": an Indian people of the Blackfoot confederacy":[],
": the language of the Piegan people":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"p\u0113\u02c8gan"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095453",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1911, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193931",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun phrase"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-081842",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
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": intoxicated sense 1":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u012b-\u02cc\u012bd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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},
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u012b-\u02ccf\u0101st"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204517",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"homogeneous"
],
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": composed of incongruous parts":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"a model who owes his striking good looks to his markedly piebald ethnic background",
"a piebald horse that looked like it had been splashed with black and white paint",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The piebald genetic abnormality can create defects \u2014 three of this family\u2019s deer becoming deaf. \u2014 Brian Whipkey, USA TODAY , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Rare ' piebald ' deer known for unusual markings find home with Pennsylvania family as pets. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Still, the current piebald has managed to survive and thrive. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 16 Nov. 2021",
"On this episode, a rare piebald squirrel has been spotted in Alabama at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. \u2014 al , 17 Nov. 2021",
"There\u2019s also Aurelio, a bachelor whose piebald soul mate, Birba, with her renowned nose for truffles, is his greatest joy. \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 4 Mar. 2021",
"To commemorate Napoleon\u2019s victory over Austria at the Battle of Marengo, David painted him charging up a mountain on a piebald steed, right arm pointing skyward, trademark bicorne on his head, cool and cocksure as his horse bucks its front heels. \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 12 Feb. 2020",
"Dear Readers: Meet Melania and dachshund Duke. Cheryl G. in San Antonio just adopted Melania, a 4-month-old, five-pound half piebald dachshund and half Chihuahua, from a dachshund rescue group after Melania\u2019s previous owner passed. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Sep. 2019",
"His foxes also showed physical changes, like piebald coats and floppy ears \u2014 characteristics shared by dogs, cows and other domesticated animals. \u2014 James Gorman, New York Times , 3 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1722, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u02ccb\u022fld"
],
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"assorted",
"eclectic",
"heterogeneous",
"indiscriminate",
"kitchen-sink",
"magpie",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"motley",
"patchwork",
"promiscuous",
"raggle-taggle",
"ragtag",
"varied"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232214",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"piece":{
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"assemble",
"build",
"confect",
"construct",
"erect",
"fabricate",
"make",
"make up",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
],
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": a part of a whole: such as":[],
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": a standard quantity (as of length, weight, or size) in which something is made or sold":[],
": a usually unspecified distance":[
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],
": alike , consistent":[],
": an act of copulation":[],
": an object or individual regarded as a unit of a kind or class":[
"a piece of fruit"
],
": any of the individual members comprising a unit":[
"\u2014 often used in combination a five- piece band a three- piece suit"
],
": firearm":[],
": fragment":[
"pieces of broken glass"
],
": instance , example":[
"silly piece of nonsense",
"a nice piece of acting"
],
": opinion , view":[
"spoke his piece"
],
": out of control":[
"went to pieces from shock"
],
": portion , allocation":[
"a piece of the jackpot"
],
": the female partner in sexual intercourse":[],
": to join into a whole":[
"\u2014 often used with together his new book \u2026 has been pieced together from talks \u2014 Merle Miller"
],
": to repair, renew, or complete by adding pieces : patch":[],
": without reserve or restraint : completely":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Divide the pie into six equal pieces .",
"The cheese was cut into small pieces and arranged on a silver platter.",
"You have a piece of lettuce stuck between your teeth.",
"Her broken bicycle lay in pieces by the side of the road.",
"I watched her rip the letter to pieces and throw it away.",
"There are 12 pieces in this stainless steel knife set.",
"a jigsaw puzzle with 500 pieces",
"We're missing one piece of the puzzle.",
"I took apart the engine piece by piece and put it back together again.",
"Verb",
"you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Mazzoli created a lush score that was alternately sweeping or intimate, sensuous or mystical, yet with a distinctive sound that was her own weaving a thread through the piece . \u2014 Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com , 19 July 2017",
"This is why the war stories of Tom Clancy are such convincing and moving pieces of fiction. \u2014 Janine Barchas, Washington Post , 18 July 2017",
"Saturday evening, the British Broadcasting Corporation posted a piece about the ancient cypress forest discovered sixty feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, attracting the international attention. \u2014 Ben Raines, AL.com , 17 July 2017",
"After cutting your lemon (or lime) in half, cut a small piece of skin off of the other side. \u2014 Carly Breit, Country Living , 14 July 2017",
"The public offers a piece of its mind Mic's Celeste Katz discloses that Trump's controversial voter fraud panel won't let the public speak at its first meeting on July 19 but did solicit emails. \u2014 The Hive , 14 July 2017",
"Alan Jacobs, a professor at Baylor University, has written eloquently about that last piece . \u2014 Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic , 14 July 2017",
"For those not in the know, Polar Pizza involves a double fudge brownie crust and mint chocolate chip ice cream topped with Oreo cookie pieces . \u2014 Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine , 14 July 2017",
"His beautiful portrait of Ken Moody, one of an edition of ten, was on sale for \u00a325,000 ($31,650), about five times the price of one of Ms Yass\u2019s pieces . \u2014 The Economist , 13 July 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As far as the investigation, police utilized resident doorbell camera footage to piece together the events surrounding the shooting, as well as tips -- some of which were anonymous -- pointing to the suspect. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
"Other accounts attempt to piece together the love interests who\u2019ve inspired Taylor Swift songs, while other creators purport to deconstruct whether or not Swift ever had a romantic relationship with supermodel Karlie Kloss. \u2014 Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The European Union's executive arm, the European Commission, is trying to piece together its sixth sanctions package against Russia, in response to the invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 11 May 2022",
"The game features a story that\u2019s enticingly cryptic, demanding players piece it together. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In recent days, residents have slowly started to piece together what transpired in their enclave, emerging from their basement shelters between artillery strikes. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Investigators will try to piece together the plane\u2019s final moments from images reviewing trajectory, altitude, the force of impact and air-traffic data. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In Take Out, food becomes the conduit for bigger conversations about history, immigration, identity, and how to piece all of those things together. \u2014 Bettina Makalintal, Bon App\u00e9tit , 28 Jan. 2022",
"And from there, anyone can sort of piece it together as to what this is. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia , of Gaulish origin; akin to Welsh peth thing":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u0113s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for piece Noun part , portion , piece , member , division , section , segment , fragment mean something less than the whole. part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required. they ran only part of the way portion implies an assigned or allotted part. cut the pie into six portions piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole. a puzzle with 500 pieces member suggests one of the functional units composing a body. a structural member division applies to a large or diversified part. the manufacturing division of the company section applies to a relatively small or uniform part. the entertainment section of the newspaper segment applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage. the retired segment of the population fragment applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off. only a fragment of the play still exists",
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"bit",
"fraction",
"fragment",
"scrap"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201306",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"piece of eight":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an old Spanish peso of eight reales":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1610, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200132",
"type":[
"noun phrase"
]
},
"piefort":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of piefort variant spelling of piedfort"
],
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-231451",
"type":[]
},
"piehole":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": mouth sense 1a":[
"According to a study published in the October 1998 Journal of the American Dietetic Association, taste is the primary factor that motivates people's choices of what to stick in their pieholes .",
"\u2014 Steve Mirsky",
"I want to use precise clinical terminology to address that serious issue: Shut your piehole .",
"\u2014 Mark Rahner",
"Self-improvement lesson: If you shut your pie hole , you'll find some of the answers you're looking for. At the very least, you won't be so annoying.",
"\u2014 Rachel Sauer"
]
},
"examples":[
"\u201cShut your piehole or I'll shut it for you,\u201d the bully threatened",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Busch won the pole for the race and was the most combative driver in reaction to Keselowski\u2019s remarks about Toyotas, telling Keselowski through Twitter to shut his piehole (or an abbreviation to that effect). \u2014 Mike Hembree, USA TODAY , 17 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1983, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u02cch\u014dl"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"gob",
"kisser",
"mouth",
"mug",
"trap",
"yap"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191749",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pieing":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of pieing present participle of pi or of pie"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-173828",
"type":[]
},
"pieman":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a baker or cook who specializes in making pies":[],
": a pie vendor":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012bm\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082008",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piemarker":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an Indian mallow ( Abutilon theophrasti )":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"so called from the use of its pods for stamping pie crust":""
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124607",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pieplant":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": rhubarb sense 1":[
"Soon sweet dishes became rhubarb's primary destination in Britain and the U.S., leading to its nickname: pieplant .",
"\u2014 Joe Gray"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1838, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u012b-\u02ccplant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140413",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"piepoudre":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English pipoudre itinerant trader":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013527",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pieprint":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an Indian mallow ( Abutilon theophrasti )":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"so called from the use of its pods for stamping pie crust":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170858",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pier":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a structural mount (as for a telescope) usually of stonework, concrete, or steel":[],
": a structure (such as a breakwater) extending into navigable water for use as a landing place or promenade or to protect or form a harbor":[],
": a vertical member that supports the end of an arch or lintel":[],
": a vertical structural support: such as":[],
": an auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall":[],
": an intermediate support for the adjacent ends of two bridge spans":[],
": pillar , pilaster":[],
": the wall between two openings":[]
},
"examples":[
"tied the boat up at the pier",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On a sunny Friday morning in late May, instructor Gabby Bejarano talked about kettle ponds and oxbow lakes as a group of 10- to 14-year-olds ate lunch on the pier at Beach Lake in Chugiak. \u2014 Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"Surfers from up and down the East Coast compete in one of the best breaks Virginia Beach has to offer, but is normally off limits\u2014 The southside of the fishing pier . \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 21 May 2022",
"Two recent grants totaling more than $1.2 million will pay to build a new dock for visiting boaters and to plan the replacement and enlargement of the dilapidated fishing pier at the Oceanside Harbor. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Louisiana Doyline: Authorities have condemned and will remove a section of a Louisiana bridge used for nearly two decades as a fishing pier , officials said. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 21 Oct. 2021",
"In Mobile County, Alabama, someone reported storm damage to a fishing pier on Dauphin Island, Alabama, said Glen Brannan of the county Emergency Management Agency. \u2014 Time , 19 June 2021",
"Early Monday morning, Cyril Derreumaux will climb into his kayak and push off the wooden fishing pier at Fort Baker, cross the Golden Gate before sunrise and embark on a two-month wrestling match with the mighty Pacific. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 May 2021",
"The adjacent commercial fishing pier is mostly quiet, many of the local boat captains having accepted buyouts from the port builders or cash incentives to move elsewhere. \u2014 Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor , 3 June 2022",
"The pier had been family owned and operated since it was originally built in the 1950s. \u2014 al , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English per , from Old English, from Medieval Latin pera":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pir"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"levee",
"quai",
"quay",
"wharf"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085620",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pier arch":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051953",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pier buttress":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the pier that receives the thrust of a flying buttress":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183048",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pierage":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": wharfage":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"pier + -age":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pirij"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181625",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pierce":{
"antonyms":[
"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
],
"definitions":{
": to enter or thrust into sharply or painfully":[],
": to force a way into or through something":[],
": to force or make a way into or through":[],
": to make a hole through : perforate":[],
": to penetrate so as to move or touch the emotions of":[],
": to penetrate with the eye or mind : discern":[],
": to run into or through as a pointed weapon does : stab":[],
"Franklin 1804\u20131869 14th president of the U.S. (1853\u201357)":[]
},
"examples":[
"The needle pierced her skin.",
"The bullet pierced his lung.",
"The needle pierced into her skin.",
"The bullet pierced through his lung.",
"A scream pierced the silence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Only the novel\u2019s own eerie light can pierce it, with a voice as implacable as the weather itself; a voice like that of an unforgiving God. \u2014 Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2022",
"To uncover what lay beneath the forest canopy, Sieczkowska and scientists at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland and Peru\u2019s Ministry of Culture used drones outfitted with special lasers to pierce the foliage. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"In most of his videos, the internet chef starts off by throwing a knife down to pierce the counter. \u2014 Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Outsiders are finding creative ways to pierce Russia's veil of propaganda on war in Ukraine. \u2014 Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Anton Shirikov, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies Russian state propaganda, said trying to pierce the propaganda bubble can feel impossible. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The two camera lenses seem to pierce through the bump\u2019s material. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Sometimes shafts of divine light pierce the ceiling; other times, blazing hellfire flashes up through the floor. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Residents posted footage on social media showing streaks of light from missile defenses pierce the dark sky. \u2014 Isabel Debre, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English percen , from Anglo-French percer , from Vulgar Latin *pertusiare , from Latin pertusus , past participle of pertundere to perforate, from per- through + tundere to beat \u2014 more at per- , contusion":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pirs"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pierce enter , penetrate , pierce , probe mean to make way into something. enter is the most general of these and may imply either going in or forcing a way in. entered the city in triumph penetrate carries a strong implication of an impelling force or compelling power that achieves entrance. the enemy penetrated the fortress pierce means an entering or cutting through with a sharp pointed instrument. pierced the boil with a lancet probe implies penetration to investigate or explore something hidden from sight or knowledge. probed the depths of the sea",
"synonyms":[
"access",
"enter",
"penetrate"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205457",
"type":[
"biographical name",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"piercing":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a piece of jewelry (such as a ring or stud) that is attached to pierced flesh":[],
": cutting , incisive":[
"piercing sarcasm"
],
": loud , shrill":[
"piercing cries"
],
": penetrating : such as":[],
": penetratingly cold : biting":[
"a piercing wind"
],
": perceptive":[
"piercing eyes"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"She looked at me with piercing eyes, and I was suddenly frightened that she knew what I had done.",
"I tried to avoid his piercing stare.",
"She felt a piercing sadness when she heard the news.",
"Noun",
"There's a small shop in town where they do tattooing and body piercing .",
"She got another ear piercing .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"What follows is a piercing shriek to seal this lively break-up jam, fueled by a St. Vincent-like sense of playful assuredness. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 3 June 2022",
"The words had a piercing clarity in the silence dictated by tennis custom. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Mar. 2022",
"But an even more piercing moment came during a much quieter song. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Among the film\u2019s most piercing scenes are a couple of doozies set in the local watering hole, where Leslie gravitates to slake her thirst and to escape the judgment of her grudging hosts. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Buarque\u2019s eyes are more piercing , his chin slightly more pinched. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
"After all, only those on the highest level, able to navigate the most piercing pain, are singled out by God. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Sumy Sadurni, a prolific photojournalist who documented human rights struggles, political resistance and gender issues in East Africa through a piercing and intimate lens, died on March 7 in Kampala, Uganda. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Few filmmakers have cast an eye back over childhood joys and growing pains with more piercing intimacy and resonant emotional connection than Richard Linklater in his sui generis masterwork, Boyhood. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Kwon's piercing , flat groundstrokes and soft drop shots were effective for stretches. \u2014 Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"There are the voices of interview subjects \u2014 sensitive, piercing , anguished, hopeful \u2014 relating a generations-long fight for justice that goes to the core of American history and yet is barely discussed in classrooms. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
"But the piercing of the crypto bubble falls into the no-big-deal category of risks. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 20 May 2022",
"That's naturally going to happen because the piercing is a fresh wound. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 25 Apr. 2022",
"This dramatic piercing on the white continent oozes five stories high at the end of Taylor Glacier, where an ancient saltwater reservoir trapped beneath the glacier flows to the surface and into Lake Bonney. \u2014 Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online , 14 May 2022",
"Black Flag\u2019s piercing hardcore and Sabbathy sludge shared little with the Minutemen\u2019s springy, spiky punk-jazz fusion, the Meat Puppets\u2019 Dead-like excursions or H\u00fcsker D\u00fc\u2019s blend of pop savvy and stun guitar. \u2014 Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Like any piercing , there's always a possibility of infection or rejection. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Temperatures in mid-January fluctuated dramatically: down to the 40s at night, and into the 80s in the piercing midday sun. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Feb. 2022"
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"He was admired for his extreme piety .",
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"Liberals now must unmask, for politically salient and popular audiences, Alito\u2019s hollow pretense of originalist and textualist piety . \u2014 Simon Lazarus, The New Republic , 20 June 2022",
"Scholars would argue it\u2019s because the seemingly paradoxical values of the Catholic sisterhood\u2014power and piety , strength and femininity\u2014are as urgent and confusing now as ever. \u2014 ELLE , 3 June 2022",
"The specifics of the novena differ across parishes; the one at Our Lady of Grace includes prayers for attributes such as faith, hope, charity, piety , justice and fortitude. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
"In it, Oliver asks why people deprive themselves of pleasure, telling us instead to look to nature to free ourselves from piety : Our bad! \u2014 Annie Lord, Vogue , 24 Apr. 2022",
"And its clumsy, inert storytelling seems less interested in converting nonbelievers than in convincing us of Wahlberg\u2019s piety . \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
"On this week\u2019s show, Park discusses the late senator, his influence, his politics, his piety and his place in history. \u2014 David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Paying one\u2019s respects to the past, through memorialization of some kind, is an act of piety . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Mar. 2022",
"On Monday, members of the Taliban vice and virtue ministry stood outside government ministries, ordering male employees without traditional turbans and beards \u2014 seen as a symbol of piety \u2014 to go home. \u2014 Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pieces range from simple hair pins to ornamental combs with even-finer detailing, and shopkeepers will explain what hair type each piece best suits. \u2014 Cnt Editors, CNT , 12 Oct. 2017"
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"Adverb",
"remodeled their house piecemeal because of budgetary constraints",
"one well-aimed blow ripped the pi\u00f1ata piecemeal",
"Adjective",
"They've done piecemeal repairs in the past, but the bridge now needs major reconstruction.",
"Some people want the changes to be made all at once, but I think we should take a more piecemeal approach.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Those games all have to be squeezed into the schedule somewhere, and the Astros-Yankees games are being done piecemeal . \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 30 June 2022",
"Martin, the 47th Ward alderman, said the city\u2019s approach to bike safety has been piecemeal over the years. \u2014 Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"Historian Leslie Wilson hypothesizes that the vagueness of -teenth might be intentional, to symbolize the way liberty was experienced, piecemeal , on different days as the news spread. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 June 2022",
"When the widow ran into debt with the town and couldn't repay, her property, including more than a half dozen slaves, were seized and sold off piecemeal . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Higher earners also have the cash reserves and time flexibility to comparison shop for groceries or other goods, while average Angelenos have to buy essential goods such as toilet paper piecemeal and face the rising prices week by week. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"The alternative is a fragmented, piecemeal smart home and broadband plan. \u2014 Natasha Tamaskar, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Even eating it piecemeal , this was a five-napkin project. \u2014 al , 27 May 2022",
"Right now, such efforts are being conducted mostly piecemeal , often added to non-covid work that is already funded. \u2014 Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The tribal grants that are available are piecemeal and inconsistent, and the competitive nature of the process means that many tribes are left without funding. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 1 July 2022",
"An unlikely hit given its piecemeal arrangement, vocal effects and bird chirps. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Unprecedented rates of migration and piecemeal approaches to stemming the flow have manifested in large groups gathering at ports of entry like Del Rio, Texas. \u2014 Armando Garcia, ABC News , 11 June 2022",
"Authorities have given confusing, piecemeal and contradictory accounts of the attack. \u2014 Erik Ortiz, NBC News , 27 May 2022",
"Many of the achievements to emerge were piecemeal , such as announcements that more countries would join the First Movers Coalition, which aims to decarbonize the heavy industry and transport sectors. \u2014 Jamey Keaten, ajc , 26 May 2022",
"Contact tracing was difficult to implement; early lockdowns gave way to piecemeal restrictions that aimed to reduce the intensity of surges, not prevent them. \u2014 Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"After redirecting its forces to the east and southeast, the Russians appear to have rushed to mount piecemeal offensives, sometimes using troops that had been pushed back from Kyiv, instead of biding their time and mustering a large-scale force. \u2014 Stephen Fidler, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Still, the piecemeal nature of immunity against this virus is exactly why the world should feel motivated to keep building it up. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 4 May 2022"
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"region of northwestern Italy west of Lombardy that is almost entirely surrounded by mountains and borders on France and Switzerland; capital Turin population 4,363,916":[]
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"region of northwestern Italy west of Lombardy that is almost entirely surrounded by mountains and borders on France and Switzerland; capital Turin population 4,363,916":[]
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"gradually",
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"piecemeal"
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"worked out the solution piece by piece",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But it is only now being painstakingly taken apart piece by piece to discover its true nature and purpose. \u2014 Patrick Smith, NBC News , 16 June 2022",
"Now the debate has shifted to how Mr. Putin will do it: in one massive nationwide attack; a series of bites that dismantle the country, piece by piece ; or a pythonlike squeeze. \u2014 David E. Sanger, New York Times , 20 Feb. 2022",
"This is Mousganistan, the imaginary place that the distinctive image-maker has built piece by piece and brick by brick over the past few years. \u2014 Rica Cerbarano, Vogue , 6 June 2022",
"The large barn, believed to have been built shortly before the Civil War, is now being dismantled piece by piece by volunteers Brian Feron, Chet Simmons and Scott Benson. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
"The guns, often made by 3D printers or ordered piece by piece online in do-it-yourself style kits, lack serial numbers that would allow them to be registered and identified. \u2014 Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office laid out their monthslong, meticulous investigation, piece by piece . \u2014 CBS News , 2 Apr. 2022",
"And because paying interest on a loan is forbidden in Islam, the mosque had to be built piece by piece as the group collected enough money. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Bit by bit, piece by piece , tweet by tweet, the wagon to which the Democrats have hitched themselves is becoming a suicide machine. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 18 Mar. 2022"
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"Forced into the political wilderness, much of Siege feels like a relevance play\u2014Bannon using Wolff to cast himself as Trump\u2019s pied piper . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 6 June 2019",
"This had a pied piper effect \u2014 visitors curious about where the band might be headed naturally followed. \u2014 Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com , 31 Jan. 2018",
"The pied piper of St. Paul\u2019s baseball funhouse was cracking wise about the 20-year warranty on his new ceramic hip when a middle-aged couple in Saints gear interrupted the team\u2019s co-owner and founder to demand a bear hug. \u2014 Brian Murphy, Twin Cities , 18 May 2017"
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"Noun",
"Divide the pie into six equal pieces .",
"The cheese was cut into small pieces and arranged on a silver platter.",
"You have a piece of lettuce stuck between your teeth.",
"Her broken bicycle lay in pieces by the side of the road.",
"I watched her rip the letter to pieces and throw it away.",
"There are 12 pieces in this stainless steel knife set.",
"a jigsaw puzzle with 500 pieces",
"We're missing one piece of the puzzle.",
"I took apart the engine piece by piece and put it back together again.",
"Verb",
"you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Mazzoli created a lush score that was alternately sweeping or intimate, sensuous or mystical, yet with a distinctive sound that was her own weaving a thread through the piece . \u2014 Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com , 19 July 2017",
"This is why the war stories of Tom Clancy are such convincing and moving pieces of fiction. \u2014 Janine Barchas, Washington Post , 18 July 2017",
"Saturday evening, the British Broadcasting Corporation posted a piece about the ancient cypress forest discovered sixty feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, attracting the international attention. \u2014 Ben Raines, AL.com , 17 July 2017",
"After cutting your lemon (or lime) in half, cut a small piece of skin off of the other side. \u2014 Carly Breit, Country Living , 14 July 2017",
"The public offers a piece of its mind Mic's Celeste Katz discloses that Trump's controversial voter fraud panel won't let the public speak at its first meeting on July 19 but did solicit emails. \u2014 The Hive , 14 July 2017",
"Alan Jacobs, a professor at Baylor University, has written eloquently about that last piece . \u2014 Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic , 14 July 2017",
"For those not in the know, Polar Pizza involves a double fudge brownie crust and mint chocolate chip ice cream topped with Oreo cookie pieces . \u2014 Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine , 14 July 2017",
"His beautiful portrait of Ken Moody, one of an edition of ten, was on sale for \u00a325,000 ($31,650), about five times the price of one of Ms Yass\u2019s pieces . \u2014 The Economist , 13 July 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As far as the investigation, police utilized resident doorbell camera footage to piece together the events surrounding the shooting, as well as tips -- some of which were anonymous -- pointing to the suspect. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
"Other accounts attempt to piece together the love interests who\u2019ve inspired Taylor Swift songs, while other creators purport to deconstruct whether or not Swift ever had a romantic relationship with supermodel Karlie Kloss. \u2014 Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The European Union's executive arm, the European Commission, is trying to piece together its sixth sanctions package against Russia, in response to the invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 11 May 2022",
"The game features a story that\u2019s enticingly cryptic, demanding players piece it together. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In recent days, residents have slowly started to piece together what transpired in their enclave, emerging from their basement shelters between artillery strikes. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Investigators will try to piece together the plane\u2019s final moments from images reviewing trajectory, altitude, the force of impact and air-traffic data. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In Take Out, food becomes the conduit for bigger conversations about history, immigration, identity, and how to piece all of those things together. \u2014 Bettina Makalintal, Bon App\u00e9tit , 28 Jan. 2022",
"And from there, anyone can sort of piece it together as to what this is. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia , of Gaulish origin; akin to Welsh peth thing":"Noun"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The delightful buttery piecrust combined with a sweet filling is just pure magic. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Work on your pastry technique with our Test Kitchen's tips for making the perfect piecrust . \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 9 Mar. 2022",
"There's just something about digging into that buttery, flaky piecrust with a warm (or chilled) filling. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 12 Mar. 2021",
"Glasse\u2019s elaborate recipe\u2014not included here\u2014involved boning various birds (turkey, goose, chicken, partridge, squab) and stuffing one inside the other before encasing the lot in a sturdy piecrust . \u2014 Heller Mcalpin, WSJ , 19 Nov. 2020",
"And autumn mornings\u2019 piecrust skies, rolling out as far as forever. \u2014 Seija Rankin, EW.com , 17 June 2020",
"Both flours have a medium level of protein, which makes either of them ideal for baking cakes, cookies, and piecrusts , thickening sauces and gravies, breading cutlets, and all of the usual suspects. \u2014 Southern Living , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Here is a hearty, stout-infused, and cheese-thickened stew that is excellent for serving to large crowds, essentially a British steak and kidney pie without the kidneys and piecrust . \u2014 Sam Sifton, NBC News , 1 Mar. 2020",
"Roll piecrust to a 12-inch circle on a piece of parchment paper. Slide paper and crust onto a baking sheet. \u2014 Taylor Murray, Country Living , 5 Aug. 2019"
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