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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Caregivers and infants are really a dyad \u2014their outcomes and health play into each other\u2019s, Clayton Shuman, a maternal-infant-health researcher at the University of Michigan, told me. \u2014 Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Marrying him was the adventure within the New York adventure, the intimate intellectual dyad within the larger intellectual circle. \u2014 Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Could the Biden administration allow a leg of the triad to age out, resulting in a dyad ? \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 13 Oct. 2021",
"Remember to consider desire as a broad spectrum, one that includes willingness, not just want, says Guralnik, and create conditions that emphasize a dyad , not just a family matrix. \u2014 Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue , 7 Oct. 2021",
"In a scene reminiscent of The Last Jedi\u2019s throne-room slaughter, Hunter B-15 tosses a dagger to Sylvie, and the dyad of tricksters beheads one of the Time-Keepers before taking on a small battalion of Minutemen. \u2014 Alex Kane, USA TODAY , 1 July 2021",
"In 2017 untreated perinatal mood disorders cost $14 billion in the U.S., which amounts to $31,800 per mother-infant dyad . \u2014 Priya Iyer, Scientific American , 30 Mar. 2021",
"Human milk feedings have been shown to improve health outcomes across the life course for birthing people and their infants, increase bonding between the dyad , and reduce health care costs. \u2014 Jamila K. Taylor, Scientific American , 11 Mar. 2021",
"The pain of this moment lies in straining to articulate a defense for the safety of one\u2019s community because conversations around anti-Asian sentiment fall through the cracks in the dyad between black and white in the American racial consciousness. \u2014 Jerrine Tan, Wired , 19 Mar. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"It's just been a lot of fun as a group being able to have that dynamic . \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"According to Topor, the present dynamic leads different investors to put pressure on the CEO and the founding team and leads to premature sales. \u2014 Carrie Rubinstein, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"In the near term, the dynamic applies negatively to the potential for exits on investments SoftBank has already made. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, the Goliath in this power dynamic pays bulldog lawyers to shut people up, hires private investigators to dig up dirt on the person coming forward, and uses aggressive PR and connections at the top to feed stories to the media. \u2014 Amber Scorah, Fortune , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But when residents don\u2019t comply \u2014 or when a rival group pushes in and tries to become the new coca buyer \u2014 the dynamic turns deadly. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"If Twitter became decentralized, the dynamic could result in a somewhat less opaque moderation process on the platform. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Bitker takes over a talented team of reporters and critics that has become a hit with readers by providing the most engaging and influential coverage of the Bay Area\u2019s food and drink culture, among the most dynamic in the country. \u2014 Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Apr. 2022",
"If that dynamic holds, Kemp would be within striking distance of winning the primary outright, averting a runoff. \u2014 Fox News , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the world's richest person doesn't seem concerned about that dynamic . \u2014 Chris Isidore, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"That dynamic coupled with MLB's draft-pool system means baseball's top 10 isn't quite as easy to predict as the NBA's or NFL's. \u2014 Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press , 1 June 2022",
"The expanding carriage of the ACC Network, which is owned by ESPN, changed that dynamic . \u2014 oregonlive , 24 May 2022",
"That same dynamic is true here, to a degree, except that Skolimowski romanticizes and partly anthropomorphizes the beast, giving him subjective shots and flashbacks, perhaps even dream sequences. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 19 May 2022",
"That dynamic could be seen throughout this primary season. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"That dynamic is quite clearly the biggest storyline of Saturday\u2019s race. \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 6 May 2022",
"Investors historically held bonds as ballast against more volatile stocks but that dynamic broke down this year when debt and equity markets fell together in anticipation of the Fed\u2019s shift to more aggressive interest-rate increases. \u2014 Matt Wirz, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"Thus begins the odd dynamic at Abigail\u2019s new workplace. \u2014 Marc Berman, Forbes , 19 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"It's just been a lot of fun as a group being able to have that dynamic . \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"According to Topor, the present dynamic leads different investors to put pressure on the CEO and the founding team and leads to premature sales. \u2014 Carrie Rubinstein, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"In the near term, the dynamic applies negatively to the potential for exits on investments SoftBank has already made. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, the Goliath in this power dynamic pays bulldog lawyers to shut people up, hires private investigators to dig up dirt on the person coming forward, and uses aggressive PR and connections at the top to feed stories to the media. \u2014 Amber Scorah, Fortune , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But when residents don\u2019t comply \u2014 or when a rival group pushes in and tries to become the new coca buyer \u2014 the dynamic turns deadly. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"If Twitter became decentralized, the dynamic could result in a somewhat less opaque moderation process on the platform. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Bitker takes over a talented team of reporters and critics that has become a hit with readers by providing the most engaging and influential coverage of the Bay Area\u2019s food and drink culture, among the most dynamic in the country. \u2014 Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Apr. 2022",
"If that dynamic holds, Kemp would be within striking distance of winning the primary outright, averting a runoff. \u2014 Fox News , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the world's richest person doesn't seem concerned about that dynamic . \u2014 Chris Isidore, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"That dynamic coupled with MLB's draft-pool system means baseball's top 10 isn't quite as easy to predict as the NBA's or NFL's. \u2014 Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press , 1 June 2022",
"The expanding carriage of the ACC Network, which is owned by ESPN, changed that dynamic . \u2014 oregonlive , 24 May 2022",
"That same dynamic is true here, to a degree, except that Skolimowski romanticizes and partly anthropomorphizes the beast, giving him subjective shots and flashbacks, perhaps even dream sequences. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 19 May 2022",
"That dynamic could be seen throughout this primary season. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"That dynamic is quite clearly the biggest storyline of Saturday\u2019s race. \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 6 May 2022",
"Investors historically held bonds as ballast against more volatile stocks but that dynamic broke down this year when debt and equity markets fell together in anticipation of the Fed\u2019s shift to more aggressive interest-rate increases. \u2014 Matt Wirz, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"Thus begins the odd dynamic at Abigail\u2019s new workplace. \u2014 Marc Berman, Forbes , 19 May 2022"
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"voters were attracted to the young challenger's dynamism , charisma, and progressive ideas",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Certainly, there is a dynamism to the works that can\u2019t easily be conveyed in photographs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Balla and his colleagues joined the call to arms, at first borrowing from the Cubists to convey a sense of dynamism on the canvas. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2021",
"Importantly, this dynamism and divergence in expectations for company ESG data go beyond the investor community. \u2014 R. Mukund, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"As the firelight moves different horses are illuminated, giving a sense of dynamism to the art. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 21 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s the kind of dynamism that leads to a long career. \u2014 Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Most of today\u2019s successful nation-states are conglomerations of racial, ethnic and religious groups that have become, on balance, sources of dynamism rather than conflict. \u2014 Christopher Demuth, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022",
"But this remarkable dynamism , some researchers argue, is a double-edged sword. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Apr. 2021",
"First, its peplum-ish ruffle is sort of genius, giving dynamism and playfulness while maintaining the lean column shape Kidman favors. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Here was a collection of pop songs on steroids, hits with more muscle than Gold\u2019s Gym, a stick of musical dynamite that blew up everywhere. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 26 May 2022",
"Trump came not with a paintbrush but with a stick of dynamite . \u2014 Alex Thomas, The New Republic , 16 May 2022",
"These include Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Peace Prize and inventor of dynamite ; Joseph Priestly, chemist and theologian who discovered oxygen; and Alfred Mond, ICI founder and chairman. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Not much dynamite was required, because the cabin was eight feet wide by ten feet long. \u2014 The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The salt will have ample time to absorb, and the exterior will be bone dry \u2014 perfect for achieving a juicy steak with a dynamite sear. \u2014 Jeffrey Gardner, USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Boothe, like so many others, is captivated by the stone fortress, resting on an acre-wide rocky outcrop that was leveled by dynamite during construction. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Kurt Russell delivers a dynamite performances surrounded by William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Scott Glenn, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rebecca De Mornay. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Among the many victims: the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a civil rights leader whose home was damaged on Christmas Day in 1956 by 16 sticks of dynamite placed beneath his bedroom window. \u2014 Cheyanne Mumphrey And Jeff Martin, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The history of the Indian subcontinent is rife with fascinating stories that make for dynamite action films, and this 2015 drama is a great example. \u2014 K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG , 8 June 2022",
"Before Parasite, director Bong Joon-ho made Mother, another dynamite contribution to the world of Korean cinema. \u2014 Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 May 2022",
"Strip mining in Central Appalachia rips forests from the ground and uses dynamite to blast the tops and sides of mountains to get at coal buried hundreds of feet beneath them. \u2014 James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal , 18 Apr. 2022",
"In some cases, the reasons for failure are obvious: Corals were planted on piles of unstable rubble left behind by dynamite fishing or massive storms and were quickly buried in sediment. \u2014 Rowan Moore Gerety, Wired , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Gulf dynamite shrimp spiced with serranos, and sweet and fiery mango habanero salmon, alongside traditional dishes like chicken tikka masala and lamb vindaloo. \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 22 Mar. 2022",
"With pick and shovel and a perilous, pre- dynamite blasting method, the workers built the Windsor Locks Canal from 1827-29. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Yes, actual gunfire and dynamite play a role in the proceedings. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press , 22 Oct. 2021",
"In less crowded places, dynamite or other explosives blast away rock, or excavators break rock into smaller pieces. \u2014 Khari Johnson, Wired , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Behind a dynamite third quarter and, according to Cleaning The Glass, the second-stingiest defensive performance of their season, the Warriors prevented a lot of Internet chaos in Game 2. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Some characters are actually thriving, including Mercedes\u2019 mother Patrice (the dynamite Harriet D. Foy), whose makeshift church has become a community hub, giving out boxes of food and inspirational CDs. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"But what this modern folk poet extraordinaire does have is a dynamite show that hums with raw honesty. \u2014 Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel , 25 May 2022",
"Courtney Williams was dynamite for West Linn on both sides of the ball. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 May 2022",
"Russell delivers a dynamite performance surrounded by Robert De Niro, Scott Glenn, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rebecca De Mornay. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Martinez, who graduated early from high school to enroll at OSU in January, is a dynamite blend of power and speed. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The trio of Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne and Darren Criss anchors the piece in dynamite style. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Jefferson County Circuit Judge Kechia Davis then issued an Allen charge, sometimes called a dynamite charge, telling jurors to keep deliberating. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 12 Apr. 2022"
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"Like many of the other 67 bands and solo artists performing at this weekend\u2019s 19th annual Gator by the Bay festival, blues and soul vocal dynamo Sugaray Rayford got his start on the stage of a nightclub. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 May 2022",
"Least of all the director here, a pocket-sized Tatar dynamo called Taras Voznyak, who meets me in his office. \u2014 Waldemar Januszczak For The Times, Robb Report , 19 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s right, the electric Seahawk dynamo , who led Seattle to its only Super Bowl title in the 2013 season (versus Denver, no less) is reportedly on the move to the Mile High for a pile of picks and Broncos quarterback Drew Lock. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Enter a brave little dynamo named Beanie Feldstein, who has dared to step into the part in the first Broadway revival, directed by Michael Mayer. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Richmond earning a spot ensures that players like Jacob Gilyard, the Spiders\u2019 dynamo of a point guard, will get to shine in front of a broader audience. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Manville\u2019s performance is the distasteful dynamo powering much of the film\u2019s drama, but Leigh is always careful not to castigate or villainize, keeping the audience\u2019s sympathies balanced through each character\u2019s ups and downs. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 26 Feb. 2022",
"The Hull sisters took turns guarding Harmon, too, using their height and length to tower over the 5-foot-6 dynamo . \u2014 Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The Terps have their own offensive dynamo in graduate student attacker Aurora Cordingley, who leads the country in points per game (7.7) and ranks second in assists per game (3.2). \u2014 Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The America\u2019s Mayor Gin, gin, gin, and just a whisper of hair dye . \u2014 Bruce Handy, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"Hospitals are facing a scarcity of contrast dye used in diagnostic scans, the result of a COVID lockdown at the Shanghai plant where most of it is produced. \u2014 Darius Tahir, CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"Still, there are a few things to know before diving hair first into the world of DIY hair dye . \u2014 Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Hospitals are facing a scarcity of contrast dye used in diagnostic scans, the result of a COVID lockdown at the Shanghai plant where most of it is produced. \u2014 Darius Tahir, CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"Hospitals are facing a scarcity of contrast dye used in diagnostic scans, the result of a COVID lockdown at the Shanghai plant where most of it is produced. \u2014 Darius Tahir, Fortune , 2 June 2022",
"GE Healthcare's production of contrast dye is expected to return to normal by late June, the American Hospital Association said in a statement. \u2014 Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press , 14 May 2022",
"Lines of blue dye that mark the path through the course disappeared, despite course workers attempting to redraw them after each run. \u2014 Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The following month, he was splashed with an antiseptic green dye , damaging his vision in one eye. \u2014 Paul Leblanc, CNN , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The depot held clothing ready for export as well as drums filled with hydrogen peroxide, a chemical compound often used to bleach and dye fabric. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"In the Lab, scientists dye human hair samples in brown, blonde, red and black shades and evaluate the products for their gray hair coverage. \u2014 Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Loc extensions, starter locs, styling locs, coloring locs, and loc maintenance. Want to dye your locs purple? \u2014 Danielle James, Allure , 11 May 2022",
"My new workplace has about 30 employees, mostly women, every one of whom either dyes their hair or is young enough not to need to, and many younger employees dye their hair too. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Aug. 2021",
"The band will play Moda Center on Sunday, Oct. 2, at 7:30 p.m., which gives you plenty of time to get angsty about something and dye your hair black. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The blue thread used would be typical of Native American or prairie settlers at the time, both of whom used indigo to dye thread a deep midnight blue. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Feb. 2022",
"For over a decade, Margolis has asked his patients to dye his hair, coloring it from white to green as a way to boost morale and support the Milwaukee Bucks. \u2014 Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Older Kid can dye her own yarn, maybe, lowering your costs and increasing her range. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Dec. 2021"
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": indigestion",
": ill humor : disgruntlement",
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"dis-\u02c8pep-sh\u0259",
"-s\u0113-\u0259",
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"-s\u0113-\u0259"
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"examples":[
"He is suffering from dyspepsia .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Take for example an experiment that administered capsaicin to volunteers with functional dyspepsia as well as healthy folks. \u2014 Patrick Wilson, Outside Online , 21 Aug. 2020",
"Beyond acute physical and psychological stress, what else can aggravate visceral hypersensitivity in people with IBS, dyspepsia , or other gut disorders? \u2014 Patrick Wilson, Outside Online , 21 Aug. 2020",
"To diagnose it, then\u2014this diegetic dyspepsia \u2014a comprehensive examination of the patient must be performed. \u2014 Jason Kehe, Wired , 7 July 2021",
"Another risk of nighttime eating is dyspepsia , more commonly known as indigestion or an upset stomach. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 23 Aug. 2019",
"And functional dyspepsia , which affects the stomach and is otherwise known as indigestion, affects nearly 32% of the population, according to a 2004 study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, Woman's Day , 29 Oct. 2018",
"Upper stomach pain or feelings of fullness paired with bloating may be indicative of dyspepsia , for example, whereas lower abdomen cramping and a change in bowel habits could point to IBS. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, Woman's Day , 29 Oct. 2018",
"The Europeans who encountered indigenous people in Mexico in the 1500s noted that chocolate was used to treat numerous ailments ranging from dysentery and indigestion, to fatigue and dyspepsia . \u2014 Jeffrey Miller, Smithsonian , 29 June 2018",
"Pepsi however, says that the truth is that the name came from Bradham\u2019s belief that his Pepsi-Cola could soothe an upset stomach, taking its name from the word dyspepsia , which means indigestion. \u2014 Melissa Locker, Southern Living , 27 Feb. 2018"
],
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"adjective"
],
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],
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"adjective",
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": an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized , fearful lives",
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": malposition of an anatomical part"
],
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"dis-\u02c8t\u014d-p\u0113-\u0259"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fans of surreality, dystopia and even historical fiction should give it a try. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 14 June 2022",
"Fritz Lang's stunning Metropolis unfolds in a futuristic urban dystopia , one heavily influenced by Art Deco architecture and flooded with Biblical imagery, where the rich live carefree lives above ground while workers toil below. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
"The show seemed to shift from a dystopia exaggerated for effect into a near-reality overnight. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
"The outfits invoke the classic novel and TV adaptation of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, which imagines a dystopia that relegates women to incubator status. \u2014 Natalie Shure, The New Republic , 5 May 2022",
"A century ago, the Soviet dissident writer Yevgeny Zamyatin novelized a future dystopia in which equality was taken so seriously that peculiarly athletic people might have one of their limbs lopped off by the state, to even things up. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 5 Jan. 2022",
"In the dystopia described by George Orwell, government was watching us with an eye on limiting our freedom. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Green New Deal is an off-ramp for Boston residents who don\u2019t want to experience a racially and economically stratified climate dystopia . \u2014 Miles Howard, The New Republic , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Short and sweet episodes of this sci-fi comedy-drama fit neatly into gaps in your day and whisk you away to a nightmare corporate dystopia in a galaxy fraught with evil artificial intelligence and monstrous aliens. \u2014 Simon Hill, Wired , 20 Feb. 2022"
],
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"circa 1950, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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": any of various conditions (such as Parkinson's disease and torticollis) characterized by abnormalities of movement and muscle tone",
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],
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"dis-\u02c8t\u014d-n\u0113-\u0259",
"dis-\u02c8t\u014d-n\u0113-\u0259"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 1997, the FDA gave its first green light to deep brain stimulation as a treatment for tremor, and then for Parkinson\u2019s in 2002 and the movement disorder dystonia in 2003. \u2014 Isabella Cueto, STAT , 14 Jan. 2022",
"His sister Kendra Marcus said the cause was dystonia . \u2014 Annabelle Williams, New York Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
"The legendary puppeteer lived for some time with dystonia , which causes involuntary muscle contractions, the Sesame Workshop said in a statement. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Following her flu and respiratory episodes recently in the emergency room, she's been experiencing new neurological symptoms, including dystonia , a movement disorder. \u2014 Ryan Prior, CNN , 7 May 2020",
"The legendary puppeteer lived for some time with dystonia , which causes involuntary muscle contractions, the Sesame Workshop said in a statement. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Dec. 2019",
"The legendary puppeteer lived for some time with dystonia , which causes involuntary muscle contractions, the Sesame Workshop said in a statement. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Dec. 2019",
"The cause of dystonia isn't known, but some forms are inherited, states Mayo Clinic. \u2014 Claire Gillespie, Health.com , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Spinney, who also operated and voiced Oscar, Big Bird's grumpy trash can-dwelling neighbor, before retiring from the iconic kids program in October 2018, died at his home in Connecticut after living with dystonia for some time. \u2014 Lisa De Los Reyes, Billboard , 8 Dec. 2019"
],
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"1860, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-132513"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": slow or difficult labor or delivery",
": slow or difficult labor or delivery \u2014 compare eutocia"
],
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"dis-\u02c8t\u014d-sh(\u0113-)\u0259",
"dis-\u02c8t\u014d-sh(\u0113-)\u0259"
],
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"history_and_etymology":"borrowed from New Latin, borrowed from Greek dystok\u00eda, from dys- dys- + t\u00f3kos \"childbirth, act of giving birth (of animals), offspring\" + -ia -ia entry 1 ; t\u00f3kos nominal ablaut derivative of t\u00edkt\u014d, t\u00edktein, aorist \u00e9tekon, teke\u00een \"to give birth to, beget, generate,\" probably going back to Indo-European *te\u1e31- \"generate, give birth to,\" base of the aorist stem *tet\u1e31- \"generate, produce\" \u2014 more at tectonic ",
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"circa 1706, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-175139"
},
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": color from dyeing",
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": to impart a new and often permanent color to especially by impregnating with a dye",
": to impart (a color) by dyeing",
": to take up or impart color in dyeing",
": a substance used to change the color of something",
": to change the color of something using a substance",
": color from dyeing",
": a soluble or insoluble coloring matter",
": to impart a new and often permanent color to especially by impregnating with a dye",
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": to take up or impart color in dyeing"
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"\u02c8d\u012b",
"\u02c8d\u012b",
"\u02c8d\u012b"
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"colorant",
"coloring",
"dyestuff",
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"stain"
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"color",
"paint",
"pigment",
"stain",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint"
],
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"Noun",
"soaked the fabric in blue dye",
"Verb",
"She had been dyeing her hair for years.",
"The fabric is bleached, dyed , and then washed.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The America\u2019s Mayor Gin, gin, gin, and just a whisper of hair dye . \u2014 Bruce Handy, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"Hospitals are facing a scarcity of contrast dye used in diagnostic scans, the result of a COVID lockdown at the Shanghai plant where most of it is produced. \u2014 Darius Tahir, CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"Still, there are a few things to know before diving hair first into the world of DIY hair dye . \u2014 Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Hospitals are facing a scarcity of contrast dye used in diagnostic scans, the result of a COVID lockdown at the Shanghai plant where most of it is produced. \u2014 Darius Tahir, CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"Hospitals are facing a scarcity of contrast dye used in diagnostic scans, the result of a COVID lockdown at the Shanghai plant where most of it is produced. \u2014 Darius Tahir, Fortune , 2 June 2022",
"GE Healthcare's production of contrast dye is expected to return to normal by late June, the American Hospital Association said in a statement. \u2014 Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press , 14 May 2022",
"Lines of blue dye that mark the path through the course disappeared, despite course workers attempting to redraw them after each run. \u2014 Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The following month, he was splashed with an antiseptic green dye , damaging his vision in one eye. \u2014 Paul Leblanc, CNN , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The depot held clothing ready for export as well as drums filled with hydrogen peroxide, a chemical compound often used to bleach and dye fabric. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"In the Lab, scientists dye human hair samples in brown, blonde, red and black shades and evaluate the products for their gray hair coverage. \u2014 Sabina Wizemann, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Loc extensions, starter locs, styling locs, coloring locs, and loc maintenance. Want to dye your locs purple? \u2014 Danielle James, Allure , 11 May 2022",
"My new workplace has about 30 employees, mostly women, every one of whom either dyes their hair or is young enough not to need to, and many younger employees dye their hair too. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Aug. 2021",
"The band will play Moda Center on Sunday, Oct. 2, at 7:30 p.m., which gives you plenty of time to get angsty about something and dye your hair black. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The blue thread used would be typical of Native American or prairie settlers at the time, both of whom used indigo to dye thread a deep midnight blue. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Feb. 2022",
"For over a decade, Margolis has asked his patients to dye his hair, coloring it from white to green as a way to boost morale and support the Milwaukee Bucks. \u2014 Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Older Kid can dye her own yarn, maybe, lowering your costs and increasing her range. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Dec. 2021"
],
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": an organic base that is itself a dye or that with acids forms salts which are dyes"
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"dybbuk":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a wandering soul believed in Jewish folklore to enter and control a living body until exorcised by a religious rite"
],
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"\u02c8di-b\u0259k"
],
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"history_and_etymology":"Yiddish dibek , from Late Hebrew dibb\u016bq ",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1903, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-014913"
},
"dystopian":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or being an imagined world or society in which people lead dehumanized, fearful lives : relating to or characteristic of a dystopia"
],
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"(\u02cc)dis-\u02c8t\u014d-p\u0113-\u0259n"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"dystopian from dystopia + -an entry 2 ; dystopic from dystopia + -ic entry 1"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1962, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-191959"
},
"dystrophic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": relating to or caused by faulty nutrition",
": relating to or affected with a dystrophy",
": brownish with much dissolved humic matter, a sparse bottom fauna, and a high oxygen consumption",
": relating to or caused by faulty nutrition",
": relating to or affected with a dystrophy",
": occurring at sites of damaged or necrotic tissue",
": characterized by disordered growth"
],
"pronounciation":[
"dis-\u02c8tr\u014d-fik",
"dis-\u02c8tr\u014d-fik"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"dystrophy + -ic entry 1 ; in sense 2 after German dystroph"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1893, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-065810"
},
"dystrophin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a protein that is associated with a transmembrane complex of skeletal muscle cells and that is absent in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and deficient or defective in Becker muscular dystrophy",
": a protein of high molecular weight that is associated with a transmembrane glycoprotein complex of skeletal muscle cells and is absent in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and deficient or of abnormal molecular weight in Becker muscular dystrophy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8di-str\u0259-\u02ccfin",
"\u02c8dis-tr\u0259-\u02ccfin"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In a study involving patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 12 weeks of treatment with the Wave drug called suvodirsen failed to increase levels of dystrophin compared to baseline, the company said. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2019",
"Duchenne is a rare fatal neuromuscular disease caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene that result in a progressive loss of muscle function and weakness, including in the heart and skeleton. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 Dec. 2019",
"The guide RNAs were designed to trigger production of a missing protein called dystrophin . \u2014 Sara Reardon, Scientific American , 5 Feb. 2020",
"In a study involving patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 12 weeks of treatment with the Wave drug called suvodirsen failed to increase levels of dystrophin compared to baseline, the company said. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2019",
"In a study involving patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 12 weeks of treatment with the Wave drug called suvodirsen failed to increase levels of dystrophin compared to baseline, the company said. \u2014 Adam Feuerstein, STAT , 16 Dec. 2019",
"In a clinical trial, Vyondys 53 produced a small increase in an important muscle protein called dystrophin that children with Duchenne lack. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 Dec. 2019",
"In a clinical trial, Sarepta\u2019s drug produced a small increase in an important muscle protein called dystrophin that is normally missing in children with Duchenne. \u2014 Damian Garde, STAT , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Instead, the Wave drug made no dystrophin protein at all, which raises serious questions about the viability of the company\u2019s entire chemistry platform. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2019"
],
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"dystrophy + -in entry 1",
"Note: Term introduced by Eric P. Hoffman, Robert H. Brown, Jr., and Louis M. Kunkel in \"Dystrophin: The protein product of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus,\" Cell, vol. 51, no. 6, December 24, 1987, pp. 919-28."
],
"first_known_use":[
"1987, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-112238"
},
"dysthymia":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a mood disorder characterized by chronic mildly depressed or irritable mood often accompanied by other symptoms (such as eating and sleeping disturbances, fatigue, and poor self-esteem)",
": a mood disorder characterized by chronic mildly depressed or irritable mood often accompanied by other symptoms (as eating and sleeping disturbances, fatigue, and poor self-esteem)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"dis-\u02c8th\u012b-m\u0113-\u0259",
"dis-\u02c8th\u012b-m\u0113-\u0259"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It is categorized as a mental illness, on the low end of the spectrum of manic depressive illness, with dysthymia \u2014 its depressive equivalent \u2014 at the other end of the spectrum. \u2014 Gregg Martin, STAT , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Low grade depression or dysthymia can start to feel normal. \u2014 Ashley Stahl, Forbes , 13 Sep. 2021",
"In the second, at the opposite end of things, are people who already have a clinical diagnosis of major depressive disorder or a persistent version known as dysthymia . \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 22 May 2020",
"Another person may have low-grade depressive symptoms that last a really long time, otherwise known as dysthymia . \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 23 Apr. 2020",
"There are several different forms of depression (like dysthymia , postpartum depression, or seasonal affective disorder), but major depressive disorder is typically the form that most people are familiar with. \u2014 D. Elizabeth, SELF , 24 Oct. 2018",
"Diagnoses like depression, dysthymia , seasonal affective disorder, and bipolar disorder all benefit from CBT, too. \u2014 Molly Burford, Allure , 16 Oct. 2019",
"Silverman explains that in the DSM-5, experts essentially collapsed two mood disorders\u2014chronic major depressive disorder and dysthymia \u2014into one: PDD. \u2014 Claire Gillespie, SELF , 19 Nov. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"probably borrowed from German Dysthymie, borrowed from Greek dysth\u0233m\u00eda \"despondency, despair,\" from d\u00fdsth\u0233mos \"despondent, melancholy\" (from dys- dys- + \u00ac -th\u0233mos, adjective derivative of th\u0233m\u00f3s \"spirit, mind, courage\") + -ia -ia entry 1 \u2014 more at fume entry 1"
],
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"1844, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-101428"
},
"dyaster":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": diaster"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"dy- + -aster (star)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-145807"
},
"dyebath":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a solution containing a dye used in dyeing"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-182600"
},
"dysteleology":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": absence of purpose in nature especially as manifested in rudimentary or nonfunctional structures",
": the doctrine of purposelessness in nature \u2014 compare teleology",
": frustration or evasion of a normal functional end",
": a vestigial organ"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"German dysteleologie , from dys- + teleologie teleology"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-103010"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a condition produced by faulty nutrition":[]
},
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"\u02c8dis-tr\u0259-f\u0113",
"\u02c8di-str\u0259-f\u0113"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Myotonic dystrophy is a rare, inherited disease that affects the muscles and other body systems. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Myotonic dystrophy is usually caused by a gene mutation. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Myotonic dystrophy type 2, is an even rarer form of the the condition and its exact prevalence is unknown. \u2014 Maggie O'neill, Health.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Myotonic dystrophy is also known to cause irregular electrical control of the heartbeat. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Myotonic dystrophy can lead to scarring in the heart, and arrhythmias \u2014 an irregular heartbeat. \u2014 Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"This year, 53 one-of-a-kind pieces were donated to the sale, which raises funds for the Monagasque Association against Muscular dystrophy . \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 8 Nov. 2021",
"This is the ninth edition of the biennial charity auction, which has to date raised more than $70-million for the Monagasque Association against Muscular dystrophy . \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 22 Oct. 2021",
"In the meantime, Sarepta has won approval for two other dystrophy drugs based on similar results that also require follow-up trials, which the company says are already well underway. \u2014 Matthew Perrone, Chron , 1 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"dys- + -trophy , after New Latin dystrophia, French dystrophie or German Dystrophie":""
