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"Elsewhere, European stocks and prices on peripheral government bonds in the eurozone jumped after the ECB held an ad hoc meeting Wednesday to discuss turbulence in the region\u2019s bond markets. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"Though debt service costs remain contained for now, rising borrowing costs for indebted governments threatened the eurozone with a breakup in the early part of the last decade. \u2014 Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"Inflation in the eurozone is running at 8.1% with no sign of slowing, but give the European Central Bank credit for obstinacy. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"In the eurozone , where inflation is at 5.8 percent, the European Central Bank has moved one step closer to increasing its interest rates for the first time in a decade. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022"
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"The government won\u2019t backtrack on its plans for sizable increases in taxes on fuel; the tax on diesel will rise more than six euro cents a liter (about 26 U.S. cents a gallon) starting Jan. 1. \u2014 Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ , 27 Nov. 2018",
"Deutsche Bank lost 735 million euros ($903 million) last year and declared a small dividend of 11 euro cents per share. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2018",
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"During the last 34 million years, the fossils slowly absorbed yttrium, europium , terbium, and dysprosium from the fluid trapped in the mud. \u2014 Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American , 21 Sep. 2020",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-200044"
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"New Latin, from Eurypterus , included genus (from eury- + -pterus ) + -ida":""
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"type":[
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": an order or other division of Ophiuroidea comprising the basket stars and related forms with the arms dichotomously branched and capable of acting as tentacles":[]
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"\u02ccyu\u0307r\u0113\u02c8al\u0259d\u0259"
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": a gray wolf ( Canis lupus lupus ) of Europe and Asia":[
"Spain's environmentalists are waging an uphill battle to protect the European wolf from extinction in a country where fear of the beast runs deep.",
"\u2014 International Wildlife , January/February 1986"
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": a widely distributed genus of basket stars":[]
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"-(\u02cc)l\u0113"
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"New Latin, from Greek Euryal\u0113 , one of the Gorgons":""
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"type":[
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": any of a class of amino-substituted phenazine dyes (such as neutral red)":[]
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"-d\u1d4an",
"y\u0259\u02c8r\u014d\u02ccd\u0113n"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary eu- + rhod- (from Greek rhodon rose) + -ine ; originally formed as German eurhodin":""
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"noun"
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": a European geometrid moth ( Operophtera brumata ) introduced in parts of Nova Scotia and having a looper larva very destructive as a defoliator of fruit and other deciduous trees":[]
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": a wildcat ( Felis silvestris silvestris ) of chiefly forested regions of Europe that has a thick gray to brown black-striped coat and is typically active during the day":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-225045"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a birch ( Betula pendula ) with slender pendulous branches and white peeling bark that is often confused with a white birch ( B. alba )":[]
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": puce":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-004431"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a sawfly ( Cephus pygmaeus ) native to Europe but now widespread in grain-growing areas that has larvae which bore in the stalks of growing wheat and other small grains":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-011007"
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"noun"
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": a moment of sudden, triumphant discovery, inspiration, or insight":[
"\u2026 he would later tell, over and over, the story of how the idea for the collection came to him\u2014the Eureka moment \u2014improving it with each rendition.",
"\u2014 Donald Dale Jackson , Smithsonian , October 1988",
"Then one day, listening to a Communist fulminator in Pioneer Square, he'd had a eureka moment in which he realized that the way to get ahead in his new country was to exploit some labor himself.",
"\u2014 Jonathan Franzen , Freedom , 2010"
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"first_known_use":{
"1920, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-013112"
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"noun"
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": english walnut":[]
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"adjective",
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"interjection"
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"city and port on Humboldt Bay in northwestern California population 27,191":[],
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": I have found (it)":[
"\u2014 motto of California"
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},
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"yu\u0307-\u02c8r\u0113-k\u0259",
"yu\u0307-\u02c8r\u0113-k\u00e4"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Standing in the living room of a tiny Tempe apartment is kind of a weird place to have a eureka moment. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 24 Nov. 2021",
"In 2014, siblings Yasameen and Sheilla Sajady had a eureka moment at the family lunch table. \u2014 Nicole Hvidsten, Star Tribune , 7 May 2021",
"The eureka moment for negotiators working to keep Sherwin-Williams\u2019 headquarters in Cleveland came nearly two months ago, Mayor Frank Jackson disclosed this week. \u2014 Robert Higgs, cleveland , 21 Feb. 2020",
"That eureka moment of mine with 5G in Providence came while using Verizon's network. \u2014 Aaron Pressman, Fortune , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Joan Smalls\u2019s decorating eureka moment came at a fashionable dinner party. \u2014 Marc Karimzadeh, ELLE Decor , 8 Aug. 2019",
"That juxtaposition sparked Eheart\u2019s eureka moment: build communities where foster families and older adults live together, helping each other. \u2014 Abigail Jones, Newsweek , 24 Sep. 2014",
"Driving between his properties in Zambia back in 2010, Green Safaris\u2019 founder Vincent Kouwenhoven\u2019s eureka moment came when switching off his Land Rover to watch a pack of lions. \u2014 Lee Middleton, Quartz Africa , 14 June 2019",
"Lacking those eureka bursts, Upheaval settles into story time. \u2014 Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic , 11 June 2019"
],
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"Greek heur\u0113ka I have found, from heuriskein to find; from the exclamation attributed to Archimedes on discovering a method for determining the purity of gold \u2014 more at heuristic":"Interjection"
},
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"1603, in the meaning defined above":"Interjection",
"1948, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-030345"
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"\u2014 motto of California"
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},
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"yu\u0307-\u02c8r\u0113-k\u0259",
"yu\u0307-\u02c8r\u0113-k\u00e4"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Standing in the living room of a tiny Tempe apartment is kind of a weird place to have a eureka moment. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 24 Nov. 2021",
"In 2014, siblings Yasameen and Sheilla Sajady had a eureka moment at the family lunch table. \u2014 Nicole Hvidsten, Star Tribune , 7 May 2021",
"The eureka moment for negotiators working to keep Sherwin-Williams\u2019 headquarters in Cleveland came nearly two months ago, Mayor Frank Jackson disclosed this week. \u2014 Robert Higgs, cleveland , 21 Feb. 2020",
"That eureka moment of mine with 5G in Providence came while using Verizon's network. \u2014 Aaron Pressman, Fortune , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Joan Smalls\u2019s decorating eureka moment came at a fashionable dinner party. \u2014 Marc Karimzadeh, ELLE Decor , 8 Aug. 2019",
"That juxtaposition sparked Eheart\u2019s eureka moment: build communities where foster families and older adults live together, helping each other. \u2014 Abigail Jones, Newsweek , 24 Sep. 2014",
"Driving between his properties in Zambia back in 2010, Green Safaris\u2019 founder Vincent Kouwenhoven\u2019s eureka moment came when switching off his Land Rover to watch a pack of lions. \u2014 Lee Middleton, Quartz Africa , 14 June 2019",
"Lacking those eureka bursts, Upheaval settles into story time. \u2014 Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic , 11 June 2019"
],
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"Greek heur\u0113ka I have found, from heuriskein to find; from the exclamation attributed to Archimedes on discovering a method for determining the purity of gold \u2014 more at heuristic":"Interjection"
},
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"1603, in the meaning defined above":"Interjection",
"1948, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-030605"
},
"Eure":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"river 140 miles (225 kilometers) long in northwestern France flowing north into the Seine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u0259r",
"\u02c8\u0153r"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-033132"
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"pronounciation":[
"(\u00a6)yu\u0307r",
"y\u0259r+"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Eurasia , Europe and Asia as one continent, after Asia: English Asiatic":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-033645"
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"Eurasian collared dove":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": collared dove sense 1":[
"In fact, an invasive dove called the Eurasian collared dove is flourishing in many urban areas, and they may be attracting Cooper's hawks.",
"\u2014 Gary Clark , Houston Chronicle , 21 June 2008",
"In your backyard this winter, you might be sheltering invaders, Eurasian collared-doves , whose ancestors escaped during a Bahamian pet shop burglary in the 1970s and flew on to colonize much of North America.",
"\u2014 Nancy J. White , Toronto Star , 15 Feb. 2013"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1987, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-033724"
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"noun"
],
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},
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"y\u0259r-",
"-sh\u0259n",
"yu\u0307r-\u02c8\u0101-zh\u0259n"
],
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"examples":[
"a Eurasian species of bird"
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"first_known_use":{
"1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-035218"
},
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"landmass of Asia and Europe":[
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