dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/sor_MW.json

{
  "Sorbonist":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a graduate of or student at the Sorbonne":[],
      ": a member of the faculty of theology or a theological student at the University of Paris":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French sorboniste , from Sorbonne , a house for impoverished theological students at the University of Paris, now the site of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris (after Robert de Sorbon \u20201274 French theologian, its founder) + -iste -ist":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085724",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorbent":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a substance that sorbs":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The water-intensive sorbent will need 10 tons of water to produce 1 ton of carbon dioxide. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The fans need electricity, of course, but the bulk of the power goes to heating up the carbon to liberate it from the sorbent . \u2014 Vince Beiser, Wired , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "Another direct air capture system, employing a solid sorbent , uses somewhat less energy, but companies have struggled to scale it up beyond pilots. \u2014 June Sekera, The Conversation , 23 Nov. 2021",
      "With the help of helicopters guiding response vessels, crews are using current busters, oil skimmers and barrier, and sorbent boom to collect the oil. \u2014 Camille Furst And Alaa Elassar, CNN , 1 Aug. 2021",
      "However, the main weakness of sorbent booms is that they can only be used once. \u2014 Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics , 6 Mar. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1856, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin sorbent-, sorbens , present participle of sorb\u0113re to suck up \u2014 more at absorb":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-b\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105951",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorbet":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a usually fruit-flavored ice served as a dessert or between courses as a palate refresher":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Motocross motifs, suits adorned with toolbox embellishments, an exaggerated surrealist speaker, tulle skirts, bags designed in the shape of toy cars, refrigerator letter magnets, and a sorbet color palette. \u2014 Essence , 2 June 2022",
      "This funky fruity balm is sorbet in texture and melts into an oil once in contact with the skin, leaving behind a tropical scent. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
      "Nose of almonds and honeysuckle with lemon sorbet flavors along the rich, textural body. \u2014 Cathrine Todd, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
      "Or at least that\u2019s the memo coming from the spring 2022 runways, which featured ranging hues of orange, from soft sorbet colours to in-your-face neon shades. \u2014 refinery29.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "One item, intended to be a post-meal palate cleanser, straddles the line between food and drink: the Scorppino ($14), a traditional Italian creation that\u2019s essentially a boozy, drinkable glass of lemon sorbet . \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 May 2022",
      "Lenny Kravitz, in leather and lace, Paloma Elsesser in a white Coach number, and Evan Mock in ice cream tones and a white neck ruff by Head of State, like a sorbet Little Lord Fauntleroy, came close. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
      "For dessert, the chef served a Valencia lemon sorbet with raw boba-bean praline. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 3 May 2022",
      "In 2011, the company opened a 35,000-square-foot factory with a warehouse that can hold 36 million scoops of ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet and sorbet . \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 9 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1864, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from Middle French, sweetened fruit juice, from Old Italian sorbetto , from Turkish \u015ferbet \u2014 more at sherbet":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "also \u02c8s\u022fr-b\u0259t",
      "s\u022fr-\u02c8b\u0101"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105309",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorbic acid":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a crystalline acid C 6 H 8 O 2 obtained from the unripe fruits of the mountain ash or synthesized and used especially as a fungicide and food preservative":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1815, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "sorb fruit of the service or related trees, from French sorbe , from Latin sorbum":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-bik-",
      "\u02ccs\u022fr-bik-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222710",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorbite":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": tempered martensite having a granular appearance under the microscope":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Henry C. Sorby \u20201908 English geologist + English -ite":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr\u02ccb\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005920",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorbitol":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a faintly sweet alcohol C 6 H 14 O 6 that occurs in some fruits, is made synthetically, and is used especially as a humectant and softener and in making ascorbic acid":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This also explains why there\u2019s a warning label on sugarless chewing gum made with sorbitol . \u2014 Rachel Boller, chicagotribune.com , 18 Apr. 2021",
      "Support healthy digestion: The fiber content of prunes may be to thank for their laxative effect, but scientists point to the combination of fiber, phenolic compounds and sorbitol within prunes that are likely what does the trick. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping , 18 Feb. 2021",
      "Anything containing honey, agave, or sorbitol should be eliminated from your routine for the first few phases of the diet. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 26 Jan. 2020",
      "The sugar alcohols include sorbitol , xylitol, lactitol, mannitol, erythritol, and maltitol. \u2014 Jamie Pitlick, Quartzy , 3 July 2019",
      "Unlike the originals, these compact tins use sorbitol in place of sugar and come in a more pocket-friendly size. \u2014 Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 7 Dec. 2018",
      "Skip apples, dried fruit and mangoes and opt instead for fruits lower in fructose or sorbitol , like blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, kiwi, banana, cantaloupe, pineapple and oranges. \u2014 SELF , 30 Nov. 2018",
      "Nature\u2019s Way Activated Charcoal Capsules, $6.59 per 100 count on Amazon.com, contain no sorbitol . \u2014 Erin Levi, Good Housekeeping , 25 Mar. 2017",
      "Researchers assigned 1,009 people with sore throats to one of three groups: no chewing gum, xylitol gum, or sorbitol gum without xylitol. \u2014 Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times , 21 Dec. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1895, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "sorb fruit of the service or related trees + -itol":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02cct\u014dl",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-b\u0259-\u02cct\u022fl"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001316",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorboside":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a glycoside that yields sorbose on hydrolysis":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "sorbose + -ide":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u208bs\u0259\u0307d also -\u02ccz\u012bd or -\u208bz\u0259\u0307d",
      "-b\u0259\u02ccs\u012bd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161909",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorbus":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of trees and shrubs (family Rosaceae) distinguished from Pyrus and Malus by the pinnate leaves, three styles, and carpels that are not cartilaginous \u2014 see mountain ash":[],
      ": any tree of the genus Sorbus":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin, service tree":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022frb\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032939",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorcerer":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person who practices sorcery : wizard":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a sorcerer who used his power for evil ends",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Elalyth, a djinn, became trapped by an evil sorcerer in a supernatural stone. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 22 June 2022",
      "Roddick went on to lose in the Wimbledon final in 2004, \u201805, and \u201809, each time to Roger Federer, the sublime master sorcerer , and the last of those ousters stands as the most recent appearance by an American male in a Slam title match. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
      "But what proved most impressive was his intensity of that stasis, the feeling that this music was sourced by a sorcerer . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
      "Charles Dance will appear as Roderick Mason, the sorcerer who captures Dream. \u2014 Philip Ellis And Milan Polk, Men's Health , 7 June 2022",
      "Willow is set 20 after the 1988 movie, which was directed by Ron Howard and starred Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood, an apprentice Nelwyn sorcerer of the original film. \u2014 Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022",
      "At Ollivanders Wand Shop, visitors could spend thirty dollars on a wand, after a bit of retail theatre guided by a sorcerer in a purple coat. \u2014 Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
      "That\u2019s not exactly a surprising stance from a sorcerer who already has a grudge against Doctor Strange. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The sorcerer continues to reign supreme in North America\u2019s multiplexes of madness. \u2014 J. Kim Murphy, Variety , 14 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-s\u0259-r\u0259r",
      "\u02c8s\u022frs-r\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "charmer",
      "conjurer",
      "conjuror",
      "enchanter",
      "mage",
      "Magian",
      "magician",
      "magus",
      "necromancer",
      "voodoo",
      "voodooist",
      "witch",
      "wizard"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001306",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorceress":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a woman who is a sorcerer":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "asked the sorceress to cast an evil spell over the village",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Now, with the latest episode out, those fans can rest easy \u2014 taking on the role of a soothsaying sorceress to deliver a hilarious commencement speech, Raja finally won her first star. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 13 June 2022",
      "All At Once actor dressed as Jaina Proudmoore, a sorceress from the World of Warcraft franchise. \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 31 May 2022",
      "Neither reason nor moral suasion can deter Wanda from her dastardly mission; thus Strange, his longtime ally Wong (Benedict Wong), Christine, and America herself have no choice but to challenge the all-powerful sorceress in cataclysmic combat. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022",
      "Unafraid to speak his truth, Gallatin\u2019s loyalty to his people ultimately leads him on a collision course with the elven sorceress Francesca (Mecia Simson) over power. \u2014 Jordan Moreau, Variety , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Did her stylist expertly manage to make the ends of her bangs essentially melt into her length, or is Hathaway pals with a benevolent sorceress who added inches to the previously lash-skimming fringe",
      "The supreme sorceress of intertwining acoustic and electric guitars into dragon-slayer rock. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "British explorer and historian Tim Severin identified Paxos as the Homeric island where Odysseus was bewitched by Circe, the sorceress who turned his sailors into swine and took Odysseus as her lover. \u2014 Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure , 27 Dec. 2021",
      "Early in the film, Dane expresses an interest in magic, referencing Doctor Strange and hoping Sersi is some kind of a sorceress . \u2014 Richard Newby, Vulture , 7 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-s\u0259-r\u0259s",
      "\u02c8s\u022frs-r\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "enchantress",
      "hag",
      "hex",
      "witch"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200544",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorcery":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": magic sense 2a":[],
      ": the use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits especially for divining : necromancy":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "in olden times people suspected of sorcery were often put to death",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Mini-series based on sword-and- sorcery characters such as Puritan evil vanquisher Solomon Kane, red-haired mercenary Dark Agnes, and Atlantean adventurer Kull the Conqueror are due to follow. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
      "When the costs of the middlemen are eliminated and crypto\u2019s software sorcery works as intended, returns from DeFi loans can dwarf what\u2019s available in the traditional financial world. \u2014 Michael P. Regan, Bloomberg.com , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "It\u2019s one of the most beloved ballets in the classical canon, filled with romance, sorcery , transformation, and sacrifice, not to mention lush, virtuosic choreography for corps and principals alike. \u2014 Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
      "Given the opportunity, Alan will add levity and sorcery to your life. \u2014 Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "For Port and his team, the biggest challenge was combining Strange's trippy sorcery with Spidey's more tactile, almost gymnastic-like style. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "While tabletop RPGs are best known for their sword and sorcery tales, there are some great examples of other genres on the market. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "Sri Lanka\u2019s president demoted the country\u2019s health minister, who advocated for sorcery as a treatment for COVID-19. \u2014 John R. Macarthur, Harpers Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "By the documentary\u2019s partly convincing logic, Dio\u2019s sword-and- sorcery inclinations really were the ultimate exemplar of some kind of cred. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 23 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sorcerie , from Anglo-French, from sorcer sorcerer, from Medieval Latin sortiarius , from Latin sort-, sors chance, lot \u2014 more at series":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022frs-r\u0113",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-s\u0259-r\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bewitchery",
      "bewitchment",
      "conjuring",
      "devilry",
      "deviltry",
      "diablerie",
      "enchantment",
      "ensorcellment",
      "magic",
      "mojo",
      "necromancy",
      "thaumaturgy",
      "voodooism",
      "witchcraft",
      "witchery",
      "wizardry"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032230",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sordid":{
    "antonyms":[
      "clean",
      "cleanly",
      "immaculate",
      "spick-and-span",
      "spic-and-span",
      "spotless",
      "stainless",
      "ultraclean",
      "unsoiled",
      "unstained",
      "unsullied"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": dirty , filthy":[],
      ": marked by baseness or grossness : vile":[
        "sordid motives"
      ],
      ": meanly avaricious : covetous":[],
      ": of a dull or muddy color":[],
      ": wretched , squalid":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "And Vermes's story is also in part an international thriller, especially with the high-level goings-on around the Scrolls. The full sordid tale of spite, scholarly selfishness, and undisguised anti-Semitism, which kept access to the Dead Sea texts restricted for decades to a tiny cartel, unwinds in his pages. \u2014 Paula Fredriksen , New Republic , 15 Oct. 2001",
      "Another reporter working to verify the book's charges ended up unmasking author James Hatfield's sordid past, revealing how little the publisher knew about its author \u2026 \u2014 Jennifer Greenstein , Brill's Content , February 2000",
      "In fact, audiences now have become so blas\u00e9 about accounts of celebrities' sordid personal lives that some stars are turning potential publicity nightmares into confessional coups. \u2014 Stephen Rebello , Vibe , May 1999",
      "He shared the sordid details of his past.",
      "he managed to rise above the sordid streets upon which he grew up",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In this podcast, NBC reporters Mike Hixenbaugh and Antonia Hylton take listeners through the sordid four-year history of a local story that has national implications for us all. \u2014 Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022",
      "These women are the true heroes in this sordid story. \u2014 cleveland , 13 June 2022",
      "These women are the true heroes in this sordid story. \u2014 Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
      "Juan Carlos Pinz\u00f3n described how Russia \u2013 a country with a long and sordid history of negative involvement in Latin America \u2013 continues to use its influence through nefarious ways on the continent. \u2014 Ben Evansky, Fox News , 5 May 2022",
      "In the long and sordid history of baseball\u2019s labor disputes, no one had ever brought in a ghost negotiator, much less knew what one was. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "But the investigation finds more insidious roots that hint at a larger conspiracy, one that involves the sprawling Lafferty family's embrace of fundamentalist principles and the sordid practices related to them. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "The disturbing subtext in our time is that light is shed daily on new, sordid tales of this variety. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "But The Dropout is a refreshingly clear recounting of the sordid tale, with season two tackling the trial. \u2014 Simon Hill, Wired , 20 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin sordidus , from sordes dirt \u2014 more at swart":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-d\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sordid mean , ignoble , abject , sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity. mean suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity. mean and petty satire ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit. an ignoble scramble after material possessions abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility. abject poverty sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness. a sordid story of murder and revenge",
    "synonyms":[
      "bedraggled",
      "befouled",
      "begrimed",
      "bemired",
      "besmirched",
      "black",
      "blackened",
      "cruddy",
      "dingy",
      "dirty",
      "draggled",
      "dusty",
      "filthy",
      "foul",
      "grimy",
      "grotty",
      "grubby",
      "grungy",
      "mucky",
      "muddy",
      "nasty",
      "smudged",
      "smutty",
      "soiled",
      "stained",
      "sullied",
      "unclean",
      "uncleanly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104756",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sore":{
    "antonyms":[
      "achingly",
      "almighty",
      "archly",
      "awful",
      "awfully",
      "badly",
      "beastly",
      "blisteringly",
      "bone",
      "colossally",
      "corking",
      "cracking",
      "damn",
      "damned",
      "dang",
      "deadly",
      "desperately",
      "eminently",
      "enormously",
      "especially",
      "ever",
      "exceedingly",
      "exceeding",
      "extra",
      "extremely",
      "fabulously",
      "fantastically",
      "far",
      "fiercely",
      "filthy",
      "frightfully",
      "full",
      "greatly",
      "heavily",
      "highly",
      "hugely",
      "immensely",
      "incredibly",
      "intensely",
      "jolly",
      "majorly",
      "mightily",
      "mighty",
      "monstrous",
      "mortally",
      "most",
      "much",
      "particularly",
      "passing",
      "rattling",
      "real",
      "really",
      "right",
      "roaring",
      "roaringly",
      "seriously",
      "severely",
      "so",
      "sorely",
      "spanking",
      "specially",
      "stinking",
      "such",
      "super",
      "supremely",
      "surpassingly",
      "terribly",
      "that",
      "thumping",
      "too",
      "unco",
      "uncommonly",
      "vastly",
      "very",
      "vitally",
      "way",
      "whacking",
      "wicked",
      "wildly"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a source of pain or vexation : affliction":[],
      ": angry , irked":[
        "a sore loser"
      ],
      ": attended by difficulties, hardship, or exertion":[],
      ": causing emotional pain or distress":[
        "a sore subject"
      ],
      ": physically tender (as from overuse or injury) : feeling or affected by pain : achy":[
        "sore muscles",
        "limped on a sore leg",
        "felt sore all over"
      ],
      ": sorely":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "a dog limping on a sore leg",
      "The patient has a sore throat .",
      "That's a sore subject to bring up.",
      "The discussion touched on a sore spot.",
      "My neighbor is sore at me.",
      "Are you still sore about what happened last night",
      "Noun",
      "He has a sore on his lip.",
      "Adverb",
      "I was sore afraid we'd never make it home.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Star outfielder Luis Robert is feeling the impact of sore legs. \u2014 Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
      "But the one-day classics specialist and former cyclo-cross world champion is nursing a sore kneecap. \u2014 Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
      "But the one-day classics specialist and former cyclo-cross world champion is nursing a sore kneecap. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
      "Francona, who jokingly complained of a sore neck from Naylor\u2019s headbutt while talking to reporters, praised the 25 year old for changing his approach once Cotton (2-2, 3.66) got to two strikes in the count. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
      "On the ride up, Brent Carr, 31, of Hammond, rubbed his sore calves while his friends continued to slather themselves in glitter. \u2014 Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
      "Naomi Osaka has dropped to No. 42 after skipping several tournaments to tend to her mental health and after being hampered by a sore Achilles tendon. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
      "Even the smallest nook can turn into a functioning work station\u2014without being an eye sore . \u2014 Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 June 2022",
      "This mask offers the gift of a glowing, healthy appearance with a deep cleanse and treatment of sore spots. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The team tested their sensors on skin taken from pigs, a standard prototype tissue for studying open injuries, which had been scored with small incisions to simulate a sore . \u2014 Max G. Levy, Wired , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "The incident left Anderson with a bleeding hand, a sore , reddened back, and a broken fingernail, according to police. \u2014 Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "The 14th-century saint Catherine of Siena is famous for drinking the pus of a woman\u2019s open sore in an act of holy self-abasement. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Dec. 2021",
      "In 1777, George Washington ordered troops who had not already had the disease to undergo a version of inoculation in which pus from a smallpox sore was introduced into an open cut. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "This sore developed an infection, which spread into her hip bone. \u2014 Laken Brooks, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
      "Because Figueroa had to use a wheelchair that didn\u2019t support her torso and hips, her pressure sore became worse. \u2014 Laken Brooks, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
      "In its first stage, the only evidence of infection is a painless sore at the bacteria\u2019s point of entry. \u2014 Talia Herman, ProPublica , 1 Nov. 2021",
      "The sore became infected and the infection eventually reached her hip bone, requiring emergency surgery to remove the infected bone and tissue. \u2014 Malaika Jabali, Essence , 9 Nov. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "The Sox lineup was no match for Chicago\u2019s Mark Leiter Jr., who came in when a sore lower back forced starter Alec Mills out after seven pitches, the last a one-out Devers double in the first. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
      "All because election workers were doing their job and a bunch of sore -losing chuckleheads didn\u2019t like the result. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "Indiana was also without starting guard Malcolm Brogdon (rest), rookies Chris Duarte ( sore left big toe) and Isaiah Jackson (headache), and second-year forward Jalen Smith (illness) against the Grizzlies. \u2014 James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Reserve forward Keita Bates-Diop missed his second game in a row with a sore lower back. \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Poeltl, who is enjoying the best season of his six-year career with per-game averages of 13.4 points, 9.2 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.8 blocks, returned to the court Monday after missing Saturday\u2019s game against the Heat with a sore lower back. \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "LeVert will likely slide into the starting backcourt alongside All-Star Darius Garland, who has been slowed by a sore lower back lately. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 Feb. 2022",
      "The Pistons, who will be without second-year starters Isaiah Stewart (suspension) and Killian Hayes ( sore left thumb), have gone 3-9 against Eastern Conference teams. \u2014 Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press , 23 Nov. 2021",
      "Trouble in Mind is a sore -hearted farce, a realistic portrait of acting while Black, and (potentially) a crisp backstage comedy. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 19 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sor , from Old English s\u0101r ; akin to Old High German s\u0113r sore and probably to Old Irish saeth distress":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u014d(\u0259)r, \u02c8s\u022f(\u0259)r",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "aching",
      "achy",
      "afflictive",
      "hurting",
      "nasty",
      "painful"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102355",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorely":{
    "antonyms":[
      "blissfully",
      "gladly",
      "happily",
      "joyfully",
      "joyously"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in a sore manner : painfully":[],
      ": very , extremely":[
        "sorely needed changes"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "You will be sorely missed.",
      "She provided some sorely needed help.",
      "The house is sorely in need of paint.",
      "He is sorely lacking in social skills.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The supplies were sorely needed: Michelle Ryan, the executive director of the Coconino Humane Association, said that as of Tuesday afternoon the shelter had more than 530 animals between their two locations. \u2014 Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic , 14 June 2022",
      "The United States plans to use $3.5 billion of frozen Afghanistan central bank assets to pay judgment debts to the families of 9/11 victims \u2014 money the Afghan people say belongs to them and is sorely needed. \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 5 June 2022",
      "They are sorely needed to bring power generated at solar and wind farms in rural locations across state lines to energy-thirsty cities. \u2014 Evan Halper, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s the kind of creative partnership that representatives of the state and nonprofit say is sorely needed to both invigorate local economies and support sustained, landscape-scale forest restoration activities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 May 2022",
      "The hilarity of Black women on television has been sorely missed and ignored by the Television Academy over multiple decades. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 16 May 2022",
      "Treinen is sorely missed, especially while the Dodgers are in the midst of playing 31 games in 30 days. \u2014 Steve Hensonassistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
      "Gaga\u2019s old Hollywood tribute to her musical collaborator Tony Bennett soared due to her unquestionably flawless vocal abilities, but Bennett\u2019s presence was sorely missed. \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "Both are integral to the Cavs\u2019 trademark big lineups this season, and have been sorely missed in the tight race for playoff seeding. \u2014 Ashley Bastock, cleveland , 4 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "agonizingly",
      "bitterly",
      "dolefully",
      "dolorously",
      "grievously",
      "hard",
      "hardly",
      "inconsolably",
      "lugubriously",
      "mournfully",
      "painfully",
      "plaintively",
      "regretfully",
      "resentfully",
      "ruefully",
      "sadly",
      "sorrowfully",
      "unhappily",
      "wailfully",
      "woefully",
      "wretchedly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035744",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "sorghum":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": syrup from the juice of a sorgo that resembles cane syrup":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The loss of wheat from Ukraine, supply-chain delays and soaring inflation have led to sharp rises in the prices of cooking oil and staples like rice and sorghum . \u2014 Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
      "The loss of wheat from Ukraine, supply-chain delays and soaring inflation have led to sharp rises in the prices of cooking oil and staples like rice and sorghum . \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
      "In sub-Saharan African countries where wheat, corn and sorghum are a large part of the diet, inflation has almost entirely been driven by food prices, the IMF said. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
      "Sudan will face its first deficit of sorghum , the country's traditional staple grain, since the droughts that ravaged the region in the 1980s, UN agencies project. \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "Overnight fermentation lends a delicious tang to this Sudanese flatbread, balancing the mild, earthy flavor of sorghum flour with a tart bite. \u2014 Jen Rose Smith, CNN , 4 May 2022",
      "Senter is one of two direct appointees of the governor to represent growers of corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, sorghum , soybeans, turf or wheat. \u2014 Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Best Used For: Bread, muffins, pizza dough, and cookies. Gluten-Free Flour Gluten-free flour can be made from all sorts of ingredient bases, such as rice, corn, potato, tapioca, buckwheat, quinoa, sorghum , or nuts. \u2014 Carmen Collins, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "By the end of the 2021-2022 growing season, the US is forecasted to have an excess of 18 million metric tons of wheat, 37 million tons of corn, and 2.6 million tons of barley, oats, sorghum and rye combined, according to the USDA. \u2014 Dana Peterson For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 9 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Italian sorgo , from Vulgar Latin *Syricum ( granum ), literally, Syrian grain":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-g\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065843",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorrel tree":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": sourwood":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1687, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085513",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorrel vine":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a fleshy tropical American vine ( Cissus trifoliata ) with acid compound leaves":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103042",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorriness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "admirable",
      "commendable",
      "creditable",
      "laudable",
      "meritorious",
      "praiseworthy"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": feeling regret or penitence":[
        "He was sorry about what he had said.",
        "\"I wanted to apologize,\" she said, \"for my abominable rudeness in laughing at you just now. It was idiotic of me and I don't know why I did it. I'm sorry .\"",
        "\u2014 P. G. Wodehouse",
        "\"\u2026 I'm so sorry , but the tongs were too hot, and so I've made a mess,\" groaned poor Jo, regarding the little black pancakes with tears of regret.",
        "\u2014 Louisa May Alcott",
        "I am sorry we have ever differed, and extremely sorry I have ever given you offence.",
        "\u2014 Charles Dickens",
        "\u2014 used to express polite regret I'm sorry , but I think you're wrong. I'm sorry to interrupt you. \u2014 used to introduce disappointing or bad news in a polite way I'm sorry , but we won't be able to come. \u2014 used as an apology for a minor fault or offense Oh, sorry \u2014that was clumsy of me. I'm late again. Sorry about that . [=I'm sorry; I apologize]"
      ],
      ": feeling sorrow or sympathy":[
        "I'm so sorry for your loss.",
        "We were very sorry to hear the news.",
        "She felt sorry for him. [=she felt sympathy and concern for him because of his situation, problems, etc.]",
        "He told me to stop feeling sorry for myself . [=to stop indulging in self-pity]"
      ],
      ": inspiring sorrow, pity, scorn, or ridicule : pitiful":[
        "Their affairs were in a sorry state.",
        "Lawrence blushed, and then smiled awkwardly. A man in love is a sorry spectacle.",
        "\u2014 Agatha Christie",
        "In view of the sorry treatment of the Native Americans of the US, it is time that their voice was heard a little more clearly in contemporary American society.",
        "\u2014 Tim Flannery",
        "\u2026 had been on her way to work when her rusted-out, \u2026 sorry excuse for a car \u2026 choked on its last drop of gasoline, then died.",
        "\u2014 Ingrid Law"
      ],
      ": mournful , sad":[
        "Rilla remembered one moonlit evening of childhood when she had said to her mother, \"The moon just looks like a sorry , sorry face.\"",
        "\u2014 Lucy Maud Montgomery"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "I'm sorry if I offended you.",
      "She was sorry to hear about their divorce.",
      "I'm sorry for your loss.",
      "I'm sorry for saying that.",
      "I'm sorry that I wasted your time.",
      "What a sorry state of affairs we're in now.",
      "That's the sorriest excuse I've heard.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This bleak data has become a default narrative for the CMO position, with many of us in marketing and media serving to perpetuate it as the sorry state of affairs. \u2014 Seth Matlins, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "Um, those applications cost $20,000 and then companies, uh, that run the sports betting and kiosk that appear in certain businesses with liquor licenses, like bars, casinos are sorry , bars, restaurants, and bowling alleys can also apply. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 16 June 2022",
      "Even though Parker arrived at Tri-County Humane in sorry shape, the rescue refused to give up on the dog. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
      "Eventually, staff at a nearby McDonald\u2019s, apparently feeling sorry for us, took orders and brought them over. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
      "The move away from interventionism has drawn criticism from hawks who remain committed to strategies that forefront military action and American dominance around the world, despite that approach\u2019s sorry track record. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 13 June 2022",
      "That\u2019s nice for them, but in the words of an extremely important meme: Not reading all that, happy for you or sorry that happened. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 31 May 2022",
      "All that being said, Dixon is very clear on why people are upset and is sorry about it. \u2014 Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence , 18 May 2022",
      "If readers feel sorry for Theo and Jarret without really needing to believe in them as whole beings, what exactly do their portraits accomplish"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sory , from Old English s\u0101rig , from s\u0101r sore":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sorry contemptible , despicable , pitiable , sorry , scurvy mean arousing or deserving scorn. contemptible may imply any quality provoking scorn or a low standing in any scale of values. a contemptible liar despicable may imply utter worthlessness and usually suggests arousing an attitude of moral indignation. a despicable crime pitiable applies to what inspires mixed contempt and pity. a pitiable attempt at tragedy sorry may stress pitiable inadequacy or may suggest wretchedness or sordidness. this rattletrap is a sorry excuse for a car scurvy adds to despicable an implication of arousing disgust. a scurvy crew of hangers-on",
    "synonyms":[
      "cheap",
      "contemptible",
      "cruddy",
      "deplorable",
      "despicable",
      "dirty",
      "grubby",
      "lame",
      "lousy",
      "mean",
      "nasty",
      "paltry",
      "pitiable",
      "pitiful",
      "ratty",
      "scabby",
      "scummy",
      "scurvy",
      "sneaking",
      "wretched"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111420",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorrow":{
    "antonyms":[
      "agonize",
      "anguish",
      "bleed",
      "grieve",
      "hurt",
      "mourn",
      "suffer"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a cause of grief or sadness":[],
      ": a display of grief or sadness":[],
      ": deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved":[],
      ": resultant unhappy or unpleasant state":[
        "to their great sorrow they could not marry"
      ],
      ": to feel or express sorrow":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "I felt sorrow at the death of my friend.",
      "a life filled with joys and sorrows",
      "She had a secret sorrow .",
      "Verb",
      "a sorrowing mother, grieving over the death of her son",
      "the soldier's widow continued to sorrow long after her husband's last letter had turned yellow with age",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "More than 140 Barley Island customers left comments of sorrow at the closing on Facebook. \u2014 John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022",
      "And Garland, like a coroner performing an autopsy, surveys his specimen with clinical rigor, gallows humor and the faintest hint of sorrow . \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
      "It\u2019s in the hearts and minds of the millions of fans who turned to his words and melodies in times of trouble, in times of sorrow , and in times of self-doubt. \u2014 Corbin Reiff, SPIN , 18 May 2022",
      "The effect is just another cloud of sorrow trailing in the wake of Marilyn\u2019s complicated and troubled time on Earth. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "One was a scene of sorrow , the other hope in the city in western Ukraine, which hasn\u2019t seen as much war as other cities, but Lviv\u2019s residents have lived under the terror of missile strikes since the Russian invasion on Feb. 24. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "Hawkins' death has drawn an outpouring of sorrow on social media from fellow musicians and fans. \u2014 Jason Hanna, CNN , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "Koreatown is resilient, a survivor of fires and plagues, a place where joy is possible on the other side of sorrow . \u2014 Steph Cha, Travel + Leisure , 26 Feb. 2022",
      "The Lehman Trilogy has come to Broadway with the components of tragedy stuffed into its battered immigrant\u2019s suitcase: spectacle, grandeur, collapse, sorrow . \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 14 Oct. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "As the story of SoulShine's contribution made its way onto the news and social media, people expressed appreciation for Garem and the company's creative contributions \u2013and sorrow that the task was required. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
      "As Russia celebrated its most emotional holiday commemorating the Nazi defeat in World War II, Putin appeared in Red Square to invoke pride and sorrow over the Soviet role then and to cast Russia\u2019s battles in Ukraine now as such a just cause. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
      "The book is one of triumph and also sorrow , including the many Black actors and actresses who died young without ever finding the success their talents merited. \u2014 Kate Tuttle, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "And sorrow , as Marcus Arbery moved away from the line of charter buses and into the crowd of people standing where his youngest child had laid motionless and bleeding 20 months prior. \u2014 Asia Simone Burns, ajc , 25 Oct. 2021",
      "Wilkerson took a broad, undifferentiated view of addiction\u2014any vice, or even sorrow , constituted grounds for admission. \u2014 Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "Quickly, filmmakers, fans, and former employees took to Twitter to publicly mourn the loss, with reactions ranging from stand-alone expletives to sorrow to denial \u2014 and also some priceless remembrances. \u2014 Max Cea, Vulture , 15 Apr. 2021",
      "Combining formal audacity with emotional intimacy and sharp social observation, the picture attains a fullness of humorous, sorrowing life. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 30 Jan. 2020",
      "Playful and poignant in equal measure, Wheaton\u2019s compositions are profoundly moving, evoking both loss and resilience \u2014 the sorrowing look back, and the hopeful look forward. \u2014 Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com , 15 Nov. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sorow , from Old English sorg ; akin to Old High German sorga sorrow":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-\u014d",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-(\u02cc)\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sorrow Noun sorrow , grief , anguish , woe , regret mean distress of mind. sorrow implies a sense of loss or a sense of guilt and remorse. a family united in sorrow upon the patriarch's death grief implies poignant sorrow for an immediate cause. the inexpressible grief of the bereaved parents anguish suggests torturing grief or dread. the anguish felt by the parents of the kidnapped child woe is deep or inconsolable grief or misery. cries of woe echoed throughout the bombed city regret implies pain caused by deep disappointment, fruitless longing, or unavailing remorse. nagging regret for missed opportunities",
    "synonyms":[
      "affliction",
      "anguish",
      "dolefulness",
      "dolor",
      "grief",
      "heartache",
      "heartbreak",
      "sorriness",
      "woe"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035630",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "sorrowful":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": expressive of or inducing sorrow":[
        "sorrowful eyes"
      ],
      ": full of or marked by sorrow":[
        "a sorrowful goodbye"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "adopted a sorrowful tone of voice to read the news story about the former governor's death",
      "the cult seemed to be a sorrowful assemblage of emotionally scarred people seeking love and redemption",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "When society reopens, the capsule does too, and the grievers reemerge, still raging and sorrowful while everyone else has moved on. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Then there is his massive, sorrowful Great Dane, who now belongs to her. \u2014 The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
      "As men prepared to remove the off-white coffin, women sang a sorrowful hymn into the darkness. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
      "The slow-revealing and vividly sorrowful two-hander boasts superb acting against the backdrop of the alluringly barren American heartland. \u2014 Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
      "Although often sorrowful and sometimes sentimental, his music is always poetic and exceedingly beautiful. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
      "The nonprofit leader was at first outraged and then sorrowful . \u2014 John Byrne, Chicago Tribune , 4 May 2022",
      "Recordings of the cantor, and of an ecstatic congregation, lead the ascent through dance and prayer, the orchestra entering into its own jumpy or sorrowful klezmer-like riffs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
      "Between the brash-to-humble son and his angry-to- sorrowful father, the movie confesses masculinity\u2019s quintessential struggle. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 20 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-\u014d-f\u0259l",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-(\u02cc)\u014d-f\u0259l",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-",
      "-\u0259-f\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "aching",
      "agonized",
      "anguished",
      "bemoaning",
      "bewailing",
      "bitter",
      "deploring",
      "doleful",
      "dolesome",
      "dolorous",
      "funeral",
      "grieving",
      "heartbroken",
      "lamentable",
      "lugubrious",
      "mournful",
      "plaintive",
      "plangent",
      "regretful",
      "rueful",
      "sorry",
      "wailing",
      "weeping",
      "woeful"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162037",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorrowfully":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": expressive of or inducing sorrow":[
        "sorrowful eyes"
      ],
      ": full of or marked by sorrow":[
        "a sorrowful goodbye"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "adopted a sorrowful tone of voice to read the news story about the former governor's death",
      "the cult seemed to be a sorrowful assemblage of emotionally scarred people seeking love and redemption",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "When society reopens, the capsule does too, and the grievers reemerge, still raging and sorrowful while everyone else has moved on. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Then there is his massive, sorrowful Great Dane, who now belongs to her. \u2014 The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
      "As men prepared to remove the off-white coffin, women sang a sorrowful hymn into the darkness. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
      "The slow-revealing and vividly sorrowful two-hander boasts superb acting against the backdrop of the alluringly barren American heartland. \u2014 Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
      "Although often sorrowful and sometimes sentimental, his music is always poetic and exceedingly beautiful. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
      "The nonprofit leader was at first outraged and then sorrowful . \u2014 John Byrne, Chicago Tribune , 4 May 2022",
      "Recordings of the cantor, and of an ecstatic congregation, lead the ascent through dance and prayer, the orchestra entering into its own jumpy or sorrowful klezmer-like riffs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
      "Between the brash-to-humble son and his angry-to- sorrowful father, the movie confesses masculinity\u2019s quintessential struggle. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 20 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-\u014d-f\u0259l",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-(\u02cc)\u014d-f\u0259l",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-",
      "-\u0259-f\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "aching",
      "agonized",
      "anguished",
      "bemoaning",
      "bewailing",
      "bitter",
      "deploring",
      "doleful",
      "dolesome",
      "dolorous",
      "funeral",
      "grieving",
      "heartbroken",
      "lamentable",
      "lugubrious",
      "mournful",
      "plaintive",
      "plangent",
      "regretful",
      "rueful",
      "sorry",
      "wailing",
      "weeping",
      "woeful"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045557",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorrowfulness":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": expressive of or inducing sorrow":[
        "sorrowful eyes"
      ],
      ": full of or marked by sorrow":[
        "a sorrowful goodbye"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "adopted a sorrowful tone of voice to read the news story about the former governor's death",
      "the cult seemed to be a sorrowful assemblage of emotionally scarred people seeking love and redemption",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "When society reopens, the capsule does too, and the grievers reemerge, still raging and sorrowful while everyone else has moved on. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Then there is his massive, sorrowful Great Dane, who now belongs to her. \u2014 The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
      "As men prepared to remove the off-white coffin, women sang a sorrowful hymn into the darkness. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
      "The slow-revealing and vividly sorrowful two-hander boasts superb acting against the backdrop of the alluringly barren American heartland. \u2014 Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
      "Although often sorrowful and sometimes sentimental, his music is always poetic and exceedingly beautiful. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
      "The nonprofit leader was at first outraged and then sorrowful . \u2014 John Byrne, Chicago Tribune , 4 May 2022",
      "Recordings of the cantor, and of an ecstatic congregation, lead the ascent through dance and prayer, the orchestra entering into its own jumpy or sorrowful klezmer-like riffs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
      "Between the brash-to-humble son and his angry-to- sorrowful father, the movie confesses masculinity\u2019s quintessential struggle. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 20 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-\u014d-f\u0259l",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-(\u02cc)\u014d-f\u0259l",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-",
      "-\u0259-f\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "aching",
      "agonized",
      "anguished",
      "bemoaning",
      "bewailing",
      "bitter",
      "deploring",
      "doleful",
      "dolesome",
      "dolorous",
      "funeral",
      "grieving",
      "heartbroken",
      "lamentable",
      "lugubrious",
      "mournful",
      "plaintive",
      "plangent",
      "regretful",
      "rueful",
      "sorry",
      "wailing",
      "weeping",
      "woeful"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232201",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sorry":{
    "antonyms":[
      "admirable",
      "commendable",
      "creditable",
      "laudable",
      "meritorious",
      "praiseworthy"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": feeling regret or penitence":[
        "He was sorry about what he had said.",
        "\"I wanted to apologize,\" she said, \"for my abominable rudeness in laughing at you just now. It was idiotic of me and I don't know why I did it. I'm sorry .\"",
        "\u2014 P. G. Wodehouse",
        "\"\u2026 I'm so sorry , but the tongs were too hot, and so I've made a mess,\" groaned poor Jo, regarding the little black pancakes with tears of regret.",
        "\u2014 Louisa May Alcott",
        "I am sorry we have ever differed, and extremely sorry I have ever given you offence.",
        "\u2014 Charles Dickens",
        "\u2014 used to express polite regret I'm sorry , but I think you're wrong. I'm sorry to interrupt you. \u2014 used to introduce disappointing or bad news in a polite way I'm sorry , but we won't be able to come. \u2014 used as an apology for a minor fault or offense Oh, sorry \u2014that was clumsy of me. I'm late again. Sorry about that . [=I'm sorry; I apologize]"
      ],
      ": feeling sorrow or sympathy":[
        "I'm so sorry for your loss.",
        "We were very sorry to hear the news.",
        "She felt sorry for him. [=she felt sympathy and concern for him because of his situation, problems, etc.]",
        "He told me to stop feeling sorry for myself . [=to stop indulging in self-pity]"
      ],
      ": inspiring sorrow, pity, scorn, or ridicule : pitiful":[
        "Their affairs were in a sorry state.",
        "Lawrence blushed, and then smiled awkwardly. A man in love is a sorry spectacle.",
        "\u2014 Agatha Christie",
        "In view of the sorry treatment of the Native Americans of the US, it is time that their voice was heard a little more clearly in contemporary American society.",
        "\u2014 Tim Flannery",
        "\u2026 had been on her way to work when her rusted-out, \u2026 sorry excuse for a car \u2026 choked on its last drop of gasoline, then died.",
        "\u2014 Ingrid Law"
      ],
      ": mournful , sad":[
        "Rilla remembered one moonlit evening of childhood when she had said to her mother, \"The moon just looks like a sorry , sorry face.\"",
        "\u2014 Lucy Maud Montgomery"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "I'm sorry if I offended you.",
      "She was sorry to hear about their divorce.",
      "I'm sorry for your loss.",
      "I'm sorry for saying that.",
      "I'm sorry that I wasted your time.",
      "What a sorry state of affairs we're in now.",
      "That's the sorriest excuse I've heard.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This bleak data has become a default narrative for the CMO position, with many of us in marketing and media serving to perpetuate it as the sorry state of affairs. \u2014 Seth Matlins, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "Um, those applications cost $20,000 and then companies, uh, that run the sports betting and kiosk that appear in certain businesses with liquor licenses, like bars, casinos are sorry , bars, restaurants, and bowling alleys can also apply. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 16 June 2022",
      "Even though Parker arrived at Tri-County Humane in sorry shape, the rescue refused to give up on the dog. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
      "Eventually, staff at a nearby McDonald\u2019s, apparently feeling sorry for us, took orders and brought them over. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
      "The move away from interventionism has drawn criticism from hawks who remain committed to strategies that forefront military action and American dominance around the world, despite that approach\u2019s sorry track record. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 13 June 2022",
      "That\u2019s nice for them, but in the words of an extremely important meme: Not reading all that, happy for you or sorry that happened. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 31 May 2022",
      "All that being said, Dixon is very clear on why people are upset and is sorry about it. \u2014 Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence , 18 May 2022",
      "If readers feel sorry for Theo and Jarret without really needing to believe in them as whole beings, what exactly do their portraits accomplish"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sory , from Old English s\u0101rig , from s\u0101r sore":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sorry contemptible , despicable , pitiable , sorry , scurvy mean arousing or deserving scorn. contemptible may imply any quality provoking scorn or a low standing in any scale of values. a contemptible liar despicable may imply utter worthlessness and usually suggests arousing an attitude of moral indignation. a despicable crime pitiable applies to what inspires mixed contempt and pity. a pitiable attempt at tragedy sorry may stress pitiable inadequacy or may suggest wretchedness or sordidness. this rattletrap is a sorry excuse for a car scurvy adds to despicable an implication of arousing disgust. a scurvy crew of hangers-on",
    "synonyms":[
      "cheap",
      "contemptible",
      "cruddy",
      "deplorable",
      "despicable",
      "dirty",
      "grubby",
      "lame",
      "lousy",
      "mean",
      "nasty",
      "paltry",
      "pitiable",
      "pitiful",
      "ratty",
      "scabby",
      "scummy",
      "scurvy",
      "sneaking",
      "wretched"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112903",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sort":{
    "antonyms":[
      "associate",
      "chum",
      "company",
      "consociate",
      "consort",
      "fraternize",
      "hang (around ",
      "hobnob",
      "hook up",
      "mess around",
      "pal (around)",
      "run",
      "travel"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a character or piece of type that is not part of a regular font":[],
      ": a group set up on the basis of any characteristic in common : class , kind":[],
      ": a letter or character that is one element of a font":[],
      ": agree , harmonize":[
        "his benign view sorts badly with reality",
        "\u2014 Henry Trewhitt"
      ],
      ": an instance of sorting":[
        "a numeric sort of a data file"
      ],
      ": character , nature":[
        "people of an evil sort"
      ],
      ": grouchy , irritable":[],
      ": group , company":[],
      ": in a rough or haphazard way":[
        "plays the piano, after a sort"
      ],
      ": in some respects but not entirely or truly":[
        "a vacation of sorts"
      ],
      ": many different : all kinds of":[
        "knows all sorts of people"
      ],
      ": method or manner of acting : way , manner":[],
      ": one approximating the character or qualities of another":[
        "a sort of latter-day Abe Lincoln"
      ],
      ": person , individual":[
        "he's not a bad sort"
      ],
      ": search":[
        "sort through some old papers"
      ],
      ": somewhat ill":[],
      ": to arrange according to characteristics : classify":[
        "\u2014 usually used with out sort out colors"
      ],
      ": to examine in order to clarify":[
        "\u2014 used with out sorting out his problems"
      ],
      ": to free of confusion : clarify":[
        "\u2014 used with out waited until things sorted themselves out"
      ],
      ": to join or associate with others especially of the same kind":[
        "sort with thieves"
      ],
      ": to put in a certain place or rank according to kind, class, or nature":[
        "sort apples",
        "sort mail"
      ],
      ": to put to rights : put in order":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "What sort of car do you drive",
      "He's not a bad sort .",
      "She's not the sort to complain.",
      "The program did a numeric sort of the data.",
      "Verb",
      "She started to sort the mail.",
      "They sorted the winners from the losers.",
      "The program can sort data alphabetically or numerically.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Most of that increase is accounted for by students with prior college credentials of some sort as opposed to those who are first-time credential earners. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s going to be retail of some sort , and that money (taxes from retail) is going to go to the city and the schools, whereas churches don\u2019t pay taxes. \u2014 cleveland , 15 June 2022",
      "Crypto credit cards of some sort have been around for a long time in crypto, said Barhydt, but what makes this Amex-Abra tie-up of particular interest is the upscale clientele of the two companies. \u2014 Ian Allison, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
      "After that, there was a crisis of some sort every three days on average. \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
      "Over 750,000 people in the U.S. have end-stage renal disease of some sort and 500,000 are on dialysis, including 31,000 residents of New York. \u2014 Ike Brannon, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "Pilon has been charged by way of Information \u2014 a charging document that bypasses the federal grand jury process, and typically means the defendant is cooperating with authorities and working on a plea deal of some sort . \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "The churning chaotic flows of information need to be monitored by an umpire of some sort , with certain people, ideas, and acts ruled out of bounds. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Many transplants come from family members, friends, coworkers, or acquaintances of some sort . \u2014 Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The city\u2019s planning and zoning commission\u2019s public hearing Tuesday on the proposal for an adult-use shop at 89 Arch St., across from the convention center, was continued to June 28 to sort out who has zoning purview. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant , 15 June 2022",
      "After World War II, the U.S. military had to sort out the remains of nearly 300,000 war dead. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
      "Truthfully, the forces that are bound to pull and tear at this revival are impossible to sort out. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Some chatbots are too slow, or completely fail to sort out a problem. \u2014 David Prosser, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "The vote caps months of political turmoil and a constitutional crisis that required the Supreme Court to sort out. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "The vote caps months of political turmoil and a constitutional crisis that required the Supreme Court to sort out. \u2014 Kyle Morris, Fox News , 9 Apr. 2022",
      "On the big league side of things, manager Terry Francona and the front office still have to sort out Yu Chang, Owen Miller, Ernie Clement and Andres Gimenez in the infield. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 2 Apr. 2022",
      "In some instances, overpayments led to tax-deduction errors, leaving diplomats to sort out repayments and corrections. \u2014 Jessica Donati, WSJ , 15 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, fate, lot, characteristic, from Latin sort-, sors lot, share, category \u2014 more at series":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022frt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sort Noun type , kind , sort , nature , description , character mean a number of individuals thought of as a group because of a common quality or qualities. type may suggest strong and clearly marked similarity throughout the items included so that each is typical of the group. one of three basic body types kind may suggest natural grouping. a zoo seemingly having animals of every kind sort often suggests some disparagement. the sort of newspaper dealing in sensational stories nature may imply inherent, essential resemblance rather than obvious or superficial likenesses. two problems of a similar nature description implies a group marked by agreement in all details belonging to a type as described or defined. not all acts of that description are actually illegal character implies a group marked by distinctive likenesses peculiar to the type. research on the subject so far has been of an elementary character",
    "synonyms":[
      "breed",
      "class",
      "description",
      "feather",
      "genre",
      "ilk",
      "kidney",
      "kind",
      "like",
      "manner",
      "nature",
      "order",
      "species",
      "strain",
      "stripe",
      "type",
      "variety"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081937",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "sort (through)":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to look at things and put them in a particular order especially while searching for something":[
        "He sorted through the papers."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184621",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ]
  },
  "sort of":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to a moderate degree : somewhat":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "you've been acting sort of funny all week"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1790, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "enough",
      "fairly",
      "kind of",
      "kindly",
      "like",
      "moderately",
      "more or less",
      "pretty",
      "quite",
      "rather",
      "relatively",
      "something",
      "somewhat"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033723",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "sortie":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a sudden issuing of troops from a defensive position against the enemy":[],
      ": excursion , expedition":[
        "diving sorties"
      ],
      ": foray , raid":[],
      ": one mission or attack by a single plane":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "an occasional sortie to the city to rummage through some of its numerous used-book stores",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Stephan said Saturday night\u2019s situation was different than his extra-inning sortie against the Twins. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 26 June 2022",
      "With 46 trucks \u2014 some making more than one sortie a day \u2014 the Stonecrest center supplies deliveries in a roughly 200-mile radius. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 9 June 2022",
      "Needing more biographical detail, Roger insisted upon a between-innings sortie to the press box for the up-to-date lowdown. \u2014 Mark Singer, The New Yorker , 1 June 2022",
      "Those other dudes have all stoked my (re)imagination in recent years, but Mav hasn't put an arm around me since his triumph in that dubious sortie over the Indian Ocean back in 1986. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
      "On sunny afternoons there would be a dozen of them lounging and smoking outside the HSBC bank building on West Georgia Street, waiting for their next sortie , looking bored and skeptical, outlaws every one. \u2014 New York Times , 23 May 2022",
      "The MiG-29s would not save thousands of Ukrainian lives but certainly would consume the last measure of bravery of 28 Ukrainian pilots in their one and only sortie into combat. \u2014 WSJ , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "As the Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln strike groups began their dual carrier operations on Sunday, China flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan in its largest such sortie of the new year, according to Taiwan's defense ministry. \u2014 David Rising, USA TODAY , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "As the Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln strike groups began their dual carrier operations on Sunday, China flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan in its largest such sortie of the new year, according to Taiwan's defense ministry. \u2014 CBS News , 25 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1778, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from Middle French, from sortir to go out, leave":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-t\u0113",
      "s\u022fr-\u02c8t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "excursion",
      "jaunt",
      "junket",
      "outing",
      "ramble",
      "sally",
      "sashay",
      "spin"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223152",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "Sorrentine":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to, situated in, inhabiting, or coming from Sorrento, Italy":[
        "the Sorrentine peninsula"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr\u0259n\u2027\u02cct\u0113n",
      "s\u0259\u02c8ren\u2027-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian sorrentino , from Sorrento , seaport in southern Italy + Italian -ino -ine (from Latin -inus )":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173159"
  },
  "Sorrento":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "commune and port on the southern side of the Bay of Naples in southern Italy population 16,500":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u022f-\u02c8ren-(\u02cc)t\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173449"
  },
  "sorrento green":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a moderate bluish green that is bluer and deeper than porcelain green or sea blue":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8rent\u2027(\u02cc)\u014d-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from Sorrento , seaport in southern Italy":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173620"
  },
  "sorrel family":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": oxalidaceae":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210252"
  },
  "sorrel dock":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": garden sorrel":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234416"
  },
  "Sorrento work":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": inlaid fretwork (as in wood) especially when made at or near Sorrento, Italy":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010649"
  },
  "sorb":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adjective or noun",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to take up and hold by either adsorption or absorption":[],
      ": wend":[],
      ": wendish":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022frb"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "back-formation from absorb & adsorb":"Verb",
      "German Sorbe , from Sorbian serbje":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1909, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1843, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024607"
  },
  "sorgo":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a sorghum cultivated primarily for the sweet juice in its stems from which sugar and syrup are made but also used for fodder and silage":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-(\u02cc)g\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1760, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025522"
  },
  "sorghum webworm":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a noctuid moth ( Celama sorghiella ) whose hairy greenish larva is sometimes a destructive pest of the seed heads of sorghum":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040353"
  },
  "sorgo syrup":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": syrup made of sorghum":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051711"
  },
  "sorance":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": sore , injury , disease":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "sore entry 1 + -ance":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082134"
  },
  "sorghum smut":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an organism causing a sorghum smut":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121917"
  },
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      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
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      ": to take up and hold by either adsorption or absorption":[],
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      ": wendish":[]
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      "back-formation from absorb & adsorb":"Verb",
      "German Sorbe , from Sorbian serbje":"Noun"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1909, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1843, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-151619"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": of or relating to a sorus":[]
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      "\u02c8s\u014dr\u0259l"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin sor us + English -al":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-155244"
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  "sorption":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the process of sorbing : the state of being sorbed":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022frp-sh\u0259n"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "back-formation from absorption & adsorption":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1909, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181536"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from Greek s\u014dry":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183255"
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  "sora":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a small short-billed North American rail ( Porzana carolina ) common in marshes":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-\u0259"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Reports included a Virginia rail, a sora , a yellow-breasted chat and a clay-colored sparrow at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, and a blue-gray gnatcatcher in the Belle Isle Cemetery in East Boston. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Nov. 2021",
      "Observers also spotted a least bittern, a sora , and an alder flycatcher at Great Meadows Refuge in Concord. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 July 2021",
      "In Fairhaven, there were reports of a sora , two stilt sandpipers, and an American oystercatcher, and in Dartmouth, a yellow-throated warbler was discovered on private property. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Oct. 2021",
      "Observers spotted an alder flycatcher, a sora , and a least bittern at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 July 2021",
      "In Deerfield, a sora and three marsh wrens were tallied. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 July 2021",
      "Some interesting waterfowl recorded at South Monomoy Island included 10 gadwalls, four blue-winged teal, two Northern shovelers, three green-winged teal, and two ruddy ducks, as well as a sora , a common gallinule, and two American coots. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2021",
      "Another alder flycatcher was also found at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, and in Lincoln a sora was heard calling. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2021",
      "At Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge a Virginia rail, a sora , and a marsh wren continued to be seen. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1705, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204906"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a brownish orange to light brown":[],
      ": any of various plants or plant parts with sour juice: such as":[],
      ": wood sorrel":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-\u0259l"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sorel , noun & adjective, from Anglo-French, from sor red, auburn, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch soor dry, barren, Old English s\u0113ar dry \u2014 more at sere":"Noun",
      "Middle English sorel , from Anglo-French surele , from sur, siur sour, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German s\u016br sour \u2014 more at sour":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-221204"
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  "sorva":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": couma":[],
      ": the edible fruit of the couma":[],
      ": the latex of the couma which yields a rubber \u2014 see borracha":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022frv\u0259"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Portuguese s\u00f4rva (also, serviceberry), from Latin sorba , plural of sorbum serviceberry":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-231121"
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  "sorosilicate":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a class of polymeric silicates or a member thereof in which the silicon-oxygen groups are linked into limited clusters by sharing oxygen atoms (as in hemimorphite or in melilite or zunyite) and in some cases a portion of the silicon is replaced by aluminum \u2014 compare cyclosilicate , inosilicate , nesosilicate , phyllosilicate , tectosilicate":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6s\u014dr(\u02cc)\u014d+"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek s\u014dros heap + English silicate":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022627"
  },
  "Soria":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
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    "definitions":{
      "province of north central Spain area 3972 square miles (10,287 square kilometers), population 93,291":[],
      "commune in north central Spain west of Zaragoza population 39,753":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-061417"
  },
  "soredium":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": one of the vegetative gemmae on the surface of the thallus of a lichen consisting of a tuft of hyphae investing a few algal cells or gonidia":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8r\u0113d\u0113\u0259m"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, irregular from Greek s\u014dros heap + New Latin -idium ; akin to Latin tum\u0113re to swell":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-064334"
  },
  "sorghum midge":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a minute gall midge ( Contarinia sorghicola ) whose larvae develop in the seed heads of sorghum, broomcorn, and wild grasses":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-070258"
  },
  "sorghum brown":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": wood rose sense 2":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-092902"
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  "soredioid":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having the form or nature of a soredium : resembling or functioning as a soredium":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8r\u0113d\u0113\u02cc\u022fid"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "soredi- + -oid or -ose":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-093613"
  },
  "Sorosporium":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of smut fungi having teliospores united in more or less firm ball-like masses with the sori dusty at maturity and including several that cause head smuts in grasses":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u014dr\u0259\u02c8sp\u014dr\u0113\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek s\u014dros heap + New Latin -sporium":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-120928"
  },
  "Sorosporella":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of imperfect fungi (family Moniliaceae) parasitic on various insect larvae and characterized by abundant chlamydospore production and verticillate conidiophores forming nonseptate hyaline spores":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u014dr\u0259sp\u0259\u02c8rel\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek s\u014dros heap + spora seed + New Latin -ella":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-141157"
  },
  "sorosis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an association of women (as for social purposes) : a women's club":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8r\u014ds\u0259\u0307s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from Sorosis , a woman's club incorporated in 1869":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-173552"
  },
  "Soricidae":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a family of small chiefly terrestrial long-snouted mammals (order Insectivora) that comprise the true shrews \u2014 compare elephant shrew , talpidae":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8ris\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Soric-, Sorex , type genus + -idae":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-174138"
  },
  "soredial":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to or derived from a soredium":[
        "soredial branches"
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    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8r\u0113d\u0113\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "soredi- + -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-175932"
  },
  "sororate":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the marriage of one man to two or more sisters usually successively and after the first wife has been found to be barren or after her death":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259-\u02c8r\u022fr-\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin soror":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1910, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-182617"
  },
  "soricident":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having or characterized by teeth like those of shrews in which the middle pair of incisors are very large and the canines small and unspecialized":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-d\u0259nt",
      "s\u0259\u02c8ris\u0259\u02ccdent"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin soric-, sorex shrew + -i- + dent-, dens tooth":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-032449"
  },
  "sore-eyed pigeon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": sheathbill":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-093735"
  },
  "sororal polygyny":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a polygyny in which the wives are sisters":[
        "\u2014 contrasted with fraternal polyandry"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare levirate , sororate":[
        "\u2014 contrasted with fraternal polyandry"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-093934"
  },
  "sororal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or characteristic of a sister : sisterly":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259-\u02c8r\u022fr-\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Still, sororal bonds are strong, and the sisters, now 30 and 28, are as close as ever, reciting each other\u2019s Dunkin\u2019 orders and pulling in the same direction for an American team who are gold medal favorites. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2021",
      "Eventually, every evolving virus may change enough that a new infection is no longer a reinfection, but a separate, related one: a sororal infection, or an epi-infection. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 24 Feb. 2021",
      "The depiction of upper-middle-class malaise and sororal suffering earned eight Emmys and four Golden Globes, and status as one of the last monocultural phenomena in an increasingly fragmented, niche entertainment landscape. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, The New Yorker , 9 June 2019",
      "Charmed is returning to the CW (the show\u2019s former home, back when it was called the WB) on October 14, featuring a different set of sororal sorcerers from the original. \u2014 Aimee Lutkin, Marie Claire , 6 Sep. 2018",
      "Ruth peels off her sweatshirt and hands it over, a goofy sororal rescue in time with the synth beats. \u2014 Rachel Syme, New Republic , 30 June 2017",
      "The latest research indicates that the nature of the bonobos\u2019 sororal bonds shifts depending on circumstances, and that the most effective deterrent to male harassment may be a cross-generational pact. \u2014 Natalie Angier, New York Times , 10 Sep. 2016"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin soror sister \u2014 more at sister":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1858, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-094515"
  },
  "sorefalcon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a peregrine falcon in the reddish plumage of the first year":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "sore (as in sorehawk ) + falcon":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-112100"
  },
  "sorehawk":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": sorefalcon":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sor hawke , from sor sorrel (from Middle French) + hawke, hauk hawk":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-120112"
  },
  "sororial":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": sororal":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8r\u014dr\u0113\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin sorori us sororal (from soror sister) + English -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-144330"
  },
  "Soroptimist":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a member of a service club composed of professional women and businesswomen":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u022f-",
      "s\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4p-t\u0259-mist"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Soroptimist (Club)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1924, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-084832"
  },
  "sorus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a cluster of plant reproductive bodies: such as":[],
      ": a cluster of sporangia on the underside of a fertile fern frond":[],
      ": a mass of spores bursting through the epidermis of the host plant of a parasitic fungus":[],
      ": a cluster of gemmae on the thallus of a lichen":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Last fall, divers couldn\u2019t find any sorus tissue in the usual spots. \u2014 Carol Leonetti Dannhauser, Hartford Courant , 27 May 2022",
      "Just 4 pounds of sorus can seed 30,000 pounds of kelp for harvest. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2021",
      "Fishermen place spore-holding sorus tissue along lengths of rope and submerge them, letting Mother Nature do the rest. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek s\u014dros heap":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1832, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-165026"
  },
  "soricine":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, like, or relating to a shrew or the Soricidae":[],
      ": shrew":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr\u0259\u02ccs\u012bn"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin soricinus , from soric-, sorex shrew + -inus -ine":"Adjective"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-170358"
  },
  "soricine bat":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a leaf-nosed bat ( Glossophaga soricina ) of Central and South America":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-174657"
  },
  "Sorolla y Bastida":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "Joaqu\u00edn 1863\u20131923 Spanish painter":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259-\u02c8r\u022fl-y\u0259-\u02cc\u0113-b\u00e4-\u02c8st\u0113-d\u0259",
      "-\u02c8st\u0113-t\u035fh\u0259",
      "-\u02c8r\u022fi-\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-181713"
  },
  "sorehead":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person easily angered or disgruntled":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-\u02cched",
      "-\u02cched"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Just because you lost, don't be a sorehead !",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In more modern times, before Trump, the most inflamed political sorehead also pulled off the most impressive political comeback. \u2014 Star Tribune , 16 Jan. 2021",
      "The late 19th and early 20th centuries brought perhaps the golden age of the sorehead . \u2014 Star Tribune , 16 Jan. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1848, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-190339"
  },
  "soredi-":{
    "type":[
      "combining form"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": soredium":[
        "soredi ferous",
        "soredi form",
        "soredi oid"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin soredium":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-195838"
  },
  "sororicide":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act of killing one's sister":[],
      ": a person who kills his sister":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8r\u022fr\u0259\u02ccs\u012bd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in sense 1, from Medieval Latin sororicidium , from Latin soror sister + -i- + -cidium -cide (killing); in sense 2, from Latin sororicida , from soror + -i- + -cida -cide (killer)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-211142"
  },
  "sore heels":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": horsepox":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-004157"
  },
  "Soricoidea":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a superfamily of insectivores consisting of the shrews, moles, and extinct related forms":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u022fr\u0259\u02c8k\u022fid\u0113\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Soric-, Sorex + -oidea":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-014459"
  },
  "sore hocks":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an ulcerated condition of the undersurface of the forefeet or hind feet of a domestic rabbit":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-021430"
  },
  "sorel":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a male fallow deer in the third year":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4r-",
      "\u02c8s\u022fr\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English sorelle, sorrel (also, sorrel horse)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-092531"
  },
  "sories":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-044719"
  },
  "sorority":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259-\u02c8r\u022fr-\u0259-t\u0113",
      "-\u02c8r\u00e4r-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "She wanted to pledge a sorority .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The word eventually spread, and now Murray Hill Market contracts with 10 fraternity and sorority houses, providing between 150 and 180 meals a night over a 15-week semester, along with breakfast foods and snacks. \u2014 cleveland , 11 May 2022",
      "Emma discovers the dangers and feelings of alienation and isolation, as well as difficulties to forge romantic bonds, while also finding a form of sorority , grace, and power in this underground environment. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 24 May 2022",
      "The day party was the choice for me and my sorority sisters who accompanied me. \u2014 Tabnie Dozier, Essence , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "On Friday, friends and family members, including many of her sorority sisters, mourned Newell\u2019s loss and honored her memory during the candlelight vigil. \u2014 Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "Stephanie's Phi Mu sorority sisters has also raised nearly $90,000 of its $100,000 goal on GoFundMe. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "This new thriller is set on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where four sorority sisters have reunited for a Black Greek Weekend celebration. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Feb. 2022",
      "Barber said many of her closest friends are members of the sorority . \u2014 John-john Williams Iv, Baltimore Sun , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "The Occidental chapter of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, to which both students belonged, has been thrown into turmoil. \u2014 Jeong Park Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 10 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin sororitas sisterhood, from Latin soror sister":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1900, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-074054"
  },
  "sorite":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": archaeocyte":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u014dr\u02cc\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek s\u014dros heap + English -ite":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-081935"
  },
  "sororize":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to associate or hold fellowship as sisters \u2014 compare fraternize":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr\u0259\u02ccr\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin soror + English -ize":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-082450"
  },
  "sordidness":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by baseness or grossness : vile":[
        "sordid motives"
      ],
      ": dirty , filthy":[],
      ": wretched , squalid":[],
      ": meanly avaricious : covetous":[],
      ": of a dull or muddy color":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-d\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bedraggled",
      "befouled",
      "begrimed",
      "bemired",
      "besmirched",
      "black",
      "blackened",
      "cruddy",
      "dingy",
      "dirty",
      "draggled",
      "dusty",
      "filthy",
      "foul",
      "grimy",
      "grotty",
      "grubby",
      "grungy",
      "mucky",
      "muddy",
      "nasty",
      "smudged",
      "smutty",
      "soiled",
      "stained",
      "sullied",
      "unclean",
      "uncleanly"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "clean",
      "cleanly",
      "immaculate",
      "spick-and-span",
      "spic-and-span",
      "spotless",
      "stainless",
      "ultraclean",
      "unsoiled",
      "unstained",
      "unsullied"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sordid mean , ignoble , abject , sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity. mean suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity. mean and petty satire ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit. an ignoble scramble after material possessions abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility. abject poverty sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness. a sordid story of murder and revenge",
    "examples":[
      "And Vermes's story is also in part an international thriller, especially with the high-level goings-on around the Scrolls. The full sordid tale of spite, scholarly selfishness, and undisguised anti-Semitism, which kept access to the Dead Sea texts restricted for decades to a tiny cartel, unwinds in his pages. \u2014 Paula Fredriksen , New Republic , 15 Oct. 2001",
      "Another reporter working to verify the book's charges ended up unmasking author James Hatfield's sordid past, revealing how little the publisher knew about its author \u2026 \u2014 Jennifer Greenstein , Brill's Content , February 2000",
      "In fact, audiences now have become so blas\u00e9 about accounts of celebrities' sordid personal lives that some stars are turning potential publicity nightmares into confessional coups. \u2014 Stephen Rebello , Vibe , May 1999",
      "He shared the sordid details of his past.",
      "he managed to rise above the sordid streets upon which he grew up",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In this podcast, NBC reporters Mike Hixenbaugh and Antonia Hylton take listeners through the sordid four-year history of a local story that has national implications for us all. \u2014 Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022",
      "These women are the true heroes in this sordid story. \u2014 cleveland , 13 June 2022",
      "These women are the true heroes in this sordid story. \u2014 Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
      "Juan Carlos Pinz\u00f3n described how Russia \u2013 a country with a long and sordid history of negative involvement in Latin America \u2013 continues to use its influence through nefarious ways on the continent. \u2014 Ben Evansky, Fox News , 5 May 2022",
      "In the long and sordid history of baseball\u2019s labor disputes, no one had ever brought in a ghost negotiator, much less knew what one was. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "But the investigation finds more insidious roots that hint at a larger conspiracy, one that involves the sprawling Lafferty family's embrace of fundamentalist principles and the sordid practices related to them. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "The disturbing subtext in our time is that light is shed daily on new, sordid tales of this variety. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "But The Dropout is a refreshingly clear recounting of the sordid tale, with season two tackling the trial. \u2014 Simon Hill, Wired , 20 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin sordidus , from sordes dirt \u2014 more at swart":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-084826"
  },
  "sorites":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an argument consisting of propositions so arranged that the predicate of any one forms the subject of the next and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259-\u02c8r\u012b-(\u02cc)t\u0113z"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Mill doesn't tell us how to deal with the risk of viral notoriety, the sorites problem (in which individual expressions of criticism or objection add up to overwhelming disapproval), or the gender gap in tolerance for public disagreement. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "There is a puzzle in philosophy called the sorites , or heap paradox. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from Greek s\u014drit\u0113s , from s\u014dros heap":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1551, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-092955"
  },
  "sort through":{
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to look at things and put them in a particular order especially while searching for something":[
        "He sorted through the papers."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-104809"
  },
  "soritical":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to a sorites":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8rit\u0259\u0307k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "soritical , from Greek s\u014dritikos (from s\u014drit\u0113s + -ikos -ic) + -al; soritic , from Greek s\u014dritikos":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-105810"
  },
  "sort-out":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "phrasal verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to understand or find (something, such as a reason or a solution) by thinking":[
        "I'm trying to sort out a way to do it."
      ],
      ": to find an answer or solution for (something)":[
        "He's still trying to sort out his problems.",
        "We need to get these problems sorted out as soon as possible.",
        "They couldn't come up with a solution and decided to wait to see whether problem sorted itself out ."
      ],
      ": to solve the problems of (someone)":[
        "They're still trying to sort their son out .",
        "I just need a little more time to sort myself out ."
      ],
      ": to deal in a forceful way with (someone who is causing problems)":[
        "I told my brother they were bullying me, and he promised to sort them out (for me)."
      ],
      ": an activity in which someone makes a room, closet, etc., neat and organized":[
        "Let's have a sort-out of the attic."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-115112"
  },
  "sorel cement":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": magnesium oxychloride cement consisting of magnesium chloride and calcined magnesia":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from the name Sorel":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-124817"
  },
  "sorn":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun,"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to impose in order to obtain hospitality : sponge":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022f(\u0259)rn"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-125639"
  },
  "sorts":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a group set up on the basis of any characteristic in common : class , kind":[],
      ": one approximating the character or qualities of another":[
        "a sort of latter-day Abe Lincoln"
      ],
      ": person , individual":[
        "he's not a bad sort"
      ],
      ": group , company":[],
      ": method or manner of acting : way , manner":[],
      ": character , nature":[
        "people of an evil sort"
      ],
      ": a letter or character that is one element of a font":[],
      ": a character or piece of type that is not part of a regular font":[],
      ": an instance of sorting":[
        "a numeric sort of a data file"
      ],
      ": in a rough or haphazard way":[
        "plays the piano, after a sort"
      ],
      ": many different : all kinds of":[
        "knows all sorts of people"
      ],
      ": in some respects but not entirely or truly":[
        "a vacation of sorts"
      ],
      ": somewhat ill":[],
      ": grouchy , irritable":[],
      ": to put in a certain place or rank according to kind, class, or nature":[
        "sort apples",
        "sort mail"
      ],
      ": to arrange according to characteristics : classify":[
        "\u2014 usually used with out sort out colors"
      ],
      ": to put to rights : put in order":[],
      ": to examine in order to clarify":[
        "\u2014 used with out sorting out his problems"
      ],
      ": to free of confusion : clarify":[
        "\u2014 used with out waited until things sorted themselves out"
      ],
      ": to join or associate with others especially of the same kind":[
        "sort with thieves"
      ],
      ": agree , harmonize":[
        "his benign view sorts badly with reality",
        "\u2014 Henry Trewhitt"
      ],
      ": search":[
        "sort through some old papers"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022frt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "breed",
      "class",
      "description",
      "feather",
      "genre",
      "ilk",
      "kidney",
      "kind",
      "like",
      "manner",
      "nature",
      "order",
      "species",
      "strain",
      "stripe",
      "type",
      "variety"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "associate",
      "chum",
      "company",
      "consociate",
      "consort",
      "fraternize",
      "hang (around ",
      "hobnob",
      "hook up",
      "mess around",
      "pal (around)",
      "run",
      "travel"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sort Noun type , kind , sort , nature , description , character mean a number of individuals thought of as a group because of a common quality or qualities. type may suggest strong and clearly marked similarity throughout the items included so that each is typical of the group. one of three basic body types kind may suggest natural grouping. a zoo seemingly having animals of every kind sort often suggests some disparagement. the sort of newspaper dealing in sensational stories nature may imply inherent, essential resemblance rather than obvious or superficial likenesses. two problems of a similar nature description implies a group marked by agreement in all details belonging to a type as described or defined. not all acts of that description are actually illegal character implies a group marked by distinctive likenesses peculiar to the type. research on the subject so far has been of an elementary character",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "What sort of car do you drive?",
      "He's not a bad sort .",
      "She's not the sort to complain.",
      "The program did a numeric sort of the data.",
      "Verb",
      "She started to sort the mail.",
      "They sorted the winners from the losers.",
      "The program can sort data alphabetically or numerically.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Most of that increase is accounted for by students with prior college credentials of some sort as opposed to those who are first-time credential earners. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s going to be retail of some sort , and that money (taxes from retail) is going to go to the city and the schools, whereas churches don\u2019t pay taxes. \u2014 cleveland , 15 June 2022",
      "Crypto credit cards of some sort have been around for a long time in crypto, said Barhydt, but what makes this Amex-Abra tie-up of particular interest is the upscale clientele of the two companies. \u2014 Ian Allison, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
      "After that, there was a crisis of some sort every three days on average. \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
      "Over 750,000 people in the U.S. have end-stage renal disease of some sort and 500,000 are on dialysis, including 31,000 residents of New York. \u2014 Ike Brannon, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "Pilon has been charged by way of Information \u2014 a charging document that bypasses the federal grand jury process, and typically means the defendant is cooperating with authorities and working on a plea deal of some sort . \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "The churning chaotic flows of information need to be monitored by an umpire of some sort , with certain people, ideas, and acts ruled out of bounds. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Many transplants come from family members, friends, coworkers, or acquaintances of some sort . \u2014 Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Santander remembers most of the technique from his limited experience in the past, but assistant coach Jose Hernandez offers advice throughout \u2014 from the proper wrist position when fielding to how to sort out his feet on the bag. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 6 July 2022",
      "Euro 5 emissions laws have much to do with MV Agusta\u2019s fueling plight, but given the sticker price of the RS, this is something the company needs to sort out, and quick. \u2014 Peter Jackson, Robb Report , 1 July 2022",
      "Go ahead and sort through your clothes or look at pictures of fresh styles, but try not to make the final decision on anything today. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 1 July 2022",
      "Final figures are expected Monday, once Sunday's ticket sales are tabulated, and will sort out which film ultimately won the weekend. \u2014 Jake Coyle, USA TODAY , 26 June 2022",
      "Some of those prohibitions took effect right away, while others may take time as state officials sort out both practical and legal details. \u2014 Laura Kusisto, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
      "Davis, 22, said she was first hired to sort packages in June 2021 at the DMD9 delivery station, which employs about 120 people and serves as the final stop for Amazon deliveries before they are dropped at front doors around the D.C. region. \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
      "And if clinicians could sort lupus patients more precisely, drug candidates could be tailored to those with different types of the disease, too. \u2014 Isabella Cueto, STAT , 18 June 2022",
      "Nobody legit will require you to buy cryptocurrency to sort out a problem or to protect your money. \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 15 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, fate, lot, characteristic, from Latin sort-, sors lot, share, category \u2014 more at series":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-130443"
  },
  "sort out":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "phrasal verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to understand or find (something, such as a reason or a solution) by thinking":[
        "I'm trying to sort out a way to do it."
      ],
      ": to find an answer or solution for (something)":[
        "He's still trying to sort out his problems.",
        "We need to get these problems sorted out as soon as possible.",
        "They couldn't come up with a solution and decided to wait to see whether problem sorted itself out ."
      ],
      ": to solve the problems of (someone)":[
        "They're still trying to sort their son out .",
        "I just need a little more time to sort myself out ."
      ],
      ": to deal in a forceful way with (someone who is causing problems)":[
        "I told my brother they were bullying me, and he promised to sort them out (for me)."
      ],
      ": an activity in which someone makes a room, closet, etc., neat and organized":[
        "Let's have a sort-out of the attic."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-132103"
  },
  "Sordello":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "circa 1200\u2013before 1269 Italian troubadour":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u022fr-\u02c8de-(\u02cc)l\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-132306"
  },
  "Soros":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "George 1930\u2013 born Gy\u00f6rgy Schwartz American (Hungarian-born) financier":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-(\u02cc)\u014ds"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-133148"
  },
  "sore loser":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person who becomes very upset or angry when he or she loses a game, contest, etc.":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-134408"
  },
  "soroche":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": mountain sickness especially in the Andes":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u0259\u02c8r\u014dch\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "American Spanish, from Quechua sur\u00fachi , literally, antimony; from the belief that the sickness is due to the presence of the metal in the Andes mountains":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-135016"
  },
  "sordine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a cone-shaped pipe inserted in the mouth of a trumpet to muffle its tone : mute":[],
      ": sourdine sense 1a":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022f(\u0259)r\u02ccd\u0113n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French sourdine":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-141625"
  },
  "Sorel-Tracy":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "city in southern Quebec, Canada, at the point where the Richelieu River feeds into the Saint Lawrence River population 34,600":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u022f-\u02c8rel-tra-\u02c8s\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-155152"
  },
  "sordino":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": mute entry 2 sense 1":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u022fr-\u02c8d\u0113-(\u02cc)n\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian, from sordo silent, from Latin surdus":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1801, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-165643"
  },
  "sordor":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccd\u022f(\u0259)r",
      "\u02c8s\u022frd\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin sordes dirt, filth + -or":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-170639"
  },
  "sorting":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a group set up on the basis of any characteristic in common : class , kind":[],
      ": one approximating the character or qualities of another":[
        "a sort of latter-day Abe Lincoln"
      ],
      ": person , individual":[
        "he's not a bad sort"
      ],
      ": group , company":[],
      ": method or manner of acting : way , manner":[],
      ": character , nature":[
        "people of an evil sort"
      ],
      ": a letter or character that is one element of a font":[],
      ": a character or piece of type that is not part of a regular font":[],
      ": an instance of sorting":[
        "a numeric sort of a data file"
      ],
      ": in a rough or haphazard way":[
        "plays the piano, after a sort"
      ],
      ": many different : all kinds of":[
        "knows all sorts of people"
      ],
      ": in some respects but not entirely or truly":[
        "a vacation of sorts"
      ],
      ": somewhat ill":[],
      ": grouchy , irritable":[],
      ": to put in a certain place or rank according to kind, class, or nature":[
        "sort apples",
        "sort mail"
      ],
      ": to arrange according to characteristics : classify":[
        "\u2014 usually used with out sort out colors"
      ],
      ": to put to rights : put in order":[],
      ": to examine in order to clarify":[
        "\u2014 used with out sorting out his problems"
      ],
      ": to free of confusion : clarify":[
        "\u2014 used with out waited until things sorted themselves out"
      ],
      ": to join or associate with others especially of the same kind":[
        "sort with thieves"
      ],
      ": agree , harmonize":[
        "his benign view sorts badly with reality",
        "\u2014 Henry Trewhitt"
      ],
      ": search":[
        "sort through some old papers"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022frt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "breed",
      "class",
      "description",
      "feather",
      "genre",
      "ilk",
      "kidney",
      "kind",
      "like",
      "manner",
      "nature",
      "order",
      "species",
      "strain",
      "stripe",
      "type",
      "variety"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "associate",
      "chum",
      "company",
      "consociate",
      "consort",
      "fraternize",
      "hang (around ",
      "hobnob",
      "hook up",
      "mess around",
      "pal (around)",
      "run",
      "travel"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for sort Noun type , kind , sort , nature , description , character mean a number of individuals thought of as a group because of a common quality or qualities. type may suggest strong and clearly marked similarity throughout the items included so that each is typical of the group. one of three basic body types kind may suggest natural grouping. a zoo seemingly having animals of every kind sort often suggests some disparagement. the sort of newspaper dealing in sensational stories nature may imply inherent, essential resemblance rather than obvious or superficial likenesses. two problems of a similar nature description implies a group marked by agreement in all details belonging to a type as described or defined. not all acts of that description are actually illegal character implies a group marked by distinctive likenesses peculiar to the type. research on the subject so far has been of an elementary character",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "What sort of car do you drive?",
      "He's not a bad sort .",
      "She's not the sort to complain.",
      "The program did a numeric sort of the data.",
      "Verb",
      "She started to sort the mail.",
      "They sorted the winners from the losers.",
      "The program can sort data alphabetically or numerically.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Most of that increase is accounted for by students with prior college credentials of some sort as opposed to those who are first-time credential earners. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s going to be retail of some sort , and that money (taxes from retail) is going to go to the city and the schools, whereas churches don\u2019t pay taxes. \u2014 cleveland , 15 June 2022",
      "Crypto credit cards of some sort have been around for a long time in crypto, said Barhydt, but what makes this Amex-Abra tie-up of particular interest is the upscale clientele of the two companies. \u2014 Ian Allison, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
      "After that, there was a crisis of some sort every three days on average. \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
      "Over 750,000 people in the U.S. have end-stage renal disease of some sort and 500,000 are on dialysis, including 31,000 residents of New York. \u2014 Ike Brannon, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "Pilon has been charged by way of Information \u2014 a charging document that bypasses the federal grand jury process, and typically means the defendant is cooperating with authorities and working on a plea deal of some sort . \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "The churning chaotic flows of information need to be monitored by an umpire of some sort , with certain people, ideas, and acts ruled out of bounds. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Many transplants come from family members, friends, coworkers, or acquaintances of some sort . \u2014 Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Santander remembers most of the technique from his limited experience in the past, but assistant coach Jose Hernandez offers advice throughout \u2014 from the proper wrist position when fielding to how to sort out his feet on the bag. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 6 July 2022",
      "Euro 5 emissions laws have much to do with MV Agusta\u2019s fueling plight, but given the sticker price of the RS, this is something the company needs to sort out, and quick. \u2014 Peter Jackson, Robb Report , 1 July 2022",
      "Go ahead and sort through your clothes or look at pictures of fresh styles, but try not to make the final decision on anything today. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 1 July 2022",
      "Final figures are expected Monday, once Sunday's ticket sales are tabulated, and will sort out which film ultimately won the weekend. \u2014 Jake Coyle, USA TODAY , 26 June 2022",
      "Some of those prohibitions took effect right away, while others may take time as state officials sort out both practical and legal details. \u2014 Laura Kusisto, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
      "Davis, 22, said she was first hired to sort packages in June 2021 at the DMD9 delivery station, which employs about 120 people and serves as the final stop for Amazon deliveries before they are dropped at front doors around the D.C. region. \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
      "And if clinicians could sort lupus patients more precisely, drug candidates could be tailored to those with different types of the disease, too. \u2014 Isabella Cueto, STAT , 18 June 2022",
      "Nobody legit will require you to buy cryptocurrency to sort out a problem or to protect your money. \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 15 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, fate, lot, characteristic, from Latin sort-, sors lot, share, category \u2014 more at series":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-171419"
  },
  "Sordaria":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of chiefly dung-inhabiting ascomycetous fungi (order Sphaeriales) having scattered hairy-necked perithecia with dark continuous ascospores":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u022f(r)\u02c8da(a)r\u0113\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin sordes dirt, filth + New Latin -aria":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-172214"
  },
  "soroban":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an abacus used by the Japanese that is a modification of the Chinese suan pan":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr\u0259\u02ccb\u00e4n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Japanese, from Chinese (Pekingese) suan 4 p'an 2 , literally, reckoning board":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-175012"
  },
  "sorose":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": bearing sori":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u014dr\u02cc\u014ds"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin sor us + English -ose":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-182654"
  },
  "Sorocaba":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "city in S\u00e3o Paulo state, southeastern Brazil, west of the city of S\u00e3o Paulo population 586,625":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccs\u022fr-\u0259-\u02c8ka-b\u0259",
      "-\u02c8k\u00e4-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-190247"
  },
  "sorta":{
    "type":[
      "pronunciation spelling"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u022fr-t\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1901, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-200446"
  },
  "sortation":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act or process of sorting":[
        "the sortation of mail"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u022f(r)\u02c8t\u0101sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-203151"
  }
}