": of, relating to, or being an eon of geologic history that comprises the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic or the corresponding systems of rocks \u2014 see Geologic Time Table":[]
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"1930, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Greek phaner\u00f3s \"visible, conspicuous\" (from phan-, base of pha\u00ednomai, pha\u00ednesthai \"to become visible, come to light, appear\" + -eros, adjective suffix) + -o- + -zoic entry 2 \u2014 more at fantasy entry 1":""
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"\u02ccfa-n\u0259-r\u0259-\u02c8z\u014d-ik"
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": an order of starfishes distinguished by large marginal plates":[]
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"New Latin, from phaner- + Greek z\u014dn\u0113 girdle + New Latin -ia":""
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"-\u0259\u0307st",
"fan\u2027\u02c8t\u0101z\u0113\u02ccast"
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": egyptian vulture":[]
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"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
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"borrowed from Danish fanerofyt, from Greek phaner\u00f3s \"visible, conspicuous\" (from phan-, base of pha\u00ednomai, pha\u00ednesthai \"to become visible, come to light, appear\" + -eros, adjective suffix) + Danish -o- -o- + -fyt -phyte \u2014 more at fantasy entry 1":""
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": an East Indian robber and assassin : thug":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi ph\u0101\u0303s\u012bg\u0101r , from ph\u0101\u0303s\u012b snare, noose + Persian -g\u0101r doer, doing":""
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"\u02c8f\u00e4-",
"\u02c8p\u00e4n(t)s\u0113\u02ccg\u00e4r"
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"frightened by the phantasms of his own making",
"believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But eventually, the duo turned the phantasm into solid logic. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 15 July 2021",
"Southern lawmakers baselessly claimed Black men were lynched for raping White women -- a phantasm that still haunts Black men -- and asserted laws governing lynchings were best left to the states. \u2014 Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN , 27 May 2021",
"The album, produced by pop artisan Greg Kurstin (Adele, Paul McCartney), is a conceptual rumination on these apocalyptic times, from war to salvation with a sprinkle of biblical phantasm . \u2014 Steven J. Horowitz, EW.com , 15 Apr. 2021",
"That the nocturnal ritual fantasy is no fantasy, that every phantasm is a sign. \u2014 Talia Lavin, The New Republic , 29 Sep. 2020",
"Nor did this phantasm express itself solely in writing. \u2014 Ryan Ruby, The New York Review of Books , 8 Aug. 2020",
"His drawing shows an electric-blue phantasm on the wing, more like an angel or a pegasus than any earthly being. \u2014 J. B. Mackinnon, The Atlantic , 19 Mar. 2020",
"These phantasms could influence familiar particles in several ways, according to Johns Hopkins University theorist and MAGIS collaborator Surjeet Rajendran. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Scientific American , 18 Jan. 2020",
"Gottlieb\u2019s story offers a fleeting glimpse into a world that is usually no more than a phantasm or a hideous dream. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 Sep. 2019"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English fantesme, fantosme, fantome, fantom \"what has only a seeming reality or value, vanity, illusion, apparition, falsehood,\" borrowed from Anglo-French fantosme, fantasme, fantesme, fantame (continental Old French fantosme ), borrowed from Latin phantasma \"ghost, apparition\" (Late Latin also, \"mental image, figment, illusion\"), borrowed from Greek ph\u00e1ntasma \"apparition, ghost, vision, dream, (in plural) phenomena, portents,\" derivative, with the noun suffix -mat-, -ma, corresponding to phant\u00e1zein \"to make visible, present to the eye or mind, (middle voice) place before one's mind, picture to oneself, imagine\" \u2014 more at fantasy entry 1":""
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"\u02c8fan-\u02ccta-z\u0259m",
"\u02c8fan-\u02cctaz-\u0259m"
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"1598, in the meaning defined above":""
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"borrowed from Latin, \"ghost, apparition\" \u2014 more at phantasm":""
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"He saw a phantasmagoria of shadowy creatures through the fog.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Alas, Harper also has the misfortune of anchoring the latest cinematic phantasmagoria from Alex Garland, a writer and director who likes to play sinister mind games with characters and audiences alike. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"The stories, ethnographic in perspective but Gogolian in register, gravitate toward inexplicable disappearances, repressed memories, and phantasmagoria . \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The collection seemed at times like a visual phantasmagoria , dipping in and out of different times periods as the house itself looks back to its heritage and forward to the future. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Previously adapted for the big screen in a confounding and ill-fated 1984 David Lynch phantasmagoria , Dune has, over the decades, become one of those rare fanboy and -girl properties that's begged for another go-round. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 3 Sep. 2021",
"The pair's many collaborations include the '90s TV show The Kingdom, a bizarre phantasmagoria set at a Danish hospital. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 29 July 2021",
"Subbing in a new melody concocted with moody synths and '80s drum beats, the track transforms itself into an avant-pop phantasmagoria that blends perfectly with Mike Hadreas' otherworldly vocals. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 15 Jan. 2021",
"Saving not just time but effort is key to forward momentum in the industrial phantasmagoria that is, at this moment, blasting circus music into my ears. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
"Saving not just time but effort is key to forward momentum in the industrial phantasmagoria that is, at this moment, blasting circus music into my ears. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020"
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"circa 1802, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"borrowed from French phantasmogorie (later fantasmagorie ) \"theatrical show using magic lanterns in a darkened performance space to suggest supernatural phenomena,\" from fantasme phantasm + -ogorie, -agorie, of uncertain origin":""
"believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But eventually, the duo turned the phantasm into solid logic. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 15 July 2021",
"Southern lawmakers baselessly claimed Black men were lynched for raping White women -- a phantasm that still haunts Black men -- and asserted laws governing lynchings were best left to the states. \u2014 Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN , 27 May 2021",
"The album, produced by pop artisan Greg Kurstin (Adele, Paul McCartney), is a conceptual rumination on these apocalyptic times, from war to salvation with a sprinkle of biblical phantasm . \u2014 Steven J. Horowitz, EW.com , 15 Apr. 2021",
"That the nocturnal ritual fantasy is no fantasy, that every phantasm is a sign. \u2014 Talia Lavin, The New Republic , 29 Sep. 2020",
"Nor did this phantasm express itself solely in writing. \u2014 Ryan Ruby, The New York Review of Books , 8 Aug. 2020",
"His drawing shows an electric-blue phantasm on the wing, more like an angel or a pegasus than any earthly being. \u2014 J. B. Mackinnon, The Atlantic , 19 Mar. 2020",
"These phantasms could influence familiar particles in several ways, according to Johns Hopkins University theorist and MAGIS collaborator Surjeet Rajendran. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Scientific American , 18 Jan. 2020",
"Gottlieb\u2019s story offers a fleeting glimpse into a world that is usually no more than a phantasm or a hideous dream. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 Sep. 2019"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
"believed that she'd seen the phantasm of her father on the anniversary of his death",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But eventually, the duo turned the phantasm into solid logic. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 15 July 2021",
"Southern lawmakers baselessly claimed Black men were lynched for raping White women -- a phantasm that still haunts Black men -- and asserted laws governing lynchings were best left to the states. \u2014 Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN , 27 May 2021",
"The album, produced by pop artisan Greg Kurstin (Adele, Paul McCartney), is a conceptual rumination on these apocalyptic times, from war to salvation with a sprinkle of biblical phantasm . \u2014 Steven J. Horowitz, EW.com , 15 Apr. 2021",
"That the nocturnal ritual fantasy is no fantasy, that every phantasm is a sign. \u2014 Talia Lavin, The New Republic , 29 Sep. 2020",
"Nor did this phantasm express itself solely in writing. \u2014 Ryan Ruby, The New York Review of Books , 8 Aug. 2020",
"His drawing shows an electric-blue phantasm on the wing, more like an angel or a pegasus than any earthly being. \u2014 J. B. Mackinnon, The Atlantic , 19 Mar. 2020",
"These phantasms could influence familiar particles in several ways, according to Johns Hopkins University theorist and MAGIS collaborator Surjeet Rajendran. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Scientific American , 18 Jan. 2020",
"Gottlieb\u2019s story offers a fleeting glimpse into a world that is usually no more than a phantasm or a hideous dream. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 Sep. 2019"
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"Middle English fantesme, fantosme, fantome, fantom \"what has only a seeming reality or value, vanity, illusion, apparition, falsehood,\" borrowed from Anglo-French fantosme, fantasme, fantesme, fantame (continental Old French fantosme ), borrowed from Latin phantasma \"ghost, apparition\" (Late Latin also, \"mental image, figment, illusion\"), borrowed from Greek ph\u00e1ntasma \"apparition, ghost, vision, dream, (in plural) phenomena, portents,\" derivative, with the noun suffix -mat-, -ma, corresponding to phant\u00e1zein \"to make visible, present to the eye or mind, (middle voice) place before one's mind, picture to oneself, imagine\" \u2014 more at fantasy entry 1":""
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"The book is about the phantoms that are said to haunt the nation's cemeteries.",
"The crisis is merely a phantom made up by the media.",
"Adjective",
"People claim to have seen a phantom ship floating on the lake.",
"A number of ballots from phantom voters had to be thrown out.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The 89-year-old Rivera tested positive for COVID and is unable to perform at the Shubert\u2019s fundraising gala, so Lewis, like a phantom , has swooped in. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 2 June 2022",
"In 2019, the FTC accused Hussain of participating in a phantom -debt collection ring with ties to the Mohindras\u2019 case. \u2014 Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica , 20 May 2022",
"But the problem of phantom braking is not limited to the controversial FSD mode. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Some drivers have reported phantom braking even when Autopilot is turned off. \u2014 Mark Knapp, PCMAG , 2 Feb. 2022",
"For reporters, Mujahid was a kind of phantom , a disembodied voice on the phone. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
"This isn\u2019t the first time that NHTSA has looked into Tesla's phantom braking problem. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Thursday\u2019s investigation comes after Tesla recalled nearly 12,000 vehicles back in October for a similar phantom braking problem. \u2014 Tom Krisher, ajc , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Thursday's investigation comes after Tesla recalled nearly 12,000 vehicles back in October for a similar phantom braking problem. \u2014 CBS News , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Alongside that is a Bluetooth connection status LED and another that shows when the 48v phantom power is turned on. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 3 July 2022",
"The phantom legend then disappeared again, departing the Dodger Stadium center-field plaza stage with a voice as thick as his undying grip on an eternally awestruck city and its baseball team. \u2014 Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times , 18 June 2022",
"In 2012, Jesse Barber and his colleagues Heidi Ware Carlisle and Christopher McClure built a phantom road. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
"Higher inflation means more phantom income to be taxed away. \u2014 William Baldwin, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"The sector has had its fair share of scandal, with phantom trees left unplanted and baseline projections that create wildly inflated expectations of how much carbon could be saved via forest conservation. \u2014 Sam Gill, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"Now, the phantom menace known as the Democratic supermajority in Sacramento has counter-attacked with a dose of absurdity that\u2019s hard to comprehend. \u2014 Andrew Deangelo, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"This sophisticated recording technique uses tiny differences in frequency to generate two close tones and a third, phantom tone. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 17 May 2022",
"The maps on phantom AirTag alerts share a similar pattern: straight red lines radiating out from the user\u2019s location. \u2014 Dalvin Brown, WSJ , 6 May 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"Middle English fantesme, fantosme, fantome, fantom \"what only seems to have reality or value, vanity, illusion, apparition, falsehood,\" borrowed from Anglo-French fantosme, fantasme \u2014 more at phantasm":"Noun",
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"like some pharaoh of a third-world country, more interested in building monuments to himself than in creating a future for his people",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That includes engineering a perfume thought to be used by Cleopatra, the female pharaoh who ruled Egypt between 51 and 30 B.C.E. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"In the first episode, that includes Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt and an Egyptian pharaoh . \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"Shimmering in gold, like a mosquito encased in amber, Mueller lay supine, arms crossed in front of her like an Egyptian pharaoh . \u2014 Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"There is no archaeological evidence of iron smelting in Egypt until the 6th century BCE, and the earliest known example of Egyptian use of metallic iron dates to around 3400 BCE\u2014before Egypt became a single state ruled by a pharaoh around 3000 BC. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 23 Feb. 2022",
"He wasn't considered an especially important pharaoh in the grand scheme of things, but the treasures that were recovered from his tomb in the 1920s are what led to his fame. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 23 Feb. 2022",
"But an autopsy of the mummy revealed that the famous pharaoh with the fabulous treasure was only a teen-ager. \u2014 Casey Cep, The New Yorker , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Enlarge / Historical engraving of the mummy of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I (1888). \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Enlarge / Royal mummy of Amenhotep I, the second pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, at Cairo Museum, Egypt. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 3 Jan. 2022"
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"Middle English pharao , from Old English, from Late Latin pharaon-, pharao , from Greek phara\u014d , from Hebrew par\u02bd\u014dh , from Egyptian pr-\u02bd\u02be\u0339":""
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"the building of the Hoover Dam was a construction project of pharaonic proportions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Around the region Egypt on Thursday retrieved five pharaonic artifacts smuggled out of the North African country that were seized by Kuwaiti customs in 2019, said the MENA state news agency. \u2014 Hadas Gold And Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"The 150 statues discovered were modeled after pharaonic gods -- including the protector of graves, Anubis; the god of creation of day, Nefertem; and the god of the sun and air, Amun. \u2014 Mostafa Salem, CNN , 30 May 2022",
"In the 1800s, one of Egypt\u2019s rulers pried stones off the pyramids to erect new mosques (though, as far as pharaonic plunder goes, European visitors were greedier). \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Pharaonic chariots and more than 400 young performers dressed in pharaonic costumes paraded along the avenue. \u2014 CNN , 26 Nov. 2021",
"The extravagant march included participants in pharaonic dress, a symphony orchestra, lighting effects, professional dancers, boats on the Nile, horse drawn carriages and more. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Nov. 2021",
"French rule would lift Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire, out of tyranny and into prosperity, and modern France would adorn itself with pharaonic glory. \u2014 Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books , 13 May 2021",
"French rule would lift Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire, out of tyranny and into prosperity, and modern France would adorn itself with pharaonic glory. \u2014 Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books , 13 May 2021",
"French rule would lift Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire, out of tyranny and into prosperity, and modern France would adorn itself with pharaonic glory. \u2014 Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books , 13 May 2021"
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"However, the returns for some of the large pharmaceutical companies were lower than that of the broader markets, with the S&P 500 index rising 54% over the same period. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"International pharmaceutical companies that made misoprostol were hit with boycotts and stopped producing it; a small domestic company took over manufacturing a generic version of the drug to sell only to the Ministry of Health for hospital use. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"The HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute receives funding from several pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead, Merck, and ViiV, which have or may have PrEP products now and in the future. \u2014 Carl Schmid, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"That provision requires pharmaceutical companies to sell their products to Section 340B hospitals at below-market rates. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 20 June 2022",
"But her family haven\u2019t made one penny and the pharmaceutical companies made billions. \u2014 Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"The Food and Drug Administration\u2019s vaccine advisers gave a thumbs-up Wednesday to vaccines from both pharmaceutical companies for children under 5, or roughly 18 million youngsters, arguing the benefits of the shots outweigh any risks. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"The measure directs staff to consider liability claims against firearm businesses, similar to lawsuits filed against pharmaceutical companies that produced and marketed addictive opioids. \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"To be clear, Phreesia\u2019s ad business also leads to better outcomes for pharmaceutical companies. \u2014 Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Until then, pharmaceutical companies will continue to overprice drugs that underachieve. \u2014 Robert Pearl, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Monkeypox was not invented by Bill Gates or pharmaceutical companies. \u2014 Dr. Celine Gounder, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
"In addition, pharmaceutical companies donated 18 billion tablets to prevent and treat those diseases. \u2014 Ignatius Ssuuna, ajc , 24 June 2022",
"If the data are poor, the stock could fall to $175, potentially making Biogen an attractive acquisition target for a larger pharmaceutical company, Mr. Yee said. \u2014 Joseph Walker, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"Incorporating SaMDs can benefit stakeholders across healthcare, including patients, medical providers, payers and pharmaceutical companies, by simplifying disease management and getting patients on the right treatment faster. \u2014 Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Since then, ketamine\u2019s antidepressant potential has captivated researchers, pharmaceutical companies and patients alike. \u2014 Raleigh Mcelvery, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Indeed, pharmaceutical companies are now abandoning psychiatry. \u2014 Richard J. Mcnally, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"Those claims should be sprinkled with a few grains of salt, but more than twenty-six million people have taken genetic ancestry tests since 2012, incidentally creating a database of huge value to pharmaceutical companies and law enforcement. \u2014 Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022"
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"Oral jaws are used to capture prey, while pharyngeal jaws located in the back of the mouth are used to chew and swallow. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Their oral jaws are used to capture and crush prey while their pharyngeal jaws, which are positioned in their throats, are used to chew their food and move it from their mouths to the stomach. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Nov. 2021",
"So over the course of evolution, the larynx in the human line has moved lower in our throats, opening up a much larger pharyngeal cavity than found in other primates. \u2014 Louis-jean Bo\u00eb, The Conversation , 11 Dec. 2019",
"The creature only appears an hour into the film, first glimpsed as saliva-like goo and then as pharyngeal jaws that shoot out from its mouth. \u2014 J.b., The Economist , 5 Sep. 2019",
"Most fish use a second set of jaws in their throats\u2014the pharyngeal jaws\u2014to crush and grind their prey. \u2014 National Geographic , 13 Sep. 2016"
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"\u02ccfar-\u0259n-\u02c8j\u0113-\u0259l",
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"On the other hand, a correct alignment of the vocal apparatus allows the sound to resonate efficiently, particularly with the help of an open and relaxed pharynx . \u2014 Carol Kinsey Goman, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"In other words, during swallowing, the pharynx only leads to the digestive tract and the upper and lower airways are protected. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
"The second phase of this vaccine strategy exploits the influenza virus\u2019s ability to enter the body through the nasal pharynx . \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The scientific name for this process is retro nasal olfaction, where the odors flow from the back of your mouth up through your nasal pharynx and into your nasal cavity. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 25 June 2021",
"Having pharyngeal jaws isn\u2019t so weird, all bony fishes have them, what sets morays apart is how those extra jaws, located just behind the throat or pharynx , can move, according to Live Science. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 June 2021",
"Because the virus is sent into the air by talking, coughing, and singing\u2014any forcible exhalation of air through the pharynx \u2014playing a woodwind or brass instrument would logically pose a risk. \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 14 Oct. 2020",
"Large droplets fall quickly to the ground, but the rush of air also creates an aerosolized mixture of everything that\u2019s lingering in the mucus membrane of your pharynx . \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 10 June 2020",
"And yet, while those familiar ailments primarily affect the nose, the throat, and the pharynx \u2014together called the upper respiratory tract\u2014the coronavirus seems to skip directly to the lower respiratory tract, multiplying in the lungs. \u2014 Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker , 27 May 2020"
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"borrowed from Medieval Latin pharyng-, pharynx (also Latinized early as pharynga, faringa ), borrowed from Greek ph\u00e1rynx, ph\u00e1ryx \"throat, gullet, pharynx,\" akin to ph\u00e1ranx \"gully, chasm,\" of pre-Indo-European origin":""
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"a calendar based on the phases of the moon",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Marlins\u2019 24-year-old second baseman has garnered the admiration of the national baseball audience, earning more votes than any other second baseman in the National League through the first phase of voting, with 634,762. \u2014 Francisco Rosa, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"Lane Parke, a luxury, mixed use project almost a decade in the making, opened the first phase of its retail portion in 2016, a year after The Grand Bohemian Hotel Mountain Brook, and apartments. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 23 June 2022",
"As people try to move on from the acute phase of the pandemic, people are submitting fewer samples for testing. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"The first phase invested $190 million toward government facility upgrades. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 22 June 2022",
"The pads would support structures associated with the next phase , like a man camp and fuel storage, according to the plan of operations. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"La Ni\u00f1a is the cooler sibling of El Ni\u00f1o, which, along with a neutral phase , constitutes the El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Speaking to Variety at San Sebastian, Colagreco noted that in effect, Mirazur was now four different restaurants in one, as menus changed with each primary lunar phase . \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"That plant is scheduled to be operational by 2023, with another phase planned to be open in 2025. \u2014 Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"After discussions with Clark, Petersen says the decision to phase the veteran executive into running all of Flexport, and not just some teams, was his own decision. \u2014 Alex Konrad, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The price didn\u2019t phase him because of a special detail: The cartoon, part of collection of cat images called CryptoKitties, is a non-fungible token, or NFT. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"However, as his task force told him, the federal government offered to phase in the program, covering 100 percent of the cost for the first two years, and 95 percent for the two years after that. \u2014 al , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, the council voted along party lines to phase in the revaluation: 75 percent of the increase will be used in calculating this year\u2019s bills, and the other 25 percent will be added next year. \u2014 Don Stacom, Hartford Courant , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Coca-Cola will work with bottling partners to eventually phase the design into production lines across Europe, a company spokesman said. \u2014 Katie Deighton, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"Taxes will phase in at 50 percent in five years, and then 100 percent after another five years. \u2014 Don Stacom, Hartford Courant , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But the Energy Department will phase in enforcement over time. \u2014 Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Apr. 2022",
"If adopted in 2022, the new requirements generally would phase in over the next two to three years. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 3 Apr. 2022"
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"Partly to keep peace with the military establishment and win its support for a phasedown of troops after the surge, Obama largely accepted the recommendation to send tens of thousands of troops to Afghanistan. \u2014 David Axelrod, CNN , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Once fully implemented, scientists have said such an HFC phasedown would avoid 0.5 degrees Celsius of warming. \u2014 Abby Smith, Washington Examiner , 3 May 2021",
"Over the next 15 years, the HFC phasedown would reduce 900 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, more than the total annual emissions of Germany, Rhodium says. \u2014 Abby Smith, Washington Examiner , 22 Dec. 2020",
"Wetstone, like many other clean energy advocates, is calling on Congress to temporarily allow clean energy companies to redeem tax credits as cash payments and to put off the phasedown of renewable energy tax credits. \u2014 Abby Smith, Washington Examiner , 16 June 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022"
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"1958, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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": modulation of the phase of a radio carrier wave by voice or other signal":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lukens\u2019 team then used a second round of phase modulation to compress the energy further, expanding the duration of the time windows to 36 picoseconds (or 36 trillionths of a second). \u2014 Zeeya Merali, Scientific American , 5 June 2013"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Tourneur said, adding that the exemptions will only delay and reduce the scope of the country's plastic phaseout . \u2014 Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Under a deal signed May 20 by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the phaseout period was extended by nearly 4 years to the end of 2026 to give Levin additional time to shift its operations from coal and petcoke to other bulk commodities. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 June 2022",
"Germany previously wanted to wait until the end of the year for a full embargo, but is now talking about a phaseout over a few months. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 2 May 2022",
"Softening from Germany, which wants an oil phaseout rather than a full an immediate ban, was seen by E.U. diplomats as making a deal more likely, but far from guaranteed. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"As part of the earlier phaseout plan, German lawmakers passed legislation setting aside more than \u20ac40 billion ($45.2 billion) over the next two decades to help areas that will lose jobs and income as coal dries up. \u2014 Sara Schonhardt, Scientific American , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Over the three-year phaseout , the West Memphis track has gone from 110 races per week to about 54. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 23 May 2022",
"Over the weekend, officials and diplomats in Brussels discussed the idea of a phaseout by the end of 2022, but Hungary and Slovakia pushed back, according to the diplomats and the official. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 May 2022",
"The phaseout is more gradual than the immediate embargo some countries had been pushing for. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Across the world, India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 4 July 2022",
"India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. \u2014 Aniruddha Ghosal, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
"For Europe, which is bracing for a financial hit from the decision to phase out most Russian oil imports by year\u2019s end, an oil price cap could be good policy but hard politics. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Like other transit agencies, Metro has no plans to phase out physical forms of payment. \u2014 Gaya Gupta, Washington Post , 18 June 2022",
"But other leading climate experts, citing evidence of the oil industry\u2019s history of disinformation and scientists\u2019 dire calls to phase out fossil fuels, said institutions must cut these ties. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Investors dumped southern European government debt on Thursday and Friday after the ECB laid out plans to phase out its giant bond-buying program in July and conduct a series of interest-rate hikes to fight record-high inflation. \u2014 Tom Fairless, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland also plans to sign an order to phase out the sale of single-use plastic products in national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands by 2032. \u2014 Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News , 8 June 2022",
"When more than a hundred countries, initially meeting under the aegis of the United Nations, negotiated a treaty to phase out persistent organic pollutants, including pesticides, their final treaty created an exception for DDT. \u2014 Scott W. Stern, The New Republic , 31 May 2022"
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"\u2014 Tara Roberts"
]
},
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"That song has a phat beat.",
"fans agree that the rapper's latest CD is totally phat",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The brown Docs, with their phat -with-aph soles and telltale yellow AirWair tag at the ankle, were comparatively attainable. \u2014 Michelle Ruiz, Vogue , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Mother\u2019s Grille offers an extensive menu featuring food made from scratch, and specializing in phat crab cakes, juicy steaks, fresh fish, 15 flavors of wings, 20 types of burgers, and Pop Pop\u2019s Ice Cream, made in-house with love! \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 28 June 2021",
"His surf ranch, to be constructed near Jupiter Farms, will consist of a 2,000-foot-long artificial lake that will generate phat tubes perfectly suited for shacking. \u2014 Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com , 27 Oct. 2017",
"Tune in Monday when Judd drops more phat rhymes from the world of puzzlecore. \u2014 Garth Sundem, WIRED , 5 Feb. 2012"
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"1963, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Tourneur said, adding that the exemptions will only delay and reduce the scope of the country's plastic phaseout . \u2014 Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Under a deal signed May 20 by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the phaseout period was extended by nearly 4 years to the end of 2026 to give Levin additional time to shift its operations from coal and petcoke to other bulk commodities. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 June 2022",
"Germany previously wanted to wait until the end of the year for a full embargo, but is now talking about a phaseout over a few months. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 2 May 2022",
"Softening from Germany, which wants an oil phaseout rather than a full an immediate ban, was seen by E.U. diplomats as making a deal more likely, but far from guaranteed. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"As part of the earlier phaseout plan, German lawmakers passed legislation setting aside more than \u20ac40 billion ($45.2 billion) over the next two decades to help areas that will lose jobs and income as coal dries up. \u2014 Sara Schonhardt, Scientific American , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Over the three-year phaseout , the West Memphis track has gone from 110 races per week to about 54. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 23 May 2022",
"Over the weekend, officials and diplomats in Brussels discussed the idea of a phaseout by the end of 2022, but Hungary and Slovakia pushed back, according to the diplomats and the official. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 May 2022",
"The phaseout is more gradual than the immediate embargo some countries had been pushing for. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
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"Across the world, India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 4 July 2022",
"India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. \u2014 Aniruddha Ghosal, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
"For Europe, which is bracing for a financial hit from the decision to phase out most Russian oil imports by year\u2019s end, an oil price cap could be good policy but hard politics. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Like other transit agencies, Metro has no plans to phase out physical forms of payment. \u2014 Gaya Gupta, Washington Post , 18 June 2022",
"But other leading climate experts, citing evidence of the oil industry\u2019s history of disinformation and scientists\u2019 dire calls to phase out fossil fuels, said institutions must cut these ties. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"Investors dumped southern European government debt on Thursday and Friday after the ECB laid out plans to phase out its giant bond-buying program in July and conduct a series of interest-rate hikes to fight record-high inflation. \u2014 Tom Fairless, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland also plans to sign an order to phase out the sale of single-use plastic products in national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands by 2032. \u2014 Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News , 8 June 2022",
"When more than a hundred countries, initially meeting under the aegis of the United Nations, negotiated a treaty to phase out persistent organic pollutants, including pesticides, their final treaty created an exception for DDT. \u2014 Scott W. Stern, The New Republic , 31 May 2022"
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"Stories from that phase of his life flow more freely than the details of his five holes-in-one, which tend to run together. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 July 2022",
"Phase two of voting will begin Tuesday at noon and will run through July 8, with fans only allowed to vote once per day and votes from phase one not carrying over. \u2014 Francisco Rosa, Sun Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"Conversely, those with the healthiest balance sheets are most likely to survive and will emerge stronger once this current phase is over, the report said. \u2014 Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"The d\u00e9brouillez-vous phase of the pandemic will be as patchwork as those that preceded it. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"The first phase of the $27 million park \u2014 the beach \u2014 should be open by 2023. \u2014 John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022",
"But Kagan said Moscow is also relying on those tactics because Russian forces have been gutted by casualties and disenchantment from the first phase of the war and have shown an inability to fight successfully otherwise. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022",
"But Kagan said Moscow is also relying on those tactics because Russian forces have been gutted by casualties and disenchantment from the first phase of the war and have shown an inability to fight successfully otherwise. \u2014 Paul Sonne, Washington Post , 4 June 2022",
"In those decisions, the justices allowed federal courts to hear ineffective-counsel claims from the trial phase even if the defendant\u2019s state appeals lawyer (also ineffectively) failed to preserve that claim on appeal. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 24 May 2022",
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"After discussions with Clark, Petersen says the decision to phase the veteran executive into running all of Flexport, and not just some teams, was his own decision. \u2014 Alex Konrad, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The price didn\u2019t phase him because of a special detail: The cartoon, part of collection of cat images called CryptoKitties, is a non-fungible token, or NFT. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"However, as his task force told him, the federal government offered to phase in the program, covering 100 percent of the cost for the first two years, and 95 percent for the two years after that. \u2014 al , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, the council voted along party lines to phase in the revaluation: 75 percent of the increase will be used in calculating this year\u2019s bills, and the other 25 percent will be added next year. \u2014 Don Stacom, Hartford Courant , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Coca-Cola will work with bottling partners to eventually phase the design into production lines across Europe, a company spokesman said. \u2014 Katie Deighton, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"Taxes will phase in at 50 percent in five years, and then 100 percent after another five years. \u2014 Don Stacom, Hartford Courant , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But the Energy Department will phase in enforcement over time. \u2014 Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Apr. 2022",
"If adopted in 2022, the new requirements generally would phase in over the next two to three years. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 3 Apr. 2022"
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"However, the returns for some of the large pharmaceutical companies were lower than that of the broader markets, with the S&P 500 index rising 54% over the same period. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"International pharmaceutical companies that made misoprostol were hit with boycotts and stopped producing it; a small domestic company took over manufacturing a generic version of the drug to sell only to the Ministry of Health for hospital use. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"The HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute receives funding from several pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead, Merck, and ViiV, which have or may have PrEP products now and in the future. \u2014 Carl Schmid, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"That provision requires pharmaceutical companies to sell their products to Section 340B hospitals at below-market rates. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 20 June 2022",
"But her family haven\u2019t made one penny and the pharmaceutical companies made billions. \u2014 Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"The Food and Drug Administration\u2019s vaccine advisers gave a thumbs-up Wednesday to vaccines from both pharmaceutical companies for children under 5, or roughly 18 million youngsters, arguing the benefits of the shots outweigh any risks. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"The measure directs staff to consider liability claims against firearm businesses, similar to lawsuits filed against pharmaceutical companies that produced and marketed addictive opioids. \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"To be clear, Phreesia\u2019s ad business also leads to better outcomes for pharmaceutical companies. \u2014 Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Until then, pharmaceutical companies will continue to overprice drugs that underachieve. \u2014 Robert Pearl, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Monkeypox was not invented by Bill Gates or pharmaceutical companies. \u2014 Dr. Celine Gounder, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
"In addition, pharmaceutical companies donated 18 billion tablets to prevent and treat those diseases. \u2014 Ignatius Ssuuna, ajc , 24 June 2022",
"If the data are poor, the stock could fall to $175, potentially making Biogen an attractive acquisition target for a larger pharmaceutical company, Mr. Yee said. \u2014 Joseph Walker, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
"Incorporating SaMDs can benefit stakeholders across healthcare, including patients, medical providers, payers and pharmaceutical companies, by simplifying disease management and getting patients on the right treatment faster. \u2014 Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Since then, ketamine\u2019s antidepressant potential has captivated researchers, pharmaceutical companies and patients alike. \u2014 Raleigh Mcelvery, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Indeed, pharmaceutical companies are now abandoning psychiatry. \u2014 Richard J. Mcnally, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"Those claims should be sprinkled with a few grains of salt, but more than twenty-six million people have taken genetic ancestry tests since 2012, incidentally creating a database of huge value to pharmaceutical companies and law enforcement. \u2014 Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022"
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"If nothing is passed by the time the Senate goes into recess in August, investors will start feeling more comfortable upping their pharma and biotech bets in anticipation of a poor showing for Democrats in the fall. \u2014 David Wainer, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Citizens of rich countries are the primary market for pharmaceutical companies, and covid-19 vaccines helped big pharma improve its reputation. \u2014 Annalisa Merelli, Quartz , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Rosiglitazone has already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is sold under the name Avandia by U.K. pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline. \u2014 Jonathan Wosen, STAT , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Dopesick takes a look at America's opioid crisis through the lens of addicts and big pharma . \u2014 Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com , 27 Feb. 2022",
"As the pandemic began last year, Soriot, 61, was the hottest CEO in big pharma . \u2014 Nathan Vardi, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2021",
"However, a couple years later, the whole venture got shut down by that large pharma acquirer. \u2014 Diana Tsai, Forbes , 29 Oct. 2021",
"The company was sold to Japanese pharma company Astellas in 2016 for $1.4 billion. \u2014 Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Regeneron is collaborating with Swiss pharma Roche to increase its global supply and increase access outside the U.S., the company said in a statement welcoming the news. \u2014 Robert Hart, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021"
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"Partly to keep peace with the military establishment and win its support for a phasedown of troops after the surge, Obama largely accepted the recommendation to send tens of thousands of troops to Afghanistan. \u2014 David Axelrod, CNN , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Once fully implemented, scientists have said such an HFC phasedown would avoid 0.5 degrees Celsius of warming. \u2014 Abby Smith, Washington Examiner , 3 May 2021",
"Over the next 15 years, the HFC phasedown would reduce 900 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, more than the total annual emissions of Germany, Rhodium says. \u2014 Abby Smith, Washington Examiner , 22 Dec. 2020",
"Wetstone, like many other clean energy advocates, is calling on Congress to temporarily allow clean energy companies to redeem tax credits as cash payments and to put off the phasedown of renewable energy tax credits. \u2014 Abby Smith, Washington Examiner , 16 June 2020",
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"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
"After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries reached an agreement to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase down fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022"
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"Martinez-Morales attacked and bit the officer in the right arm in the incident that happened shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday at the pharmacy on Ridge Road near Snow Road, police said. \u2014 Kaylee Remington, cleveland , 10 June 2022",
"At the pharmacy , I was quoted a price of $371 for one vial of insulin, which normally lasts me about three weeks, and that amount was after my health insurance had been factored in. \u2014 Alina Bills, STAT , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Once at the pharmacy , the pharmacist may call the provider to go over the patient's risk factors and the safety of the prescription, including the potential for drug-to-drug interactions, Yang said. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The White House is also incentivizing insurers to work with retailers and offer the tests for free up-front for people who show their insurance cards, similar to how prescriptions might be covered at the pharmacy . \u2014 Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Or, insurers can have a consumer pay for a test at the pharmacy and then seek reimbursement by submitting a claim to the insurer. \u2014 al , 13 Jan. 2022",
"The bill would have empowered Medicare to negotiate prices of certain costly medications administered in doctors' offices or purchased at the pharmacy . \u2014 Tami Luhby And Katie Lobosco, CNN , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Officers arrived at the pharmacy and found a van backed through the front glass doors. \u2014 Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Police reportedly took an hour to arrive at the pharmacy . \u2014 Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News , 3 Nov. 2021"
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"German pharmakosiderit , from pharmako- pharmaco- + siderit siderite":""
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"noun"
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"Latin pharmacopola seller of drugs (from Greek pharmakop\u014dl\u0113s , from pharmako- pharmaco- + -pol\u0113s seller, from p\u014dlein to sell) + English -ist":""
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"a phalanx of lawyers"
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"British usually \u02c8fa-",
"\u02c8f\u0101-\u02ccla\u014b(k)s",
"\u02c8f\u0101-\u02ccla\u014b(k)s, British usually \u02c8fal-\u02cca\u014b(k)s"
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"examples":[
"A solid phalanx of armed guards stood in front of the castle.",
"She had to go through a phalanx of television cameras.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Nevertheless, a phalanx of uniformed bikers confronted Gill outside the cemetery gates. \u2014 Paul Farhi, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"The 61st Monte-Carlo Television Festival opened Friday with a phalanx of stars and TV industry execs walking the blue carpet for the event, attended by Prince Albert II of Monaco and his wife Princess Charlene. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 18 June 2022",
"And a phalanx of volunteers is combing the internet for photos and videos of potential war crimes and preserving the posts in case they are later deleted. \u2014 Ian Lovett, WSJ , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, a phalanx of F.B.I. agents took them into custody. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Today\u2019s phalanx of measures builds on a weaker set of sanctions put in place when Russia seized the Crimea in 2014. \u2014 Milton Ezrati, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The striking visual of armored trucks, officers perched on rooftops, and a phalanx of police in riot gear moving into the encampments galvanized a righteous indignation in many corners of Canadian politics. \u2014 Nate Hochman, National Review , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Spacey then walked through a phalanx of photographers and camera crews lined up all the way from the court entrance to a waiting car, which whisked the actor away. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"When the time comes to go small, the team can do that, too, using that phalanx of rangy forwards and either Zion or Rudy at the five. \u2014 Mark Deeks, Forbes , 1 June 2022"
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"Latin phalang-, phalanx , from Greek, battle line, digital bone, literally, log \u2014 more at balk entry 2":""
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": to introduce in stages":[
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"The project will be done in three phases .",
"He's in the final phase of treatment now.",
"The building project marks a new phase in the town's development.",
"He has been throwing tantrums a lot, but the doctor says it's just a phase .",
"a calendar based on the phases of the moon",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Stories from that phase of his life flow more freely than the details of his five holes-in-one, which tend to run together. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 July 2022",
"Phase two of voting will begin Tuesday at noon and will run through July 8, with fans only allowed to vote once per day and votes from phase one not carrying over. \u2014 Francisco Rosa, Sun Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"Conversely, those with the healthiest balance sheets are most likely to survive and will emerge stronger once this current phase is over, the report said. \u2014 Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"The d\u00e9brouillez-vous phase of the pandemic will be as patchwork as those that preceded it. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"The first phase of the $27 million park \u2014 the beach \u2014 should be open by 2023. \u2014 John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star , 27 June 2022",
"But Kagan said Moscow is also relying on those tactics because Russian forces have been gutted by casualties and disenchantment from the first phase of the war and have shown an inability to fight successfully otherwise. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022",
"But Kagan said Moscow is also relying on those tactics because Russian forces have been gutted by casualties and disenchantment from the first phase of the war and have shown an inability to fight successfully otherwise. \u2014 Paul Sonne, Washington Post , 4 June 2022",
"In those decisions, the justices allowed federal courts to hear ineffective-counsel claims from the trial phase even if the defendant\u2019s state appeals lawyer (also ineffectively) failed to preserve that claim on appeal. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"After discussions with Clark, Petersen says the decision to phase the veteran executive into running all of Flexport, and not just some teams, was his own decision. \u2014 Alex Konrad, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The price didn\u2019t phase him because of a special detail: The cartoon, part of collection of cat images called CryptoKitties, is a non-fungible token, or NFT. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"However, as his task force told him, the federal government offered to phase in the program, covering 100 percent of the cost for the first two years, and 95 percent for the two years after that. \u2014 al , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, the council voted along party lines to phase in the revaluation: 75 percent of the increase will be used in calculating this year\u2019s bills, and the other 25 percent will be added next year. \u2014 Don Stacom, Hartford Courant , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Coca-Cola will work with bottling partners to eventually phase the design into production lines across Europe, a company spokesman said. \u2014 Katie Deighton, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"Taxes will phase in at 50 percent in five years, and then 100 percent after another five years. \u2014 Don Stacom, Hartford Courant , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But the Energy Department will phase in enforcement over time. \u2014 Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Apr. 2022",
"If adopted in 2022, the new requirements generally would phase in over the next two to three years. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 3 Apr. 2022"
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"New Latin phasis , from Greek, appearance of a star, phase of the moon, from phainein to show (middle voice, to appear) \u2014 more at fancy":"Noun"
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"French phalanst\u00e8re dwelling of a Fourierist community, from Latin phalang-, phalanx + French -st\u00e8re (as in monast\u00e8re monastery)":""
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": a genus of American herbs (family Hydrophyllaceae) with usually pinnatifid or dissected leaves and blue, purple, or white flowers in scorpioid cymes \u2014 see california bluebell":[],
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"New Latin, from Greek phakelos bundle, faggot + New Latin -ia":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a person often already condemned to death sacrificed in ancient Greece as a means of purification or atonement for a city or community":[]
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"\u02c8f\u00e4rm\u0259\u02cck\u00e4s"
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"Greek, probably irregular from pharmakon medicine, charm + -ikos -ic":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052844"
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"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
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"phaco lith",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek phak-, phako- , from phakos lentil, object shaped like a lentil, mole, wart":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a genus of herbs (family Leguminosae) which are widely distributed throughout warm regions, which include most of the true American beans, and whose flowers are in axillary racemes or panicles with the corolla having a spirally twisted keel \u2014 see bean sense 1b , lima bean , mung bean , sieva bean":[]
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"f\u0259\u02c8s\u0113\u0259l\u0259s"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, diminutive of phaselus , a bean, from Greek phas\u0113los":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-062449"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a microscope that translates differences in phase of the light transmitted through or reflected by the object into differences of intensity in the image":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1947, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063532"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a crystalline globulin found especially in the kidney bean":[]
},
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"f\u0259\u02c8s\u0113\u0259l\u0259\u0307n"
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"New Latin Phaseolus + International Scientific Vocabulary -in":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071448"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0259\u00a6ri\u014b(\u02cc)g\u014d+",
"\""
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from pharyng- + -branchii (from Latin branchia gill)":"Adjective"
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071722"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a device for measuring the difference in phase of two alternating currents or electromotive forces":[]
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"phase + -meter":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-101113"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a genus of American and European grasses with broad leaves and a dense head or spike of flowers \u2014 see canary grass sense 1 , ribbon grass":[]
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"\u02c8fal\u0259r\u0259\u0307s"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, canary-grass, from phalaros having a white spot; akin to Greek phalios having a white spot":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105646"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a genus of Pleistocene Australian diprotodont marsupials related to the wombats and as large as tapirs":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"fa\u02c8sk\u00e4l\u0259n\u0259s"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek phask\u014dlos + onos ass":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-132211"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having no phases":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8f\u0101zl\u0259\u0307s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-141126"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a genus ( Phalaropus ) of small shorebirds related to sandpipers but distinguished by their lobed toes and preference for swimming":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fa-l\u0259-\u02ccr\u014dp"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Reports included a very late Wilson\u2019s phalarope at Belle Isle in East Boston, 13 purple finches at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, and a clay-colored sparrow at Franklin Park. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 Nov. 2021",
"Two Atlantic puffins were seen on Stellwagen Bank, along with a red phalarope , 2 Cory\u2019s shearwaters, a great shearwater, and a Manx shearwater. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Oct. 2021",
"In the area, there was a red phalarope reported from Whately and a Connecticut warbler in Northfield. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Sep. 2021",
"Around the region, 140 Wilson\u2019s storm-petrels were seen off Winthrop, a Wilson\u2019s phalarope at Belle Isle in East Boston, two least bitterns at Great Meadows Refuge in Concord, and five grasshopper sparrows in Shirley. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 7 Aug. 2021",
"Swans and 17 species of duck frequent Gillmor, which also provides nesting habitat for various shorebirds, such as the snowy plover, American avocet, Wilson\u2019s phalarope , black-necked stilt, cinnamon teal and gadwall. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 Dec. 2020",
"Offshore: Small flocks of red-necked phalaropes , parasitic and pomarine jaegers, roseate terns, and larger groups of storm-petrels and shearwaters numbering into the hundreds were seen from Jeffrey\u2019s Ledge. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Aug. 2019",
"An out-of-place, out-of-season red phalarope was found at Harding\u2019s Beach in Chatham. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2018",
"At Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, there was one Wilson\u2019s phalarope , two razorbills, one snowy owl, and one hooded warbler. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2018"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from New Latin phalaropod-, phalaropus , from Greek phalaris coot + pod-, pous foot; akin to Greek phalios having a white spot \u2014 more at bald , foot":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1771, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-141851"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Phasianellidae) of marine rhipidoglossate snails having intricately patterned porcelaneous shells":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccf\u0101z\u0113\u0259\u02c8nel\u0259",
"-\u0101s\u0113-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin phasianus pheasant + -ella":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-155912"
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"phase line":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a line (as a terrain feature extending across the zone of action) used to control and coordinate a military advance or withdrawal":[
"the regimental commander may prescribe any phase lines",
"\u2014 Infantry Journal",
"reach a phase line one mile inland by 1600 hours",
"\u2014 Irwin Shaw",
"\u2014 abbreviation PL"
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},
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182030"
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"phase advancer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a synchronous or asynchronous machine for supplying leading reactive volt amperes to the system to which it is connected":[]
"Later, the pharmacopoeia expanded to include large and complex proteins\u2014from insulin to monoclonal antibodies. \u2014 Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker , 15 July 2019"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Late Greek pharmakopoiia preparation of drugs, from Greek pharmako- + poiein to make \u2014 more at poet":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1618, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212415"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of small shorebirds that resemble sandpipers but have lobate toes and are good swimmers, breed in the arctic, winter in the tropics, and often occur in large flocks far out at sea, and are distinguished by having the female perform the courtship and the dully colored male the incubation":[]
"New Latin, from Phalaropod-, Phalaropus type genus, from phalaropus phalarope":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224856"
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"Pharyngobdellida":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an order or other division of Hirudinea sometimes regarded as a subdivision of Gnathobdellida and comprising leeches lacking both proboscis and jaws":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8del\u0259d\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from pharyng- + bdell- + -ida":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230229"
},
"Phariseeism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": pharisaism":[]
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"pharisee + -ism":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002636"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the genus Phasianus":[]
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Phasianus + English -ic":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005356"
},
"phalera":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fal\u0259r\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek phalara , plural; akin to Greek phalos horn of a helmet and probably to Sanskrit hvarate he bends, hru\u1e47\u0101ti he gets lost":""
"New Latin pharisaismus , from Greek pharisaios":""
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1573, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-063158"
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"phase velocity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the velocity of a wave motion as determined by the product of the wavelength and frequency":[
"\u2014 compare group velocity , particle velocity"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-094915"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a symbol or representation of the penis":[],
": penis":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fa-l\u0259s",
"\u02c8fal-\u0259s"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ninety-seven percent of all bird species have no phallus . \u2014 Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Tara's Lia F\u00e1il, a phallus -like standing stone, has a potent history, explains Lehane. \u2014 CNN , 17 Mar. 2022",
"There was, however, an even more elemental form of digital graffiti\u2014a bright-red cartoon phallus , right in the middle of the square. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
"His magic flute in Mozart\u2019s opera of that name was a three-foot phallus . \u2014 New York Times , 9 Feb. 2022",
"As the crew batters and flattens their junk, or covers it in bees, this literal destruction of the phallus could also be a symbolic one. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The phallus is the signified order in our language. \u2014 Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
"The logo has already been compared to a pretzel, a Pringle chip, a thigh master, IBM\u2019s design thinking loop, Microsoft Visual Studio\u2019s old avatar, and inevitably, a phallus . \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Millett\u2019s coruscating commentary had revealed how all those self-actualizing Lawrentian women\u2014the schoolmistresses, artists, and suffragists\u2014inevitably yield to the bullying power of the phallus in the end. \u2014 Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books , 10 Oct. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek phallos penis, representation of the penis; probably akin to Latin flare to blow \u2014 more at blow":""
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1613, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-095117"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a monotypic genus of passerine birds of Mexico and southwestern U.S. of which the male is uniform glossy blue-black with a white spot on each primary and the female is brownish":[],
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"\u02ccf\u012bn-"
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"\u02c8f\u00e4-"
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": having the secondary wound \u2014 compare squirrel cage":[]
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"Middle English pharise , from Old English farise , from Late Latin pharisaeus , from Greek pharisaios , from Aramaic p\u0115r\u012bshayy\u0101 , plural of p\u0115r\u012bsh\u0101 , literally, separated":""
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"\u02c8fag-\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bt",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Metchnikoff didn\u2019t immediately assume that these phagocytes are specialized for disease fighting and pathogen removal alone. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 11 Feb. 2020"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek phagein + New Latin -cyta -cyte":""
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"\u02c8fa-g\u0259-s\u0259-\u02cct\u014ds",
"-\u02cct\u014dz",
"-s\u012b-",
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"back-formation from phagocytosis":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-142634"
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": a rock having grains that are large enough to be seen with the unaided eye":[]
": marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness":[]
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"\u02ccfer-\u0259-\u02c8s\u0101-\u0259-k\u0259l",
"\u02ccfa-r\u0259-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"David and Samuel explore the U.S. energy sector and evaluate what the future holds in an ESG landscape that has done its very best to bring economic incoherence to its pharisaical agenda. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Yet Marlin makes clear that excommunication was never a real threat but rather one that Cuomo shrewdly used to turn himself into a victim of pharisaical bishops. \u2014 Vincent J. Cannato, National Review , 7 Nov. 2020"
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": a genus of Asiatic orchids that are locally naturalized in tropical America and are sometimes cultivated for their large plicate leaves and showy racemose flowers":[]
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": a family of small freshwater and brackish-water fishes of southeastern Asia and the Philippines that are of very uncertain systematic position and are sometimes isolated in a suborder of Percomorphi and regarded as related to the Atherinidae or are made a separate order and held to have affinities chiefly with the Microcyprini":[]
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"New Latin, from Phallostethus , type genus (from phall- + Greek st\u0113thos breast) + -idae":""
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"noun"
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": one that phases":[]
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"\u02c8f\u0101z\u0259(r)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-171821"
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"noun"
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": sycamore sense 1":[]
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"\u02c8fa(a)|(\u02cc)r\u014d",
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"alteration of pharaoh's fig":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-175829"
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"definitions":{
": change of phase of an oscillation or a wave train":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-180008"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a medical condition in which a woman believes that she is pregnant and can appear to be pregnant when she is not pregnant":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-180229"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a genus of simple ascidians \u2014 see ascidia":[]
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"f\u0259\u02c8l(y)\u00fczh(\u0113)\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-182720"
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"adjective"
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": functioning or supposed to function as a phagocyte":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-200819"
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"noun"
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"If a child younger than 5 is receiving their COVID vaccine at a pharmacy, the child's parent may be required to show the pharmacist a prescription for the vaccine from the child's primary care provider. \u2014 Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"The evolution of this business is how to make the pharmacist transportable. \u2014 Danielle Abril, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"The patient would gather them all in preparation to talk with the pharmacist as the health worker sat with them. \u2014 Christina Polomoff, The Conversation , 24 May 2022",
"Quinn On, a pharmacist in Western Sydney\u2019s working-class suburbs, took on extra staff at his own cost to get more people vaccinated. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2022",
"Check out the Daufuskie Island Rum Company, owned by a former pharmacist whose knowledge of distilling is only surpassed by his delicious cocktails. \u2014 Rebecca Deurlein, Travel + Leisure , 13 May 2022",
"Many mail-order pharmacies also have a telephone line where beneficiaries can speak to a pharmacist . \u2014 David Haass, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"The council is a group of senior-level administrators that include two psychiatrists, a psychologist and a pharmacist , according to court records. \u2014 Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2022",
"On her screen will appear a doctor from Alabama, a nurse from Tennessee, a pharmacist from North Carolina, a hospice worker from Texas and two medical providers from Africa. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-204350"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-204810"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a transparent plate of doubly refracting material that changes the relative phase of the components of polarized light":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-211237"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a kaleidoscope into which small objects may be introduced to vary the design":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fant\u0259\u02ccsk\u014dp"
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"Greek phantos visible (from phainein to show) + English -scope":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-214430"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccniz\u0259m"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-221320"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase and which is used in starting a single-phase induction motor":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-224530"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
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"definitions":{
": a large family of gallinaceous birds including the Asiatic pheasants, domestic fowls, jungle fowls, argus pheasants, Old World partridges, often also the turkeys and guinea fowls, and sometimes the grouse \u2014 see coturnix":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8an\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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"New Latin Phasianus , type genus + -idae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-232026"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an ideal often multidimensional space of which the coordinate dimensions represent the variables required to specify the phase or state of a system or substance \u2014 see coordinate space":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-001405"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": one of the rows of filaments usually bearing nematocysts on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of some scyphozoan jellyfishes":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek phakellos , manuscript variant of phakelos bundle, faggot":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-004843"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
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": a family of fungi (order Phacidiales ) having a thin hypothecium and ascocarps that are embedded in the host tissue or in a stroma":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-010901"
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"type":[
"adjective",
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"definitions":{
": any of an order (Phasmatodea synonym Phasmida) of large cylindrical or sometimes flattened chiefly tropical insects (such as a walking stick) that have long legs, strictly phytophagous habits, and incomplete metamorphosis and that include forms resembling leaves or twigs":[]
},
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"\u02c8faz-m\u0259d",
"\u02c8fas-mid"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some lost species, including the phasmid , have subsequently been rediscovered on surrounding islets. \u2014 John Pickrell, Science | AAAS , 5 June 2019"
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"New Latin Phasmida , group name, from Phasma , type genus, from Greek, apparition, from phainein to show \u2014 more at fancy":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1864, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-011517"
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"type":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-012859"
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"pronounciation":[
"\"",
"\u00a6fal\u0259n\u00a6stir\u0113\u0259n"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a chitinized tube enclosing the penis of some mosquitoes and other insects":[]
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"pronounciation":[
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"phall- + -some":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-021035"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or characteristic of phanerite":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-030414"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a suborder of Virales comprising the bacteriophages":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0259\u02c8jin\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from phag- + -ineae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-034458"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
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"definitions":{
": a suborder of Orthoptera often considered a separate order, comprising large, cylindrical or sometimes flattened, chiefly tropical insects with long strong legs, strictly phytophagous habits, and very slight metamorphosis and including the stick insects and leaf insects":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccfazm\u0259\u02c8t\u014dd\u0113\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Phasmat-, Phasma + -odea":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-050217"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a genus of trogons consisting of the quetzal and related birds":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek pharos cloth, mantle, + makros long":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-051846"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a division of Polychaeta distinguished by the well-developed prostomium corresponding to Errantia together with many Sedentaria":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8sef\u0259l\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from phaner- + -cephala":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-051946"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
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": of or relating to the Pharisees":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccfa-r\u0259-",
"\u02ccfer-\u0259-\u02c8s\u0101-ik"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin pharisaicus , from Late Greek pharisaikos , from Greek pharisaios Pharisee":""
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1618, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-073335"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"pronounciation":[
"f\u0259\u02c8lanj\u0113\u0259m",
"f\u0101\u02c8-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek phalangion , a spider, from phalang-, phalanx phalanx":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-074759"
},
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"type":[
"plural noun"
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"definitions":{
": an order of fungi (subclass Euascomycetes) having the hymenium covered by a membrane until the ascospores mature following which the membrane breaks up into stellate or irregular fragments":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8\u0101(\u02cc)l\u0113z"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Phacidium genus of fungi + -ales":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"It\u2019s not just bacterial switches that appear to be phage inventions. \u2014 Ivan Erill, The Conversation , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Perhaps not surprisingly, bacterial and phage switches are evolutionarily related. \u2014 Ivan Erill, The Conversation , 19 Oct. 2021",
"In a new study by Garrett et al., a complete set of overlapping linear peptides on a phage display backbone was developed, which spanned the entire spike protein. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 13 May 2021",
"Schooley\u2019s major challenge has been securing a phage supply. \u2014 Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker , 14 Dec. 2020",
"This month, Bunevacz should finally be able to start his phage therapy. \u2014 Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker , 14 Dec. 2020",
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"The team discovered the retron normally keeps the toxin under wraps, but activates it in the presence of phage proteins. \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 11 Nov. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Running easily is like my phantom limb \u2014its ghost haunts me and itches in my brain. \u2014 Outside Online , 20 June 2022",
"Often what happens is the worst of both worlds: Their presence weirdly endures in the form of immense physical and emotional anguish, impossible to ignore, like a kind of phantom limb . \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The trouble is that Mainline Protestantism is more like a phantom limb than a budding branch. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 16 July 2021",
"This phantom limb creates a pleasurable uncertainty about where the building ends. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 20 Sep. 2021",
"So far, these patients have described the sensation of their phantom limb in various ways, said Carty. \u2014 Gideon Gil, STAT , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Around that same time, neurologist Vilayanur Ramachandran was exploring this kind of phenomenon with amputees who experience phantom limb pain. \u2014 Popular Science , 10 Nov. 2020",
"For cramping and other muscular pain in the phantom limb , Ramachandran\u2019s procedure is remarkably effective. \u2014 Popular Science , 10 Nov. 2020",
"The old life is reached for, again and again, like a phantom limb . \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 21 Apr. 2020"
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"Leading the experiment is Dr. Siobhan Malany, an associate professor of pharmacodynamics at the University of Florida\u2019s College of Pharmacy. \u2014 Caroline Glenn, orlandosentinel.com , 6 Dec. 2020"
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"Wojcicki said the company will train Lemonaid doctors in how to integrate genetic risk reports and pharmacogenetics into care. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Wojcicki said the company will train Lemonaid doctors in how to integrate genetic risk reports and pharmacogenetics into care. \u2014 Fortune , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Researchers of pharmacogenetics \u2014 the science that studies how genetic factors affect reactions to drugs \u2014 stress that medicine could produce different results based on race and genetic, socioeconomic and environmental dynamics. \u2014 NBC News , 17 June 2020"
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"During the trial, each side presented experts in anesthesiology and pharmacology who offered differing opinions on the effectiveness of midazolam in rendering an inmate unable to feel pain. \u2014 Sean Murphy, Anchorage Daily News , 6 June 2022",
"For Jones, this quest to change the media landscape started on the campus of the University of Georgia where the pharmacology -turned-journalism major felt the infectious energy of Barack Obama\u2019s presidential campaign in 2008. \u2014 Richard Fowler, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Uhl is a physician trained in family medicine and clinical pharmacology who served as the director of the FDA\u2019s Office of Women\u2019s Health from 2005 to 2010 and then as the director of the Office of Generic Drugs from 2013 to 2019. \u2014 Kathleen \u201ccook\u201d Uhl, STAT , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Scientists still know very little about the transmissibility of BA.2 compared to BA.1, said Jeremy Luban, a professor of molecular medicine, biochemistry & molecular pharmacology at UMass Medical School. \u2014 Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Their knowledge of pharmacology is exercised at the organ or systems level and embodies real-life expectations. \u2014 WSJ , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Rocha says her daughter was enrolled in pharmacology school and would have graduated in September. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 7 Mar. 2022",
"But here are five profiles from The Conversation\u2019s archive that highlight the brilliance, grit and unique perspectives of five women who worked in geosciences, math, ornithology, pharmacology and physics during the 20th century. \u2014 Maggie Villiger, The Conversation , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Police discovered an unmarked pill bottle in his vehicle, yet declined to do a pharmacology test. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 23 Feb. 2022"
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"Over time, Castle is betting AltheaDx can become a franchise for pharmacogenomics testing in mental health \u2014 offering medication guidance to clinicians beyond depression and anxiety. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The approach based on data analysis and prediction already finds use in oncology, pharmacogenomics and reproductive health. \u2014 Robert Krajewski, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Help clients understand what is happening in the market, where science is leading us and enable next-level personalization through approaches like pharmacogenomics , the study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs. \u2014 Richard Adams, Forbes , 6 May 2021"
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"The lab, Inotiv, offers testing for drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics , which refers to the movement of drugs within the body. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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": a monoclinic mineral CaH(AsO 4 ).2H 2 O that is a hydrous acid calcium arsenate occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color (hardness 2\u20132.5, specific gravity 2.64\u20132.73)":[]
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"definitions":{
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thanks to the acquisition of an artificial intelligence company in Cambridge, England, called Evi, Alexa was already proficient in the culturally common chitchat called phatic speech. \u2014 Brad Stone, Wired , 11 May 2021",
"Those greetings are but a few examples of phatic language from Early Modern English (1500 to 1699). \u2014 Bryan A. Garner, National Review , 10 June 2021",
"Then the rest of the interchange floods with phatic channel-management. \u2014 Ian Bogost, The Atlantic , 29 Mar. 2021"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-000352"
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"definitions":{
": a branch of pharmacology dealing with medicinal substances of biological origin and especially medicinal substances obtained from plants":[]
"International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek pharmakon + -gn\u014dsia knowledge, from gn\u014dsis \u2014 more at gnosis":""
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"The poem is filled with phallic imagery.",
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"The Vindolanda site now has 13 phallic carvings, more than have been discovered at any other dig site along Hadrian's Wall. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
"Before becoming the victim of phallic assault, the Russian target amassed his own Avengers of dildos. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 10 June 2022",
"This furthers one of the main themes that inspired her work with electric guitars \u2014 confronting the male dominance associated with the instrument, which is often perceived as a phallic object. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022",
"Packing underwear allows a person to wear a phallic object or padding to create the appearance of having a bulge at the front of their pants. \u2014 Laken Brooks, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"In the end, a velvet ring box opens to show a phallic -shaped diamond, because, of course, that\u2019s the best way in for a second chance. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Measuring just shy of 15 inches from tip to tail, the Subnado has a sleek, cylindrical body and a somewhat phallic silhouette. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Notably, none of the planet's female billionaires are currently trying to launch themselves into space in overtly phallic vessels. \u2014 Jeva Lange, The Week , 20 July 2021",
"Here, phallic forms grow like weeds, toppling over each other, handicapped by their abundance. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"noun"
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"borrowed from German Phanerogam, from the stem of New Latin Phanerogamae \"group of plants with visible reproductive organs that produce seeds,\" from Greek phaner\u00f3s \"visible, conspicuous\" (from phan-, base of pha\u00ednomai, pha\u00ednesthai \"to become visible, come to light, appear\" + -eros, adjective suffix) + New Latin -o- -o- + -gamae, noun derivative from feminine plural of -gamus -gamous \u2014 more at fantasy entry 1":""
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": a division of Amphibia comprising frogs and toads with tongues and being equivalent to Lingusta and Costata of other classifications":[]
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": any of various small to medium-sized marsupial mammals (family Phalangeridae and related families) of Australia and New Guinea that are chiefly arboreal and nocturnal and that include the possums (see possum sense 2 ) and cuscuses":[
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"New Latin, from Latin pharetra quiver, from Greek, from pherein to bear + -tra , suffix denoting instrument":""
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": a daughter of Minos who marries Theseus and falls in love with her stepson Hippolytus":[]
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"\"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-121314"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-122452"
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"New Latin, from Phallus type genus + -aceae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-123632"
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"adjective"
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": of or relating to a phalanx or the phalanges":[]
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"\u02ccf\u0101-l\u0259n-\u02c8j\u0113-\u0259l",
"\u02ccfa-",
"f\u0259-\u02c8lan-j\u0113-",
"\u02ccfal-\u0259n-; f\u0259-\u02c8lan-j\u0113-",
"f\u0101-"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Our two-year-old phalangeal prophecy was right: Balenciaga has released a toe shoe. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 16 Oct. 2020",
"But perhaps more importantly, the whirlwind, touchy-feely visit offered yet another glimpse into the Trump-Macron relationship, an unlikely friendship told through a series of phalangeal snapshots and freeze frames. \u2014 Ashley Parker, courant.com , 25 Apr. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-132307"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"\u2014 Thomas Carlyle"
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"\u02c8f\u0101s\u0259\u0307s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-142012"
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"definitions":{
": a vacuum tube used for frequency modulation of a signal and having a cathode, deflector electrodes, two anodes, and an external inductor":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8f\u0101z\u0259\u2027\u02cctr\u00e4n"
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"phase entry 1 + -i- + -tron":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-142839"
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"type":[
"adjective or noun"
],
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": pharyngeal":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, pharyng-, pharynx + English -al":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-144330"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": appearing synchronously with a particular phase of development":[
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"\u2014 compare chronogeneous":[
"a phasogeneous engram and its ecphoria"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6f\u0101z\u014d\u00a6j\u0113ny\u0259s",
"-n\u0113\u0259s"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"phaso- + chrono geneous":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-145632"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a small genus of chiefly Andean bulbous herbs (family Amaryllidaceae) with tall hollow scapes bearing umbels of showy drooping usually red or rose green-marked flowers \u2014 see queen lily":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccf\u0113dr\u0259\u02c8nas\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek phaidros bright + anassa queen":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-151712"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of fossil fishes (family Osteoglossidae) widely distributed in Eocene formations":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0259\u02c8r\u0113\u0259d\u0259s"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, probably from Greek phare-, pharos cloth, mantle + New Latin -odus":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-153236"
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"biographical name"
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"definitions":{
"circa 15 b.c. \u2013 circa a.d. 50 Roman fabulist":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8f\u0113-dr\u0259s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-154038"
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"type":[
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],
"definitions":{
": a vector (as one representing an alternating current or voltage) whose vectorial angle represents a phase or phase difference":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8f\u0101z\u0259(r) also -\u02ccz\u022f(\u0259)r or -\u022f(\u0259)"
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"phase entry 1 + vect or":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-154952"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a circle of trichites that reinforces and stiffens the gullet of various predaceous ciliates":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-155635"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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"afternoons I walk to the phare",
"\u2014 Archibald MacLeish",
"a lightship, or some phare",
"\u2014 William Beebe"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fe|",
"\u02c8fa(a)|(\u0259)r",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Latin pharus , from Greek pharos":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-155835"
},
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"type":[
"combining form"
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"phase entry 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-161110"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": relating to, resulting from, or advocating masculine power and dominance":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccfa-l\u0259-\u02c8kra-tik",
"-(\u02cc)l\u014d-"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1975, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-162622"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": phalanx sense 2":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0101-\u02c8lanj",
"\u02c8f\u0101-\u02cclanj",
"f\u0259-\u02c8lanj"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The boxcar in front of him might have a phalange that's worn down, so much that the wheels are catching. \u2014 Jenna Ross, Star Tribune , 23 Mar. 2021",
"During the dead of winter, your mitts can crack and hurt, but some sources of phalange anguish happen year-round, like dishwashing with harsh detergents and frequent temperature variation. \u2014 Popular Science , 18 June 2020",
"The putative digit bones in Panderichthys are irregular in shape, and none of them show articulation with other bones in the standard way digit bones, or phalanges , do in the human hand. \u2014 John A. Long, Scientific American , 20 May 2020",
"Multiple healed scars of the face, chin and volar surface distal phalanges of the fingers of both hands. \u2014 Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star , 2 Aug. 2019",
"Jenner wore two glimmering toe rings around the phalanges on her right foot and one on her left foot\u2019s middle digit. \u2014 Vogue , 14 June 2019",
"That little fresh meat has an excellent set of phalanges . \u2014 Cady Drell, Marie Claire , 19 Apr. 2019",
"As in, stripping down those phalanges and letting them be their naked selves. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 6 Apr. 2019",
"The bones that made the difference seemed to be the bones of the hand and wrist ( phalanges , metacarpals, and carpals), the lower arm (radius and ulna), ankles (tarsals), and parts of the leg (femur and fibula, but oddly not the tibia). \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2018"
],
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"French, from Greek phalang-, phalanx":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1688, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-164753"
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"Phalangeridae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of marsupial mammals (suborder Diprotodontia) consisting of the phalangers, the flying phalangers, the koala, and related forms":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccfal\u0259n\u02c8jer\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Phalanger , type genus + -idae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-173124"
},
"phaeism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": incomplete melanism in a butterfly":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8f\u0113\u02cciz\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek phaios dusky, gray + English -ism ; akin to Greek phaidros bright, Lithuanian giedras bright, clear, Latvian g\u00e0iss air, weather":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-173135"
},
"phallocentric":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": centered on or emphasizing the masculine viewpoint":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccfa-l\u0259-\u02c8sen-trik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hefner\u2019s phallocentric embrace of hedonism and consumerism were once at the cutting edge of both the media and entertainment industry, but look wildly out of place today. \u2014 Alan Murray, Fortune , 29 Sep. 2017",
"In a season when movie theaters traditionally turn into playgrounds overrun by testosterone and phallocentric humor \u2014 even more so than usual, that is \u2014 the summer of 2017 is decidedly and refreshingly she-focused. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, The Denver Post , 16 May 2017",
"This gothily phallocentric boy-band ethos is part of why mid-aughts emo still seems, to many, like a joke. \u2014 Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker , 11 Jan. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1927, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-180917"
},
"phaeoplast":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one of the brownish chromatophores occurring in the brown algae \u2014 compare rhodoplast":[]
": any of a genus ( Phalaenopsis ) of ornamental epiphytic orchids of southeastern Asia and Australia having fleshy leaves and large showy flowers with broad lateral petals":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccfa-l\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4p-s\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many phalaenopsis orchids are gifted in containers without adequate drainage. \u2014 Tom Maccubbin, orlandosentinel.com , 1 Jan. 2022",
"The tables were adorned with white lisianthuses, ranunculus, phalaenopsis orchids, roses, and greenery, all placed on runners. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Brighten up a meditation corner in someone\u2019s home with a phalaenopsis orchid from Just Add Ice. \u2014 Joni Sweet, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Your favorite nursery may have a good selection of holiday plants such as Christmas cactus, phalaenopsis orchids, paperwhite, cyclamen and amaryllis on sale now that the Christmas rush is over. \u2014 Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com , 2 Jan. 2020",
"More for your money: Once the phalaenopsis is done blooming, trim its stems back, put it outside (in warm climates) out of direct sun, or stick them in a tree, and look forward to another round of blossoms. \u2014 Contributing Writer, NOLA.com , 10 Apr. 2018",
"So to think of the orchid world just in terms of phalaenopsis is akin to regarding the avian world solely in terms of ducks. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman , 21 Feb. 2018",
"Superficially the plant resembles Phalaenopsis gigantea, the largest Phalaenopsis species (native to Borneo). \u2014 Tom Mirenda, Smithsonian , 17 Apr. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek phalaina moth + -opsis":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1846, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-184235"
},
"phasm":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an extraordinary appearance (as of light) : meteor":[],
": apparition , phantom":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8faz\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek phasmat-, phasma , from phainein to show":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-185731"
},
"Phasma":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the type genus of Phasmatidae":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fazm\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Phasmat-, Phasma from Greek, apparition":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-192328"
},
"phaen-":{
"type":[],
"definitions":{
"\u2014 see phen-":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-195013"
},
"phalaenopsid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an orchid of the genus Phalaenopsis":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccsid",
"\u02ccfal\u0259\u02c8n\u00e4ps\u0259\u0307d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Phalaenopsis":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-195442"
},
"phalange":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": phalanx sense 2":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0101-\u02c8lanj",
"\u02c8f\u0101-\u02cclanj",
"f\u0259-\u02c8lanj"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The boxcar in front of him might have a phalange that's worn down, so much that the wheels are catching. \u2014 Jenna Ross, Star Tribune , 23 Mar. 2021",
"During the dead of winter, your mitts can crack and hurt, but some sources of phalange anguish happen year-round, like dishwashing with harsh detergents and frequent temperature variation. \u2014 Popular Science , 18 June 2020",
"The putative digit bones in Panderichthys are irregular in shape, and none of them show articulation with other bones in the standard way digit bones, or phalanges , do in the human hand. \u2014 John A. Long, Scientific American , 20 May 2020",
"Multiple healed scars of the face, chin and volar surface distal phalanges of the fingers of both hands. \u2014 Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star , 2 Aug. 2019",
"Jenner wore two glimmering toe rings around the phalanges on her right foot and one on her left foot\u2019s middle digit. \u2014 Vogue , 14 June 2019",
"That little fresh meat has an excellent set of phalanges . \u2014 Cady Drell, Marie Claire , 19 Apr. 2019",
"As in, stripping down those phalanges and letting them be their naked selves. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 6 Apr. 2019",
"The bones that made the difference seemed to be the bones of the hand and wrist ( phalanges , metacarpals, and carpals), the lower arm (radius and ulna), ankles (tarsals), and parts of the leg (femur and fibula, but oddly not the tibia). \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Greek phalang-, phalanx":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1688, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-200124"
},
"phasmatid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": phasmid entry 2":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fazm\u0259t\u0259\u0307d",
"-m\u0259t\u0259\u0307d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Phasmatida":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-200652"
},
"pharyngitis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": inflammation of the pharynx":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccfar-\u0259n-\u02c8j\u012bt-\u0259s",
"\u02ccfer-\u0259n-\u02c8j\u012b-t\u0259s",
"\u02ccfa-r\u0259n-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Having viral or bacterial pharyngitis or the Epstein-Barr virus may also increase a person\u2019s risk. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 6 Nov. 2018",
"About 35 percent of retail visits for children are for pharyngitis \u2014 sore throats. \u2014 Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times , 12 Apr. 2016"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin, from pharyng-, pharynx pharynx + -itis -itis":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1826, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-201011"
},
"phallobase":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the proximal part of the phallic organ":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fal\u0259\u02ccb\u0101s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phall- + base":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-202543"
},
"phagodynamometer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an instrument for measuring the force that may be exerted by the jaws in bringing the teeth together (as in chewing)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phag- + dynamometer":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-205003"
},
"Phaeophyta":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a division or other category of algae that have the chlorophyll masked by brown pigments, are mostly marine, diverse in form, often of gigantic size, and anchored by holdfasts to the substrate, and are usually divided among the classes Isogeneratae, Heterogeneratae, and Cyclosporeae \u2014 see brown alga":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0113\u02c8\u00e4f\u0259t\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from phaeo- + -phyta":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-205151"
},
"phalangian":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun"
],
"definitions":{
": phalangid":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0259\u02c8lanj(\u0113)\u0259n",
"f\u0101\u02c8-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Phalangium + English -an":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-210016"
},
"phaeo-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": dun-colored":[
"phaeo derm",
"Phaeo phyceae",
"\u2014 often in names of compounds related to chlorophyll pheo phytin"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek phaio- , from phaios dusky, gray":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-223516"
},
"Phaeophyceae":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adjective or noun",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a class comprising the brown algae and being coextensive with the division Phaeophyta":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-fis-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from phaeo- + -phyceae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-224343"
},
"phalangid":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the Phalangida":[],
": an arachnid of the order Phalangida":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-j\u0259\u0307d",
"\"",
"-\u02ccjid"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Phalangida":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-231729"
},
"Phalangida":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a cosmopolitan order of Arachnida comprising the harvestmen":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-j\u0259d\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Phalangium + -ida":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-233954"
},
"phalangidan":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": phalangid entry 1":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-j\u0259d\u0259n",
"-d\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phalangidan from New Latin Phalangida + English -an; phalangidean from New Latin Phalangidea + English -an":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-235905"
},
"phaeochrous":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": dusky":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0113\u02c8\u00e4kr\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phaeo- + -chrous , irregular from Greek -chroos, -chrous -colored":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-000623"
},
"phaneroglossa":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adjective or noun",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a division of Amphibia comprising frogs and toads with tongues and being equivalent to Lingusta and Costata of other classifications":[]
