"new legislation to help small businesses and restore the vibrance of the local economy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The vitamin C and antioxidants from grapefruit extract will have your scalp revitalized in no time, allowing your hairs natural vibrance and shine to show through. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"And, today, new immigrant groups are adding to the vibrance of our nation. \u2014 Dean Obeidallah, CNN , 16 May 2022",
"And trust, not all appear saccharine, but many indeed skew bold for tastes preferring vibrance over whimsy. \u2014 Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Vogue , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Her warmth and vibrance come through in her fiery jackfruit al pastor tacos, red chili nopalitos, and huevos rancheros. \u2014 Jackie Tran, Bon App\u00e9tit , 18 Feb. 2022",
"The city's craft beer scene offers a vibrance and diversity reflective of its sprawling size and complex culture. \u2014 Ruvani De Silva, Chron , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The result is a blush-pink wine with the vibrance of prosecco and an intriguing hint of red berry aromas to add a little sparkle to a romantic evening. \u2014 Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The cucumber agua fresca from this tiny storefront is cool, sweet and refreshing, with all the vibrance of a freshly cut cucumber. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s a vibrance and playfulness that excites the eye and also invites guests to discover the various areas of the hotel. \u2014 Rana Good, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1900, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-172836"
},
"vibrancy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being vibrant"
],
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"\u02c8v\u012b-br\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"animation",
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrance",
"vigorousness",
"vitality"
],
"antonyms":[
"inactivity",
"lifelessness"
],
"examples":[
"the addition of several new stores enhances the vibrancy of the town",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Using nonprofessionals and shooting documentary style, Clarke vividly captures the vibrancy , beauty, and violence of a world that had, until then, been portrayed in largely one-dimensional terms. \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
"The push for more apartments \u2014 and people living downtown \u2014 was to bring more 24/7 vibrancy to downtown where most of the activity was concentrated during the work week. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant , 17 May 2022",
"Today\u2019s researchers add a key evolutionary twist: assessing the reproductive consequences of dominance hierarchies brings new vibrancy to the field. \u2014 David P. Barash, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"The redevelopment would foster more vibrancy and boost economic vitality of the area. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Pula also said adding multifamily housing near the train stop will bring vibrancy while providing housing in high demand. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Mar. 2022",
"But for all its storytelling, this saleable collection lacked a vibrancy . \u2014 Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Rodman said the central city needs more housing for the restaurant servers, hotel maids, theater workers and others who contribute to the vibrancy of the neighborhood. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Forsythia and daffodils are among the best spring sellers because of their lemony yellow color and vibrancy . \u2014 Tammy Sons, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1890, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-170458"
},
"vibration(s)":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a periodic motion of the particles of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from the position of equilibrium when that equilibrium has been disturbed (as when a stretched cord produces musical tones or molecules in the air transmit sounds to the ear)",
": the action of vibrating : the state of being vibrated or in vibratory motion: such as",
": oscillation",
": a quivering or trembling motion : quiver",
": an instance of vibration",
": vacillation in opinion or action : wavering",
": a characteristic emanation, aura, or spirit that infuses or vitalizes someone or something and that can be instinctively sensed or experienced",
": a distinctive usually emotional atmosphere capable of being sensed",
": a rapid motion (as of a stretched cord) back and forth",
": the action of moving or causing to move back and forth or from side to side very quickly : the state of being swung back and forth",
": a trembling motion",
": a periodic motion of the particles of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from the position of equilibrium when that equilibrium has been disturbed (as when particles of air transmit sounds to the ear)",
": the action of vibrating : the state of being vibrated or in vibratory motion",
": an instance of vibration"
],
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"v\u012b-\u02c8br\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"v\u012b-\u02c8br\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"v\u012b-\u02c8br\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"jiggling",
"oscillation",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shivering",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"twitching"
],
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"examples":[
"trying to reduce engine vibration",
"the vibration of the floor caused by thundering feet in the hallway",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Harbor seals have a fringe of vibration -sensitive whiskers jutting from their snouts and eyebrows. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"And that changes my vibration to be in a happier tone. \u2014 Celia Ellenberg, Vogue , 3 June 2022",
"The vibration -resistant design isolates the player from unwanted energy. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Lexus says 20 spot welding points were added to the body to boost structural rigidity, while new Bridgestone 18-inch run-flat tires were designed to reduce noise and vibration . \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 13 May 2022",
"The latest version of Hyperice\u2019s grooved Vyper foam roller offers three vibration settings that are designed to boost circulation and flexibility pre-workout and soothe sore muscles afterward. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 May 2022",
"When prey approaches, vibration sensors on a gator\u2019s snout prompt it to spring into action, snapping its strong jaws quickly around a meal. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Standard Model particles like photons and electrons are low-energy vibration modes of the fundamental string. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s no sound or vibration from the engine \u2014 a very pleasant change in a van where the noisy engine is often just inches from the driver\u2019s knee. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 31 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1635, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-212739"
},
"vice":{
"type":[
"noun",
"prefix",
"preposition"
],
"definitions":[
": moral depravity or corruption : wickedness",
": a moral fault or failing",
": a habitual and usually trivial defect or shortcoming : foible",
": blemish , defect",
": a physical imperfection, deformity, or taint",
": a character representing one of the vices in an English morality play",
": buffoon , jester",
": an abnormal behavior pattern in a domestic animal detrimental to its health or usefulness",
": sexual immorality",
": prostitution",
": in the place of",
": rather than",
": one that takes the place of",
": evil conduct or habits",
": a moral fault or weakness",
": one that takes the place of",
": an abnormal behavior pattern in a domestic animal detrimental to its health or usefulness",
": a moral fault or failing",
": defect",
": immoral activity (as prostitution)",
": in the place of",
": rather than",
": one that takes the place of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u012bs",
"\u02c8v\u012bs",
"also",
"\u02c8v\u012bs",
"\u02ccv\u012bs",
"\u02c8v\u012bs",
"\u02c8v\u012bs",
"\u02c8v\u012bs",
"\u02c8v\u012bs",
"\u02c8v\u012bs, \u02c8v\u012b-s\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"libertinage",
"libertinism",
"licentiousness",
"profligacy",
"sin"
],
"antonyms":[
"morality",
"virtue"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Such men are prone to vice .",
"He thought gambling was a vice .",
"Eating too much is my vice .",
"The city is a den of filth and vice ."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Preposition",
"1770, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191540"
},
"vicinage":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a neighboring or surrounding district : vicinity",
": a particular vicinity or district: as",
": the district in which a crime takes place and from which the accused is entitled to have an impartial jury selected as required by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution",
": the neighborhood in which one is obligated not to cause material injury to others (as by a nuisance) in the free exercise of rights of ownership in immovable property"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-s\u0259-nij",
"\u02c8vis-nij",
"\u02c8vis-\u1d4an-ij"
],
"synonyms":[
"backyard",
"environs",
"neighborhood",
"purlieus",
"vicinity"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"potential jurors were to be drawn from the vicinage in which the crime occurred"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English vesinage , from Anglo-French veisinage , from neighboring, from Vulgar Latin *vecinus , alteration of Latin vicinus ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200850"
},
"vicious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": dangerously aggressive : savage",
": marked by violence or ferocity : fierce",
": malicious , spiteful",
": worsened by internal causes that reciprocally augment each other",
": having the nature or quality of vice or immorality : depraved",
": defective , faulty",
": invalid",
": impure , noxious",
": very dangerous",
": filled with or showing unkind feelings",
": violent and cruel",
": very severe",
": dangerously aggresive",
": of, relating to, or being perverse or abnormal behavior in a domestic animal"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-sh\u0259s",
"\u02c8vi-sh\u0259s",
"\u02c8vish-\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"almighty",
"blistering",
"deep",
"dreadful",
"excruciating",
"explosive",
"exquisite",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"frightful",
"furious",
"ghastly",
"hard",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"hellacious",
"intense",
"intensive",
"keen",
"profound",
"terrible",
"vehement",
"violent"
],
"antonyms":[
"light",
"moderate",
"soft"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"He got caught up in a vicious and damaging public feud with his former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 6 June 2022",
"The danger is that investors and the public will assume from this vicious and misleading attack that today\u2019s quantum industry runs entirely on hype rather than achievement\u2014an assumption that could ultimately threaten our national security. \u2014 Arthur Herman, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"As another hurricane season approaches, Florida property owners would be well served to prepare for what has unfortunately become an increasingly vicious and combative relationship with insurance companies. \u2014 Kevin Jean, Sun Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"Shamet caught the ball and hammered it in off two steps over Hayes for the vicious and-one play. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Taking an interest in Ukrainian food following Russia\u2019s vicious and unprovoked military campaign against its smaller neighbor might seem like a meagre response. \u2014 Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker , 25 Mar. 2022",
"An attacker who bites a victim is more likely to be seen as vicious and barbaric. \u2014 CBS News , 14 Mar. 2022",
"An attacker who bites a victim is more likely to be seen as vicious and barbaric. \u2014 al , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Stagflation occurs when consumers and businesses think that inflation is a long-term problem that won\u2019t change and adjust their behavior in the light of it \u2014 a vicious cycle that in turn creates more inflation and slows growth. \u2014 Adam Taylor, Washington Post , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French vicios , from Latin vitiosus full of faults, corrupt, from vitium vice",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184200"
},
"victim":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent",
": such as",
": one that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions",
": one that is subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment",
": one that is tricked or duped",
": a living being sacrificed to a deity or in the performance of a religious rite",
": a person who is cheated, fooled, or hurt by another",
": an individual injured or killed (as by disease, violence, or disaster)",
": a person or animal offered as a religious sacrifice"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vik-t\u0259m",
"\u02c8vik-t\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[
"casualty",
"fatality",
"loss",
"prey"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the victims of a hoax",
"He was the victim of an error.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An opportunity-seeking mindset can be the difference between feeling like a victim of the market today or feeling in control. \u2014 David Cristello, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"An organization of 9/11 victim families has sent a letter to player agents expressing fury. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 13 June 2022",
"The final amount of fees and costs will be determined by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman, who has already given preliminary approval to the victim settlements negotiated by the lawyers. \u2014 Kurt Anderson, Orlando Sentinel , 13 June 2022",
"Police were unable to find a victim , but about an hour later, a man walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound to the foot. \u2014 Caitlyn Freeman, Baltimore Sun , 13 June 2022",
"The fire department\u2019s victim assistance unit was on scene to work with the insurance company for shelter and to secure the house after the fire, according to the department. Contact Jake Allen at jake.allen@indystar.com. \u2014 Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star , 13 June 2022",
"Episodes overflow with bizarre images, like a succubus who mounts her victim , then calmly removes a retainer and sets it on the night table. \u2014 Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"The final amount of fees and costs will be determined by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman, who has already given preliminary approval to the victim settlements negotiated by the lawyers. \u2014 Curt Anderson, Sun Sentinel , 13 June 2022",
"The man is the 13th homicide victim in the city this year, compared with 19 last year at the same time, according to police statistics. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin victima ; perhaps akin to Old High German w\u012bh holy",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211336"
},
"victimize":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make a victim of",
": to subject to deception or fraud : cheat",
": to make a victim of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vik-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u012bz",
"\u02c8vik-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They were victimized because of their religion.",
"victimized by a confidence man with a slick story",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To Villanueva, that means the district attorney\u2019s reluctance to seek the harshest possible sentences or try juveniles as adults will eventually lead to irredeemable violent offenders returning to victimize L.A. County again and again. \u2014 James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"However, Proposition 47 went too far by offering leniency without requiring accountability in return from the offenders \u2014 especially for those who victimize others over and over again. \u2014 Shelley Zimmerman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Blumenthal said some scammers have set up fake websites posing as the U.S. Postal Service to victimize people seeking kits. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Tennessee\u2019s Velus Jones, a former Saraland High School star, has excelled at both receiver and kick returner for the Volunteers, and will be out to victimize his hometown team. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Conservatives who brand the entire effort as an attempt to victimize the ex-President got some unexpected help last week when Biden agreed that people who refuse subpoenas should face the consequences. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Prosecution of international cartels that victimize U.S. businesses and consumers is one of the Antitrust Division\u2019s highest priorities\u2026. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 25 Nov. 2021",
"The ego wants to isolate, blame and victimize people. \u2014 Christie Garcia, Forbes , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Promising Young Woman Emerald Fennell directs this 2020 thriller starring Carey Mulligan as a 30-year-old medical school dropout who embarks on a vigilante crusade against men who victimize women. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-175712"
},
"victual":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": food usable by people",
": supplies of food : provisions",
": to supply with food",
": eat",
": to lay in provisions"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-t\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[
"board",
"cater",
"feed",
"provision"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"the navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown",
"that evening the travelers victualed sumptuously on partridge and venison"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1558, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-224807"
},
"victuals":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": food usable by people",
": supplies of food : provisions",
": to supply with food",
": eat",
": to lay in provisions"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-t\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[
"board",
"cater",
"feed",
"provision"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"the navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown",
"that evening the travelers victualed sumptuously on partridge and venison"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1558, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194832"
},
"vigilant":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": alertly watchful especially to avoid danger",
": alert especially to avoid danger"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-j\u0259-l\u0259nt",
"\u02c8vi-j\u0259-l\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"Argus-eyed",
"attentive",
"awake",
"observant",
"open-eyed",
"tenty",
"tentie",
"watchful",
"wide-awake"
],
"antonyms":[
"asleep"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a result, VC and PE firms must be hyper- vigilant when assessing the cybersecurity capabilities of any new potential investment. \u2014 Doug Howard, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"So while there is progress happening, people really do have to be proactive and vigilant , in terms of the backlash that is being experienced, and to keep moving forward. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"The Shanghai lockdown also set off small-scale protests by residents and dissent that unsettled Communist Party officials, vigilant against any signs of discontent. \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
"Taking proactive actions, such as practicing a family safety plan, learning to be more vigilant or volunteering for a related cause, can provide a positive outlet for stress and sadness. \u2014 Amy Capetta, Good Housekeeping , 31 May 2022",
"Arison, a fixture at his courtside seat at midcourt opposite the scorers\u2019 table, has been particularly vigilant amid the pandemic, including one of the driving forces behind the team\u2019s vaccination campaign. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 30 May 2022",
"The idea of vigilant protectors subduing armed antagonists spoke to a vision of a society in which firearms are as commonplace as cell phones, and where more guns mean more safety. \u2014 Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker , 29 May 2022",
"Eyes eternally vigilant , scanning the blue surface, on watch for mischief. \u2014 Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"The baby, analogized as software, demanded something novel\u2014the parent no longer occupied merely in the role of watchful caretaker but charged also with the work of vigilant programming. \u2014 Ginia Bellafante, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English (Scots), from Latin vigilant-, vigilans , from present participle of vigilare to keep watch, stay awake, from vigil awake",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205734"
},
"vigor":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": active bodily or mental strength or force",
": active healthy well-balanced growth especially of plants",
": intensity of action or effect : force",
": effective legal status",
": strength or energy of body or mind",
": active strength or force",
"\u2014 see hybrid vigor"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-g\u0259r",
"\u02c8vi-g\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vim",
"vinegar",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
],
"examples":[
"She defended her beliefs with great vigor .",
"she was picked to lead the volunteer group because of her vigor and enthusiasm",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the global economy bounced back with unexpected vigor , and with it, the need to fuel thousands of cargo ships and millions of delivery trucks. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"Opening up the interior of the shrub by pruning can improve air flow and restore vigor . \u2014 Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"How can an album of so much honesty, vigor , and empathy also be delivered with a shrug? \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 18 May 2022",
"Re-visions seamlessly integrates avant-garde rigor with emotional vigor , a combination that is all too uncommon in art of the \u201870s and also all too rare in the present. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"This can be done any time of the year, though most lawn improvement methods are employed in autumn since that is the easiest time to establish new grass or boost grass vigor . \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 28 Apr. 2022",
"With a lawyer\u2019s courtroom vigor , perhaps derived from his prior career as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-contra investigation, Mr. Roth has antagonized many autocrats. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Both sections hummed like a hornet\u2019s nest as Wong plugged into the music\u2019s rhythmic vigor while sustaining grace and ebullience. \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Influenced by the element of travel, the contemporary set refreshed the trend with vigor . \u2014 Vogue , 9 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English vigour , from Anglo-French, from Latin vigor , from vig\u0113re to be vigorous",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190050"
},
"vigorous":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": done with vigor : carried out forcefully and energetically",
": possessing vigor : full of physical or mental strength or active force : strong",
": very healthy and strong",
": done with force and energy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-g(\u0259-)r\u0259s",
"\u02c8vi-g\u0259-r\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"flush",
"gingery",
"lusty",
"peppy",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vital"
],
"antonyms":[
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"examples":[
"She remained vigorous into her nineties.",
"His speech was met with vigorous applause.",
"She gave a vigorous defense of her beliefs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After a vigorous debate, the Mobile City Council opted to delay for two weeks a vote on funding for an affordable housing development in the old Gayfers department store building downtown. \u2014 Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al , 7 June 2022",
"And that's where the vigorous debate is going to be. \u2014 ABC News , 8 May 2022",
"That\u2019s also why the vigorous competition between returning starter Haynes King, transfer Max Johnson and five-star freshman Conner Weigman is by far the most captivating storyline of spring drills, rolling right into the steam of summertime. \u2014 Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Since achieving independence in the early 1990s, the former communist nations of Eastern Europe have developed lively political scenes, with vigorous competition between left and right. \u2014 Lyman R. Stone, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The American Heart Association recommends 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity each week, but only about 20 percent of us meet those benchmarks, the organization says. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
"But the question of the relative contribution of luck\u2014compared with more explicit causes\u2014has generated vigorous debate for years. \u2014 Viviane Callier, Scientific American , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The defense is promising a vigorous debate about the judge\u2019s willingness to strike the previously screened jurors before giving the defense a chance to research and present its position. \u2014 Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel , 25 Apr. 2022",
"In addition to a vigorous response from the American government, there is a role for the American people in defending against another likely assault from Russia. \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English vigorous, vigrous , from Anglo-French, from vigour ",
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vigorous vigorous , energetic , strenuous , lusty , nervous mean having or showing great vitality and force. vigorous further implies showing no signs of depletion or diminishing of freshness or robustness. as vigorous as a youth half his age energetic suggests a capacity for intense activity. an energetic campaigner strenuous suggests a preference for coping with the arduous or the challenging. the strenuous life on an oil rig lusty implies exuberant energy and capacity for enjoyment. a lusty appetite for life nervous suggests especially the forcibleness and sustained effectiveness resulting from mental vigor. full of nervous energy",
"His charges initially triggered a wave of sympathy and a vigorous debate over whether the heartbroken father should be punished. \u2014 Amir Vera, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Then engage in more vigorous debate about the implications of the results. \u2014 David Hessekiel, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"More recently, worries about inflation and the path of interest-rate increases have provoked turmoil in markets as well as vigorous debate over the right valuations for stocks in the current environment. \u2014 Nick Timiraos, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"The usefulness of booster shots in Americans younger than 50 was a topic of vigorous debate in the fall. \u2014 Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times , 21 Jan. 2022",
"After a vigorous debate, the Mobile City Council opted to delay for two weeks a vote on funding for an affordable housing development in the old Gayfers department store building downtown. \u2014 Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al , 7 June 2022",
"And that's where the vigorous debate is going to be. \u2014 ABC News , 8 May 2022",
"That\u2019s also why the vigorous competition between returning starter Haynes King, transfer Max Johnson and five-star freshman Conner Weigman is by far the most captivating storyline of spring drills, rolling right into the steam of summertime. \u2014 Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Since achieving independence in the early 1990s, the former communist nations of Eastern Europe have developed lively political scenes, with vigorous competition between left and right. \u2014 Lyman R. Stone, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022"
": disgustingly or utterly bad : obnoxious , contemptible",
": wicked sense 1",
": very bad or unpleasant"
],
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"\u02c8v\u012b(-\u0259)l",
"\u02c8v\u012bl"
],
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"bad",
"dark",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unlawful",
"unrighteous",
"unsavory",
"vicious",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"wrong"
],
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"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"sublime",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"examples":[
"a vile and cowardly act",
"What is that vile odor?",
"His comments were positively vile .",
"She has a vile temper.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Another edible item was the General Mills E.T. Cereal, which tasted like peanut butter and chocolate and was exceptionally vile . \u2014 Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
"The speaker\u2019s vile remarks were cheered by others in the group. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"One of the most horrific things about the lengthy, vile manifesto posted online by the gunman who murdered 10 people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, is just how familiar this script has become. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 17 May 2022",
"Unfortunately, that respect has not been reciprocated as evidenced by a long string of vile social media attacks against the Senator that the Congressman has posted over the last year. \u2014 Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Experts say hate serves as a breeding ground for all kinds of volatile, vile behavior. \u2014 David Oliver, USA TODAY , 16 Mar. 2022",
"It\u2019s the other stuff, the vile things, the derogatory things, calling you the most unimaginable things, that your white teammates don\u2019t have to go through. \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Survivors of Josef Mengele\u2019s vile experiments at Auschwitz recall him as tall and blond and fluent in Hungarian. \u2014 Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Told in real-time, the film starts with the first meeting of a seemingly innocuous women\u2019s group that reveals itself to be a gathering of white supremacists who quickly escalate to a vile hate crime. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 18 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French vil , from Latin vilis ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200115"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame",
": to lower in estimation or importance",
": to speak of harshly and often unfairly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
],
"synonyms":[
"asperse",
"blacken",
"calumniate",
"defame",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"smear",
"traduce"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He was vilified in the press for his comments.",
"claimed that she had been vilified by the press because of her conservative views",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Black slavery started in the early 1500s and as long as slavery was accepted by most people, there was no need to vilify the slave. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"Those who believe in democratization in higher education vilify it, while those who believe in differentiation applaud it. \u2014 WSJ , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The Russian leader, for his part, has gone out of his way to vilify those who have left, likening them to gnat-like insects. \u2014 Vasiliy Kolotilov, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The Nazis and Adolf Hitler have proven convenient symbols for people wishing to vilify their political opponents, from Donald Trump to Nelson Mandela. \u2014 Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"That means the political class has to back the police, not vilify them. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 5 Feb. 2022",
"In a delicate dance that seems designed to appease both the right and left, Macron has refused to vilify French imperialists, most notably Napoleon, but has recognized their wrongdoing. \u2014 Saphora Smith, NBC News , 25 Dec. 2021",
"As her contemporaries, the press, and the judiciary sought to vilify her, Margaret refused to go quietly as she was betrayed by her friends and publicly shamed by a society that revelled in her fall from grace. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 10 Dec. 2021",
"As her contemporaries, the press, and the judiciary sought to vilify her, Margaret refused to go quietly as she was betrayed by her friends and publicly shamed by a society that revelled in her fall from grace. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 10 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English vilifien , from Late Latin vilificare , from Latin vilis cheap, vile",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201830"
},
"vilipend":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to hold or treat as of little worth or account : contemn",
": to express a low opinion of : disparage"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-\u02ccpend"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"cry down",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"derogate",
"diminish",
"dis",
"diss",
"discount",
"dismiss",
"disparage",
"kiss off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"poor-mouth",
"put down",
"run down",
"talk down",
"trash",
"trash-talk",
"write off"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"exalt",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"magnify",
"praise"
],
"examples":[
"one of those elitists who regularly vilipends popular culture"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Middle French vilipender , from Medieval Latin vilipendere , from Latin vilis + pendere to weigh, estimate",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203205"
},
"villa":{
"type":[
"biographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a country estate",
": the rural or suburban residence of a wealthy person",
": a detached or semidetached urban residence with yard and garden space",
": a large house or estate usually in the country",
"Francisco 1878\u20131923",
"Villa originally Doroteo Arango Mexican bandit and revolutionary"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259",
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259",
"\u02c8v\u0113-y\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"estate",
"hacienda",
"hall",
"manor",
"manor house",
"manse",
"mansion",
"palace"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They rented a seaside villa for two weeks.",
"a millionaire with a luxurious villa in Mexico",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There\u2019s another 2,000-plus square feet of living space in a 1960s villa with a basement and adjoining two-car garage. \u2014 Lauren Beale, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"Then came the heavy stone of a faux Italian villa and ultra-expensive but utterly boring seamless, white surfaces, but also craftsman chic with tactile materials and tasteful colors \u2014 tile came roaring back! \u2014 Krystal Chang, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The famed dancer lived on a nearby private island, while film director and producer Franco Zeffirelli had a popular villa on the coast of Positano. \u2014 Christopher Bollen, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
"The Daily Mail reported that the pair stayed in a luxury villa that cost upwards of roughly $24,000 per week. \u2014 Nicole Briese, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
"The town of Collodi, Italy, about 45 miles west of Florence, is set on a slope behind a fabulous 17th-century villa . \u2014 Perri Klass, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"People reports that the ceremony between Kourtney and Travis was held at L'Olivetta, a villa owned by Dolce & Gabbana. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 24 May 2022",
"In 1867, the English consul in Genoa purchased the property and enlisted architect Alfredo D'Andrade to modify it for use as a residential villa . \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 23 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, the Dowager Countess, whose fate was questioned at the end of the previous film, inherits a villa on the French Riviera from a mysterious former acquaintance, leading to an emotional trip abroad for some of her family. \u2014 Natalie Jamieson, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Italian, from Latin; akin to Latin vicus village \u2014 more at vicinity ",
"first_known_use":[
"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-215243"
},
"villain":{
"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"a character in a story or play who opposes the hero",
"a deliberate scoundrel or criminal",
"one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty",
"villein",
"an uncouth person boor",
"a wicked person",
"a character in a story or play who opposes the hero or heroine"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8vi-l\u0259n",
"synonyms":[
"baddie",
"baddy",
"beast",
"brute",
"caitiff",
"devil",
"evildoer",
"fiend",
"heavy",
"hound",
"knave",
"meanie",
"meany",
"miscreant",
"monster",
"nazi",
"no-good",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"savage",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scapegrace",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"wretch"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He plays the villain in most of his movies.",
"She describes her first husband as a villain who treated her terribly.",
"Don't try to make me the villain . It's your own fault that you're having these problems.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Another paragon of Brutalism London\u2019s Trellick Tower (designed by Ern\u0151 Goldfinger, the tyrant architect who inspired Ian Fleming to create the James Bond villain of the same name). \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 13 June 2022",
"Ingram plays the main villain in the new Star Wars show Obi-Wan Kenobi, a Jedi hunter named Reva. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 5 June 2022",
"Who exactly is the real villain of Stranger Things? \u2014 Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping , 4 June 2022",
"And now in the final cut, Stormfront is the real villain of the movie. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"Vecna is the most sinister villain of the series, who psychologically preys on teens\u2019 worst fears to torment and kill them. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"The story follows an 18-year-old Snow, who would eventually rise to become the tyrannical president of the dystopian nation of Panem, and the main villain of the Hunger Games series. \u2014 Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com , 31 May 2022",
"What if the villain of a Hallmark movie got to be the main character of her own story? \u2014 Ali Hazelwood, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Peter Dinklage plays the villain , and some old favorites like Shawn Ashmore (as Iceman) return. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 29 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English vilain, vilein , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin villanus , from Latin villa ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"vim":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": robust energy and enthusiasm",
": great energy and enthusiasm"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vim",
"\u02c8vim"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vinegar",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
],
"examples":[
"some food and a little rest should give me back some of my vim",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This fear hovers in the background as both Margo and Denise take up ballet, the latter with more vim than the former. \u2014 Rhoda Feng, The Week , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The site has become famous for the surprising vim of its online mobs, many of which have been organized by anonymous strangers who\u2019ve never met. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Plus: Its lap pool sports underwater speakers for swims with musical vim . \u2014 Laura Manske, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"But while a cropped, tailored tweed jacket from Chanel might be $8,550, one with similar vim from Zara sells for around $120. \u2014 WSJ , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Claude Fouet, still full of vim and good humor at age 89 but with memory problems, was among the first in his Paris care home to agree to a vaccination. \u2014 Fox News , 10 Jan. 2021",
"Claude Fouet, still full of vim and good humor at age 89 but with memory problems, was among the first in his Paris care home to agree to a vaccination. \u2014 Fox News , 10 Jan. 2021",
"Claude Fouet, still full of vim and good humor at age 89 but with memory problems, was among the first in his Paris care home to agree to a vaccination. \u2014 Fox News , 10 Jan. 2021",
"Claude Fouet, still full of vim and good humor at age 89 but with memory problems, was among the first in his Paris care home to agree to a vaccination. \u2014 Fox News , 10 Jan. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin, accusative of vis strength; akin to Greek is strength, Sanskrit vaya meal, strength",
"first_known_use":[
"1843, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-221932"
},
"vindicate":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to free from allegation or blame",
": confirm , substantiate",
": to provide justification or defense for : justify",
": to protect from attack or encroachment : defend",
": avenge",
": to maintain a right to",
": to set free : deliver",
": to free from blame or guilt",
": to show to be true or correct"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vin-d\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t",
"\u02c8vin-d\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolve",
"acquit",
"clear",
"exculpate",
"exonerate"
],
"antonyms":[
"criminate",
"incriminate"
],
"examples":[
"She will be completely vindicated by the evidence.",
"These discoveries vindicate their theory.",
"Their approach to the problem has been vindicated by the positive results.",
"He felt vindicated when the truth became known.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fetterman's lead certainly does vindicate a narrative about the ascendance of progressivism in the party, but not quite in the way analysts have framed it. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 17 May 2022",
"The district court and 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the school district, but the Supreme Court's six-member conservative majority appeared to be looking for ways to overturn those results and vindicate the coach's actions. \u2014 Jeffrey Toobin, CNN , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Appeals to continuity after World War II could condemn or vindicate . \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s no surer way to vindicate the fears of those people that led them to seek NATO membership than to witness their country being overrun by the Russian military. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Seeking to vindicate their constitutional rights, the family sued Martin, arguing that his force against each woman was unconstitutionally excessive. \u2014 Alexa Gervasi, The Week , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Insofar as equity investing is concerned, Mr. Ellis\u2019s findings seem to vindicate Mr. Fama\u2019s big idea and Bogle\u2019s big innovation. \u2014 Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Kudos to the Justices for taking this opportunity to vindicate equal treatment under the law regardless of race, especially when the left is pushing racial calculations into policies far beyond campus. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 24 Jan. 2022",
"The same remains true today, as pro-life Americans labor to vindicate that promissory note for all people, born and unborn. \u2014 Alexandra Desanctis, National Review , 17 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin vindicatus , past participle of vindicare to lay claim to, avenge, from vindic-, vindex claimant, avenger",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1571, in the meaning defined at sense 4"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-215252"
},
"vinegar":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a sour liquid obtained by fermentation of dilute alcoholic liquids and used as a condiment or preservative",
": ill humor : sourness",
": vim",
": a sour liquid made from cider, wine, or malt and used to flavor or preserve foods",
": a sour liquid used as a condiment or a preservative that is obtained by acetic fermentation of dilute alcoholic liquids (as fermented cider, malt beer, or wine) or of dilute distilled alcohol",
": a pharmaceutical solution of the active principles of drugs in dilute acetic acid usually prepared by maceration"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-ni-g\u0259r",
"\u02c8vi-ni-g\u0259r",
"\u02c8vin-i-g\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
],
"examples":[
"glad to see his old friend was still full of vinegar after so many years",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Add a splash of vinegar to keep bees out of the trap. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 13 June 2022",
"Mix together a cup of vinegar and three cups of water in a large bowl. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022",
"Another natural method for preserving a pumpkin is to use the ever-useful ingredient of vinegar . \u2014 Madison Alcedo, Woman's Day , 7 June 2022",
"The crux of an agrodolce is a warmed sweetener like sugar or honey paired with a hit of acid, usually in the form of vinegar . \u2014 Christian Reynoso, Bon App\u00e9tit , 26 May 2022",
"Into the soap dispenser, pour a mixture of \u00bc cup water and \u00bc cup baking soda, and into the empty washing machine, pour two cups of white vinegar . \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
"Today\u2019s fixtures often sport high-end finishes that can be damaged by the vinegar soak often recommended to clear a clogged shower head. \u2014 Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping , 7 June 2022",
"The salt and vinegar cheese curds ($12) served with black garlic sauce is another staple. \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2022",
"The dish soap, for instance, features pleasant notes of orange blossom, while the surface spray (our personal favorite) tempers a squeaky-clean vinegar base with fig, cedar, and lavender. \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 3 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English vinegre , from Anglo-French vin egre , from vin wine (from Latin vinum ) + egre keen, sour \u2014 more at eager ",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195652"
},
"vinegary":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": resembling vinegar : sour",
": flavored with vinegar",
": disagreeable, bitter, or irascible in character or manner"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-ni-g(\u0259-)r\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"sour",
"sourish",
"tart",
"tartish"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The dipping sauce in the center was the clear, vinegary variety, with a bit of red chile and garlic. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"The supremely enjoyable version at The Russell is a large red snapper, fried (with the head on) to perfect crispness, then smothered in onions and carrots and given a highly vinegary dressing. \u2014 Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant , 2 May 2022",
"Go for the brisket, pulled pork, meaty pintos and vinegary slaw \u2014 and also throw in a side of buttermilk biscuits, which rewarm nicely for breakfast the next day. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 12 Feb. 2022",
"As if reacting to the vinegary flavor of Gen X culture, those \u201990s films all have a sweetness to them that is also a fantasy of na\u00efvet\u00e9. \u2014 Jo Livingstone, The New Republic , 3 Dec. 2021",
"That sticky, sweet and vinegary condiment is credited to an almost certainly fictional 19th-century British Army officer and has become the most popular form of chutney in the U.S. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Those of us raised on this type of mountain fare intuitively used the spicy, vinegary , peppery, sweet, and acidic condiments to finesse each forkful, doctoring our plates to our liking in endless combinations of texture and flavor. \u2014 Sheri Castle, Travel + Leisure , 4 Sep. 2021",
"Next time a bottle of wine turns stale or vinegary , don\u2019t dump it. \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 23 July 2021",
"The vegetables are tangy and vinegary with a fiery kick. \u2014 Mara Severin, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1730, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-183426"
},
"vintage":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a season's yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard",
": wine",
": a usually superior wine all or most of which comes from a single year",
": a collection of contemporaneous and similar persons or things : crop",
": the act or time of harvesting grapes or making wine",
": a period of origin or manufacture",
": length of existence : age",
": of, relating to, or produced in a particular vintage",
": of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance, or quality : classic",
": dating from the past : old",
": outmoded , old-fashioned",
": of the best and most characteristic",
": the grapes grown or wine made during one season",
": the time when something started or was made",
": produced in a particular year",
": of old and continuing interest, importance, or quality"
],
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"\u02c8vin-tij",
"\u02c8vin-tij"
],
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"antique",
"old-fashioned",
"old-school",
"old-time",
"old-timey",
"old-world",
"oldfangled",
"quaint",
"retro",
"retrograde"
],
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"contemporary",
"current",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernist",
"modernistic",
"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a piano of 1845 vintage",
"Adjective",
"the designer's bracelets and necklaces have the vintage look of jewelry from the 1920s",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"All of the auction wines were donated by local wineries, with 44 of the 75 lots featuring the 2021 vintage of Cabernet Sauvignon. \u2014 Liz Thach, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"One limited-release wine by the glass, likely available only the shop's first week, is the 2020 vintage of Susucaru, the Sicilian ros\u00e9 from Etna by winemaker Frank Cornelissen. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The current vintage of Klee is $24 per bottle or $6 per can. \u2014 Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 1 Feb. 2022",
"In the photos, the singer wears an open hot pink vintage Chanel coat, exposing her bare belly draped with jewels. \u2014 Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Both were spotted leaving the restaurant wearing matching leather ensembles\u2014he in a simple black leather jacket and pants, she in a brown vintage leather fur coat from Archive. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The inaugural vintage of Harrison\u2019s Sauvignon Blanc, from just one acre within St. Helena\u2019s legendary Panek Vineyard (Pulido-Walker, Rivers Marie, etc.), is, according to Williams, a Chardonnay drinker\u2019s Sauvignon Blanc in its richness and texture. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 8 Jan. 2022",
"The 2020 may be the best vintage yet of this wine from Jon and Mills Wehner. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Nov. 2021",
"In the early 60s, America has a vintage of fast milers, and the best of them all is about to emerge. \u2014 Roger Robinson, Outside Online , 5 May 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The wallpaper, lighting, drapes and shades are vintage . \u2014 Bill Pennington, New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"Most of the furniture is vintage and plants are everywhere. \u2014 Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
"Some will be vintage and potentially quite rare, while others will showcase Airstream's modern era. \u2014 Drew Dorian, Car and Driver , 26 May 2022",
"Lisa: Everything needed to be vintage or locally made. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 25 May 2022",
"All of those beautiful pieces of jewelry that are around my neck are vintage as well. \u2014 Adam Rathe, Town & Country , 10 May 2022",
"His source material might be vintage , but the issues his pictures raise are as pressing as ever. \u2014 Vince Aletti, The New Yorker , 6 May 2022",
"Similarly, the garments worn in the 1980s scenes by Chlo\u00eb Sevigny (as Nadia\u2019s mother, Nora) are predominantly vintage to match the era. \u2014 Emma Fraser, ELLE , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Jenner wore a short brown leather mini skirt and a fluffy vintage -style jacket buttoned at the front. \u2014 Aim\u00e9e Lutkin, ELLE , 30 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)",
"Adjective",
"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200646"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": break , disregard",
": to do harm to the person or especially the chastity of",
": rape sense 1",
": to fail to show proper respect for : profane",
": interrupt , disturb",
": subjected to violation",
": to fail to keep : break",
": to treat in a very disrespectful way",
": disturb sense 1",
": to go against (as a prohibition or principle) : fail to observe or respect"
],
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-l\u0259t",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
],
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"breach",
"break",
"contravene",
"fracture",
"infringe (on ",
"offend",
"traduce",
"transgress"
],
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"comply (with)",
"conform (to)",
"follow",
"mind",
"obey",
"observe"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"He was arrested for violating his parole.",
"The company violated its customers' privacy.",
"She was attacked and violated by an unknown intruder.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said in a statement that the company quickly removes posts that violate its policy prohibiting gun sales and imposes increasingly severe penalties for repeat rule-breakers, including permanent account suspensions. \u2014 Naomi Nix, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"After his experience, Dean feels the system isn\u2019t set up for patients to take action against hospitals that violate the law. \u2014 Lauren Dunn, NBC News , 8 June 2022",
"Businesses that violate the state price-gouging law can be fined up to $5,000 per event. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"Some also doubt there\u2019s a way to prove the injury prediction software is accurate without putting players at risk in a way that would violate research ethics. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 7 June 2022",
"Drastically increase fines for insurers that violate the law. \u2014 Rachel Cohrs, STAT , 29 May 2022",
"The Supreme Court ruled last year that robocalls violate federal law only if the numbers are dialed randomly or sequentially. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
"Users won't be able to like, forward or respond to posts that violate the new rules. \u2014 David Klepper, ajc , 19 May 2022",
"At the federal level, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued, on May 4, warning letters to five companies for selling products labeled as containing delta-8 THC in ways that violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). \u2014 Dario Sabaghi, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Videos that do not clearly violate YouTube's polices -- that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content -- will appear with a warning and will not be able to gain revenue with ads. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 19 June 2017",
"Monday, May 22 Victim of violate domestic relations court order, 1500 block Montecito Road. Sunday, May 21 Female, 38, \u2014 Ramona Sentinel , 30 May 2017",
"On Friday, two government watchdog groups called for investigations into the payroll requests and stipend payments, which seemed to potentially violate state law related to knowingly offering false documents to government officials or agencies. \u2014 Jesse Mckinley, New York Times , 12 May 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
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"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192259"
},
"violent":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"marked by the use of usually harmful or destructive physical force",
"showing or including violence",
"extremely powerful or forceful and capable of causing damage",
"caused by physical force or violence not natural",
"emotionally agitated to the point of using harmful physical force",
"Hinckley also has not exhibited any violent behavior or interest in weapons. \u2014 Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"That includes allegations of violent behavior and his diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder, or D.I.D., a complex mental health condition characterized by some severe and potentially debilitating symptoms. \u2014 Adam Carlson, ABC News , 16 June 2022",
"Friedman, the federal judge overseeing Hinckley's case, said on June 1 that Hinckley has shown no signs of active mental illness since the mid-1980s and has exhibited no violent behavior or interest in weapons. \u2014 CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"Friedman, the federal judge overseeing Hinckley's case, said on June 1 that Hinckley has shown no signs of active mental illness since the mid-1980s and has exhibited no violent behavior or interest in weapons. \u2014 Ben Finley, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"In a statement to CNN, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said the employee was let go due to violent workplace behavior. \u2014 Catherine Thorbecke And Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"Japanese auteur and Cannes favorite Naomi Kawase has been accused of violent behavior towards her staff and crew, including an assault that left an employee\u2019s face swollen. \u2014 Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"Opponents of Heard emphasized flaws in her character and alleged violent behavior of her own. \u2014 Emma Hinchliffe And Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 3 June 2022",
"Hinckley has shown no signs of active mental illness since the mid-1980s, the judge noted Wednesday, and has exhibited no violent behavior or interest in weapons. \u2014 Jessica Gresko, ajc , 1 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin violentus ; akin to Latin vis strength \u2014 more at vim ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"virginal":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"of, relating to, or characteristic of a virgin or virginity",
"pure , chaste",
"pristine , unsullied",
"a small rectangular spinet having no legs and only one wire to a note and popular in the 16th and 17th centuries",
"of, relating to, or characteristic of a virgin or virginity"
"one of the state's few remaining tracts of virginal prairie",
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"Historically, clinicians have defended medical involvement as a means of protecting women against violence if their virginal status is in question. \u2014 Neda Taghinejadi, Wired , 13 Feb. 2022",
"Men are gang members, and women are either virginal or spitfires. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Dec. 2021",
"And because the queen, who had endured omnipresent chaperonage by her mother, was presumed to be virginal , the color came to be considered symbolic of bodily purity. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Nov. 2021",
"This became a clear trend and message over the course of a decade, fueled by pop culture stars young women and girls needed to stay virginal to succeed. \u2014 Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Gus, one of the liberated enslaved, in the uniform of the Union Army, loiters outside the house of the virginal southern belle Flora and follows her to the woods. \u2014 Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books , 23 Apr. 2020",
"That went double for the moon, whose virginal glow is nicely sanitizing in this context. \u2014 James Marcus, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2021",
"From there one, the idea of pure evil and the most ubiquitous representation of good, a virginal babysitter, a young girl with dreams of romance and goodness in her heart. \u2014 Jenelle Riley, Variety , 28 Aug. 2021",
"The character, in Zegler\u2019s view, shouldn\u2019t be so virginal and pure and, well, flat and one-note. \u2014 Hunter Harris, Town & Country , 25 Aug. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Many of the clinics that provide hymenoplasty also offer virginity testing, an examination of the genitalia that claims to determine the virginal (or otherwise) status of a woman. \u2014 Neda Taghinejadi, Wired , 13 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1530, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"virile":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree",
": characteristic of or associated with men : masculine",
": having the nature, properties, or qualities of an adult male",
": capable of functioning as a male in copulation",
": energetic , vigorous",
": masterful , forceful",
": having qualities generally associated with men",
": having the nature, properties, or qualities of an adult male",
": capable of functioning as a male in copulation",
": characteristic of or associated with men : masculine"
"men were once expected to be interested only in such virile activities as hunting",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As such, the Second Symphony, completed in 1875 and premiered in 1877, is crackling with heroic swagger and brimming with virile rhythmic gusto. \u2014 Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"In every case, a strong body is the goal, and most often, that means a virile male body. \u2014 Derek Beres, Rolling Stone , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Rap battles take the place of duels in this virile production, performed on a set as blank as the pages of a drama that might yet be written. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"But only Cooper was nominated Wednesday for his comedic turn as a virile hotshot producer, and the film was passed over completely in the best cast category. \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Notables from John Cusack to Dennis Rodman to Rihanna have worn the brand\u2019s virile leather jackets, weighty necklaces and sweatshirts bearing its iconic cross logo. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 1 Nov. 2021",
"This allegorical spectrum supports a handsome, virile framework intended to lift up and destigmatize. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Images of these men on horseback or in classical profile began appearing on posters and handkerchiefs and even crockery, the pinup boys of the revolutionary age\u2013 virile and virtuous and handsome. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Images of these men on horseback or in classical profile began appearing on posters and handkerchiefs and even crockery, the pinup boys of the revolutionary age\u2013 virile and virtuous and handsome. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French or Latin; Middle French viril , from Latin virilis , from vir man, male; akin to Old English & Old High German wer man, Sanskrit v\u012bra ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220037"
},
"virtually":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": almost entirely : nearly",
": for all practical purposes",
": by means of a computer or computer network : in a virtual location"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0259r-ch\u0259-w\u0259-l\u0113",
"-ch\u0259-l\u0113",
"\u02c8v\u0259rch-w\u0259-l\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"all but",
"almost",
"borderline",
"fair",
"fairly",
"feckly",
"more or less",
"most",
"much",
"near",
"nearly",
"next to",
"nigh",
"practically",
"somewhere",
"well-nigh"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"We spent virtually all day shopping.",
"The stadium was virtually empty by the time the game ended.",
"I remember virtually everything he said.",
"That illness is virtually unknown in this area.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Marshall was newly confirmed as President Harry Truman\u2019s secretary of state and known by virtually every adult as the five-star army general who had guided the nation to victory in World War II. \u2014 David L. Roll, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
"China's biggest city was under some form of lockdown from late March until this week, leaving tens of millions of people confined at home, upending business in virtually every sector and bringing the city to a standstill. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 3 June 2022",
"As a result, virtually every flight is full, and airfares continue to increase. \u2014 Peter Greenberg, CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"Since acquiring the full Elvis Presley intellectual property rights in 2013 for an undisclosed sum, the firm has wielded control over virtually every aspect of Elvis\u2019s image, from album covers, TV appearances and themed events. \u2014 Kim Bellware, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Unlike cars and virtually every product sold in the U.S., there are no regulatory safety requirements for guns. \u2014 Eric W. Fleegler, Scientific American , 2 June 2022",
"But some content platforms are inherently more cross-platform than others, like Spotify, which is available on virtually every device, form factor and operating system. \u2014 Anshel Sag, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"In virtually every other corner of American governance there is an implicit bargain to how things work. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 1 June 2022",
"This applies to virtually every industry as well as to low-skill manufacturing jobs. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1b"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204034"
},
"virtue":{
"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"conformity to a standard of right morality",
"a particular moral excellence",
"a beneficial quality or power of a thing",
"manly strength or courage valor",
"a commendable quality or trait merit",
"a capacity to act potency",
"chastity especially in a woman",
"an order of angels \u2014 see celestial hierarchy",
"Burton is the clear star of Butterfly in the Sky, but by virtue of having premiered over a decade after Mister Rogers and Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow also features more key behind-the-scenes talent than those shows\u2019 respective documentaries. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 June 2022",
"San Diego, by virtue of its agreement with IID, will likely stave off any restrictions on Colorado River water until after Los Angeles and surrounding regions are hard hit. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"He was found not guilty by virtue of reasonable doubt. \u2014 Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone , 3 June 2022",
"Whether in orbital habitats or on long-haul interplanetary voyages, plants could not only be sustainable food sources but also helpful components of a life-support system by virtue of producing oxygen and scrubbing the air of excess carbon dioxide. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 2 June 2022",
"What\u2019s more, says the foreign minister, people have rights simply by virtue of being human \u2014 rights from birth. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 2 June 2022",
"Just by virtue of the work, that manifests those kinds of coincidences. \u2014 Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"By virtue of that final score, the match joined a long line of historic and memorable 2-0 wins against Mexico. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 30 May 2022",
"Texas and Stanford both finished with 124 team points, but the Longhorns claimed the NCAA title by virtue of their victory in the varsity eight grand final. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 29 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English vertu, virtu , from Anglo-French, from Latin virtut-, virtus strength, manliness, virtue, from vir man \u2014 more at virile ",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"virtuoso":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one who excels in the technique of an art",
": a highly skilled musical performer",
": a person who has exceptional skill, expertise, or talent at some endeavor",
": a person interested in the pursuit of knowledge in some specialized field and especially in the arts and sciences",
": a person interested in or having a taste for the fine arts",
": a person who is an outstanding performer especially in music"
"On Wednesday, June 15, nail virtuoso Tom Bachik, who's responsible for countless JLo manis, shared what may be the best \u2014 though perhaps not the clearest \u2014 celebrity nailfie of all time. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 16 June 2022",
"Stasium\u2019s devotion, attention to detail and eclecticism immediately impressed Living Colour\u2019s virtuoso guitarist, Vernon Reid. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"Website listings for May 2022 events included a ukulele virtuoso from Hawaii, a forum on Laotian and Hmong authors and a Chinese American chef\u2019s demonstration of her nation\u2019s culinary traditions. \u2014 Joan Oleck, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Lafleur was the stylish virtuoso who spoiled the Stanley Cup dreams of kids all over New England in the late 1970s. \u2014 Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com , 23 Apr. 2022",
"In this intimate show, the audience will find out how an extraordinary 13-year-old boy became the reigning virtuoso of the violin. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Chris Thile, singer-songwriter and virtuoso mandolinist and member of Nickel Creek and the Punch Brothers, will perform a concert to benefit pediatric cancer research at New York\u2019s City Winery on June 1. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 3 May 2022",
"The orchestra\u2019s program will include Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov\u2019s Seventh Symphony and Ukrainian virtuoso Anna Fedorova playing Chopin\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2. \u2014 Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ , 3 May 2022",
"Long overshadowed by her older brother, the tragic virtuoso Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) was also an important dancer and choreographer, and this scrupulous biography illuminates the formidable scope of her accomplishments. \u2014 The New Yorker , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Italian, from virtuoso , adjective, virtuous, skilled, from Late Latin virtuosus virtuous, from Latin virtus ",
"first_known_use":[
"1613, in the meaning defined at sense 3"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-171330"
},
"virtuous":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": having or exhibiting virtue",
": morally excellent : righteous",
": chaste",
": potent , efficacious",
": morally good : having or showing virtue"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0259r-ch\u0259-w\u0259s",
"\u02c8v\u0259rch-w\u0259s",
"\u02c8v\u0259r-ch\u0259-w\u0259s"
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"true",
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"antonyms":[
"bad",
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"dishonorable",
"evil",
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"immoral",
"indecent",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unrighteous",
"wicked",
"wrong"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Policymakers should look at ways to spur this virtuous cycle by incentivizing insurers to adopt common control frameworks and share risk insights. \u2014 Chris Finan, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"So this highlights the opportunity for a virtuous cycle where the effect can snowball. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 16 June 2022",
"As the culture wars rage on and the myth of moral autonomy continues to spread, parents have both the grave responsibility and the immense joy of raising our kids to be wise, virtuous people. \u2014 Jason Thacker, The Week , 29 Mar. 2022",
"With nearly three-quarters of this year\u2019s sellers also planning to buy a home, the rise in new listings may kick-start a virtuous cycle, reinforcing the trend by attracting even more homeowners into the market. \u2014 Brenda Richardson, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Modest inflation driven by consumer demand, the thinking goes, would create a virtuous cycle of economic expansion: Companies\u2019 profits would grow, spurring investment, wage growth and domestic consumption. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
"If the virtuous cycle of technological development and population density is the underlying cause of economic growth, Europe should have remained a backwater. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In fact, the international consensus behind the treaty already appears to be driving a virtuous cycle: firms convinced there will be future demand for cleaner technologies are supplying them at ever lower costs. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 17 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s why students have a working requirement to graduate, and why the microelectronics program and businesses now have a virtuous cycle, Vanderford explained. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"see virtue ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203920"
},
"virtuousness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": having or exhibiting virtue",
": morally excellent : righteous",
": chaste",
": potent , efficacious",
": morally good : having or showing virtue"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0259r-ch\u0259-w\u0259s",
"\u02c8v\u0259rch-w\u0259s",
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"all right",
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"bad",
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"wrong"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Policymakers should look at ways to spur this virtuous cycle by incentivizing insurers to adopt common control frameworks and share risk insights. \u2014 Chris Finan, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"So this highlights the opportunity for a virtuous cycle where the effect can snowball. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 16 June 2022",
"As the culture wars rage on and the myth of moral autonomy continues to spread, parents have both the grave responsibility and the immense joy of raising our kids to be wise, virtuous people. \u2014 Jason Thacker, The Week , 29 Mar. 2022",
"With nearly three-quarters of this year\u2019s sellers also planning to buy a home, the rise in new listings may kick-start a virtuous cycle, reinforcing the trend by attracting even more homeowners into the market. \u2014 Brenda Richardson, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Modest inflation driven by consumer demand, the thinking goes, would create a virtuous cycle of economic expansion: Companies\u2019 profits would grow, spurring investment, wage growth and domestic consumption. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
"If the virtuous cycle of technological development and population density is the underlying cause of economic growth, Europe should have remained a backwater. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In fact, the international consensus behind the treaty already appears to be driving a virtuous cycle: firms convinced there will be future demand for cleaner technologies are supplying them at ever lower costs. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 17 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s why students have a working requirement to graduate, and why the microelectronics program and businesses now have a virtuous cycle, Vanderford explained. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"see virtue ",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-215109"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being virulent : such as",
": extreme bitterness or malevolence : rancor",
": the relative capacity of a pathogen (such as a bacterium or virus) to overcome a host's defenses and cause disease or damage : the degree of pathogenicity of a causative agent of disease",
": the ability to overcome a host's defenses and cause disease or damage : the state of being pathogenic",
": relative severity or malignancy",
": the quality or state of being virulent : as",
": the relative capacity of a pathogen (as a bacterium or virus) to overcome a host's defenses and cause disease or damage : the degree of pathogenicity of a causative agent of disease",
": the ability to overcome a host's defenses and cause disease or damage : the state of being pathogenic",
": relative severity or malignancy"
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"\u02c8vir-\u0259-l\u0259n(t)s",
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"acidity",
"acidness",
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"acridness",
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"examples":[
"I was surprised by the virulence of the criticism.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This recombinant virus expresses several new genes, in addition to M159, that may have enhanced the virulence of rabbitpox in hares. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Eve events amid unresolved questions about the transmissibility and virulence of the new variant. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
"The virulence of any pathogen depends not just on its own qualities but on the preparedness of the human immune system. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 25 Mar. 2022",
"But greater virulence does not necessarily mean stealth Omicron is more dangerous that Omicron. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 24 Mar. 2022",
"If Omicron is twice as transmissible as Delta, even a 50% reduction in virulence will be a wash. \u2014 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
"That could be any of the Big Three, but consider two examples: a juice-up in immune evasion, or a surge in virulence . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Several doctors told Fortune in March that the necessity of a fourth shot will depend on the virulence of any new coronavirus variants that spread. \u2014 Ian Mount, Fortune , 6 Apr. 2022",
"First of all, the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 has been very stable\u2014with the exception of Delta, which is twice as likely to land you in the hospital. \u2014 Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American , 17 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"borrowed from French & Latin; borrowed from French, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Late Latin v\u012brulentia \"poisonous odor, infection,\" from Latin v\u012brulentus \"full of poison, venomous\" + -ia -ia entry 1 \u2014 more at virulent ",
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"1597, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195407"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": virulence",
": virulence"
],
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"\u02c8vir-\u0259-l\u0259n(t)-s\u0113",
"\u02c8vir-y\u0259-",
"-l\u0259n-s\u0113"
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"acidity",
"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimony",
"asperity",
"bile",
"bitterness",
"cattiness",
"corrosiveness",
"mordancy",
"tartness",
"virulence",
"vitriol"
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"examples":[
"the virulency of his critical judgments became the stuff of Broadway legend"
],
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"1616, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204805"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal",
": aspect , appearance"
],
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"\u02c8vi-zij"
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"cast",
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"expression",
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"examples":[
"an old man with a noticeably happy visage",
"visitors to the mountain range had long noted that the natural rock formation bore a striking resemblance to the visage of a man",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Perry ripped off the crew member's black hat, revealing none other than Bryan's wife, Caroline Boyer, whose visage was also concealed by a wig, glasses and COVID-19 face mask. \u2014 Charles Trepany, USA TODAY , 22 Mar. 2022",
"With an expressive visage that's often compared to a human face, these dogs are known for their intelligence, sense of humor, and self-importance. \u2014 Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day , 3 May 2022",
"On Tuesday, April 19, Gaga shared a quick glance at her no-makeup visage with a selfie video posted to her Instagram Stories. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Then, once cooled, a thicker opaque glaze is drizzled over the top and left to set up, giving the buns their iconic visage . \u2014 Ben Mimscooking Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Unlike the other iconic redhead with a side part and swoosh of curls that frame the side of her dazzling cartoon visage , Thee Stallion gives us a twist with this color. \u2014 Jennet Jusu, Allure , 10 Mar. 2022",
"If\u2014as the director Ingmar Bergman once claimed\u2014the most important image in the history of cinema is that of the human face, then the visage of Jane Birkin inspired a new zeitgeist of onscreen beauty. \u2014 Erik Morse, Vogue , 17 Mar. 2022",
"A couple of feet in front of Sawyer, Bardic bent over slightly, a sheen of perspiration failing to mask a visage of utter exhaustion. \u2014 Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Another theory about his youthful visage : Leto doesn\u2019t emote very much in casual conversation. \u2014 Lauren Larson, Men's Health , 21 Mar. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-001549"
},
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": capable of being seen",
": situated in the region of the electromagnetic spectrum perceptible to human vision",
": exposed to view",
": conspicuous",
": well-known",
": capable of being discovered or perceived : recognizable",
": accessible sense 2",
": devised to keep a particular part or item always in full view or readily seen or referred to",
": a visible person or thing : someone or something that can be seen or perceived",
": capable of being seen",
": easily seen or understood : obvious",
": capable of being seen : perceptible to vision",
": situated in the visible spectrum"
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"\u02c8vi-z\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8vi-z\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8viz-\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"apparent",
"observable",
"seeable",
"visual"
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"invisible",
"sightless",
"viewless"
],
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"Adjective",
"The ship was not visible through the fog.",
"The ship was barely visible .",
"The patient showed no visible symptoms.",
"There was a visible change in his mood.",
"They played a highly visible role in the negotiations.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The most visible component of NRMN is its virtual mentoring network, which uses an internet interface, a database, and an algorithm to match interested students with candidate mentors pulled from a nationwide pool. \u2014 Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS , 24 Oct. 2017",
"The post is a highly visible one, thanks to the city\u2019s global reach, the high concentration of media outlets, and the presence of major financial and cultural institutions. \u2014 Matt Ford, The Atlantic , 16 Oct. 2017",
"Temples are the most visible LDS structures, though the Treasure Valley is dotted with the familiar meetinghouses. \u2014 Glenna Christensen, idahostatesman , 13 Oct. 2017",
"In front of Aladdin Cafe, 1021 Massachusetts St., a pool of blood was visible . \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 2 Oct. 2017",
"These pressures create perverse incentives for developing countries to pursue shallow but highly visible reforms \u2014 for example, the establishment of a nominally independent anti-corruption agency or the passage of anti-human trafficking legislation. \u2014 Mark Buntaine, Washington Post , 19 Sep. 2017",
"Very little filling should be visible ; the dough will shrink, and these gaps will widen as pie bakes. \u2014 Rick Martinez, Bon Appetit , 19 July 2017",
"Contractors looking for lumber to expand the Canadian railroad discovered visible silver in the loose rock. \u2014 Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com , 31 Oct. 2017",
"Here's an excerpt: But Trump's anger Monday was visible to those who interacted with him, and the mood in the corridors of the White House was one of weariness and fear of the unknown. \u2014 Callum Borchers, Washington Post , 31 Oct. 2017"
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"Adjective",
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"Noun",
"1614, in the meaning defined above"
],
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},
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"verb"
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": the act or power of seeing : sight",
": the special sense by which the qualities of an object (such as color, luminosity, shape, and size) constituting its appearance are perceived through a process in which light rays entering the eye are transformed by the retina into electrical signals that are transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve",
": something seen in a dream, trance, or ecstasy",
": a supernatural appearance that conveys a revelation",
": a thought, concept, or object formed by the imagination",
": a manifestation to the senses of something immaterial",
": the act or power of imagination",
": mode of seeing or conceiving",
": unusual discernment or foresight",
": direct mystical awareness of the supernatural usually in visible form",
": something seen",
": a lovely or charming sight",
": envision",
": the sense by which the qualities of an object (as color) that make up its appearance are perceived through a process in which light rays entering the eye are transformed into signals that pass to the brain",
": the act or power of seeing : sight",
": something dreamt or imagined",
": exceptional ability to know or believe what should happen or be done in the future",
": the act or power of seeing : sight",
": the special sense by which the qualities of an object (as color, luminosity, shape, and size) constituting its appearance are perceived through a process in which light rays entering the eye are transformed by the retina into electrical signals that are transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve"
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"\u02c8vi-zh\u0259n",
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"chimera",
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"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"pipe dream",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"If the office example that Zuckerberg unveiled in October was modest\u2014basically a Zoom call with more bells and whistles and better graphics\u2014the overall vision is far more ambitious. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"The vision was to make bourbon loosely like the distillery's namesake did in the late 1700s. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 6 June 2022",
"The vision , following the model set by Shakespeare and the ancient Greeks, was to bring all strata of society together \u2014 groundlings, swells and everyone in between. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"Locksmith\u2019s vision is ambitious and its slate is already full of potential. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"This vision of humanity is the one Arteaga believes is possible in Honduras, no matter who holds the presidency. \u2014 Jessica Hoppe, refinery29.com , 31 May 2022",
"But that vision in this part of the world has been slow to arrive. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"At the site itself, some incidents suggest that vision could be difficult to implement\u2014mirroring broader challenges Saudi Arabia has faced in loosening its conservative culture. \u2014 Rory Jones, WSJ , 31 May 2022",
"The footprint is small, but the vision is sweeping. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In 2019, under the guidance of Assembly Chair Felix Rivera, the Assembly hired Laurie Wolf to facilitate a series of three strategic visioning meetings to better define our goals for years 2019-2021. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 28 Mar. 2020",
"At 80, Larry Ginter, a longtime organizer who participated in November\u2019s visioning session, isn\u2019t old enough to remember the original New Deal. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Nobody was more tunnel- visioned than Helton, who did not look up at the visitors. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Sep. 2019",
"But Korff won\u2019t hold off for the city\u2019s visioning effort to be completed. \u2014 John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com , 8 Aug. 2019",
"Landscape architect Christine Wilson of Copley Wolff Design Group created a conceptual design for the pocket park using community input, including through a site visit and a visioning workshop with nearby residents in the fall of 2018. \u2014 John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com , 7 Aug. 2019",
"The plan was born out of a 2008 community visioning exercise conducted by the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation. \u2014 Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com , 23 July 2019",
"Upcoming dates: July 16, Aug. 20 (open house/ visioning session), Sept 17, and Oct. 15. \u2014 Karen Huppertz, ajc , 21 June 2018",
"River Forest residents are invited to provide their input at a visioning workshop that will help shape the village\u2019s future with the creation of a comprehensive plan. \u2014 Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com , 10 Apr. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a",
"Verb",
"1743, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185743"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
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"verb"
],
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": to pay a call on as an act of friendship or courtesy",
": to reside with temporarily as a guest",
": to go to see or stay at (a place) for a particular purpose (such as business or sightseeing)",
": to go or come officially to inspect or oversee",
": to go to see in order to comfort or help",
": afflict",
": inflict , impose",
": avenge",
": to present itself to or come over momentarily",
": comfort",
": to make a visit",
": to make frequent or regular visits",
": chat , converse",
": a short stay : call",
": a brief residence as a guest",
": an extended stay : sojourn",
": a journey to and stay or short sojourn at a place",
": an official or professional call or tour : visitation",
": the act of a naval officer in boarding a merchant ship on the high seas in exercise of the right of search",
": to go to see for a particular purpose",
": to stay with for a time as a guest",
": to come to or upon",
": an act of going to see a person, place, or thing for a particular purpose",
": a stay as a guest",
": to go to attend (a patient)",
": to go to see (as a physician or dentist) for professional service",
": a professional call (as by a physician to treat a patient)",
": a call upon a professional person (as a physician or dentist) for consultation or treatment"
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"\u02c8vi-z\u0259t",
"\u02c8vi-z\u0259t",
"\u02c8viz-\u0259t"
],
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"call (on ",
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"see"
],
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"sojourn",
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"tarry"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Loan applicants can visit the fund's website to set up a 30-minute call with Ebiara, and an application will follow if approved during the initial step. \u2014 Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
"For more information, visit https://coastalrootsfarm.org/farm-film-music-series. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"An arborist will visit every tree in the public right of way and record the species, age and size of the tree. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"Local women visit the property to hone their skills through training and workshops facilitated by Kuleshova. \u2014 Jennifer Kester, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"It was determined the Animal Protective League and health department visit the situation. \u2014 cleveland , 19 June 2022",
"Vehicles with license plates ending with an odd number can visit on odd days of the month Vehicles with license plates ending with an even number, including zero, can enter on even days of the month. \u2014 Bu Holly Yan And Raza Razek, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe, by then exclusively representing her, let people visit her first solo show with the gallery in March by appointment\u2014including Mr. Gagosian, who invited the artist to dinner at his house in Beverly Hills. \u2014 Kelly Crow, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"Once the person threatening violence is identified, police officers visit the student\u2019s home. \u2014 Claire Bryan, San Antonio Express-News , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In March 2021, the WHO released a report about COVID-19\u2032s origins following a visit by international scientists to China. \u2014 Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel , 10 June 2022",
"The exercise came during a visit to Seoul by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who promised a swift and forceful response if North Korea were to conduct a nuclear test, just as American and South Korean officials have warned of late. \u2014 Dasl Yoon, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"During the visit on Friday by a reporter and photographer, artillery shells slammed with a deafening bang into a park bordering the monastery, landscaped with yellow roses near the riverbank. \u2014 New York Times , 6 June 2022",
"The launch also followed a visit to Seoul by the U.S. point man on North Korean affairs, U.S. Special Representative Sung Kim, who departed on Saturday. \u2014 Fox News , 5 June 2022",
"Making the most of the attention-getting White House visit by BTS, the South Korean supergroup, President Joe Biden has tweeted out a video of their time together in the Oval Office. \u2014 Brittany Gaddy, ABC News , 1 June 2022",
"Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday that Ankara and Riyadh were in agreement for a visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Turkey, but no date had been set yet. \u2014 Abbas Al Lawati, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"Residents of Uvalde on Sunday commended the visit by Biden. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022",
"Survivors, families of the victims and first responders will also be paid a visit by the nation\u2019s comforter-in-chief. \u2014 Camille Fine, USA TODAY , 29 May 2022"
],
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"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3d",
"Noun",
"1621, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": visitor",
": one thought to come from a spirit world",
": a migratory bird that appears at intervals for a limited period"
],
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"\u02c8vi-z\u0259-t\u0259nt",
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"visitor"
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"the groundless theory that these ancient monuments were built by extraterrestrial visitants",
"a nocturnal visitant that must have been the shade of his late brother, crying out for vengeance against his murderers"
],
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185405"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that visits",
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],
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"frequenter",
"guest",
"visitant"
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"examples":[
"The museum gets visitors from all over the world.",
"Visitors to the office must sign in at the desk.",
"There's a visitor waiting for you in the lobby.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Zamanillo is no longer a mere visitor stopping by the storied institution's museums. \u2014 Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"After a tornado zigzagged through a shady campground in early March in Iowa\u2019s Red Haw State Park, a visitor had been killed \u2014 his camper destroyed. \u2014 Kay Nolan, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"While Robert might not have made a love connection with the fan, his oldest sister Bindi did spark with one visitor to the family's zoo. \u2014 Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com , 15 June 2022",
"According to Fortner, who runs the Marilyn Monroe Collection Instagram account, the new images were sent to him from a visitor who saw the dress on display at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! \u2014 Sam Reed, Glamour , 14 June 2022",
"The incident comes days after an orangutan grabbed a visitor through its cage at a zoo in Indonesia. \u2014 Fox News , 13 June 2022",
"Within minutes, a visitor is transported to South America, Southeast Asia and the American South, all of it just 20 minutes from Midtown Manhattan. \u2014 Everett Potter, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"The subtle slopes allow every visitor to use the same paths for the same experience. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"And if a visitor chooses to spend the night, Uvalde has its share of motels too, from Holiday Inn to hunting lodges and the Amber Sky Motel. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022"
],
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],
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": of, relating to, or used in vision",
": attained or maintained by sight",
": visible",
": producing mental images : vivid",
": done or executed by sight only",
": of, relating to, or employing visual aids",
": something (such as a graphic) that appeals to the sight and is used for effect or illustration",
"She appreciates the visual arts such as painting and film.",
"Maps are a visual tool for learning.",
"Noun",
"Should I include some visuals in my presentation?",
"a film director known for his powerful visuals",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Lou Ferrigno had a few words about the negative impact visual effects can have on the performances in today's film and TV projects. \u2014 Tommy Mcardle, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"Interviews with body doubles, visual effects specialists and intimacy coordinators reveal the nuts and bolts behind the sultriest movie moments. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 June 2022",
"Kosinski is a gifted director, but his specialty is juggling human elements with complex visual effects. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"That, of course, just makes Maniac that much scarier, especially when paired with visual effects legend Tom Savini's signature splatter. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"Despite its popularity, the film received just one Oscar nod \u2013 best visual effects. \u2014 Paul Grein, Billboard , 5 June 2022",
"Our visual effects people do an incredible amount of anatomical research. \u2014 John Jurgensen, WSJ , 4 June 2022",
"Gene Kozicki, a visual effects historian and archivist, said that Mr. Cantwell was most likely the first person Mr. Lucas hired to design the spaceships. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"No bloody visual effects makeup or disheveled soccer uniforms to see here! \u2014 Erica Gonzales, ELLE , 20 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the visual , Halsey makes a heart-swelling realization about her partner, Alev Aydin, who also directed the video for the track that was inspired by their love story. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 10 June 2022",
"The visual is heroic nonsense, sure, but it\u2019s also stirringly maximalist poetry, the kind of sincere triumphalism that feels absent from peer Hollywood blockbusters. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 7 June 2022",
"In the visual , Heeseung appears in a space flooded with sunlight, surrounded by studio lights and amps while dressed in a simple black jacket, white shirt, and dangling earrings. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 31 May 2022",
"Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers and Tempe police supported deputies as law enforcement used a drone to get a visual of Rojas, who then began shooting at the drone, Gillett said. \u2014 Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic , 20 May 2022",
"This system has a spectacular visual of a star pulled into a teardrop shape as the black hole siphons mass and energy from it. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 7 May 2022",
"The visual was directed by Javier Blanco Chiocchio. \u2014 Jude Zhu, Billboard , 24 May 2022",
"The result is a striking visual of a person in a white shirt turned away from the camera while the shadows of leaves fall on them. \u2014 Vogue , 23 May 2022",
"Directed by Chris Maggio, the playful visual finds the duo peacefully soaring through the air like kites in their purple and yellow wizard robes while the local news and others are hot on their trail. \u2014 Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone , 16 May 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1938, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191525"
},
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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"to make visible such as",
"to see or form a mental image of envisage",
"to make (an internal organ or part) visible by radiographic visualization",
"to form a mental visual image",
"to see or form a mental image imagine",
"to make visible as",
"to see or form a mental image of",
"to make (an organ) visible by radiographic visualization",
"to prepare (as an organism or tissue) for microscopic examination especially by staining"
],
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"\u02c8vi-zh\u0259-w\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
"\u02c8vi-zh\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
"\u02c8vizh-w\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
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"envision",
"fancy",
"fantasize",
"fantasy",
"feature",
"ideate",
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"imagine",
"picture",
"see",
"vision"
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"examples":[
"She tried to visualize the scene he was describing.",
"Before you swing, visualize yourself hitting the ball.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To better visualize this, think about mobility, which is often beholden to the gas station grid. \u2014 Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"To visualize just how much St. Jude outstrips its competitors In 2020, U.S. News and World Report\u2019s ranked the nation\u2019s best children\u2019s cancer centers. \u2014 David Armstrong, ProPublica , 8 June 2022",
"To visualize Yellowstone\u2019s subsurface layer, scientists flew a helicopter over the park with an 80-foot-diameter, hexagonal electromagnetic ring dangling underneath. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 May 2022",
"Using publicly available mobility data, researchers mapped the disease vectors\u2014in essence, the limited movements of you and me during that period\u2014to visualize how people were moving about in a community. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 3 May 2022",
"The video takes advantage of the latest technology to visualize the chaos of modern times, fusing it with the dynamic elements of the music. \u2014 Billboard Japan, Billboard , 22 Feb. 2022",
"To visualize Laczkovich\u2019s achievement, imagine a circle and square side by side on a page. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Within Box Canvas, customers can upload Box files into the Whiteboard and visualize the content the team is working on. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"Small tufts of wool stuck to the bodywork help visualize airflow over the body. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To measure our energy levels, Pierre Casse proposed the concept of the vitality quotient (VQ). \u2014 Iryna Manukovska, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"The actress, who is nominated for her role as Lady Macbeth in Sam Gold\u2019s staging of the play, infuses the character with intensity, urgency and vitality . \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"One of the most important ingredients is some Vitamin E to restore damaged skin and build vitality . \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"These scenes are beautifully imagined, Musidora\u2019s foxy vitality melting into Mira\u2019s moody vibrance before our every eyes. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 6 June 2022",
"As downtown retail declined through the decades, the HBC lost vitality . \u2014 Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor , 2 June 2022",
"Victimhood is rarely at issue in Ringgold\u2019s work, however awful the circumstances; irrepressible vitality always is. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The vitality of the oak and the fruit is sensational. \u2014 Dan Dunn, Robb Report , 12 Jan. 2021",
"Each capsule, which is full of 25 billion CFU and protected by our InTactic\u00ae technology for optimum vitality throughout the digestive system, includes 25 billion CFU. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022"
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"\u02c8v\u012b-t\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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"a hearty lunch and a long nap afterwards vitalized him again"
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"\u02c8v\u012b-t\u1d4al",
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"These matters are vital to national defense.",
"The sciences are a vital part of the school curriculum.",
"your heart, lungs, and other vital organs",
"Exercise keeps her young and vital .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Your tent is a vital piece of camping gear that shouldn\u2019t be overlooked: The right one can keep you warm and dry\u2014and not be a complete nightmare to pitch. \u2014 Hannah Singleton, SELF , 8 June 2022",
"That mix, here and in other states, has led to a sizzling insiders\u2019 debate this spring that\u2019s vital to every Michigander \u2014 and to the residents of 14 other states in the Midwest plus one Canadian province. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 2 June 2022",
"Throughout the Celtics\u2019 playoff run, Grant Williams has become a vital piece of the puzzle in the bid for a championship. \u2014 Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"The Browns have identified tight end David Njoku as a vital piece of their offense for years to come. \u2014 Nate Ulrich, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"Though still a major player in coal, the miner has a large business in metals such as cobalt, copper and nickel that are seen as vital to electric-vehicle batteries and the transmission of electricity. \u2014 Dave Michaels, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"National TV spots, staring local entrepreneurs from Arizona and Mississippi, portray such issues as vital to America\u2019s heartland. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Framing mental health as a key driver for business success changes the whole tenor of corporate life not only from a management perspective but elevates the value of care as a vital piece of the puzzle to a more comprehensive people strategy. \u2014 Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Israel coordinates with the Russians ahead of strikes in Syria and there are concerns that if the relationship with Moscow goes sour, so does Israel's freedom of action in Syria -- something Israel sees as vital for its security. \u2014 Hadas Gold, CNN , 4 May 2022"
],
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": essential parts",
": vital statistics sense 2a",
": vital signs sense 1",
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": vital organs (as the heart, liver, lungs, and brain)"
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"\u02c8v\u012b-t\u1d4alz",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ring also includes a sleep analysis function that tracks the quality of sleep based on the vitals and time spent in each stage of sleep. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 26 May 2022",
"Vaught has taken criticism for her failure to catch the mistake at several points before Murphey was injected and for leaving Murphey in the care of scan technicians and not personally monitoring her vitals after giving the medication. \u2014 Mariah Timms, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
"This preloads navigation instructions and displays the car\u2019s location, security status and other vitals at the touch of a button when the owner is away from the vehicle. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 12 May 2022",
"My uric acid levels along with all other vitals were in the normal range. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 6 May 2022",
"Moments later, his father\u2019s eyes opened again, and EMTs eventually arrived and removed his shirt to check his vitals . \u2014 Grant Sharples, SPIN , 9 May 2022",
"There\u2019s just not enough energy to reliably penetrate a squirrel\u2019s hide and reach the vitals at normal shooting distances. \u2014 Johnny Carrol Sain, Outdoor Life , 6 Oct. 2020",
"Emergency room doctors would later check his vitals and release him with blood caked to his arms and lips. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Mar. 2022",
"For years, people have been shifting from tracking their health through sporadic visits to a doctor or lab to regularly monitoring their vitals themselves. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 14 Apr. 2022"
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": to make faulty or defective : impair",
": to debase in moral or aesthetic status",
": to make ineffective",
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"\u02c8vi-sh\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t",
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],
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"blemish",
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"tarnish",
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"examples":[
"The impact of the film was vitiated by poor acting.",
"believed that luxury vitiates even the most principled person",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The practical effect of this opinion is to vitiate risk pools as a method for small captive insurance companies to meet the risk distribution requirements for tax purposes. \u2014 Jay Adkisson, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"The conspiracy argument is an attempt to vitiate Eastman's attorney-client privilege defense. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Failure to do that can potentially vitiate or at least impair coverage. \u2014 Joshua Stein, Forbes , 9 Nov. 2021",
"The climate effects of such wanton deforestation will partially vitiate any environmental gains from the collapse in ground and air transport this spring. \u2014 Troy Vettese, The New Republic , 31 July 2020",
"They and Trump can be expected to argue that a party-line vote in the House should vitiate the stigma of impeachment. \u2014 Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books , 19 Dec. 2019",
"By forbidding all comparison, this more expansive meaning is vitiated . \u2014 Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books , 7 Jan. 2020",
"If the legitimacy of his actions is deemed vitiated by a potentially corrupt intent to impede the investigation, then his communications facilitate a crime and are not privileged. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Millennials have allied with Gen Z, and managed to vitiate the meme in the process by, basically, overdoing it. \u2014 Molly Roberts, The Denver Post , 7 Nov. 2019"
],
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"1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"adjective",
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": bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism",
": a sulfate of any of various metals (such as copper, iron, or zinc)",
": a glassy hydrate of such a sulfate",
": oil of vitriol",
": a sulfate of any of various metals (as copper, iron, or zinc)",
": oil of vitriol"
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"acidity",
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"virulence",
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],
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"examples":[
"His speech was full of political vitriol .",
"a film critic noted for the vitriol and sometimes outright cruelty of his pronouncements",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This year, another question arose: Would the anti-L.G.B.T.Q. vitriol that has surrounded Disney in recent months spill over to Gay Days? \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"The misogyny of fandom has produced toxic results before, and what is a woman \u2013 particularly one who may be the victim of emotional or physical abuse \u2013 supposed to take away from the vitriol this trial has unleashed? \u2014 Jill Filipovic, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"While many of the posts have been taken down and debunked by websites such as Politifact and FactCheck.org, that hasn\u2019t slowed the vitriol against the company on the forums and Telegram channels where believers in QAnon operate. \u2014 al , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Experts and parents say the aim is often to promote confidence and self-esteem in children and young people when they are faced with unexpected vitriol from the world. \u2014 Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The vitriol that came after Irving stomped on the Celtics\u2019 leprechaun logo during a Nets postseason road win last year felt especially silly. \u2014 Hunter Felt, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"So why the vitriol for Dunleavy, who played two years for the Bucks from 2011-13 and even played some early high school ball in the Milwaukee area when his father, Mike Sr., was an executive and head coach in Milwaukee? \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Apr. 2022",
"But Swensen insists the vitriol , sometimes rising to the level of threats, is not what led her to decide against chasing a ninth term. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The blatant hostility directed at women and people of color left some students questioning their decision to choose orthopedics and others concerned that the people who posted the vitriol would become future colleagues. \u2014 Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT , 13 Dec. 2021"
],
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"plural noun"
],
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"\u02c8vi-t\u1d4alz"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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": to abuse or censure severely or abusively : berate",
": to use harsh condemnatory language"
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"v\u012b-\u02c8t\u00fc-p\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t",
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"every week the minister would ascend the pulpit and vituperate the parishioners for a litany of vices"
],
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"1542, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
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"noun"
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": sustained and bitter railing and condemnation : vituperative utterance",
"Voters are tired of all the vituperation in this campaign.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What had whipped these imperious creative artists into a frenzy of dismissive vituperation was, in fact, something that most people have strong ideas about, nobody can define, and virtually everyone (besides that trio) seems to want: good taste. \u2014 Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Metaphorically likening Charlottesville to a rapist is a baseless vituperation against Charlottesville\u2019s character, even more outlandish when the mayor herself is the vituperator. \u2014 George Messenger, National Review , 30 Mar. 2021",
"Unflinchingly conservative, wildly partisan, bombastically self-promoting and larger than life, Limbaugh galvanized listeners for more than 30 years with his talent for vituperation and sarcasm. \u2014 Matt Sedensky, Star Tribune , 17 Feb. 2021",
"Unflinchingly conservative, wildly partisan, bombastically self-promoting, and larger than life, Mr. Limbaugh galvanized listeners for more than 30 years with his talent for vituperation and sarcasm. \u2014 Matt Sedensky, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 Feb. 2021",
"Americans rejected the radical vituperation proselytized on the fringes and chose the optimistic tradition of social justice associated with Pope John XXIII. \u2014 Rahm Emanuel, WSJ , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Four years later, in a contest marked by grotesque vituperation , Jefferson beat Adams. \u2014 Richard Brookhiser, New York Times , 31 Oct. 2017",
"Mr Hapilon may have presumed that the army would flinch at the prospect of urban warfare, and that Mr Duterte\u2019s frequent vituperation of America meant that American forces would fail to support their Filipino allies. \u2014 The Economist , 17 Oct. 2017",
"Accordingly, Puerto Ricans experienced many of the same denigrating conditions familiar to African Americans: housing segregation, inferior schools, job discrimination, media vituperation and everyday violence. \u2014 Frances Negr\u00f3n-muntaner, The Root , 12 Oct. 2017"
"Historically, in nations where city economies are dying and where, as well, cities are drained in service to transactions of decline, one city remains vivacious longest the capital city. \u2014 Jane Jacobs , Cities and the Wealth of Nations , (1984) 1985",
"You see, for years I have built my figure on the premise that \"fat people are jolly.\" I have eaten my way through pleasant, cheery, sunny, smiling, gay, spirited, chipper, vivacious , sparkling, happy, and sportive and was well on my way to becoming hysterical. \u2014 Erma Bombeck , The Best of Bombeck , (1965) 1967",
"She could follow every word that the ramblers uttered. They were talking no secrets. They were merely indulging in the ordinary vivacious chat of relatives who have long been parted in person though not in soul. \u2014 Thomas Hardy , The Return of the Native , 1878",
"an outgoing, vivacious girl who became a successful sales rep",
"the poem is a vivacious expression of his love for her",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Carnivores should take the opposite approach to steak, according to Simon Kim, owner of Cote, the vivacious Korean steak house with locations in Manhattan and Miami. \u2014 Adam Erace, Fortune , 28 May 2022",
"The Crown\u2014one that has introduced a whole new generation of fans to the tales of Queen Elizabeth's vivacious younger sister. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 20 May 2022",
"The third novel in her Fifth Avenue Rebels series follows vivacious Katherine Delafield, a young woman determined to soak up everything New York City has to offer, particularly its most scandalous options. \u2014 EW.com , 12 May 2022",
"Few people were better at it than top SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, who, at 40, was blond, vivacious , and literally the poster girl for the marine park in Orlando, Florida, appearing on billboards around the city. \u2014 Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online , 30 July 2010",
"Morton brings a refreshing comic spryness to Lear, playing him not as a doddering old man but as a vivacious , scampering jokester who expects to be treated as the life of the party. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"Even when Nicholas arrives an hour late, already bored and a little drunk, Phyllis is too fine a hostess to let such gauche behavior depress her vivacious personality. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The house has honoured Joseph Krug\u2019s vision of creating a \u2018best champagne\u2019 every year since the mid 1800s, and this vivacious citrus-meets-nougat Cuv\u00e9e is no different. \u2014 Lela London, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Sitting with his mother on the front porch of their house, Efra\u00edn \u2014 on most days, a vivacious and funny child \u2014 was transported in his mind to a painful past of ridicule and casually cruel schoolyard taunts. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin vivac-, vivax long-lived, vigorous, high-spirited, from vivere to live",
"Lewis\u2019s respect and admiration for the Italians and their extraordinary vivacity in the face of adversity shimmers on the page. \u2014 Edward Chisholm, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"For all its power and weight, the wine unfolds with vivacity into a very long, minerally finish. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 13 May 2022",
"Where the Langham is intimate, The Newbury radiates vivacity . \u2014 Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Australian photographers Prue Stent and Honey Long depict vivid, playful images of women wrapped in billowing cotton-candy fabric, tapping into the magic and vivacity of life. \u2014 Jacqui Palumbo, CNN , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Bring some vivacity to your nails by recreating this look created by nail artist Nataszija Moore. \u2014 Allure , 25 Feb. 2022",
"After all, expensive brunette is all about bringing vivacity to your hair color, so make the most of it. \u2014 Sara Miranda, Allure , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Treatments and hospital stays punctuate her experience of playdates, vacations and dorm-room hangouts over the years, with Smith\u2019s vivacity and tenacity encouraging her friends, family and doctors \u2014 and the audience, in turn. \u2014 Kimber Myers, Los Angeles Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Even Levinson\u2019s messages about love and goodness gain greater vivacity when applied to Rue\u2019s addiction. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Jan. 2022"
"this re-creation of a town in the Old West really vivifies the history that visitors learned in school",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Each of these observers was given a tic, motif, or symbolic compulsion to distinguish and vivify his or her narration. \u2014 Mark Greif, The Atlantic , 15 Mar. 2022",
"So many ideas, so little capital in a relative sense to vivify those ideas. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 9 May 2021",
"Their bodies are emphatically their own, no rightful concern of his, and their joy is vivifying . \u2014 New York Times , 16 Feb. 2020",
"This novel is a beautiful unfolding of characters and relationships that vivify nontraditional family, friendship, love, identity, boundaries, distance, responsibility and forgiveness. \u2014 Beth Py-lieberman, Smithsonian , 28 Nov. 2019",
"Every year around this time, a delectable wave of Brazilian music sweeps across the Bay Area, bringing a lush, vivifying surge of beauty to the fading days of summer. \u2014 Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News , 27 Aug. 2019",
"To the first point, the Sanders-Red Hen situation has unearthed (or perhaps vivified ) a growing sentiment in our society. \u2014 Aaron Blake, Washington Post , 25 June 2018",
"And at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, distant memories of the Revolutionary War will be vivified through displays of weapons, uniforms and handwritten letters. \u2014 Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian , 15 Sep. 2017",
"Long a cherished performer, at once down-to-earth and enigmatic, Boul\u00e9 has been choreographing her own work for the past few years, pieces that struggle to vivify esoteric ideas, sometimes graced by low-key humor. \u2014 Michelle Boul\u00e9, The New Yorker , 22 May 2017"
],
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"adverb"
],
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"the type of provocative magazine article that is guaranteed to engender vituperative threats of subscription cancellations",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fewer panels with vituperative and partisan guests. \u2014 Andy Meek, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
"His emails contained vile, vicious and vituperative language, which gushed from the decadence embedded in his heart. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Even so, Biden should be able to push through some measures that garner bipartisan support, such as another round of stimulus payments, an infrastructure bill, and a less vituperative trade policy. \u2014 Tom Keane, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Jan. 2021",
"One of Temur\u2019s texts, read aloud during cross-examination, stood out as especially vituperative , not to mention anatomically impossible. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Jan. 2021",
"Daphne vilified him, for this and other fumbles, in an increasingly vituperative tone. \u2014 Ben Taub, The New Yorker , 14 Dec. 2020",
"Kicking off a midcareer surge, Streep brings a thrilling, fierce originality to her vituperative fashion guru. \u2014 Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune , 8 Dec. 2020",
"The most notable thing about Cruz\u2019s bromide was not its vituperative tone, but the fact that it was directed at Dorsey and not the other two CEOs called to testify, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai. \u2014 Gilad Edelman, Wired , 28 Oct. 2020",
"By definition, presidential campaigns are anxious affairs, often defined by vituperative rhetoric and high-volume antics. \u2014 Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post , 26 Oct. 2020"
],
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"1727, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-113720"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
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],
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": dangerously aggressive : savage",
": marked by violence or ferocity : fierce",
": malicious , spiteful",
": worsened by internal causes that reciprocally augment each other",
": having the nature or quality of vice or immorality : depraved",
": defective , faulty",
": invalid",
": impure , noxious",
": very dangerous",
": filled with or showing unkind feelings",
": violent and cruel",
": very severe",
": dangerously aggresive",
": of, relating to, or being perverse or abnormal behavior in a domestic animal"
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"\u02c8vi-sh\u0259s",
"\u02c8vi-sh\u0259s",
"\u02c8vish-\u0259s"
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"acute",
"almighty",
"blistering",
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"dreadful",
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"explosive",
"exquisite",
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"fearsome",
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"fierce",
"frightful",
"furious",
"ghastly",
"hard",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"hellacious",
"intense",
"intensive",
"keen",
"profound",
"terrible",
"vehement",
"violent"
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"light",
"moderate",
"soft"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"He got caught up in a vicious and damaging public feud with his former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 6 June 2022",
"The danger is that investors and the public will assume from this vicious and misleading attack that today\u2019s quantum industry runs entirely on hype rather than achievement\u2014an assumption that could ultimately threaten our national security. \u2014 Arthur Herman, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"As another hurricane season approaches, Florida property owners would be well served to prepare for what has unfortunately become an increasingly vicious and combative relationship with insurance companies. \u2014 Kevin Jean, Sun Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"Shamet caught the ball and hammered it in off two steps over Hayes for the vicious and-one play. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Taking an interest in Ukrainian food following Russia\u2019s vicious and unprovoked military campaign against its smaller neighbor might seem like a meagre response. \u2014 Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker , 25 Mar. 2022",
"An attacker who bites a victim is more likely to be seen as vicious and barbaric. \u2014 CBS News , 14 Mar. 2022",
"An attacker who bites a victim is more likely to be seen as vicious and barbaric. \u2014 al , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Stagflation occurs when consumers and businesses think that inflation is a long-term problem that won\u2019t change and adjust their behavior in the light of it \u2014 a vicious cycle that in turn creates more inflation and slows growth. \u2014 Adam Taylor, Washington Post , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French vicios , from Latin vitiosus full of faults, corrupt, from vitium vice",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-115702"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"communications code word",
"noun"
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": one that defeats an enemy or opponent : winner",
": someone who defeats an enemy or opponent : winner"
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"\u02c8vik-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8vik-t\u0259r"
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"beater",
"conqueror",
"master",
"subduer",
"trimmer",
"vanquisher",
"whipper",
"winner"
],
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"loser"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the victors in the battle",
"the computer is usually the victor in a chess match against a human opponent",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One of those was Ren\u00e9e Zellweger\u2019s character\u2019s husband, for which Glorioso saw 75 men before Sean Bridgers eventually emerged the victor . \u2014 Daniel Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"Castroneves stayed, too, waiting to be declared the victor . \u2014 Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star , 23 May 2022",
"Through the series' first three games, the home team has emerged the victor ; Phoenix captured the first two before Milwaukee won Game 3, 120-100, on Sunday. \u2014 USA TODAY , 14 July 2021",
"More than five months after the November contest, from which President Joe Biden emerged the victor , Flynn insisted to a crowd in Nashville on Monday that former President Donald Trump won the election. \u2014 Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner , 15 Apr. 2021",
"The results of that election are expected to be certified in September, leaving the victor just over four months before the winner of the November election is sworn in. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
"The previous watermark came in 2009 when Helio Castroneves earned $3,048,005 for his third 500 win, the only time the victor 's cut had eclipsed $3 million. \u2014 Nathan Brown, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"The previous watermark came in 2009 when Helio Castroneves earned $3,048,005 for his third 500 win, the only time the victor 's cut had eclipsed $3 million. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 30 May 2022",
"And while each of those recounts ended with the candidate who initially led as the final victor , the margin in this race is the slimmest to ever head to a recount in Pennsylvania. \u2014 Tribune News Service, Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Communications code word",
"1942, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-200129"
},
"view":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": extent or range of vision : sight",
": the act of seeing or examining : inspection",
": survey",
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": an opinion or judgment colored by the feeling or bias of its holder",
": scene , prospect",
": the foreseeable future",
": a pictorial representation",
": in regard to : in consideration of",
": open to public inspection : on exhibition",
": with the object of",
": to look at attentively : scrutinize , observe",
": see , watch",
": to look on in a particular light : regard",
": to survey or examine mentally : consider",
": opinion sense 1",
": all that can be seen from a certain place",
": range of vision",
": purpose",
": a picture that represents something that can be seen",
": to look at carefully",
": see entry 1 sense 1",
": regard entry 2 sense 1",
": a radiographic image of the body or a body part often taken with the body or part oriented in a standardized way in relation to the imaging beam of radiation"
],
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"\u02c8vy\u00fc",
"\u02c8vy\u00fc",
"\u02c8vy\u00fc"
],
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"command",
"lookout",
"outlook",
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"perspective",
"prospect",
"vista"
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"audit",
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"con",
"examine",
"inspect",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"review",
"scan",
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"survey"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Curator Ulf K\u00fcster hopes to show each painting on view in the context of Mondrian\u2019s entire repertoire. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 June 2022",
"The innovative singer-songwriter\u2019s vast archive \u2014 including previously unheard songs, rare videos and unpublished poetry \u2014 is currently on view at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. \u2014 Fred Sahai, Billboard , 16 June 2022",
"Nina Yashar, the canny doyenne of Milanese design, curated two exhibits at the Giovanni Nicelli Airport (on view until the end of June). \u2014 Max Vadukul. Styled By Nicoletta Santoro., Town & Country , 12 June 2022",
"Directed by Michael Michetti, the translation on view is a collaboration between playwright Richard Nelson and the team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. \u2014 Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2022",
"Frazier\u2019s project is on view until June 24 in a gallery attached to the Gordon Parks Foundation, and the photographs are, in many ways, part of its namesake\u2019s legacy. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"More than 50 images on view have never been seen publicly before. \u2014 Chadd Scott, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The show is on view through Aug. 14 in the Loch Haven Park art institution. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 5 June 2022",
"On view from Tuesday through June 24 at Via Orobia 15. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Learn about the complex art of quilting and view over 100 quilts on loan from private collections. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 19 June 2022",
"Afterward, she was invited to view the museum\u2019s collection of items from the Americas. \u2014 Isabella Grull\u00f3n Paz, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"The interview \u2014 which will be available to view on NBC.com and Peacock \u2014 was drip-fed throughout the week, culminating in the one-hour exclusive on NBC. \u2014 Anousha Sakouistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 18 June 2022",
"In healthcare, patients no longer view great outcomes from the healthcare provider as a key differentiator with other providers; great outcomes are expected. \u2014 Howard Rosen, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"OnlyFans most recently said that more than 150 million people have accounts to view content on its platform, some of which is available for free. \u2014 Kat Tenbarge, NBC News , 17 June 2022",
"Take part and view spectacular homes, gardens and landscapes throughout Beachwood. \u2014 cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"To investigate how Americans view environmental injustice, Budgen devised two sets of questions. \u2014 Brittney J. Miller, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
"According to her the app is secure, convenient and allows users to view their bill and pay it. \u2014 Remington Miller, Arkansas Online , 17 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1544, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-203547"
},
"visionary":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": having or marked by foresight and imagination",
": of the nature of a vision : illusory",
": incapable of being realized or achieved : utopian",
": existing only in imagination : unreal",
": able or likely to see visions",
": disposed to reverie or imagining : dreamy",
": of, relating to, or characterized by visions or the power of vision",
": one having unusual foresight and imagination",
": one whose ideas or projects are impractical : dreamer",
": one who sees visions : seer",
": a person who has an exceptional ability to plan or have ideas for the future"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-zh\u0259-\u02ccner-\u0113",
"\u02c8vi-zh\u0259-\u02ccner-\u0113"
],
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"idealist",
"idealistic",
"quixotic",
"quixotical",
"romantic",
"starry",
"starry-eyed",
"utopian"
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"augur",
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"forecaster",
"foreseer",
"foreteller",
"fortune-teller",
"futurist",
"prognosticator",
"prophesier",
"prophet",
"seer",
"soothsayer"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"She is known as a visionary leader.",
"He had a visionary experience.",
"Noun",
"She's a visionary in her field.",
"according to Greek myth, Cassandra was a visionary who was endowed with the gift of inerrant prophecy but fated to never be believed",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"This is what the work of a visionary filmmaker looks like. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"This is what the work of a visionary filmmaker looks like. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 2 June 2022",
"Doing this requires excellent communication skills, which many visionary leaders lack. \u2014 Chastity Heyward, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"That was the visionary plan for the region\u2019s public transportation back in the 1940s: keep fares low and extend Boston\u2019s rapid transit system out to the suburbs by using high-speed electric trains on existing railroad right-of-ways. \u2014 Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Ohio Department of Transportation Director Jack Marchbanks has praised a visionary plan for the downtown lakefront, developed by Dee and Jimmy Haslam in collaboration with the city of Cleveland. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 4 June 2021",
"The result is a richly detailed, often inspiring, account of how one man\u2019s visionary generosity continues to change the lives of so many individuals by making higher education available to them. \u2014 Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Last night, the Parsons Benefit reunited friends and fashion folk to celebrate the work of recent graduates and honor visionary leaders who serve as not only members but also mentors in the creative community. \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022",
"Yang\u2019s fifth book takes the creative impulse itself as its subject, paying tribute to poetic forebears like Jean Valentine and Kamau Brathwaite, celebrating visionary cultures and supplementing the poems with drawings by the artist Kazumi Tanaka. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Two inmates form a connection while grappling with their pasts in a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by a brilliant visionary who experiments on his subjects with mind-altering drugs. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 12 June 2022",
"Onoda was not a creative visionary who wanted to build an opera house in the Amazon. \u2014 Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic , 2 June 2022",
"Every company needs a visionary to guide from the top. \u2014 Rebecca Zucker, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Story of design visionary Bruce Mau and his ever-optimistic push for massive change. \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
"Two inmates form a connection while grappling with their pasts in a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by a brilliant visionary who experiments on his subjects with mind-altering drugs. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 27 May 2022",
"The arc of Montessori\u2019s rise shared the same co\u00f6rdinates as that of many a visionary . \u2014 Jessica Winter, The New Yorker , 3 Mar. 2022",
"For more than four decades, the celebrated visionary has directed, produced, and written a number of laugh-out-loud movies\u2014like Father of the Bride, The Parent Trap, and Something's Gotta Give\u2014that continue to be beloved. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 22 May 2022",
"Hall was a visionary , constantly generating new ideas for the sideshow and ways to keep it fresh from season to season. \u2014 David Hill, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022"
],
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"Adjective",
"1648, in the meaning defined at sense 2a",
"Noun",
"1702, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-204736"
},
"via":{
"type":[
"preposition"
],
"definitions":[
": by way of",
": through the medium or agency of",
": by means of",
": by way of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259",
"\u02c8v\u0113-\u0259",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259",
"\u02c8v\u0113-\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[
"by",
"through"
],
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"examples":[
"She flew to Los Angeles via Chicago.",
"I'll let her know via one of our friends.",
"He did some research via computer.",
"We went home via a shortcut.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Penn ended the night by introducing, via video, President Volodymyr Zelensky, who received a standing ovation from the hundreds of guests in attendance. \u2014 Alex Cramer, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"Yesterday, Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old fourth-grader at Robb Elementary School, testified via a prerecorded video. \u2014 Rayna Reid, Essence , 9 June 2022",
"Chelsea Handler also sent in a short comedy set via video. \u2014 Carson Burton, Variety , 8 June 2022",
"ESPN Stats & Info reported via Twitter that Greene is the first rookie to throw seven innings while facing the minimum number of batters since Bob Milacki for the Baltimore Orioles in 1989. \u2014 Dave Clark, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
"The state Department of Public Health, meanwhile, informed the public via Twitter Tuesday that kids can get the Pfizer booster. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
"Emma Raducanu are among the celebrity hosts appearing onstage or via video. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 4 June 2022",
"Camilo made the announcement via a video on his social media accounts. \u2014 Leila Cobo, Billboard , 3 June 2022",
"Livestream social shopping is a digital shopping concept where brands showcase their products for sale via video to groups of people in a virtual audience. \u2014 Rebecca Suhrawardi, Forbes , 2 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin, ablative of via way \u2014 more at way ",
"first_known_use":[
"1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-003446"
},
"vista":{
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a distant view through or along an avenue or opening : prospect",
": an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events)",
"Volunteers in Service to America",
": a large and scenic view in the distance",
"city in southwestern California north of San Diego population 93,834"
],
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"\u02c8vi-st\u0259",
"\u02c8vi-st\u0259",
"\u02c8vi-st\u0259"
],
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"command",
"lookout",
"outlook",
"panorama",
"perspective",
"prospect",
"view"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"a gorgeous vista of the mountains from the front window",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"No matter what natural wonders are around you, a great vista calls for a great drink. \u2014 Outside Online , 16 June 2022",
"The pair were both clad in camouflage and grinning in front of a mountain vista , hunting rifles slung over their shoulders. \u2014 Elliott D. Woods, Outside Online , 28 Oct. 2020",
"The film, too, is a slow, gradual accretion of detail that builds to a spectacular vista across the ridges and troughs, the spires and valleys of a lifelong, life-defining friendship. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 18 May 2022",
"Soaking in one of two 104 F infinity pools, drink in hand from either swim-up bar, visitors can look through the opening of birch, pine and fir trees to a panoramic fjord vista . \u2014 Maxime Tamsett, CNN , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Atop a vista overlooking the river and New Jersey, Donahue, 68, pointed out how precious the Water Gap is, given its location in the Northeast and how it was nearly lost. \u2014 Jason Nark, USA TODAY , 7 Nov. 2021",
"Beyond center field sits Mount Davis, the massive vista -obstructing seating structure that was built when Al Davis brought the Raiders back from Los Angeles \u2014 a monstrosity that might be the only stadium section visible from outer space. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2022",
"First up: This Cult Gaia bag, with a mix of hardware and bamboo that belong near an ocean vista . \u2014 Tiffany Dodson And Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 11 May 2022",
"The route starts with a 3,000-foot climb up to Hope Pass at 12,600 feet, which is the iconic high point of the Leadville 100 race and provides a beautiful vista . \u2014 Outside Online , 18 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"1644, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-114733"
},
"vibrate":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to swing or move to and fro",
": to emit with or as if with a vibratory motion",
": to mark or measure by oscillation",
": to set in vibration",
": to move to and fro or from side to side : oscillate",
": fluctuate , vacillate",
": to have an effect as or as if of vibration",
": to be in a state of vibration : quiver",
": to respond sympathetically : thrill",
": to move or cause to move back and forth or from side to side very quickly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u02ccbr\u0101t",
"especially British",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u02ccbr\u0101t"
],
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"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shudder",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The car started to vibrate .",
"When you blow into the instrument, the air vibrates the reed.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This surgical procedure creates a small hole between the trachea and esophagus, where a prosthesis can be inserted to allow air from your lungs to vibrate muscles in your throat to create speech. \u2014 Michelle Cohan, CNN , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The geologists have now used that data set to develop a theory that can predict the frequencies at which these formations vibrate and deform, described in a recent paper published in the journal Seismological Research Letters. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The two share similar tan and brown colorings, and gopher snakes will often hiss or vibrate their tails when threatened, according to the wildlife division. \u2014 Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"That leads to uneven explosive forces, which can vibrate engine parts unnecessarily. \u2014 Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"The downside to these thinner speakers, though, is that mounting them to a surface will reduce their ability to vibrate . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 30 Apr. 2022",
"If the air pressure inside the middle ear is different from the outside, the eardrum will not vibrate properly and sounds appear muffled. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The gamepad will vibrate a trigger if the corresponding front wheel locks up under braking. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 2 Mar. 2022",
"But the suggestion makes the ground beneath my feet vibrate with the fury of millions of people who would again share their medical choices with their politicians. \u2014 Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin vibratus , past participle of vibrare to brandish, wave, rock \u2014 more at wipe ",
"first_known_use":[
"1616, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-153640"
},
"vibrant":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": pulsating with life, vigor, or activity",
": oscillating or pulsating rapidly",
": readily set in vibration",
": responsive , sensitive",
": sounding as a result of vibration : resonant",
": bright sense 4",
": having or giving the sense of life, vigor, or action"
],
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"\u02c8v\u012b-br\u0259nt",
"\u02c8v\u012b-br\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboil",
"abubble",
"abuzz",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"brisk",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"hopping",
"humming",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"rousing",
"stirring",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dead",
"inactive",
"lifeless",
"sleepy"
],
"examples":[
"She has a vibrant personality.",
"We painted the room a vibrant blue.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Marrakech was well-known for being couture designer Yves Saint Laurent's muse in the sixties, inspiring him through its vibrant colors and textures and its frenetic energy, which fueled some of his most famous designs. \u2014 Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"True lineup aims to look beyond the traditional rainbow with designs that uniquely blend vibrant , different colors, symbolize fluidity and celebrate inclusivity. \u2014 Aley Arion, Essence , 3 June 2022",
"Light shades of brown, such as tan and taupe, set the scene for a calm, serene space, and add natural warmth that pairs well with whites as well as more vibrant colors. \u2014 Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens , 1 June 2022",
"My style this trip is focused on bright, vibrant colors and timeless elegance. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"The chair is available in three vibrant colors, and is incredibly lightweight to move around your pool area. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 19 May 2022",
"Ma is Han Chinese, but growing up in the provincial capital of Urumqi, the vibrant colors of her friends\u2019 traditional dress captured her imagination. \u2014 Vogue , 18 May 2022",
"Elements of the bouquets are dried, and some are carefully dyed to create more vibrant colors, including pinks, greens and yellows. \u2014 Alina Dizik, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"The aluminum sign is professionally printed using vibrant colors and can withstand the toughest weather for years to come. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 27 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(2)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-190353"
},
"virtuosic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": being, relating to, or characteristic of a virtuoso"
": a person who is inexperienced in a usually specified sphere of activity",
": an unmarried woman devoted to religion",
": virgo",
": an absolutely chaste young woman",
": an unmarried girl or woman",
": virgin mary",
": a female animal that has never copulated",
": chaste",
": fresh , unspoiled",
": not altered by human activity",
": obtained from the first light pressing and without heating",
": being used or worked for the first time",
"\u2014 see also virgin wool",
": produced directly from ore by primary smelting",
": initial , first",
": containing no alcohol",
": free of impurity or stain : unsullied",
": characteristic of or befitting a virgin : modest",
": a person who has not had sexual intercourse",
": not yet disturbed or changed by human activity",
": one who has not had sexual intercourse",
": not affected or altered by previous use or exposure (as to an antigen) : naive",
"river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in southwestern Utah and southeastern Nevada flowing to Lake Mead"
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"\u02c8v\u0259r-j\u0259n",
"\u02c8v\u0259r-j\u0259n",
"\u02c8v\u0259r-j\u0259n",
"\u02c8v\u0259r-j\u0259n"
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"abecedarian",
"apprentice",
"babe",
"beginner",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"freshman",
"greenhorn",
"neophyte",
"newbie",
"newcomer",
"novice",
"novitiate",
"punk",
"recruit",
"rook",
"rookie",
"tenderfoot",
"tyro"
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"maiden",
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"Noun",
"a virgin in the world of comedy clubs, he's still learning to deal with hecklers",
"Adjective",
"virgin boys are sometimes unfairly teased",
"the state's only remaining virgin forest",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The baby, which was supposed to have been a miracle from the virgin (a prayer answered!) feels instead like a curse. \u2014 Manuel Betancourt, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"Use the extra virgin avocado oil for drizzling over crunchy salads, roasted veggies, or yogurt parfaits. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 23 May 2022",
"And Bonus says that report suggests that Sharon was still a virgin \u2014the doctor wrote that her hymen was intact. \u2014 CBS News , 21 May 2022",
"Who wants to be with the 29-year-old virgin who lacks self-confidence who has never been in a serious relationship? \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
"The best way to watch this film is with a Romy and Michele virgin who doesn\u2019t know the first reunion is a dream sequence conjured by Michele en route to the real reunion. \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In the legend of Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade is a beautiful virgin who escapes being murdered by the king by telling him stories at night. \u2014 Vivienne Walt, Fortune , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The series follows a 23-year-old virgin who becomes pregnant after an accidental artificial insemination. \u2014 Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE.com , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Pessoa was a lifelong bachelor who is thought to have died a virgin . \u2014 Agnes Callard, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There are visions of a creepy priest involved in some arcane ritual, as well as a chorus of young girls dressed in virgin -sacrifice white. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 26 May 2022",
"What Zo\u00eb loves is that it can be applied on any base color, regardless of whether the hair is virgin or pre-colored. \u2014 Photo: Christian Vierig/getty Images., refinery29.com , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Unlike the greenish hue and peppery flavor of pricey extra- virgin olive oil, regular olive oil (often labeled 'light') has a lighter color, more mild flavor and higher smoke point \u2014 just like vegetable oil. \u2014 Samantha Macavoy, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2022",
"While on vacation, Michelle the penny-pincher, who is concerned about every dollar spent, puts away her money worries and relaxes poolside with a virgin pi\u00f1a colada. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"Quite the multitasker, this beauty oil can be used on the hair, face and body, leaving all three glowing thanks to 23 karat gold and extra virgin Japanese camellia oil. \u2014 Celia Shatzman, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"The inclusive line also features two virgin options in ginger mule and colada, which also serve as the perfect mixers. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 17 Apr. 2022",
"But Ukraine, in an ecological transition zone, is also home to vibrant wetlands and forests and a large swath of virgin steppe. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"But unfortunately, Ver Beck\u2019s virgin flight didn\u2019t go well. \u2014 Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
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"Noun",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a",
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 6"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-192451"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of vilifying : abuse",
": an instance of vilifying : a defamatory utterance"
"warned that the constant vilification of candidates for public office was undermining the people's faith in the political system",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The community, which makes up 14 percent of India\u2019s 1.4 billion population, is reeling from vilification by hard-line Hindu nationalists who have long espoused an anti-Muslim stance. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 May 2022",
"In India, the country\u2019s Muslim minority is reeling from vilification by hard-line Hindu nationalists who have long espoused anti-Muslim stances, with some inciting against Muslims. \u2014 Mariam Fam, Chicago Tribune , 2 May 2022",
"The undermining of the state\u2019s elections system, the vilification of critical race theory and the introduction of anti-transgender legislation in Utah in recent years are issues troubling to Trevor Warburton, a secondary education professor. \u2014 Kim Boj\u00f3rquez, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The Jackson hearing seemed to open a new frontier in vilification by focusing so heavily on her sentencing history, meaning any sentences handed down by future nominees will now become fodder for attack. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The vilification of Fauci -- who has served under seven presidents, including four Republicans -- is part of a broader anti-science movement within the GOP. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Can the reputation of Britain\u2019s King George III be rehabilitated after centuries of vilification ? \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 Feb. 2022",
"This intense, long term vilification of all police has impacted the officers psychologically, as well as members of their families. \u2014 James Desmarais, BostonGlobe.com , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Greene and other lawmakers' vilification of tech platforms as partisan actors fits into a much broader pattern reflecting America's dysfunctional politics. \u2014 Brian Fung, CNN , 6 Jan. 2022"
],
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"1630, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-194504"
},
"villainy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": villainous conduct",
": a villainous act",
": the quality or state of being villainous : depravity",
": bad or evil behavior or actions"
],
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"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-n\u0113",
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-n\u0113"
],
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"bad",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"sin",
"wrong"
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"good",
"morality",
"right",
"virtue"
],
"examples":[
"a story of villainy and betrayal",
"the gruesome villainies of war",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Maggie, having witnessed the villainy of Carlson, turns them away. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"But the writing for her descent into madness and villainy has been on the wall. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Smith, a former Dr. Who, excels at the poor-little-rich-boy villainy of his character, a tragic aristocrat whose eyes gleam with mania. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Green also sees this vacuum of villainy as having contributed to pandemic conspiracy theories, which are basically just convenient stories about whom to be mad at. \u2014 Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"To its credit, the sequence sets up a single, beautiful moment that raises a middle finger to the villainy and nihilism that a certain recent DC film seemed to embody. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Zo\u00eb Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Dano and more appear alongside Pattinson in the trailer, as the latter fights his way through gunfire and villainy on a mission to save Gotham City. \u2014 Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The producers were already thinking of Hopper to play Wesker, a recognizable character from the games known for his sunglasses and general villainy . \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
"But there was definitely a shift, and not just in Nate\u2019s descent into villainy . \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 3 Jan. 2022"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a common Eurasian venomous snake ( Vipera berus ) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans",
": any of a family (Viperidae) of venomous snakes that includes Old World snakes (subfamily Viperinae) and the pit vipers",
": a venomous or reputedly venomous snake",
": a vicious or treacherous person",
": a poisonous heavy-bodied snake with long hollow fangs",
": a common Eurasian venomous snake of the genus Vipera ( V. berus ) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and whose bite is usually not fatal to humans",
": any snake of an Old World subfamily (Viperinae) of the family Viperidae",
": pit viper",
": a venomous or reputedly venomous snake"
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"\u02c8v\u012b-p\u0259r",
"\u02c8v\u012b-p\u0259r",
"\u02c8v\u012b-p\u0259r"
],
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"serpent",
"snake"
],
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"examples":[
"a viper sliding silently through the field",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As Albania\u2019s ruler, Zog had been a tyrant and a modernizer, a viper and a visionary, intent on obtaining and holding power at any cost. \u2014 Helen Lewis, The Atlantic , 12 Apr. 2022",
"In the original myth, Orpheus returns from his expedition with the Argonauts and marries the fair Eurydice, who \u2014 of course \u2014 dies soon after from a viper bite and descends to the underworld. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Nov. 2021",
"The prosecution called multiple experts who testified the Russell's viper bite was also unnatural. \u2014 Rhea Mogul And Esha Mitra, CNN , 20 Nov. 2021",
"But the viper was found in the bedroom of their home's second floor after the first attempt. \u2014 NBC News , 15 Oct. 2021",
"An Indian woman presented with multiday visual hallucinations after being bitten by a Russell\u2019s viper . \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 28 Sep. 2021",
"His pre-op docs discovered undiagnosed cancer had crept in and poisoned his body like a silent viper . \u2014 Steve West, sun-sentinel.com , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Despite the secrecy, the critically endangered viper was tracked down within months and put on sale in Europe by German traders. \u2014 Pavel Toropov, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 June 2021",
"There is no antivenom for the African bush viper , and bites can cause fevers or internal bleeding, which can be fatal. \u2014 Wilson Wong, NBC News , 13 Apr. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-053846"
},
"viand":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an item of food",
": a choice or tasty dish",
": provisions , food"
],
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259nd"
],
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"bit",
"cate",
"dainty",
"delectable",
"delicacy",
"goody",
"goodie",
"kickshaw",
"tidbit",
"titbit",
"treat"
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"examples":[
"a shop selling caviar, foie gras, designer chocolates, and other pricey viands",
"the inn serves its choice viands on delicate china and its selection of vintage wines in the finest crystal available"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, viaunde , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin vivanda food, alteration of Latin vivenda , neuter plural of vivendus , gerundive of vivere to live \u2014 more at quick entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-074921"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": having or exhibiting virtue",
": morally excellent : righteous",
": chaste",
": potent , efficacious",
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"\u02c8v\u0259r-ch\u0259-w\u0259s",
"\u02c8v\u0259rch-w\u0259s",
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"good",
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"honorable",
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"moral",
"nice",
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"righteous",
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"bad",
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"evil",
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"unethical",
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"wicked",
"wrong"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Policymakers should look at ways to spur this virtuous cycle by incentivizing insurers to adopt common control frameworks and share risk insights. \u2014 Chris Finan, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"So this highlights the opportunity for a virtuous cycle where the effect can snowball. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 16 June 2022",
"As the culture wars rage on and the myth of moral autonomy continues to spread, parents have both the grave responsibility and the immense joy of raising our kids to be wise, virtuous people. \u2014 Jason Thacker, The Week , 29 Mar. 2022",
"With nearly three-quarters of this year\u2019s sellers also planning to buy a home, the rise in new listings may kick-start a virtuous cycle, reinforcing the trend by attracting even more homeowners into the market. \u2014 Brenda Richardson, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Modest inflation driven by consumer demand, the thinking goes, would create a virtuous cycle of economic expansion: Companies\u2019 profits would grow, spurring investment, wage growth and domestic consumption. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
"If the virtuous cycle of technological development and population density is the underlying cause of economic growth, Europe should have remained a backwater. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"In fact, the international consensus behind the treaty already appears to be driving a virtuous cycle: firms convinced there will be future demand for cleaner technologies are supplying them at ever lower costs. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 17 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s why students have a working requirement to graduate, and why the microelectronics program and businesses now have a virtuous cycle, Vanderford explained. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-124711"
},
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": befitting a villain (as in evil or depraved character)",
": being or having the character of a villain : depraved",
": highly objectionable : wretched",
": wicked sense 1"
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"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-n\u0259s",
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-n\u0259s"
],
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"bad",
"dark",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unethical",
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"unrighteous",
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"vicious",
"vile",
"wicked",
"wrong"
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"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
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"righteous",
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"examples":[
"villainous behavior that made him one of the most notorious figures in history and gave rise to the legend of Dracula",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Blue-and-yellow bunting decorated lampposts and storefronts, and the villainous visage of Vladimir Putin appeared on wanted posters throughout the city. \u2014 Seth Harp, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"This season sees her engage in some truly villainous interpersonal behavior, and in each case the ills are somewhat shrugged off instead of properly dealt with. \u2014 Jeff Ewing, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"In recent years, journalists have framed him as more villainous than quirky. \u2014 Moira Weigel, The New Republic , 20 Dec. 2021",
"The show makes excellent use of its guest stars, including CeeLo Green as a soul-singing panda named Shuggie, Debbie Allen as Suga Mama\u2019s cousin and Al Roker returning to cause trouble as a deliciously villainous version of himself. \u2014 Bethonie Butler, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
"The essay was split into sections detailing the pros and cons of killing a villainous husband. \u2014 Faith Karimi, CNN , 26 May 2022",
"King\u2019s villains are properly villainous \u2014greedy corporate profiteers and the in-house lawyers who protect them. \u2014 The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"While Cox\u2019s appearance in No Way Home was little more than a cameo, D\u2019Onofrio had quite a bit of screen time as the villainous Kingpin in the Disney Plus series Hawkeye. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 19 May 2022",
"There's a lot to unpack in Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange sequel, from Elizabeth Olsen's villainous turn to all those eye-popping (and in one case, head-popping) cameos. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 12 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-173541"
},
"vivid":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": very strong : very high in chroma",
": having the appearance of vigorous life or freshness : lively",
": producing a strong or clear impression on the senses : sharp , intense",
": producing distinct mental images",
": acting clearly and vigorously",
": producing strong mental images",
": very strong or bright",
": acting clearly and powerfully",
": seeming full of life and freshness"
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"\u02c8vi-v\u0259d",
"\u02c8vi-v\u0259d"
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"examples":[
"He gave a vivid description of the scene.",
"The book includes many vivid illustrations.",
"The dream was very vivid .",
"She could remember the dream in vivid detail .",
"The fabric was dyed a vivid red.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But with the country of his birth currently experiencing the destructive force of the Russian invasion in an all-too- vivid present tense, such abstract philosophizing cannot but feel like a distracting luxury. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"The highlights in those images became more vivid without making the image look oversaturated or cartoonish. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 10 June 2022",
"William Taubman\u2019s volumes about Khrushchev and Gorbachev are vivid , buoyant, and dramatic. \u2014 Yuri Slezkine, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022",
"The brilliantly incisive hypothesis of the late sociologist Charles Tilly was that the tyrant merely represents, in more vivid plumage, the nature of leadership in any modern state. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Against this backdrop, a corrosive vision of primate life grew more vivid : Front and center was a portrait of male tyranny, aggression, antagonism. \u2014 Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic , 6 May 2022",
"Video clips of the riot kept surfacing online, making the raw brutality of the attack ever more vivid in the public mind. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s this novel\u2019s biggest feat: By giving just enough vivid detail but keeping key elements ambiguous, a reader can easily morph into the main character and become a part of this world. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 24 May 2022",
"All told, the iPhone 14 Pro camera will deliver crisper photos with more vivid detail, less noise, and more dynamic range. \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 12 May 2022"
],
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"1634, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-194537"
},
"violation":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of violating : the state of being violated : such as",
": infringement , transgression",
": an infringement of the rules in sports that is less serious than a foul and usually involves technicalities of play",
": an act of irreverence or desecration : profanation",
": disturbance , interruption",
": rape entry 1 sense 1 , ravishment",
": an act or instance of violating something and especially a failure to do what is required or expected by a law, rule, or agreement"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccv\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"\u02ccv\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"breach",
"crime",
"debt",
"error",
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"malefaction",
"misdeed",
"misdoing",
"offense",
"offence",
"sin",
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"trespass",
"wrongdoing"
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"antonyms":[
"noncrime"
],
"examples":[
"a serious violation of the law",
"A second violation was called on the basketball player.",
"He was arrested for violation of his parole.",
"The group monitors human rights violations .",
"They protested the government's violation of human rights.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The league cannot, however, appeal if the arbitrator decides there was no violation of the personal conduct policy. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Directly or indirectly \u2018tipping\u2019 this information to another person who trades is also a violation of this policy. \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The practice is a violation of state law, according to the Legislature's own attorneys. \u2014 Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"And, by interfering with that in a way that is fraudulent, that could be a violation of that obstruction statute. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
"Doing so as an inducement for athletes to sign with the Hurricanes would be a violation of NCAA rules. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 14 June 2022",
"But allowing transgender women to play on women\u2019s teams is a violation of Title IX. \u2014 Laura Hancock, cleveland , 2 June 2022",
"The accusation, which was first reported by the Voice of San Diego, includes the admonition that destroying public records is a violation of both the municipal code and state law. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"Block also said employers can\u2019t create differing conditions for the purpose of discouraging people from joining the union, as that would be a violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). \u2014 Danielle Abril, Washington Post , 13 May 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-000003"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": having an adhesive quality : sticky",
": having a glutinous consistency : viscous",
": covered with a sticky layer",
": having an adhesive quality",
": having a glutinous consistency : viscous"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-s\u0259d",
"\u02c8vis-\u0259d"
],
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"ropy",
"ropey",
"syrupy",
"thick",
"viscous"
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"runny",
"soupy",
"thin",
"watery"
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"examples":[
"honey that turned even more viscid in the cold"
],
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"Cannes wins are also vindication for Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM, which was partly responsible for Korean culture\u2019s modern incarnation, and which has been in the Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho business for more than twenty years. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 29 May 2022",
"Some of Heaps\u2019 accusers called the settlement a vindication after complaining about the doctor for years and seeing little done. \u2014 Richard Wintonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"That\u2019s vindication for the much maligned notion that shoe cushioning can lighten the load on your joints and reduce injury risk. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 7 May 2022",
"Moonfall is emphatically not the latter \u2014 but at times, its shlockiness becomes as distracting as its vindication of fringe viewpoints. \u2014 Jesse Hassenger, The Week , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Unlike any defrocked president since the nineteenth century, Trump seems determined to make the midterms, especially the GOP primaries, into a crusade for his personal vindication . \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 16 Aug. 2021",
"Finding gold in Ohio would be a vindication , a demonstration that his theories are correct and that our understanding of history must be adjusted. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"When Zhu fell flat on the ice and finished last in her Olympic debut Sunday, many saw it as vindication that picking Zhu over her rival was unjustified. \u2014 Cnn's Beijing Bureau, CNN , 11 Feb. 2022",
"For Hailey, the debate itself is its own sort of vindication \u2014a testament to the impact of his 2018 paper and its role, however small, in bringing scientists closer to the truth. \u2014 Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American , 5 Apr. 2022"
": marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course",
": able to overcome bodily defensive mechanisms : markedly pathogenic",
": extremely poisonous or venomous",
": full of malice : malignant",
": objectionably harsh or strong",
": spreading quickly and causing serious harm",
": marked by a rapid, severe, and malignant course",
": able to overcome bodily defense mechanisms",
": extremely poisonous or venomous : noxious"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vir-\u0259-l\u0259nt",
"\u02c8vir-y\u0259-",
"\u02c8vir-\u0259-l\u0259nt",
"-l\u0259nt"
],
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"bitchy",
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"The country seemed to be returning to the virulent nationalism of its past.",
"the virulent look on her face warned me that she was about to say something unkind",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Scientists are still trying to figure out how virulent these new mutants are. \u2014 Laura Ungar, Anchorage Daily News , 27 May 2022",
"Topol fears that a future variant will be more virulent . \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Omicron evolved to be less virulent than Delta, explained John Swartzberg, a professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology at the University of California-Berkeley\u2019s School of Public Health. \u2014 David Axe, Rolling Stone , 5 May 2022",
"And the next coronavirus variant could also very well be more virulent and potentially more deadly than the Omicron variant that is still infecting more than 100,000 Americans each day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u2014 Andrew Marquardt, Fortune , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Scientists are still trying to figure out how virulent these new mutants are. \u2014 Laura Ungar, Anchorage Daily News , 27 May 2022",
"Scientists are still trying to figure out how virulent these new mutants are. \u2014 Laura Ungar, ajc , 26 May 2022",
"The dominant strain this year has been H3N2, which experts say tends to be more virulent and often causes more severe illness. \u2014 Joe Murphy, NBC News , 9 May 2022",
"On Sunday, Fauci told ABC\u2019s This Week that the subvariant was between 50% and 60% more transmissible than original Omicron\u2014which was already the most virulent form of COVID yet. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a mask for disguise or protection",
": disguise , guise"
],
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"\u02c8vi-z\u0259rd",
"-\u02ccz\u00e4rd"
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"mask"
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"first_known_use":[
"circa 1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-193952"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a loud overbearing woman : termagant",
": a woman of great stature, strength, and courage"
],
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"v\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-(\u02cc)g\u014d",
"-\u02c8r\u0101-",
"\u02c8vir-\u0259-\u02ccg\u014d"
],
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"battle-ax",
"battle-axe",
"dragon lady",
"fury",
"harpy",
"harridan",
"shrew",
"termagant",
"vixen"
],
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"examples":[
"fairy tales that typically portray stepmothers as viragoes"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin viragin-, virago , from vir man \u2014 more at virile ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-064520"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid",
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": having a glutinous consistency and the quality of sticking or adhering : viscid",
": having or characterized by viscosity"
],
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"\u02c8vi-sk\u0259s",
"\u02c8vis-k\u0259s"
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"ropy",
"ropey",
"syrupy",
"thick",
"viscid"
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"runny",
"soupy",
"thin",
"watery"
],
"examples":[
"viscous syrup that takes forever to pour from a narrow-neck bottle",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The condition is often called cardiac drift, where the heart needs to pump more quickly and forcefully to move viscous blood. \u2014 Jason Fitzgerald, Outside Online , 18 May 2017",
"The researchers still think that cryovolcanism is a good explanation since a viscous liquid or partially molten solid could spread slowly and form this sort of lumpy terrain. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 4 Apr. 2022",
"This version tastes like white peach and kiwi, with a viscous texture and crisp acidity. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Most dressings fit neatly into one of two categories: vinaigrettes, which tend to be higher in acidity and are pourable, and creamy dressings, which are fattier and often more viscous . \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The medicine cabinet, crammed with baby aspirin, calamine lotion, and viscous bottles of rose-water-glycerine. \u2014 Longreads , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The shaking helps agitate the jelly inside and transform it into silky, slightly viscous magic. \u2014 Folu Akinkuotu, Bon App\u00e9tit , 19 Apr. 2022",
"One thickener commonly used in Ukraine is styrofoam, which dissolves on contact with gasoline to create a viscous , syrupy concoction. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Cold Pressed Cucumber Avocado Smoothie Thick and viscous , like drinking gloopy green goddess dressing. \u2014 Alex Beggs, Bon App\u00e9tit , 28 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English viscouse , from Anglo-French viscos , from Late Latin viscosus full of birdlime, viscous, from Latin viscum mistletoe, birdlime; akin to Old High German w\u012bhsila cherry, Greek ixos mistletoe",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-114834"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism",
": a sulfate of any of various metals (such as copper, iron, or zinc)",
": a glassy hydrate of such a sulfate",
": oil of vitriol",
": a sulfate of any of various metals (as copper, iron, or zinc)",
": oil of vitriol"
],
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"\u02c8vi-tr\u0113-\u0259l",
"\u02c8vi-tr\u0113-\u0259l"
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"acidity",
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"acrimony",
"asperity",
"bile",
"bitterness",
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"tartness",
"virulence",
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"examples":[
"His speech was full of political vitriol .",
"a film critic noted for the vitriol and sometimes outright cruelty of his pronouncements",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This year, another question arose: Would the anti-L.G.B.T.Q. vitriol that has surrounded Disney in recent months spill over to Gay Days? \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"The misogyny of fandom has produced toxic results before, and what is a woman \u2013 particularly one who may be the victim of emotional or physical abuse \u2013 supposed to take away from the vitriol this trial has unleashed? \u2014 Jill Filipovic, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"While many of the posts have been taken down and debunked by websites such as Politifact and FactCheck.org, that hasn\u2019t slowed the vitriol against the company on the forums and Telegram channels where believers in QAnon operate. \u2014 al , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Experts and parents say the aim is often to promote confidence and self-esteem in children and young people when they are faced with unexpected vitriol from the world. \u2014 Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The vitriol that came after Irving stomped on the Celtics\u2019 leprechaun logo during a Nets postseason road win last year felt especially silly. \u2014 Hunter Felt, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"So why the vitriol for Dunleavy, who played two years for the Bucks from 2011-13 and even played some early high school ball in the Milwaukee area when his father, Mike Sr., was an executive and head coach in Milwaukee? \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Apr. 2022",
"But Swensen insists the vitriol , sometimes rising to the level of threats, is not what led her to decide against chasing a ninth term. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The blatant hostility directed at women and people of color left some students questioning their decision to choose orthopedics and others concerned that the people who posted the vitriol would become future colleagues. \u2014 Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT , 13 Dec. 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-170412"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of living",
": having attained such form and development of organs as to be normally capable of surviving outside the uterus",
": capable of growing or developing",
": capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately",
": capable of existence and development as an independent unit",
": having a reasonable chance of succeeding",
": financially sustainable",
": capable of living or growing",
": possible to use or apply",
": capable of living",
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": capable of growing or developing"
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"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"attainable",
"doable",
"feasible",
"possible",
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"realizable",
"workable"
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"hopeless",
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"nonviable",
"unattainable",
"undoable",
"unfeasible",
"unrealizable",
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"unworkable"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Meanwhile, adding clean electricity to the power grid has become an increasingly complicated undertaking, given the failure to plan for adequate transmission lines and long delays connecting viable wind and solar projects to the electricity network. \u2014 Evan Halper, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Instead, present it as a viable solution to recruitment burnout and retention challenges. \u2014 Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News , 13 June 2022",
"There\u2019s also widespread belief that substantial roster change is necessary, but with the aforementioned shortage of both draft assets and cap space, the only viable route to that change is for Ainge and Zanik to trade away players of consequence. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"That makes the end result potentially viable as a wood substitute in a variety of construction projects. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 9 June 2022",
"While several other helicopters have flown with electric motors in the last decade, this converted Robinson eR-44 could represent the world\u2019s first commercially viable electric helicopter. \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 9 June 2022",
"There are no easy answers: xenotransplantation won't be a viable solution for at least a decade. \u2014 Ike Brannon, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"But solar panel farms are emerging as a viable solution in many cases. \u2014 Camille Squires, Quartz , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that lunar regolith can\u2019t be made into a viable soil by adding extra nutrients or composting crops to foster microbe growth. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 2 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French, from Middle French, from vie life, from Latin vita \u2014 more at vital ",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1832, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-173317"
},
"vixen":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a female fox",
": a shrewish, ill-tempered woman",
": a sexually attractive woman",
": a female fox"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vik-s\u0259n",
"\u02c8vik-s\u0259n"
],
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"battle-ax",
"battle-axe",
"dragon lady",
"fury",
"harpy",
"harridan",
"shrew",
"termagant",
"virago"
],
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"examples":[
"why anyone puts up with that vixen's sharp tongue is beyond me",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There might not be a bigger story in U.S. track than 100-meter dash vixen Sha\u2019Carri Richardson. \u2014 Brian Metzler, Outside Online , 22 June 2022",
"The lack of identification means the vixen could be anyone everyone. \u2014 Maria Poggi, Rolling Stone , 21 May 2022",
"The looks also reflect the stars' personal styles, with Megan's affinity for body-hugging garments and Dua's aesthetic as a hyper-feminine vixen . \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Later that day, the police tweeted an update that the vixen had been captured. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Another victim was Politico reporter Ximena Bustillo, who said the vixen nipped at her from behind. \u2014 Michael Ruiz, Fox News , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Today, the Jennifer's Body actress debuted a sultry new look on Instagram that combined the best of her signature vixen style with the '70s-era penchant for earthy-toned floral velour furniture. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 9 Mar. 2022",
"World and Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion transforms into an American Horror Story vixen styled by Law Roach. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Biologists said a vixen named Tule, who was tending to at least two pups in the remote Caribou Wilderness of Lassen National Forest, was at particular risk from the raging Dixie fire. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times , 15 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English (southern dialect) *vixen , alteration of Middle English fixen , from Old English fyxe , feminine of fox ",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-181825"
},
"vie":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to strive for superiority : contend , compete",
": wager , hazard",
": to exchange in rivalry : match",
": compete"
],
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"\u02c8v\u012b",
"\u02c8v\u012b"
],
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"face off",
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"examples":[
"They are vying to win the championship for the third year in a row.",
"vied with his colleagues for the coveted promotion",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Wilkison says communication during a crisis can be hindered by the myriad agencies that each have their own guidelines and hierarchy and sometimes vie with one another for political power. \u2014 Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone , 15 June 2022",
"The streaming network announced on Tuesday that 456 participants will vie for the largest cash prize in television history in Squid Game: The Challenge. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"The trio will participate at the 2022 USA Basketball Men\u2019s U18 FIBA Americas Championship National Team training camp from May 26-June 2 in Houston and will vie for 12 spots on the USA Basketball U18 National Team. \u2014 Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online , 25 May 2022",
"For now, the housing market continues to favor sellers as buyers vie for a still tight inventory of homes for sale, which has kept pushing up home prices. \u2014 Alex Veiga, ajc , 19 May 2022",
"In addition, the six projects will be pitched before international guests and will vie for important incentives. \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 18 May 2022",
"The remaining six castaways vie for immunity, and one seems to be at odds with the others. \u2014 Hau Chu, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Pension funds maintain huge portfolios of stocks, bonds and other assets, wielding significant power on Wall Street, where their purchases and sales can shift prices and investment managers vie for their business. \u2014 Heather Gillers, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
"Cramer understands there are several Republicans, including some of his fellow sitting senators, ready to vie for the presidential nomination if Trump sits out 2024. \u2014 Major Garrett, CBS News , 20 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, short for envien , from Anglo-French envier to invite, call on, challenge, from Latin invitare to invite",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-183833"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": of the utmost importance",
": fundamentally concerned with or affecting life or living beings: such as",
": tending to renew or refresh the living : invigorating",
": destructive to life : mortal",
": concerned with or necessary to the maintenance of life",
": existing as a manifestation of life",
": full of life and vigor : animated",
": characteristic of life or living beings",
": recording data relating to lives",
": of, relating to, or constituting the staining of living tissues",
": concerned with or necessary to the continuation of life",
": full of life and energy",
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": existing as a manifestation of life",
": concerned with or necessary to the maintenance of life",
": characteristic of life or living beings",
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": of, relating to, or constituting the staining of living tissues"
],
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"\u02c8v\u012b-t\u1d4al",
"\u02c8v\u012b-t\u1d4al",
"\u02c8v\u012bt-\u1d4al"
],
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"dynamic",
"energetic",
"flush",
"gingery",
"lusty",
"peppy",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vigorous"
],
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"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"examples":[
"These matters are vital to national defense.",
"The sciences are a vital part of the school curriculum.",
"your heart, lungs, and other vital organs",
"Exercise keeps her young and vital .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For all the benefits created by the groundbreaking civil rights legislation, which became the law of the land on June 23, 1972, the next chapter in the evolution of equity is vital , as well. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 June 2022",
"These cultural ties are vital , and placing a certain cultural food or diet as top tier is unnecessary and untrue. \u2014 SELF , 18 June 2022",
"Experts say helping small-scale growers weather the crisis will be vital to ward off a global food crisis, with some calling for a major rethink about social inequalities in farming and the sustainability of mineral and chemical-based fertilizers. \u2014 The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"In a state and city with high suicide rates, this work is vital . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022",
"While Green\u2019s success on the mound was vital on Friday, Tecumseh\u2019s three-run first inning set the tone. \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 11 June 2022",
"Over the last several years as the business case around disability is being amplified, the role of the disabled entrepreneur is becoming more vital than ever. \u2014 Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The Tony ceremony\u2019s marketing function as a glitzy means of raising public awareness of what\u2019s onstage and visibility for shows that may be slumping at the box office has seldom been more vital than now. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
"Movement is more vital to our health and well-being than any other factor besides good nutrition. \u2014 Men's Health , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin vitalis of life, from vita life; akin to Latin vivere to live \u2014 more at quick entry 1 ",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2b"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-184905"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": oxygen"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-190430"
},
"viability":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being viable : such as",
": the ability to live, grow, and develop",
": the capability of a fetus to survive outside the uterus",
": the ability to function adequately",
": the ability to succeed or be sustained",
": the quality or state of being viable : the ability to live, grow, and develop"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccv\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8bi-l\u0259-t\u0113",
"\u02ccv\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8bil-\u0259t-\u0113"
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"1837, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-233903"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy",
": an instance of violent treatment or procedure",
": injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation : outrage",
": intense, turbulent, or furious and often destructive action or force",
": vehement feeling or expression : fervor",
": an instance of such action or feeling",
": a clashing or jarring quality : discordance",
": undue alteration (as of wording or sense in editing a text)",
": the use of force to harm a person or damage property",
": great force or strength especially of a kind that involves destruction"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u012b-l\u0259n(t)s",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259-l\u0259ns"
],
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"force",
"foul play"
],
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"nonviolence"
],
"examples":[
"They need to learn how to settle their arguments without resorting to violence .",
"movies filled with sex and violence",
"The violence of the storm caused great fear.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Human Rights Campaign, the nation\u2019s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, says the past year saw record violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming people. \u2014 Hannah Allam, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Not since Guy Fawkes\u2019s Gunpowder Plot in 1605\u2014intended to blow up Parliament and assassinate James I for the sake of Catholic emancipation\u2014had there been such a sensational threat of violence against the government. \u2014 William Anthony Hay, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"The Human Rights Campaign, the nation\u2019s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, says the past year saw record violence against transgender and gender-nonconforming people. \u2014 Hannah Allam, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"And like so many people, I was horrified by what happened in Texas, by what happened in Buffalo, by what\u2019s been happening, quite frankly, all over our country, in terms of gun violence against the innocent. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"The league promised to get tougher against players accused of violence against women following fallout from Ray Rice\u2019s case in 2014. \u2014 Rob Maaddi, ajc , 16 June 2022",
"The committee plans to release materials detailing the threats of violence against Mr. Pence, and the ways the vice president\u2019s security team scrambled to try to keep him safe from the mob. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
"The latest warning was put on the episode for the same reason a warning was added to the premiere episode that dropped May 27: there is violence against children. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"These are armed gangs that are causing violence not only against Indigenous but also our partners. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 14 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-022348"
},
"vincible":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of being overcome or subdued"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vin(t)-s\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin vincibilis , from vincere to conquer \u2014 more at victor ",
"first_known_use":[
"1548, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-104659"
},
"vicinity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a surrounding area or district : neighborhood",
": neighborhood sense 3b",
": the quality or state of being near : proximity",
": a surrounding area : neighborhood",
": the state of being close"
],
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259-\u02c8si-n\u0259-t\u0113",
"v\u0259-\u02c8si-n\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"backyard",
"environs",
"neighborhood",
"purlieus",
"vicinage"
],
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"examples":[
"there are no hotels in the vicinity of the hospital",
"the vicinity of the town's only elementary school was one reason why the young couple bought the house",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The final total for this chapter of the dinosaur franchise will probably be in the vicinity of $930+/- million. \u2014 Mark Hughes, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"On June 3, Navy pilot Lt. Richard Bullock was killed when his F/A-18E Super Hornet jet crashed during a training mission in the vicinity of Trona, Calif., according to the US Naval Air Forces. \u2014 John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"After parking his car in the vicinity of the Capitol grounds, Cook, who was 57 at the time, approached the area around 9 p.m. and walked around for about an hour, hoping to locate a friend, the complaint says. \u2014 Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online , 11 June 2022",
"The multimedia series was an investigation into a series of unsolved crimes from the 1970s to the 1990s, specifically the cases of four women who disappeared, and one who was raped, in the vicinity of Highway 20, an east-west route in Oregon. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 June 2022",
"By way of comparison, the agency says, a healthy, safer forest in the vicinity of roads and homes would have 17 such trees per acre. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"And while my institution\u2019s leadership has admirably stepped forward to hire more police on staff, and has taken steps to improve safety in the vicinity of the hospital, much more is needed, both here in and in health care more broadly. \u2014 Brian Till, The New Republic , 6 June 2022",
"The Lundquists are among thousands of people who live in the vicinity of the plant and who state officials believe have contaminated wells that haven\u2019t yet been tested. \u2014 David Abel, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
"Most research on new species has been done in the vicinity of fuel spills, with the logical assumption that anything living there is possibly munching on the contamination. \u2014 Elana Scherr, Car and Driver , 4 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French vicinit\u00e9 , from Latin vicinitat-, vicinitas , from vicinus neighboring, from vicus row of houses, village; akin to Goth weihs village, Old Church Slavonic v\u012ds\u012d , Greek oikos, oikia house",
": achievement of mastery or success in a struggle or endeavor against odds or difficulties",
": the act of defeating an enemy or opponent",
": success in a struggle against difficulties"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vik-t(\u0259-)r\u0113",
"\u02c8vik-t\u0259-r\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"palm",
"triumph",
"win"
],
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"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"loss",
"overthrow",
"rout",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"whipping"
],
"examples":[
"The general led the troops to victory .",
"They had never experienced the thrill of victory .",
"The passage of the law was a tremendous victory for their cause.",
"It was a decisive victory for the army.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hendricks tossed 7 \u2153 shutout innings in a 3-0 victory before 46,524, the largest crowd of the season at Busch. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"Rutschman homered and added an RBI double to supply Baltimore\u2019s first three runs and caught the Orioles\u2019 third shutout in six games in a 4-0 victory at Guaranteed Rate Field. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
"Speaking once again of sacrifice flies, the Sac-Monster, also known as Owen Miller, did it again on Wednesday with a sacrififice fly to provide the winning margin in the 11-10 victory . \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 23 June 2022",
"Washington's 17 assists in the Wildcats' Jan. 8 victory over Georgia broke former Kentucky one-and-done and Rockets All-Star John Wall's single-game assist record by one. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
"Gearlds scored 2,521 points for Beech Grove from 1999-2003, capping her Hornets career with 33 points in a Class 3A state championship game victory on the way to being voted Miss Basketball. \u2014 Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"The war with the Marcher Lords ended in a decisive victory for Edward at the Battle of Boroughbridge. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
"Trump\u2019s efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election, which Joe Biden won in a clean electoral college victory . \u2014 Erik Wemple, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"On Saturday, Holmes came on to get the final out of the eighth inning, then worked a 1-2-3 ninth in the Yankees\u2019 4-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 20 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English victorie , from Anglo-French, from Latin victoria , from victor ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-134137"
},
"Viole d'Orchestre":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an organ flue stop of string tone and incisive quality"
": the quality or state of being viscous : a sticky or glutinous consistency",
": the property of resistance to flow in any material with fluid properties",
": the mathematical ratio of the tangential frictional force per unit area to the velocity gradient perpendicular to the direction of flow of a liquid",
": the quality of being viscous",
": the property of resistance to flow in a fluid or semifluid",
": the ratio of the tangential frictional force per unit area to the velocity gradient perpendicular to the direction of flow of a liquid"
],
"pronounciation":[
"vi-\u02c8sk\u00e4-s\u0259-t\u0113",
"vis-\u02c8k\u00e4s-\u0259t-\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"consistence",
"consistency",
"density",
"thickness",
"viscidity"
],
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"examples":[
"conducted an experiment to determine the viscosity of motor oil",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The startup\u2019s platform uses machine learning to monitor and adapt to how raw materials from different suppliers affect product quality, from varying impurities in steel to the level of viscosity in a surfactant, a key ingredient in shampoo. \u2014 Nick Carey, The Christian Science Monitor , 3 May 2022",
"Not all the synthetics here will be available in the viscosity recommended by your car's manufacturer. \u2014 Gary Witzenburg, Car and Driver , 5 May 2022",
"Artificially Maple Flavored Syrup, which was the same color and viscosity as Dawn dish liquid. \u2014 Hallie Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s just like how a fluid equation has a viscosity term to capture the net effect of short-distance molecular collisions. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Just the pressure of his touch modeled the paint\u2019s viscosity , affecting how light reflected off the surface. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022",
"The hydrodynamic equation includes a term representing water\u2019s viscosity \u2014 a single number, which can be measured at IR scales, that summarizes all those molecular interactions happening in the UV. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 Mar. 2022",
"However, the viscosity (how sticky a fluid is) of the water damps the instability. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The lower viscosity of the bioink permits the different layers to seep into one another, removing the need for rigidly pre-defined layers and, instead, creating a natural gradient. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English viscosite , from Anglo-French viscosit\u00e9 , from Medieval Latin viscositat-, viscositas , from Late Latin viscosus viscous",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-191438"
},
"viduity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": widowhood"
],
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259\u0307\u02c8d(y)\u00fc\u0259t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English (Scots) viduite , from Middle French viduit\u00e9 , from Latin viduitat-, viduitas , from vidua widow + -itat-, -itas -ity",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-193631"
},
"viridity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being green",
": the color of grass or foliage",
": naive innocence"
],
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259-\u02c8ri-d\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"artlessness",
"greenness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"innocence",
"naiveness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"naivety",
"na\u00efvety",
"naturalness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"simplicity",
"unsophistication",
"unworldliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"artfulness",
"cynicism",
"knowingness",
"sophistication",
"worldliness"
],
"examples":[
"a heroine beset by the vacuous viridity that is so typical of romance novels"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English viridite , from Latin viriditat-, viriditas , from viridis ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-194315"
},
"vital capacity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the breathing capacity of the lungs expressed as the number of cubic inches or cubic centimeters of air that can be forcibly exhaled after a full inspiration",
": the breathing capacity of the lungs expressed as the number of cubic inches or cubic centimeters of air that can be forcibly exhaled after a full inspiration"
"the students are required to write two papers and take a viva voce examination"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adverb",
"first_known_use":[
"Adverb",
"1563, in the meaning defined above",
"Adjective",
"1654, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1842, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-051145"
},
"victory garden":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a wartime vegetable garden developed to increase food production especially by home gardeners"
],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-053142"
},
"viscer-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":[
": visceral : viscera",
": visceral and"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Late Latin, from Latin viscera ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-055838"
},
"Victorville":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"city in southeastern California north of San Bernardino population 115,903"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vik-t\u0259r-\u02ccvil"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-075057"
},
"vinchuca":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": any of several bugs of the genus Triatoma (especially T. infestans )"
],
"pronounciation":[
"vin\u02c8ch\u00fck\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Spanish, from Quechua wihchuykuk ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-081006"
},
"viridine yellow":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a strong yellow green that is greener, lighter, and stronger than parrot green and greener than lovebird"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"obsolete viridine ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-082035"
},
"viscin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a clear viscous tasteless substance from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe or holly \u2014 compare birdlime , viscum"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vis\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"French, from visc- + -in ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-085106"
},
"violaxanthin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an orange to red crystalline carotenoid pigment C 40 H 56 O 4 obtained from yellow pansies and many other plants : zeaxanthin di-epoxide"
],
"pronounciation":[
"v\u012b\u00a6\u014dl\u0259",
"\u00a6v\u012b\u0259l\u0259+"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"New Latin Viola + English xanthin ",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-085429"
},
"visceral":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep",
": not intellectual : instinctive , unreasoning",
": dealing with crude or elemental emotions : earthy",
": of, relating to, or located on or among the viscera : splanchnic",
": of, relating to, or located on or among the viscera",
"\u2014 compare parietal sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-s\u0259-r\u0259l",
"\u02c8vis-r\u0259l",
"\u02c8vis-\u0259-r\u0259l"
],
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"examples":[
"In 1972 he began an address at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, \"Let me start off by saying this is not quite an honor, my being here. I haven't had too much regard for the Chamber of Commerce in my years in Boston. When the Celtics won 11 championships in 13 years, it was ignored in their own town.\" Arnold Jacob Auerbach, though paradoxical and highly idiosyncratic, was foremost a direct and visceral man. \u2014 Frank Deford , Sports Illustrated , 6 Nov. 2006",
"When you measure your waist circumference, you're indirectly measuring your visceral fat. \u2014 David Schardt , Nutrition Action , July/August 2006",
"But there are strong taboos I haven't anticipated. The most striking is the visceral dislike of rawness. In China, the consumption of raw foods was historically viewed as a barbarian habit, and most everything is still eaten cooked. \u2014 Fuchsia Dunlop , Gourmet , August 2005",
"One of the wonders of cooking is that the tiniest adjustment to what you are making, the addition of a single ingredient or the execution of a technique, can entirely change a dish and the visceral response you get from eating it. \u2014 Amanda Hesser , New York Times , 17 July 2002",
"Her visceral reaction was to curse at the other driver.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In smaller startup companies, the commitment of individual executives to deliver tangible financial benefits on the basis of investments in new technical capabilities is much more immediate and visceral . \u2014 Mark Settle, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Streaming theater can\u2019t replace the visceral , exciting feeling of live performance. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"His infectious laughter leavened the transitions between performers, some of whom shared visceral stories about joy and grief. \u2014 Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"Another heady lineup punctuated Saturday\u2019s concert, with the elegant vibe of Swedish native Snoh Aalegra and visceral rap stylings of Lil Uzi Vert among the notable performances. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 19 June 2022",
"In the novel\u2019s brisk hundred and thirty-two pages, there is nothing visceral about Onoda\u2019s suffering, which takes on the quality of sleepwalking. \u2014 Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"These feelings over the years have lost their visceral power over me, but their intellectual aftereffects linger. \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 14 June 2022",
"Abrupt and visceral , the video quickly provoked outrage. \u2014 Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2022",
"Edwards\u2019s testimony made the insurrection newly visceral . \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 11 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1575, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-092752"
},
"viscosimetrically":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": viscometrically"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-r\u0259\u0307k(\u0259)l\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-100800"
},
"victorious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": having won a victory",
": of, relating to, or characteristic of victory",
": evincing moral harmony or a sense of fulfillment : fulfilled",
": having won a victory"
],
"pronounciation":[
"vik-\u02c8t\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259s",
"vik-\u02c8t\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They were victorious over their enemies.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"By the end of voting, Brock emerged victorious with 54.7% of the vote to 44.7% for Smith, with the remainder abstaining. \u2014 cleveland , 18 June 2022",
"Albini, who won his first WSOP bracelet in 2018 in the Seven-Card Stud event, emerged victorious from a field of 773 players in the 2022 $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 18 June 2022",
"After more than two weeks of counting and recounting in the Pennsylvania Republican Senate Primary, TV host and physician Mehmet Oz emerged victorious . \u2014 Dante Chinni, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Toy and game company Hasbro has emerged victorious in a proxy battle against one of its biggest shareholders, Texas investment firm Alta Fox Capital Management. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"Logan, whose incredible 21 correct spellings out of 25 in the lightning round has already launched memes across Twitter, emerged victorious in her fourth and final appearance at the bee. \u2014 Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"In a clash of the tennis titans that many had anticipated as soon as this year\u2019s draw was announced, Nadal not only emerged victorious , but proved once again that his dominance on clay has yet to face a serious challenger. \u2014 Vogue , 31 May 2022",
"Though Bourdeaux\u2019s current seat more closely aligns with the new district lines, McBath emerged victorious . \u2014 Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"In a grueling seven-game series between Milwaukee and Boston, the Celtics emerged victorious . \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 15 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
": a process of lowering the viscosity especially of heavy straight-run residues in petroleum refining by mild cracking"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-151336"
},
"viands":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an item of food",
": a choice or tasty dish",
": provisions , food"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259nd"
],
"synonyms":[
"bit",
"cate",
"dainty",
"delectable",
"delicacy",
"goody",
"goodie",
"kickshaw",
"tidbit",
"titbit",
"treat"
],
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"examples":[
"a shop selling caviar, foie gras, designer chocolates, and other pricey viands",
"the inn serves its choice viands on delicate china and its selection of vintage wines in the finest crystal available"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, viaunde , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin vivanda food, alteration of Latin vivenda , neuter plural of vivendus , gerundive of vivere to live \u2014 more at quick entry 1"
],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-154326"
},
"viejitos":{
"type":[
"noun plural but singular in construction"
],
"definitions":[
": a comic dance of the Tarascan Indians performed by young men dressed and masked as old men"
],
"pronounciation":[
"vy\u0101\u02c8h\u0113\u02cct\u014ds"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Mexican Spanish, from Spanish, little old men, plural of viejito old man, diminutive of viejo old man, from viejo , adjective, old, from Latin vetulus , from vetus old"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-160325"
},
"vindictive":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": disposed to seek revenge : vengeful",
": intended for or involving revenge",
": intended to cause anguish or hurt : spiteful",
": likely to seek revenge",
": meant to be harmful"
],
"pronounciation":[
"vin-\u02c8dik-tiv",
"vin-\u02c8dik-tiv"
],
"synonyms":[
"revengeful",
"vengeful"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"LIV Golf, run by Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, responded to the tour\u2019s decision by calling it vindictive and divisive. \u2014 Doug Ferguson, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022",
"LIV Golf, run by Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, responded to the tour's decision by calling it vindictive and divisive. \u2014 Doug Ferguson, Chron , 9 June 2022",
"LIV Golf, run by Greg Norman and funded by Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, responded to the tour\u2019s decision by calling it vindictive and divisive. \u2014 Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"Mosby\u2019s statements serve as part of a basis for Davis asking the judge to dismiss his cases for vindictive prosecution. \u2014 Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun , 7 June 2022",
"Gene\u2019s now a broken man with payback on his mind, and the vindictive Fuches has similar plans, albeit for different reasons. \u2014 Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Is this the sort of vindictive trouble that Enrico feared? \u2014 Tom Nolan, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Vardy was pregnant at the time of the post and has received unimaginably vindictive threats to both her and her baby\u2019s life. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 12 May 2022",
"People treat an inability to forgive like it\u2019s some kind of conscious, vindictive choice instead of being a visceral emotional response to pain and grief. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin vindicta revenge, vindication, from vindicare"
],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-164916"
},
"vigilante":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)",
": a self-appointed doer of justice",
": a member of a group of volunteers who are not police but who decide on their own to stop crime and punish criminals"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccvi-j\u0259-\u02c8lan-t\u0113",
"\u02ccvi-j\u0259-\u02c8lan-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"avenger",
"castigator",
"chastiser",
"nemesis",
"punisher",
"scourge"
],
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"examples":[
"the danger of these self-appointed vigilantes is that they sometimes go after innocent people",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some resort to vigilante scambaiting, posing as potential marks to lure scammers to authorities or into public shame. \u2014 Hannah Zeavin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"The movement is now a decade old, and that means that people have been marching in the streets demanding an end to police and vigilante violence against Black bodies since our students were in elementary school. \u2014 Ashley Lisenby, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Oct. 2021",
"In the Dark: The series about a blind vigilante (not Daredevil) will also end with season four. \u2014 Whitney Perry, Glamour , 13 May 2022",
"Maclay also belonged to a San Francisco vigilante group, and became a state legislator as well as a self-dealing opportunist who bought up the de Celis land on behalf of his patron, the railroad bigshot Leland Stanford. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"This time around, the self-defense movement -- now known as United Towns, or Pueblos Unidos -- sprang up in 2020 in the avocado-growing regions that were not the epicenter of the 2013 vigilante uprising. \u2014 The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online , 14 Nov. 2021",
"Between 2015 and 2018, vigilante groups killed dozens of people -- many of whom were Muslims -- for allegedly consuming or killing cows, an animal considered sacred by Hindus, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. \u2014 Rhea Mogul And Swati Gupta, CNN , 14 Jan. 2022",
"India\u2019s Christian community has long faced pressure, particularly under periods of BJP rule when Hindu vigilante groups feel more emboldened. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Toxin becomes a new ally vigilante that joins with Venom to hunt Xenophage. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Spanish, watchman, guard, from vigilante vigilant, from Latin vigilant-, vigilans"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1856, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-172343"
},
"vicine":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a crystalline glucoside C 10 H 16 N 4 O 7 obtained especially from seeds of vetches (genus Vicia ) and beets that yields glucose and a pyrimidine on hydrolysis"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin vicia vetch + International Scientific Vocabulary -ine"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-180232"
},
"vi apple":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": ambarella"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0113-"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"vi from Tahitian"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-180302"
},
"vilifying":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame",
": to lower in estimation or importance",
": to speak of harshly and often unfairly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
"\u02c8vi-l\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
],
"synonyms":[
"asperse",
"blacken",
"calumniate",
"defame",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"smear",
"traduce"
],
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"examples":[
"He was vilified in the press for his comments.",
"claimed that she had been vilified by the press because of her conservative views",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The meeting comes days after Chevron CEO Mike Wirth accused Biden of seeking to vilify oil and gas producers. \u2014 Matt Egan, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"With the rush toward elections, the Arab community in Israel is bracing for a Netanyahu campaign that will vilify Arabs, said Yousef Jabareen, a former Knesset member with the Palestinian Israeli left-wing Hadash party. \u2014 Shira Rubin, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"Black slavery started in the early 1500s and as long as slavery was accepted by most people, there was no need to vilify the slave. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"Those who believe in democratization in higher education vilify it, while those who believe in differentiation applaud it. \u2014 WSJ , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The Russian leader, for his part, has gone out of his way to vilify those who have left, likening them to gnat-like insects. \u2014 Vasiliy Kolotilov, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The Nazis and Adolf Hitler have proven convenient symbols for people wishing to vilify their political opponents, from Donald Trump to Nelson Mandela. \u2014 Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"That means the political class has to back the police, not vilify them. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 5 Feb. 2022",
"In a delicate dance that seems designed to appease both the right and left, Macron has refused to vilify French imperialists, most notably Napoleon, but has recognized their wrongdoing. \u2014 Saphora Smith, NBC News , 25 Dec. 2021"
],
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"Middle English vilifien , from Late Latin vilificare , from Latin vilis cheap, vile"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-184748"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": viscometer",
": viscometer"
],
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"\u02ccvi-sk\u0259-\u02c8si-m\u0259-t\u0259r",
"\u02ccvis-k\u0259-\u02c8sim-\u0259t-\u0259r"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"International Scientific Vocabulary viscosi ty + -meter"
],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1868, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-190621"
},
"vindicatory":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": providing vindication : justificatory",
": punitive , retributive"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1647, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-202134"
},
"vivax malaria":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": malaria caused by a plasmodium ( Plasmodium vivax ) that induces paroxysms at 48-hour intervals",
": malaria caused by a plasmodium ( Plasmodium vivax ) that induces paroxysms at 48-hour intervals \u2014 compare falciparum malaria"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u02ccvaks-"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin vivax , specific epithet of Plasmodium vivax , from Latin"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1958, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-202542"
},
"viscose rayon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": rayon fiber made from viscose in filament or staple form",
": rayon yarn or fabric made from viscose rayon fiber"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-213200"
},
"vindicating":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to free from allegation or blame",
": confirm , substantiate",
": to provide justification or defense for : justify",
": to protect from attack or encroachment : defend",
": avenge",
": to maintain a right to",
": to set free : deliver",
": to free from blame or guilt",
": to show to be true or correct"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vin-d\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t",
"\u02c8vin-d\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolve",
"acquit",
"clear",
"exculpate",
"exonerate"
],
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"criminate",
"incriminate"
],
"examples":[
"She will be completely vindicated by the evidence.",
"These discoveries vindicate their theory.",
"Their approach to the problem has been vindicated by the positive results.",
"He felt vindicated when the truth became known.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fetterman's lead certainly does vindicate a narrative about the ascendance of progressivism in the party, but not quite in the way analysts have framed it. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 17 May 2022",
"The district court and 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the school district, but the Supreme Court's six-member conservative majority appeared to be looking for ways to overturn those results and vindicate the coach's actions. \u2014 Jeffrey Toobin, CNN , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Appeals to continuity after World War II could condemn or vindicate . \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s no surer way to vindicate the fears of those people that led them to seek NATO membership than to witness their country being overrun by the Russian military. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Seeking to vindicate their constitutional rights, the family sued Martin, arguing that his force against each woman was unconstitutionally excessive. \u2014 Alexa Gervasi, The Week , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Insofar as equity investing is concerned, Mr. Ellis\u2019s findings seem to vindicate Mr. Fama\u2019s big idea and Bogle\u2019s big innovation. \u2014 Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Kudos to the Justices for taking this opportunity to vindicate equal treatment under the law regardless of race, especially when the left is pushing racial calculations into policies far beyond campus. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 24 Jan. 2022",
"The same remains true today, as pro-life Americans labor to vindicate that promissory note for all people, born and unborn. \u2014 Alexandra Desanctis, National Review , 17 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin vindicatus , past participle of vindicare to lay claim to, avenge, from vindic-, vindex claimant, avenger"
": a large genus of chiefly tropical American vines (family Asclepiadaceae) having cordate leaves and large purple or greenish cymose flowers with the corolla rotate and 5-parted and an entire or lobed crown"
"New Latin, from Latin vincere to conquer + toxicum poison; from the former belief that it was a counterpoison"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-023950"
},
"viewpoint":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated : point of view , standpoint",
": point of view , standpoint"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vy\u00fc-\u02ccp\u022fint",
"\u02c8vy\u00fc-\u02ccp\u022fint"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"eye view",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"shoes",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"vantage point"
],
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"examples":[
"The story is told from the viewpoint of someone who grew up during the Great Depression.",
"Her viewpoint is that of a person who has been in politics for decades.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In this viewpoint , the AI symbolics family is both misaimed and worse still diluting and distracting from AI sub-symbolics. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"From this viewpoint , two contrasting episodes stand out. \u2014 Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Many in the White Nationalist movement who participated in the violent attack of the US Capitol on January 6th, it can be argued, ascribe to this viewpoint as well. \u2014 Charlie Dent, CNN , 1 Mar. 2022",
"This second fantasy still lingers, and Garfield reflects this viewpoint . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Sep. 2021",
"Bjornstad doesn\u2019t buy the viewpoint of traditionalists who say that brewers have gone too far by putting marshmallow in beer. \u2014 Gary Stoller, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The First Amendment generally prohibits government restrictions on speech based on content and viewpoint . \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"Robinson\u2019s unique voice and viewpoint were cultivated at Emerson Film School, and surprisingly, Atlanta was her very first writing gig right out of the gate. \u2014 Essence , 20 May 2022",
"His upcoming debut feature, not unlike his two shorts, are seen from a child\u2019s viewpoint . \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 17 May 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1855, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-035334"
},
"vivres":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": foodstuff , provisions"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0113v\u0259(r)z",
""
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"French"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-064058"
},
"viewshed":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the natural environment that is visible from one or more viewing points"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vy\u00fc-\u02ccshed"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This project has the potential to negatively impact the historic viewshed of Mount Vernon and natural beauty of Piscataway National Park. \u2014 Patrick Sisson, Curbed , 26 June 2018",
"Examples of such objects are geographic areas including viewsheds and ecosystems. \u2014 Abe Streep, Outside Online , 1 May 2018",
"Even so, that city has dozens of viewsheds to ensure the Capitol can be seen from myriad locations. \u2014 Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News , 18 Apr. 2018",
"Committee Chairman Roberto Trevi\u00f1o, who supports viewsheds , said the city will benefit economically by protecting its iconic landmarks. \u2014 Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News , 18 Apr. 2018",
"But one of the country\u2019s most iconic viewsheds could soon be changed forever to make room for an energy project favored not just by fossil fuel industry boosters like President Trump, but also Virginia\u2019s Democratic governor. \u2014 Evan Halper, latimes.com , 14 July 2017",
"Rural residents are objecting to wind projects to protect their property values and viewsheds . \u2014 Robert Bryce, Twin Cities , 11 Apr. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"view + -shed (as in watershed )"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1970, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-093947"
},
"Victorine":{
"type":[
"noun ()"
],
"definitions":[
": a woman's fur tippet with long ends",
": a canon regular of the Order of St. Victor founded in Paris in 1110, widespread during the medieval period, famous for its learning, and extinct since the French Revolution"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6vikt\u0259\u00a6r\u0113n",
"\u00a6vikt\u0259\u00a6r\u0113n"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun (1)",
"probably from Queen Victoria + English -ine",
"Noun (2)",
"French victorin , from the Abbey of St. Victor near Paris, France + French -in -ine"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-113039"
},
"vivisepulture":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or practice of burying alive"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccviv\u0259+"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"vivi- + sepulture"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-125536"
},
"Via Lascivia":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a line on the palm that appears as a sister line to the line of Mercury and is usually held by palmists to indicate intensity of sentiments and sometimes sensuality"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-l\u0259\u02c8siv\u0113\u0259"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, literally, lascivious path"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-130245"
},
"vicinal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of or relating to a limited district : local",
": of, relating to, or substituted in adjacent sites in a molecule"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-s\u0259-n\u0259l",
"\u02c8vi-sn\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin vicinalis , from vicinus neighbor, from vicinus , adjective, neighboring"
],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1623, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-130852"
},
"vidimus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an official or legal inspection (as of a document)",
": an attested copy of a document"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vid\u0259m\u0259s",
"\u02c8v\u012bd-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin, we have seen, 1st person plural perfect indicative of vid\u0113re to see"
"In the register of his voice, the calm vivisection of British actions can mount by degrees into the more insistent tones of a man who has truth on his side. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"Other readers will hear in this vivisection of a dysfunctional family a Franzenesque attention to the great forces pulsing through American culture. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"Only Charles\u2019s second wife, Camilla, whom Brown depicts as horse-y and unflappable, escapes royal vivisection . \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The man\u2019s fate and the woman\u2019s are said to have been sealed by a secret ritual; vivisection is supposed to be the man\u2019s ultimate act of love toward her. \u2014 Emmanuel Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez Angulo, The New York Review of Books , 14 Jan. 2021",
"His early novel The Sea and Poison (1957; English translation, 1995) treats the medical vivisection of American prisoners of war and its psychological effects on a doctor involved and was made into a successful Japanese film in the mid 1980s. \u2014 M. D. Aeschliman, National Review , 12 Sep. 2021",
"Chiefs receiver Sammy Watkins beat Peters one-on-one to convert on third-and-9 as the Baltimore defensive front failed to put any pressure on Mahomes, who then finished his vivisection with a nifty shovel pass to Anthony Sherman for touchdown No. 2. \u2014 Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com , 29 Sep. 2020",
"After spending years performing comedic vivisection on the American political system with Veep, creator Armando Iannucci is back on HBO with Avenue 5. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 9 Jan. 2020",
"Her father had been a madman who practiced vivisection on human beings; the cruel scientist\u2019s mistress \u2014 and Harriet\u2019s mother \u2014 was a partly black Creole, who had inherited a taste for blood from the bite of a vampire bat. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2019"
": either of a pair of ganglia in most mollusks that may lie close to or be fused with the pleural ganglia or may lie much farther back and are connected with the pleural ganglia by pleurovisceral connectives"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-175521"
},
"viewing glass":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a colored filter used in viewing the scene to be photographed in order to anticipate how the scene will be reproduced"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-191850"
},
"viewing":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an act of seeing, watching, or taking a look",
": an instance or the practice of watching television"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vy\u00fc-i\u014b"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But their first viewing of it will be as four 2 hour and 45-minute movies. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 21 June 2022",
"His father ran a small movie theater, which helped develop his viewing into a calling. \u2014 Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"While neither the Wildcat EV nor anything like it will go into production, the execs on hand for our private viewing confirmed that the Buick lineup will be composed only of electric vehicles, presumably SUVs, by 2030. \u2014 Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver , 1 June 2022",
"First up, in no particular order, are the first top 10 best comedies for your 420 viewing . \u2014 Mark Hughes, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"But many are limiting their viewing to strolling under the trees rather than drinking and eating in traditional party style. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Mar. 2022",
"People were tired of seeing their Twitter regurgitated back to them through their viewing . \u2014 David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times , 25 Mar. 2022",
"As for a special place in the park, Bumann loves Lamar Valley, which is noted for its easy viewing of large numbers of animals. \u2014 Forrest Brown, CNN , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The majority of our viewing is in streaming so lead-ins don\u2019t matter. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1535, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-221330"
},
"vindictive damages":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": punitive damages"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-223836"
},
"vive":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb,"
],
"definitions":[
": lively , brisk",
": having active properties : forcible",
": lifelike",
": vivid",
": distinctly perceived"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0113v"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle French vif (feminine vive ), from Latin vivus alive"
": a member of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Mission founded by St. Vincent de Paul in Paris, France, in 1625 and devoted to missions and seminaries":[],
": a native or inhabitant of the island of St. Vincent":[]
": a genus of alpine or boreal plants with viscous stems and foliage that are usually included in the genus Lychnis"
],
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"vi\u02c8ska(a)r\u0113\u0259"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from visc- + -aria"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-122914"
},
"videlicet":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": that is to say : namely"
],
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0259-\u02c8de-l\u0259-\u02ccset",
"v\u012b-",
"vi-\u02c8d\u0101-li-\u02ccket"
],
"synonyms":[
"namely",
"scilicet",
"to wit"
],
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"examples":[
"the meaning of the Constitution is determined by one\u2014and only one\u2014body, videlicet , the U.S. Supreme Court"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from Latin, from vid\u0113re to see + licet it is permitted, from lic\u0113re to be permitted"
],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-123248"
},
"viscose":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a viscous golden-brown solution made by treating cellulose with caustic alkali solution and carbon disulfide and used in making rayon and films of regenerated cellulose",
": viscose rayon",
": of, relating to, or made from viscose"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-\u02ccsk\u014ds",
"-\u02ccsk\u014dz"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The look is from the spring 1998 collection: A rayon- viscose clingy black tank top (also in white) that comes with two flossy leather straps affixed with a modernist silver G buckle. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"This 40% Outlast viscose and 60% Tencel performance fabric aced our Lab tests with a notably perfect laundering score. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2022",
"Those looking to add some clothing to their wardrobe should consider these basic leggings, crafted out of a mix of viscose , nylon, and elastane. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 1 Mar. 2022",
"It's made from a lightweight, breathable viscose fabric that is soft against skin, has a lustrous finish, and elegantly drapes away from the body for a more flattering and relaxed fit. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 8 May 2022",
"Mother Tucker leggings are made of super comfy bamboo viscose fabric that\u2019s breathable while offering the benefits of compression. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Designed to be temperature-regulating, the ultra-cozy sheet set is made of 100 percent bamboo viscose . \u2014 Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Designed to keep you cool while you snooze, this Bedsure bed sheet set is made of viscose from bamboo. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE.com , 13 Mar. 2022",
"There are also pulpwood plantations for viscose away from rainforests in places like South Africa and the Czech Republic. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The outer cover is made from a blend of viscose rayon and polyester for a soft feel, and the fill is kept in place with an inner mesh liner. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 13 June 2022",
"The Phoebe pants, meanwhile, are a viscose wool-blend that strikes the perfect balance between stiff and flowing. \u2014 Alice Cary, Vogue , 28 Jan. 2022",
"But some of the major companies in the viscose supply chain have drawn criticism for contributing to the destruction of rainforest in southeast Asia. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Dec. 2021",
"Grown in a chemical-free environment, this bamboo viscose sheet set is odor-resistant, breathable, and silky to the touch. \u2014 Popular Science , 1 Dec. 2020",
"The company\u2019s woven viscose bamboo threads are similar to silk and cashmere, offering luxury while remaining earth-friendly. \u2014 Jean Chen Smith, Cincinnati.com , 13 May 2020",
"Super soft: The A blend of cotton and Outlast viscose fabric goes into the Slumber Cloud Stratus Sheet Set. \u2014 Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 26 Sep. 2018",
"Nautical pea and bomber jackets were cropped and buttoned, while cargo trousers fell perilously low on the hips, uniformly finished with a viscose denim trim. \u2014 Elizabeth Paton, New York Times , 8 Jan. 2018",
"Ms. Kozen warned that viscose rayon is often wrongly marketed as environmentally friendly because it is derived from bamboo. \u2014 Tatiana Schlossberg, New York Times , 24 May 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun",
"obsolete viscose , adjective, viscous"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1896, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1900, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-130950"
},
"viscosity index":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an arbitrary number assigned as a measure of the constancy of the viscosity of a lubricating oil with change of temperature with higher numbers indicating viscosities that change little with temperature"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An oil\u2019s resistance to thinning in hotter temperatures is called the viscosity index . \u2014 Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics , 31 Aug. 2020",
"Resistance to thinning with increasing temperature is called viscosity index . \u2014 Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics , 14 Feb. 2019",
"Resistance to thinning with increasing temperature is called viscosity index . \u2014 Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics , 14 Feb. 2019",
"Resistance to thinning with increasing temperature is called viscosity index . \u2014 Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics , 14 Feb. 2019",
"Resistance to thinning with increasing temperature is called viscosity index . \u2014 Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics , 14 Feb. 2019",
"Resistance to thinning with increasing temperature is called viscosity index . \u2014 Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics , 14 Feb. 2019",
"Resistance to thinning with increasing temperature is called viscosity index . \u2014 Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics , 14 Feb. 2019",
"Resistance to thinning with increasing temperature is called viscosity index . \u2014 Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics , 14 Feb. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1929, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-132536"
},
"vidicon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a camera tube using the principle of photoconductivity"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-di-\u02cck\u00e4n"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"video entry 2 + icon(oscope)"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1950, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-135351"
},
"Victoria Violet 4BS":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a violet monoazo acid dye"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"after Queen Victoria"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": a recording of a motion picture or television program for playing through a television set",
": a videotaped performance of a song often featuring an interpretation of the lyrics through visual images",
": a digital recording of an image or set of images (such as a movie or animation)",
": television",
": the visual portion of television",
": being, relating to, or used in the transmission or reception of the television image",
"\u2014 compare audio",
": being, relating to, or involving images on a television screen or computer display",
": television sense 1",
": the visual part of television",
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": relating to or used in the sending or receiving of television images",
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"\u02c8vi-d\u0113-\u02cc\u014d",
"\u02c8vi-d\u0113-\u02cc\u014d"
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"tape",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a late night video address. \u2014 Leila Sackur, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
"Ahead of its release, the singer confirmed the song is based on her love story with partner Alev Aydin, who both directed and co-star in the music video . \u2014 Mitchell Peters, Billboard , 12 June 2022",
"Swift also appears in the video , playing the older version of Sink's character. \u2014 Aim\u00e9e Lutkin, ELLE , 11 June 2022",
"The girls shown in the video and photos investigators found were between 14 and 18 years old, the complaint says. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 10 June 2022",
"In the video below, Snodgrass dives into his extensive knowledge of the fighter jets portrayed in the original film, along with how technology has evolved military aircraft since its release. \u2014 Taylor Vasilik, Popular Mechanics , 10 June 2022",
"Ellie Backer said in the video that she is haunted daily by the future Henry will not have. \u2014 Danny Mcdonald, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"In the video , Anastasio appeared to walk away as the fan stayed on the ground from the attack. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 June 2022",
"In the surveillance video , a man in his 80s is seen standing next to a building when he is approached by another man who appears to sucker punch him. \u2014 Fox News , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But after consulting with the video assistant referee, the call was reversed to a free kick on which Kara\u2019s boot was blocked by the keeper and cleared for a corner. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel , 18 June 2022",
"Owners of bookstores and video rental outlets worried that the amendment opened them up to lawsuits from parents. \u2014 Jennifer C. Berkshire, The New Republic , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Sant\u2019Anselmo\u2019s nostalgia for video rental stores is not isolated. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 22 Nov. 2021",
"The film, starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, has a 93% rating from Rotten Tomatoes and held the top spot on video rental services like iTunes, Amazon and Google Play for weeks. \u2014 Matt Schifrin, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2021",
"But after bringing both teams back to the center circle, referee Chris Penso paused to consult with the video assistant referee and to watch a replay. \u2014 Kevin Baxterstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
"There have been all manner of virtual and video options for people to experience the world, going back decades. \u2014 Lee Gimpel, Forbes , 9 Sep. 2021",
"The area features cells with toilets and sinks, more single-bed cells, and traditionally has offered detainees more programming, in-person and video social visits than the jail\u2019s Central Detention Facility. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 July 2021",
"Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said Tuesday night there's no video evidence to suggest that a civilian or student tried to disarm the shooter. \u2014 Jeff Seidel And Mick Mccabe, Detroit Free Press , 2 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun",
"Latin vid\u0113 re to see + -o (as in audio )"
],
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"Noun",
"1935, in the meaning defined at sense 3",
"Adjective",
"1934, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-182229"
},
"vid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a video recording : video"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vid"
],
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"tape",
"tape recording",
"video",
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"a vid of the pop star performing her latest hit single",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After the fairly tame dance vid , Addison got a little saucy on us, posting a twerking video for fans. \u2014 Abby Dupes, Seventeen , 7 Apr. 2022",
"First was the actual reveal, much like a YouTubers unboxing vid . \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Moonbug Entertainment is expanding its kid- vid footprint by snapping up Little Angel, a popular producer of YouTube videos and songs for preschoolers. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 9 Feb. 2022",
"On Thursday, Bella posted some shots from a set in France, which include a gorgeous mirror selfie, a dancing vid , and a blurry couple pic with her new guy. \u2014 Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen , 8 July 2021",
"Petchanska has also shot music vid shows, including with Mala Rodr\u00edguez. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 14 Sep. 2021",
"After sharing the viral vid , Lavigne also published a few behind-the-scenes shots with Hawk on Instagram. \u2014 Lydia Wang, refinery29.com , 23 June 2021",
"Um, Avani Gregg's boyfriend is unrecognizable in this throwback vid . \u2014 Stacey Grant, Seventeen , 18 Feb. 2021",
"Josh Richards couldn't help but laugh at his buddy's throwback vid . \u2014 Stacey Grant, Seventeen , 18 Feb. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1979, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-182621"
},
"visceral leishmaniasis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a severe form of leishmaniasis that is marked by fever, weight loss, progressive anemia, leukopenia , and enlargement of the spleen and liver, is caused by a parasitic protozoan (as Leishmania donovani ) which proliferates in macrophages of the liver, spleen, and bone marrow, and is typically fatal if untreated",
": a severe form of leishmaniasis that is marked by fever, weight loss, progressive anemia, leukopenia , and enlargement of the spleen and liver, is caused by a parasitic protozoan of the genus Leishmania (as L. donovani ) which proliferates in macrophages of the liver, spleen, and bone marrow, and is typically fatal if untreated"
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"1914, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-205033"
},
"vielle":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a bowed stringed instrument of the late Middle Ages: such as",
": any of the early viols",
": a medieval fiddle with a slightly incurving waist that was played upright or on the shoulder",
": hurdy-gurdy sense 1"
],
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"\u02c8vyel"
],
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"French"
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"first_known_use":[
"1768, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-213733"
},
"Vienna":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"city on the Danube River in northeastern Austria population 1,700,000"
],
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"v\u0113-\u02c8e-n\u0259",
"-\u02c8a-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-215242"
},
"vive la reine":{
"type":[
"French phrase"
],
"definitions":[
": long live the queen"
],
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"v\u0113v-l\u00e4-ren"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-181820"
},
"vignette":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper",
": the pictorial part of a postage stamp design as distinguished from the frame and lettering",
": a short descriptive literary sketch",
": a brief incident or scene (as in a play or movie)",
": a running ornament (as of vine leaves, tendrils, and grapes) put on or just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter",
": a small decorative design or picture so placed",
": to finish (something, such as a photograph) like a vignette",
": to describe briefly"
],
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"vin-\u02c8yet",
"v\u0113n-"
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"synonyms":[
"definition",
"delineation",
"depiction",
"description",
"picture",
"portrait",
"portraiture",
"portrayal",
"rendering",
"sketch"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"The play's program features a little vignette about each member of the cast.",
"The film is a series of vignettes about living with cancer.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The 8:42-long video is a surrealist feast that puts Swardlick\u2019s longtime mascot, Morne Diablotins, in a funky dream sequence \u2014 each stylish vignette soundtracked to another snippet from the companion Compact Objects LP, released June 7. \u2014 Kat Bein, Billboard , 9 June 2022",
"Kaphar\u2019s film is a rather quiet vignette , mostly filmed inside his gallery, where large oil canvases show Black mothers with cutout children\u2014blank space where a child should be. \u2014 The New Yorker , 8 May 2022",
"In one vignette , the woman dreams of being a cat, then, as a cat, dreams of being a woman. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Hu, The Atlantic , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Like so many moments in Adlon\u2019s free-form FX dramedy, the vignette is sad and funny, blunt and tender all at once. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Both moods are combined in what\u2019s perhaps the film\u2019s longest vignette , when EO shows up at a regional Polish soccer game and winds up playing a hand in the local team\u2019s victory. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"MLB Network, swinging for attention from younger fans, is producing a baseball-news vignette just for them. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, the Treasury Department announced that a vignette of suffrage movement leaders would appear on the back of the currency \u2014 a redesign that will not enter circulation until 2026. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Perhaps the most didactic and poignant vignette was conceived by Dash (Daughters of Dust), who made history as the first African American woman to direct a feature film shown in wide release. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 10 May 2022"
],
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"Noun",
"French, from Middle French vignete , from diminutive of vigne vine \u2014 more at vine entry 1"
"watched a videotape of her daughter's first ballet recital",
"Verb",
"They videotaped the baby's first steps.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Moss\u2019s mother, who worked with her on election night, testified on videotape about the impact on her. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
"Although Fuentes was charged only with actions that appear on the videotape and involve just a handful of ballots, investigators believe the effort went much farther. \u2014 CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"Although Fuentes was charged only with actions that appear on the videotape and involve just a handful of ballots, investigators believe the effort went much farther. \u2014 Bob Christie, The Arizona Republic , 2 June 2022",
"That man, Ryan Samsel, has been charged with attacking officers at the barricade in what is widely thought to be the tipping point of the riot, with videotape showing him attacking Officer Edwards. \u2014 New York Times , 6 June 2022",
"The prosecution\u2019s key evidence, a graphic 81-second videotape taken by plumber George Holliday from his apartment balcony, shows Powell and Wind kicking and hitting King with their batons more than 50 times. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 May 2022",
"The 9/11 Commission Report also found that once the hijackers were settled in San Diego, Bayoumi held a party at their apartment and had an associate videotape the gathering. \u2014 Catherine Herridge, CBS News , 28 Aug. 2021",
"John Fund, a prominent conservative journalist who was once a booster of Ms. Engelbrecht, has implored donors to shun her, according to videotape provided to The New York Times by Documented, a nonprofit news site. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
"The days of shooting on celluloid or videotape , stored on shelves or in vaults, are long gone, with disks and clouds dominating the storage landscape. \u2014 Ashley Lan, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As the investigation picked up momentum in the fall of last year, the committee made the critical decision to videotape every interview. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
"Karlis Arnolds Avots) is willing to risk a beating or arrest to videotape that occupation, along with friend Zeps (Sandis Runge). \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 10 June 2022",
"Kligora, who had some broadcast equipment in his carry-on, asked the passenger sitting in seat 1-C to videotape it all. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Lee was already on probation for attacking a cameraman who was trying to videotape the couple during a Hollywood outing in 1996. \u2014 Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Should people be able to videotape in public health department lobbies? \u2014 Ariel Hart, ajc , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Protesters can\u2019t videotape , photograph or otherwise record patients or providers within 100 feet of reproductive clinics. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Dec. 2021",
"The women allege that the couple then used secret spy cameras to videotape them. \u2014 Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone , 16 Nov. 2021",
"Prosecutors alleged Kruchten used his position as a business teacher at Madison East High School to secretly videotape students during field trips in Wisconsin and Minnesota. \u2014 Fox News , 25 Oct. 2021"
": a small closed or closable vessel especially for liquids",
": a small container (as for medicines) that is usually made of glass or plastic",
": a small closed or closable vessel especially for liquids"
],
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"\u02c8v\u012b(-\u0259)l",
"\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259l",
"\u02c8v\u012b(-\u0259)l"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Eli Lilly's list price for Humalog, its analog insulin product, jumped 680% to $275 per vial in 2018 from its introduction in 1996, Human Rights Watch said. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"That's how much Civica Rx, a non-profit generic drug maker, will charge for a vial of insulin in 2024. \u2014 Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 4 Mar. 2022",
"While the allegations center on Husel, Shroyer contends there was a larger oversight by the hospital and that a system for obtaining fentanyl and accounting for every vial of a drug was either missed or willfully ignored. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Vaccine makers must demonstrate to regulators that their product is consistent in every batch and every vial . \u2014 Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News , 6 June 2022",
"Another common problem is that a vaccine vial contains multiple doses. \u2014 Ratheesh Raveendran, Forbes , 6 Apr. 2021",
"The batch didn\u2019t reach the vial -filling and finishing stage, and no doses from it were distributed. \u2014 Peter Loftus, WSJ , 1 Apr. 2021",
"The vaccine itself has to be reconstituted by injecting a sodium chloride solution into the vaccine vial , ultimately yielding 6.3 doses that need to be used within six hours. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Jan. 2021",
"Humalog, an insulin produced by Eli Lilly and commonly used by diabetics, went from $21 a vial when it was introduced in 1996 to $275 today \u2014 an increase of 1,209 percent. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English fiole, viole , from Anglo-French, from Late Latin fiola , alteration of Latin phiala \u2014 more at phial"
],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-211825"
},
"vindicator":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a person or thing that vindicates something or someone"
": a long-necked mammal ( Vicugna vicugna synonym Lama vicugna ) of the Andes from Peru to Argentina that is related to but somewhat smaller than the guanaco , has a light brown woolly coat that is paler below, is considered to the be ancestor of the alpaca , and has been historically hunted for its wool and meat",
": the wool from the vicu\u00f1a's fine lustrous undercoat",
": a fabric made of vicu\u00f1a wool",
": a sheep's wool imitation of this",
": an animal of the Andes that is related to the llama and has long soft woolly hair"
],
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"vi-\u02c8k\u00fcn-y\u0259",
"v\u012b-",
"v\u012b-\u02c8k\u00fc-n\u0259",
"v\u0259-",
"-\u02c8ky\u00fc-"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Spanish vicu\u00f1a , from Quechua wik'u\u00f1a"
],
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"1604, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-134348"
},
"vienna brown":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": gold bronze sense 2"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-141412"
},
"Vidian":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of or relating to the anatomist Guidi"
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"\u02c8vid\u0113\u0259n"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Vidus Vidius (Guido Guidi) \u20201569 Italian anatomist + English -an"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-144353"
},
"vivisect":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to perform vivisection on : subject to vivisection",
": to practice vivisection"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-v\u0259-\u02ccsekt"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its members seek to avenge the natural world, to kill scientists who vivisect animals or breed germs for warfare. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Indeed, the characters use every conceivable swear word in English\u2014and a few in French\u2014to vivisect each other with almost Shakespearean invective (if Shakespeare had been drunk, Canadian, and a survivor of several concussive jet-ski accidents). \u2014 Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books , 24 July 2020",
"Ben Thompson, the founder of Stratechery, a website that vivisects Silicon Valley companies, has incisively described Amazon\u2019s master plan. \u2014 Franklin Foer, The Atlantic , 10 Oct. 2019",
"And quite possibly, no recent film better exemplifies these triumphs than Beyonc\u00e9's best documentary feature hopeful Homecoming, which vivisects the commitment required to be a modern-day pop legend. \u2014 Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Nov. 2019",
"Watchmen\u2018s cast is quite a bit more diverse than the comic book, which honored (and, to be clear, totally vivisected ) the white-dudes-plus-a-lady layout of most pre-millennial superteams. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 15 Oct. 2019",
"When Maza lodged his complaints about Crowder \u2014 whose actual offense, it should be noted, was occasionally vivisecting Maza\u2019s purported acts of journalism \u2014 the powers that be at YouTube did their best impersonation of Pontius Pilate. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 6 June 2019",
"Michael Shannon is the ruthless government agent who would like to vivisect the creature. \u2014 Robin Givhan, chicagotribune.com , 4 Mar. 2018",
"Yet every movement to which Murray ever belonged vivisected her in exactly those ways. \u2014 Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 7 Apr. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"back-formation from vivisection"
],
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"1864, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-144603"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or constituting the visceral ganglia of bivalve mollusks generally situated in contact with the posterior adductor muscles"
"In 2010, scientists analyzed the composition of the 1893 and 1910 versions of The Scream and found the pigments used included cadmium yellow, vermillion, ultramarine, and viridian , all common in the 19th century. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 21 May 2020",
"Frostbitten weeds poked from the hardpack, all granularity leeched from the countryside, the icy, angular topography distilled to surfaces shaded cobalt, steel and viridian set against a saffron sky. \u2014 Matt Peckham, WIRED , 3 Oct. 2014"
"former state of northeast central India with Rewa as its capital"
],
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"pr\u0259-\u02c8desh",
"-\u02c8d\u0101sh"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-161757"
},
"vill":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a division of a hundred : township",
": village"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vil"
],
"synonyms":[
"bourg",
"hamlet",
"townlet",
"village",
"whistle-stop"
],
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"examples":[
"an ancient vill nestled midst the verdant hills"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Anglo-French vil, ville farmstead, township"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1596, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-174715"
},
"vias":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of vias plural of via"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-191924"
},
"vigneron":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": winegrower"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccv\u0113n-y\u0259-\u02c8r\u014dn"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Since 2017, winemaker Elizabeth Bourcier has earned multiple 100-point scores for Bionic Wines in the Walla Walla Valley of Washington state\u2014quietly working in collaboration with founder and French vigneron , Christophe Baron. \u2014 Jillian Dara, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Here was another grand cru Burgundy, from Henri Jayer, a legendary vigneron who died in 2006. \u2014 Eric Asimov, New York Times , 10 Dec. 2020",
"Olivier Paget, Bob\u2019s age, was born in Beaujolais, father a plumber, grandfather a vigneron , cooking since age sixteen; normal chef stuff, including stints making fancy food with grands chefs, like Georges Blanc, with whom Boulud had trained. \u2014 Bill Buford, The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2020",
"Certainly, the vignerons have no complaints about La Paul\u00e9e de New York. \u2014 Eric Asimov, New York Times , 10 Mar. 2020",
"Jean-Luc Terrier and Christian Collovray, brothers-in-law vignerons from Macon, in Burgundy, expanded their business into the mountains of southwestern France near Limoux. \u2014 Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Tricot and his wife settled here in 2003, part of a small group of natural vignerons who are recapturing the lost winemaking tradition of the area. \u2014 Stephen Heyman, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 11 Nov. 2019",
"Even though Jackson\u2019s knowledge and passion for good champagne is legendary, for vignerons of the finest bubbly in the Champagne region of France, Jackson\u2019s prestige wasn\u2019t enough. \u2014 Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle , 6 Dec. 2019",
"But vigneron and co-owner Fran\u00e7ois Morissette\u2019s low-intervention vineyards make up just one element of a regenerative agriculture ecosystem aimed at increasing biodiversity, both for all-important soil health and sheer idealism. \u2014 Aliza Abarbanel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 7 Nov. 2019"
],
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"Middle English (Scots), from Middle French, from Old French vineron , from vine, vigne vine, vineyard"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-192917"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":[
": having appreciable and conjoint viscous and elastic properties",
": constituting or relating to the state of viscoelastic materials",
": having appreciable and conjoint viscous and elastic properties",
": constituting or relating to the state of viscoelastic materials"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccvi-sk\u014d-\u0259-\u02c8la-stik",
"\u02ccvis-k\u014d-\u0259-\u02c8las-tik"
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"visc ous + -o- + elastic"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1935, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-193427"
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"videotape recorder":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a device for recording and playing back videotapes",
": a device for recording on videotape"
],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[
"1953, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-194416"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to perfuse (as an organ of the body) during life"
],
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"\u00a6viv\u0259+"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"vivi- + perfuse"
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"vivipary":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": the development of vegetative shoots upon or among the reproductive organs of a plant (as in the proliferous flower clusters of some agaves or the growth of bulblets in the flower cluster of an onion)",
": a candle lighted devotionally (as in a Roman Catholic church) before a shrine or image"
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"circa 1931, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-210739"
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"viewy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": possessing visionary, impractical, or fantastic views",
": spectacular or arresting in appearance : showy"
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"\u02c8vy\u00fc-\u0113"
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"first_known_use":[
"1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-215902"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a recording of a television production made by recording sound and video signals on magnetic tape"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-224019"
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"vigintennial":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun"
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"definitions":[
": vigentennial"
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"\u00a6v\u012bjin\u2027\u00a6ten\u0113\u0259l"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin viginti twenty + English -ennial (as in centennial )"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-234800"
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"Vindhya Mountains":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
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"definitions":[
"mountain range in north central India north of and parallel to the Narmada River"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vin-dy\u0259",
"-d\u0113-\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-235257"
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"visceral loop":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a loop that is formed in most mollusks by the visceral ganglia with their commissure and the pleurovisceral connectives and that gives off branches to the gill, osphradium, parts of the mantle, and various viscera"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-003809"
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"vig":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": vigorish"
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"\u02c8vig"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These percentages eclipse 100 due to the vig , which is the cut a bookmaker takes for facilitating bets. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The market strongly endorsed under 7 wins, as judged by a vig as high as -140. \u2014 Christopher Smith, al , 19 Oct. 2021",
"The vig is the financial magic that powers sportsbooks. \u2014 Christopher Smith, al , 1 Sep. 2021",
"These percentages eclipse 100% due to the vig , which is the cut a bookmaker takes for facilitating your bet. \u2014 Alex Kay, Forbes , 24 June 2021",
"In other words, the U.S., frustrated by Chinese behavior, has stooped to Chinese tactics, dictating without due process how businesses should operate\u2014shamefully and inexplicably asking for a vig in the process. \u2014 Adam Lashinsky, Fortune , 28 Aug. 2020",
"Trust me, BetMGM factored in the Heats\u2019 O/U record when making their total and still have extra vig on the Under. \u2014 Geoff Clark, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire , 20 Dec. 2019",
"Odds last updated at 9 a.m. ET. Prediction Nuggets 131, Pelicans 109 The Nuggets (-182) are fairly heavy favorites on the road. Instead of laying the larger vig here, look to the line instead, which is a much better value. \u2014 Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire , 31 Oct. 2019",
"In sports betting, the vigorish, or vig , is typically -110 for spread and total bets. \u2014 Christopher Smith, al , 17 Sep. 2019"
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"first_known_use":[
"1968, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-012410"
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"video signal":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": picture signal"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-014653"
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"video arcade":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a place with many video games"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-015326"
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"view halloo":{
"type":[
"interjection"
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"definitions":[
"Definition of view halloo \u2014 used in fox hunting on seeing a fox break cover"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccvy\u00fc-h\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fc"
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"first_known_use":[
"1764, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-024013"
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"Vienna coup":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a squeeze in bridge or whist that is introduced by the cashing of a winning card that establishes an opponent's card"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-033123"
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"viewfinder":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a device on a camera for showing the area of the subject to be included in the picture",
": a device on a camera that shows the view to be included in the picture"
],
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"\u02c8vy\u00fc-\u02ccf\u012bn-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8vy\u00fc-\u02ccf\u012bn-d\u0259r"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a result, his viewfinder has narrowed in this book, from the whole world to the U.S. \u2014or, rather, to what a fraction of Americans talk about online. \u2014 Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker , 25 May 2022",
"Chow framed Leander in his viewfinder and waited for someone to enter the frame opposite her. \u2014 Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic , 27 Mar. 2022",
"For moving objects, for example, use a higher shutter speed to make sure the subject is sharp, then tweak the aperture and ISO until your viewfinder shows a scene that\u2019s not too light and not too dark. \u2014 Kaelyn Lynch, Outside Online , 28 May 2020",
"Place the screen right in front of your eyes and try to use the live footage as a viewfinder . \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Position the viewfinder over a document and tap the scan text button. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 23 Dec. 2021",
"The function button has moved from the front to the top, the rear screen now sits flush and, more strangely, the viewfinder surround breaks the traditionally straight line of the top plate. \u2014 Charlie Thomas, Robb Report , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Imagine spending much of your day bent over lab equipment, focusing your eye intently into a small viewfinder . \u2014 Morris Panner, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Narrowing my choices down to 21 images is always tough, but here is a nice variety of photos from my 2021 viewfinder . \u2014 David Petkiewicz, cleveland , 31 Dec. 2021"
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"first_known_use":[
"1883, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-040753"
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"visceripericardial":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or constituting the body cavity of a cephalopod mollusk that is incompletely divided into an upper cavity containing the heart and a lower one containing the viscera"
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"\u00a6vis\u0259r\u0259+"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"viscer- + pericardial"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-041922"
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"Vida":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"Marco Girolamo circa 1490\u20131566 Italian poet"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0113-d\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-051044"
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"via crucis":{
"type":[
"Latin noun phrase"
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"definitions":[
": Way of the Cross : path of suffering"
],
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"w\u0113-\u00e4-\u02c8kr\u00fc-sis"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-062440"
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"vility":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": vileness , baseness",
": lowness of estate or value"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vil\u0259t\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English vilite , from Middle French vilit\u00e9 , from Latin vilitat-, vilitas cheapness, baseness, vileness, from vilis cheap, base, vile + -itat-, -itas -ity"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-071438"
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"vide":{
"type":[
"imperative verb"
],
"definitions":[
": see"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u012b-d\u0113",
"\u02c8v\u0113-\u02ccd\u0101"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin, from vid\u0113re to see \u2014 more at wit"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1552, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-081608"
},
"Vigna":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a genus of vines or erect herbs (family Leguminosae) found in warm or tropical regions and having trifoliolate leaves, yellowish or purplish flowers with an eared vexillum, and a linear and 2-valved pod \u2014 see cowpea"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vign\u0259"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, after Domenico Vigna \u20201647 Italian botanist"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-091938"
},
"vive le roi":{
"type":[
"French phrase"
],
"definitions":[
": long live the king"
],
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0113v-l\u0259-rw\u00e4"
],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-095939"
},
"village":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town",
": an incorporated minor municipality",
": the residents of a village",
": something (such as an aggregation of burrows or nests) suggesting a village",
": a territorial area having the status of a village especially as a unit of local government",
": a place where people live that is usually smaller than a town",
": the people living in a village"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vi-lij",
"\u02c8vi-lij"
],
"synonyms":[
"bourg",
"hamlet",
"townlet",
"vill",
"whistle-stop"
],
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"examples":[
"Entire villages come to see the parade.",
"we stayed in a charming bed-and-breakfast in a lakeside village",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The penultimate stage is an exciting 41-kilometer (25-mile) time trial to the clifftop village of Rocamadour in south-central France. \u2014 Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
"Dogs can walk around the village and it is suggested to ask at each store if dogs can go inside. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 29 June 2022",
"Niles voters overwhelmingly approved a non-binding referendum in the June 28th primary election authorizing the village to move ahead with major improvements to Golf Mill Shopping Center. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"The New Richmond Village Council voted Tuesday night to give owner Joe Brumley 90 days to remove the historic vessel from the village 's riverfront on the Ohio River. \u2014 Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer , 29 June 2022",
"Village by village , more of the strategically important Kherson region is returning to Ukrainian control \u2014 another sign that Russia\u2019s forces might be overextended with a front line that stretches about 300 miles. \u2014 Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"Toorak said getting her car to the village will require a barge shipment across the Arctic Ocean, adding more than $4,500. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
"The village of Ontario, for example, was working with Alliant Energy to gradually replace streetlights with LED bulbs, and took the recommendation of those working on securing the dark sky park to opt for warmer lights that point down. \u2014 Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel , 28 June 2022",
"The property fronts the river outside the village of Cape Vincent, in the Thousand Islands region, where the St. Lawrence separates the U.S. and Canada. \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 28 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from Anglo-French vilage , from vil manorial estate, farmstead, from Latin villa"
],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-100125"
},
"viatical settlement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an agreement by which the owner of a life insurance policy that covers a person (such as the owner) who has a catastrophic or life-threatening illness receives compensation for less than the expected death benefit of the policy in return for a turning over (as by sale or bequest) of the death benefit or ownership of the policy to the other party (such as a company specializing in such transfers)",
": an agreement by which the owner of a life insurance policy that covers a person (as the owner) who has a catastrophic or life-threatening illness receives compensation for less than the expected death benefit of the policy in return for a turning over (as by sale or bequest) of the death benefit or ownership of the policy to the other party (as a company specializing in such transactions)",
": an agreement by which the owner of a life insurance policy covering a person (as the owner) with a catastrophic or life-threatening illness receives compensation for less than the expected death benefit of the policy in return for an assignment, transfer, sale, devise, or bequest of the death benefit or ownership of the policy to the other party (as a company specializing in such transactions)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"v\u012b-\u02c8a-ti-k\u0259l-",
"-\u02c8set-\u1d4al-m\u0259nt",
"v\u012b-\u02c8a-ti-k\u0259l-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"probably from viaticum"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1991, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-112639"
},
"viscolize":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": homogenize"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8visk\u0259\u02ccl\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"back-formation from Viscolizer"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-112740"
},
"vita-glass":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": glass that does not obstruct ultraviolet rays"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u012b-t\u0259-\u02ccglas"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-113359"
},
"Viverra":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a genus (the type of the family Viverridae ) of civets comprising the common large civet ( V. zibetha ) of India and southeastern Asia"
],
"pronounciation":[
"v\u012b\u02c8ver\u0259",
"v\u0259\u0307\u02c8v-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from Latin, ferret; akin to Old English \u0101c weorna squirrel, Old High German eihh urno , eihh orno , Old Norse \u012bk orni , Lithuanian vaiver\u0117\u0303, vover\u0117\u0303 squirrel, vaiver\u00ecs male polecat, male marten, Czech vaverka squirrel"
": a widely distributed genus (the type of the cosmopolitan family Viviparidae of the suborder Taenioglossa) of freshwater snails that have a turbinate operculate shell which is usually greenish and more or less banded with brown and that are born alive and with a well-developed shell":[]
": a small Cuban freshwater food fish ( Parapetenia tetracantha ) of the family Cichlidae":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"vy\u0259\u02c8h\u00e4k\u0259"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"American Spanish (Cuba) viajaca, biajaca , modification of Carib diahaca":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111421"
},
"vin du pays":{
"type":[
"French noun phrase"
],
"definitions":{
": wine of the locality : wine slightly higher in quality than table wine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"va\u207f-d\u1d6b-p\u0101-\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111537"
},
"viscerate":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": eviscerate":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8vis\u0259\u02ccr\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"by alteration":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112925"
},
"viridescent":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": slightly green : greenish":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccvir-\u0259-\u02c8de-s\u1d4ant"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Plant ownership is a commitment that requires regular watering, plenty of sunlight, and based on some schools of thought, even talking to our viridescent friends. \u2014 refinery29.com , 1 May 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin viridis green":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1847, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113123"
},
"virility":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being virile :":[],
": manhood sense 3":[],
": manly vigor : masculinity":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"British also v\u012b-",
"v\u0259-\u02c8ri-l\u0259-t\u0113",
"v\u0259-\u02c8ril-\u0259t-\u0113, British also v\u012b-"
],
"synonyms":[
"machismo",
"macho",
"manhood",
"manliness",
"masculinity"
],
"antonyms":[
"femininity",
"muliebrity",
"womanhood",
"womanliness"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"many cultures value virility as a sign of power",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For men, success in business is instinctively taken to reinforce their manhood, their virility . \u2014 Liz Elting, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Those same mice returned to normal levels of virility four to six weeks after treatments ended. \u2014 Andrew Marquardt, Fortune , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The new pill created by a team at the University of Minnesota blocks proteins from binding to vitamin A, which is known to be crucial to fertility and virility in mammals, per Gizmodo\u2019s Ed Cara. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Mar. 2022",
"When the treatments were stopped, the mice returned to normal levels of virility within four to six weeks. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Savagery was just a nuance away from virility , after all. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Mar. 2022",
"There is much theater to this trade, as reflected in Putin's fiery speeches and the public portrayal of his virility , the absolute subordination of Russia's most senior officials and the country's feeding a mystique of overwhelming military power. \u2014 Douglas London, CNN , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Older, conservative men believe that walking beneath women\u2019s underwear [on a washing line, for example] robs you of your virility . \u2014 Nick Holdsworth, Variety , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Does this, perhaps, come down to gender stereotypes and the fetishisation of virility within masculinity? \u2014 Zoe Beaty, refinery29.com , 31 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1586, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114023"
},
"vidette":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mounted sentinel stationed in advance of pickets":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115630"
},
"viaticum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the Christian Eucharist given to a person in danger of death":[],
": an allowance (as of transportation or supplies and money) for traveling expenses":[],
": provisions for a journey":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"v\u0113-",
"v\u012b-\u02c8a-ti-k\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin \u2014 more at voyage":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1562, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120123"
},
"viga":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one of the heavy rafters and especially a log supporting the roof in American Indian and Spanish architecture of the Southwest":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8v\u0113-g\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Built in 1927, this three-bed, three-bath home has a gorgeous interior with hardwood floors and viga , or wooden beam, ceilings to complement the beige walls. \u2014 Alex Bazeley, Curbed , 15 Aug. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Spanish, beam, rafter":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1844, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124733"
},
"video recording":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a motion picture of a television production made by photographing the kinescope tube":[],
": video tape recording":[]
},
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"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124735"
},
"Victoriaville":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"town in southern Quebec, Canada population 43,462":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"vik-\u02c8t\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccvil"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125223"
},
"victorine":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a woman's fur tippet with long ends":[],
": a canon regular of the Order of St. Victor founded in Paris in 1110, widespread during the medieval period, famous for its learning, and extinct since the French Revolution":[]
},
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"\u00a6vikt\u0259\u00a6r\u0113n"
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": a painfully difficult route, passage, or series of experiences":[
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"\u2014 Herbert Read"
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"-\u02ccd\u00e4l\u0259\u02c8r\u014ds\u0259",
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"from Via Dolorosa (from Latin, literally, sorrowful road), Jesus' route from Pilate's judgment hall to Golgotha to be crucified":""
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"1880, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Nearly 19 million watched the first prime-time hearing through major broadcast channels on June 9 \u2014 a viewership roughly on par with Sunday Night Football \u2014 while about 11 million watched the first daytime hearing last week. \u2014 Josh Dawsey, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"The business strategy, which was described by people familiar with Licht\u2019s thinking, could bolster CNN at a time when viewership has fallen. \u2014 Gerry Smith, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
"While these might not move the viewership needle like an NFL Sunday, there\u2019s still action to bet on and value to be had. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 18 June 2022",
"The figure did not include viewership on PBS due to PBS data delivery timing. \u2014 City News Service, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"It was adapted into a popular anime shortly after, receiving a bump in American viewership following its Netflix debut. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 14 June 2022",
"Fox's actual hearing coverage was relegated to the Fox Business Network, which has a tiny fraction of the main channel's viewership . \u2014 Brian Stelter, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"Live news coverage will be left to Fox Business, a sister network with much smaller viewership . \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"But everywhere other than Fox News, which dominates cable news, viewership has been declining. \u2014 James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1952, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133539"
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"definitions":{
": an alkaloid C 46 H 56 N 4 O 10 from the rosy periwinkle used especially in the form of its sulfate to treat some human neoplastic diseases (such as acute leukemia)":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)vin-\u02c8kris-\u02cct\u0113n",
"(\u02cc)vin-\u02c8kri-\u02ccst\u0113n"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Medications like chemotherapy drugs vincristine (Marqibo), paclitaxel (Abraxane) can also exacerbate symptoms, the Mayo Clinic says. \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 28 Sep. 2021",
"The average sales price for a vial of vincristine is about $5, according to the Children\u2019s Oncology Group letter. \u2014 Todd Ackerman, ExpressNews.com , 25 Oct. 2019",
"Until earlier this year, there were two suppliers of vincristine : Pfizer and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. \u2014 Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times , 14 Oct. 2019",
"In the case of vincristine , for example, the medication was only made by two companies. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Nov. 2019",
"The Food and Drug Administration, whose website lists vincristine as currently in shortage, says deliveries should resume later this month. \u2014 Todd Ackerman, ExpressNews.com , 25 Oct. 2019",
"When treated with carboplatin and vincristine , the two chemotherapy drugs Zahler had recommended, 70 percent of patients saw their tumors shrink or stabilize, the doctor said. \u2014 Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com , 13 May 2018"
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"vin ca + Latin crista crest + English -ine entry 2 \u2014 more at crest":""
": a member of the peerage in Great Britain ranking below an earl and above a baron":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Those who read and love the book series know that the viscount and viscountess have three kids. \u2014 Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The show\u2019s second season centers on Lord Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey), a viscount and the eldest son of the Bridgerton family. \u2014 Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR , 1 Apr. 2022",
"One thing is for certain though: Jonathan Bailey, who plays Anthony, and Simone Ashley, who plays Kate Sharma, will officially be returning as the viscount and the new viscountess to head the Bridgerton household. \u2014 Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping , 2 Apr. 2022",
"At long last, the viscount has found his viscountess. \u2014 Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Much of the plot in season two revolved around Jonathan Bailey\u2019s character, Anthony Bridgerton, coming into his role as viscount and head of the household. \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 31 Mar. 2022",
"This season observes the mating rites of Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), the eldest Bridgerton sibling and a viscount . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Her father's a viscount and her mother was a French opera dancer. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Luke Evans Plays Charles His Character: A wealthy playboy viscount who befriends Audrey and invites the Spitzes to join him on his uncle's yacht in Monaco for the weekend. \u2014 Andrea Reiher, refinery29.com , 3 June 2019"
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"Middle English viscounte sheriff, viscount, from Anglo-French visquens, visconte , from Medieval Latin vicecomit-, vicecomes , from Late Latin vice- vice- + comit-, comes count \u2014 more at count":""
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": one that provisions an army, a navy, or a ship with food":[],
": the keeper of a restaurant or tavern":[],
": an army or navy provision ship":[]
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"\u02c8vi-t\u1d4al-\u0259r"
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"1514, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140111"
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"noun"
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": \u00e9lan vital":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1702, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140404"
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"type":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"July 1980 Minitel, a videotex online service offered by France Telecom, is tested with 55 residential and business telephone customers. \u2014 Gil Press, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
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"video entry 2 + -tex (alteration of text )":""
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"1977, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140646"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccv\u012b-\u02ccjin-\u02c8til-y\u0259n"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Physics theories suggest that sometime between 10^34 (1 decillion) and 10^64 (1 vigintillion ) years from now, the protons found in the nuclei of all atoms will decay. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Dec. 2017"
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"Latin viginti twenty + English -illion (as in million ) \u2014 more at vigesimal":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-141127"
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"viscacha":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of several South American burrowing rodents (genera Lagostomus and Lagidium ) closely related to the chinchilla":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And a small South American rodent called the red viscacha has a whopping 104. \u2014 Ryan Cross, Science | AAAS , 23 June 2017"
