to abolish state whippings:Delaware to remove public whipping post Wednesday Follow reporter Meghan Mangrum on Twitter @memangrum. \u2014 Meghan Mangrum, USA TODAY , 30 June 2020",
"But Blacks weren\u2019t part of the design process, and the memorial\u2019s central visual takeaway \u2014 a Black man with broken shackles kneeling before his white savior, with a whipping post and chains in the background \u2014 has had people cringing for years. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 June 2020",
"The monument is believed to be located where a slave whipping post once stood, and removing it is a small step in the right direction, Portsmouth activist and organizer Rocky Hines said. \u2014 Sarah Rankin David Crary, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 June 2020"
"And the rifle runs well from the shoulder, though the fluted 22-inch barrel gave it a slightly whippy feel during our off-hand drills. \u2014 John B. Snow, Outdoor Life , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Also of use: A whippy fastball that ranged up to 99 mph on Sunday. \u2014 Allie Morris, Dallas News , 3 Aug. 2020",
"For instance, some bacteria have flagella, or long, whippy tails rotated by motors. \u2014 Nicole Yunger Halpern, Scientific American , 18 Apr. 2020",
"Tennis analysts can see that Mr Federer\u2019s whippy forehand and Serena Williams\u2019 punchy backhand are unique, somehow, but struggle to explain why. \u2014 J.t., The Economist , 17 Aug. 2019",
"Sage tweaked the composite of its already whippy Konnetic rod technology to transfer energy more efficiently, for faster casting. \u2014 Outside Online , 15 May 2018",
"Animals that have a long whippy tail tend to have it for sensory purposes. \u2014 Katy Bergen, kansascity , 5 Feb. 2018",
"With a mix of slice and chips, lobs and bunts, whippy half-volleys and wristy crosscourt ground strokes off both wings, Hsieh pushed Kerber to the extremes and unsettled her rhythm. \u2014 John Pye, The Seattle Times , 21 Jan. 2018",
"The result is the most whippy swing through a baseball since Jose Canseco. \u2014 Tom Verducci, SI.com , 5 July 2017"
"the hummingbird whirred as it hovered over a flower",
"our tires whirred as we traveled over the rough road",
"Noun",
"the whir of a fan",
"a whir coming from the refrigerator",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"At around 80 mph, though, noise from the motors can whir its way into the cabin. \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 21 June 2022",
"Allow to freeze until solid, then whir the cubes in a blender. \u2014 Outside Online , 22 Aug. 2018",
"Both sound documents manage to simultaneously distort and heighten reality, some strains melting together in a dreamy gauze while others whir on loop in the brain\u2019s hamster wheel. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Make ahead, so the flavors intensify, then quickly whir with an immersion blender to reincorporate everything before serving. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Aug. 2021",
"And there are two 3D printers that whir into action as students make attachments to use with protective masks. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com , 10 Aug. 2020",
"The officer provided the phone number of a nearby resident, telling the owner to call it the next time his motion-sensing security cameras whirred into action. \u2014 Richard Fausset, New York Times , 16 May 2020",
"Slightly bigger than a medium-sized dog, the six-wheeled robots whir around delivering snacks and meals throughout the day. \u2014 Brandi Addison, Dallas News , 7 May 2020",
"Neighbors came out to witness and capture the procession on their cellphones while helicopters, including a U.S. Customs & Border Patrol black hawk, whirred loudly overhead. \u2014 Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press , 25 Apr. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But even in Sport mode, the active exhaust system's internal-combustion fireworks were tempered, the aggressive growl of the V-8 sounding distant under the accompaniment of an electronic whir played through the audio system. \u2014 Mike Sutton, Car and Driver , 17 May 2022",
"Around me, the quiet is broken only by the whir of the cable car engine and the trilling of birds. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
"The trade machine in his own head started to whir , calculations Bisciotti had learned from watching general manager Eric DeCosta, the architect of the strength-in-numbers strategy that has come to define Ravens drafts. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The office building was locked \u2014 just me and the janitors and the whir of the autoclave. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The whir of cars passing the homestead can be heard on the wraparound front porch. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 24 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s a thud and a clink and with a whir \u2014 really more of a purring sound \u2014 the floor of Steinmetz Hall springs into action. \u2014 Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Radiology and operating rooms whir with the beeps and blinks of monitors. \u2014 Lujain Jo, The Christian Science Monitor , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Some popular spots \u2014 including the vertiginous Angels Landing hiking trail and trek-able Virgin River Narrows \u2014 can be reached via free shuttle buses that whir through Zion Canyon each day, typically from March through November. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022"
"the whirl of the mechanical ride made him dizzy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The painting commemorates a Christian sacrament, but it is framed with Native dancers and an Indigenous sport where men suspended on ropes from their ankles or waists whirl around a tall wooden post \u2014 sort of an extreme maypole. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"Expert shaobing bakers whirl and slap the dough so thin that the finished product has 18 or more layers. \u2014 Jen Rose Smith, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"The scarves started to twist and to whirl , the mood shifting from regret at what had been snatched away to celebration of all that remained. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"Then put it in a centrifuge and whirl it around in a radioactive tornado, until the lightest particles cluster towards the center. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Arizona guard Dalen Terry lobbed up the basketball toward the rim and watched his 7-foot-1 teammate swoop in, grab it out of the air and dunk it, prompting Terry to whirl around and flash his teeth in a gleeful grin. \u2014 Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The peppers whirl around their heads until the astronauts catch them and tape them against a board to photograph. \u2014 Melanie Canales, Wired , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Cheap chandeliers light the joint, ceiling fans whirl overhead, and a red-fringed curtain surrounds the stage, where bands perform nightly. \u2014 Pam Leblanc, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 16 Dec. 2021",
"The footnotes and detours and bracketing devices whirl around an increasingly frayed through-line. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Perhaps \u2014 libel laws permitting \u2014 Campbell will one day tell us more about his subsequent life at the heart of the London literary whirl . \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"An ode to cinema, a whirl of ideas, and playfulness in every take. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"That title suggests illuminating new material from a multiplicity of voices to clarify the whirl of controversy and conspiracy theories that have long surrounded Monroe\u2019s death in 1962. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"After Easter morning Mass, Francis boarded the white popemobile for a whirl through the square among the cheering ranks of the crowd. \u2014 Frances D'emilio, chicagotribune.com , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Right after the end of Mass, Francis got aboard the white popemobile for a whirl through the square to greet cheering well-wishers among the rank-and-file faithful. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Apr. 2022",
"After Easter morning Mass, Francis boarded the white popemobile for a whirl through the square among the cheering ranks of the crowd. \u2014 Frances D'emilio, Anchorage Daily News , 17 Apr. 2022",
"After Easter morning Mass, Francis boarded the white popemobile for a whirl through the square among the cheering ranks of the crowd. \u2014 Time , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Extreme dedication to social pursuits and the endless whirl of high society events demanded appropriate glitter for balls, masquerades, and dances held every night of the season. \u2014 Carol Woolton, Town & Country , 23 Mar. 2022"
"Middle English, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse hvirfla to whirl; akin to Old High German wirbil whirlwind, Old English hweorfan to turn \u2014 more at wharf":"Verb"
"the whirl of the mechanical ride made him dizzy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The painting commemorates a Christian sacrament, but it is framed with Native dancers and an Indigenous sport where men suspended on ropes from their ankles or waists whirl around a tall wooden post \u2014 sort of an extreme maypole. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"Expert shaobing bakers whirl and slap the dough so thin that the finished product has 18 or more layers. \u2014 Jen Rose Smith, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"The scarves started to twist and to whirl , the mood shifting from regret at what had been snatched away to celebration of all that remained. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"Then put it in a centrifuge and whirl it around in a radioactive tornado, until the lightest particles cluster towards the center. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Arizona guard Dalen Terry lobbed up the basketball toward the rim and watched his 7-foot-1 teammate swoop in, grab it out of the air and dunk it, prompting Terry to whirl around and flash his teeth in a gleeful grin. \u2014 Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The peppers whirl around their heads until the astronauts catch them and tape them against a board to photograph. \u2014 Melanie Canales, Wired , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Cheap chandeliers light the joint, ceiling fans whirl overhead, and a red-fringed curtain surrounds the stage, where bands perform nightly. \u2014 Pam Leblanc, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 16 Dec. 2021",
"The footnotes and detours and bracketing devices whirl around an increasingly frayed through-line. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Made with fresh cherry tomatoes and basil right out of the garden (or from your favorite farmer), the sauce requires only a quick whirl in a food processor or blender to come together. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 7 June 2022",
"But Odell offers anecdotes that underscore Anna\u2019s early affection for fashion, from her time working retail at Biba in London to a brief whirl as a model. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"But behind the glitter and whirl , this once hot-and-heavy series now belongs to the wallflowers. \u2014 Katie Rife, Rolling Stone , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Perhaps \u2014 libel laws permitting \u2014 Campbell will one day tell us more about his subsequent life at the heart of the London literary whirl . \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"An ode to cinema, a whirl of ideas, and playfulness in every take. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"That title suggests illuminating new material from a multiplicity of voices to clarify the whirl of controversy and conspiracy theories that have long surrounded Monroe\u2019s death in 1962. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"After Easter morning Mass, Francis boarded the white popemobile for a whirl through the square among the cheering ranks of the crowd. \u2014 Frances D'emilio, chicagotribune.com , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Right after the end of Mass, Francis got aboard the white popemobile for a whirl through the square to greet cheering well-wishers among the rank-and-file faithful. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Apr. 2022"
"Middle English, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse hvirfla to whirl; akin to Old High German wirbil whirlwind, Old English hweorfan to turn \u2014 more at wharf":"Verb"
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"The swimmer was caught in a whirlpool and nearly drowned.",
"in The Odyssey , Ulysses is trapped between the six-headed monster Scylla and Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool that threatens to suck in his ship",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Previously, scientists spotted a similar whirlpool over Hawaii. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 20 June 2022",
"The water park has three slides (two tube slides and a body slide); the Waukesha WaterWorks water playground, which has its own children's slides and a dump bucket; and Night Fall Springs, an indoor/outdoor whirlpool . \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 May 2022",
"The outdoor space features a lovely brick side patio and a resort-style backyard with an in-ground pool and whirlpool spa. \u2014 cleveland , 4 Mar. 2022",
"This upscale, family-friendly property boasts 115 bright and airy accommodations, as well as an oceanfront swimming pool, whirlpool , and separate children's pool. \u2014 Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2022",
"In addition to the lazy river, the hotel's expansive sixth-floor Altitude Rooftop & Pool is home to an infinity pool and whirlpool lined with lounge chairs and cabanas. \u2014 Anna Mazurek, Chron , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Water features include zero-depth areas, flume and tunnel slides, a vortex whirlpool , competition pool, diving well and two 1-meter boards. \u2014 Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic , 26 May 2022",
"The Subaru Telescope on top of Mauna Kea recorded what appeared to be a flying whirlpool in the pre-dawn hours on Saturday, Live Science reports. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Earlier this week, a mysterious flying whirlpool was spotted over the Maunakea Observatories in Hawaii. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 22 Apr. 2022"
"Go for The Works ($329): a mud bath with facial mask, mineral whirlpool bath , geo-steam room, blanket wrap and 30-minute massage. \u2014 Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"The Renova Spa offers a sauna, whirlpool bath , and a variety of treatments. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 19 Jan. 2022",
"The Royal Suites are the epitome of opulence, with two king beds and an open-air terrace featuring a private grand whirlpool bath . \u2014 Lea Lane, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Those needing to recuperate from over-indulgences in Napa Valley\u2019s more hifalutin offerings may wish to indulge in the Body Brew: a mineral whirlpool bath treatment with fresh hops, dry ale yeast, malt, barley, and a local beer on the side. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 24 May 2021",
"Going to a spa, gym, or another club to soak in a whirlpool bath is nothing short of a luxury. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 30 Apr. 2021",
"The heavy cloth immobilized my limbs, the whirlpool baths churned pleasantly in the background, and, with no smartphone or other distractions, I was forced to succumb to the present. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2020",
"And players threw both owner Jerry Hoffberger and personnel director Harry Dalton in the whirlpool bath , fully clothed. \u2014 Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com , 13 Sep. 2019",
"The temperature is right, like in a whirlpool bath or hot tub, and your muscles expand. \u2014 Dylan Jackson, miamiherald , 7 June 2018"
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"Noun",
"My life has been a whirlwind lately.",
"He attended a whirlwind of meetings.",
"Adjective",
"The band went on a whirlwind concert tour.",
"They were married after a whirlwind romance.",
"We continued on at a whirlwind pace.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The sprawling grounds of Bishop\u2019s Lodge provided a relaxing environment after the whirlwind tour that took us up Pikes Peak and down to Santa Fe in less than 12 hours. \u2014 Karl Brauer, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are off on a whirlwind tour of Canada in celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 17 May 2022",
"Princess Anne is currently on a three-day whirlwind tour of Australia in honor of her mother the Queen's 70th year on the throne. \u2014 Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com , 11 Apr. 2022",
"This new look comes weeks after Union wore two sleek suits during a whirlwind press tour in NYC. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 3 Apr. 2022",
"More:His latest stop on a whirlwind hockey tour is Milwaukee. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has been on a whirlwind tour to find more gas suppliers. \u2014 Matthew Dalton, WSJ , 25 Mar. 2022",
"After a whirlwind tour of their operation, with quick stops for tree climbing, rope swinging and trampolining, Alyssa and Will corral their guinea pigs to take them back inside. \u2014 Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Gomez's compelling memoir of embracing his gay, Latinx identity in a world that so often prizes neither takes the reader on a whirlwind tour from a Nicaraguan cockfighting ring to a drag queen convention in Los Angeles and far beyond. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The model has had a whirlwind 24 hours while promoting the launch of her new skincare line, Rhode. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 June 2022",
"And since the film\u2019s debut at Cannes last month (which earned it a 12-minute ovation), the pair, along with their cast, have been on a whirlwind promotional tour. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"And so kicked off the family's whirlwind two-week trip in Ecuador. \u2014 Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure , 5 June 2022",
"Four years in which her fantasy of a whirlwind international romance never materialized. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"Biden will spend much of Wednesday traveling from Washington to Brussels, ahead of a whirlwind day of diplomacy in the Belgian capital the next day. \u2014 Ben Gittleson, ABC News , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The two were, of course, involved in a whirlwind six-week relationship that by her account included about 15 days in each other\u2019s company. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Mar. 2022",
"In 2018, Davidson had a whirlwind five-month romance with pop star Ariana Grande. \u2014 Carrie Wittmer, Glamour , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Cousins recapped a whirlwind four-day period that began with a call and a tryout and ended with him signing and practicing within a day. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 21 Dec. 2021"
"Also on the dessert side, the King Kong Sundae, with 24 scoops of ice cream covered in sprinkles, gummy bears, caramel sauce, hot fudge sauce and giant whirly pops, serves 12. \u2014 Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Creamy Wurlitzers, jangly pianos and whirly Mellotrons all become service to 14 safe, almost parodically \u201970s pieces that couch vignettes about the down-and-out and the unlucky in the shadow of Bowie, the Pointer Sisters and Steely Dan. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 May 2021",
"Other operators run whirly ball games in other cities. \u2014 Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 July 2018",
"The former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who studied chemistry at Oxford, is said to have had a role in the invention of the white whirly ice cream cones. \u2014 Palko Karasz, New York Times , 1 Mar. 2018",
"Other operators run whirly ball games in other cities. \u2014 Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 July 2018",
"The former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who studied chemistry at Oxford, is said to have had a role in the invention of the white whirly ice cream cones. \u2014 Palko Karasz, New York Times , 1 Mar. 2018",
"His search for his parents, presumed dead at the end of the first film, ignites the third subplot in which his best friend, Alice, equipped with a whirly gyroscopic time machine called a Chronosphere, tries to alter the past to change the future. \u2014 Stephen Holden, New York Times , 26 May 2016"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"from the sky a police whirlybird was able to track the fleeing carjacker",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The result is a whirlybird that\u2019s quieter than usual, but also potentially safer. \u2014 Rob Verger And Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 2 Dec. 2020",
"The result is a whirlybird that\u2019s quieter than usual, but also potentially safer. \u2014 Rob Verger And Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 2 Dec. 2020",
"The result is a whirlybird that\u2019s quieter than usual, but also potentially safer. \u2014 Rob Verger And Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 2 Dec. 2020",
"The result is a whirlybird that\u2019s quieter than usual, but also potentially safer. \u2014 Rob Verger And Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 2 Dec. 2020",
"The result is a whirlybird that\u2019s quieter than usual, but also potentially safer. \u2014 Rob Verger And Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 2 Dec. 2020",
"The result is a whirlybird that\u2019s quieter than usual, but also potentially safer. \u2014 Rob Verger And Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 2 Dec. 2020",
"The result is a whirlybird that\u2019s quieter than usual, but also potentially safer. \u2014 Rob Verger And Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 2 Dec. 2020",
"The result is a whirlybird that\u2019s quieter than usual, but also potentially safer. \u2014 Rob Verger And Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 2 Dec. 2020"
"the hummingbird whirred as it hovered over a flower",
"our tires whirred as we traveled over the rough road",
"Noun",
"the whir of a fan",
"a whir coming from the refrigerator",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"At around 80 mph, though, noise from the motors can whir its way into the cabin. \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 21 June 2022",
"Allow to freeze until solid, then whir the cubes in a blender. \u2014 Outside Online , 22 Aug. 2018",
"Both sound documents manage to simultaneously distort and heighten reality, some strains melting together in a dreamy gauze while others whir on loop in the brain\u2019s hamster wheel. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Make ahead, so the flavors intensify, then quickly whir with an immersion blender to reincorporate everything before serving. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Aug. 2021",
"And there are two 3D printers that whir into action as students make attachments to use with protective masks. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com , 10 Aug. 2020",
"The officer provided the phone number of a nearby resident, telling the owner to call it the next time his motion-sensing security cameras whirred into action. \u2014 Richard Fausset, New York Times , 16 May 2020",
"Slightly bigger than a medium-sized dog, the six-wheeled robots whir around delivering snacks and meals throughout the day. \u2014 Brandi Addison, Dallas News , 7 May 2020",
"Neighbors came out to witness and capture the procession on their cellphones while helicopters, including a U.S. Customs & Border Patrol black hawk, whirred loudly overhead. \u2014 Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press , 25 Apr. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But even in Sport mode, the active exhaust system's internal-combustion fireworks were tempered, the aggressive growl of the V-8 sounding distant under the accompaniment of an electronic whir played through the audio system. \u2014 Mike Sutton, Car and Driver , 17 May 2022",
"Around me, the quiet is broken only by the whir of the cable car engine and the trilling of birds. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
"The trade machine in his own head started to whir , calculations Bisciotti had learned from watching general manager Eric DeCosta, the architect of the strength-in-numbers strategy that has come to define Ravens drafts. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The office building was locked \u2014 just me and the janitors and the whir of the autoclave. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The whir of cars passing the homestead can be heard on the wraparound front porch. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 24 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s a thud and a clink and with a whir \u2014 really more of a purring sound \u2014 the floor of Steinmetz Hall springs into action. \u2014 Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Radiology and operating rooms whir with the beeps and blinks of monitors. \u2014 Lujain Jo, The Christian Science Monitor , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Some popular spots \u2014 including the vertiginous Angels Landing hiking trail and trek-able Virgin River Narrows \u2014 can be reached via free shuttle buses that whir through Zion Canyon each day, typically from March through November. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022"
"Whisk the eggs with the cream until the mixture thickens.",
"She whisked the children off to bed.",
"The taxi whisked me to the airport.",
"The waitress whisked my plate away before I was finished eating.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Add the egg and the beer to the dry ingredients and whisk until smooth and combined; the batter should be thicker than pancake batter, more like a thin cake batter. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 May 2022",
"Add sugar and whisk on low speed until sugar is dissolved. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Add whiskey, whipping cream, and powdered sugar to a mixing bowl and whisk until the mixture thickens. \u2014 Outside Online , 1 Apr. 2021",
"Remove from heat and whisk in the butter and vanilla. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Turn off the heat and whisk in the parsley, miso, lemon juice, pepper and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Colorful, contrasting millwork, on the other hand, is the swizzle that transforms interiors with a whisk of a paintbrush, say design pros. \u2014 Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022",
"In a clean large bowl, using a clean whisk , beat the egg whites until medium peaks form. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 15 Jan. 2022",
"Using a whisk and stirring constantly slowly pour the milk into the mixture. \u2014 Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Make sure to whisk well again before using, since the oil will separate. \u2014 Reem Assil, Robb Report , 11 June 2022",
"Place all of the ingredients in a large bowl and whisk vigorously to combine. \u2014 Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Place in a medium saucepan sugar, cornstarch, and salt, and egg yolks; whisk just to combine. \u2014 Kim Sun\u00e9e, Anchorage Daily News , 26 May 2022",
"Handling is pleasantly agile, and the software has been fine-tuned to whisk this portly EV around corners with astonishing agility. \u2014 Jens Meiners, Car and Driver , 24 May 2022",
"After coming into contact with water, the gel cleanse creates a foam to whisk away any debris and reveal a refreshed face. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Your best bet is to lightly whisk the whole egg in a small bowl until incorporated and then measure out half the amount. \u2014 Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon App\u00e9tit , 6 May 2022",
"Remove from heat and slowly whisk in the molasses, followed by the brown sugar and Yuzu juice, whisking well after each addition. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Add a big splash of cream to the remaining egg (about the same amount of cream as egg) and whisk together. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 17 May 2022"
"Seven-month-old Lucille Kachuk chortled as a woman tickled her feet with a small black whisk broom , while mother Danielle Bessette danced next to her stroller. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"Make this step easier by keeping a whisk broom and dust pan in an attractive basket near the fireplace. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Bushels of whisk brooms , made of straw and horsehair and boar hair, lie on shelves. \u2014 Annie Correal, New York Times , 1 Nov. 2019",
"The past two years they have been swept. James' toolbox probably included a whisk broom . \u2014 Bill Livingston, cleveland.com , 7 May 2018"
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"Even the old-fashioned The Lost City is a whisker away from $100 million in domestic box office, and that\u2019s not supposed to happen anymore, at least for a comedic romp that is neither a franchise nor a superhero movie. \u2014 Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 May 2022",
"Both at some point come within a whisker of catastrophe. \u2014 John Domini, Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Now, Evers did win the Wisconsin governorship in 2018 by a whisker because a statewide race is comparatively immune to gerrymandering. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Playing under 2020's ground rules, Trump came within a whisker 's hair of winning an Electoral College victory again \u2014 and probably would have if the COVID-19 pandemic had not dramatically altered the course of the campaign. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 7 June 2021",
"That coincided with a tumble in growth stocks, dragging the Nasdaq index to within a whisker of a bear market, down almost 20% from its November peak. \u2014 James Mackintosh, WSJ , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Cryptocurrencies, too, are rebounding, with Bitcoin up more than 4% to come within a whisker of $38,000. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The new poll mirrors in several ways a survey commissioned by the AJC in September, which gave Reed a whisker of a lead over Moore that fell within the margin of error. \u2014 Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, ajc , 22 Oct. 2021",
"John Kerry would have gone the way of Michael Dukakis, if not Walter Mondale, rather than coming within a whisker in Ohio of winning the White House. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 14 July 2021"
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": a quick light brushing or whipping motion":[],
": a usually wire kitchen utensil used for beating food by hand":[],
": to brush or wipe off lightly":[],
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": to move nimbly and quickly":[],
": to move or convey briskly":[
"whisked the children off to bed"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"with a whisk of the broom, the dirt was gone",
"Verb",
"Whisk the eggs with the cream until the mixture thickens.",
"She whisked the children off to bed.",
"The taxi whisked me to the airport.",
"The waitress whisked my plate away before I was finished eating.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Add the egg and the beer to the dry ingredients and whisk until smooth and combined; the batter should be thicker than pancake batter, more like a thin cake batter. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 May 2022",
"Add sugar and whisk on low speed until sugar is dissolved. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Add whiskey, whipping cream, and powdered sugar to a mixing bowl and whisk until the mixture thickens. \u2014 Outside Online , 1 Apr. 2021",
"Remove from heat and whisk in the butter and vanilla. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Turn off the heat and whisk in the parsley, miso, lemon juice, pepper and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Colorful, contrasting millwork, on the other hand, is the swizzle that transforms interiors with a whisk of a paintbrush, say design pros. \u2014 Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022",
"In a clean large bowl, using a clean whisk , beat the egg whites until medium peaks form. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 15 Jan. 2022",
"Using a whisk and stirring constantly slowly pour the milk into the mixture. \u2014 Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Make sure to whisk well again before using, since the oil will separate. \u2014 Reem Assil, Robb Report , 11 June 2022",
"Place all of the ingredients in a large bowl and whisk vigorously to combine. \u2014 Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Place in a medium saucepan sugar, cornstarch, and salt, and egg yolks; whisk just to combine. \u2014 Kim Sun\u00e9e, Anchorage Daily News , 26 May 2022",
"Handling is pleasantly agile, and the software has been fine-tuned to whisk this portly EV around corners with astonishing agility. \u2014 Jens Meiners, Car and Driver , 24 May 2022",
"After coming into contact with water, the gel cleanse creates a foam to whisk away any debris and reveal a refreshed face. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Your best bet is to lightly whisk the whole egg in a small bowl until incorporated and then measure out half the amount. \u2014 Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon App\u00e9tit , 6 May 2022",
"Remove from heat and slowly whisk in the molasses, followed by the brown sugar and Yuzu juice, whisking well after each addition. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Add a big splash of cream to the remaining egg (about the same amount of cream as egg) and whisk together. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 17 May 2022"
"She leaned over and whispered to the girl next to her.",
"I couldn't hear what they were saying because they were whispering .",
"She leaned over and whispered something to the girl next to her.",
"\u201cI'll be right back,\u201d she whispered .",
"A soft breeze whispered through the trees.",
"Noun",
"She spoke in a whisper .",
"the whisper of the wind",
"I've heard whispers that the company might go out of business.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As an aside, some furtively whisper that this will be akin to the return of the Jedi. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Stars like Kristen Stewart, Meghan Markle, and Storm Reid all chose pieces that whisper instead of scream. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 6 June 2022",
"Later, the witch doesn\u2019t need a wand, but has only to whisper an idea in the right ear. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 18 May 2022",
"My mother would make minor movements when people would whisper in her ear and chat with her. \u2014 Essence , 4 May 2022",
"Three prosecutors sat on the bench at trial, and a fourth often stood up from the first row of public seating to whisper into their ears. \u2014 Jolie Mccullough, San Antonio Express-News , 10 May 2022",
"Throughout her testimony, Depp wore sunglasses and appeared to be looking down \u2014 often leaning over to whisper something to his lawyer and occasionally chuckling. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"By the way, did Mandy really whisper anything to Milo about what Rebecca was going to give Jack at their next anniversary? \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
"But the prospect of a looming leadership shuffle may be impossible to ignore, with Republicans excited about their chances of winning back the majority and many GOP lawmakers beginning to privately whisper about what that might look like. \u2014 Melanie Zanona, CNN , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There was not one person whose power could not be in danger of being compromised if there was even a whisper of possible homosexuality activity. \u2014 Jillian Eugenios, NBC News , 2 June 2022",
"And, of course, there isn\u2019t even a whisper of gun sanity in those who ratchet Republican campaigns for governor and the U.S. Senate. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 26 May 2022",
"The trains, roomy and twice the length of regular subways, arrive with scarcely a whisper . \u2014 Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"Or when Reed Richards tells Wanda how Black Bolt (Anson Mount) can kill her with a whisper . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 14 May 2022",
"The trains, roomy and twice the length of regular subways, arrive with scarcely a whisper . \u2014 New York Times , 14 May 2022",
"The seasonings were right, with a whisper of white pepper. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The mild salmon is combined with fresh ginger, scallions and soy sauce and served with an aioli heated with a whisper of wasabi powder. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
"There have been periods of activity, of possible breakthroughs that fizzled out, and long spells of silence with barely a whisper about the unknown little girl found dead in the desert. \u2014 Lane Sainty, USA TODAY , 16 Mar. 2022"
": a person considered to possess some extraordinary skill or talent in managing or dealing with something specified":[
"Meatballs with spaghetti, meatball sliders, meatballs in a casserole, or just meatballs on the plate with a salad, my boys love them all, going so far as to call me the meatball whisperer .",
"\u2014 Neely Myers"
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": a person who excels at calming or training usually hard-to-manage animals using noncoercive methods based especially on an understanding of the animals' natural instincts":[
"The last event of the day will be the horse whisperer breaking a wild horse and giving his testimony while he does it.",
"\u2014 Dale Carroll",
"A lion that mauled a young woman to death in South Africa was under the care of a man known as the \"lion whisperer \" for his close interactions with the predators.",
"\u2014 The Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune"
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"Colleagues often call Williams the \"child whisperer \" because he reaches out with a quiet grace to children who need assistance and molds students who need to believe in their own future.",
"And then there\u2019s this tweet from the consummate Hollywood insider and entertainment industry whisperer Matt Belloni, host of the fantastic podcast The Town. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 9 June 2022",
"The Justice Department moved within three weeks to criminally charge former Trump whisperer Steve Bannon after getting a referral from the committee, so their foot-dragging on Meadows is a head-scratcher. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"With Riley apparently headed to Los Angeles having already established a reputation as a QB whisperer , maybe the next Stroud, Young, or Uiagalelei doesn\u2019t leave the state. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 28 Nov. 2021",
"There is special fascination with Vance in the press\u2014in the years leading up to Trump, he was kind of identified as this wise whisperer of the disaffected white, conservative mind. \u2014 The New Yorker , 3 May 2022",
"McVay has been running the Los Angeles offense, and while O\u2019Connell did not hurt the team and is clearly a quarterback whisperer , running the Vikings offense will be his first chance to put his signature on an NFL team. \u2014 Steve Silverman, Forbes , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Filling the demand Lian Mansour, from Kaukab Abu El-Hija, an Arab village in the Galilee, is something of a cultural whisperer for itworks. \u2014 Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 Feb. 2022",
"But not everyone needs a baby whisperer to train their child to sleep. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Apr. 2022",
"How did the comic relief become the show\u2019s grief whisperer ? \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 28 Feb. 2022"
"There\u2019s only so much whispering that can be directed at jets. \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"Winter was serenaded with blood orange and other colorful citrus slices in a salad sharpened with red onion and whispering of Sicilian oregano. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Oct. 2021",
"The scene was still eerie: the gloom, the heat, the whispering , the low, insistent whine of the jet engine, the mass of dim faces crowded so close together. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
"On one hand, there was a bevy of huge, crazy Tribal Councils with last-second whispering and maneuvering leading to jaw-dropping exits. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Days after her August surgery, Griffin said in an Instagram video that her voice was still really hoarse, half- whispering in a gruff, barely recognizable voice. \u2014 Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times , 1 Dec. 2021",
"But because Cage didn\u2019t hear the whispering voices that would lead them to the tree of life, he gets zapped in the flare. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 25 Nov. 2021",
"That's probably why your voice has been so hoarse this season \u2014 from the excessive amount of faux- whispering going down. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Days before its departure, the train was alive, with the locomotives\u2019 4,000-horsepower engines idling nearly silently and the coach-car air conditioning whispering . \u2014 Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The stage has been extended into the theater to create greater proximity to the audience, and the actors strive for naturalism, but the whispering quality that Nelson achieved isn\u2019t feasible in this grander space. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"No more whispering in the remote and soft-spoken Mountain West. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Jan. 2022"
"He was the target of a whispering campaign started by his political rivals.",
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"Karl Rove reportedly inspired a similar whispering campaign during an Alabama judicial campaign back in the 1990s. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Lingering physical effects from five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam added to concerns about his health, and his staff viewed full transparency as the best response to a whisper campaign about his mental health. \u2014 Matt Viser, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Feb. 2020",
"The eatery is doing a fun whisper campaign this year: The restaurant will post a secret word on Instagram and Facebook, and anyone who mentions the secret word to a server will get a $2 Rita de Casa. \u2014 Audrey Eads, Dallas News , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Smear sheets and whisper campaigns targeted Brewer, a moderate on racial issues. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 4 Dec. 2019",
"Finally, Tom called Karishma\u2019s last-minute whisper campaign at Tribal Council a big act. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 10 Oct. 2019",
"In the company\u2019s version of events, an unspecified person on the communications team hired Definers Public Affairs to monitor press about the company, help with product announcements, and carry out the odd whisper campaign against prominent enemies. \u2014 Casey Newton, The Verge , 17 Nov. 2018",
"These are the political tactics that people use, and in the past there's evidence these whisper campaigns have been successful. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Mar. 2018",
"At the same time, a whisper campaign against him started to get louder. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 1 June 2018"
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"Another surprise appearance came from Bryan Cranston, who shared that his whistling on Malcolm in the Middle led to an improbable ASCAP membership. \u2014 Joe Lynch, Billboard , 17 June 2022",
"Previous research has shown that groups of dolphins tend to develop different styles of whistling , but why dolphins develop these styles is still unclear, per a statement. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 June 2022",
"Elba and Swinton shared a warm hug during the post-screening standing ovation, which had the Grand Palais audience swooning and whistling . \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 20 May 2022",
"Violet still hasn\u2019t warmed up to Andrew Bird; something about the whistling gets under her skin. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"And rather than being empathetic to the people who were violated by Rock in that moment, their immediate go-to is dog whistling and virtue signalling, insinuating that Smith is some kind of danger to society for standing up for his wife. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"But the unconditional love that lives between his parents, with their not-so-secret whistling code, is vibrantly remembered. \u2014 Sheena Scott, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
"The especially showy Dolby Atmos audio system made the whistling that opens the film sound cool but unnatural. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Dec. 2021",
"In early August, Caroline Polachek practiced her whistling in a dark, foggy warehouse, deep in the San Fernando Valley, as lights sliced the room into coruscating triangles. \u2014 Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker , 10 Sep. 2021"
"The three-star QB prospect had offers from Penn State, Purdue, Houston, and Oklahoma State but picked the green and whit . \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The fact that both substantively have major bipartisan accomplishments to their names matters not a whit . \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Finley\u2019s toughness never materializes, nor does a whit of wit. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 13 May 2021",
"The shelter for homeless men with substance abuse issues shows its age, but that matters not a whit to the 60-odd men seated on a hodgepodge of chairs in the concrete building. \u2014 Holly Haber, Dallas News , 29 June 2021",
"Finley\u2019s toughness never materializes, nor does a whit of wit. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 13 May 2021",
"Finley\u2019s toughness never materializes, nor does a whit of wit. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 13 May 2021",
"Finley\u2019s toughness never materializes, nor does a whit of wit. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 13 May 2021",
"Finley\u2019s toughness never materializes, nor does a whit of wit. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 13 May 2021"
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"About 60% are in their twenties and 12% in their teens, with 39% white , 38% black, 25% Hispanic, and 6% Asian or Pacific Islander. \u2014 Erik Sherman, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
"Those clouds sailed above us in white fleets and flotillas, billowing shape-shifting masses of water droplets, forming mountains and crags and castles. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"Proponents blame both immigration as well as demographic changes, including white birth rates. \u2014 Jill Colvin, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2022",
"Powerball players choose five different numbers from 1 to 69 for the white balls; then select one number from 1 to 26 for the red Powerball. \u2014 Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer , 25 June 2022",
"Canelo \u00c1lvarez arrived Friday in a black velour polo and white pants with an entourage too deep for the Hollywood conference room. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 June 2022",
"Black babies in Alabama have an infant mortality rate of 10.9 per 1,000 live births, more than double that of white babies. \u2014 Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al , 25 June 2022",
"Sacks of water hang from tunnel ceilings, and white fire retardant dusts the passageways like a fine layer of snow. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
"Several hours later, when Ivy entered an exam room, a woman named Brittany, twenty-two, was perched on the table, her white T-shirt wrinkled and hands clenched. \u2014 Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker , 25 June 2022",
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"An Italian circus was also caught dying puppies black-and- white in an effort to pass them off as pandas in 2014. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 22 June 2022",
"There are also new ways to customize the lock screen, including different fonts and colors for text and time, and the ability to swipe to try different color filters, like black-and- white . \u2014 Samuel Axon And Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 6 June 2022",
"The packaging has also been stripped of the golden arches and left mainly blank white , perhaps a result of a hasty rebranding done in just 22 days. \u2014 Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post , 12 June 2022",
"Garza and Gladys Sicknick, Officer Brian Sicknick\u2019s mother, grew emotional as Edwards discussed seeing Sicknick clutching his head and turning white . \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 9 June 2022",
"The Metro Detroit Ford Dealers rounded up 40 new Mustangs \u2014 37 red, three white \u2014 to showcase the team. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022",
"Neat and sporty, Raducanu appears in all white with a crisp Oxford shirt over a T-shirt and Nike shorts. \u2014 Ian Malone, Vogue , 7 June 2022",
"Runners can also create a de facto blinking light by programming the watch lights to flash white as your wrist moves forward and red as your wrist flies back. \u2014 Jakob Schiller, Outside Online , 6 June 2022",
"Adults are reddish brown, while the babies are extremely tiny and yellowish- white in color. \u2014 Jerome Goddard, The Conversation , 3 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most people with a low overall white blood cell count have low numbers of neutrophils. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 12 May 2022",
"The treatment depleted her B cells, a type of white blood cell that produces antibodies to fight bacteria and viruses. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 16 May 2022",
"The nurse sent her to a lab, and multiple mono tests came up negative, and her white blood cell count was close to average. \u2014 Julia Moore, PEOPLE.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Physical activity upregulates all kinds of cells, like natural killer cells, a white blood cell type that actually seek out and eliminate cells that are cancerous. \u2014 Elizabeth Cooney, STAT , 25 Nov. 2021",
"The virus enters cells at the back of the throat and from there moves into B cells, a type of white blood cell that produces antibodies. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"That\u2019s when your white blood cell count is super low. \u2014 Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell that fight disease. \u2014 Eryn Mathewson, CNN , 8 Jan. 2022",
"Yaneli developed a serious infection that her small body was having trouble fighting because the cancer had nearly depleted her healthy white blood cell count. \u2014 Maya Miller, ProPublica , 30 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Get ready to greet an 84-foot white fir tree nicknamed Sugar Bear at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Nov. 6. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Nov. 2021",
"The farm has six varieties to choose from blue spruce, Norway spruce, white pine, Scotch pine, Cannan fir and white fir . \u2014 Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer , 11 Nov. 2020",
"Juniper, pinyon pine and white fir available at various locations. \u2014 Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Nov. 2021",
"The new tree is a 27-foot white fir from Middleburg, Pennsylvania, the park service said in a release. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 Nov. 2021",
"But the white fir that toppled onto utility lines on July 22 \u2014 a charred tree was later collected as evidence \u2014 was not among those noted in any report. \u2014 Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Aug. 2021",
"Near the Stagg, the Castle Fire did a bit of forest housekeeping, burning undergrowth, young white fir trees and incense cedars. \u2014 Bettina Boxall, Star Tribune , 5 Dec. 2020",
"Oakland\u2019s Jack London Square tree lighting ceremony goes virtual: With public events at the waterfront square restricted due to coronavirus surging in the Bay Area, the annual lighting of the 55-foot white fir tree will take place online this year. \u2014 Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com , 4 Dec. 2020",
"The white fir that has taken up residence at this Glendale shopping center hails from the Mt. Shasta region of Northern California. \u2014 Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times , 30 Nov. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There is no one fix-all/kill-all application for adult beetles and their larvae/ white grub offspring. \u2014 Betty Cahill, The Know , 23 June 2020",
"Keeping lawns on the drier side during peak egg-laying months (July-August) will reduce eggs from growing to the next larvae/ white grub stage. \u2014 Betty Cahill, The Know , 23 June 2020",
"There are insecticides labeled for control of white grubs in turf. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 26 Dec. 2019",
"The browning grass looks like damage of white grub worms. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 26 Sep. 2019",
"Females lay batches of up to 75 eggs in balls of soil below ground, which eventually turn into large white grubs . \u2014 Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com , 17 July 2019",
"The best management tools are based on knowing this insect\u2019s life cycle \u2014 both the adult and their larva ( white grub ) stages cause plant damage. \u2014 Betty Cahill, The Denver Post , 24 June 2019",
"Could the epic bad winter of 2019 have killed the gooey white grubs that over-winter just a few inches below the surface of turf grass? \u2014 Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities , 22 June 2019",
"These types actually combat a variety of pest species, including weevils, clearwing borers, cutworms, sod webworms, chinch bugs, and white grubs . \u2014 The Editors, Good Housekeeping , 1 July 2018"
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": a temperature (as for copper and iron from 1500\u00b0 to 1600\u00b0 C) which is higher than red heat and at which a body becomes brightly incandescent":[]
"It\u2019s made of several heavy-duty materials to keep it safe: a black Cinefoil dust jacket, white heat -shield foil pages, nickel wire, stainless-steel head and tail bands and Kapton high-temperature adhesive. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 24 May 2022",
"Without his embrace, the band burned with white light/ white heat , before eventually burning out themselves. \u2014 Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Their mutual hatred generates a white heat that could burn through your laptop screen. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 28 Mar. 2020",
"One of Parker\u2019s key defenses is a white heat shield that deflects heat. \u2014 James Rogers, Fox News , 10 Aug. 2018",
"Narrated by a neurological researcher whose memories of her childhood in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge start to leak into her present day, this novel is contrapuntal and elegiac in tone, with a white heat beneath. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Jan. 2018",
"And just as one starts to wonder what kind of town is one in which there are no children or families, no banks or offices, dusk starts to fall, and the tourists and the white heat of the day retreat. \u2014 Deborah Needleman, New York Times , 7 Sep. 2017"
"a deserving cause in need of a charismatic white knight who will galvanize public support",
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"Under pressure to lock in the 38% premium and lacking a \u2018 white knight \u2019 bidder to serve as a viable alternative, the social media company\u2019s board voted unanimously late last month to recommend the deal move forward. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 3 May 2022",
"The board enacted a poison pill, a defensive measure, trying to really give them time to look for a second bidder or a white knight . \u2014 USA TODAY , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Another option for Twitter is lining up a white knight to help save it from Musk\u2019s unsolicited offer, a move that could spark a bidding war that benefits shareholders no matter who wins. \u2014 Michelle F Davis, Bloomberg.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"And Twitter is on the phone with their lawyers asking which can be their white knight . \u2014 Will Daniel, Fortune , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Then Nestl\u00e9 SA, hoping Mr. Dixon would welcome a white knight , offered itself as an alternative buyer. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Along came white knight Alexandre Fauvet, a veteran of Lacoste, to rescue the ailing brand. \u2014 Jemima Sissons, Robb Report , 24 Feb. 2022",
"As the son of a media scion, Kendall knows the importance of creating a public narrative, so positioning himself as the white knight is a savvy move. \u2014 Erin Gee, Harper's BAZAAR , 18 Nov. 2021",
"In other words, the acquisition premium, or hope for a white knight buyer, is low for Shake Shack. \u2014 David Trainer, Forbes , 30 Aug. 2021"
"Usually, this is the white line that runs around the edge\u2014a car should never have all four wheels on the other side of that line. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Through the wheelhouse window, captain Mark Casto spotted a white line on the horizon. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Its black-and- white line drawings are charming, and the writerly descriptions spout history, humor and wit. \u2014 Amy Merrick, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"In one last twist, Christopher Bell actually crossed the line second, but NASCAR penalized him for dipping below the double white line on the backstretch of the last lap to get past Chastain. \u2014 Paul Newberry, orlandosentinel.com , 20 Mar. 2022",
"In one last twist, Christopher Bell actually crossed the line second, but NASCAR penalized him for dipping below the double white line on the backstretch of the last lap to get past Chastain. \u2014 Paul Newberry, ajc , 20 Mar. 2022",
"The figure is filled with three colors, light blue in the middle bordered by pastel pink, and a thin white line that traces the whole shape. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Unless the car\u2019s cameras recognize the letters on the sign, the computer would have to look for other clues, like an arrow or a thin white line painted across the road. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
"This never used to be a problem, because the other side of that white line was usually grass or gravel. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 13 Dec. 2021"
": a large willow ( Salix alba ) of Eurasia and northern Africa that is often cultivated and has silky pubescent leaves, gray bark, and light soft tough wood":[],
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": a wine ranging in color from faintly yellow to amber that is produced from the juice alone of dark- or light-colored grapes":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pair were seen dancing and playing tambourines during their night out, and enjoyed glasses of white wine before sharing a public kiss, according to TMZ. \u2014 Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com , 13 June 2022",
"At the conclusion of the first night, Harris went to the refrigerator and poured herself a small glass of white wine before settling in for a brief postmortem chat. \u2014 Amanda Erickson, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"After this sale of the white wine , singer/actress \u00c9lodie Fr\u00e9g\u00e9 stood beside auctioneer Hugues Cortot and led the audience in a hand clapping singalong. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022",
"His white wine from Cairanne has been a great success. \u2014 Per And Britt Karlsson, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The Barefoot Contessa star is her inviting self on the cover, shared exclusively with PEOPLE, holding a glass of white wine over a table set with her signature dish: roast chicken. \u2014 Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com , 21 Mar. 2022",
"In a small bowl, mix together the white wine , salt and pepper. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
"But is red wine actually more healthful than white wine ? \u2014 Lettie Teague, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"And to Drink \u2026 Oysters and dry, unoaked white wine have a special affinity. \u2014 Melissa Clark, New York Times , 17 Dec. 2021"
": a yam ( Dioscorea alata ) that is widely cultivated throughout Australasia and Polynesia for its large roots which have a fine white flesh and are eaten baked or boiled or cooked with coconut milk":[]
"But, as wine drinkers were introduced to dry ros\u00e9s, white zinfandel fell out of fashion. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Wines include pinot grigio, cabernet and white zinfandel . \u2014 Susan Dunne, courant.com , 11 June 2021",
"All-you-can-drink: The dinner price includes seasonal beers, Bud Light and Liberty Creek Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and white Zinfandel included. \u2014 Melissa Yeager, azcentral , 7 June 2019",
"Its nadir may have been during the white zinfandel wave that surged out of California in the late \u201970s, tinting everyone\u2019s ros\u00e9-colored glasses with the skewed perspective that all pink wines were sweet. \u2014 M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post , 8 July 2019",
"Some are mediocre, and some are sweet pink confections like the white zinfandels of the 1970s and \u201980s. \u2014 Eric Asimov, New York Times , 5 July 2018",
"That\u2019s this kind of white zinfandel \u2013 strawberries without the shortcake and whipped cream, but with a lilting sweetness and enough rejuvenating acidity for it to be paired with sandwiches of ham and cheese, curried chicken or tuna. \u2014 Mike Dunne, sacbee , 20 June 2018",
"Easton Wines As wine, the zinfandel grape is interpreted in all sorts of ways, from playful white zinfandel to somber port. \u2014 Mike Dunne, sacbee , 9 May 2018",
"Pink wine drinkers used to be shamed for sipping on what was perceived as low-quality, sweet vino \u2014 your grandmother's white zinfandel . \u2014 Rachel Rubenstein, Indianapolis Star , 17 Oct. 2017"
": an American sphinx moth ( Celerio lineata ) whose larvae eat the leaves of cotton, apple, grape, currant, and many other plants, whose forewings are olive brown with a longitudinal buff stripe and with most of the veins lined with white, and whose hind wings are black with a central reddish band":[]
": an Australian elapid snake ( Denisonia coronoides ) that is related to the copperhead but not especially dangerous, is brown to olive above shading to creamy white or salmon pink ventrally, and has the upper lip usually white and bounded by a black streak and sometimes a yellow collar about the neck":[]
"The same earthy clay and charcoal that purify pores can also whiten teeth and degrease roots. \u2014 Jolene Edgar, Allure , 24 June 2022",
"The mouthpiece offers dual-light therapy: Its blue LED light claims to whiten teeth and its red LED light claims to support healthy gums. \u2014 Marielle Marlys, Good Housekeeping , 15 June 2022",
"The GLO Science formula includes hydrogen peroxide to whiten the teeth and remove stains, while potassium nitrate prevents sensitivity. \u2014 ELLE , 14 May 2022",
"In a vivid opening scene, Prioleau details the adult Miriam\u2019s arduous toilette, and her reliance on pearl powder to whiten her skin. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
"These products do not have the ability to whiten the skin. \u2014 CNN , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Plus, it's paired with the Waterpik Sonic Electric Toothbrush, which uses sonic vibrations with 31,000 strokes per minute and features three modes (clean, whiten , and massage) to remove nine times as many stains as a regular toothbrush. \u2014 Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
"The Waterpik Sonic Toothbrush polishes teeth while massaging gums to whiten and prevent gingivitis. \u2014 Chloe Irving, Health.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
"As the front pushes offshore, cold air arrives and may bring some snow showers that can whiten the ground across the higher elevations of Worcester County, the Berkshires, and certainly the hills of Northern New England. \u2014 Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com , 24 Nov. 2021"
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"It was important to Jenny Han, author of the YA books To All the Boys I've Loved Before , that the film adaption would keep one key detail: that the lead character, Lara Jean, was Asian-American. In a new essay \u2026, Han revealed that nearly every production company interested in adapting her best-selling book into a movie asked to whitewash it.",
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"\u2014 Austin Murphy"
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": to portray (the past) in a way that increases the prominence, relevance, or impact of white people and minimizes or misrepresents that of nonwhite people":[
"\u2026 touches obliquely on Jones' assertion that the mayor and other white city leaders want to \" whitewash \" the telling of our nation's civil rights struggles.",
"\u2014 Jeff Gauger"
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"\u2014 Mark Twain"
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"refused to whitewash the governor's chronic disregard for the truth",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Israeli government offered to investigate the journalist's death in conjunction with Palestinian authorities, but the latter refused out of fear Israeli officials would whitewash or muddy the inquiry. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 9 June 2022",
"Further, de Jong rails against these families\u2019 use of philanthropy to whitewash history. \u2014 Anna Altman, The New Republic , 27 May 2022",
"In a country where more than half of registered voters are 40 or younger, TikTok has been particularly effective in efforts to whitewash the history of the Marcos family. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
"Blatant misinformation, pumped out by supporters on social networks, helped to whitewash the Marcos family\u2019s bloody legacy. \u2014 Time , 10 May 2022",
"This willingness to whitewash bad actors to more easily oppose wars is still mistaken, both morally and as a matter of political strategy. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 24 Feb. 2022",
"League lawyers have reached out about the use of NBA trademarks and logos, HBO confirms; and at least a few associated with the Showtime Lakers era have expressed concerns about a series with no plans to whitewash the unsavory parts of NBA life. \u2014 Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 Feb. 2022",
"But new revelations and new legal actions point toward bigger consequences for the GOP and those who might seek to whitewash the violent riot at the Capitol. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The decision to whitewash the experiences of Black Americans, made by many who have been put in charge to run states, municipalities, and school boards, has been alarming. \u2014 Angela Bassett, EW.com , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The cuts have led opponents to accuse Johnson of a whitewash . \u2014 Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News , 31 Jan. 2022",
"In nearby Santa Mar\u00eda Huiramangaro, restorers began stripping whitewash from the church\u2019s 16th-century altarpiece in 2014 after villagers approached I.N.A.H. with concerns about cracks in the chancel walls. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Portland takes 4 games and outscores Spokane 30-9, being dominant without getting the whitewash . \u2014 Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The Saville report had been ordered by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998, years after an inquiry in 1972 had been widely dismissed as a whitewash in favor of the British establishment and the soldiers on the ground. \u2014 Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Jan. 2022",
"The Saville report had been ordered by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998, years after an inquiry in 1972 had been widely dismissed as a whitewash in favor of the British establishment and the soldiers on the ground. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Jan. 2022",
"Darren Lehmann, much loved by his players and peers due to his knockabout demeanour, had a fairly successful five-year stint highlighted by Australia\u2019s unexpected whitewash of the 2013-14 Ashes and a home World Cup triumph in 2015. \u2014 Tristan Lavalette, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Some senior Republicans insist that warnings of a whitewash are overwrought. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 1 Aug. 2021",
"England have been in this exact same predicament three of the last four Ashes tours with only the flattest of pitches in the MCG four years ago saving them from a whitewash . \u2014 Tristan Lavalette, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021"
"The doctor assured me that the whole procedure would only take a few minutes.",
"The whole place was remodeled. It looks great now.",
"It's been a whole week since I've seen him.",
"I spent the whole summer traveling through Europe.",
"The whole evening was a great success.",
"She read the whole book in one day.",
"I've been waiting my whole life for this.",
"We decided to forget the whole thing .",
"We cooked a whole chicken.",
"The community center offers a whole range of programs.",
"Noun",
"the landlord eventually refunded the whole of our deposit",
"Adverb",
"We cooked the chicken whole .",
"The frog swallowed the fly whole .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But that kind of carried throughout the whole thing. \u2014 Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times , 3 July 2022",
"And yet these numbers aren\u2019t that high overall, and there was that whole thing about PCF never getting royalties from Square Enix because the game had not sold enough copies, per their agreement. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 3 July 2022",
"The door was unlocked the whole time, McCraw testified last month. \u2014 Paul Conner, Fox News , 2 July 2022",
"In the real world, Max collapses in Lucas\u2019s arms (poor baby was watching this the whole time while fist-fighting a school bully), still conscious and begging not to die. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, ELLE , 2 July 2022",
"The whole thing actually started with a joke in the late '50s, when a Kiwanis Club organized a wagon train across the mountains. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 2 July 2022",
"The consensus among basically everyone from the committee to the media is that this whole thing is quite incredible and unusual. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 30 June 2022",
"Colin Firth once admitted that the whole thing was entirely contrived. \u2014 Liana Schaffner, Town & Country , 30 June 2022",
"The whole thing was calibrated perfectly for Lee: a small act of celebration in a place where gay rights are still being adjudicated. \u2014 Emma Green, The New Yorker , 30 June 2022",
"At high enough temperatures, the bar magnets randomly point in different directions, but the material as a whole is not magnetic. \u2014 New York Times , 5 July 2022",
"Media coverage on cryptocurrencies and the blockchain space as a whole have soured. \u2014 Daniel Araya, Forbes , 5 July 2022",
"The same metric used for the metro as a whole would see more than 300,000 tickets sold. \u2014 Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al , 4 July 2022",
"Taken as a whole , Cooper Hummel\u2019s season has been mediocre. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 4 July 2022",
"The people who volunteer for psychedelic research trials are not typical of the population as a whole . \u2014 Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone , 3 July 2022",
"Rays manager Kevin Cash said before Sunday's game that his thoughts were with Budzinski and the coach's family, as well as the Blue Jays organization as a whole . \u2014 Des Bieler, BostonGlobe.com , 3 July 2022",
"The result is that many legislatures are more heavily partisan than the state\u2019s population as a whole . \u2014 David A. Lieb, Anchorage Daily News , 3 July 2022",
"The first former senior defense official painted a grim picture for the military as a whole . \u2014 Matt Seyler, ABC News , 2 July 2022",
"Some flowers can be used whole , like pansies and violas. \u2014 Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer , 24 June 2022",
"Traditionally, the fish arrives at the table presented whole with its head and tail, though the puffed appearance of the center-stage fillet is said to resemble a bushy squirrel. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Freitag\u2019s accounting of money due and her initiation of the claims process represent a milestone move in efforts to make victims of San Diego\u2019s biggest Ponzi scheme whole . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"More than anyone else, Ms. Waters spread the word about the sweet, earthy charms of garlic whole -roasted in the oven. \u2014 Bee Wilson, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"But the sport has made the family whole again at OSU. \u2014 Jacob Unruh, USA TODAY , 24 May 2022",
"Note: For the subtlest flavor, leave the garlic cloves whole . \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Both are needed, whole , to grace the evening\u2019s table. \u2014 Benjamin, Longreads , 20 May 2022",
"On the way to Mariupol\u2019s beaches, women sold whole roasted sunflower heads and paper cones of fresh, juicy sunflower seeds trucked in from nearby farms. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022"
"Middle English hool healthy, unhurt, entire, from Old English h\u0101l ; akin to Old High German heil healthy, unhurt, Old Norse heill , Old Church Slavonic c\u011bl\u016d":"Adjective"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for whole Adjective perfect , whole , entire , intact mean not lacking or faulty in any particular. perfect implies the soundness and the excellence of every part, element, or quality of a thing frequently as an unattainable or theoretical state. a perfect set of teeth whole suggests a completeness or perfection that can be sought, gained, or regained. felt like a whole person again after vacation entire implies perfection deriving from integrity, soundness, or completeness of a thing. the entire Beethoven corpus intact implies retention of perfection of a thing in its natural or original state. the boat survived the storm intact",
"since percentages have been rounded off to whole numbers , the total will not be exactly equal to 100%",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Because the amount of time the Earth takes to spin on its axis is not dependent on the amount of time the Earth takes to complete a full orbit around the sun, the number of 24-hour rotations that fit into a calendar year is not a whole number . \u2014 Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY , 24 June 2022",
"The whole number was like three and a half minutes. \u2014 Samantha Highfill, EW.com , 16 Sep. 2021",
"However, the smallest whole number that satisfies these individual congruences is 23. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Each whole number increase \u2014 from, say, 3 to 4, or 6 to 7 \u2014 is a tenfold increase in amplitude. \u2014 Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times , 12 June 2021",
"Because the scale is logarithmically based, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase. \u2014 Allison Chinchar, CNN , 1 May 2021",
"Fractions are a difficult transition from whole number knowledge. \u2014 Jonathan Wai, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Havens\u2019s problem is an example of Pell\u2019s equation, which is an equation of the form x2\u2212Ny2=1 where N is a whole number that is not a square. \u2014 Evelyn Lamb, Popular Mechanics , 23 Feb. 2021",
"Typically, updates with two decimal points in the number are minor bug fix updates, those with just one decimal point are small feature updates, and those with just a whole number (like iOS 14) are annual major releases. \u2014 Samuel Axon, Ars Technica , 20 Nov. 2020"
"And that was kind of bothering me throughout the whole rest of the year. \u2014 Dave Clark, The Enquirer , 24 June 2022",
"So how does something in this tiny region influence the whole rest of it? \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 May 2022",
"Yes, the Northern Plains and the Heartland was improving and the Rocky Mountain states, but the whole rest of the country had rising cases. \u2014 CBS News , 24 Jan. 2021",
"If my aim in life was to save time and money, well, there\u2019s the whole rest of the country just for that! \u2014 Anne Kadet, WSJ , 8 Dec. 2020",
"What differentiates The Ministry for the Future from most contemporary fictional future prognostications is that the whole rest of the book is dedicated to reacting to that heat wave and putting measures in place to prevent more such disasters. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 14 Oct. 2020",
"The whole rest of that day seemed a trip back and forth through the small pain in both breasts and my acute awareness of the fact of death in the right one. \u2014 Audre Lorde, Glamour , 7 Oct. 2020",
"The whole rest of the presentation was carried out in front of a prototype with broken windows. \u2014 Wired , 22 Nov. 2019",
"Currently, San Francisco uses a much more limited manual process to try to avoid prosecutors seeing these things \u2014 the city merely removes the first two pages of the document, but prosecutors get to see the whole rest of the report. \u2014 Sean Hollister, The Verge , 12 June 2019"
"The judges gave us their wholehearted approval.",
"wholehearted praise for the novel by the leading critics",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The orchestra seemed inspired by Bowlin too, giving him wholehearted support. \u2014 Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 June 2022",
"With the wholehearted support of Jean and their teenage twins, disco-dancing enthusiasts Gene and James (Christian Lees and Jonah Lees), and to the exasperation of status-conscious Mike, Maurice pursues his quest to play in the 1976 Open. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"On Minson's appointment at LeafLink, Matias Van Thienen, a partner at Founders Fund, expressed his wholehearted support. \u2014 Iris Dorbian, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Courage\u2019s wholehearted defense of CPS is in stark contrast to his 2017 stance when the San Antonio Water System went to the council with a rate-increase request. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News , 23 Dec. 2021",
"The wholehearted embrace of them by the Villages, on the surface, seem like a prototype for elder America, at least in places where the climate is mild. \u2014 Alissa Walker, Curbed , 20 Aug. 2021",
"The audience responded with more wholehearted enthusiasm than is normal for a New York subscription-series premi\u00e8re. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Veganism, whether wholehearted or a part-time affair, has gained more adherents in recent years. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 11 July 2021",
"That path blocked, Jackson turned his sights on an open U.S. House seat in West Texas, with Trump\u2019s wholehearted backing. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 10 July 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for wholehearted sincere , wholehearted , heartfelt , hearty , unfeigned mean genuine in feeling. sincere stresses absence of hypocrisy, feigning, or any falsifying embellishment or exaggeration. a sincere apology wholehearted suggests sincerity and earnest devotion without reservation or misgiving. promised our wholehearted support heartfelt suggests depth of genuine feeling outwardly expressed. expresses our heartfelt gratitude hearty suggests honesty, warmth, and exuberance in displaying feeling. received a hearty welcome unfeigned stresses spontaneity and absence of pretense. her unfeigned delight at receiving the award",
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"\u2014 usually used in the phrase in whole or in part"
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": very great in quantity, extent, or scope":[
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],
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"a whole new age group",
"\u2014 Henry Chauncey"
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"Adjective",
"The doctor assured me that the whole procedure would only take a few minutes.",
"The whole place was remodeled. It looks great now.",
"It's been a whole week since I've seen him.",
"I spent the whole summer traveling through Europe.",
"The whole evening was a great success.",
"She read the whole book in one day.",
"I've been waiting my whole life for this.",
"We decided to forget the whole thing .",
"We cooked a whole chicken.",
"The community center offers a whole range of programs.",
"Noun",
"the landlord eventually refunded the whole of our deposit",
"Adverb",
"We cooked the chicken whole .",
"The frog swallowed the fly whole .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But that kind of carried throughout the whole thing. \u2014 Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times , 3 July 2022",
"And yet these numbers aren\u2019t that high overall, and there was that whole thing about PCF never getting royalties from Square Enix because the game had not sold enough copies, per their agreement. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 3 July 2022",
"The door was unlocked the whole time, McCraw testified last month. \u2014 Paul Conner, Fox News , 2 July 2022",
"In the real world, Max collapses in Lucas\u2019s arms (poor baby was watching this the whole time while fist-fighting a school bully), still conscious and begging not to die. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, ELLE , 2 July 2022",
"The whole thing actually started with a joke in the late '50s, when a Kiwanis Club organized a wagon train across the mountains. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 2 July 2022",
"The consensus among basically everyone from the committee to the media is that this whole thing is quite incredible and unusual. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 30 June 2022",
"Colin Firth once admitted that the whole thing was entirely contrived. \u2014 Liana Schaffner, Town & Country , 30 June 2022",
"The whole thing was calibrated perfectly for Lee: a small act of celebration in a place where gay rights are still being adjudicated. \u2014 Emma Green, The New Yorker , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"However, with so many ways to expand the availability of financial services, there will be plenty of new customers to keep the industry strong as a whole . \u2014 Michel Kilzi, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"My son, our family and our community as a whole are generally accepting and supportive of people\u2019s personal decisions regarding gender identity. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Such incidents clearly have given skeptics ammunition to believe that panda bears as a whole aren\u2019t real. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 22 June 2022",
"The American population as a whole never saw Cuba as a threat. \u2014 CBS News , 22 June 2022",
"As can be seen in the first few episodes of the limited series, the Jedi-in-hiding holds the weight of the galaxy on his shoulders, feeling responsible for not only losing Anakin, but for the fall of the Jedi Order and the Republic as a whole . \u2014 Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"Their well-being is crucial to the health of not only their communities, but also society as a whole . \u2014 Olive Fellows, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
"As a whole , the budget introduced late Monday calls for an about 15% year-over-year spending increase, according to an analysis by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. \u2014 Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic , 21 June 2022",
"The same can be said for Auburn\u2019s pitching staff as a whole . \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 21 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Some flowers can be used whole , like pansies and violas. \u2014 Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer , 24 June 2022",
"Traditionally, the fish arrives at the table presented whole with its head and tail, though the puffed appearance of the center-stage fillet is said to resemble a bushy squirrel. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Freitag\u2019s accounting of money due and her initiation of the claims process represent a milestone move in efforts to make victims of San Diego\u2019s biggest Ponzi scheme whole . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"More than anyone else, Ms. Waters spread the word about the sweet, earthy charms of garlic whole -roasted in the oven. \u2014 Bee Wilson, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"But the sport has made the family whole again at OSU. \u2014 Jacob Unruh, USA TODAY , 24 May 2022",
"Note: For the subtlest flavor, leave the garlic cloves whole . \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Both are needed, whole , to grace the evening\u2019s table. \u2014 Benjamin, Longreads , 20 May 2022",
"On the way to Mariupol\u2019s beaches, women sold whole roasted sunflower heads and paper cones of fresh, juicy sunflower seeds trucked in from nearby farms. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Adjective"
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"Middle English hool healthy, unhurt, entire, from Old English h\u0101l ; akin to Old High German heil healthy, unhurt, Old Norse heill , Old Church Slavonic c\u011bl\u016d":"Adjective"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for whole Adjective perfect , whole , entire , intact mean not lacking or faulty in any particular. perfect implies the soundness and the excellence of every part, element, or quality of a thing frequently as an unattainable or theoretical state. a perfect set of teeth whole suggests a completeness or perfection that can be sought, gained, or regained. felt like a whole person again after vacation entire implies perfection deriving from integrity, soundness, or completeness of a thing. the entire Beethoven corpus intact implies retention of perfection of a thing in its natural or original state. the boat survived the storm intact",
"The company wholesales clothing to boutiques in the area.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the 2000s, Gazprom branched out from delivering the gas wholesale into selling it directly to customers, storing it and trading in derivatives. \u2014 Bojan Pancevski, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"For years, the company was famous for supplying Christmas lights to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its Christmas displays on Temple Square \u2014 until the shows there got so big the church started buying its own lights wholesale . \u2014 Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The property is currently zoned B-3 commercial service/ wholesale and is vacant, village officials said. \u2014 Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Epic, founded in 2013 and based 30 miles south of San Francisco, said no school system had ever removed its app wholesale until Williamson County did so early last month. \u2014 David Ingram, NBC News , 12 May 2022",
"Selling fish wholesale may pay more than selling baskets, but artisanal kapenta fishing is equally hard work and demanding on families. \u2014 Farai Shawn Matiashe, CNN , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Jokr buys their groceries at wholesale and then sells the products at a higher price. \u2014 Brittain Ladd, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"During the coronavirus shutdown, Koolfi shifted largely to wholesale \u2014 pints are now sold in a dozen Bay Area stores \u2014 and home delivery, both of which will continue after the shop is open. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Ongoing supply chain issues have plagued the industry since April of last year and are a result of a stale and outdated wholesale to retail model that requires very long ordering lead times to get products into stores. \u2014 Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The historical low turnouts during runoff elections could propel talk of reform, although Alabama lawmakers show little interest in making wholesale changes to the state\u2019s election system. \u2014 al , 22 June 2022",
"Of course, a lengthy hiatus for Orton would result in wholesale changes to WWE\u2019s upcoming creative plans. \u2014 Blake Oestriecher, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Months of talks with the EU haven\u2019t produced the wholesale changes the U.K. wants to reduce these customs checks. \u2014 Laurence Norman, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"Grisham, who entered the series with a .144 average and higher strikeout rate than any of his three other big-league seasons, cautioned that overreaction and wholesale changes can cause bigger and longer slides. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"Constrained by long-term contracts for core, veteran players, general manager Brian MacLellan can\u2019t blow up the roster with wholesale changes. \u2014 Wire Reports, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"Reid does not plan wholesale changes upon taking over. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 13 May 2022",
"Hobbs agreed to remove some of the sections but refused to make the wholesale changes Brnovich wanted. \u2014 Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Using cutting-edge technologies and supply chain expertise to solve many of these problems, the B2B retail wholesale market is seeing a wave of innovation that aims to help retailers survive and thrive amid the ongoing pressures of the pandemic. \u2014 Tiffany Lung, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Many of these scenes are lifted wholesale from her own life. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Dealers would buy cars wholesale at set prices from automakers. \u2014 Chris Isidore, CNN , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Neither Asket or Birdsong sell wholesale to avoid the pressure from retailers to produce new collections, and their pool of potential investors was narrowed down to those who share their purpose. \u2014 Olivia Pinnock, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
"But there's one other matter to wrap up before moving wholesale into 2022: my prediction for the biggest gaming product to not last past the end of this new year. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 6 Jan. 2022",
"But Trump\u2019s wild-eyed notions about presidential power, while extreme, did not spring wholesale from his imagination. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 18 Sep. 2021",
"Under a shift first announced in 2017, Nike is emphasizing direct-to-consumer sales while limiting wholesale to a few accounts that best support its positioning. \u2014 Tom Ryan, Forbes , 7 June 2021",
"While all three channels create a dynamic synergy, selling wholesale to bigger retailers like Whole Foods brings in the largest revenue stream. \u2014 Simon Mainwaring, Forbes , 27 May 2021",
"Nearly all of its business comes from selling wholesale to stores in Washington and more than a dozen states, plus sales from area pop-up markets. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Sep. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The two approached companies including Diptyque and Santa Maria Novella, which declined to wholesale their products. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
"He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and served in the infantry at Fort Leavenworth (Kansas) before returning to Greensburg with an honorable discharge in 1955, joining the family retail and wholesaling businesses. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star , 6 May 2020",
"But on Wednesday, the ship nevertheless began disgorging passengers wholesale . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Mar. 2020",
"Fiat Chrysler and its peers are expected to lose tens of billions of dollars by idling their plants for weeks because they book revenue by wholesaling vehicles to their dealers. \u2014 Gabrielle Coppola, Bloomberg.com , 28 Apr. 2020",
"Illinois also could soon join the list, as Chicago wholesale gasoline sold at a record-low 20 cents Monday morning, Bloomberg data show. \u2014 Fortune , 24 Mar. 2020",
"Cactus Corn plans to launch an e-commerce site this week, as well as wholesaling their products to local stores, Levandowski said. \u2014 Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral , 31 Mar. 2020",
"The company is also transitioning some locations to wholesale food operations to help the public find groceries. \u2014 Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star , 16 Mar. 2020",
"Liquor wholesales are prohibited by state law from selling to retailers on the list. \u2014 Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com , 14 Feb. 2020"
": an index measuring the change in the aggregate wholesale price of a large number of commodities in the primary market expressed as a percentage of this price in some base period":[]
": a merchant middleman who sells chiefly to retailers, other merchants, or industrial, institutional, and commercial users mainly for resale or business use":[]
"His father, Earl, worked at an A&P and later was a poultry wholesaler . \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"The Metropolitan Water District is a wholesaler with 26 member agencies covering nearly 80 cities and communities in the state. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 2 June 2022",
"While the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is a municipal utility, the Metropolitan Water District is essentially a giant wholesaler that supplies 26 public water agencies that provide water to 19 million people. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 10 May 2022",
"Sally Beauty is a wholesaler of professional hair color and retailer of hair and beauty products through 5,000 stores. \u2014 Maria Halkias, Dallas News , 1 Sep. 2021",
"In a separate press release on Craft Brewing Business, the owners of Hi-Wire Brewing explained some of the reasons for their decision to expand to Birmingham, including their relationship with alcohol wholesaler Alabama Crown. \u2014 Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Robinhood, or your broker of choice, takes your order to a firm known as a wholesaler or market maker. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 9 June 2022",
"The San Diego County Water Authority, the region\u2019s wholesaler , has repeatedly lobbied the state for an exemption to prohibitions on watering commercial and other landscapes that go into effect this month. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Instead, just over a mile separates this wholesaler from buyer. \u2014 Alex Martin, The Indianapolis Star , 5 May 2022"
"less-than- wholesome entertainment that wasn't appropriate for children",
"a young actor known for his wholesome good looks",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Not one of the fictional fathers, like Danny Tanner, Philip Banks or Mike Brady, who helped raise generations through wholesome sitcoms. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Meeting anger with acceptance (forgiveness), humility and empathy invite your assailant out of their anger to greater understanding, resolution, and a wholesome relationship. \u2014 Chip Bell, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"The veneer of western paradise, no matter the impact on the ethos or environment or those who came first, is rebranded as a wholesome quest for purity. \u2014 Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
"Even more, our credit monitoring services also have a variety of credit monitoring, lost wallet protection, device and malware protection, and more identity theft protection features to give you a wholesome ID securing experience. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Instagram grid is filled with wholesome photos of her family lounging poolside. \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 2 June 2022",
"Known for its exotic animals and aerobatic performances, it was considered a wholesome entertainment option for families. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 18 May 2022",
"Providing a respite from our hectic reality, this romantic comedy centered on an assured woman who finds love and purpose in the land down under offers delightful entertainment while playing to our most wholesome sensibilities. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 18 May 2022",
"Finally, for a wholesome family fashion moment, there was Cardi B and Offset. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 14 May 2022"
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"less-than- wholesome entertainment that wasn't appropriate for children",
"a young actor known for his wholesome good looks",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Not one of the fictional fathers, like Danny Tanner, Philip Banks or Mike Brady, who helped raise generations through wholesome sitcoms. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Meeting anger with acceptance (forgiveness), humility and empathy invite your assailant out of their anger to greater understanding, resolution, and a wholesome relationship. \u2014 Chip Bell, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"The veneer of western paradise, no matter the impact on the ethos or environment or those who came first, is rebranded as a wholesome quest for purity. \u2014 Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
"Even more, our credit monitoring services also have a variety of credit monitoring, lost wallet protection, device and malware protection, and more identity theft protection features to give you a wholesome ID securing experience. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"Instagram grid is filled with wholesome photos of her family lounging poolside. \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 2 June 2022",
"Known for its exotic animals and aerobatic performances, it was considered a wholesome entertainment option for families. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 18 May 2022",
"Providing a respite from our hectic reality, this romantic comedy centered on an assured woman who finds love and purpose in the land down under offers delightful entertainment while playing to our most wholesome sensibilities. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 18 May 2022",
"Finally, for a wholesome family fashion moment, there was Cardi B and Offset. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 14 May 2022"
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"In 2013, Pearson and Bertelsmann merged their respective publishing companies to form Penguin Random House, which Bertelsmann has wholly owned since 2020. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"The decision by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari to dismiss inflation concerns while engaging his bank in wholly inappropriate political activism is not looking better with time. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Therefore, Doctor Strange 2 is, in effect, a sequel to the first Doctor Strange movie in 2016 as well as a sequel to No Way Home, despite the films being produced by wholly separate studios. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 9 May 2022",
"In France, the Rassemblement National is one of several far-right movements, and is wholly separate from the mainstream conservative Les R\u00e9publicains party. \u2014 Camille G\u00e9lix, The Conversation , 3 May 2022",
"But the idea of reservations as wholly separate entities didn\u2019t last. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Just this week, Rogan\u2019s comments about race in an episode with psychologist Jordan Peterson created a new wave of outrage wholly separate from the pair of open letters. \u2014 Al Shipley, SPIN , 27 Jan. 2022",
"And in many ways, the pandemic has resulted in growing awareness of something wholly separate: the importance of in-person education and social contacts in the lives of kids. \u2014 Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor , 24 Jan. 2022",
"The Rian Johnson mystery drama starring Natasha Lyonne and Benjamin Bratt is the rare wholly original title generating heat. \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 20 May 2022"
"the dish fell off the table and hit the hardwood floor with a whomp",
"Verb",
"the basketball team was whomped in the last game of the regular season and missed out on the playoffs",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Winning the turnover war, the unstoppable J.Chase freak show, D.J. Reader putting the whomp on Derrick Henry, E. McPherson topping himself seemingly weekly, Saint Joe blessing the proceedings with his presence. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Hunks of lardon bring a bacony whomp ; they\u2019re offset by a mulchy, acidic riff on salsa made with roasted broccoli. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 15 Oct. 2021",
"During this siege, several sturgeon in the 5-foot range jumped several times around the boat, landing with a giant whomp and whirl the size of a washtub. \u2014 Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com , 23 May 2020",
"With a Cougar helicopter whomp -whomping overhead, the commandos stormed up two flights of stairs, seized the bomb-making materials and captured the terrorist leaders. \u2014 Eric Schmitt, New York Times , 12 July 2019",
"The Cowslingers' whomp -and-stomp sound cruised as many musical paths. \u2014 John Petkovic, cleveland.com , 4 Jan. 2018",
"The bill features ooky-spooky, costumed shock-rockers Freak Box (Detroit), whomp -and-stomp garage-blues rockers 45 Spider (Cleveland) and alien-punks Stimpy's Revenge (Massillon). \u2014 John Petkovic, cleveland.com , 12 Oct. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Raymond taught the Phanatic what became his signature moves: how to whomp his paunch, how to suction a plunger to the head of a bald man, how to stand at a distance and land rings on the plunger. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Aug. 2021",
"The sarcastic, whomping Fountains Of Wayne and lithe and buzzy Tinted Windows were fundamentally power pop, while Ivy combined cool Eurolounge with sad hints of Burt Bacharach. \u2014 Marc Hirsh, EW.com , 2 Apr. 2020",
"The collection, which ranges from $23 to $175, includes the classic swaddles, over-sized blankets, reversible burp bibs and a cozy sleep bag, all printed with scenes from the movie (think Hedwig, the whomping willow and lightning bolts). \u2014 Anya Leon, PEOPLE.com , 19 Sep. 2019",
"With a Cougar helicopter whomp- whomping overhead, the commandos stormed up two flights of stairs, seized the bomb-making materials and captured the terrorist leaders. \u2014 Eric Schmitt, New York Times , 12 July 2019",
"Three days later, Clinton whomped Obama in the primary. \u2014 Robin Abcarian, latimes.com , 28 June 2019",
"But even around our 10Best street route there's joy in whomping around an empty set of curves at sane speeds, using but a tiny slice of the available grip. \u2014 Car and Driver , 28 Nov. 2018",
"Ever since there have been three-deckers and brooms, the downstairs neighbors have been whomping the ceiling telling the upstairs folks to keep it down. \u2014 Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2018",
"Actor Tom Hanks \u2014 whom Globes show host Seth Meyers jokingly suggested could be Oprah\u2019s running mate \u2014 would whomp Trump in California as well, 56 to 31 percent, according to the survey, which had a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points. \u2014 Matier & Ross, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 Jan. 2018"
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"The children whooped with joy at the sight of all the presents.",
"Noun",
"let out a whoop of joy",
"he acts so rudely that I doubt he gives a whoop about other people's feelings",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In the first two episodes alone, there are four separate scenes where Uber employees whoop for their CEO like high school football fans cheering for a quarterback. \u2014 Arielle Pardes, Wired , 14 Mar. 2022",
"At some moments, a voice from the audience would whoop with approval, or someone would enthusiastically begin clapping along with the beat, but they were met with almost defiant silence from the crowd. \u2014 Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press , 23 Jan. 2022",
"With more restaurants and entertainment venues opening up, some optimists are predicting the arrival of a new version of the Roaring \u201920s, with hordes of merrymakers going out on the town to whoop it up. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Aug. 2021",
"Outside the castle walls, tens of thousands of well-wishers thronged the streets, cheering, waving and whooping as the retinue passed, escorted by mounted members of the Royal Household Cavalry in full regalia. \u2014 Christina Boyle, latimes.com , 19 May 2018",
"The crowd, many clad in wool caps, gloves and down jackets, whooped and clapped and yelled with each new stunt. \u2014 Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Feb. 2018",
"Guests rose from their seats and whooped and hollered. \u2014 Jacob Bernstein, New York Times , 25 Oct. 2017",
"A thousand miles away, in Jones\u2019 hometown of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., Angela Mallory whooped in excitement as the play unfolded on her television, and texted her son Derrin and tell him that his mentor had just scored in his first NFL game. \u2014 Stefanie Loh, The Seattle Times , 14 Sep. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Miramir yelled, following her statement with a whoop of triumph. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"The plane made a second failed attempt, eliciting another whoop from Mr. Dyer. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Then the students would slap their mouths and make an insensitive war- whoop gesture. \u2014 Cameron Fields, cleveland , 1 Jan. 2022",
"Estrada, in a Giants cap and black-and-orange plaid shirt, lets out a whoop . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Oct. 2021",
"My first thought after the whoop of joy in reaching the 14,505-foot summit west of Lone Pine, Calif., is getting off the mountain. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Sep. 2021",
"But some investors\u2014and an undisclosed number of subscribers\u2014seem to think Whoop is a big whoop . \u2014 Lauren Goode, Wired , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Moore recounts the story of her mother, who, one day, while in the fields, erupts into an enthusiastic whoop . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 July 2021",
"Listening for the whoop of a siren is a tradition in much of the central and southern United States. \u2014 Dennis Mersereau, Forbes , 28 May 2021"
"The Van Allens and their pals seem to have nothing else in mind, or in the diary, but makin\u2019 whoopee \u2014swimming parties, dancing parties, and lawn parties, with guests crawling along on all fours. \u2014 The New Yorker , 18 Mar. 2022",
"And, sure, the divorce eventually came, but not before a temporary happy ending in which much whoopee was made. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 12 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Diana Rebman, winner of the amateur category, had been hoping to photograph whooper swans on a cold day in Japan\u2019s Akan-Mashu National Park, but the winds were very strong and the swans looked dirty. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 6 July 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Generally, the protein-subunit vaccine design is tried and trusted; it's already used in vaccines against flu, pertussis ( whooping cough ), and meningococcal infection, for example. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 7 June 2022",
"The technique has been used for years in vaccines against hepatitis B, pertussis ( whooping cough ) and other diseases. \u2014 Alexander Tin, CBS News , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Childhood vaccination rates for measles, whooping cough and other infectious diseases have also fallen during the pandemic. \u2014 Suzy Khimm, NBC News , 11 May 2022",
"Rates were close to 94% for measles, whooping cough and chickenpox vaccinations for the 2020-21 school year. \u2014 Lindsey Tanner, Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The rates were below 90% for the combined whooping cough shot in eight states plus Washington, D.C., and in seven states plus Washington, D.C., for measles shots. \u2014 Lindsey Tanner, Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"But research on whooping cough became their obsession. \u2014 Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Tdap, recommended during each pregnancy, is primarily aimed at creating immunity to pertussis, or whooping cough , in infants too young to be vaccinated. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Feb. 2022",
"That was the case when a whooping cough , or pertussis, vaccine was introduced in the early 1950s. \u2014 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times , 21 Oct. 2021"
": something unusually large or otherwise extreme of its kind":[]
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"examples":[
"That's a whopper of a diamond ring.",
"He told us a real whopper .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And completely making up something someone said about someone else is a whopper . \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 5 May 2022",
"Fall is bear season, and while the odds of spotting a grizzly or black bear are strong, a sighting is not guaranteed, just as hooking a whopper salmon on a fishing outing isn\u2019t a sure thing. \u2014 Jen Murphy, Robb Report , 7 May 2022",
"The Whopper may be, well, only somewhat of a whopper \u2014 at least in real life, alleges a new class action lawsuit. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Baker Creek\u2019s 500-page Whole Seed catalog is a whopper that could keep me going several winters over. \u2014 Amy Merrick, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"That wasn\u2019t even the biggest whopper Manfred attempted from the podium in Jupiter, FL, yesterday. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 2 Mar. 2022",
"In the case of this series, the whopper the guy tells is especially brazen. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 9 Feb. 2022",
"And the film boasts a whopper of an ending, which has sparked plenty of conversation and kept its mentions high. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Jan. 2022",
"In late October, three atmospheric rivers showed up on the California coast, and the last one was a whopper . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Dec. 2021"
"The Unesco report shows India requiring a whopping 1.2 million more teachers to meet the shortfall. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 27 June 2022",
"Her other home, a beach house overlooking the ocean in Carmel-by-the-Sea, recently sold for $10.775 million, a whopping $2.825 million more than the price tag. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 18 June 2022",
"Lee\u2019s campaign has spent a whopping $5.4 million ahead of the June 28 primary election. \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"In November 2021, the US hit a 20-year record for the number of people leaving their jobs\u2014 a whopping 4.5 million. \u2014 Karl Moore, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"No Way Home, which became a box office hit, opening to a whopping $253 million and eventually surpassing $1 billion worldwide. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 9 May 2022",
"As the 2022 NBA Finals get under way, an extremely rare Kobe Bryant jersey from the Black Mamba\u2019s rookie season just sold at auction for a whopping $2.73 million. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 6 June 2022",
"The Pacific and the Atlantic are really old\u2014a whopping 200 million and 180 million years old, respectively. \u2014 Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics , 25 May 2022",
"The spy thriller is one of Netflix\u2019s most expensive films ever, with a budget that came in at a whopping $200 million. \u2014 Sasha Urban, Variety , 24 May 2022"
"For writers, to blurb or not to blurb can be a tricky matter. \u2026 Blurb too often, or include too many blurbs on your book, and you might get called a blurb whore . \u2014 Rachel Donadio , New York Times Book Review , 17 Aug. 2008",
"It was only his vain desire to gain the money he needed to purchase the freedom of his beloved Sarah, a whore in a Sturgeon Street brothel, that had led him to offer his sword in the murderous service of Buljan \u2026 \u2014 Michael Chabon , \"Gentlemen of the Road,\" in New York Times Magazine , 18 Feb. 2007",
"I know one guy who became a television writer simply because it afforded him the opportunity to write on a cop show and name all the strippers, crack whores , and nude female corpses after his mother. \u2014 Rob Long , National Review , 19 Feb. 2001",
"Verb",
"Babe Ruth, who could cuss, guzzle and whore to outdo any sailor of legend, was also the most genial and accommodating of men. \u2014 Stephen Jay Gould , New York Times Book Review , 7 May 1989"
"1554, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
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": the practice of whoring : prostitution":[]
},
"examples":[
"Nell Gwyn is remembered as one of the most infamous courtesans in the annals of whoredom .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The media pretense that Kamala Harris represents black womanhood is as specious as Megan and Cardi B\u2019s tribute to whoredom . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 14 Aug. 2020",
"Over five summer days the Assembly\u2019s first session set tobacco prices, outlawed drunkenness and whoredom , and discussed Indian relations. \u2014 Richard Brookhiser, Time , 19 Nov. 2019"
": a building in which prostitutes are available : brothel":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sogolon finds working in a whorehouse something of an improvement. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The forced execution of Flora by Joanie behind closed whorehouse doors evokes Trixie\u2019s murder of an abusive john in the pilot (his corpse becoming pig chow). \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 20 Dec. 2021",
"In this novel, even the whorehouse bouncer reads Frantz Fanon and Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Feb. 2021",
"Wracked by survivor\u2019s guilt and haunted by visions of war, Nick sits in a whorehouse bar \u2014 without drinking or going upstairs. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Dec. 2020",
"Swearengen, who runs a saloon/ whorehouse , refers to his customers as Hoopleheads. \u2014 David E. Petzal, Field & Stream , 8 Mar. 2019",
"Police found a couple of ledger books during a raid of one whorehouse . \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Nov. 2019",
"The story begins in Saigon near the end of the war, in the Engineer\u2019s whorehouse , Dreamland. \u2014 Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times , 25 July 2019",
"Another participant jokes that a female member of the territory\u2019s senate belonged in a whorehouse . \u2014 Washington Post , 18 July 2019"
": a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle":[],
": a fingerprint in which the central papillary ridges turn through at least one complete circle":[],
": an arrangement of similar anatomical parts (such as leaves) in a circle around a point on an axis":[],
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"For many volunteers, the service provided an outlet for a whorl of emotions that linger two decades later. \u2014 Lauren Hernandez, Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Sep. 2021",
"The researchers speculate that Netherton\u2019s inhabitants deliberately placed other objects, like gaming pieces, a spindle whorl and a whetstone, near the dagger for practical or ritualistic reasons. \u2014 Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 May 2021",
"Through it all, no one found a better specimen that depicted where the whorl was located. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 Apr. 2021",
"What the researchers found were traces of cartilage around the jaw in the rock, remnants of the skull as well as the jaws that held the tooth whorl . \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 Apr. 2021",
"But Wallace recognized the stone as an authentic Viking-era spindle whorl , a small stone that was fixed to the end of a rod used to spin thread. \u2014 Sarah Durn, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2021",
"As my sight adjusted, shapes emerged: subtle whorls that resembled a pinwheel twirling through countless pinpricks of light. \u2014 Erin E. Williams, Washington Post , 13 Sep. 2019",
"Meticulously arrayed, the echoing curves suggest fingerprint whorls or ripples on lakes and ponds. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 13 Mar. 2020",
"Bustles and hoops and towering Marie Antoinette hair played a part; shepherdesses in loops and whorls of shell pink and baby blue, each swirling and twirling and waving what looked like a wand with a miniature straw hat on the top. \u2014 Vanessa Friedman, New York Times , 30 Sep. 2019"
"Popp, Marcus, Doubleday and Gange returned to the site together this spring and confirmed the presence of small whorled pogonia, which were in bloom at the time. \u2014 CBS News , 9 June 2022",
"Mon\u016b creates elaborate cloud shapes and regal masks that extend past the face and the top of the head, each densely thatched with synthetic blooms, some in neon brights and powder pinks, others evoking the small red heilala or white whorled tiare. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Now, a new study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, reveals that the whorled ridges of our fingerprints may help explain the extraordinary sensitivity of human touch, reports Nicola Davis for the Guardian. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Mar. 2021",
"Its whorled shoots are tiny, typically shorter than eight inches and less than an inch thick. \u2014 Marion Renault, New York Times , 13 Aug. 2019",
"Its leaves are narrow and whorled , and flowers are green and white with tinges of purple. \u2014 Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman , 18 Oct. 2017",
"True to its name, the foot-long snail kite eats only snails\u2014its hooked beak is the ideal shape for plucking muscular morsels from whorled shells. \u2014 National Geographic , 18 May 2016",
"McCormick analyzed the DNA of soil samples collected immediately adjacent to wild small- whorled pogonias, and used that data to calculate how much Russulaceae hyphae was present in the soil at each site. \u2014 Jackson Landers, Smithsonian , 19 Jan. 2017"
"As a metro-area duo, though, Johnson and Fisher would whup any bad-owner tag team from any other city. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Real material and social progress is rarely made up out of glorious and dramatic crusades, though we are called to crusade from time to time: Hitler ain\u2019t gonna whup his self. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 14 Sep. 2017"
"\u201cI can't go out tonight.\u201d \u201c Why not?\u201d",
"Conjunction",
"I know why he did it.",
"It's easy to see why she fell in love with him.",
"He's a very good player. That's why he made the team.",
"The reason why they succeeded is obvious. They worked really hard.",
"Give me one good reason why I should stay.",
"Noun",
"asked the whys behind the surprising decision",
"how one decides that a certain he or she is \u201cthe one\u201d is one of the great whys of life",
"Interjection",
"why , what a strange thing to say!",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"So why are investors expecting the developing world to show resilience when a US recession hits? \u2014 Fortune , 4 July 2022",
"The reason why the Omicron and earlier variant boosters are little or no better than a standard booster is rooted in immunology. \u2014 John P. Moore And Paul A. Offit, STAT , 3 July 2022",
"The two reminded the city of New Orleans why Fugees were such a successful band, and also provided an unforgettable moment for the festival\u2019s first in-person concert day since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March of 2020. \u2014 Okla Jones, Essence , 2 July 2022",
"This probably helps explain why White is still on the team. \u2014 Jason Patt, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"Looking at the billions the NBA is shelling out for players who aren\u2019t going to win their teams anything that matters, why should anyone be upset by this? \u2014 Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 July 2022",
"The lack of discipline and sportsmanship displayed by the Angels and the Seattle Mariners may be an indicator as to why these teams are more than 10 games out of first place. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2022",
"Drinking plenty of water is also very important, which is why this 75-ounce motivational water bottle is a must-add. \u2014 Alex Warner, PEOPLE.com , 2 July 2022",
"Any resident who would like more information on the fire station, or to take a tour to see why there is a need for a new station, contact Chief Jeremy Betsa at 440-933-8305 or email jbetsa@avonlakefire.org. \u2014 cleveland , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Cain opines on the why -and-how of private mega-yachts, which have grown mind-bogglingly massive (such as the 533-foot-long Eclipse, replete with submarine, owned by Russian business mogul Roman Abramovich). \u2014 Laura Manske, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Not everyone may want to abandon teaching manners altogether, but these insights do suggest rethinking our approach, focusing as much on the why of courtesy as the how. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Oct. 2019",
"Worst of all, the cult of lethality attempts to divorce the how of killing from the why , an insane proposition given that military force is deployed in the service of political outcomes. \u2014 Jared Keller, The New Republic , 9 Sep. 2019",
"And the why is that it\u2019s, unfortunately, human nature that has presented itself in so many, many ways. \u2014 Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com , 13 July 2018",
"History doesn\u2019t often remember the why , just the what. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 26 Sep. 2017",
"But instead of getting bogged down by the calories consumed or the grams of fat encountered, Alpert turned the conversation to the why . \u2014 Logan Sykes, Town & Country , 2 Jan. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Interjection",
"Why, oh why , do the Rangers keep throwing away almost certain victories in the final minutes of playoff games? \u2014 Filip Bondy, New York Times , 30 Apr. 2017"
": to act or talk as if one is relaxed and not afraid when one is actually afraid or nervous":[
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"Unsurprisingly, January\u2019s white sales still provide the perfect opportunity to stock up on household linens and bedding. \u2014 Elissa Sanci, Woman's Day , 30 Dec. 2019",
"Past white sales have taken place at retailers such as Overstock, Pottery Barn and Sears. \u2014 cleveland , 17 Nov. 2019",
"For example, January white sales are prime time for discounted bedding. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This change in brain health included lower total gray matter volume, abnormal white matter volume, and lower gray matter blood flow. \u2014 Christina Crawford, Health.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Domenech\u2019s brother Colin, who turns 28 on April 30, was born without the band of white matter that connects the two hemispheres in the brain, a condition called agenesis of the corpus callosum. \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The study, published this month in Frontiers in Neural Circuits, is the first to detail and investigate structural changes in white matter after space travel. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Their brains showed fluid shifts\u2014our brains are about 80 percent water\u2014and an increase of gray and white matter in the brain, reports David Nield for Science Alert. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022",
"In a paper published last year, O\u2019Connor and her colleagues found that brain scans measuring things like the diffusion of water through white matter in the brain could accurately distinguish ADHD with and without prenatal alcohol exposure. \u2014 Emma Yasinkski, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Feb. 2022",
"In addition, white matter , the insulation on axons \u2013 long cables that carry electrical impulses between nerve cells \u2013 is also less intact in older adults. \u2014 Jessica Bernard, Scientific American , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Bell, then 27, had sustained multiple brain bleeds and microscopic tears in his brain\u2019s white matter , a result of shearing that occurred when his brain suddenly shifted directions, said his former wife, Sunrise. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
"In addition, white matter , the insulation on axons \u2013 long cables that carry electrical impulses between nerve cells \u2013 is also less intact in older adults. \u2014 Jessica Bernard, Scientific American , 22 Sep. 2021"
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"However, the music that I was handed was always a keyboard lead sheet or keyboard part, mostly whole note and half-note chords, big beautiful ones, and some key figures here and there. \u2014 Ron Hart, Billboard , 19 Sep. 2017"
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": injury to plants caused by the feeding of insects (as the onion thrips) and characterized by a fading and shriveling of the tissues":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Virtually all Kenyan meals are centered on a starchy whole food . \u2014 Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online , 27 July 2015",
"Green Party Member of the European Parliament Tilly Metz, chair of the investigative committee, argued that, not just transport issues within animal farming, but the whole food supply chain should have a redesign. \u2014 Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Founded on a whole food approach to nutrition, Nature's Logic makes complete-diet pet foods without synthetic vitamins\u2014all the nutrients your pup needs come from the meats, veggies, and fruits that make up the brand's tasty recipes. \u2014 Sara Coughlin, SELF , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Serving fresh, whole food from breakfast through early dinner, this popular cafe draws foodies from near and far. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Pushing back by exercising, eating clean and whole food , and getting 9-10 hours sleep. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Currently, consuming brown rice in moderation, as one of several sources of whole food carbohydrates, is one way to reduce possible arsenic exposure. \u2014 Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Plus, consuming probiotics in whole food form, such as with kefir or yogurt, comes along with a complete package of essential vitamins and minerals as well. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 5 Aug. 2021",
"And the third way is through whole food green powders or algae, either in foods (nori, seaweed, kelp) or in supplements (spirulina and chlorella). \u2014 Jessie Shafer, Better Homes & Gardens , 27 Aug. 2021"
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"With a solid infrastructure, individual candidates don\u2019t have to invent every piece of a winning campaign apparatus from whole cloth . \u2014 Ben Wikler, The New Republic , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Your School Day, reporters and researchers discovered that such threats had simply been made up whole cloth , despite many outlets breathlessly reporting them as fact. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Opponents of qualified immunity deride the principle as having been created by the Court out of whole cloth \u2014an argument that mirrors one often employed by critics of Roe who are dismissive of its legal basis. \u2014 The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Many drivers stopped with those charges argue that they were manufactured out of whole cloth . \u2014 John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al , 9 Feb. 2022",
"That is another free-market problem, and another fantasy, one created out of whole cloth by actors in the pharmaceutical industry. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 19 Dec. 2021",
"So far their primary solution seems to be to simply fabricate technology from whole cloth . \u2014 Eric Ravenscraft, Wired , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Creating jobs out of whole cloth was one of her specialties. \u2014 Longreads , 18 May 2021",
"As the Breton funds restructured, others were created whole cloth , particularly in the aftermath of a 2016 administrative campaign to reduce and consolidate the number of the regions in the country. \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 21 Sep. 2021"
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"1823, in the meaning defined above":""
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": the things that cause someone to behave a certain way : the feelings, opinions, concerns, etc., that are parts of someone's personality":[
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"A prize will be given to whoever solves the riddle.",
"Whoever wants to come along is welcome to join us.",
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"Whoever did this will be held accountable."
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"It was the old man's white whale , the holy grail shining at the end of the dream, on and off the rails, as he chased scripts, directors, and movie stars of the proper magnitude.",
"\u2014 Rich Cohen",
"For drug makers, developing the first Alzheimer's therapy has long been seen as the great white whale : the toughest challenge and biggest opportunity.",
"\u2014 Robert Weisman"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In this piece, a happy-looking white whale swims beneath the azure waves while a white tea cup hovers surrealistically above the water\u2019s edge. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"The car, meanwhile, remains Apple's absolute white whale . \u2014 Sascha Segan, PCMAG , 7 June 2022",
"The other goal, of course, is their great white whale \u2014a non-fossil-fuel economy. \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"Who\u2019s your great white whale in terms of interviews? Judy Blume. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022",
"Employee engagement has become something of a white whale in recent years. \u2014 Stephen Baer, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Two seasons later, the erstwhile Houston Lamar All-American is still a Longhorn, still chasing the white whale that eluded him as a college rookie back in 2018. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The potential return of power forward Patrick Williams has been a white whale for the Chicago Bulls all season. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 27 Feb. 2022",
"On top of all this, Apple\u2019s white whale these days seems to be developing a car. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 10 Dec. 2021"
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"1635, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": a large white nearly extinct North American crane ( Grus americana ) noted for its loud trumpeting call":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For the first time, a whooping crane chick has hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"In the 1970s an effort began to rehabilitate the whooping crane population, much of it led by the ecologist George W. Archibald. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 June 2022",
"Without biological parents to care for the egg, surrogates \u2014 Tehya, a 16-year-old female whooping crane , and Goliath, a 25-year-old male \u2014 were chosen, zoo officials said. \u2014 Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"The whooping crane recovery plan was created jointly by U.S. and Canada. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 June 2021",
"This is especially true for the endangered whooping crane , which spends time during migration at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge along the gulf. \u2014 Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News , 19 Sep. 2021",
"Fourteen long-legged, fuzzy brown whooping crane chicks \u2014 one more than in 2019 \u2014 are following their parents or costumed surrogates in facilities from New Orleans to Calgary, Canada. \u2014 Janet Mcconnaughey, Chron , 14 July 2021",
"Wampanoag is the 394th whooping crane raised or housed at ICF. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 June 2021",
"At the Bee Lab, a former garage used for a whooping crane breeding program and then abandoned when the project ended years ago, Droege and his team collect, preserve and photograph the area\u2019s native bee population. \u2014 Katie V. Jones, baltimoresun.com , 20 May 2021"
