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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And one super cool part of being here is access to the third release of Eagle Rock Brewery\u2019s popular Local Source beer, a lager infused with three plants native to Southern California \u2014 woolly bluecurls, black sage and California bay laurel . \u2014 Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Terceira's Caparica Azores Ecolodge offers six modern cabins huddled in a laurel forest. \u2014 Jeanine Barone, CNN , 26 May 2022",
"The trail dipped into the oak and laurel trees, hugging the side of a ravine before turning steeply upward toward the ridge. \u2014 Sarah Trent, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"The canyon is home to many native plants used by the Chumash and other Indigenous peoples, including white sage, coastal sagebrush, yerba santa, matilija poppy and California bay laurel . \u2014 Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Adjacent Portuguese laurel and juniper were not affected. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Indian laurel ficus, a small tree that can be trimmed to resemble shrubs, will provide shade for teachers\u2019 cars in the parking lot. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The flip side is adorned with fleurs-de-lys, laurel leaves and eggs\u2014symbols of rebirth often found in Dal\u00ed\u2019s works. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Salicylic acid can be too harsh for dry skin, as can parabens, sodium laurel sulfate, ammonium lauryl sulfate, and some types of alcohol. \u2014 Rachel Nussbaum, Health.com , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"He was much lauded as a successful businessman.",
"the critics have lauded the best-selling author's newest novel",
"Noun",
"an actor who in his lifetime received all the laud and honor that the theater world could bestow",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The magazine typically asks high-profile figures to laud their contemporaries for the list, and McConaughey -- an Oscar and Golden Globe winner with a long list of movie credits -- certainly fits that bill. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 23 May 2022",
"The winners of the UK Fragrance Foundation Awards, including Chanel, Paco Rabanne and Juliet Has A Gun, all celebrated in London last night as the industry gathered to laud its success. \u2014 Kate Hardcastle, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Povlsen is a controversial figure; although some laud his ecological achievements, others are concerned about the power his resources can wield. \u2014 Cathleen O'grady, The Atlantic , 20 May 2022",
"Those who know and love Janine Tucker often laud her contributions to women\u2019s lacrosse. \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Policymakers laud housing that comes with support services as the golden ticket out of homelessness. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Dec. 2021",
"After the exuberant duet, Twain took to Twitter to laud her co-star's performance. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Throughout his political career, Biden has cultivated a reputation for unscripted candor, a trait allies laud as humanizing but adversaries deride as undisciplined. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022",
"But will Recording Academy voters award her over Eilish \u2013 already a Grammy darling with seven wins since 2020 \u2013 or miss an opportunity to laud Tony Bennett one final time",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Mainstream platforms and public health leaders continue to ask us to ignore the evidence and laud as exceptional Israel\u2019s public health gains. \u2014 Osaid Alser, Scientific American , 27 May 2021",
"The young priests rise by 6 a.m. each day and gather in the chapel to sing lauds , a morning prayer to praise God as the sun rises. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 May 2017"
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},
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"Improving the schools is a laudable goal.",
"you showed laudable restraint in dealing with that ridiculously demanding customer",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Your impulse to apologize, make amends, or work on paying down your Karmic debt is laudable . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"Your impulse to apologize, make amends, or work on paying down your Karmic debt is laudable . \u2014 cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"Your impulse to apologize, make amends, or work on paying down your Karmic debt is laudable . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 30 May 2022",
"Prague is also among the Greenest cities in Europe by many rankings - a laudable effort by the city since the dark days of its historical past. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
"The French president\u2019s supporters call it a laudable effort to keep the lines of communication open with an autocratic leader often hostile to the West; his detractors suggest Macron may have been taken in by the wily former KGB officer. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Your impulse to apologize, make amends, or work on paying down your karmic debt is laudable . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022",
"Your impulse to apologize, make amends, or work on paying down your Karmic debt is laudable . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"Your impulse to apologize, make amends or work on paying down your Karmic debt is laudable . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 30 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Meanwhile, others, including some of Lizzo\u2019s music industry colleagues, weren\u2019t as laudatory , arguing that the lyric term doesn\u2019t have a negative connotation and can sometimes be used in a positive way. \u2014 Nardine Saadstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"The walkout was a rare instance of political dissent in the United Kingdom over the jubilee commemorations, which have seen an outpouring of support for the monarch and extensive, and largely laudatory , media coverage. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Critics have been just as laudatory , with the score there currently standing at 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes (based on 327 reviews right now). \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 30 May 2022",
"For China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, the most important result of the Games will likely be their impact on his domestic audience, as Chinese media coverage of the Games will be highly nationalistic and laudatory , aimed at impressing the Chinese people. \u2014 David Bachman, Quartz , 8 Feb. 2022",
"For China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, the most important result of the Games will likely be their impact on his domestic audience, as Chinese media coverage of the Games will be highly nationalistic and laudatory , aimed at impressing the Chinese people. \u2014 David Bachman, Quartz , 8 Feb. 2022",
"But Geiger\u2019s ouster, orchestrated and meted out by an angry and fed up General Dynamics corporate office, still sent Geiger packing with all the niceties of a vaguely laudatory press release, best wishes, and a two-week transition. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"There have been laudatory films made on Khabar Lahariya in the past, Meera Devi said. \u2014 Nandini Ramnath, Quartz , 21 Mar. 2022",
"For China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, the most important result of the Games will likely be their impact on his domestic audience, as Chinese media coverage of the Games will be highly nationalistic and laudatory , aimed at impressing the Chinese people. \u2014 David Bachman, Quartz , 8 Feb. 2022"
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"1555, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"boff",
"boffo",
"boffola",
"cachinnation",
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"chuckle",
"giggle",
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"\u2014 Amy Lowell"
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"\u2014 Graenum Berger"
],
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],
": to influence or move by laughter":[
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": to produce the sound or appearance of laughter":[
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"The audience was laughing hysterically."
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": to utter with a laugh":[
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},
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"Verb",
"What are you laughing about",
"The audience was laughing hysterically.",
"I've never laughed so hard in my life.",
"I couldn't stop laughing when I saw what he was wearing.",
"I laughed out loud when I saw him.",
"He laughed so hard I thought he'd die laughing .",
"The movie was hilarious. We laughed our heads off .",
"\u201cI've never seen anything so ridiculous,\u201d he laughed .",
"Noun",
"He gave a loud laugh .",
"a joke that always gets a big laugh",
"The movie has a lot of laughs .",
"You're going to be a movie star",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Making your audience laugh or share your post doesn\u2019t build authority. \u2014 Paul Getter, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Shatner recalled his trajectory from being a 6-year-old cut-up in Montreal who enjoyed making people laugh , to his time in repertory theater in Ottawa and Toronto to his entry into TV and movies. \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 3 June 2022",
"This one, amid the whimsical setting and laugh -out-loud humor, is a tear-jerker with an emotional happy ending. \u2014 Ali Hazelwood, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"And \u2014 again, no spoilers \u2014 Suzie has a line that is genuinely laugh -out-loud hilarious. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"The thought of making people laugh for a living was such a wild dream. \u2014 Michael Tyrone Delaney, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"This man has been making people laugh for half a century. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Though Eugenio Derbez is no stranger to the big screen, American audiences are still getting to know the Mexican star who has been making Mexico and Latin America laugh for nearly 40 years. \u2014 Yolanda Machado, EW.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
"But unlike the many debunkers, explainers, and self-promotional plastic surgeons who populate the platform, Flanary\u2019s primary concern is with making people laugh . \u2014 Damian Garde, STAT , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And of course the premise of the show was not to let people off the hook with a laugh . \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"Every category of food is introduced with a history lesson, a laugh , and all the information needed to truly appreciate the individual dishes and the holiday as a whole. \u2014 Essence , 2 June 2022",
"Shoates said that ever since she's known him, Edwards has always sported a robust laugh , a goofy side that loves comics and superheroes and earnest generosity. \u2014 Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 May 2022",
"Graham Ashcraft broke into a smile and a laugh when manager David Bell walked to the mound to remove him in the seventh inning. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 28 May 2022",
"Kamann said one of her favorite parts of working so closely with Queen was his laugh . \u2014 Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 27 Apr. 2022",
"For your love, your laugh , your smile, and for our enduring friendship. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 21 Apr. 2022",
"His smile was breathtaking and his laugh was infectious. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Mike Vecchione at Hilarities Get your laugh on with Mike Vecchione, an Italian-American comedian known for his rapid-fire delivery. \u2014 cleveland , 14 Apr. 2022"
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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},
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"Middle English, from Old English hliehhan ; akin to Old High German lach\u0113n to laugh":"Verb and Noun"
},
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"\u02c8l\u00e4f",
"\u02c8laf"
],
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"break up",
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"crack up",
"giggle",
"hee-haw",
"roar",
"scream",
"snicker",
"titter",
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"antonyms":[
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"lame",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"unhumorous",
"unhysterical"
],
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": of a kind to provoke laughter or sometimes derision : amusingly ridiculous":[]
},
"examples":[
"His attempt at skiing was laughable .",
"the laughable , boisterous antics of the circus clowns",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"By the late \u201860s, Elvis had become irrelevant: his music was laughable and his movies worse. \u2014 Brad Auerbach, SPIN , 22 June 2022",
"Describing Maker, who worked out for the Utah Jazz on Thursday, as even adjacent to a throwback would have been laughable two years ago. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"The claim that most journalists are elites is laughable . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"Miserable for more than a decade, they were thought of as somewhere between laughable and preposterous. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Manfred\u2019s words were laughable and completely divorced from reality, considering the league and owners did not sit down with players face to face until the waning days of January on a collective bargaining agreement that expired Dec. 1. \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Mar. 2022",
"The preparation of the original one-month policies in an apparent rush to obtain a large business deduction for Peak in 2008 was laughable . \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"That said, offensive numbers two weeks into the season are so emaciated as to be laughable . \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"But Black Bolt has a long comic history and a set of powers that are not laughable , but pretty damn awesome. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 6 May 2022"
],
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"1600, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8l\u00e4-"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for laughable laughable , ludicrous , ridiculous , comic , comical mean provoking laughter or mirth. laughable applies to anything occasioning laughter. laughable attempts at skating ludicrous suggests absurdity that excites both laughter and scorn. a thriller with a ludicrous plot ridiculous suggests extreme absurdity, foolishness, or contemptibility. a ridiculous display of anger comic applies especially to what arouses thoughtful amusement. a comic character comical applies to what arouses spontaneous hilarity. a comical hat",
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"antic",
"chucklesome",
"comedic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"humoristic",
"humorous",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
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"uproarious"
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"boff",
"boffo",
"boffola",
"cachinnation",
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"giggle",
"guffaw",
"hee-haw",
"horselaugh",
"laughter",
"snicker",
"snigger",
"titter",
"twitter"
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": an expression of scorn or mockery : jeer":[],
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": the act of laughing":[],
": to be of a kind that inspires joy":[
"the blue sky of Autumn laughs above",
"\u2014 Amy Lowell"
],
": to become amused or derisive":[
"a very skeptical public laughed at our early efforts",
"\u2014 Graenum Berger"
],
": to find amusement or pleasure in something":[
"laughed at his own clumsiness"
],
": to influence or move by laughter":[
"laughed the bad singer off the stage"
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": to produce the sound or appearance of laughter":[
"a laughing brook"
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"The audience was laughing hysterically."
],
": to utter with a laugh":[
"laughs her consent"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"What are you laughing about",
"The audience was laughing hysterically.",
"I've never laughed so hard in my life.",
"I couldn't stop laughing when I saw what he was wearing.",
"I laughed out loud when I saw him.",
"He laughed so hard I thought he'd die laughing .",
"The movie was hilarious. We laughed our heads off .",
"\u201cI've never seen anything so ridiculous,\u201d he laughed .",
"Noun",
"He gave a loud laugh .",
"a joke that always gets a big laugh",
"The movie has a lot of laughs .",
"You're going to be a movie star",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Making your audience laugh or share your post doesn\u2019t build authority. \u2014 Paul Getter, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Shatner recalled his trajectory from being a 6-year-old cut-up in Montreal who enjoyed making people laugh , to his time in repertory theater in Ottawa and Toronto to his entry into TV and movies. \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 3 June 2022",
"This one, amid the whimsical setting and laugh -out-loud humor, is a tear-jerker with an emotional happy ending. \u2014 Ali Hazelwood, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"And \u2014 again, no spoilers \u2014 Suzie has a line that is genuinely laugh -out-loud hilarious. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"The thought of making people laugh for a living was such a wild dream. \u2014 Michael Tyrone Delaney, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"This man has been making people laugh for half a century. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Though Eugenio Derbez is no stranger to the big screen, American audiences are still getting to know the Mexican star who has been making Mexico and Latin America laugh for nearly 40 years. \u2014 Yolanda Machado, EW.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
"But unlike the many debunkers, explainers, and self-promotional plastic surgeons who populate the platform, Flanary\u2019s primary concern is with making people laugh . \u2014 Damian Garde, STAT , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And of course the premise of the show was not to let people off the hook with a laugh . \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"Every category of food is introduced with a history lesson, a laugh , and all the information needed to truly appreciate the individual dishes and the holiday as a whole. \u2014 Essence , 2 June 2022",
"Shoates said that ever since she's known him, Edwards has always sported a robust laugh , a goofy side that loves comics and superheroes and earnest generosity. \u2014 Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 May 2022",
"Graham Ashcraft broke into a smile and a laugh when manager David Bell walked to the mound to remove him in the seventh inning. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 28 May 2022",
"Kamann said one of her favorite parts of working so closely with Queen was his laugh . \u2014 Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 27 Apr. 2022",
"For your love, your laugh , your smile, and for our enduring friendship. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 21 Apr. 2022",
"His smile was breathtaking and his laugh was infectious. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Mike Vecchione at Hilarities Get your laugh on with Mike Vecchione, an Italian-American comedian known for his rapid-fire delivery. \u2014 cleveland , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English, from Old English hliehhan ; akin to Old High German lach\u0113n to laugh":"Verb and Noun"
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"\u02c8l\u00e4f",
"\u02c8laf"
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"break up",
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"crack up",
"giggle",
"hee-haw",
"roar",
"scream",
"snicker",
"titter",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even for late-night comedy, that's no laughing matter . \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 13 June 2022",
"Comedians spend their careers making people laugh, but the challenge of protecting a comedian\u2019s intellectual property is no laughing matter . \u2014 Mitra Ahouraian, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"These past two years have been no laughing matter for the medical community, but Scrubs is here to bring some levity to our lives. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Joshua smiling, but no laughing matter here for the Brit. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 25 Sep. 2021",
"New York Fashion Week events have been kicking off in the last few days, and this is no laughing matter for Holmes. \u2014 Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire , 10 Sep. 2021",
"This is no laughing matter , given the deadly nature of the disease and the shots anyone who is bitten has to endure to ward off infection. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The aforementioned banter may seem a little silly, but it\u2019s no laughing matter for executives at Fox News Channel. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 29 Mar. 2022",
"What the Fit,' series, Ron 'Boss' Everline's fitness credentials are no laughing matter . \u2014 Ian Douglass, Men's Health , 7 Apr. 2022"
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"The team has become the laughingstock of the league.",
"The mayor became a laughingstock .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The paper, for much of its existence, had functioned as journalistic laughingstock ; Otis helped transform it into a Pulitzer Prize-winning media organization with bureaus around the world. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Baker Mayfield deserves the Browns' respect for raising the bar on a beleaguered franchise that just five years ago was the laughingstock of sports. \u2014 Rob Oller, USA TODAY , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The statue depicts Seaver \u2014 who more than 50 years ago transformed the Mets from a laughingstock into world champions \u2014 in his famous drop-and-drive delivery to home plate. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Indeed, a sort of face-palm moment these contestants had laughed off during taping in December had hit the harsh climes of the Twittersphere and mutated into an Internet laughingstock . \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
"That came a few years later when, during a season in which a player killed himself in the practice facility parking lot, the Chiefs were the two-win laughingstock of the league. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 30 Jan. 2022",
"The Detroit Lions have been a laughingstock of the NFL for a long time, and nothing about a two-win season will make that change. \u2014 Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Under the guidance of Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson, the Cowboys made a rapid ascent from a 1-15 laughingstock in 1989 to title contenders just three years later. \u2014 Jim Reineking, USA TODAY , 15 Jan. 2022",
"In the space of two weeks, the Broncos have turned themselves from a laughingstock into an AFC playoff contender. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 9 Nov. 2021"
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"\u02c8la-fi\u014b-\u02ccst\u00e4k",
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"The audience roared with laughter .",
"the nervous producers were reassured by the sounds of laughter coming from the theater",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like their time together on Scandal, Diaz says there was a lot of laughter on the very positive and welcoming set of Girls. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 20 June 2022",
"The girls threw stones in the water, and their peals of laughter rang out over the lake. \u2014 Ed Caesar, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
"While a roar of laughter erupted from the crowd, Mickelson kept his back turned. \u2014 Bill Pennington, New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"The show\u2019s white audience roars\u2014the bad kind of laughter . \u2014 Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Taylor\u2019s monologue about her ex-sponsor, for instance, might\u2019ve produced howls of laughter under other circumstances (and with a bit of tweaking). \u2014 John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"Raffi cries and whines and then dissolves into fearful, desperate peals of laughter . \u2014 Daniel Engber, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
"This slide elicited howls of laughter from my colleagues and me. \u2014 Efim Marmer, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"The brunch was full of learning, immersing in business knowledge, stories and lots of laughter . \u2014 Zeynep \"z\" Ekemen, Forbes , 5 May 2022"
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"Verb",
"The enemy launched an attack at sunrise.",
"She's trying to launch a new career as a singer.",
"The police have launched an investigation into his activities.",
"He helped launch her in her career as a singer.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The completion of its three-stage launch vehicle system technology enabled the team to test-fire South Korea\u2019s first homemade rocket last October. \u2014 Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News , 21 June 2022",
"Small launch company Astra revealed its new launch vehicle , which will be capable of carrying heavier payloads and flying more frequently, Space News reports. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022",
"The 175-acre site, located north of Launch Complex 39B within the center's security perimeter, would support the launch and landing of the company's Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicle . \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 17 Dec. 2021",
"The launch vehicle will carry smaller payloads of about 500 kg in comparison to 1,750 kg carried by PSLV. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The Dearborn company was the first international carmaker to launch vehicle assembly in Russia, opening a plant in 2002 in St. Petersburg. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Since then, a private American corporation has developed its own launch vehicle \u2014 SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule \u2014 which has drastically reduced NASA's dependency on Russia. \u2014 Kristin Fisher, CNN , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Minor hiccups involving the tool for attaching the telescope to the top of the rocket, and involving a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system, delayed the launch, which was previously scheduled for December 18. \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Liftoff of the New Shepard launch vehicle is slated for Tuesday at 8:30 am CT from Blue Origin's facilities near Van Horn, Texas. \u2014 Catherine Thorbecke And Jackie Wattles, CNN , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Monday sees the launch window open through June 22 for RocketLab\u2019s Electron rocket, which will send a small spacecraft on a crucial NASA mission to orbit the Moon. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 23 June 2022",
"Full of massive performance issues on consoles and missing basic features of the open world genre, though the game sold extremely well right during its launch window , negative word of mouth spread like sickness. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"While the game could arrive sooner than that, nobody has thus far clarified its launch window any further. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 12 June 2022",
"The Saturday launch window for that mission runs from 1-4 p.m. \u2014 Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The instantaneous launch window is set for 6:20 a.m. from Launch Complex 39-A at Kennedy Space Center. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 18 May 2022",
"So an April launch window has been taken off the board. \u2014 Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The leaker told MacRumors that the new launch window comes from their sources in Apple\u2019s supply chain. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 12 Nov. 2021",
"The rocket has a 29-minute launch window , which opens at 10:25 am ET (15:25 UTC), and weather conditions are forecast to be fair. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 13 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All three are looking to Los Angeles as a launchpad . \u2014 Rachel Urangastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 June 2022",
"Russia and its ally Belarus, which also faces Western sanctions for allowing Russia to use his country\u2019s territory as a launchpad for attacks on Ukraine, are leading producers of fertilizer. \u2014 Ian Bremmer, Time , 4 June 2022",
"Using what happened today as a launchpad for the next day is a key to resilience. \u2014 Mike Kessler, Men's Health , 25 May 2022",
"Since then, New Gen has grown as a launchpad for over 300 designers and acts as a kind of predictive weather vane for the direction that fashion movements will take. \u2014 Sarah Mower, Vogue , 4 May 2022",
"The Artemis team is working closely with SpaceX because the Crew-4 launch is expected to take place at a nearby launchpad on April 23. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 15 Apr. 2022",
"In addition to checking weather conditions at the launchpad , NASA monitors the weather over the Atlantic Ocean, where the crew would be dropped in the event of an in-flight abort. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 30 May 2020",
"Plans for what that looked like were never announced, and the partnership was aimed at creating a launchpad to re-imagine the school property, Beresford said at the time of the resolution. \u2014 Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star , 17 May 2022",
"In 2020, Lil Keed was named to XXL\u2019s annual Freshman Class issue, a prominent launchpad for rappers, appearing on the magazine\u2019s cover alongside acts like Jack Harlow and Fivio Foreign. \u2014 Joe Coscarelli, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022"
],
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"1957, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190755",
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"\u02c8l\u022fnd"
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"He used a phony business to launder money from drug dealing.",
"had to launder the quarterback's off-the-cuff's remarks before they could be quoted in the newspaper",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Around the world, fraudsters are increasingly using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder money. \u2014 Faustine Ngila, Quartz , 16 June 2022",
"In recent years, international criminal elements have found casinos across the globe to be an attractive opportunity to launder money. \u2014 Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"But Firtash is also adept at using Western institutions to launder his own reputation. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 12 May 2022",
"Elliptic also said the darknet site helped launder money the Dark Side ransomware group extorted in a hack of Colonial Pipeline last year. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Former Goldman banker Roger Ng is on trial, accused of conspiring to violate U.S. anti-bribery laws and launder money in the plundering of the fund. \u2014 Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Sportswashing \u2014 the use of sports to launder a country or company\u2019s image \u2014 even has an official entry in most dictionaries now, which is about 2,800 years late. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The government says Ravenell used his position to launder about $1.8 million in drug money received from Byrd, citing bank records and Byrd\u2019s testimony. \u2014 Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun , 27 May 2022",
"The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network warned financial institutions against efforts by kleptocratic regimes and corrupt public officials to launder their illicit gains, and cited Russia as a particular area of concern. \u2014 WSJ , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Credit Suisse and a former employee of the bank were found guilty in a Swiss federal criminal court of helping a Bulgarian crime ring launder money related to cocaine trafficking. \u2014 WSJ , 28 June 2022",
"Treasury said in its announcement that Blender.io had also helped a number of the most destructive Russian ransomware gangs launder their money. \u2014 Kevin Collier, NBC News , 6 May 2022",
"Pre-treat or rub the stains with bar soap and launder with fabric-safe bleach. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 18 May 2022",
"Officials are considering what consumer protections and financial reporting requirements to put in place and how to crack down on criminals who take advantage of the anonymity offered by cryptocurrency to evade taxes, launder money and commit fraud. \u2014 Brian Slodysko, Fortune , 15 May 2022",
"Two owners of vendor companies that did business with Apple have admitted to conspiring with Prasad to commit fraud and launder money, prosecutors said. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard were taken into custody by DEA agents at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and launder money, according to a criminal complaint. \u2014 Adriana Gomez Licon, Orlando Sentinel , 29 Apr. 2022",
"He was arrested in November 2019 in Los Angeles on charges of providing technical blockchain information to the regime of dictator Kim Jong Un that prosecutors said could be used to help the country launder money and evade sanctions. \u2014 Fortune , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Two owners of vendor companies that did business with Apple have admitted to conspiring with Prasad to commit fraud and launder money, prosecutors said. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Mar. 2022"
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"Middle English, launderer, from Anglo-French lavandere , from Medieval Latin lavandarius , from Latin lavandus , gerundive of lavare to wash \u2014 more at lye":"Noun"
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": a self-service laundry":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"About eight hundred thousand people working launderettes or dry cleaners were let go. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 8 May 2020",
"But voters can also cast ballots at pubs and more unconventional locations, including hair salons, a historic windmill in eastern England and a launderette in Oxford. \u2014 Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Check to see if there is a self-service launderette , and use it. \u2014 Erica Silverstein, USA TODAY , 8 Dec. 2019",
"Despite its relatively strict anti-money-laundering regulations, London is a favoured financial launderette for European gangsters. \u2014 The Economist , 24 Jan. 2018",
"In 1967, the business district in the Haight looked like most mid-century American main streets: drug stores and barbershop poles, Coca-Cola signs in the window of the launderette . \u2014 Longreads , 7 Aug. 2017",
"Here\u2019s a look at scenes at various polling stations across the U.K.\u2014set up in pubs, launderettes , mobile homes, and other quirky locations\u2014as the British people choose their next leader. \u2014 Tom Hall, Bloomberg.com , 8 June 2017"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025434",
"type":[
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"\u2014 Gary Taubes"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz wrote a novel on one, and famous films were set on others. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz wrote a novel on one, and famous films were set on others. \u2014 Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"The new center will feature international scientific collaborations involving both basic and translational research, under the leadership of Nobel laureate Charles Rice, Chair of New York State\u2019s COVID-19 Clinical Advisory Task Force. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"This indicator is based on research conducted by the late James Tobin, the 1981 Nobel laureate in economics. \u2014 Mark Hulbert, WSJ , 4 June 2022",
"Among those who showed solidarity was Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala Yousafzai's father, the Peace Nobel laureate who has been advocating for girls' education. \u2014 Somayeh Malekian, ABC News , 28 May 2022",
"The budget includes all the expenses of producing the ceremony and banquet and the cash awards of one million Swedish Krona (just under $100,000) to each laureate . \u2014 Fred Bronson, Billboard , 23 May 2022",
"Other past Milwaukee poets laureate include Roberto Harrison, Matt Cook, Jeff Poniewaz, Brenda Cardenas, Susan Firer, Marilyn Taylor, Antler and John Koethe. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Already, prominent economists, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Jayati Ghosh, an advisor to UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, have called for the termination of IMF surcharges. \u2014 Dan Beeton, Fortune , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Two poets laureate \u2014Alyssa Gaines and Daniel B. Summerhill\u2014turn their thoughtful attention to fashionable objects\u2014while Robert Wrigley imagines the top-of-the-world elation of being in a treehouse. \u2014 WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"This monthlong series continues and includes an afternoon of outdoor readings by poets laureate from cities across SoCal, curated by Pomona\u2019s own poet laureate, David Judah Oliver. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Scientists have been modeling infectious-disease outbreaks since at least the early 1900s, when the Nobel laureate Ronald Ross used mosquito-reproduction rates and parasite-incubation periods to predict the spread of malaria. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Nov. 2021",
"The contributors range from former and current poets laureate to truck drivers and students. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Mojgani, named state poet laureate in 2020, was among 23 state and city poets laureate who received the fellowships, funded by the Academy of American Poets with support from the Mellon Foundation. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2021",
"The academy is awarding a total of $1.1 million to 23 poets laureate around the country for public projects like Hamilton's, plus more than $100,000 in support for nonprofit organizations like Woodland Pattern who are assisting the laureates. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 June 2021",
"What's the collective noun for a bunch of poets laureate in one place together",
"The gala concert featured Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and his predecessors, conductor laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen and conductor emeritus Zubin Mehta. \u2014 Matt Cooper, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2020"
],
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"1508, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"circa 1529, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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"Indian laurel ficus, a small tree that can be trimmed to resemble shrubs, will provide shade for teachers\u2019 cars in the parking lot. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The flip side is adorned with fleurs-de-lys, laurel leaves and eggs\u2014symbols of rebirth often found in Dal\u00ed\u2019s works. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Salicylic acid can be too harsh for dry skin, as can parabens, sodium laurel sulfate, ammonium lauryl sulfate, and some types of alcohol. \u2014 Rachel Nussbaum, Health.com , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"Terceira's Caparica Azores Ecolodge offers six modern cabins huddled in a laurel forest. \u2014 Jeanine Barone, CNN , 26 May 2022",
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"The canyon is home to many native plants used by the Chumash and other Indigenous peoples, including white sage, coastal sagebrush, yerba santa, matilija poppy and California bay laurel . \u2014 Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
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"Indian laurel ficus, a small tree that can be trimmed to resemble shrubs, will provide shade for teachers\u2019 cars in the parking lot. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The flip side is adorned with fleurs-de-lys, laurel leaves and eggs\u2014symbols of rebirth often found in Dal\u00ed\u2019s works. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Salicylic acid can be too harsh for dry skin, as can parabens, sodium laurel sulfate, ammonium lauryl sulfate, and some types of alcohol. \u2014 Rachel Nussbaum, Health.com , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Others still might resemble an old-school brawler, a space shooter, a rhythm game, or even a sitcom, complete with a laugh track . \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Much like the original, this show has a weekly format, and a laugh track . \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Norman Lear rebooted his own long-running CBS sitcom, but the only old-fashioned thing about Netflix's Time was the laugh track . \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 6 Oct. 2021",
"In other words\u2014instead of adding a laugh track , spend more time on the jokes. \u2014 Jason O'bryan, Robb Report , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The three are wonderful as always, but also the character-actor equivalent of a sitcom laugh track , loudly blaring even at the jokes that aren\u2019t funny. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Welcome to Bel-Air, a Fresh Prince update that replaces the laugh track with dramatic intensity. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Out of sight of Kevin, the bright studio lighting is replaced by the murky green palette of a serious TV drama; the multi-cam editing gives way to a single camera; even the laugh track vanishes. \u2014 Jeva Lange, The Week , 11 June 2021",
"While the fans of Ohio State-Michigan, Alabama-Auburn, and Oklahoma-Texas put that idea on a continuous laugh track , the ugliness of the trophy and the stupidity of it reared its ugly head again on Saturday. \u2014 Scooby Axson, USA TODAY , 22 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"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",
"Wachusett Reservoir hosted 16 common mergansers, three Bonaparte\u2019s gulls, a laughing gull , and a common tern. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2021",
"Also affected: Up to 32 percent of laughing gulls and up to a quarter of all brown pelicans. \u2014 National Geographic , 17 Apr. 2020",
"Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a royal tern, 5 parasitic jaegers, 1,100 laughing gulls , 2 least terns, 175 roseate terns, 2,800 common terns, 4 species of shearwater, and 2 common ravens. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 Sep. 2019"
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"She described a laundry list of goals for the city's schools.",
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"The two studied the video and came up with a laundry list of things that needed correcting: Gorski crushed pitches in the middle of the zone, but struggled to adjust to anything high or low. \u2014 Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star , 28 June 2022",
"Symptoms that are associated with Long COVID include everything from chest pain and fast heart rates to fatigue and mental health disorders, with a laundry list of 19 symptoms in total that may qualify someone for a Long COVID diagnosis. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 18 June 2022",
"Whether its the brand\u2019s Shape Tape Concealer, its Lights Camera Lashes Mascara, or its Amazonian Clay 12-Hour Blush, Tarte products are an indisputable essential, as demonstrated by a laundry list of makeup gurus everywhere. \u2014 Jamila Stewart, Essence , 11 Feb. 2022",
"In Ohio, that meant applicants had to provide a laundry list of documents, ranging from a Social Security card and birth certificate to two forms of photo identification. \u2014 Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer , 23 Sep. 2021",
"These innovative ZitSticka patches, infused with a laundry list of brightening ingredients like niacinamide, vitamin C, arbutin, licorice root extract and kojic acid, pinpoint and tackle dark marks from acne. \u2014 Nicole Saporita, Good Housekeeping , 10 May 2022",
"Feldstein is severely allergic to a laundry list of items, from dairy to cats to two of the most common preservatives found in makeup. \u2014 Chloe Malle, Vogue , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Public corporations already divulge a lot of details about their operations, including a laundry list of risks and threats that could disrupt their operations. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 3 Apr. 2022",
"By trying to bury it in a laundry list of other ARPA-E spending. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 1 Apr. 2022"
"In the 1980s, young Kraft and his best friend \u2014 a Hungarian laundryman who accidentally defected \u2014 remake themselves into voluble proponents of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Nov. 2020",
"Think of a laundryman standing there eight to 10 hours a day, for an excellent number of years. \u2014 NBC news , 9 Oct. 2020"
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"There's a pile of dirty laundry in the laundry basket.",
"The patients' sheets are sent regularly to the hospital laundry .",
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"Wearing clothes more often before tossing them in the laundry . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"The episode begins with a sequence detailing Lalo\u2019s elaborate yet invisible method for spying on the laundry atop the Super Lab dig site. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 24 May 2022",
"Wastewater from the laundry will be recycled for other use and rainwater will be harvested for the swimming pools, while brand new technology will be installed to monitor underground water levels and ensure borehole capacity is not exceeded. \u2014 Sandra Macgregor, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Laces can be thrown in the laundry , yes, but the rest of your boot needs attention too. \u2014 Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure , 6 May 2022",
"Sometimes the two watch television or movies together while Jordan folds the laundry . \u2014 Lisa Backus, courant.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"This cognitive labor of doing the cooking and the cleaning, the laundry , the pediatrician is actually work that should be valued. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Jenna and Lucas chose to start their room-by-room revamp with the laundry as a way to check something small off the list. \u2014 Kit Selzer And Kendra Surface, Better Homes & Gardens , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Morgan and Lichtenstein seem to have understood some of the dangerous terrain of the crypto laundry . \u2014 Ed Caesar, The New Yorker , 14 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Born in Searchlight, Nevada, to an alcoholic father who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing and swam with other children at a pool at a local brothel. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Born in Searchlight, Nevada, to an alcoholic father who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing and swam with other children at a pool at a local brothel. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Born in Searchlight, Nevada, to an alcoholic father who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing and swam with other children at a pool at a local brothel. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Born in Searchlight, Nevada, to an alcoholic father who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing and swam with other children at a pool at a local brothel. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Born in Searchlight, Nevada, to an alcoholic father who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing and swam with other children at a pool at a local brothel. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Her father was later a caretaker and her mother a laundress and the owner of a boardinghouse. \u2014 David Stout, New York Times , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Born in Searchlight, Nevada, to an alcoholic father who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing and swam with other children at a pool at a local brothel. \u2014 Laurie Kellman, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Born in Searchlight, Nevada, to an alcoholic father who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing and swam with other children at a pool at a local brothel. \u2014 Laurie Kellman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 Dec. 2021"
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"Verb",
"He used a phony business to launder money from drug dealing.",
"had to launder the quarterback's off-the-cuff's remarks before they could be quoted in the newspaper",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In the request for eight years imprisonment, prosecutors said Ravenell, then working as a partner at the law firm Murphy, Falcon and Murphy, used the firm\u2019s bank account to launder drug money. \u2014 Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun , 22 June 2022",
"But for most cryptocurrencies, the record of who owns what is publicly visible, forcing criminals to become savvier in order to effectively launder cryptocurrencies obtained through theft, scams or ransomware attacks. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"But for most cryptocurrencies, the record of who owns what is publicly visible, forcing criminals to become savvier in order to effectively launder cryptocurrencies obtained through theft, scams, or ransomware attacks. \u2014 Thalia Beaty, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Around the world, fraudsters are increasingly using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder money. \u2014 Faustine Ngila, Quartz , 16 June 2022",
"In recent years, international criminal elements have found casinos across the globe to be an attractive opportunity to launder money. \u2014 Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"But Firtash is also adept at using Western institutions to launder his own reputation. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 12 May 2022",
"Elliptic also said the darknet site helped launder money the Dark Side ransomware group extorted in a hack of Colonial Pipeline last year. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Former Goldman banker Roger Ng is on trial, accused of conspiring to violate U.S. anti-bribery laws and launder money in the plundering of the fund. \u2014 Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Credit Suisse and a former employee of the bank were found guilty in a Swiss federal criminal court of helping a Bulgarian crime ring launder money related to cocaine trafficking. \u2014 WSJ , 28 June 2022",
"Treasury said in its announcement that Blender.io had also helped a number of the most destructive Russian ransomware gangs launder their money. \u2014 Kevin Collier, NBC News , 6 May 2022",
"Pre-treat or rub the stains with bar soap and launder with fabric-safe bleach. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 18 May 2022",
"Officials are considering what consumer protections and financial reporting requirements to put in place and how to crack down on criminals who take advantage of the anonymity offered by cryptocurrency to evade taxes, launder money and commit fraud. \u2014 Brian Slodysko, Fortune , 15 May 2022",
"Two owners of vendor companies that did business with Apple have admitted to conspiring with Prasad to commit fraud and launder money, prosecutors said. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard were taken into custody by DEA agents at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and launder money, according to a criminal complaint. \u2014 Adriana Gomez Licon, Orlando Sentinel , 29 Apr. 2022",
"He was arrested in November 2019 in Los Angeles on charges of providing technical blockchain information to the regime of dictator Kim Jong Un that prosecutors said could be used to help the country launder money and evade sanctions. \u2014 Fortune , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Two owners of vendor companies that did business with Apple have admitted to conspiring with Prasad to commit fraud and launder money, prosecutors said. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Mar. 2022"
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": a mineral Fe 2 (SO 4 ) 3 .6H 2 O consisting of a hydrous ferric sulfate":[]
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"He used a phony business to launder money from drug dealing.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In the request for eight years imprisonment, prosecutors said Ravenell, then working as a partner at the law firm Murphy, Falcon and Murphy, used the firm\u2019s bank account to launder drug money. \u2014 Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun , 22 June 2022",
"But for most cryptocurrencies, the record of who owns what is publicly visible, forcing criminals to become savvier in order to effectively launder cryptocurrencies obtained through theft, scams or ransomware attacks. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"But for most cryptocurrencies, the record of who owns what is publicly visible, forcing criminals to become savvier in order to effectively launder cryptocurrencies obtained through theft, scams, or ransomware attacks. \u2014 Thalia Beaty, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Around the world, fraudsters are increasingly using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder money. \u2014 Faustine Ngila, Quartz , 16 June 2022",
"In recent years, international criminal elements have found casinos across the globe to be an attractive opportunity to launder money. \u2014 Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"But Firtash is also adept at using Western institutions to launder his own reputation. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 12 May 2022",
"Elliptic also said the darknet site helped launder money the Dark Side ransomware group extorted in a hack of Colonial Pipeline last year. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Former Goldman banker Roger Ng is on trial, accused of conspiring to violate U.S. anti-bribery laws and launder money in the plundering of the fund. \u2014 Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Credit Suisse and a former employee of the bank were found guilty in a Swiss federal criminal court of helping a Bulgarian crime ring launder money related to cocaine trafficking. \u2014 WSJ , 28 June 2022",
"Treasury said in its announcement that Blender.io had also helped a number of the most destructive Russian ransomware gangs launder their money. \u2014 Kevin Collier, NBC News , 6 May 2022",
"Pre-treat or rub the stains with bar soap and launder with fabric-safe bleach. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 18 May 2022",
"Officials are considering what consumer protections and financial reporting requirements to put in place and how to crack down on criminals who take advantage of the anonymity offered by cryptocurrency to evade taxes, launder money and commit fraud. \u2014 Brian Slodysko, Fortune , 15 May 2022",
"Two owners of vendor companies that did business with Apple have admitted to conspiring with Prasad to commit fraud and launder money, prosecutors said. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie and Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard were taken into custody by DEA agents at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and launder money, according to a criminal complaint. \u2014 Adriana Gomez Licon, Orlando Sentinel , 29 Apr. 2022",
"He was arrested in November 2019 in Los Angeles on charges of providing technical blockchain information to the regime of dictator Kim Jong Un that prosecutors said could be used to help the country launder money and evade sanctions. \u2014 Fortune , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Two owners of vendor companies that did business with Apple have admitted to conspiring with Prasad to commit fraud and launder money, prosecutors said. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a, scoring two of their three runs on Ure\u00f1a\u2019s bases-loaded walk to Suzuki and a wild pitch, turning the game into a laugher . \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 9 Apr. 2022",
"After dominating Maryland for three quarters in the Sweet 16 game, Stanford turned a laugher into something a little more serious. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The Pelicans used a 39-point second quarter (outscoring the Rockets 39 to 23 in that frame) to pull away from Houston, and then made it into a complete laugher with a 25-point win. \u2014 Rahat Huq, Chron , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The game was such a laugher by that point that when Tyreek Hill was ruled down just shy of the goal line, Mahomes simply threw his next pass on third-and-goal to offensive tackle Nick Allegretti for the score. \u2014 Dave Skretta, ajc , 17 Jan. 2022",
"The game was such a laugher by that point that when Tyreek Hill was ruled down just shy of the goal line, Mahomes simply threw his next pass on 3rd-and-goal to Nick Allegretti \u2014 normally a tackle who lined up as an eligible receiver \u2014 for the score. \u2014 Dave Skretta, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Jan. 2022",
"The game went from lopsided to a laugher in the eighth inning, when the Beavers mashed eight hits, scored 11 runs and sent 15 batters to the plate. \u2014 Joe Freeman, oregonlive , 18 Feb. 2022",
"The loss in San Antonio was an absolute laugher , with the Rockets' cross-town rivals winning 131-106. \u2014 Rahat Huq, Chron , 10 Feb. 2022",
"An 18-2 Panthers run turned a 7-7 game into a laugher quickly as UWM steadily grew its advantage to 38-25 by halftime. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"About 40% of ammonium nitrate \u2014 laughing gas 's source \u2014 comes from Russia. \u2014 Darius Tahir, CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"Birth centers generally don\u2019t administer medication to patients, except for laughing gas , Long said. \u2014 cleveland , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas , is FDA-approved for use in medical settings to relieve pain. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Ammonia is toxic to humans and can, during combustion, turn into laughing gas , which is worse for the environment than CO2. \u2014 Aurora Almendral, Quartz , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Meanwhile in Amsterdam, steps are already being taken to crackdown on rowdy behavior over the summer, including temporary bans on laughing gas , alcohol and sound systems during large gatherings along the canals and in the Red Light District. \u2014 Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN , 26 June 2021",
"Doctors first looked into using laughing gas as an antidepressant in a 2015 proof-of-concept trial. \u2014 Lydia Wang, refinery29.com , 11 June 2021",
"Here\u2019s a useful primer on nitrous oxide (N2O, or laughing gas ), which is the third most common greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide and methane. \u2014 Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker , 2 June 2021",
"Gobs of guano from king penguins in the sub-Antarctic give rise to comical clouds of nitrous oxide\u2014aka laughing gas \u2014according to a recent study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 23 May 2020"
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": a knight of the Round Table in late Arthurian legend":[]
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"\u2014 Graenum Berger"
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"a laughing brook"
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"\u2014 Amy Lowell"
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"chuckle",
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"Verb",
"What are you laughing about?",
"The audience was laughing hysterically.",
"I've never laughed so hard in my life.",
"I couldn't stop laughing when I saw what he was wearing.",
"I laughed out loud when I saw him.",
"He laughed so hard I thought he'd die laughing .",
"The movie was hilarious. We laughed our heads off .",
"\u201cI've never seen anything so ridiculous,\u201d he laughed .",
"Noun",
"He gave a loud laugh .",
"a joke that always gets a big laugh",
"The movie has a lot of laughs .",
"You're going to be a movie star? That's a laugh .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The series was renewed halfway through its first season last fall, quickly amassing a legion of fans \u2014 people tuning in not just to follow the murder case but laugh along with the show's central trio. \u2014 Gerrad Hall, EW.com , 30 June 2022",
"Jokes show kids, who are always looking for clues about how to grow up, that grown-ups can be playful and laugh at themselves. \u2014 WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"In the video, Officer Keith Pool, the department's only Black officer at the time, was then seen entering the room and appearing to laugh after seeing the raincoat. \u2014 Justin Gamble, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"The footage shown at CineEurope got folks in the audience to jump from their seats and laugh at the dark humor. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 21 June 2022",
"Some of the stories, of Tony and Aaron adventures, the kinds of stories that make the boys laugh , have only started to be told recently. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, cleveland , 19 June 2022",
"In the first shot, Stamos sits in a garden while holding Billy on his lap as the two of them laugh together. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 3 June 2022",
"Making your audience laugh or share your post doesn\u2019t build authority. \u2014 Paul Getter, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Shatner recalled his trajectory from being a 6-year-old cut-up in Montreal who enjoyed making people laugh , to his time in repertory theater in Ottawa and Toronto to his entry into TV and movies. \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Princess Diana shared a laugh with the late Rolling Stones drummer after a concert at London's Albert Hall in 1983. \u2014 Katie Robinson, Town & Country , 27 June 2022",
"The trio was even seen sharing a laugh together during commercial break. \u2014 Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"Or that strange little laugh or unnerving eye contact. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
"Photo above: Mayor London Breed shares a laugh with Steph Curry at the Warriors championship parade Monday. \u2014 Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 June 2022",
"Cote, now 40 and retired from professional hockey, remembers the moment with a dark laugh . \u2014 Steve Volk, Rolling Stone , 22 June 2022",
"Her family\u2019s home, which used to be filled with her dad\u2019s boisterous laugh , is now eerily quiet. \u2014 Holly Yan, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"In the photo, which appears to be from the royal family's secret trip to Jordan in 2021, all three Cambridge kids were captured mid- laugh while surrounding Prince William. \u2014 Whitney Perry, Glamour , 19 June 2022",
"Their scenes call for broad comedy, and both deliver, never wasting a line delivery or a pratfall to wring (or try to wring) a laugh . \u2014 Manuel Betancourt, Variety , 17 June 2022"
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"Middle English, from Old English hliehhan ; akin to Old High German lach\u0113n to laugh":"Verb and Noun"
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"first_known_use":{
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"city and port at a confluence of rivers in northern Tasmania, Australia population 74,085":[]
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"lauter beer"
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": an aromatic Californian shrub ( Rhus laurina ) having paniculate flowers and whitish fruit":[]
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": an edible European frog ( Rana ridibunda )":[]
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a photographic record of the diffraction pattern formed when a beam of X rays passes through a thin crystal plate":[]
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"noun"
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": a monastery of an Eastern church":[]
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"Late Greek, from Greek, lane":""
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"definitions":{
": a basic lead chloride Pb(OH)Cl found in prismatic crystals at Laurion, Greece":[]
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"\u02c8l\u00e4r-",
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": a mineral CuAsS consisting of a sulfide and arsenide of copper possibly related to arsenopyrite":[]
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": a crystalline fatty acid C 12 H 24 O 2 found especially in coconut oil and used chiefly in making soaps and esters":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It\u2019s a natural oil processed from a coconut kernel, which contains lauric acid , a fatty acid that promotes and increases antimicrobial activity that helps reduce bacteria and other infections and conditions of the skin. \u2014 Deena Campbell, Allure , 4 Aug. 2021",
"Interestingly, lauric acid itself has also been purported to have health benefits. \u2014 Vasanti Malik, sun-sentinel.com , 19 Nov. 2019",
"However, large epidemiological studies have failed to report protective associations between lauric acid and cardiovascular disease. \u2014 Vasanti Malik, sun-sentinel.com , 19 Nov. 2019",
"However, the coconut oil found on most supermarket shelves contains mostly lauric acid , which is absorbed and metabolized more slowly than MCT. \u2014 Vasanti Malik, sun-sentinel.com , 19 Nov. 2019",
"The most common fat is lauric acid , which has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. \u2014 Yerin Kim, Seventeen , 3 June 2019",
"Well, actually, this lauric acid only makes up 50 percent of the fats found in coconut oil. \u2014 Yerin Kim, Seventeen , 3 June 2019",
"Don\u2019t Use It to Cure Your Zits Coconut oil has gotten major buzz in the last year as miracle zit fixer, thanks to the fact that its naturally high in lauric acid , an anti-microbial and anti-fungal fatty acid. \u2014 Chloe Metzger, Marie Claire , 7 June 2018",
"Theoretically, the properties in coconut oil should be beneficial to acne\u2014vitamin E and linoleic acid soothe irritated skin, while lauric acid kills bacteria\u2014but coconut oil hasn\u2019t actually been shown to improve acne in any studies. \u2014 Chloe Metzger, Marie Claire , 7 June 2018"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-192315"
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": a mineral RuS 2 consisting of an iron-black ruthenium sulfide often containing osmium and found in minute crystals or grains":[]
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"\u2014 James Gorman , New York Times , 16 Nov. 2001",
"The large blue area in the figure is roughly coincident with Laurentia , the predecessor of the present North American continent.",
"\u2014 Suzan van der Lee , Science , 9 Nov. 2001"
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"first_known_use":{
"1903, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-214156"
},
"Lauder":{
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"biographical name"
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"definitions":{
"Sir Harry Maclennan 1870\u20131950 Scottish singer":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u022f-d\u0259r"
],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-214704"
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"Lauritsen electroscope":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an electroscope in which the sensitive element is a quartz fiber used in precise measurements of ionizing radiation":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8lau\u0307|r\u0259\u0307ts\u0259n-",
"\u02c8l\u00e4|",
"\u02c8l\u022f|"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"after Charles C. Lauritsen \u20201968 and Thomas Lauritsen , born 1915 American physicists born in Denmark, who designed it":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-230440"
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"Laurium":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"mountain in southeastern Greece at the southeastern tip of Attica":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259m",
"\u02c8l\u00e4r-"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-233550"
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"lauro-":{
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"definitions":{
"\u2014 see laur-":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-011219"
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"Laurentian":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or located near the Saint Lawrence River":[
"Laurentian hills"
],
": of or relating to mountain-making movements of the Archean era":[
"Collision doesn't explain the Laurentian rocks, because they show no sign of originating in an area that was being squeezed.",
"\u2014 Richard Monastersky , Science News , 3 June 1989"
],
": of, relating to, or being the prehistoric Laurentia land mass":[
"If the northern Piedmont is allochthonous, just as its southern counterpart in South Carolina appears to be \u2026 it could be of Laurentian , Gondwanan, or Armorican origin.",
"\u2014 Rob Van der Voo , Annual Review of Earth , 1982"
],
": of or relating to D. H. Lawrence":[
"Richard Aldington, Lawrence's best biographer and one of his best critics, points out somewhere that the Joycean and Laurentian approaches to art and life are totally opposed.",
"\u2014 Anthony Burgess , New York Times Book Review , 14 July 1985"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"l\u022f\u02c8rench(\u0113)\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin Laurenti us Lawrence (in sense 1 representing the St. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and southeast Ontario, Canada, and in sense 2 representing D. H. Lawrence \u20201930 English novelist) + English -an":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1863, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-023437"
},
"Laurocerasus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of trees and shrubs that occur in warm or tropical regions, that include the European cherry laurel and related plants with alternate usually evergreen leaves and pentamerous white flowers in racemes, and that are now commonly included in the genus Prunus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccl\u00e4r-",
"\u02ccl\u022fr\u014d\u02c8ser\u0259s\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from laur- + Latin cerasus cherry tree":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-030531"
},
"lauroyl":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the radical CH 3 (CH 2 ) 10 CO\u2212 of lauric acid":[]
": a genus of trees (family Lauraceae ) having alternate entire leaves and small tetramerous involucrate flowers succeeded by fruits that are ovoid berries \u2014 see laurel entry 1 sense 1a":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u022fr\u0259s",
"\u02c8l\u00e4r-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, laurel":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-035603"
},
"laurustine":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a European shrub ( Viburnum tinus ) widely cultivated for its evergreen leaves and white or pink fragrant flowers":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u022fr\u0259\u02ccst\u012bn",
"-t\u0113n",
"\u02c8l\u00e4r-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin laurustinus , from Latin laurus laurel + tinus a plant, probably the laurustine; probably akin to Old English th\u012bnan to become moist, Old Slavic tina mud, Old English thawian to thaw":""
