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"Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller alluded to the idea of possible conference realignment earlier this spring, at the MSU luncheon with the Detroit Economic Club in late May. \u2014 David Jesse, Detroit Free Press , 1 July 2022",
"One winter, while skiing down snowy hills with fellow neighborhood kids, Ralph Samuelson had an idea . \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 July 2022",
"The timing of the heist purposefully takes place after the unification is announced, but before many people have come around to the idea . \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 29 June 2022",
"While Yeti has not yet released a similar video describing the events leading up to the idea of the Nordic Collection, it can be easily assumed the Nordic Seas are the center of this new color series. \u2014 al , 29 June 2022",
"As the friends attempt to return to their lives, it\u2019s Mabel who objects to the idea of investigating Bunny\u2019s murder. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 28 June 2022",
"That likely refers to the idea of incentivizing countries to comply with the cap, by offering them an exemption from the incoming ban on maritime insurance for ships carrying cargoes of Russian oil. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Biden\u2019s past efforts to cut gas prices \u2014 including the release of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve and greater ethanol blending this summer \u2014 have not delivered savings at the pump, a risk that carries over to the idea of a gas tax holiday. \u2014 Matthew Daly, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"And with even some Democrats sour to the idea , the president is unlikely to make up support with Republicans. \u2014 Rachel Scott, ABC News , 22 June 2022"
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"Noun",
"an ideal of romantic love",
"He hasn't lived up to his high ideals .",
"She considers the actress her ideal .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"In an ideal world, Langa and other researchers say, efforts to prevent dementia would begin in childhood with strong investments in education and the inculcation of healthy habits. \u2014 Claudia Wallis, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"In an ideal world, your sartorial and decorating styles would be the same. \u2014 Jura Koncius, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"In an ideal world, public health would be independent of politics. \u2014 Haider J. Warraich, STAT , 8 June 2022",
"Here, in an ideal world, suitably skilled and expertly trained operators would be tasked with cleaning, categorizing, and labeling the data, ultimately rendering it in a format accessible by the AI and its pattern-identification faculties. \u2014 Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"But in some cases, those kernels represent real problems that, in an ideal world, would be solved. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"In Saunders-Hastings\u2019s ideal world, there would be much less philanthropy. \u2014 Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"In an ideal world, all transportation would be addressed with clean, efficient and low-emission public transportation. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"However, in an ideal world, the Blazers won\u2019t need Lillard to produce like an MVP as often. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Replace with any of the above tips focused on the function or purpose of these movements rather than promoting an ideal pushed by diet culture. \u2014 Shauna Harrison, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"Pivi is translating an ideal into real people, and each mask represents a case study in an individual\u2019s biography of freedom. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"But, for Collins, this pursuit is not an abstract ideal or a political goal. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Obviously the entire royal family upholds an ideal and an identity that is starkly and really just very different from what Diana energetically brings to the table. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Uncertainty is part of medicine, but risk is amplified when an often unattainable ideal is being pursued via such drastic means. \u2014 Symeon Brown, refinery29.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"With a bay window overlooking the ocean and a site ideal for stargazing, Sunset Vista has become a hit with Hong Kong bloggers and influencers. \u2014 Ziyu Zhang, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"The show is a romanticization of a kind of eminently British working class ideal : profane but honorable, hard-living but heroic. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"Articulating a common purpose may seem a lofty ideal , but is really a statement of those core values that are a part of the family\u2019s everyday life. \u2014 Halsey Schreier, Forbes , 8 June 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ideal Noun model , example , pattern , exemplar , ideal mean someone or something set before one for guidance or imitation. model applies to something taken or proposed as worthy of imitation. a decor that is a model of good taste example applies to a person to be imitated or in some contexts on no account to be imitated but to be regarded as a warning. children tend to follow the example of their parents pattern suggests a clear and detailed archetype or prototype. American industry set a pattern for others to follow exemplar suggests either a faultless example to be emulated or a perfect typification. cited Joan of Arc as the exemplar of courage ideal implies the best possible exemplification either in reality or in conception. never found a job that matched his ideal",
"That\u2019s why new ESG reporting activities represent an ideal point of engagement for the internal audit group. \u2014 Jim Deloach, Forbes , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Now is an ideal point in time for self-reflection and improved understanding. \u2014 Michael J. Francis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Apr. 2020",
"This new collection, which ranges from post-World War I Germany to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, serves as an ideal point of entry to that world. \u2014 Bill Sheehan, Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2019",
"Wyant believes Puerto Rico's coaching staff is getting the ideal point guard. \u2014 Shelby Dermer, Cincinnati.com , 6 June 2018",
"The defending back-to-back state softball champions have turned the corner at the most ideal point in the season. \u2014 J.c. Carnahan, OrlandoSentinel.com , 25 Apr. 2018",
"But good and bad coaches are separated by more than just the ability to recognize something from a less-than- ideal point of view. \u2014 Steven Ruiz, For The Win , 3 Apr. 2018",
"That\u2019s part of why Moore saw Yost as an ideal point of stability with so much else fluid. \u2014 Vahe Gregorian, kansascity , 22 Mar. 2018",
"Since the plant takes seven to eight years to reach full maturity, the ideal point at which agave farmers harvest them for tequila, some farmers have resorted to pulling their plants early, before the agave is fully mature. \u2014 Arianna Auber, ajc , 8 Feb. 2018"
"an idealist sees the best in everyone, regardless of how they behave",
"Adjective",
"an idealist attempt to make a go of a mom-and-pop hardware store on Main Street",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This perhaps best encapsulates Seydoux on film, an idealist and a realist, with film itself being both a business and an art to her. \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 May 2022",
"Hilson plays Naomi Josef, a fresh-faced, smart and enthusiastic idealist who leads with her heart and radiates warmth. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 12 May 2022",
"That the unravelling happens to the high idealist automatically sets up the misdirection. \u2014 Willing Davidson, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Speaking to the crowd, Musk slipped into the comfortable role as the billionaire idealist who dreams of saving the planet by ending humanity\u2019s dependence on fossil fuels. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The fictional story of a young idealist entering the Senate was met with positive reviews from viewers and is even featured in the Senate's history. \u2014 Yaa Bofah, Good Housekeeping , 6 May 2022",
"The move hardened their view of Gasc\u00f3n as an idealist with a limited grasp of how to run the office on a practical basis. \u2014 James Queally, Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"In 1969 a young idealist , on her first trip to Hawaii, checked into the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, a sublime pink confection of a place in Waikiki Beach, on the island of Oahu. \u2014 Horacio Silva, Town & Country , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Like many of his college chums, Nick used to be an idealist . \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The story follows Mickey Haller (Garcia-Rulfo), an iconoclastic idealist criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who runs his practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln. \u2014 Dana Feldman, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The appeal of far-left ideology, with its idealist cast, is, to the French, particularly to French youth, a cultural constant. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 25 Apr. 2022",
"But Nakagin truly fit the bill: a building that became a symbol of architecture\u2019s most idealist tendencies and of Tokyo itself. \u2014 Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The company that has a bit of an idealist quality to it. \u2014 Karen Walker, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"The shift happened alongside the realization that the tech industry was no longer the niche realm of idealist computer geeks. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Jane is an idealist , convinced that her love of the crowd and the quality of her music will attract fans. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2021",
"Consider both the idealist and realist cases for stepping into this global leadership role. \u2014 Ben Sasse, WSJ , 17 May 2021",
"Hawks make both idealist and realist arguments for staying in Afghanistan. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 16 Apr. 2021"
"idealistic pacifists who thought that tyranny could be toppled by rational argument and mutual understanding",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This time around, Melody (Sarah Yarkin), her teenage sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) and their friends Dante (Jacob Latimore) and Ruth (Nell Hudson) head to the remote town of Harlow, Texas to start an idealistic new business venture. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 10 Feb. 2022",
"As an idealistic child of the 1960s, Zia had moved from Boston to Detroit in the 1970s to be part of the labor movement in a place known nationally known for its strong unions. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 16 June 2022",
"And that means translating idealistic post-deal visions into operating models that refocus your enterprise on new types of value for customers. \u2014 Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Soo-jae also proves to be a charismatic teacher, impressing her students and in particular the idealistic young Gong Chan, played by Hwang In-yeop. \u2014 Joan Macdonald, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
"Taylor\u2019s case upends the idealistic notion that injustices, and particularly those that seem more obvious, will be quickly corrected. \u2014 Steve Mills, ProPublica , 30 May 2022",
"Microlending used to be a trendy topic in idealistic tech circles, and a constant trope at TED and Davos conferences. \u2014 Jaron Lanier, The Atlantic , 26 May 2022",
"Kris Kristofferson would star in it, as an idealistic federal marshal who attempts, in vain, to protect the poor farmers from the ruthless grandees. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"Who Fell to Earth, created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, is a sequel to the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film of the same name, which stars David Bowie as an idealistic alien corrupted by human vices. \u2014 Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED , 20 May 2022"
"This process encourages people, especially women, to idealize certain kinds of body types and to try to achieve them. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"And so we both sort of fetishize and idealize really excellent musicians from abroad and kind of have our own kind of, Oh, but what about our homegrown soloists",
"Letting go of a lost cause has two difficult and complicated steps, oversimplified as follows: Fill up your life meaningfully without this person, and resist the temptation to idealize what isn\u2019t there. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Krasner, with his frank, no-nonsense rhetoric and his indifference to tradition, is easy to idealize . \u2014 Anna Boots, The New Yorker , 6 Aug. 2021",
"But in her willingness to confront these authoritarian experiments, Colley refuses to idealize constitutions. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 May 2021",
"Procrastinators often idealize their future selves, just like Eoin did. \u2014 Eoin O'carroll, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers. \u2014 Popular Science , 28 Sep. 2020",
"Make no mistake, Ray said: the goal is to not to idealize Comey. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Sep. 2020"
"he had a tendency to idealize his heroes and believe they could do no wrong",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This process encourages people, especially women, to idealize certain kinds of body types and to try to achieve them. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"And so we both sort of fetishize and idealize really excellent musicians from abroad and kind of have our own kind of, Oh, but what about our homegrown soloists",
"Letting go of a lost cause has two difficult and complicated steps, oversimplified as follows: Fill up your life meaningfully without this person, and resist the temptation to idealize what isn\u2019t there. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Krasner, with his frank, no-nonsense rhetoric and his indifference to tradition, is easy to idealize . \u2014 Anna Boots, The New Yorker , 6 Aug. 2021",
"But in her willingness to confront these authoritarian experiments, Colley refuses to idealize constitutions. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 May 2021",
"Procrastinators often idealize their future selves, just like Eoin did. \u2014 Eoin O'carroll, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers. \u2014 Popular Science , 28 Sep. 2020",
"Make no mistake, Ray said: the goal is to not to idealize Comey. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Sep. 2020"
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"1786, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
"Conducting regular pay audits as described above and quickly bringing up the base salary of underpaid employees are solutions for resolving and, ideally , preventing, pay compression. \u2014 Paul Mcdonald, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"To prevent oxidation, vitamin C products should be stored in opaque containers that are ideally either air-restrictive or air-tight, Dr. Hogan says, like an airless pump rather than a tub or dropper bottle that requires being opened all the way. \u2014 Sarah Jacoby, SELF , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Legal experts say companies should notify users when a court or government agency asks them for data, ideally before complying with the request. \u2014 Nicole Nguyen, WSJ , 19 June 2022",
"The goal of the Jan. 6 committee hearings is to impart information and tell the whole story of what really happened that day, and ideally , to reach as many in the American electorate as possible. \u2014 Jessica Maddox, The Conversation , 17 June 2022",
"The solution would ideally dispose of the Styrofoam or digest it in a way that allows new plastic products to be created, thereby reducing the need for new plastic materials, Rinke said. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Partnerships like this are essential when trying to bring new technology like autonomous driving to market\u2014cooperation in the development phase ideally helps to ensure all the different pieces ultimately play well together. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The next running drill should ideally be done on a track or a half-mile stretch of road. \u2014 Ali Nolan, SELF , 16 June 2022",
"With Saudi Arabia as the world's top exporter of oil, Mr. Biden could use the visit to ask the kingdom to help stabilize oil markets, ideally lowering prices back in the U.S. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 14 June 2022"
"Barack Obama, perhaps the nation\u2019s most solipsistic politician and ideologue , took only moments after the issuance of Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s ... \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 25 June 2022",
"That would suggest that Stefanik did not need to become an aggressive ideologue in order to hold her seat, making her political calculation all the sadder. \u2014 Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"While Price posthumously carves out her place in the repertoire, Wagner, an ideologue who wrote unsparingly about his own antisemitism, has remained a fraught cornerstone. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"The race now is a clash of visions: the progressive ideologue vs. the liberal pragmatist. \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"In the Sumter County courtroom, Calhoun \u2014 his graying hair pulled back in a ponytail and his long beard finely combed \u2014 hardly came across as a fire-eating ideologue or wild-eyed conspiracy theorist. \u2014 Chris Joyner, ajc , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Ebrahim Raisi, a rigid ideologue and the head of the judiciary, was elected. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021",
"But in the state Democratic primary, which Mr. Stevenson won easily, his ticket was hamstrung when two supporters of the far-right ideologue Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. won the party\u2019s nominations for lieutenant governor and secretary of state. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Sep. 2021"
"While the racist ideology that appears to have fueled the suspect, Payton Gendron, has spread on the far right in recent years, Broome County has slightly more Democrats on its voting rolls than Republicans. \u2014 New York Times , 22 May 2022",
"Speaking to a grieving community Tuesday, an emotional President Biden condemned the racist ideology of the gunman who killed 10 black people at a Buffalo supermarket. \u2014 CBS News , 18 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a rule in the museum world too little regarded by curators and designers: Distance is objectivity, immersion is ideology . \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Jan. 2022",
"But conservative critics claim CRT is a Marxist ideology and a threat to the American way of life. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The white savior complex is an ideology that is acted upon when a white person, from a position of superiority, attempts to help or rescue a BIPOC person or community. \u2014 Colleen Murphy, Health.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
"But as its critics tell it, critical race theory is a divisive ideology that has infiltrated classrooms and needs to be stopped. \u2014 Tiffany Puett, The Conversation , 15 Sep. 2021",
"The speed of a company\u2019s corporate engagement was rarely determined by the ideology of its leaders, but more often by its strategic positioning and considerations. \u2014 Georgia Hirsty, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"No, it was fueled by a burgeoning ideology of the radical right. \u2014 Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post , 17 May 2022"
"Then, give participants 10 minutes to ideate as many Impossibles related to that topic. \u2014 Lisa Bodell, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Gather a task force to ideate innovative ways to improve customer relationships, operational processes or wellness programs. \u2014 Michael Kurland, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"The caffeine seems to pull the two control centers together to innovate and ideate . \u2014 Ira Gostin, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"The Levan Center is based on four principles: ideate , incubate, accelerate and post-accelerate. \u2014 Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Working remotely, raising a family, and maintaining our inherent social nature leaves little time to ideate , design, plan, organize, cook, pour, serve, and ultimately - host. \u2014 Brad Japhe, Forbes , 8 May 2021",
"Everyone comes together to ideate in the POD, and the PODs bring together all the marketing functions. \u2014 Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes , 8 May 2021",
"This creates space for people to think and do, ideate and find their inspiration. \u2014 Shannon Brooks, Forbes , 5 Apr. 2021",
"Gift your foodie a fun way to ideate new meals with these foodie dice. \u2014 Cnn Underscored Staff, CNN Underscored , 9 Dec. 2020"
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"suicidal ideation"
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"examples":[
"caregivers are trained to watch for signs of depression and suicidal ideation \u2014some patients are likely to put their fantasies to action",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The assault led to severe trauma, including hospitalization for suicidal ideation . \u2014 Jacobina Martin, Washington Post , 20 June 2022",
"Depending on the symptoms present, safety planning for suicidal ideation may be needed, as well as addressing healthy eating habits and overall health. \u2014 Nicole Pajer, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"As the event\u2019s creative director, Bivins will oversee ideation and strategy initiatives to build the brand long-term. \u2014 Gail Mitchell, Billboard , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Better still, by including their employees in the ideation and innovation process, the company has kept its workforce engaged and learning. \u2014 Alex Salkever, Fortune , 18 Mar. 2022",
"David Deloso will be a newsroom engineer on the DevHub, focused on front-end design and development projects, product ideation and storytelling experiences. \u2014 Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Feb. 2022",
"This includes knowledge sharing, networking, ideation and problem solving. \u2014 Keahn Gary, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Many fans felt the phrasing rang true, given Naomi's openness about her struggles with depression and suicidal ideation . \u2014 Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY , 3 May 2022",
"On Brun's battle with depression and suicidal ideation is one that an increasing number of kids and teens have been facing. \u2014 Bydr. Jennifer Ashton,glenn Ruppel,ivan Pereira, ABC News , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"\u2014 often used with to or with"
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"examples":[
"We visited the identical place we stopped at last year.",
"They were wearing identical coats.",
"The boxes were identical in shape.",
"They drove virtually identical cars.",
"The results were identical to those of the first test.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Unless the value of all condominium units was identical in the building when it was originally developed, unit percentages would not be the same for all units in a condominium. \u2014 Howard Dakoff, Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Since no e-bike is identical , pay attention to which features are must-haves or nice extras to improve your riding experience. \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 15 June 2022",
"While the sum of their genetic risks (known as a genetic risk score) won\u2019t be identical , there will be similarities that can give clues to how treatment might work for you8. \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022",
"She's also played by Jordan Claire Robbins, and their appearance, of course, is identical . \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 8 June 2022",
"Recessions happen as part of the normal economic cycle, and so far, no two have been identical , but there are some considerable commonalities. \u2014 Leon Labrecque, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Tests revealed the cloning, with the DNA to all 10 spread-out samples proving to be identical . \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"The powertrains are identical , so expect any manual WRX to hit 60 in 5.5 seconds and run the quarter-mile in 13.9 seconds at 101 mph. \u2014 K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver , 30 May 2022",
"The vaccines are not identical : Moderna\u2019s is two doses of 25 micrograms each, a quarter of Moderna\u2019s adult dose. \u2014 Adam Feuerstein, STAT , 29 May 2022"
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"probably from Medieval Latin identicus , from Late Latin identitas":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for identical same , selfsame , very , identical , equivalent , equal mean not different or not differing from one another. same may imply and selfsame always implies that the things under consideration are one thing and not two or more things. took the same route derived from the selfsame source very , like selfsame , may imply identity, or, like same may imply likeness in kind. the very point I was trying to make identical may imply selfsameness or suggest absolute agreement in all details. identical results equivalent implies amounting to the same thing in worth or significance. two houses equivalent in market value equal implies being identical in value, magnitude, or some specified quality. equal shares in the business",
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"A member of the family was brought in for identification of the body.",
"The birds are tagged for easy identification .",
"The police have made a positive identification of the suspect.",
"You need two forms of identification .",
"the movie audience's identification with the good guys",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"North Little Rock officer Jhailan Rathey, a liaison to the unsheltered community, said the cooling center will be open to the public, with no identification required. \u2014 Remington Miller, Arkansas Online , 21 June 2022",
"Eichmann was responsible for the identification , assembly, and transportation of millions of Jews in World War II. \u2014 Abbas Al Lawati, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"Bring along a collar with identification , a favorite towel or blanket and a two-week supply of water and food. \u2014 Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
"Imagine decentralized methods of identification , selection and underwriting or novel economic structures in which fund economics incentivize collaboration across peers. \u2014 Caitlin Brumme, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"While parents were waiting to hear about their children, some were asked for DNA samples to help with identification . \u2014 CBS News , 25 May 2022",
"Gray said that the success of Britt and Ivey illustrates how a low-voter turnout contest can benefit candidates with high name identification . \u2014 al , 25 May 2022",
"The health agency recommended that the European Union and European Economic Area focus on prompt identification , management, and reporting of new monkeypox cases. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 24 May 2022",
"Fetterman had a cash advantage from the start, with high name identification from two statewide campaigns and an impressive small-dollar fundraising operation like the one that powered Bernie Sanders\u2019 presidential campaigns. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 17 May 2022"
"The International Air Transport Association identifier code for Toronto Pearson is YYZ. \u2014 Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"Progress toward a national patient identification strategy has been hindered for more than two decades because of a rider inserted into the federal budget that prohibits federal funds from being used to develop a unique health identifier standard. \u2014 Wylecia Wiggs Harris And Tom Cox, STAT , 23 June 2022",
"One identifier was that the length of the surviving hull is almost exactly the same as that recorded for Endeavour, while the structural details and shape of the remains closely match historic plans of the ship. \u2014 Alice Uribe, WSJ , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Those include insufficient witnessing, a missing voter signature or a missing identifier . \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 14 June 2022",
"Each one of those squares gets its own identifier made up of three random words\u2014hence the company's name. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 13 Apr. 2022",
"That information included users' full names and brokerage account numbers, a unique identifier for a person's stock activity on Cash App Investing. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 6 Apr. 2022",
"An IP address, a string of numbers separated by periods, is a publicly available unique identifier for a device on the internet or a local network that contains location information. \u2014 Mengqi Sun, WSJ , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Mitchell is often referred to as MKE, which is its International Air Transport Association location identifier . \u2014 Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 Dec. 2021"
": to ascertain the identity of (someone or something that is unfamiliar or unknown)":[
"He was able to quickly identify the problem.",
"Police have identified a person of interest .",
"Dr. McGovern explains that \" identifying the cause of the disease is a breakthrough. \u2026\"",
"\u2014 The Chronicle of the Horse"
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"\u2026 new channels of communication will be opened between the States, the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified , and their union cemented by new and indissoluble bonds.",
"\u2014 Thomas Jefferson"
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"Sometimes people identify success with money, but for me it's giving of yourself.",
"\u2014 Lorna E. Barnes",
"In some strange way the boat became identified with himself, and just as it would have been useless for him to get up and steer the boat, so was it useless for him to struggle any longer with the irresistible force of his own feelings.",
"\u2014 Virginia Woolf"
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": to conceive as united (as in spirit, outlook, or principle)":[
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"\u2014 Elizabeth Beyer"
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"\u2014 Charlies Dickens",
"Mr. Mace identified the phial handed him by Counsel as that sold by him to \"Mr. Inglethorp.\"",
"\u2014 Agatha Christie",
"Hitters say the spitball is easily identified because, while it has the speed of a fastball, it scarcely rotates.",
"The second phase of the project expanded participation opportunities even more as it was carried out online so community scientists from anywhere in the world could help identify branching and reproductive structures in liverworts. \u2014 Adriana P\u00e9rez, Chicago Tribune , 30 June 2022",
"That act can be viewed as two components: a set of rules for pollutants that were known to be hazardous when the act passed, and a flexible mechanism that the EPA could identify and regulate additional threats that became apparent later. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 30 June 2022",
"This group has standardized metrics that identify whether a material was harvested sustainably. \u2014 Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel , 29 June 2022",
"One strategy used to empower its employees is through the creation of several resource groups for employees that identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community, for example. \u2014 Karl Moore, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Others offer high-resolution cameras and software that can identify students\u2019 faces, track their locations and monitor their online activities \u2014 bringing into classrooms the kind of surveillance tools widely used by law enforcement. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
"Both shooters were 18 years old, and the close timing of the two slaughters and victims with whom many could identify stirred a demand by voters for action, lawmakers of both parties said. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 24 June 2022",
"Both shooters were 18 years old, a youthful profile shared by many mass shooters, and the close timing of the two slaughters and victims with whom many could identify stirred a demand by voters for action, lawmakers of both parties said. \u2014 Alan Fram, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
"But Harvin\u2019s public defender, Deborah St. Jean, said in openings Thursday that the state\u2019s evidence was flawed and could not positively identify her client as the suspect. \u2014 Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022"
": to ascertain the identity of (someone or something that is unfamiliar or unknown)":[
"He was able to quickly identify the problem.",
"Police have identified a person of interest .",
"Dr. McGovern explains that \" identifying the cause of the disease is a breakthrough. \u2026\"",
"\u2014 The Chronicle of the Horse"
],
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"\u2026 new channels of communication will be opened between the States, the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified , and their union cemented by new and indissoluble bonds.",
"\u2014 Thomas Jefferson"
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"\u2014 Lorna E. Barnes",
"In some strange way the boat became identified with himself, and just as it would have been useless for him to get up and steer the boat, so was it useless for him to struggle any longer with the irresistible force of his own feelings.",
"\u2014 Virginia Woolf"
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"Many readers identify with the hero of a novel.",
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"Of the high school students who participated, 77% identified as female, 20% identified as male, 2% identified as nonbinary \u2026",
"\u2014 Elizabeth Beyer"
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"\"It's the young man!\" I thought, feeling my heart shoot as I identified him.",
"\u2014 Charlies Dickens",
"Mr. Mace identified the phial handed him by Counsel as that sold by him to \"Mr. Inglethorp.\"",
"\u2014 Agatha Christie",
"Hitters say the spitball is easily identified because, while it has the speed of a fastball, it scarcely rotates.",
"The second phase of the project expanded participation opportunities even more as it was carried out online so community scientists from anywhere in the world could help identify branching and reproductive structures in liverworts. \u2014 Adriana P\u00e9rez, Chicago Tribune , 30 June 2022",
"That act can be viewed as two components: a set of rules for pollutants that were known to be hazardous when the act passed, and a flexible mechanism that the EPA could identify and regulate additional threats that became apparent later. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 30 June 2022",
"This group has standardized metrics that identify whether a material was harvested sustainably. \u2014 Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel , 29 June 2022",
"One strategy used to empower its employees is through the creation of several resource groups for employees that identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community, for example. \u2014 Karl Moore, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Others offer high-resolution cameras and software that can identify students\u2019 faces, track their locations and monitor their online activities \u2014 bringing into classrooms the kind of surveillance tools widely used by law enforcement. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
"Both shooters were 18 years old, and the close timing of the two slaughters and victims with whom many could identify stirred a demand by voters for action, lawmakers of both parties said. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 24 June 2022",
"Both shooters were 18 years old, a youthful profile shared by many mass shooters, and the close timing of the two slaughters and victims with whom many could identify stirred a demand by voters for action, lawmakers of both parties said. \u2014 Alan Fram, Hartford Courant , 23 June 2022",
"But Harvin\u2019s public defender, Deborah St. Jean, said in openings Thursday that the state\u2019s evidence was flawed and could not positively identify her client as the suspect. \u2014 Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022"
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": the distinguishing character or personality of an individual : individuality":[],
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"examples":[
"The identity of the criminal is not known.",
"They produced their passports as proof of their identities .",
"They arrested the wrong man. It was a case of mistaken identity .",
"As children grow, they establish their own identities .",
"people who seem to lack individual identity",
"His art reflects his cultural identity .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But for Ahmaogak, like for many others, whaling also means continuing the family legacy and finding purpose, and a sense of identity . \u2014 Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News , 2 July 2022",
"These employees have a connection with their team and organization, as well as a strong, secure sense of identity at work . . . \u2014 Jonathan H. Westover, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Gathering for celebrations such as weddings enhances a shared sense of identity . \u2014 Michal Novotn\u00fd, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 June 2022",
"The series focused on Keef, an African American cartoonist on the verge of mainstream success who gets roughed up by the police in a case of mistaken identity and becomes a social justice activist. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 26 June 2022",
"In addition to teaching etiquette, Ms. Allen tried to foster a sense of identity . \u2014 Alex Williams, New York Times , 24 June 2022",
"The Chin campaign was the first national, cross-generational, pan-ethnic mobilization of Asian American identity , a category that had arisen only in the late sixties. \u2014 Hua Hsu, The New Yorker , 23 June 2022",
"The new subject focuses on fostering a sense of national identity and includes an excursion to the mainland. \u2014 Theodora Yu, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"But the problem of authentication\u2014and of identity \u2014ran alongside the dollars themselves. \u2014 Hannah Zeavin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1545, in the meaning defined at sense 3a":""
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"Middle French identit\u00e9 , from Late Latin identitat-, identitas , probably from Latin identidem repeatedly, contraction of idem et idem , literally, same and same":""
"Ali, a naturalized U.S. citizen, apparently obtained a Pakistan national identity card in 2019 available to its citizens who live abroad, Rothstein said. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The app registers a person\u2019s identity card , cellphone number, test and vaccination details, and travel history with the Beijing Big Data Center, and turns green, yellow, or red based on the person\u2019s health status. \u2014 Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 May 2022",
"This identity card seemed to me to be a thank you from the mayor to my father for having trusted him when he had been sidelined by Vichy. \u2014 Y-jean Mun-delsalle, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"In China, citizens age 16 and up apply for a resident identity card . \u2014 Riddhima Dave, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Yet as the unquestioningly devoted Mary sorts through Ahmed\u2019s effects, fragments of a double life emerge: the identity card of a French woman in his wallet, intimate-sounding voicemails on his phone. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Additionally, not all partners have implemented the use of a national identity card to ease travel between countries. \u2014 Priya Sippy, Quartz , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Belgium is meeting a sharp increase in demand with packs of pills free for anyone with a Belgian identity card . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Key Things to Know Belgium is meeting a sharp increase in demand with packs of pills free for anyone with a Belgian identity card . \u2014 New York Times , 12 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1900, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a state of confusion in an institution or organization regarding its nature or direction":[],
": personal psychosocial conflict especially in adolescence that involves confusion about one's social role and often a sense of loss of continuity to one's personality":[]
},
"examples":[
"He is suffering from an identity crisis .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Flipping through a collection of pamphlets for the sale from years gone by, its clear the group\u2019s name has had an identity crisis of sorts. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 28 June 2022",
"About 1,000 Air National Guard troops who are assigned to space missions are mired in an identity crisis . \u2014 Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
"Now entering its early '50s, InfoSec is experiencing an identity crisis . \u2014 Joe Onisick, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Nick experiences this identity crisis , reluctantly at first. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Apr. 2022",
"This happened at a time when the U.S. is going through its own identity crisis . \u2014 Nina Xiang, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"There were other storylines \u2014 some of which (Barbie Ferreira\u2019s criminally underwritten Kat and her identity crisis , for example) were more compelling than others (anything having to do with Jacob Elordi\u2019s Nate). \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Chris Hemsworth is back as the Norse god, this time in the midst of an interstellar identity crisis . \u2014 Daniel Arkin, NBC News , 19 May 2022",
"In that short distance lies a glimpse of the Republican Party\u2019s identity crisis . \u2014 Jennifer Medina, New York Times , 13 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1941, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114929",
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"noun"
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": a function (such as f ( x )) that is everywhere equal in value to the value of its independent variable (such as x )":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121039",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"identity matrix":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a square matrix that has numeral 1's along the principal diagonal and 0's elsewhere":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For example, the identity element in the group must be assigned the identity matrix . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 June 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"identity politics":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": politics in which groups of people having a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social, or cultural identity tend to promote their own specific interests or concerns without regard to the interests or concerns of any larger political group":[
"Although the UCLA center's standards promoted rigorous history, they set off a major culture war because of their relentless emphasis on identity politics .",
"\u2014 Diane Ravitch",
"Identity politics is contemporary shorthand for a group's assertion that it is a meaningful group; that it differs significantly from other groups; that its members share a history of injustice and grievance; and that its psychological and political mission is to explore, act out, act on and act up its group identity.",
"\u2014 Catharine R. Stimpson",
"A number of critics have viewed her work through a lens of identity politics , taking her to be some sort of oracle of Muslim womanhood.",
"\u2014 Lauren Collins"
]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His words had particular import for colleges reeling under the onslaught of identity politics . \u2014 Frederick Hess, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The Trump years further deepened the influence of identity politics on the Democratic Party, particularly in the wake of the nationwide protest movement following the murder of George Floyd. \u2014 Ruy Teixeira, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In a country rapidly shifting away from a majority-white past, a fight over identity politics may have been inevitable. \u2014 David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
"He is joined by various contributing editors, columnists, and authors with ties to the antiliberal left who also tend to dissent from core progressive pieties of the moment (including a focus on identity politics and intersectionality). \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Moreover, the complexities of free speech and identity politics make administrators even more reluctant to confront Chinese state influence. \u2014 Haruka Sakaguchi, ProPublica , 30 Nov. 2021",
"His election may be seen as a race that rose above identity politics . \u2014 Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News , 11 May 2022",
"The halls of academia may appear to be overrun by battles over academic freedom, free speech, identity politics , cancel culture and overreaching wokeness. \u2014 David Marchese, New York Times , 1 May 2022",
"His menswear often reads as a statement about queerness\u2014a camp knowingness about deviation from norms\u2014and that happened to align with the passion for identity politics that has overtaken celebrity style. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1970, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction"
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": the illegal use of someone else's personal information (such as a Social Security number) especially in order to obtain money or credit":[]
"Government watchdogs have repeatedly raised concerns about fraud in the EIDL program, and federal investigators have found instances of identity theft , fictitious businesses, fake or exaggerated employee counts, and misuse of program funds. \u2014 Yeganeh Torbati, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"Government watchdogs have repeatedly raised concerns about fraud in the EIDL program, and federal investigators have found instances of identity theft , fictitious businesses, fake or exaggerated employee counts, and misuse of program funds. \u2014 Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"This law covers a wide range of things, including hacking, phishing, trojans, ransomware, malware, viruses, identity theft , possession of software/hardware used to commit cybercrime, electronic theft and unauthorized penetration testing. \u2014 Levon Gasparian, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"Jordan Fernandez, 31, of Anaheim, was charged Tuesday with first-degree residential burglary, second-degree vehicle burglary, identity theft and possession of narcotics, police said. \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 8 June 2022",
"Jordan Fernandez, 31, was charged with first-degree residential burglary, second-degree vehicle burglary, identity theft and possession of narcotics on Tuesday, the statement said. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 8 June 2022",
"He was charged Tuesday with first-degree residential burglary, second-degree vehicle burglary, felony identity theft and felony possession of narcotics, according to the Anaheim Police Department. \u2014 Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"He was charged with bank fraud, identity theft and obstruction of justice. \u2014 J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 June 2022",
"Seneca Birchmore, 44, of Cincinnati, was arrested on complaints related to misuse of social security number, aggravated identity theft and fraud in connection with major disaster and emergency benefits, according to court documents. \u2014 Lexi Whitehead, The Enquirer , 3 June 2022"
"Barack Obama, perhaps the nation\u2019s most solipsistic politician and ideologue , took only moments after the issuance of Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s ... \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 25 June 2022",
"That would suggest that Stefanik did not need to become an aggressive ideologue in order to hold her seat, making her political calculation all the sadder. \u2014 Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"While Price posthumously carves out her place in the repertoire, Wagner, an ideologue who wrote unsparingly about his own antisemitism, has remained a fraught cornerstone. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"The race now is a clash of visions: the progressive ideologue vs. the liberal pragmatist. \u2014 Allysia Finley, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"In the Sumter County courtroom, Calhoun \u2014 his graying hair pulled back in a ponytail and his long beard finely combed \u2014 hardly came across as a fire-eating ideologue or wild-eyed conspiracy theorist. \u2014 Chris Joyner, ajc , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Ebrahim Raisi, a rigid ideologue and the head of the judiciary, was elected. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021",
"But in the state Democratic primary, which Mr. Stevenson won easily, his ticket was hamstrung when two supporters of the far-right ideologue Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. won the party\u2019s nominations for lieutenant governor and secretary of state. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Sep. 2021"
"While the racist ideology that appears to have fueled the suspect, Payton Gendron, has spread on the far right in recent years, Broome County has slightly more Democrats on its voting rolls than Republicans. \u2014 New York Times , 22 May 2022",
"Speaking to a grieving community Tuesday, an emotional President Biden condemned the racist ideology of the gunman who killed 10 black people at a Buffalo supermarket. \u2014 CBS News , 18 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a rule in the museum world too little regarded by curators and designers: Distance is objectivity, immersion is ideology . \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Jan. 2022",
"But conservative critics claim CRT is a Marxist ideology and a threat to the American way of life. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The white savior complex is an ideology that is acted upon when a white person, from a position of superiority, attempts to help or rescue a BIPOC person or community. \u2014 Colleen Murphy, Health.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
"But as its critics tell it, critical race theory is a divisive ideology that has infiltrated classrooms and needs to be stopped. \u2014 Tiffany Puett, The Conversation , 15 Sep. 2021",
"The speed of a company\u2019s corporate engagement was rarely determined by the ideology of its leaders, but more often by its strategic positioning and considerations. \u2014 Georgia Hirsty, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"No, it was fueled by a burgeoning ideology of the radical right. \u2014 Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post , 17 May 2022"
": an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for \"undecided\") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way )":[],
": the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class : dialect":[],
": the syntactical , grammatical , or structural form peculiar to a language":[]
"She is a populist in politics, as she repeatedly makes clear for no very clear reason. Yet the idiom of the populace is not popular with her. \u2014 P. J. O'Rourke , New York Times Book Review , 9 Oct. 2005",
"And the prospect of recovering a nearly lost language, the idiom and scrappy slang of the postwar period \u2026 \u2014 Don DeLillo , New York Times Magazine , 7 Sept. 1997",
"We need to explicate the ways in which specific themes, fears, forms of consciousness, and class relationships are embedded in the use of Africanist idiom \u2026 \u2014 Toni Morrison , Playing in the Dark , 1992",
"The expression \u201cgive way,\u201d meaning \u201cretreat,\u201d is an idiom .",
"This idiom dates back 200 years to when people hunted with packs of dogs. \u2014 Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"The new album from a singer known for constant reinvention is a subtle departure from her earlier work, dipping back into her intense, intimate idiom . \u2014 Mark Richardson, WSJ , 28 May 2022",
"The 250-room, gargoyle-sprouting ch\u00e2teau, designed in a French Renaissance idiom for George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914), was an otherworldly addition to the hardscrabble North Carolina upcountry of the 1890s. \u2014 Catesby Leigh, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Subtlety is the shared idiom across WurlD\u2019s fusionist experiments. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 16 Mar. 2022",
"One size does not fit all with automobiles, and the same idiom applies to EV charging infrastructure. \u2014 Jordan Ramer, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s also an idiom that is attributed to printers\u2019 lingo: out of sorts. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Feb. 2022",
"While in office, Trump had deployed an apocalyptic idiom that clashed dramatically with the libertarians' characteristic optimism. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 2 Feb. 2022",
"The Rams will put the age-old idiom about the third time being the charm to the test against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. \u2014 Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times , 28 Jan. 2022"
"Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French idiome , from Late Latin idioma individual peculiarity of language, from Greek idi\u014dmat-, idi\u014dma , from idiousthai to appropriate, from idios":""
": peculiar to a particular group, individual, or style":[]
},
"examples":[
"the new teacher's idiomatic approach to dealing with special-needs students is already showing signs of success",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"What matters is that they be kept inside recognizably idiomatic speech. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Out of obscure British usage a term became idiomatic in America: stagflation. \u2014 Brian Domitrovic, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022"
"Its candidate drug to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was the first to be both discovered and designed using AI, and is currently in Phase 1 trials. \u2014 Calum Chace, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Insilico already has one A.I.-designed drug in initial human clinical trials, a compound designed to treat the chronic lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"Her friends have not adjusted to the fact of her illness \u2014 idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis deteriorates her lung capacity \u2014 and that manifests in a humiliating skittishness and avoidance. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"In one example, a 6-year-old girl who had started developing breasts was given an MRI scan and an abdominal ultrasound to check for tumors before being declared a case of idiopathic early puberty. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Systematic surveys of that information, analysis of idiopathic respiratory cases that appeared at hospitals, not only in Wuhan, but in the surrounding communities ... \u2014 A. Chris Gajilan, CNN , 19 Sep. 2021",
"Biotech startup, launched in 2021, is pursuing a pipeline of precision medicines in oncology and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Feb. 2022",
"In 1986, then 20 years old, the single mother of two was diagnosed with idiopathic cardiomyopathy. \u2014 Michael Roppolo, CBS News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"At the time of the surgery, Ms. Baisey, a single mother of two who lived in Washington\u2019s Anacostia neighborhood, was dying of idiopathic cardiomyopathy; her heart was swollen and failing for undiagnosed reasons. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Sep. 2021"
": any of a class of musical instruments (such as a bell or gong) whose sound is generated by striking, rubbing, plucking, or blowing the material of the instrument itself not under any special tension \u2014 compare aerophone , chordophone , electrophone , lamellophone , membranophone":[]
"\u2014 used of (1) monks that live separately, hold property, work individually in supporting themselves, and though members of a monastery supervised by an elected council are not under direct daily supervision or (2) of monasteries so organized"
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"Late Greek idiorrhythm os (from Greek idio- + rhythmos measured motion, measure, proportion) + English -ic":""
"Her habit of using \u201clike\u201d in every sentence was just one of her idiosyncrasies .",
"The current system has a few idiosyncracies .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But as the broader culture becomes less tolerant of public displays of anger, and with an increasing number of close calls on the court, racket smashing suddenly no longer seems like an entertaining idiosyncrasy . \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The performance-art aspect of the project is matched by the idiosyncrasy of the inventory. \u2014 Naomi Fry, The New Yorker , 5 Feb. 2022",
"On its stage vanishes \u2026 An idiosyncrasy of the book is Gorman\u2019s fondness for didactic digressions. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Of course, the candid conversations reveal some of the artists' idiosyncrasies . \u2014 Amir Vera, CNN , 23 May 2020",
"The for-profit world can\u2019t afford idiosyncrasies like these. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 11 Apr. 2020",
"According to Reich, who directs one of the FluSight Network\u2019s four participating teams, the ensemble approaches make optimal use of the component models\u2019 idiosyncrasies . \u2014 Charles Schmidt, Scientific American , 18 Sep. 2019",
"The lack of a sea change in court partly has to do with the idiosyncrasies of musical copyright. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 13 June 2019"
"Middle English, from Anglo-French ydiote , from Latin idiota ignorant person, from Greek idi\u014dt\u0113s one in a private station, layman, ignorant person, from idios one's own, private; akin to Latin suus one's own \u2014 more at suicide":""
"There has been a lot of idle speculation about what might happen, but no one really knows.",
"the idle days of summer",
"Verb",
"She left the engine idling for a few seconds before she turned it off.",
"The cars idled in traffic.",
"A group of boys idled in the doorway.",
"The factory closed, idling several hundred workers.",
"Thousands of workers have been idled by the bad economy.",
"The factory has been idled by the strike.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Delays and cancellations can push up fuel consumption and costs as aircraft idle on the tarmac waiting for a spot to open up for either takeoff or deplaning. \u2014 Tom Stalnaker, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Vice was Monaco\u2019s true draw, no longer just a sport of the idle rich, but an aspirational avocation for the middle class. \u2014 Lauren Groff, The Atlantic , 21 June 2022",
"CMPs offer enterprises a variety of savings strategies\u2014suggesting steps such as terminating unused or idle instances or rightsizing cloud capacity per need. \u2014 David Drai, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Buses, trains, airports, government offices and public companies came to a halt as hundreds of thousands of workers went idle , called off the job by the powerful Tunisian General Labor Union, which represents more than a million workers. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Though most wells have been capped, dozens owned by companies such as Southern California Gas Co., Chevron and Sentinel Peak Resources remain either idle or active. \u2014 Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"This is idle music, meant to insulate an active mind\u2014to help the listener focus, sleep, and live better. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
"Due to low water levels, a line of sailboats sits idle in the parking lot \u2014 but the Great Salt Lake Rowing Club is far from giving up their favorite spot. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The company has told drivers not to idle when possible, but turning trucks on and off also uses more fuel. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Auto manufacturers worldwide have had to idle factories and slash output as a result, causing shortages of new and used cars. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Auto manufacturers worldwide have had to idle factories and slash output as a result, causing shortages of new and used cars. \u2014 Jeanne Whalen, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Jan. 2022",
"An AvtoVAZ spokesman said the company planned to idle its plants until at least March 11 due to the global chip shortage that has affected car makers world-wide. \u2014 Nick Kostov And Evan Gershkovich, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Many Western nations have instituted sanctions against Russia, prompting many companies to idle operations there. \u2014 Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Next year, the Bay Area Toll Authority, which operates the seven toll bridges owned by Caltrans, plans to start ripping out tollbooths and narrowing the multi-lane plazas where cars idle , waiting to pay tolls. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Protesters objecting to Covid safety measures continue to idle trucks and camp out in downtown Ottawa, though blockades at the Canadian-U.S. border are standing down. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The chip drought has led to widespread disruptions, including forcing car makers lacking chips to idle plants and driving up prices for some electronic goods. \u2014 Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for idle Adjective vain , nugatory , otiose , idle , empty , hollow mean being without worth or significance. vain implies either absolute or relative absence of value. vain promises nugatory suggests triviality or insignificance. a monarch with nugatory powers otiose suggests that something serves no purpose and is either an encumbrance or a superfluity. a film without a single otiose scene idle suggests being incapable of worthwhile use or effect. idle speculations empty and hollow suggest a deceiving lack of real substance or soundness or genuineness. an empty attempt at reconciliation a hollow victory inactive , idle , inert , passive , supine mean not engaged in work or activity. inactive applies to anyone or anything not in action or in operation or at work. on inactive status as an astronaut inactive accounts idle applies to persons that are not busy or occupied or to their powers or their implements. workers were idle in the fields inert as applied to things implies powerlessness to move or to affect other things; as applied to persons it suggests an inherent or habitual indisposition to activity. inert ingredients in drugs an inert citizenry passive implies immobility or lack of normally expected response to an external force or influence and often suggests deliberate submissiveness or self-control. passive resistance supine applies only to persons and commonly implies abjectness or indolence. a supine willingness to play the fool Verb idle , loaf , lounge , loll , laze mean to spend time doing nothing. idle may be used in reference to persons that move lazily or without purpose. idled the day away loaf suggests either resting or wandering about as though there were nothing to do. she does her work and then loafs the rest of the day lounge , though occasionally used as equal to idle or loaf , typically conveys an additional implication of resting or reclining against a support or of physical comfort and ease in relaxation. he lounged against the wall loll also carries an implication of a posture similar to that of lounge , but places greater stress upon an indolent or relaxed attitude. lolling on the couch laze usually implies the relaxation of a busy person enjoying a vacation or moments of leisure. lazed about between appointments",
"Delays and cancellations can push up fuel consumption and costs as aircraft idle on the tarmac waiting for a spot to open up for either takeoff or deplaning. \u2014 Tom Stalnaker, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Vice was Monaco\u2019s true draw, no longer just a sport of the idle rich, but an aspirational avocation for the middle class. \u2014 Lauren Groff, The Atlantic , 21 June 2022",
"CMPs offer enterprises a variety of savings strategies\u2014suggesting steps such as terminating unused or idle instances or rightsizing cloud capacity per need. \u2014 David Drai, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Buses, trains, airports, government offices and public companies came to a halt as hundreds of thousands of workers went idle , called off the job by the powerful Tunisian General Labor Union, which represents more than a million workers. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Though most wells have been capped, dozens owned by companies such as Southern California Gas Co., Chevron and Sentinel Peak Resources remain either idle or active. \u2014 Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"This is idle music, meant to insulate an active mind\u2014to help the listener focus, sleep, and live better. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
"Due to low water levels, a line of sailboats sits idle in the parking lot \u2014 but the Great Salt Lake Rowing Club is far from giving up their favorite spot. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The company has told drivers not to idle when possible, but turning trucks on and off also uses more fuel. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Auto manufacturers worldwide have had to idle factories and slash output as a result, causing shortages of new and used cars. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Auto manufacturers worldwide have had to idle factories and slash output as a result, causing shortages of new and used cars. \u2014 Jeanne Whalen, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Jan. 2022",
"An AvtoVAZ spokesman said the company planned to idle its plants until at least March 11 due to the global chip shortage that has affected car makers world-wide. \u2014 Nick Kostov And Evan Gershkovich, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Many Western nations have instituted sanctions against Russia, prompting many companies to idle operations there. \u2014 Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Next year, the Bay Area Toll Authority, which operates the seven toll bridges owned by Caltrans, plans to start ripping out tollbooths and narrowing the multi-lane plazas where cars idle , waiting to pay tolls. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Protesters objecting to Covid safety measures continue to idle trucks and camp out in downtown Ottawa, though blockades at the Canadian-U.S. border are standing down. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The chip drought has led to widespread disruptions, including forcing car makers lacking chips to idle plants and driving up prices for some electronic goods. \u2014 Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for idle Adjective vain , nugatory , otiose , idle , empty , hollow mean being without worth or significance. vain implies either absolute or relative absence of value. vain promises nugatory suggests triviality or insignificance. a monarch with nugatory powers otiose suggests that something serves no purpose and is either an encumbrance or a superfluity. a film without a single otiose scene idle suggests being incapable of worthwhile use or effect. idle speculations empty and hollow suggest a deceiving lack of real substance or soundness or genuineness. an empty attempt at reconciliation a hollow victory inactive , idle , inert , passive , supine mean not engaged in work or activity. inactive applies to anyone or anything not in action or in operation or at work. on inactive status as an astronaut inactive accounts idle applies to persons that are not busy or occupied or to their powers or their implements. workers were idle in the fields inert as applied to things implies powerlessness to move or to affect other things; as applied to persons it suggests an inherent or habitual indisposition to activity. inert ingredients in drugs an inert citizenry passive implies immobility or lack of normally expected response to an external force or influence and often suggests deliberate submissiveness or self-control. passive resistance supine applies only to persons and commonly implies abjectness or indolence. a supine willingness to play the fool Verb idle , loaf , lounge , loll , laze mean to spend time doing nothing. idle may be used in reference to persons that move lazily or without purpose. idled the day away loaf suggests either resting or wandering about as though there were nothing to do. she does her work and then loafs the rest of the day lounge , though occasionally used as equal to idle or loaf , typically conveys an additional implication of resting or reclining against a support or of physical comfort and ease in relaxation. he lounged against the wall loll also carries an implication of a posture similar to that of lounge , but places greater stress upon an indolent or relaxed attitude. lolling on the couch laze usually implies the relaxation of a busy person enjoying a vacation or moments of leisure. lazed about between appointments",
"This new design eliminates idlers and all the maintenance issues associated with the traditional conveyor design.",
"\u2014 Biomass Magazine"
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"Some manufacturers use larger drive wheels with smaller idlers that are free to turn on their own axes.",
"\u2014 Harry H. Poole"
],
": one who spends time idly : an idle, inactive, or lazy person":[
"The idlers in O'Toole's and in the candy store would crowd outside, leaving their beers and chocolate malteds behind.",
"\u2014 Stephen King",
"There he assumed the role of society playboy, swell dancer, ready wit and all-around idler , all the while continuing a nearly secret life as a dedicated painter.",
"\u2014 Frank Getlein",
"\"He has never done anything\u2014he is a selfish idler .\"",
"\u2014 Henry James",
"For this was the regime that was supposed to turn idlers , spongers, beggars and assorted ne'er-do-wells into industrious responsible members of society.",
"\u2014 Simon Schama"
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"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al-\u0259r",
"\u02c8\u012bd-l\u0259r"
],
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"noun"
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": a guide or tightening pulley for a belt or chain":[]
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"circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a wheel, gear, or roller used to transfer motion or to guide or support something":[],
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},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Middle English, from idle + -esse (as in richesse wealth) \u2014 more at riches":""
},
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"\u02c8\u012bd-l\u0259s",
"\u012bd-\u02c8les"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105751",
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"noun"
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": a false conception : fallacy":[],
": a form or appearance visible but without substance":[
"an enchanted phantom, a lifeless idol",
"\u2014 P. B. Shelley"
],
": a likeness of something":[],
": pretender , impostor":[]
},
"examples":[
"an actor who is the idol of millions",
"a movie idol whose reprehensible offscreen behavior caused him to experience a spectacular fall from grace",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While belting out a flawless version of the national anthem, Brandy also managed to stylishly pay tribute to her idol Whitney Houston during the NFC Championship game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 30 Jan. 2022",
"In any case, the money from the single helped bridge the gap, and the E Street Band stayed together, going on to make Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Born in the U.S.A. and all that followed, all thanks to their girl-group idol . \u2014 Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Drea uses her Knowledge Is Power advantage to try and take Mike\u2019s immunity idol . \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 18 May 2022",
"Disney Miguel is an aspiring young musician who wants to play like Ernesto de La Cruz, Miguel\u2019s idol . \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"Willy, whose golfing idol is Jordan Spieth, is also considered the team\u2019s best putter. \u2014 Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 May 2022",
"That cascaded into a wild tribal vote: One player tried to steal a second player\u2019s immunity idol only to have the power play backfire because of a doublecross executed by a third player. \u2014 al , 11 May 2022",
"Friday: Alcaraz powered past countryman/ idol Nadal in three sets, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, outmuscling the 35-year-old lefty on his preferred surface. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 9 May 2022",
"ByteDance has invested in a couple of digital human and virtual idol startups over the past two years. \u2014 Nina Xiang, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French idle , from Late Latin idolum , from Greek eid\u014dlon image, idol; akin to Greek eidos form \u2014 more at idyll":""
},
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al"
],
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"god",
"hero",
"icon",
"ikon"
],
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"noun"
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": a person that admires intensely and often blindly one that is not usually a subject of worship":[],
": a worshipper of idols":[]
},
"examples":[
"by and large the American colonists were not particularly tolerant of those who were regarded as idolaters",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The personification of those enthusiasms was the composer John Cage\u2014a student of Schoenberg, a devotee of Eastern thought, and an idolater of Duchamp. \u2014 Louis Menand, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Carpenter, like Valenti, was an idolater , but the journalists had the same feeling. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
"His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters , for whom the master could do no wrong. \u2014 Margalit Fox, New York Times , 18 May 2016"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u012b-\u02c8d\u00e4-l\u0259-t\u0259r"
],
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"gentile",
"heathen",
"pagan"
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"by and large the American colonists were not particularly tolerant of those who were regarded as idolaters",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The personification of those enthusiasms was the composer John Cage\u2014a student of Schoenberg, a devotee of Eastern thought, and an idolater of Duchamp. \u2014 Louis Menand, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Carpenter, like Valenti, was an idolater , but the journalists had the same feeling. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
"His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters , for whom the master could do no wrong. \u2014 Margalit Fox, New York Times , 18 May 2016"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": the worship of a physical object as a god":[]
},
"examples":[
"her idolatry of her favorite rock star is one step removed from stalking",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"However, such idolatry might be inappropriate for a man who, as his son tells it, was less invested in his own celebrity than in organizing races, and participating in them into his mid 80s. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 6 Mar. 2021",
"There\u2019s nothing in this hellzapoppin lampoon to prevent one from remembering its Hollywood idolatry as The Unbearable Weight of Nicolas Cage. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Ultimately this phenomenon is a kind of idolatry , an attempt to be as God is. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 25 Mar. 2022",
"TikTok accounts \u2014 create an illusory sense of intimacy that fans would not necessarily experience with the objects of their idolatry a century, or even a decade, ago. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"There is plenty of important work to be done in diagnosing and correcting what ails portions of the Evangelical right \u2014 extreme polarization, political idolatry , susceptibility to demagoguery, etc. \u2014 Brian G. Mattson, National Review , 20 Feb. 2022",
"This is idolatry , this willingness to blame God for the morally wrong choices of humans. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Feb. 2022",
"There is a temptation when discussing culturally significant and exalted figures like poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka to speak with an air of unfettered worship \u2014 to move past humanity and instead towards idolatry . \u2014 Sarah-tai Black, Los Angeles Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Spencer itself is only a half-bad movie, promoting idolatry for a public that has lost respect for tradition and that has no sense of duty or sense of occasion. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 10 Nov. 2021"
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English ydolatrie , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin idolatria , alteration of Late Latin idololatria , from Greek eid\u014dlolatreia , from eid\u014dlon idol + -latreia -latry":""
"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
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"her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gradually, however, in the 1980s, Duplin\u2019s pastoral idyll becomes a mephitic dead zone, thanks to the nightmarish business scheme of an ambitious hog farmer named Wendell H. Murphy. \u2014 Jeff Calder, ajc , 3 June 2022",
"But, in similar movements\u2014among them Amsterdam\u2019s Stop de Kindermood (Stop Killing Children) campaign of the seventies, which turned that city into a bike idyll \u2014mothers, bearing an anguish poignant to the public, had proved effective as victims. \u2014 Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
"This past spring, a small group of women gathered at the Beaverbrook estate in Surrey, England, a 470-acre country idyll outside London that once received guests including Elizabeth Taylor and Ian Fleming. \u2014 Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
"Long before Tuesday, reality interfered with some visions of Uvalde as a pastoral idyll . \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"After months of next to no infections, omicron shattered Hong Kong\u2019s virus-free idyll and caught authorities unprepared. \u2014 Shirley Zhao, Bloomberg.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The utopia of Dickens\u2019s fiction, also impossibly outdated today, maybe even outdated in 1850, is the domestic idyll . \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The Budapest of von Neumann\u2019s childhood, the fin of a buoyant si\u00e8cle, was a cosmopolitan idyll in which Jews were able to prosper, and the von Neumanns could afford tutors, country homes, and private libraries. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2022",
"After an idyll punctuated by shoplifting, drunken nights and Nick\u2019s promiscuity, the twins return home, maintaining their estrangement from their mother. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022"
"her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gradually, however, in the 1980s, Duplin\u2019s pastoral idyll becomes a mephitic dead zone, thanks to the nightmarish business scheme of an ambitious hog farmer named Wendell H. Murphy. \u2014 Jeff Calder, ajc , 3 June 2022",
"But, in similar movements\u2014among them Amsterdam\u2019s Stop de Kindermood (Stop Killing Children) campaign of the seventies, which turned that city into a bike idyll \u2014mothers, bearing an anguish poignant to the public, had proved effective as victims. \u2014 Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
"This past spring, a small group of women gathered at the Beaverbrook estate in Surrey, England, a 470-acre country idyll outside London that once received guests including Elizabeth Taylor and Ian Fleming. \u2014 Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
"Long before Tuesday, reality interfered with some visions of Uvalde as a pastoral idyll . \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"After months of next to no infections, omicron shattered Hong Kong\u2019s virus-free idyll and caught authorities unprepared. \u2014 Shirley Zhao, Bloomberg.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The utopia of Dickens\u2019s fiction, also impossibly outdated today, maybe even outdated in 1850, is the domestic idyll . \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The Budapest of von Neumann\u2019s childhood, the fin of a buoyant si\u00e8cle, was a cosmopolitan idyll in which Jews were able to prosper, and the von Neumanns could afford tutors, country homes, and private libraries. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2022",
"After an idyll punctuated by shoplifting, drunken nights and Nick\u2019s promiscuity, the twins return home, maintaining their estrangement from their mother. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022"
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"identical hats",
"\u2014 often used with to or with"
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"identical infections"
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"\u012b-\u02c8dent-i-k\u0259l, \u0259-",
"\u012b-\u02c8den-ti-k\u0259l",
"\u0259-"
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"examples":[
"We visited the identical place we stopped at last year.",
"They were wearing identical coats.",
"The boxes were identical in shape.",
"They drove virtually identical cars.",
"The results were identical to those of the first test.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Unless the value of all condominium units was identical in the building when it was originally developed, unit percentages would not be the same for all units in a condominium. \u2014 Howard Dakoff, Chicago Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Since no e-bike is identical , pay attention to which features are must-haves or nice extras to improve your riding experience. \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 15 June 2022",
"While the sum of their genetic risks (known as a genetic risk score) won\u2019t be identical , there will be similarities that can give clues to how treatment might work for you8. \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022",
"She's also played by Jordan Claire Robbins, and their appearance, of course, is identical . \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 8 June 2022",
"Recessions happen as part of the normal economic cycle, and so far, no two have been identical , but there are some considerable commonalities. \u2014 Leon Labrecque, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Tests revealed the cloning, with the DNA to all 10 spread-out samples proving to be identical . \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"The powertrains are identical , so expect any manual WRX to hit 60 in 5.5 seconds and run the quarter-mile in 13.9 seconds at 101 mph. \u2014 K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver , 30 May 2022",
"The vaccines are not identical : Moderna\u2019s is two doses of 25 micrograms each, a quarter of Moderna\u2019s adult dose. \u2014 Adam Feuerstein, STAT , 29 May 2022"
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"probably from Medieval Latin identicus , from Late Latin identitas":""
": a line of people who stand next to each other while someone tries to identify one of them as the person who has committed a crime":[]
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"noun"
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"in sense 1, from Latin & Greek; Latin, phantom, image, from Greek eid\u014dlon phantom, image, idol; in sense 2, New Latin, from Late Latin, idol, from Greek eid\u014dlon":""
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": showing complete lack of thought or common sense : foolish":[
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"found his excuses idiotic"
],
": characterized by extreme intellectual disability":[]
},
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"\u02cci-d\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4-tik"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It\u2019s letting the audience know that chaos is imminent and impending doom will not be easily thwarted by the idiotic actions of men. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 19 May 2022",
"Most of my idiotic knee-jerk political reactions magically vanish in the editing process. \u2014 Cameron Smith | Csmith@al.com, al , 13 Apr. 2022",
"That said, there\u2019s one frankly idiotic contradiction blurring the parameters of this violent debate\u2014a contradiction that obscures, in a country excessively proud of its First Amendment rights, the reality that debate is often limited. \u2014 John R. Macarthur, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
"The floor, of course, is a complete collapse which would probably involve Hal Steinbrenner doing something completely idiotic . \u2014 Daniel Kohn, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Nobody bothered with these impossible and idiotic arguments about the dignity of work, or trying to make sure that the rescue payments went absolutely only to those in dire need. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 30 July 2021",
"Anytime one of the other castmates says or does something idiotic , the camera cuts to Deb, squinting judgmentally in their direction. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The idea is idiotic and probably cannot be implemented. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Well, earmarks will help responsible congresspersons draw a stark contrast with their idiotic colleagues. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 9 Mar. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1659, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"chromat id"
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"\u02c8id",
"\u02c8\u012b-\u02c8d\u0113"
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"finger",
"identify",
"pinpoint",
"single (out)"
],
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"Verb",
"The police have not yet ID'd the victim.",
"studies that show that eyewitnesses are surprisingly unreliable when called upon to ID the perpetrators of crimes"
],
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"New Latin, from Latin, it":"Noun",
"in sense 1, from Latin -ides , masculine patronymic suffix, from Greek -id\u0113s ; in sense 2, from Italian -ide , from Latin -id-, -is , feminine patronymic suffix, from Greek":"Noun suffix",
"probably from Latin -id-, -is , feminine patronymic suffix, from Greek":"Noun suffix"
},
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"1924, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1944, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the molecular structure and conformation of an antibody that confers its antigenic specificity":[]
},
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"\u02c8id-\u0113-\u0259-\u02cct\u012bp",
"\u02c8i-d\u0113-\u0259-\u02cct\u012bp"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1967, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184545"
},
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"noun"
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": a large card bearing usually hand-lettered words or phrases for prompting a speaker or actor during a telecast \u2014 compare idiot board":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1952, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190423"
},
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],
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]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194651"
},
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"noun"
],
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": a mark or feature that shows who someone is or what something is":[
"The large mustache was an identifying feature of the man.",
"The police detective put a small identifying mark on the envelope."
]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210224"
},
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": idola due to human nature itself or to the tribe or race of man (as anthropomorphic projections) \u2014 compare idolum sense 2":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"translation of New Latin idola tribus":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212821"
},
"Identi-Kit":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"trademark"
],
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": produced by or as if by the routine assembly of stock materials : lacking variety or individuality : prefabricated , stereotyped":[
"the type of bland, middlebrow, identikit novel",
"\u2014 Quentin Oates"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u012b\u02c8dent\u0259\u0307\u02cckit",
"\""
],
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"from Identi-Kit , a trademark":"Adjective"
},
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"1962, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215939"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": extreme stupidity or foolishness":[]
},
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"-k\u0259ln\u0259\u0307s"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1668, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"adjective",
"noun"
],
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},
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"\u02c8i-d\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccgram",
"\u02c8\u012b-"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"However, using numbers is not allowed under those rules, and using pictures, like an emoji or ideogram , in a name is expressly forbidden. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 26 May 2020",
"Much like the previous set introduced last year, Emoji 13.0 promotes inclusion and diversity, with ideograms of gender-neutral brides and grooms, Santa Claus, and bottle-feeding parents in various skin tones. \u2014 cleveland , 30 Jan. 2020",
"Luxurious hotels, casinos, and nightclubs merge with gray buildings, European remains, and Taoist temples, in a city full of ideogram signs, and unmistakable smells and sounds. \u2014 Popular Science , 21 Jan. 2020",
"Spanish filled the airwaves; the ideograms and characters of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other Asian languages covered the store signs, sparking an angry nativist movement. \u2014 H\u00e9ctor Tobar, The New Yorker , 22 July 2019",
"Derived from an ancient African writing system, the ideograms are an Ekpuk trademark. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 13 June 2019",
"And while there are tiny web and smartphones ideograms for everything from soup to nuts, there are very few that are specifically Jewish. \u2014 Marcy Oster, sun-sentinel.com , 5 June 2019",
"Emojis might be connected in some respects to Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese ideograms . \u2014 Crispin Sartwell, WSJ , 22 Sep. 2017",
"The emoji is heir to a tradition of pictographic writing stretching back millennia to Egyptian hieroglyphics and the ideograms used to write Chinese and Japanese. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Sep. 2017"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1838, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": a monistic philosophical theory (such as the philosophy of Schelling) that rejects any ultimate bifurcation into spirit and nature or subject and object and finds fundamental unity in the Absolute":[]
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},
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"noun"
],
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": a person who is highly knowledgeable about one subject but knows little about anything else":[]
"But while there\u2019s a veneer of innocence to these home movies\u2014an air of the idiot savant \u2019s capacity to unwittingly capture a glimpse of profundity\u2014their most powerful valence is not one of innocence but of self-effacing knowledge. \u2014 Leslie Jamison, The New York Review of Books , 29 Apr. 2020",
"On the one hand, this understanding of AI as an idiot savant is perfectly sensible. \u2014 James Vincent, The Verge , 3 Oct. 2018",
"Similarly, Yang's character Jian Yang is portrayed as an idiot savant , a mostly silent character there for Erlich (T.J. Miller, who was fired from the show) to mock. \u2014 Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com , 7 Mar. 2018"
],
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"French, literally, learned idiot":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232224"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1952, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234211"
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},
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"-si",
"\u02c8id\u0113\u0259ts\u0113"
],
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"abbreviation"
],
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],
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"-ri"
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"German idiophon , from idio- + -phon -phone":""
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"1940, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010615"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013133"
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},
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"\u0259-",
"\u012b-\u02c8den-tik"
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"1649, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being idoneous : suitability , fitness":[]
},
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"\u02cc\u012bd\u0259\u02c8n\u0113\u0259t\u0113"
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"Medieval Latin idoneitas , from Latin idoneus + -itas -ity":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-045635"
},
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": idola due to individual peculiarities or prejudices \u2014 compare idolum sense 2":[]
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"translation of New Latin idola specus":""
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],
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"\u02c8i-d\u0113-\u0259-(\u02cc)ti-z\u0259m",
"\u02c8i-d\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccti-z\u0259m"
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"Middle French idiotisme , from Latin idiotismus common speech, from Greek idi\u014dtismos , from idi\u014dt\u0113s":"Noun",
"Not only that, but navigationally, the trails were practically idiotproof . \u2014 Eben Weiss, Outside Online , 20 Nov. 2019",
"The eyeliner itself was great: essentially an actual marker, extremely idiotproof , thin enough to create a good cat\u2019s-eye but thick enough to create the illusion of control in a chaotic universe. \u2014 Rachel Handler, Vulture , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Also, the automatic and the M550i's all-wheel system make a good launch nearly idiotproof . \u2014 Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver , 2 June 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1966, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-141713"
},
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},
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"-\u0259\u02cct\u012bz",
"-\u0259t\u02cc\u012bz"
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"1775, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164734"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": an element (such as 0 in the set of all integers under addition or 1 in the set of positive integers under multiplication) that leaves any element of the set to which it belongs unchanged when combined with it by a specified operation":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Individually examining each identity element alone when onboarding a new customer is often ineffective, as all the pieces of information provided may be technically valid. \u2014 Robert Mckay, Forbes , 18 May 2021",
"For example, the identity element in the group must be assigned the identity matrix. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 June 2020",
"The real numbers have an identity element \u2014 the number 1. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 June 2020"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1902, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171248"
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],
"definitions":{
": a means of identification of a pedigreed animal consisting of a tattoo mark that is recorded on both pedigree and certificate of ownership":[]
},
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"\u012b\u02c8dent\u0259\u02cck\u014dd",
"\u0259\u0307\u02c8d-"
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"ident ification + connective -a- + code":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171331"
},
"idol shepherd":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a counterfeit or worthless shepherd":[
"woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock",
"\u2014 Zechariah 11:17 (Authorized Version)"
],
"\u2014 compare shepherd sense 2":[
"woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock",
"\u2014 Zechariah 11:17 (Authorized Version)"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171637"
},
"idly":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": in an idle manner: such as":[],
": without much thought, effort or attention":[
"idly staring out the window",
"idly flipping from one channel to another",
"Harry \u2026 doodled idly on his parchment ignoring Hermione's frequent glares and nudges \u2026",
"\u2014 J. K. Rowling"
],
": in a lazy or inactive manner or state":[
"sat with her hands resting idly in her lap",
"spent the day lying idly on the couch",
"Barber left London the next day, and for six months sat idly in Addis Ababa waiting for something to happen.",
"\u2014 Waverly Root"
],
": without taking any action":[
"\"The time has come to speak,\" she said. \"I cannot stand idly by [=do nothing] and see a young man going to perdition!\"",
"\u2014 P. G. Wodehouse",
"\u2026 a party who has been wronged by a breach of contract may not unreasonably sit idly by and allow damages to accumulate.",
"\u2014 John D. Calamari and Joseph M. Perillo"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al-\u0113",
"\u02c8\u012bd-l\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195133"
},
"idoneous":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": fit , appropriate , suitable , proper":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)\u012b\u00a6d\u014dn\u0113\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin idoneus":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-202110"
},
"identify with":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to think of (something) as being the same as (something else)":[
"It is a mistake to identify being healthy with being thin."
],
": to think of (someone) as being very closely associated with (something)":[
"She has always been identified with the civil rights movement.",
"These groups are identified with conservation."
],
": to think of oneself as having the same problems and feelings as someone":[
"Many readers identify with the characters in her novels."
