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46 lines
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"taffy":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a boiled candy usually of sugar, molasses or corn syrup, butter, and often vinegar and vanilla that is pulled until porous and glossy":[],
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": insincere flattery":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"the magazine's profiles of showbiz celebrities tend to be pure taffy",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Tootsie Roll still thrives selling its chocolate taffy candy 115 years after its 1907 debut. \u2014 Gregg Opelka, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
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"Sagittarius A* is stretching some nearby celestial objects like taffy , as black holes are wont to do, but those objects are hundreds of times bigger than models predict. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 12 May 2022",
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"Among naked-rat nobles, the blood-filtering organ, which houses, nurtures, and manufactures a menagerie of immune cells, tends to be quite buxom and elongated, as if pulled lengthwise like taffy . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"At last night\u2019s Grammy awards, best progressive R&B album nominee Eric Bellinger skipped a shirt beneath his taffy green suit. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 4 Apr. 2022",
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"Now, envision connective tissue as a combination of duct tape and taffy that can be stretched, but not easily. \u2014 Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal , 17 Feb. 2022",
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"This season, a new exhibit will celebrate Carnival food, including food trucks, mystic society dinners and the MoonPies, taffy , ramen noodles, peanuts and other food often thrown from floats. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Jan. 2022",
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"Unlike many smaller Oregon coast towns that are confined to a single strip or a few restaurants, Seaside is chock-full of storefronts where visitors can buy beach clothes, taffy , smoked salmon or a bite to eat. \u2014 oregonlive , 30 Jan. 2022",
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"The other features funnel cake mix, popcorn, taffy , honey sticks, deep-fried Oreo mix and a souvenir mug. \u2014 Rick Nelson, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1817, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"origin unknown":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ta-f\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"adulation",
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"blarney",
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"butter",
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"flannel",
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"flattery",
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"incense",
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"overpraise",
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"soft soap",
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"sweet talk"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215715",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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}
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