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{
"Grace's warbler":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a gray-and-white warbler ( Dendroica graciae ) black-streaked above with a yellow throat and chest and common in the southwestern U.S. and adjacent Mexico":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"after Grace D. Coues \u20201925, sister of Dr. Elliott Coues \u20201899 American ornithologist who discovered it":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0101s\u0259\u0307z-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120844",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Grand Forks":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"city on the Red River in eastern North Dakota population 52,838":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133834",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Grand Traverse":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": pine of cattle":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Grand Traverse county, Michigan":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184310",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Grand Traverse Bay":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"inlet of Lake Michigan on the northwest coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8tra-v\u0259rs"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202319",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Granville wilt":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a wilt of tobacco caused by a bacterium ( Pseudomonas solanacearum )":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Granville county, North Carolina":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gran\u02ccvil-",
"chiefly in southern US -v\u0259l-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105421",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Granville-Barker":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Harley 1877\u20131946 English actor, manager, and dramatist":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gran-\u02ccvil-\u02c8b\u00e4r-k\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110148",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Grapsidae":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a cosmopolitan family of crabs including pelagic and littoral and shore crabs as well as a few that have adapted to a strictly terrestrial or to a freshwater mode of life \u2014 see grapsus":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Grapsus , type genus + -idae":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-s\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130105",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Grasmere":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"lake 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) long in the Lake District of Cumbria, northwestern England":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gras-\u02ccmir"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111750",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Grass":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a police informer":[],
": a state or place of retirement":[
"put out to grass"
],
": any of a large family (Gramineae synonym Poaceae) of monocotyledonous mostly herbaceous plants with jointed stems, slender sheathing leaves, and flowers borne in spikelets of bracts":[],
": electronic noise on a radarscope that takes the form of vertical lines resembling lawn grass":[],
": herbage suitable or used for grazing animals":[],
": inform sense 1":[
"\u2014 often used with on"
],
": land (such as a lawn or a turf racetrack) covered with growing grass":[
"keep off the grass",
"the horse had never won on grass"
],
": leaves or plants of grass":[],
": marijuana":[],
": to feed (livestock) on grass sometimes without grain or other concentrates":[],
": to produce grass":[],
"G\u00fcnter Wilhelm 1927\u20132015 German writer":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"They were smoking some grass .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One study by researchers at Brigham Young University found that the surface temperature of artificial synthetic turf could be as much as 80 degrees hotter than natural grass . \u2014 David Abel, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"The Chevrolet rolled and landed upside down in the grass median between the highway and the access road. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 1 July 2022",
"His mother, a medical billing manager, moved to Las Vegas, while his father stayed in Neodesha, working as a rural-route mail carrier on the tall- grass prairie. \u2014 Paul Duggan, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"On the dewy grass of a nearby hillside, Private Percy Clare of the Seventh Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, was lying on his belly next to his commanding officer, awaiting the signal to advance. \u2014 Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 July 2022",
"The grass also helps, said David Witt, a longtime coach. \u2014 Matthew Futterman, New York Times , 1 July 2022",
"Black mondo grass is best suited to filtered sun to full shade and moist soil. \u2014 Terri Robertson, Country Living , 30 June 2022",
"One is a tall- grass prairie with grasses and other plants that can get up to 10 feet tall, another is a short-grass prairie with plants that get 3 to 4 feet tall, and the third is a diverse prairie with plants that reach 3 to 4 feet. \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"Petra Kvitova has plenty of experience on the grass courts of Wimbledon. \u2014 Chris Lehourites, ajc , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Burning mostly shrub and grass less than a mile from Top-of-The-World, the fire as of Tuesday has consumed more than 71,756 acres with no containment, according to InciWeb. \u2014 Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2021",
"Berea Community Outreach now encompasses a long list of programs, from a food pantry and Dinner to Your Door to grass cutting and snowplowing for seniors and the disabled. \u2014 cleveland , 4 Jan. 2021",
"Not wanting to miss out on an opportunity to embarrass themselves in public, many of our overzealous police forces have launched online contact forms so people can grass on their neighbors. \u2014 Charlie Peters, National Review , 8 Apr. 2020",
"More of the area around the platform has been grassed , adding even more seating and picnicking areas. \u2014 John Davis, azcentral , 27 Jan. 2020",
"Robotic lawn mowers like the Honda Miimo ($2,499); Robomow ($1,299); and Worx Landroid ($999) are to grass what the Roomba and its ilk are to carpet. \u2014 Maria Carter, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2017",
"Related stories from Star-Telegram Hamels delivers gem as Rangers sweep Mariners Beyond a wild-card race, Rangers from Venezuela in dire fight for family and country Rangers\u2019 new ballpark won\u2019t look like Minute Maid Park, but will grass grow",
"How long should grass get before your town issues a warning or even a fine",
"Robotic lawn mowers like the Honda Miimo ($2,499); Robomow ($1,299); and Worx Landroid ($999) are to grass what the Roomba and its ilk are to carpet. \u2014 Maria Carter, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"circa 1500, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gras , from Old English gr\u00e6s ; akin to Old High German gras grass, Old English gr\u014dwan to grow":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u00e4s",
"\u02c8gras"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"fink",
"inform",
"rat (on)",
"sing",
"snitch",
"split (on)",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tell (on)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203145",
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"Gratiola":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a genus of small widely distributed herbs (family Scrophulariaceae) with opposite sessile leaves and usually two bracts at the base of the calyx \u2014 see hedge hyssop":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, diminutive of Latin gratia grace; from its alleged healing qualities":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"gr\u0259\u02c8t\u012b\u0259l\u0259",
"-t\u0113\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062849",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Grattan":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Henry 1746\u20131820 Irish orator and statesman":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gra-t\u1d4an"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205814",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"Gray":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War":[],
": any of a series of neutral colors ranging between black and white":[],
": clothed in gray":[],
": dull in color":[],
": having an intermediate and often vaguely defined position, condition, or character":[
"an ethically gray area"
],
": having the hair gray : hoary":[],
": of the color gray":[],
": prosaically ordinary : dull , uninteresting":[
"the boring, gray dullness of government",
"\u2014 P. J. O'Rourke"
],
": something (such as an animal, garment, cloth, or spot) of a gray color":[],
": tending toward gray":[
"blue- gray eyes"
],
": the Confederate army":[],
": the mks unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of one joule per kilogram of irradiated material":[
"\u2014 abbreviation Gy"
],
": to become gray":[],
": to make gray":[],
"Asa 1810\u20131888 American botanist":[],
"Thomas 1716\u20131771 English poet":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"What will you do when you are old and gray ",
"My friends have all gone gray .",
"It was a gray winter day.",
"the gray faces of the people in the crowd"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
"1975, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Louis H. Gray \u20201965 British radiobiologist":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English gr\u01e3g ; akin to Old High German gr\u012bs, gr\u0101o gray":"Adjective, Noun , and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0101"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"argentine",
"grayish",
"leaden",
"pewter",
"silver",
"silvery",
"slate",
"slaty",
"slatey",
"steely"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110245",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gra":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": dear":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Irish Gaelic gr\u0101dh love, from Latin gratus pleasing, beloved, dear":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u022f"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180417",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"graafian follicle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mature liquid-filled cavity in a mammalian ovary that ruptures during ovulation to release an egg":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1883, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Regnier de Graaf \u20201673 Dutch anatomist":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccgraf-",
"\u02ccgr\u00e4f-\u0113-\u0259n-",
"\u02c8gra-",
"\u02c8gr\u00e4-f\u0113-\u0259n-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180506",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"grab":{
"antonyms":[
"heist",
"pinch",
"rip-off",
"snatching",
"swiping",
"theft"
],
"definitions":{
": a device for clutching an object":[],
": a sudden snatch":[],
": an unlawful or unethical seizure":[
"a grab for power"
],
": available for anyone to take, win, or settle":[
"A lot of voters are still up for grabs ."
],
": clamshell sense 2a":[],
": intended to be taken, seized, or grasped suddenly":[
"a grab rail"
],
": something taken, seized, or grasped suddenly":[],
": taken at random":[
"grab samples of rocks"
],
": to impress favorably and deeply":[],
": to make a sudden snatch":[],
": to obtain without consideration of what is right or wrong":[
"grab public lands"
],
": to seize the attention of":[
"the technique of grabbing an audience",
"\u2014 Pauline Kael"
],
": to take hastily":[
"grab a bite to eat",
"grab a cab"
],
": to take or seize by or as if by a sudden motion or grasp":[
"grab up an ax",
"grabbed the opportunity",
"grab attention"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"I have to go back in the house and grab my car keys.",
"The little boy grabbed onto his mother's leg and wouldn't let go.",
"I'll grab a taxi and meet you there.",
"Let's grab a bite to eat before the movie starts.",
"The store had a lot of nice stuff, but nothing really grabbed me.",
"The play grabs the audience from the opening scene.",
"One player in particular has been grabbing a lot of attention lately.",
"Noun",
"a political activist who thinks the government's lease of public lands to logging companies amounts to an illegal land grab",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Those thoughts were on the minds of three high school friends from New York City who arrived two hours before the parade began on Sunday to grab an upfront view at the starting point near the Flatiron Building in Manhattan. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
"The police arrested another demonstrator, 23-year-old Juliana Bernado, on suspicion of resisting arrest after she was accused of trying to grab an officer\u2019s baton, according to the LAPD. \u2014 Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 26 June 2022",
"On Friday, after the decision, Ivy and Sheila took a moment away from the patients to grab some duct tape and go outside. \u2014 Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker , 25 June 2022",
"He wasn\u2019t done defensively, diving across the chalk of the right field line to grab Jake Burger\u2019s fly in the eighth. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
"Multiple insiders are reporting that when the draft begins at 7 p.m. Thursday (ESPN), the Magic will stick with their plan and grab Smith with the No. 1 pick, which will lead to the Thunder taking Holmgren and leave Banchero for the Rockets. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 23 June 2022",
"The Double Shovel Summer Outdoor Market is a place to hang out, explore local handmade goods and art, grab a bite and drink delicious cider. \u2014 Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
"Luckily, Netflix has provided a whole new crop of streaming options to keep you company in July, so grab your beverage of choice and get ready. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 22 June 2022",
"Pack the sunscreen, grab your red, white and blue garb and get ready because this Fourth of July is going to be one of the busiest on record for vacationers. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Mike Bello raced back to his right and made an attempt at a leaping grab at the left-field wall, just in front of Auburn\u2019s bullpen at Charles Schwab Field. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 18 June 2022",
"But critics disagree and Media Research Center director of MRC Latino Jorge Bonilla blasted the move as a power grab by the left. \u2014 Fox News , 14 June 2022",
"Tucker kept the Astros in front in the sixth, stealing a game-tying three-run homer from Kemp with a leaping grab at the right field wall to end the inning. \u2014 Chron , 3 Oct. 2021",
"Lowe took away a run-scoring hit from Baddoo with a diving grab at second base on his 10th-inning grounder. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 18 Sep. 2021",
"Appointing government overseers to the boardroom would be on trend for Beijing\u2019s current power grab at private enterprises in mainland China, where the government has quietly acquired seats on the boards of major tech firms. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 16 Sep. 2021",
"The two men repeated the smash-and- grab at Edina's Battle Creek Armory a week later, this time taking 10 handguns from a display case. \u2014 Andy Mannix, Star Tribune , 28 May 2021",
"For his latest headline grab , Aaron Rodgers says the end is near. \u2014 Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Facing attacks from the civilian militias, which are fighting alongside ethnic insurgent groups, the Tatmadaw has ratcheted up a counteroffensive, launching airstrikes, burning villages and terrorizing those opposed to its power grab . \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1777, in the meaning defined at sense 1c":"Noun",
"circa 1581, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"obsolete Dutch or Low German grabben":"Verb, Noun, and Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grab"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grab Verb take , seize , grasp , clutch , snatch , grab mean to get hold of by or as if by catching up with the hand. take is a general term applicable to any manner of getting something into one's possession or control. take some salad from the bowl seize implies a sudden and forcible movement in getting hold of something tangible or an apprehending of something fleeting or elusive when intangible. seized the suspect grasp stresses a laying hold so as to have firmly in possession. grasp the handle and pull clutch suggests avidity or anxiety in seizing or grasping and may imply less success in holding. clutching her purse snatch suggests more suddenness or quickness but less force than seize . snatched a doughnut and ran grab implies more roughness or rudeness than snatch . grabbed roughly by the arm",
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"collar",
"cop",
"corral",
"get",
"glom",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"nab",
"nail",
"net",
"nobble",
"rap",
"seize",
"snag",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171916",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"grab a seat":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to sit down":[
"Grab a seat . I'll be with you in a minute."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004554",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"grab at/for":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to quickly stretch out one's hand and try to touch or hold (something or someone)":[
"People were grabbing at her as she walked through the crowd.",
"He grabbed for the ball and missed.",
"\u2014 often used figuratively We grabbed at the chance to go. political parties grabbing for power"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053117",
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
]
},
"grab bag":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a miscellaneous collection : potpourri":[],
": a receptacle (such as a bag) containing small articles which are to be drawn (as at a party or fair) without being seen":[]
},
"examples":[
"Congress has proposed a grab bag of tax cuts.",
"the festival featured a grab bag of independent films from widely disparate genres",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As investment targets, the presentation listed a grab bag of high-growth industries including media, technology, health care, finance, consumer services and sustainable energy. \u2014 New York Times , 22 May 2022",
"And of course there are some elements that Austen didn\u2019t imagine, like a grab bag of a drug buffet before heading out to Underwear Night. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 1 June 2022",
"With Congress unable to achieve anything significant, that just leaves Biden with the usual grab bag of executive powers. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 4 May 2022",
"The first 50 shoppers to spend $125 or more will have an opportunity to buy a $25 Sensi grab bag containing $300 worth of products. \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 18 Apr. 2022",
"But there\u2019s a grab bag of other reasons behind vaccine hesitancy, Afflalo said, ranging from vaccine myths to religious reservations. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Then, during Democrat La Follette\u2019s long tenure, Republican governors stripped away nearly all the remaining grab bag of duties. \u2014 David Montgomery, Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2022",
"El Alfa proves versatile on his fourth studio album, Sabiduria, honing in on a grab bag of Latin sounds, from ranchera to reggaet\u00f3n. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The new models represent a growing grab bag of UV-IR mixing ideas. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"agglomeration",
"alphabet soup",
"assortment",
"botch",
"clutter",
"collage",
"crazy quilt",
"farrago",
"gallimaufry",
"gumbo",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jambalaya",
"jumble",
"jungle",
"litter",
"mac\u00e9doine",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"menagerie",
"miscellanea",
"miscellany",
"mishmash",
"mixed bag",
"montage",
"motley",
"muddle",
"olio",
"olla podrida",
"omnium-gatherum",
"pastiche",
"patchwork",
"patchwork quilt",
"potpourri",
"ragbag",
"ragout",
"rummage",
"salad",
"salmagundi",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"smorgasbord",
"stew",
"tumble",
"variety",
"welter"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123410",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"grace":{
"antonyms":[
"adorn",
"array",
"beautify",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"blazon",
"caparison",
"deck",
"decorate",
"do",
"do up",
"doll up",
"drape",
"dress",
"embellish",
"emblaze",
"emboss",
"enrich",
"fancify",
"fancy up",
"festoon",
"garnish",
"glitz (up)",
"gussy up",
"ornament",
"pretty (up)",
"trim"
],
"definitions":{
": a charming or attractive trait or characteristic":[
"Among disagreeable qualities he possessed the saving grace of humor."
],
": a musical trill, turn, or appoggiatura":[],
": a pleasing appearance or effect : charm":[
"all the grace of youth",
"\u2014 John Buchan"
],
": a short prayer at a meal asking a blessing or giving thanks":[],
": a special favor : privilege":[
"each in his place, by right, not grace , shall rule his heritage",
"\u2014 Rudyard Kipling"
],
": a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance":[],
": a temporary exemption : reprieve":[],
": a virtue coming from God":[],
": adorn , embellish":[
"graveled walks graced with statues",
"\u2014 J. A. Michener"
],
": approval , favor":[
"stayed in his good graces"
],
": disposition to or an act or instance of kindness, courtesy, or clemency":[],
": ease and suppleness (see supple entry 1 sense 2b ) of movement or bearing":[
"danced with such grace"
],
": mercy , pardon":[],
": sense of propriety or right":[
"had the grace not to run for elective office",
"\u2014 Calvin Trillin"
],
": the quality or state of being considerate or thoughtful":[
"accepted his advice with grace"
],
": three sister goddesses in Greek mythology who are the givers of charm and beauty":[],
": to confer dignity or honor on":[
"The king graced him with the rank of a knight."
],
": unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"She walked across the stage with effortless grace .",
"She handles her problems with grace and dignity.",
"He has shown remarkable grace during this crisis.",
"She is quite lovable despite her lack of social graces .",
"Let us give thanks for God's grace .",
"By the grace of God, no one was seriously hurt.",
"She tried to live her life in God's grace .",
"Verb",
"Several marble statues grace the courtyard.",
"I hope that you will grace our gathering with your presence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The first 10% of that bond\u2019s principal repayments is due May 15, before three other dollar-bond coupons\u2019 grace periods end. \u2014 Alice Huang, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
"Schools expanded grace periods and eased vaccination requirements for remote learners, and had fewer submissions of vaccination documentation with fewer staff to assess kindergarten vaccination coverage. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Most of America's top 20 banks have made significant changes to overdraft fees recently, including eliminating fees and providing grace periods, according to The Pew Trusts. \u2014 Matt Egan, CNN , 24 Feb. 2022",
"In October letters to the FHFA, the regulator for Freddie and Fannie, housing advocates said the corporations should take steps to minimize evictions by requiring grace periods and allowing subleases, for instance. \u2014 Heather Vogell, ProPublica , 7 Feb. 2022",
"What the production lacks in grace it more than makes up for in earthy energy. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
"Clad in a blue satin jumpsuit, the singer, with his mane of black hair and showbiz smile, received his audience with patience and grace . \u2014 Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 June 2022",
"These competing personae were rendered with dramatic clarity and lithe grace by Michael Francis and the All-Star Orchestra. \u2014 Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"Most frogs can jump and land with the precision and grace of an Olympic gymnast. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Tonight: Clear skies and calming winds grace the evening. \u2014 David Streit, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"The Strawberry Moon will grace our skies in mid-June. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 8 June 2022",
"The designer\u2019s concepts will grace new WatchBox locations in Miami, Los Angeles and Boca Raton, all of which are slated to open later this year. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 7 June 2022",
"For the first time in 23 years, the late and legendary John Madden will grace the cover of NFL Madden for its 23rd edition in perfect fashion. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 June 2022",
"Legendary coach and broadcaster John Madden will grace the cover of Madden NFL 23, the popular football video game, Electronic Arts announced Wednesday. \u2014 Scooby Axson, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"John Madden \u2014 the late NFL coach, announcer and namesake of the mega-popular football video game series \u2014 will grace the Madden 2023 cover, EA Sports announced on Wednesday. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"Social media sensation MrBeast features on the cover alongside multi-hyphenate creator Bella Poarch, who\u2019ll grace a peelable bonus cover that was created in collaboration between Rolling Stone and Meta. \u2014 Ebbony Pinillos, Rolling Stone , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Bretman Rock has become the first gay man to grace the cover of Playboy. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Nov. 2021"
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin gratia favor, charm, thanks, from gratus pleasing, grateful; akin to Sanskrit g\u1e5b\u1e47\u0101ti he praises":"Noun and Verb"
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"\u02c8gr\u0101s"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grace Noun mercy , charity , clemency , grace , leniency mean a disposition to show kindness or compassion. mercy implies compassion that forbears punishing even when justice demands it. threw himself on the mercy of the court charity stresses benevolence and goodwill shown in broad understanding and tolerance of others. show a little charity for the less fortunate clemency implies a mild or merciful disposition in one having the power or duty of punishing. the judge refused to show clemency grace implies a benign attitude and a willingness to grant favors or make concessions. by the grace of God leniency implies lack of severity in punishing. criticized the courts for excessive leniency",
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"courtesy",
"favor",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"mercy",
"service",
"turn"
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"verb"
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": a small addition or embellishment":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Others support Senate candidate Ron Hanks, another election denier who attended the January 6, 2021, rally that served as a grace note to the assault on the Capitol. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 21 June 2022",
"The film and the subsequent digging that unearthed Rebecca\u2019s sub-Saharan African lineage also provided a remarkable grace note for Maria, who passed away earlier this month. \u2014 Forest Whitaker, Variety , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Another grace note comes from Vanessa Aurora Sierra, who works against the usual Anita stereotypes in favor of a character who is palpably vulnerable and, of course, hardly that much older than anyone else at the fateful dance. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 19 Feb. 2022",
"But Hudson, who is also an executive producer, felt a grace note was needed to summarize the musical giant\u2019s journey. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 1 Dec. 2021",
"While Jones is musical, her blue note always hits harder than any grace note . \u2014 New York Times , 17 Sep. 2021",
"And the creative director Virginie Viard\u2019s spectacular princess-style gown only amplified this, punctuating her collection with a happily-ever-after grace note . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
"The leather notes from the nose ride back in for a final flourish on a finish that is sweetened up with a grace note of toffee. \u2014 Brian Freedman, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
"So minty on the nose, with cedar, sandalwood, spearmint, and a savory grace note to the mountain berries. \u2014 Brian Freedman, Forbes , 17 May 2021"
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"circa 1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": a period of time beyond a due date during which a financial obligation may be met without penalty or cancellation":[]
},
"examples":[
"The terms of the loan allow for a ten-day grace period .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But at the end of the day on Sunday, the grace period on about $100 million of snared interest payments due May 27 expired, a deadline considered an event of default if missed. \u2014 Giulia Morpurgo, Fortune , 27 June 2022",
"Like other Russian debt, those bonds have a 30-day grace period \u2014 which would cause default by Russia to be declared by late July, barring the unlikely scenario that the Russia-Ukraine war would come to an end before then. \u2014 Ken Sweet And Fatima Hussein, Anchorage Daily News , 24 May 2022",
"If investors don\u2019t receive the $100 million in payments in their accounts by May 27, Russia will enter a 30-day grace period to remit the funds, after which point the country could be called in default by its creditors. \u2014 Andrew Duehren, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"Investors and rating agencies, however, disagreed and did not expect Russia to be able to convert the rubles into dollars before a 30-day grace period expired this week. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 1 May 2022",
"Bond payments typically come with a 30-day grace period . \u2014 David Goldman, CNN , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Back in Oklahoma City, Barbary gave Lux his grace period . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In addition, unpaid medical collection debt won't appear on credit reports for the first year, whereas the previous grace period was six months, the three companies said. \u2014 Tami Luhby, CNN , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Here, Khosrowshahi seems be suggesting that although the pandemic isn\u2019t over, an unofficial grace period for employees might be. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 9 May 2022"
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"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u2014 usually used humorously He finally decided to grace us with his presence 10 minutes after dinner started. Will you be gracing the meeting with your presence "
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"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"sure-handed"
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"a graceless accusation"
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},
"examples":[
"Her writing can be graceless and awkward at times.",
"a graceless person who was a butterfingered lout when it came to playing basketball",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ali\u2019s desperation breeds a painful solitude underscored by his initially graceless homecoming. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"Shea Stadium is not Eden, and the picture of Tom and Nancy Seaver leaving its graceless precincts in tears did not immediately remind me of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve in the Brancacci Chapel. \u2014 Harper's Magazine , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Lin tore down the graceless expansions, preserving only the shell of the original Lord & Hewlett building. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2021",
"Just look at all the graceless work enabled by pixels, all the dull and droning selfies, all the videos shot in portrait mode. \u2014 Philip Martin, Arkansas Online , 27 Sep. 2020",
"The others are the Turbo S Sport Turismo, an extended-roof model that manages not to be completely graceless , and a pair of plug-in hybrids, the 4S E-Hybrid and 5.9-inch longer 4S E-Hybrid Executive. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 23 Sep. 2020",
"That team is leading the championship race again, but its superiority belies a turbulent, graceless campaign that featured five defeats before the coronavirus brought the season to a halt. \u2014 Tariq Panja, New York Times , 9 May 2020",
"This, where many oilfield workers live in the booming Permian Basin oil fields, is the graceless side of the energy economy, a cluttered zone of mobile homes, oil tanks, service trucks, salvage yards, and endless commercial metal buildings. \u2014 John Maccormack, ExpressNews.com , 2 Sep. 2019",
"When Walker and his old frenemy Tyrese reunite for the first time, director John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) shoots their graceless scuffle in a Buster Keaton-esque longshot while an FBI guy has a snack. \u2014 Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica , 2 Aug. 2019"
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"\u02c8gr\u0101s-l\u0259s"
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"awkward",
"butterfingered",
"cack-handed",
"clumsy",
"ham-fisted",
"ham-handed",
"handless",
"heavy-handed",
"left-handed",
"maladroit",
"unhandy"
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"-th\u0113-",
"\u02c8gr\u00e4-s\u0113-\u00e4s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115406",
"type":[
"Spanish noun"
]
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"grade crossing":{
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": a crossing of highways, railroad tracks, or pedestrian walks or combinations of these on the same level":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 1998, the agency made recommendations about technology that could alert drivers of the presence of a train when approaching a grade crossing . \u2014 Fox News , 28 June 2022",
"According to the Federal Railroad Administration, there were 2,148 highway-rail grade crossing collisions across the U.S. in 2021, causing 236 deaths and 662 injuries. \u2014 Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"In addition, federal officials cited Florida\u2019s five-year average of 2.84 incidents per grade crossing , compared to 1.51 nationally, as one element that drew their additional scrutiny. \u2014 David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The agency\u2019s inspections of Florida crossings will start next month in the Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville areas, said James Payne, the agency\u2019s staff director of grade crossing and trespass outreach. \u2014 David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Walsh said that the town will be working with the DOT on an at- grade crossing that will allow pedestrians to cross the tracks and get to the park. \u2014 Steve Smith, courant.com , 20 Jan. 2022",
"According to village statistics, there have been 45 crashes at the grade crossing between 1956 and 2005 that resulted in seven fatalities and 27 injuries. \u2014 Gary Gibula, chicagotribune.com , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Indiana can compete for $5 billion for rail improvement and safety grants and $3 billion for grade crossing safety improvements. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The infrastructure package also targets rail safety, with about $5 billion for rail improvement and safety grants, and another $3 billion for grade crossing safety improvements. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Nov. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130244",
"type":[
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"graded area":{
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": a region that shows characteristic speech features reflecting different degrees of influence from one or more focal areas":[
"\u2014 compare focal area , relic area"
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": the vector sum of the partial derivatives with respect to the three coordinate variables x, y , and z of a scalar quantity whose value varies from point to point":[]
},
"examples":[
"the path goes up at a pretty steep gradient before leveling off",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The physical world is composed of mathematical constants, one of which is that the dunes of the Namib Desert collapse beyond a gradient of thirty-four degrees. \u2014 Ben Taub, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"The competition length of the track is 1,615 meters with a maximum gradient of 18% and 16 curves. \u2014 Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Every single image is the best one of that area chosen from over 10,000 taken by the LRO, according to the best match of brightness and gradient . \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Optimize the altitude and gradient and the turns and so on. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 14 May 2022",
"Strong southerly gradient winds will be present across the state ahead of the cold front, bringing wind gusts of up to 35 mph, the briefing states. \u2014 Brianna Kwasnik, Arkansas Online , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Hiking trails are, for the most part, family-friendly, and are highlighted by the gradient reds, pinks, and oranges of the Painted Desert. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 11 Apr. 2022",
"In between, there is everything from elegant white satin to flowy mauve chiffon to tiered polka dot to a green gradient dress with spaghetti straps. \u2014 Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The stones are cut in precise gradient sizes to fit the pattern of the swirl. \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022"
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"1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"Latin gradient-, gradiens , present participle of gradi":""
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"\u02c8gr\u0101-d\u0113-\u0259nt",
"\u02c8gr\u0101d-\u0113-\u0259nt"
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"diagonal",
"grade",
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"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"slant",
"slope",
"upgrade"
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"noun"
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": a theory in embryology: embryonic differentiation is the result of gradation in the potentialities for development of various parts of the embryo of such nature that successful differentiation of a part inhibits the potentiality for similar change elsewhere in the system":[]
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"Noun",
"bread made from whole wheat grain",
"The machine grinds grain into flour.",
"The farm grows a variety of grains .",
"Anyone with a grain of sense knows that she's lying.",
"There is not a grain of truth in what he said.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"These timelessly chic chaise lounges are crafted from solid acacia hardwood, with natural variation in the grain and an elegant teak stain. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2022",
"Ukraine exports much of its grain , wheat and other foodstuffs from those ports, which are now menaced by Russia\u2019s fleet. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Top Russian official Sergey Lavrov is holding talks with Turkish officials today on a plan that could allow Ukraine to export its grain through the Black Sea amid an escalating food crisis. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"The distinctive buildings with vaulted ceilings are ghorfas, used by Berbers to store their grain . \u2014 Griffin Shea, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"If much of northern India\u2019s wheat had yet to form its grain before the heat wave began, the effects could be severe. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 4 May 2022",
"Often, neutral visual narratives turned murky if read against their intrinsic grain . \u2014 Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The barn contained farm machinery, grain and a workshop, Alkire said. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 20 June 2022",
"The next harvest is expected to bring in as much as 2,000 tons of new seeds and grain . \u2014 Alistair Macdonald, WSJ , 19 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"White Ash features more subtle graining while Black Ash has a dark grain that contrasts with its light background. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 13 Mar. 2020",
"The cereal grains mixed with clover attract deer first while the brassicas stand tall and are accessible above snow in northern areas for late-season forage. \u2014 Gerald Almy, Field & Stream , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Microphenomena, such as tornadoes, may be missed because models are not sufficiently fine- grained . \u2014 The Economist , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Each one would resemble the (A) to (E) outline above, but would be much more finely grained . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 June 2019",
"The surface appears to be very, very fine- grained . . . . \u2014 Charles Bethea, The New Yorker , 25 May 2018",
"Within 15 minutes, a portion of this radioactive dust \u2014 mostly grains the size of salt or sand \u2014 would begin to fall directly on the city. \u2014 Daily Intelligencer , 12 June 2018",
"The raw flesh of the fish is opalescent, fine- grained and smooth and nearly translucent, with a flavor to match. \u2014 Ben Lowy, Smithsonian , 23 May 2018",
"As in other full-size pickups at this price, the dashboard is largely made up of hard plastics, although their graining looks nice and most critical touch points inside the F-150 are made from softer materials. \u2014 Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver , 9 Mar. 2018"
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"Middle English, partly from Anglo-French grain cereal grain, from Latin granum ; partly from Anglo-French graine seed, kermes, from Latin grana , plural of granum \u2014 more at corn":"Noun"
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": a building for elevating, storing, discharging, and sometimes processing grain":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tribune becomes first newspaper to print color photo of breaking news event \u2014 a grain elevator fire. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"Her husband worked at a grain elevator across the river. \u2014 Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica , 20 May 2022",
"Haidai accused Russia of attacking a grain elevator tons of grain in Rubizhne, a city in Luhansk, in April. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"Anatoly Guyvaronsky, who represents the Dnipro region in Ukraine\u2019s association of farmers and private landowners, said that his grain truck driver and grain elevator operator had gone to fight in the war. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
"His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Dec. 2021",
"His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Dec. 2021",
"His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Dec. 2021",
"His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Dec. 2021"
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"Noun",
"bread made from whole wheat grain",
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"The farm grows a variety of grains .",
"Anyone with a grain of sense knows that she's lying.",
"There is not a grain of truth in what he said.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"These timelessly chic chaise lounges are crafted from solid acacia hardwood, with natural variation in the grain and an elegant teak stain. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2022",
"Ukraine exports much of its grain , wheat and other foodstuffs from those ports, which are now menaced by Russia\u2019s fleet. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Top Russian official Sergey Lavrov is holding talks with Turkish officials today on a plan that could allow Ukraine to export its grain through the Black Sea amid an escalating food crisis. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"The distinctive buildings with vaulted ceilings are ghorfas, used by Berbers to store their grain . \u2014 Griffin Shea, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"If much of northern India\u2019s wheat had yet to form its grain before the heat wave began, the effects could be severe. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 4 May 2022",
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"Each one would resemble the (A) to (E) outline above, but would be much more finely grained . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 June 2019",
"The surface appears to be very, very fine- grained . . . . \u2014 Charles Bethea, The New Yorker , 25 May 2018",
"Within 15 minutes, a portion of this radioactive dust \u2014 mostly grains the size of salt or sand \u2014 would begin to fall directly on the city. \u2014 Daily Intelligencer , 12 June 2018",
"The raw flesh of the fish is opalescent, fine- grained and smooth and nearly translucent, with a flavor to match. \u2014 Ben Lowy, Smithsonian , 23 May 2018",
"As in other full-size pickups at this price, the dashboard is largely made up of hard plastics, although their graining looks nice and most critical touch points inside the F-150 are made from softer materials. \u2014 Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver , 9 Mar. 2018"
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"Parker will keep drawing ever closer to the sun and diving deeper into the corona until its grand finale orbit in 2025. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Parker will keep drawing ever closer to the sun and diving deeper into the corona until its grand finale orbit in 2025. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Well, The Voice is not playing around with their grand finale event. \u2014 Maggie Fremont, EW.com , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Parker will keep drawing ever closer to the sun and diving deeper into the corona until its grand finale orbit in 2025. \u2014 Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The parade route starts at 6 p.m. in North Palm Beach and travels up the Intracoastal Waterway to the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, where a grand finale fireworks show ends the event at 8 p.m. \u2014 Arlene Borenstein-zuluaga, sun-sentinel.com , 26 Nov. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Her great- granduncle , Gustave Niebaum, founded Inglenook Vineyards in 1879 and helped establish Napa Valley\u2019s reputation for quality wine. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
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"Herb\u2019s great- granduncle was the commanding officer of the 104th IL Infantry in the Civil War, and that relative\u2019s grandson was killed in the Philippine Insurrection \u2013 for which he was honored by a gun battery in the Philippines bearing his name. \u2014 Peter Aitken, Fox News , 29 May 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Of course, this recipe is just a jumping-off point into the granita galaxy. \u2014 Aliza Abarbanel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 2 June 2022",
"El Bulli\u2019s chicken curry featured a quenelle of curry ice cream and a cold curry-flavor granita in a pool of coconut milk, with the protein only present in a last-minute savory drizzle of chicken demi-glace. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Apr. 2022",
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"Lemon granita and honeycomb flavors surf a wave of crisp acidity while salted filberts watch longingly from the beach. \u2014 Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 28 July 2021"
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"The granite was formed as intrusive igneous rock approximately 350 million years ago. \u2014 Walter Nicklin, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Its oldest granite and limestone temples date back to about 1200 BCE, but people have lived at the site for much longer, since at least 3000 BCE. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
"Some have ripped out turf in favor of succulents, decomposed granite and other drought-tolerant landscaping, only to see their monthly bills stay the same or in some cases increase. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"This includes wine made from grapes grown above decomposed granite and Table Mountain Sandstone. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"This reserve protects a rare pine forest atop 2,000-foot-tall mountains, but the real gem here are the rivers, which have carved tight gorges through granite and massive caves through limestone. \u2014 Graham Averill, Outside Online , 7 May 2022",
"As muons move through the pyramid, the high-energy particles interact with different materials \u2014 granite or limestone, for instance, or air in an open cavity \u2014 deflecting their energy and light in measurable ways. \u2014 NBC News , 4 May 2022",
"Workers in the granite quarry were skilled stonecutters from countries such as Scotland, England, Wales, Sweden, Norway and Italy. \u2014 AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
"This wired rock speaker from Klipsch comes in a lovely granite or sandstone finish and doesn't require any mounting! \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022"
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"The Chicano civil rights movement grew from the famous 1965 grape strike in California\u2019s rural Central Valley, where Mexican migrants joined forces with protesting Filipino workers, but artists congregate in cities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Half of its grape supply is already organically produced, the house says. \u2014 Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"Despite the pushback, many grape farmers say that the use of autonomous tractors is only a matter of time. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2022",
"Each dish is made to pair perfectly with the star of the show: Pisco, Peru\u2019s national spirit, which is made through a process of distilling wine into a pure grape liquor in an ancestral process that dates back to the 17th century. \u2014 Michaela Trimble, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Testing grape sugars for compounds confirming smoke taint is a tricky business. \u2014 Michelle Elias, New York Times , 6 Mar. 2020",
"When yeast cultures consume grape sugar and metabolize it into alcohol, the process generates carbon dioxide gas. \u2014 Gar Joseph & Marnie Old, Philly.com , 7 Feb. 2018",
"Its flavors of raspberry and strawberry are boosted by the natural grape sugar preserved in this uncommon wine-making process, yielding a wine that resembles an alcoholic cherry Wishniak. \u2014 Marnie Old, Philly.com , 5 Feb. 2018"
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"Wallis fired his guns at a promontory overlooking Matavai Bay, raining shrapnel and grapeshot on a crowd of angry onlookers. \u2014 Hampton Sides, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Sep. 2021",
"He was wounded at the Battle of Savannah in 1779, hit by grapeshot in a charge, and perished. \u2014 Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online , 28 Nov. 2020",
"But while Laurens\u2019 troops set up their howitzer artillery, a large-caliber cannon with a short barrel built to fire clusters of grapeshot , the British spotted them, according to a SCBPT statement. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 Aug. 2020",
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"Macron has now been weakened just as the bloc and the broader continent grapple with the conflict in Ukraine, a growing energy crisis and the rise of China. \u2014 Patrick Smith, NBC News , 20 June 2022",
"Throughout the popular show\u2019s seven seasons, the gang has to deal with internal conflict and the authorities, plus grapple with their own personal lives. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
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"As coastal regions and the Sunbelt grapple with the worsening effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels, record droughts and wildfires, a cool freshwater lake in the northern Midwest has particular appeal. \u2014 Amy Gamerman, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"The need for affordable housing has become even more crucial this year as households across the U.S. grapple with surging inflation, which is raising the price of gas, food and other necessities. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 23 May 2022",
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"In these luminous stories, Afghan characters both in the homeland and in the diaspora grapple with their heritage and the scars war has left on their bodies, minds and families. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2022",
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"Delta Airlines on Monday flew a large shipment of baby formula from London to Logan International Airport as the US continues to grapple with a formula shortage, according to the airline. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"The historic move marks the first time a Broadway theater will be named after a Black woman, as the industry continues to grapple with a relative lack of racial diversity. \u2014 Zachary Schermele, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"As our society continues to grapple with mass school shootings, schools must play a critical role in preventing future tragedies. \u2014 Nathaniel Von Der Embse, The Conversation , 3 June 2022",
"Milwaukee continues to grapple with gun violence across the city. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 May 2022",
"However, Airbnb continues to grapple with preventing people from using its platform to book properties and host unauthorized parties -- some of which have gotten severely out of hand and made headlines over the years. \u2014 Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"The West African nation continues to grapple with a 10-year-old insurgency by Islamic extremist rebels in the northeast. \u2014 Chinedu Asadu, ajc , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The recommendation to approve the sale and development agreement comes as the city continues to grapple with other real estate transactions \u2014 especially those pushed forward by former Mayor Kevin Faulconer. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Apr. 2022",
"The regional bloc continues to grapple with unreliable funding, political disagreements, and trade disputes across borders. \u2014 Priya Sippy, Quartz , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Particularly Jack, with your grappling , and Sean, with your attitude both in and out of the cage. \u2014 Josh Chesler, SPIN , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Victory and defeat live split seconds apart in mixed martial arts, where judges must factor in the impact of strikes and grappling , execution of takedowns, reversals, effective aggression, area control, and more, according to the ABC MMA ruleset. \u2014 Brian Roberts, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021",
"The process, the feeling, the emotion, the grappling , is very universal. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Nov. 2020",
"Because our literary grappling with that crisis, and of mass species extinction and other related offshoots of human depredations on the natural world, is a direct engagement with the real. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 July 2021",
"This is what the book is about, about the grappling of American Jewry (and its secret girlfriend, Israel). \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2021",
"In neighboring Louisiana, Letlow described her own grappling with the decision to launch a campaign while grieving. \u2014 Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner , 7 Mar. 2021",
"From a parody of quarantine stereotypes to comedian Dave Chappelle's emotional grappling at the height of the racial injustice protests, this year's top 10 trending YouTube videos are vastly different from years past. \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 1 Dec. 2020",
"But in an illustration of how divisive grappling with that brutal colonial history is in Belgium, a spokesman for the mayor of Antwerp, Bart De Wever, said the statue of Leopold was not being removed because of the recent outcry. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2020"
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even so, Rusted Moss separates itself from the crowd thanks in large part to a unique grappling hook mechanic. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Clicking or tapping on the Bat-Signal GIF will transform your screen into a stormy night sky illuminated by the superhero\u2019s famous beacon \u2014 before the Batman himself fires a grappling hook and swings into view. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Here, Master Chief uses his new grappling hook to attach to a distant point, then fling himself forward quickly. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Far and away, the best new addition to the series is the grappling hook , perhaps not a new gaming concept in general, but when combined with Master Chief\u2019s usual gameplay",
"Master Chief begins the game with the grappling hook as a piece of equipment, giving the player a few hours to experiment with it in the opening, lower-pressure levels. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2021",
"One such piece of equipment, the grappling hook , is the star of the show, featured not just in the game\u2019s marketing and trailers but also in the in-game cutscenes. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The hydrophones, which Myers and the North Gulf Oceanic Society team recover once each year with a grappling hook or by diving for them, are suspended about 10 feet above the sea floor. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Nov. 2021",
"Aiden can use over 3000 parkour animations, a grappling hook , a host of melee weapons, and even zombie-like skills himself to contend with the undead. \u2014 Brittany Vincent, BGR , 31 Oct. 2021"
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"I grasped the end of the rope and pulled as hard as I could.",
"I grasped the rope by its end.",
"His arthritis is so bad he can barely grasp a pencil.",
"Noun",
"The author shows a weak grasp of military strategy.",
"The books on the top shelf are just beyond my grasp .",
"She moved the toy to within the baby's grasp .",
"She felt the solution was within her grasp .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The best activity for a human being is to seek the truth without expecting to grasp it definitively. \u2014 Martha Bayles, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"All of this is to say: Disney World is ingrained in the state\u2019s identity, for better or worse, in ways that are hard to grasp for those outside Florida, or perhaps California, home of Disney Land. \u2014 Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
"For Mikhaylo Dzhanda, who served as mayor of the western city of Khust from 2002 until 2010, and is now volunteering in the battalion, the sudden shift in control is almost hard to grasp . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The ch\u00e2teau has had a level of longevity that is hard to grasp : When the estate was formed, the French Revolution was still nearly 70 years away. \u2014 Ted Loos, Robb Report , 12 Dec. 2021",
"Like Edison\u2019s recording of sound, crypto enables the monetization of an ephemeral asset, one whose value is hard to grasp before the process of monetization is well underway. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Each branch reaches out toward the edges of the property, as if to grasp hands with the younger trees nearby. \u2014 Ryan Martin, The Indianapolis Star , 22 June 2022",
"The government also fails to grasp (or is consciously oblivious to) just how far plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers will ride these meal-and-rest-break claims if the Court denies review. \u2014 Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Even though Saleh didn\u2019t grasp all of the material yet, Bazzi said Saleh was always taking notes. \u2014 Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Numerous speakers recalled his extraordinary grasp of world history, his encyclopedic knowledge of fashion, and the boom of him speaking in absolutely perfect French. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The session will focus on building fine motor skills, improving pinch grasp , sensory motor development and increasing spatial awareness. \u2014 Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Regardless of their poor relationship with Santos, this puts them in good stead to snatch the duo from the grasp of rivals Real Madrid - who bought Rodrygo from them in 2018 and other interested parties. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"But the Christmas miracle was still within the Browns\u2019 grasp . \u2014 Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY , 26 Dec. 2021",
"But Elliott said that Fairhope and surrounding areas have grown so much that lawmakers need to be energetic and have a grasp on the challenges that Baldwin County faces with its rapid growth. \u2014 al , 19 May 2022",
"Health authorities will have a firmer grasp of the risk factors in the coming days. \u2014 Geoff Whitmore, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Well, coach Quin Snyder apparently has a firm grasp on what isn\u2019t the problem. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 Apr. 2022",
"According to a new report, industry professionals also don\u2019t have a full grasp of the concept and want to know how that will affect the landscape. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 5 Apr. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
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"\u02c8grasp"
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"understand"
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"He grasped at the opportunity to speak with her."
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"grasping for attention"
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"Verb",
"I grasped the end of the rope and pulled as hard as I could.",
"I grasped the rope by its end.",
"His arthritis is so bad he can barely grasp a pencil.",
"Noun",
"The author shows a weak grasp of military strategy.",
"The books on the top shelf are just beyond my grasp .",
"She moved the toy to within the baby's grasp .",
"She felt the solution was within her grasp .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The best activity for a human being is to seek the truth without expecting to grasp it definitively. \u2014 Martha Bayles, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"All of this is to say: Disney World is ingrained in the state\u2019s identity, for better or worse, in ways that are hard to grasp for those outside Florida, or perhaps California, home of Disney Land. \u2014 Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
"For Mikhaylo Dzhanda, who served as mayor of the western city of Khust from 2002 until 2010, and is now volunteering in the battalion, the sudden shift in control is almost hard to grasp . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The ch\u00e2teau has had a level of longevity that is hard to grasp : When the estate was formed, the French Revolution was still nearly 70 years away. \u2014 Ted Loos, Robb Report , 12 Dec. 2021",
"Like Edison\u2019s recording of sound, crypto enables the monetization of an ephemeral asset, one whose value is hard to grasp before the process of monetization is well underway. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Each branch reaches out toward the edges of the property, as if to grasp hands with the younger trees nearby. \u2014 Ryan Martin, The Indianapolis Star , 22 June 2022",
"The government also fails to grasp (or is consciously oblivious to) just how far plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers will ride these meal-and-rest-break claims if the Court denies review. \u2014 Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Even though Saleh didn\u2019t grasp all of the material yet, Bazzi said Saleh was always taking notes. \u2014 Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Numerous speakers recalled his extraordinary grasp of world history, his encyclopedic knowledge of fashion, and the boom of him speaking in absolutely perfect French. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The session will focus on building fine motor skills, improving pinch grasp , sensory motor development and increasing spatial awareness. \u2014 Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Regardless of their poor relationship with Santos, this puts them in good stead to snatch the duo from the grasp of rivals Real Madrid - who bought Rodrygo from them in 2018 and other interested parties. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"But the Christmas miracle was still within the Browns\u2019 grasp . \u2014 Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY , 26 Dec. 2021",
"But Elliott said that Fairhope and surrounding areas have grown so much that lawmakers need to be energetic and have a grasp on the challenges that Baldwin County faces with its rapid growth. \u2014 al , 19 May 2022",
"Health authorities will have a firmer grasp of the risk factors in the coming days. \u2014 Geoff Whitmore, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Well, coach Quin Snyder apparently has a firm grasp on what isn\u2019t the problem. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 Apr. 2022",
"According to a new report, industry professionals also don\u2019t have a full grasp of the concept and want to know how that will affect the landscape. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 5 Apr. 2022"
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": an herbivorous cyprinid fish ( Ctenopharyngodon idella ) of eastern Asia that has been introduced elsewhere to control aquatic weeds":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The only one of the four species found in Lake Erie so far is the grass carp . \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Within a decade of the grass carp 's arrival, Arkansas fish farmers would import three other carp species: black, bighead and silver. \u2014 jsonline.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
"The boxes contained dozens of juvenile grass carp , a species native to Asia and famous for taking to forests of seaweed like locusts to crops. \u2014 jsonline.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Adult grass carp consume aquatic plants, which serve as food and habitat for native fish. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 13 Aug. 2021",
"There are four species of invasive carp in Missouri rivers -- bighead carp, black carp, grass carp and silver carp. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 13 Aug. 2021",
"There are a few hypotheses as to what might be attracting the grass carp . \u2014 Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com , 2 June 2021",
"The removal of the invasive fish comes in response to the discovery of 39 silver carp and 12 grass carp in the Pool 8 region in 2020, as well as an additional eight carp caught in the area this year. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Apr. 2021",
"The silver and grass carp were caught in shallow backwaters of the river's Pool 8, near La Crosse, Wis., just above the southernmost lock and dam in Minnesota. \u2014 Greg Stanley, Star Tribune , 9 Apr. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Brush a hot grill grate with oil and add the mushrooms in a single layer, in batches if necessary. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 23 June 2022",
"Behind a glass partition, flames surge from the grill as chef Yoshiya Tomori lines its grate with skewered chicken thighs, gizzards and hearts. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Alternatively, finely chop, grate or press raw garlic cloves into ice trays, cover with oil, and freeze. \u2014 Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping , 3 June 2022",
"Once the grill is hot, coat the grate in olive oil. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"Replace the cooking grate , and set an oven or grill thermometer on top. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"By putting vegetarian ingredients at the center of the grate , both books provide ways to enjoy all the sensual pleasures of the grill and keep a clear conscience. \u2014 Barry Estabrook, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"Place the steak on the cooking grate and grill for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on size. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Before and after each use, use a grill brush or crumpled aluminum foil to loosen and clean residue on the cooking grate . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The hour, both brisk and sedate, was hosted by Darren Criss and Julianne Hough, whose cheerleader pep seemed to grate even on themselves. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Streaming, the cheap and convenient format that came to rule the industry in the past decade, has begun to grate on a diverse range of artists and listeners. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"There\u2019s also a lack of subtlety that begins to grate after a while. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"To get the juice, peel and grate a cucumber, then wrap in a clean dish towel and squeeze juice into a dish. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 2 May 2022",
"At those lofty prices, and given the Grand Cherokee's overall refinement, the plug-in hybrid's rough edges begin to grate . \u2014 Austin Irwin, Car and Driver , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Use a box grater to grate tomato into a small mixing bowl. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 5 May 2021",
"Meanwhile, grate one pound of the cheese on the large holes of a box grater. \u2014 USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Mince or finely grate 3 garlic cloves and add them to the skillet. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French grater to scratch, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German krazz\u014dn to scratch":"Verb",
"Middle English, from Medieval Latin crata, grata hurdle, alteration of Latin cratis \u2014 more at hurdle":"Noun and Verb"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Brush a hot grill grate with oil and add the mushrooms in a single layer, in batches if necessary. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 23 June 2022",
"Behind a glass partition, flames surge from the grill as chef Yoshiya Tomori lines its grate with skewered chicken thighs, gizzards and hearts. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Alternatively, finely chop, grate or press raw garlic cloves into ice trays, cover with oil, and freeze. \u2014 Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping , 3 June 2022",
"Once the grill is hot, coat the grate in olive oil. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"Replace the cooking grate , and set an oven or grill thermometer on top. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"By putting vegetarian ingredients at the center of the grate , both books provide ways to enjoy all the sensual pleasures of the grill and keep a clear conscience. \u2014 Barry Estabrook, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"Place the steak on the cooking grate and grill for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on size. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Before and after each use, use a grill brush or crumpled aluminum foil to loosen and clean residue on the cooking grate . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The hour, both brisk and sedate, was hosted by Darren Criss and Julianne Hough, whose cheerleader pep seemed to grate even on themselves. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Streaming, the cheap and convenient format that came to rule the industry in the past decade, has begun to grate on a diverse range of artists and listeners. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"There\u2019s also a lack of subtlety that begins to grate after a while. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"To get the juice, peel and grate a cucumber, then wrap in a clean dish towel and squeeze juice into a dish. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 2 May 2022",
"At those lofty prices, and given the Grand Cherokee's overall refinement, the plug-in hybrid's rough edges begin to grate . \u2014 Austin Irwin, Car and Driver , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Use a box grater to grate tomato into a small mixing bowl. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 5 May 2021",
"Meanwhile, grate one pound of the cheese on the large holes of a box grater. \u2014 USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Mince or finely grate 3 garlic cloves and add them to the skillet. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French grater to scratch, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German krazz\u014dn to scratch":"Verb",
"Middle English, from Medieval Latin crata, grata hurdle, alteration of Latin cratis \u2014 more at hurdle":"Noun and Verb"
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"\u02c8gr\u0101t"
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"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
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"It was a gratifying victory.",
"The response has been gratifying .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That part of it was a surprise and very gratifying . \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"But the seminal moment of her career remains the U.S.-China final on July 10, 1999, when a series of magical events gave the nation one of its most gratifying and unifying sports results. \u2014 Christine Brennan, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"This season, the show covers a LOT of ground and examines multiple perspectives of each issue which Adele finds extremely gratifying . \u2014 Essence , 11 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s a humbling experience, but very gratifying as well. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Mental Canvas\u2019 Dorsey said viewing the array of entries for the $100,000 challenge has been extremely gratifying . \u2014 Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
"It's been very gratifying , the reception and the fact that so many people have been watching it. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"The prospect of providing answers to old mysteries makes the bumper crop of pupfish even more gratifying , Wilson said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
"And one of the most gratifying parts of the experience of Drag Race has been hearing from people who tell me how important my time on the show has meant to them. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 23 Apr. 2022"
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"circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8gra-t\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b-i\u014b"
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"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome"
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"adverb"
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"noun"
]
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": upper crust":[
"the gratin of London society"
]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The atmosphere was corporate canteen, but the fare was refined, especially a fruit salad with lime zest and, at dinner, a Roscoff-onion soup with buckwheat, sweetbreads, and a gratin of regional Ty Ewen cheese. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Divide the spinach mixture among four individual gratin dishes (or one 8-inch round or oval oven-proof baking dish). \u2014 Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Here\u2019s a hearty, vegetable gratin with a crunchy, cheesy topping. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 29 Mar. 2022",
"In an oval gratin dish or 7-by-11-inch Pyrex dish, arrange citrus in a spiral, alternating Cara Cara and blood oranges. \u2014 Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
"As soon as the tomato sauce is ready, arrange the eggplant slices alternately with the mozzarella and tomato sauce in a gratin baking dish. \u2014 Benjamin Liong Setiawan, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The lime and coconut potato gratin in Yotam Ottolenghi\u2019s Ottolenghi Flavor. \u2014 Riza Cruz, ELLE , 16 Feb. 2022",
"This creamy-yet-virtuous gratin of greens from Ivy Manning is crowned with crunchy homemade bread crumbs tossed with nutty-tasting brown butter. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Allow the gratin to cool completely before covering it with plastic and storing it in the refrigerator. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Nov. 2021"
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": a system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars ruled on a polished surface to produce spectra by diffraction":[],
": a wooden or metal lattice used to close or floor an opening":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Many on the left today would find the newspaper\u2019s accolade grating in its embrace of the classical West. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
"But even the grating \u2013 albeit perky \u2013 bop with its dusting of sax and funk demonstrated John\u2019s musical elasticity. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"Which raises a grating question: How long will the revulsion last\u2014not only in Germany but in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, even eternally neutral Switzerland, which has joined in",
"The key is in the grating , which cuts down on gluten formation and creates lightness. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Synthetic voices have become less grating in recent years, in part due to artificial intelligence research by companies such as Google and Amazon, which compete to offer virtual assistants and cloud services with smoother artificial tones. \u2014 Tom Simonite, Wired , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Along with the office workers, the Franklin building's employees will be slicing, grating and packaging cheese made at other Saputo facilities before it's distributed to retailers and other wholesale customers. \u2014 Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Casein in particular endows cheese with its melting, stretching, grating , and aging endowments \u2014 not to mention its distinct taste. \u2014 Simon Mainwaring, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"An orange peel and grating of nutmeg bring home the holiday vibe, which makes for a great pairing with the crunchy starters. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Dec. 2021"
],
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"1622, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"harsh",
"jarring",
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"noun"
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"1931, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"1974, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccgr\u00e4-"
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"verb"
]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Reiki sessions are 15 minutes, no charge, gratuity only. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The price of the food itself isn\u2019t changing, but whereas dining prices previously included both meals and service, diners will now be asked to pay a gratuity to their server. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 14 June 2022",
"In some countries, leaving a gratuity is still considered offensive, pandemic or not. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Dinners are $250 per person and include around nine courses, wine pairings and gratuity . \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Some restaurants have tried to solve the inequities and unpredictability of tipping by adding an automatic gratuity to each bill. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The package includes gourmet meals, unlimited snacks, smoothies, specialty coffee and gratuity . \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Brunch does not include beverage, tax, or gratuity . \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 2 May 2022",
"The price of dinner is $75 per person plus tax and gratuity . \u2014 Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer , 12 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1540, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"see gratuitous":""
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"gr\u0259-\u02c8t\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0113",
"-\u02c8ty\u00fc-"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"noun"
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"\u2014 Steve Rushin"
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"1976, in the meaning defined above":""
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"coined by the American cartoonist Mort Walker (1923-2018)":""
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"type":[
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": of the color gray":[],
": prosaically ordinary : dull , uninteresting":[
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"\u2014 P. J. O'Rourke"
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],
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": the mks unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of one joule per kilogram of irradiated material":[
"\u2014 abbreviation Gy"
],
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"Thomas 1716\u20131771 English poet":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"What will you do when you are old and gray ",
"My friends have all gone gray .",
"It was a gray winter day.",
"the gray faces of the people in the crowd"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
"1975, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Louis H. Gray \u20201965 British radiobiologist":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English gr\u01e3g ; akin to Old High German gr\u012bs, gr\u0101o gray":"Adjective, Noun , and Verb"
},
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"\u02c8gr\u0101"
],
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"argentine",
"grayish",
"leaden",
"pewter",
"silver",
"silvery",
"slate",
"slaty",
"slatey",
"steely"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104403",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"biographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
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"gray antimony":{
"antonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130348",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gray area":{
"antonyms":[],
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": an area or situation in which it is difficult to judge what is right and what is wrong":[
"There are no gray areas in the rules.",
"a legal gray area"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104420",
"type":[
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"gray birch":{
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": a small birch ( Betula populifolia ) of northeastern North America that has many lateral branches, grayish-white bark, triangular leaves, and soft weak wood and that occurs especially in old fields reverting to woodland":[],
": yellow birch":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"By planting wild indigo, gray birch , and switchgrass, his goal was to take a chunk of the Catskills and put it on his roof. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 10 Nov. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1846, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": a fox ( Urocyon cinereoargenteus ) with coarse gray hair and white underparts that occurs from southern Canada to northern South America":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All bets are off, though, for catching a gray fox climbing a tree. \u2014 Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic , 6 June 2022",
"Physically, the Archeocyons was the size of today\u2019s gray fox , with long legs and a small head. \u2014 Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 May 2022",
"Sometimes, as in the case of the gray fox at Crissy Field Marsh, the animals may appear to be friendly, and people may be tempted to pet them or help them. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Of the two types of foxes that call Michigan home \u2014 the red fox and the gray fox \u2014 Michiganders are more likely to hear a red fox because of its comfort living near humans, according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 18 Feb. 2022",
"With the help of a searchable online database, Nature to You brings everything from velvety gray fox pelts to a terrifying emperor scorpion specimens to students, sculptors, parents and park rangers. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Jan. 2022",
"The surprisingly large black-tailed jackrabbit is always a crowd-pleaser, as is the diminutive gray fox . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Jan. 2022",
"While the deer are unique pets in themselves, the family also has a propagation permit through the Pennsylvania Game Commission for gray fox . \u2014 Brian Whipkey, USA TODAY , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Now, the ringtail sits alongside several other new additions: the Rock squirrel, fox squirrel, rat, raccoon, armadillo, bobcat, gray fox and axis deer. \u2014 Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News , 18 Nov. 2021"
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"noun"
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"gray iron":{
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"definitions":{
": pig or cast iron containing much graphitic carbon which causes its fracture to be dark gray":[]
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"definitions":{
": a large eucalyptus ( Eucalyptus paniculata ) with heavy dark gray furrowed bark and very hard strong durable wood that varies in color from pale gray to chocolaty brown and is much used for heavy framing":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105511",
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"gray literature":{
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": written material (such as a report) that is not published commercially or is not generally accessible":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There is no gray literature now: Everything is a magnet for immediate attention and misunderstanding. \u2014 James Heathers, The Atlantic , 23 Oct. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1975, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104908",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"gray market":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cettire could be seen as a case study in how a company operates around the gray market . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Emails showed that Hyman was also aware that there was already a gray market for reselling grams before the launch, although this was prohibited by the agreement investors had signed. \u2014 Darren Loucaides, Wired , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Still, incentives remain for customers to look to the gray market . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Aug. 2021",
"China\u2019s government is cool toward bitcoin mining, leaving the activity in a gray market short of being officially outlawed. \u2014 Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ , 21 May 2021",
"But no one wants black or gray market transactions going on in front of their house. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Nov. 2020",
"And these are suggested retail prices; a thirsty collector should expect to pay multiples on whiskey\u2019s torrid gray market . \u2014 Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report , 27 Mar. 2021",
"The demand was so intense that a gray market sprang up for them. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Feb. 2021",
"Some people have waited hours in lines, crossed state borders for better chances, and delved into an emerging gray market in order to get access to the vaccine. \u2014 Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com , 14 Feb. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121532",
"type":[
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"gray matter":{
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"definitions":{
": brains , intellect":[],
": neural tissue especially of the brain and spinal cord that contains nerve-cell bodies as well as nerve fibers and has a brownish-gray color":[]
},
"examples":[
"she's got the gray matter to figure that equation out",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The authors of the study found that drinking a moderate amount of alcohol often can cause the volumes of white and gray matter to shrink in the brain. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The reference charts are visualizations created from aggregating analyses of over 120,000 brain scans to show ranges in brain size, or gray matter volume, for each age. \u2014 Kasra Zarei, STAT , 18 June 2022",
"New research out of Oxford University suggests COVID-19 infection can lead to a reduction in gray matter in certain areas of the brain, along with a reduction in overall brain size\u2014even in people who had relatively mild cases of the virus. \u2014 Serena Coady, SELF , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The scans showed signs of tissue damage in areas of the brain related to smell, as well as a reduction in gray matter in parts linked to smell and memory. \u2014 Alexander Tin, CBS News , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Moreover, acute infection appears to significantly increase the risks of cardiovascular problems such as stroke and heart failure and is associated with reduction in gray matter thickness and cognitive performance. \u2014 Danielle Wenner, STAT , 19 May 2022",
"Some studies also found gamers to have a higher volume of gray matter , the outer layer of the brain that processes information. \u2014 Julie Jargon, WSJ , 14 May 2022",
"Of that group, those who were infected with the coronavirus had accelerated levels of gray matter loss compared with those who never tested positive. \u2014 Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Mar. 2022",
"But those that had Covid-19 appeared to lose between 0.2 percent and 2 percent more gray matter over the three years between scans than those who didn\u2019t get the virus. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1809, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"headpiece",
"intellect",
"intellectuality",
"intelligence",
"mentality",
"reason",
"sense",
"smarts"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111054",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"gray out":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a transient dimming or haziness of vision resulting from temporary impairment of cerebral circulation":[],
": to experience a grayout":[
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"\u2014 Stephen King"
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},
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"1938, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
"1942, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"\u02c8gr\u0101-\u02ccau\u0307t",
"\u02ccgr\u0101-\u02c8au\u0307t"
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"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
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},
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"definitions":{
": a large, heavy-bodied, nonvenomous rat snake ( Pantherophis spiloides synonym Elaphe spiloides ) of the eastern and central U.S. that is gray with brown to dark gray blotches on the back":[],
"\u2014 compare eastern rat snake , western rat snake":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1914, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"gray squirrel":{
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"Many natural options include Saikoho goat, gray squirrel , silver fox, and even Kolinsky sable. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The gray squirrel , which has large white patches of fur, has been making itself at home in the area near the Asian Glade and Japanese Gardens. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 16 Nov. 2021",
"For the past three years, a gray squirrel has set out to ruin my life, chewing leaves off my beloved exotic hibiscus and geraniums. \u2014 Julie Zickefoose, WSJ , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Two species \u2013 the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and the fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) \u2013 thrive on campus landscapes and are willing participants in our behavioral experiments. \u2014 Robert J. Full, The Conversation , 5 Aug. 2021",
"There is an animal that often finds itself in a somewhat similar position to the swimmer and has perfected an effective strategy for frustrating its pursuers: the common gray squirrel . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 29 June 2021",
"The ticks\u2019 favorite mammalian host, the western gray squirrel , does not frequent seaside grass-scapes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2021",
"The company has since achieved a cultlike following for its innovative color and makeup technology, and its Artistique line of brushes \u2014 all made in Kumano, half of them with gray squirrel hair \u2014 are top of the line. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2021"
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"During this more recent southern California bloom, dolphins and a gray whale were spotted swimming through the algae. \u2014 Priya Shukla, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Gigi had been captured for scientific study at the gray whale breeding and calving grounds off the coast of Baja California and brought to SeaWorld in San Diego. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Those hoping to dive even deeper into gray whale migration might consider driving 65 miles from San Diego to Dana Point, which in 2021 was named the first Whale Heritage Site in the U.S. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
"This marks the fourth straight cancellation for Whale Watch Week events, which first canceled during the spring gray whale migration in March 2020. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Dec. 2021",
"On March 13, 1972 a gray whale called Gigi was released into the open ocean about four miles off Point Loma after a year in captivity. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Those who opt to stay on land may need to bring a little patience to spot a gray whale in the open ocean. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Dec. 2021",
"The Attorney General\u2019s Office for Environmental Protection said the boat, about 25 feet long and carrying nine tourists, was near shore when a breaching gray whale collided with it, the AP reported. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 12 Mar. 2015",
"So researchers were surprised to hear reports of a lone gray whale spotted in the southeastern Atlantic off the coast of Namibia. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 June 2021"
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"The Nez Perce give the gray wolf status equal to that of human beings. \u2014 Paige Williams, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Although earlier this year a federal district court ruling placed the gray wolf in Wisconsin and most states back under protections of the Endangered Species Act, the DNR is continuing to work on an update to the Wisconsin wolf management plan. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Anubis, a Mexican gray wolf found outside his territory, is relocated How the wolves are counted To reach the new total, the Wolf Interagency Field Team counted wolves between November 2021 and February 2022. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Activists and environmental activists decried the Biden administration's decision in August to back the Trump administration's removal of the gray wolf from federal protection. \u2014 Alexandra Larkin, CBS News , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The story of the gray wolf that ventured hundreds of miles from Oregon into Southern California came to an unfortunate end. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Dec. 2021",
"That blob of true nighttime darkness overlaps almost perfectly with the range of the gray wolf . \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Nov. 2021",
"The gray wolf received protection from the ESA in the 1970s, when the population dwindled due to declines in their populations and frequent conflict with farmers and ranchers. \u2014 Emma Tucker And Hannah Sarisohn, CNN , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Conservation groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Mexican gray wolf , a subspecies with a small population in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 14 Nov. 2014"
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"Tom Hanks, who became a star in 1984 with Splash, is now doing avuncular, graybeard roles. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 1 June 2022",
"But the graybeard , six days shy of age 40, stopped 19 of 20 shots over the final 46:50 of regulation to send the Bruins and Capitals to overtime. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2021",
"The Braves invited 25 non-roster players to spring training and Kipnis is not the only graybeard with a resume. \u2014 Ray Glier, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2021",
"At 39, Beyonc\u00e9 \u2014 who per academy tradition lost the major prizes but won several genre awards \u2014 was practically the graybeard of the night. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2021",
"San Jose Sharks center Joe Thornton, 40, is the NHL\u2019s ultimate graybeard . \u2014 Mike Brehm, USA TODAY , 2 May 2020",
"Aaron Zimmerman, Copyeditor: Too many crotchety graybeards in this thread. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 12 Apr. 2020",
"In Jakarta, a graybeard captain, speaking to me on the condition of anonymity, described the attitude of the new owners toward their pilots. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Sep. 2019",
"Chara assisted on Carlo\u2019s goal, while both graybeard Sharks logged 0-0\u20140. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Oct. 2019"
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": any of several freshwater salmonoid fishes (genus Thymallus ) valued as food and sport fishes":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Science and skill will always prevail over luck and superstition \u2014 never did get that big grayling out of Ugashik. \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
"Fishermen can encounter native fish like cutthroat trout, Arctic grayling and mountain whitefish. \u2014 Fox News , 21 May 2022",
"Born in 1933, Lucy Adams spent her childhood outside Point Lay, in a place with a year-round supply of grayling , her son Enoch Jr. said. \u2014 Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Dec. 2021",
"The fish used include rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, brook trout, tiger trout, splake and Arctic grayling , and are specifically raised for fishing, TheGuardian reported. \u2014 Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com , 14 July 2021",
"Some feature walleyes, others lake trout, northern pike, Arctic grayling and more. \u2014 Star Tribune , 3 June 2021",
"The river\u2019s glare from the faint morning sunlight flashed off the grayling \u2019s dorsal fin and flanks, morphing from silver to blue to green to purple. \u2014 Colin Kearns, Field & Stream , 5 Oct. 2020",
"The family brought most of their food with them but caught grayling and pike and harvested six moose over the years. \u2014 Author: Roger Kaye, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2020",
"Juvenile grayling are scheduled to arrive soon at the Oden State Fish Hatchery in Emmet County, where an ultraviolet water disinfection system recently was installed. \u2014 USA TODAY , 1 Aug. 2019"
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"the black stallion and white mare produced a grayish filly",
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"The cushions, which are made with water-resistant fabric, have a grayish -blue hue to them that perfectly compliments summer skies. \u2014 Taylor Giangregorio, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022",
"In the distance, a large plume of grayish smoke rose over the surrounding hills. \u2014 Felicia Fonseca, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The animal is covered in grayish -brown fur with white front legs, black stripes running from its chest to its back, and a bushy tail, according to the National Zoo. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"To create the eye, Ganzer used the grayish pigment from Shiseido\u2019s Kaigan Street Waters palette as a base, then drew on a sharp wing, extending the color on the bottom lash as well. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The cat, which has developed a considerable following on social media, has grayish -white fur, yellow eyes ringed in black and a distinctive scowl on his face. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The poster alone\u2014which showed a dark grayish blue cloud hovering over a unnamed metropolis and which was released exactly 365 days before the film is set to open\u2014was enough to send the internet into a tailspin.\u2014R.S. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 10 Jan. 2022",
"As Rani explores the planet and uses her hand tool to remove the gunk she is dazzled to see the environment transform from a dull grayish landscape to one bursting with exotic flora. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"At his laboratory at the University of C\u00e1diz, V\u00edctor Palacios, a chemical engineer, recently showed me a petri dish filled with gritty, grayish -brown powder\u2014a sample of the charred paste of fish bones recovered from the Garum Shop at Pompeii. \u2014 Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Oct. 2021"
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"Boys, often with a parent\u2019s help, design and carve miniature wooden cars, which race on sloped tracks, since the cars are powered by gravity alone. \u2014 Gregg Opelka, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"The resulting remnant stellar core is crushed by gravity into a black hole, says NASA. \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"In the case of Hawking radiation, that warm fuzzy effect is essentially a result of particles being pulled into a black hole by gravity . \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 20 May 2022",
"Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 May 2022",
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News , 12 May 2022",
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 12 May 2022",
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, ajc , 12 May 2022",
"Black holes don't emit light, but the image shows the shadow of the black hole surrounded by a bright ring of light, which is bent by the gravity of the black hole. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 12 May 2022"
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"A guilty verdict would gratify the victim's relatives.",
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"Brooks didn\u2019t know how to gratify his master, and therefore was killed. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Benedetta and Bartolomea awaken and gratify each other\u2019s desires, at times making strategic use of a sacred figurine that has been retooled to heighten their pleasure and, of course, to offend those with more parochial sensibilities in the audience. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Jennifer\u2019s literal survival depends (for supernatural reasons) on her ability to gratify her vampiric, cannibalistic hungers, and thus to pursue her revenge plot unimpeded. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Protecting the liberty of the people ranks lower than the legislators\u2019 desire to gratify their own vain ambitions by doling out privileges and cash. \u2014 Lance Christensen, National Review , 14 May 2021",
"Each camp of Democrats thus has a responsibility to learn from, if not gratify , the other. \u2014 Michael Kazin, The New Republic , 11 Feb. 2021",
"Porter was in a position to provide information to a reporter but dictated terms that would gratify him and degrade her. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Jan. 2021",
"Bailey\u2019s family tearfully told 3rd District Judge Paul Parker how French had begun manipulating the young teenager in order to gratify himself. \u2014 Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Aug. 2020",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That part of it was a surprise and very gratifying . \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"But the seminal moment of her career remains the U.S.-China final on July 10, 1999, when a series of magical events gave the nation one of its most gratifying and unifying sports results. \u2014 Christine Brennan, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"This season, the show covers a LOT of ground and examines multiple perspectives of each issue which Adele finds extremely gratifying . \u2014 Essence , 11 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s a humbling experience, but very gratifying as well. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Mental Canvas\u2019 Dorsey said viewing the array of entries for the $100,000 challenge has been extremely gratifying . \u2014 Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
"It's been very gratifying , the reception and the fact that so many people have been watching it. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"The prospect of providing answers to old mysteries makes the bumper crop of pupfish even more gratifying , Wilson said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
"And one of the most gratifying parts of the experience of Drag Race has been hearing from people who tell me how important my time on the show has meant to them. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 23 Apr. 2022"
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"The school will still take a holistic approach to every applicant, looking at grades, test scores and life experience \u2013 although Schmill also suggested there\u2019s quite a bit of grade inflation going on out there. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 2 Apr. 2022",
"But students who get Ds and Fs are typically those who don\u2019t turn in their work or show up to class, said Rey Hern\u00e1ndez-Juli\u00e1n, a finance professor of Metropolitan State University of Denver who has studied grade inflation . \u2014 Mikhail Zinshteyn, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Nov. 2021",
"This often does lead to dropping out, to a watering down of standards, grade inflation and other pathologies of the modern era. \u2014 Richard Vedder, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Ask anyone, but especially those in education, about grade inflation and you\u2019re likely to get strong responses. \u2014 Derek Newton, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Transcripts and diplomas don\u2019t carry much weight for many employers, as grade inflation has reduced the worth of a cumulative grade point average. \u2014 Douglas Belkin, WSJ , 11 Aug. 2021",
"One of the biggest stumbling blocks is whether all applicants should be required to take an entrance exam to safeguard against grade inflation or whether the use of test scores should be optional. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2021",
"To give one example, high graduation or retention rates are great, but they can be dishonestly achieved by simply engaging in grade inflation . \u2014 Richard Vedder, Forbes , 24 May 2021",
"But high-school GPA is subject to grade inflation , so colleges will always need to include a more-objective measure of academic aptitude alongside it. \u2014 Preston Cooper, National Review , 21 May 2021"
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"More important, though, are the lessons social media teaches us about what\u2019s newsworthy, appealing or interesting to audiences\u2014and these are and always have been the holy grail of capturing attention. \u2014 Beth Noymer Levine, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Dave Schilling searches for the holy grail of L.A. outerwear. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The night parrot was long considered the holy grail of Australian birding. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Today, the floating fleets are considered the holy grail of efficiency in the charter market, with even smaller operators joining in. \u2014 Doug Gollan, Forbes , 10 Oct. 2021",
"An ongoing rollout of deluxe reissues whet the appetite, while Jackson\u2019s Get Back, with its running time of 468 minutes, presented, for many, a holy grail of Beatles footage, much of which has been locked in the vault since it was shot. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 28 Jan. 2022",
"His new friend group, made up of characters played by Kiersey Clemons, Peter S. Kim, and Jaboukie Young-White, quickly inculcate him into their grail -seeking universe, in which looking cool \u2014 particularly for one\u2019s online audience \u2014 is all. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Selecting a reputable custodian with an accredited depository that can act as a broker is the holy grail for setting up Silver IRA. \u2014 Regal Assets, The Salt Lake Tribune , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The holy grail of hair dryer brushes, Dyson's innovative design uses the Coanda effect (high-speed air that creates a vortex) to curl and style wet hair. \u2014 Tatjana Freund, ELLE , 10 Feb. 2022"
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"gracile as any pair of classically trained dancers, the bride and groom made their way around the dance floor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Elephant bones by comparison are gracile , slender\u2014they\u2019re like twigs compared to mastodons. \u2014 Peter Brannen, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
"The bright colors and gracile X-braces of the Eames House are written all across the Pompidou Center. \u2014 Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker , 22 Jan. 2022",
"Homotherium was not the only carnivore on the Pleistocene landscape, and the gracile cats might have faced competition from Ice Age hyenas, bears and other cats. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 June 2021",
"At first glance, there would seem to be nothing to find in that little house of Cobb\u2019s signature masterpiece, the gracile glass skyscraper that still crowns Boston\u2019s skyline and is the quintessence of what design historians call high modernism. \u2014 Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker , 6 Oct. 2019",
"Gracile skulls due to the Mongoloid\u2019s very recent evolutionary development. \u2014 Longreads , 1 Aug. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The earthy warmth of Tweed evokes summer days spent in the Cotswolds, while Tuxedo\u2019s gray scale calls to mind innumerable red-carpet photo calls. \u2014 Vogue , 13 Sep. 2019",
"The Holocaust, or the Gulag, are such monstrous events that the very idea of rendering them in any sort of gray scale seems monstrous, too. \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 21 June 2019",
"What the ad says: The one-minute ad opens in gray scale images and paints a dismal portrait of Maryland before Hogan was elected. \u2014 Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com , 30 May 2018",
"Water and nourishment enter through the gray scales on their leaves, so these plants don\u2019t need soil to survive. \u2014 Karen Dardick, sandiegouniontribune.com , 17 May 2018",
"The wearer sits calmly, her face and body rendered in gray scale \u2014 without any color. \u2014 Rhonda Garelick, The Cut , 14 Feb. 2018",
"Her images play black and white against color in different ways, most obviously in the skin tones, which are painted on the gray scale . \u2014 Roberta Smith, New York Times , 16 Oct. 2017",
"David Ferri\u2019s sterile lighting casts a glow on the chalky floor, which has white lines drawn here and there that travel up the dancers legs and torsos in random stripes across their gray scale costumes. \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2017"
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"He has become a very graceful dancer.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But if Rice had been given a more graceful exit, industry vets would\u2019ve acknowledged that Chapek was hardly the first to knock off a potential successor in the great tradition of the town. \u2014 Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"There's no shame in making a graceful exit before a discussion gets out of hand! \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"Shirley wanted to portray the delicacy and poetry of the long-necked animal, including its graceful movements. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 23 Aug. 2021",
"Blanchard\u2019s graceful and evocative score and the sublime chemistry within the cast carried the opera the rest of the way. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
"And nobody ever personified the graceful and beauteous indulgences of art better than Oscar Wilde. \u2014 Scott Bradfield, Los Angeles Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Wes had so many insights into the psychology of each character and was just such a graceful man and so clever and so smart and witty, and full of stories from his career and life. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 20 Dec. 2021",
"The 6-foot-9, 31-year-old center for the Phoenix Mercury, one of the most gifted and graceful athletes of her generation, awaits trial on drug charges in Russia. \u2014 Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY , 6 May 2022",
"Those graceful , highly huntable deer had snacked rural Scotland into a monoculture. \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Kylan, a native of Birmingham who attended Birmingham City Schools throughout elementary, middle and high school, ended up with a 4.5 grade point average . \u2014 Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The bike giveaway was an incentive for students that earned a 2.5 grade point average or higher this school year. \u2014 David Sharos, Chicago Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"In addition, those who earn a 2.5 grade point average or higher in community college are guaranteed entrance into a public four-year school without having to pay an application fee or write an application essay. \u2014 Kim Costigan, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"The death of Robbie Roper, a high school quarterback from Georgia who had multiple college scholarship offers and a 3.9 grade point average when he was buried in December, was more than a tragedy. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"Elliott Tanner is maintaining a 3.78 grade point average at the University of Minnesota and is participating in undergraduate research while also tutoring classmates. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Typically, dean\u2019s list honorees earn a minimum 3.5 grade point average , carrying at least 12 credits. \u2014 cleveland , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Boley finished her degree in May, with a 3.98 grade point average , and is now working on a master\u2019s at Worcester State. \u2014 Kim Costigan, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"High school juniors or seniors with at least a 3.0 grade point average are eligible to apply. \u2014 Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com , 24 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These kinds of random strategies have been used to great effect in mathematics, particularly in graph theory . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 June 2022",
"Using spectral graph theory , mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 16 May 2022",
"To solve all the higher dimensional cases of equiangular lines, the researchers used something called spectral graph theory . \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 16 May 2022",
"The game is played on the figure shown, which consists of six points, each of which is shown joined to every other by black lines (called edges in graph theory ). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The problem was well known in graph theory circles and attracted many attempts to solve it, none of which were successful. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 5 Apr. 2021",
"Data science is another tool that encompasses AI plus statistical analysis, mathematical optimization, simulation, search and matching algorithms, graph theory and combinatorics. \u2014 Sushil Verma, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"The reports themselves\u2014on topics ranging from graph theory to user-interface design\u2014suggested the dimensions of the space; when multiple reports used similar groups of words, their dimensions could be combined. \u2014 James Somers, The New Yorker , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Mathematicians are currently learning which rules of graph theory also apply for higher-order interactions, suggesting new areas of exploration. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 19 Aug. 2021"
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"\u2014 Anthony Trollope"
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"\u2014 Lisa McManus"
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"\u2014 Andrew Clements",
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"\u2014 Mary Lefkowitz"
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"\u2014 Robert Neuwirth"
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"\u2014 Consumer Reports"
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"\u2014 Sheldon Judson and Marvin E. Kauffman"
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"The fifth grade will perform their annual play this week.",
"a grade of 90 percent or better",
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"an expensive grade of leather",
"Verb",
"Students will be graded on their reading ability.",
"She hasn't finished grading the exams.",
"How would you grade your meal on a scale from one to five",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Winkler, an actor, drew on his childhood experiences with dyslexia to write about Hank and his fourth- grade high jinks and trouble with reading and writing. \u2014 Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"Every Everglades has comfy seats covered in material that's marine grade but still manages to look nice. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 28 June 2022",
"Two popular brands with thousands of rave reviews are the DivaCup and Saalt Cup that are made with medical- grade silicone and are eco-friendly. \u2014 Carly Kulzer, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"This commercial- grade pedestal fan is great for a basement or garage workshop, or even a home gym. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 27 June 2022",
"Masks on Amazon have been passed off as being higher grade . \u2014 Hannah Zeavin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Rebecca Gault, a ninth- grade English teacher at Bel Air High School, is a recipient one of three Education Ambassador Awards from the Pegasus Springs Education Collective. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 21 June 2022",
"During a first- grade gym class, a classmate careened into his face, essentially knocking out two teeth. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Scott Henderson, 43, left his job as a ninth- grade social studies teacher in Herriman, Utah, midway through the school year. \u2014 Kathryn Dill, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"For the second time this season, Just Fields did not grade out as a champion after completing a career-low 44.4 percent of his passes for 114 yards and two interceptions. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 21 Dec. 2020",
"Participants are asked to grade the schools overall as well as in a variety of areas including leadership, safety, innovation and responsiveness to the community. \u2014 Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star , 12 Apr. 2022",
"At first, Murphy did not grade as highly on pitches down in the strike zone, an area Jensen views as vital. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 May 2022",
"Trying to grade how teams did immediately after a draft is pretty futile. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 2 May 2022",
"Despite the rejection, the Sheriff\u2019s Department hired a crew to grade the dirt. \u2014 Alene Tchekmedyianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"There are 150 students in the class, so if the strike continues, the professor will have to grade all the final exams without help. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"And after the \u2019bacco was cured, my grandmother would grade it. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The program will use machine learning and artificial intelligence to teach and grade . \u2014 Susan Harmeling, Forbes , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Earlier this month, Poly launched two new pro- grade collaboration devices, the Poly Studio R30 and the Poly Sync 10, to improve collaboration experiences in a hybrid work environment. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The Surface can run pro- grade Windows-compatible design apps, like Photoshop and Illustrator. \u2014 Kenny Wassus, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"As of Wednesday, AAA's national average for medium or mid- grade gas was $4.50, and the medium average in Kentucky was listed at $4.18. \u2014 Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The era where mid- grade luxury SUVs can tangle with American muscle cars is upon us. \u2014 David Beard, Car and Driver , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The microphone has a pro- grade capsule and includes a foam windscreen for crisp and warm audio without plosives or wind noise. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"But if this brand new iPhone 14 specs rumor is accurate, buyers who choose the more affordable models might get a few key Pro- grade features for a discount. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 14 Jan. 2022",
"The pro- grade camera system sports three rear-facing cameras including a 3x optical telephoto 8MP camera, while the front camera has a 32 megapixel ultra-wide lens as well. \u2014 Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Ready to transform your workshop to pro- grade status"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The good news is that Pacifiction, the latest feature from Catalan auteur Albert Serra, who\u2019s only in his 40s but directs like a grand old man of the 1960s avant-garde, is quite watchable, even sort of plot-driven \u2014 for a Serra film. \u2014 Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
"Three new biographical works suggest something of the pitfalls that beset anyone attempting to get the grand old man of British Romanticism down on paper. \u2014 Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Three new biographical works suggest something of the pitfalls that beset anyone attempting to get the grand old man of British Romanticism down on paper. \u2014 Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Three new biographical works suggest something of the pitfalls that beset anyone attempting to get the grand old man of British Romanticism down on paper. \u2014 Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Three new biographical works suggest something of the pitfalls that beset anyone attempting to get the grand old man of British Romanticism down on paper. \u2014 Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Three new biographical works suggest something of the pitfalls that beset anyone attempting to get the grand old man of British Romanticism down on paper. \u2014 Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Three new biographical works suggest something of the pitfalls that beset anyone attempting to get the grand old man of British Romanticism down on paper. \u2014 Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Three new biographical works suggest something of the pitfalls that beset anyone attempting to get the grand old man of British Romanticism down on paper. \u2014 Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books , 24 Sep. 2020"
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"\u02c8gr\u0101-\u0259n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161350"
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"grani vorous"
],
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"grani vorous"
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"noun"
],
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],
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": a brittle usually dark brown often very large inferior commercial sponge ( Spongia graminea ) occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, in the West Indies, and off the Florida coast":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162610"
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],
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": a projectile used in lifesaving that has hinged claws designed to catch in a ship's rigging or to hold in the ground":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There, under the tutelage of a maternal grandaunt , she was taught ancient Irish ways of life known as the Brehon laws. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Initially, the group was run by advisors handpicked by Birla\u2019s grandaunt , Priyamvada Birla. \u2014 Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India , 17 June 2019",
"Burns is one of many black people who, in addition to biological mothers, have aunts, grandaunts , or other women who have played a hand in their upbringing. \u2014 Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com , 11 May 2018"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163624"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Martino said that over the last several years college admission policies are looking less at class rank and more at transcript summaries, specifically around grade point averages and participation in Honors Advanced Placement dual-credit courses. \u2014 Linda Girardi, chicagotribune.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The rule requires that incoming freshman maintain 2.0 grade point averages and score 700 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or a 15 on the American College Testing program. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Jan. 2022",
"At Northern Cass, that means that grade point averages no longer exist. \u2014 Yoree Koh, WSJ , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Data on the slide spanned a five-year period, including information like UMD\u2019s total number of applicants, with average SAT scores and grade point averages. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Boston school officials credited Scholar Athletes with helping to boost participation in athletics, particularly by helping students meet the minimum grade point averages. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Sep. 2021",
"An early study found that students on the course had higher attendance, grade point averages and credits, but, as with many other promising interventions, there was a risk the gains could be largely temporary. \u2014 Nick Morrison, Forbes , 6 Sep. 2021",
"That was followed in descending order by what jobs applicants had in college, their college majors, volunteer experiences, extracurricular activities, relevance of coursework and grade point averages. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2021",
"The two new designations would not factor into students' grade point averages. \u2014 Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 6 Apr. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163902"
},
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"noun"
],
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": a user interface that allows a computer user to interact easily with the computer typically by making choices from displayed menus or groups of icons":[
"\u2026 how quickly the software companies can write new applications, or new versions of old applications, to take advantage of windows, icons, menus and mice, the principal elements of the graphical user interface .",
"\u2014 Peter H. Lewis"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Xerox PARC introduces the Alto, the first modern personal computer, supporting a graphical user interface . \u2014 Gil Press, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"For instance, to eliminate a language barrier, a janitorial service provider could build a graphical user interface unique for using images rather than text. \u2014 Prateek Chakravarty, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Unqork includes a graphical user interface with drag-and-drop components, as well as a library of template applications. \u2014 Tom Davenport, Forbes , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Green and amber text monitors gave way to Apple\u2019s and Windows\u2019 graphical user interface , making computers much easier to use. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 26 Dec. 2021",
"Smart passives can also alert IT professionals remotely via SNMP/SNMP-Traps, which can be verified through a web browser\u2019s graphical user interface (GUI). \u2014 Julie Song, Forbes , 24 May 2021",
"The Apple Lisa in 1983 presaged the Mac and the whole revolution of the windows-icons-mouse graphical user interface that would dominate computing to come. \u2014 Jason Torchinsky, Ars Technica , 20 Dec. 2020",
"Build 2020 conference, where the company also teased graphical user interface support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. \u2014 Mark Hachman, PCWorld , 17 June 2020",
"The fact that the Mac had a graphical user interface at all was exciting in its own right. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 15 Oct. 2019"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1981, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164236"
},
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"transitive verb",
"verb"
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": to implant (living tissue) surgically":[],
": to join or unite as if by grafting":[],
": to attach (a chemical unit) to a main molecular chain":[],
": to become grafted":[],
": to perform grafting":[],
": to get (illicit gain) by graft":[],
": to practice graft":[],
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},
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"\u02c8graft"
],
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"Middle English graffe, grafte , from Anglo-French greffe, graife stylus, graph, from Medieval Latin graphium , from Latin, stylus, from Greek grapheion , from graphein to write \u2014 more at carve":"Noun and Verb",
"origin unknown":"Verb and Noun",
"English dialect graft , verb, to work":"Noun"
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1865, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1859, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
"1853, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164511"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In addition to past sessions with a Community Advisory Group to obtain input on the grade separation project, Elmwood Park has held one public informational meeting. \u2014 Gary Gibula, chicagotribune.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The village also plans to continue to make progress on the grade separation and underpass at Grand Avenue following the appropriation of $24 million in funds to support the project. \u2014 Kyra Senese, chicagotribune.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
"In fact, the design of the bridge caused it to be selected by the American Institute of Steel Construction in 1968 as the most beautiful structure in its category -- highway grade separation -- to be opened to traffic in 1967. \u2014 Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online , 22 Sep. 2021",
"According to Metra, the grade separation was a direct result of Chicago hosting the 1893 World\u2019s Columbian Exhibition \u2014 city leaders didn\u2019t want messy train deaths to tarnish the event\u2019s image. \u2014 Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com , 11 July 2021",
"Another $15 million would go to a grade separation \u2014 think of it as one road going under or over another \u2014 along Pennsylvania Road in Romulus where a train track regularly backs up traffic, secured by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press , 1 July 2021",
"Infrastructure upgrades include pedestrian grade separation , new bike lanes, sidewalk improvements and more. \u2014 Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 Apr. 2021",
"The 12-cent increase must be used on regular road maintenance and rehabilitation, safety projects, railroad grade separations and complete streets. \u2014 Gary Richards, The Mercury News , 11 July 2019",
"The idea of functional grade separation \u2014 pedestrians on one level, cars on another, trucks a third \u2014 was a midcentury dream that failed. \u2014 Mark Lamster, Dallas News , 1 Aug. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165355"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165536"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165553"
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"adverb",
"adverb or adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
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"grave problems"
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": to clean and pay with pitch":[
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"\u02c8gr\u00e4-(\u02cc)v\u0101",
"\u02c8gr\u0101v"
],
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"sepulchre",
"sepulcher",
"sepulture",
"tomb"
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"examples":[
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"This violation of school rules is a grave matter.",
"His carelessness could have grave consequences.",
"They have placed themselves in grave danger.",
"I have grave doubts about this plan.",
"suffering from a grave illness",
"The judge issued his ruling with a grave expression.",
"The French word p\u00e8re is written with a grave accent over the first e ."
],
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"Middle French, from Latin gravis heavy, grave \u2014 more at grieve":"Adjective and Noun",
"Italian, literally, grave, from Latin gravis":"Adverb or adjective",
"Middle English, from Old English grafan ; akin to Old High German graban to dig, Old Church Slavonic po greti to bury":"Verb",
"Middle English graven":"Verb"
},
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1539, in the meaning defined at sense 1d":"Adjective",
"1609, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1683, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb or adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": cattle for beef that are finished on grass":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170326"
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"verb"
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": to join or unite as if by grafting":[],
": to attach (a chemical unit) to a main molecular chain":[],
": to become grafted":[],
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"origin unknown":"Verb and Noun",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1865, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1859, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
"1853, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"ladder",
"ordering",
"ranking",
"scale"
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"examples":[
"He joined the navy after graduation .",
"We had a party to celebrate her graduation from high school.",
"They took lots of pictures at their son's graduation .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many of the family's graduation and other special event celebrations were held at Albanese's. \u2014 Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
"The identity of Jalia \u2014 a high school student weeks away from graduation \u2014 was confirmed by the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office, however a cause of death has not yet been released. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 1 July 2022",
"Documentary filmmaker Dan Chen and his crew started interviewing Landry kids \u2014 along with the school\u2019s charismatic co-founder Mike Landry \u2014 before the scandal broke, intending to follow a handful of seniors through graduation . \u2014 Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"In the accompanying photo, Ty was dressed in his red graduation cap and gown, the white tassel falling at an angle. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"The trip, a joint birthday and graduation gift, started two weeks ago in Atlanta. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 29 June 2022",
"Other popular events include graduation parties and corporate events. \u2014 Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer , 28 June 2022",
"After more than a week and 3,000 miles together the pool party felt like a graduation and reunion all rolled into one. \u2014 Karl Brauer, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The final quarter \u2014 the summer \u2014 is typically when the services recruit the most candidates following high school graduation . \u2014 Courtney Kube, NBC News , 27 June 2022"
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"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171123"
},
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"noun"
],
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": one that wears a gray coat (as a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War)":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171509"
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"gray cobalt":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": smaltite":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171547"
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to improve by breeding females to purebred males":[]
},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"1903, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171941"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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"gr\u00e4-",
"gr\u0259-\u02c8f\u0113-(\u02cc)t\u014d",
"gra-"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The home in front of them had boarded up windows and graffiti scrawled on its classic white exterior. \u2014 Alina Dizik, WSJ , 28 May 2020",
"Some protesters damaged windows, a squad car and spraying graffiti on the building. \u2014 Lici Beveridge, USA TODAY , 28 May 2020",
"Protesters eventually made their way to a police precinct, where some demonstrators damaged windows and sprayed graffiti , according to the Associated Press. \u2014 Mahita Gajanan, Time , 27 May 2020",
"Many protesters marched more than 2 miles to the police precinct station in that part of the city, with some damaging the building\u2019s windows and squad cars and spraying graffiti . \u2014 Amy Forliti And Jeff Baenen, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 May 2020",
"Some students at Syracuse University left the campus in November after being rattled by racist and anti-Semitic incidents, including racist graffiti scrawled on dormitory walls and anti-Semitic emails sent to faculty members. \u2014 Moriah Balingit, Washington Post , 31 Dec. 2019",
"Others sprayed graffiti along walls and smashed windows at a subway exit. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Sep. 2019",
"Reuters/Tyrone Siu Police who had earlier been stationed inside to stop protesters from entering all the way ceded the building to the control of the demonstrators, who barricaded corridors and sprayed graffiti on the walls. \u2014 Adam Rasmi, Quartz , 1 July 2019",
"There have been a dozen instances of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti appearing on or near campus in recent weeks, according to Syverud, who said police believe that one to five people connected to the university are responsible for the vandalism. \u2014 CBS News , 21 Nov. 2019"
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"Italian, incised inscription, from graffiare to scratch, probably from grafio stylus, from Latin graphium":""
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"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172219"
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"noun"
],
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": a drill for sowing small grains (as of wheat) or fine seeds (as clover seed) \u2014 see cup drill , shoe drill":[]
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},
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"gr\u00e4-",
"gr\u0259-\u02c8f\u0113-(\u02cc)t\u0113",
"gr\u0259-\u02c8f\u0113-t\u0113",
"gra-"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"The walls of the old building are covered with graffiti .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Police in San Leandro, California, arrested a 25-year-old on Monday on suspicion of vandalizing a neighbor's home with anti-Asian graffiti . \u2014 Chantal Da Silva, NBC News , 21 June 2022",
"And, just last week, barracks at Auschwitz were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti and Holocaust-denying slogans. \u2014 Elie Honig, CNN , 14 Oct. 2021",
"For the graffiti at Union Station, police charged the 34-year-old with Display of Certain Emblems. \u2014 Sarah Fortinsky And Kelly Murray, CNN , 30 Jan. 2022",
"The service department was asked to remove the graffiti . \u2014 cleveland , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Police said that Boise Parks employees began cleaning and covering up the graffiti as soon as authorities learned of the incident. \u2014 Fox News , 5 Dec. 2021",
"District spokeswoman Cathy Kelly said officials were close to finding the person who wrote the graffiti at Parkway North. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Community volunteers gathered the following day to remove the graffiti , but the Police Bureau obtained surveillance video of the crime. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Sep. 2021",
"Some sought to restore the monuments, cleaning, painting over, and pouring corrosive chemicals to dissolve the graffiti . \u2014 Chris Cynn, Curbed , 22 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The announcement follows a weekend of protests in the United Kingdom, where on June 7, protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol and graffitied a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in London. \u2014 M\u00e9lissa Godin, Time , 9 June 2020",
"What parts of the dining room walls that aren\u2019t obscured by supplies are graffitied with well wishes in English, Spanish and Mandarin, and taped with paper bills like a neighborhood bar. \u2014 Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2020",
"In under a hundred years, Florence\u2019s equivalent of a New York minute, the majority were bordered up, graffitied over, repurposed into doorbell posts, or completely covered. \u2014 Erin Florio, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 21 Jan. 2020",
"There have been at least 12 episodes since Nov. 6, including anti-Asian and anti-black slurs graffitied in residence halls and a swastika in a snow bank near an apartment complex where students live. \u2014 Doha Madani, NBC News , 20 Nov. 2019",
"Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times More than 2,500 police officers patrol New York City\u2019s subway, where crime is down sharply from the era of rampant violence and graffiti three decades ago. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Nov. 2019",
"Fernandez was proposing to have graffiti -like murals on each of the six panels on the transportation center, with panels representing Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena. \u2014 Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader , 27 Aug. 2019",
"Situated in a lay-by on the A487, just north of Llanrhystud, about half-way up the west coast of Wales, its importance derives from two words graffitied on it by Meic Stephens, a journalist and activist, in the 1960s: Cofiwch Dryweryn. \u2014 The Economist , 22 Aug. 2019",
"My current paralysis seemed to have begun with a three-word question graffitied all over my neighborhood. \u2014 Catherine Lacey, Harper's magazine , 19 Aug. 2019"
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"Italian, plural of graffito":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"1945, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1964, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173806"
},
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"noun"
],
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174047"
},
"Gracchus":{
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"biographical name"
],
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],
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]
},
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"\u02c8gra-k\u0259s"
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": a graspable bar attached to the wall in a shower or near a bathtub as an assistance to a bather in maintaining balance or getting in and out":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174237"
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"grace hoop":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a hoop used in the graces":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174756"
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"grayback beetle":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a large Australian scarab beetle ( Lepidoderma albohirtum ) having larvae that destroy sugarcane roots":[]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": an annual European vetch ( Lathyrus nissolia ) with minute stipules and crimson flowers":[]
},
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"verb"
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": to implant (living tissue) surgically":[],
": to join or unite as if by grafting":[],
": to attach (a chemical unit) to a main molecular chain":[],
": to become grafted":[],
": to perform grafting":[],
": to get (illicit gain) by graft":[],
": to practice graft":[],
": work , labor":[]
},
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"\u02c8graft"
],
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"Middle English graffe, grafte , from Anglo-French greffe, graife stylus, graph, from Medieval Latin graphium , from Latin, stylus, from Greek grapheion , from graphein to write \u2014 more at carve":"Noun and Verb",
"origin unknown":"Verb and Noun",
"English dialect graft , verb, to work":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"1865, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1859, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
"1853, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175828"
},
"gradualism":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"noun or adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": the policy of approaching a desired end by gradual stages":[]
},
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"-j\u0259-\u02ccli-",
"\u02c8gra-j\u0259-w\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tactically, a 75 basis-point increase would be a communication shift for Powell who has preferred to telegraph moves in advance and embrace gradualism . \u2014 Molly Smith, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"Who is being served by such gradualism , the shareholder or the customer",
"But gradualism has given way to wariness in recent weeks, partly thanks to a new series of data points showing that inflation is still high and might stay elevated for some time. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Their goal was the immediate end to slavery, not the tepid and undeniably racist gradualism of the American Colonization Society. \u2014 Bennett Parten, The Conversation , 29 Sep. 2021",
"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism . \u2014 Fox News , 27 Aug. 2013",
"After nearly five decades in Washington, Biden is an institutionalist, a political leader who believes in consensus and gradualism . \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 17 Aug. 2020",
"Such conditions inevitably produce a recognition of the limits of gradualism among conservatives fed up with years of rearguard compromise who desire a proactive rather than an essentially defensive and recessional policy program. \u2014 A. Wess Mitchell, National Review , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Such gradualism has not worked with North Korea in the past. \u2014 The Economist , 4 July 2019"
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"1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"noun"
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": a disease of willow caused by the fungus ( Sphaceloma murrayae ) and characterized by irregular somewhat raised leaf spots with grayish white centers and narrow dark brown margins often merging to form large patches":[]
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
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": having higher rank than others bearing the same general designation":[
"the grand champion"
],
": inclusive , comprehensive":[
"the grand total of all money paid out"
],
": definitive , incontrovertible":[
"grand example"
],
": chief , principal":[
"the grand ballroom"
],
": large and striking in size, scope, extent, or conception":[
"grand design"
],
": lavish , sumptuous":[
"a grand celebration"
],
": marked by a regal form and dignity":[],
": fine or imposing in appearance or impression":[
"sported a grand mustache"
],
": lofty , sublime":[
"writing in the grand style"
],
": pretending to social superiority : supercilious":[],
": intended to impress":[
"a person of grand gestures"
],
": very good : wonderful":[
"a grand time"
],
"river 260 miles (418 kilometers) long in southwestern Michigan flowing north and west into Lake Michigan":[],
"river 300 miles (483 kilometers) long in northwestern Missouri flowing southeast into the Missouri River":[],
"river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in northern South Dakota flowing east into the Missouri River":[],
"the Colorado River from its source to its junction with the Green River in southeastern Utah":[
"\u2014 a former name"
],
": grand piano":[],
": a thousand dollars":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grand"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
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"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grand Adjective grand , magnificent , imposing , stately , majestic , grandiose mean large and impressive. grand adds to greatness of size the implications of handsomeness and dignity. a grand staircase magnificent implies an impressive largeness proportionate to scale without sacrifice of dignity or good taste. magnificent paintings imposing implies great size and dignity but especially stresses impressiveness. an imposing edifice stately may suggest poised dignity, erectness of bearing, handsomeness of proportions, ceremonious deliberation of movement. the stately procession majestic combines the implications of imposing and stately and usually adds a suggestion of solemn grandeur. a majestic waterfall grandiose implies a size or scope exceeding ordinary experience grandiose hydroelectric projects but is most commonly applied derogatorily to inflated pretension or absurd exaggeration. grandiose schemes",
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He thinks everything the government does is part of some grand conspiracy.",
"the beauty of nature's grand design",
"The neighborhood includes many grand old homes.",
"His job is much less grand than his title makes it sound.",
"My great aunt lived to the grand old age of 103.",
"Despite its grand name, the hotel is small and somewhat seedy.",
"He made some grand statements about the company's future.",
"They celebrated their anniversary in grand style .",
"He planned to make a grand entrance , driving up to the house in a fancy red sports car.",
"We won the grand prize.",
"Noun",
"He bought a used car for about five grand .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Luhrmann similarly saw the dynamic as one on a grand scale that defied any simple construct of villainy. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
"The Gift, a soundtrack/companion album that spotlighted Afrobeats on a grand scale. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022",
"But this isn\u2019t the first time L.A. has launched a grand -scale tree planting campaign that has run into significant hurdles. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"For more than a decade, the Drake factory has been operating at full capacity \u2014 recalibrating the relationship between hip-hop, R&B and pop; balancing grand -scale ambition with granular experimentation; embracing the meme-ification of his celebrity. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"In the 1970s and 1980s, the proliferation of standardized cargo containers revolutionized global shipping, dramatically reducing transportation and distribution costs and opening the door to international commerce on a grand scale. \u2014 Dan Ikenson, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"The grand -scale discoveries of Dr. Hautakanga and her team\u2019s study were made possible due to the larger research samples available. \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022",
"This is a home that is perfect for daily living and entertaining on a grand scale. \u2014 James Alexander, Hartford Courant , 12 June 2022",
"The greater question is whether the Heat have an arm or leg even to put into play for anything on a grand scale. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Created by Emma Hamberg and Denize Karabuda, the series set in the 1980\u2019s and follows a teenage girl who lives with her mother and grand -mother in a suffocating small Swedish town. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate A new section of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park in downtown San Antonio is near completion and set for an October grand opening, despite the challenges of a pandemic and a major archaeological discovery. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News , 10 June 2022",
"The most memorable and dramatic interior feature of the hotel is the seven-story Italian Renaissance-style marble grand staircase which rises up from the High Holborn entrance of the hotel. \u2014 Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"The South Windsor Chamber of Commerce celebrates the Bahler Brothers grand reopening of its design showroom with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 28, at 24 Jeffrey Drive. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Browder said her team would be able to use the money to bolster the projects, including enhancing the campus grand opening and Day of Reckoning conference. \u2014 al , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Wasserman wasn\u2019t intimidated by celebrities, so one day when film star Debbie Reynolds showed up at a dance studio grand opening in La Costa, Wasserman approached Reynolds and talked her into taking a photo with herself and Frances Hodes. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Feb. 2022",
"This trunk helps explain the experiences of a student\u2019s own grandparents or great- grand -parents who lived during the war years. \u2014 Austin Hewitt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 8 Jan. 2022",
"Given this year marked The Great White Way\u2019s grand reopening in September, the celebratory fashion will be especially omnipresent this evening. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 12 June 2022"
],
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"Anglo-French grant, grand , large, great, grand, from Latin grandis":"Adjective and Noun"
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton":[
"cattle grazing on the slopes"
],
": to eat small portions of food throughout the day":[
"She was grazing on snacks all afternoon."
],
": to crop and eat in the field":[],
": to feed on the herbage of":[],
": to put to graze":[
"grazed his livestock in pastures"
],
": to put cattle to graze on":[
"grazed the upper field"
],
": to supply herbage for the grazing of":[
"That pasture will graze 30 head of cattle."
],
": an act of grazing":[],
": herbage for livestock to feed on":[],
": to touch lightly in passing":[
"The car's wheel grazed the curb."
],
": abrade , scratch":[
"grazed her knee when she fell"
],
": to touch or rub against something in passing":[
"Our fenders just grazed ."
]
},
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"\u02c8gr\u0101z"
],
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"browse",
"forage",
"pasture",
"rustle"
],
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"abrade",
"scrape",
"scratch",
"scuff"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English grasen , from Old English grasian , from gr\u00e6s grass":"Verb and Noun",
"perhaps from graze entry 1":"Verb and Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1857, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1604, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1847, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180259"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180327"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": a trench, ditch, fosse, or canal used in fortification especially as a moat":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0227f",
"\"",
"\u02c8graf"
],
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"Middle English graffen , from Middle French grafier , from grafe , noun":"Verb",
"Middle English graffe , from Middle French grafe , from Medieval Latin graphium , from Latin, stylus, from Greek grapheion , from graphein to write; from the resemblance of the scion inserted at an angle in the tree to a stylus poised for writing":"Noun",
"Dutch graaf , from Middle Dutch grave , from graven to dig; akin to Old High German graban to dig":"Noun"
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180555"
},
"gratification":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the act of gratifying : the state of being gratified":[
"the gratification of physical appetites"
],
": a source of satisfaction or pleasure":[
"found gratification in getting his novel published"
]
},
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"\u02ccgra-t\u0259-f\u0259-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"delectation",
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"eating good chocolate gives me a sense of intense gratification",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That means having to make some sacrifices and defer gratification . \u2014 Jason Zweig, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Willing to see the bigger picture and value development over instant gratification . \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
"Moving from the middle-class mindset to the wealthy mindset requires putting off the monkey and waiting for your gratification . \u2014 Steve Davis, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"What went into the decision to delay that gratification ",
"That\u2019s the beauty of the NFL draft, an event that drew season-ticket holders willing to pay more than $1,000 a seat to view a process that likely won't reach full gratification for three-to-five years. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 1 May 2022",
"Julia expands the canon, treating professional gratification as the most evasive pleasure of all. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Sometimes saving money is more important than instant gratification . \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Peecyclers in Vermont describe a personal benefit from their work: A sense of gratification thinking about their own body\u2019s nutrients helping to heal, instead of hurt, the earth. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022"
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"\u02c8gra-j\u0259-w\u0259l",
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"Adjective",
"We noticed a gradual change in temperature.",
"The hospital has made gradual improvements in health care.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"For all my vivid impressions and memorable moments, though, Xan\u2019s gradual decline is what has left the deepest mark on me. \u2014 Andr\u00e9 Alexis, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Bear markets may begin with a gradual decline or sudden plunge, followed by weeks, months or even years of stagnant or falling stock prices. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"Still, Moscow\u2019s aggression may help reverse what had been an arc of the industry\u2019s gradual decline. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"At least one economist believes the inflation numbers for March could be the peak with a gradual decline to follow. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"After a few weeks of gradual decline, Oregon\u2019s gas prices are holding steady, as crude oil prices rise and demand for gasoline pushes costs upward. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Apr. 2022",
"On Tuesday, she was hospitalized after a gradual decline in health. \u2014 Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Apr. 2022",
"So media companies have to manage through the gradual decline of those businesses, so that harvesting that cash flow can drive the growth and ultimate profitability of their streaming business. \u2014 Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Feb. 2022",
"That trend could change in the coming months, leading to a gradual decline in overall deficit, economists say. \u2014 Anthony Debarros, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022"
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"Medieval Latin gradualis , from Latin gradus":"Adjective",
"Middle English, from Medieval Latin graduale , from Latin gradus step; from its being sung on the steps of the altar":"Noun"
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": characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration":[
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"had grandiose plans for the city"
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"\u02ccgran-d\u0113-\u02c8",
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"\u02c8gran-d\u0113-\u02cc\u014ds"
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"august",
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"grand",
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"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
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"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
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"humble",
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"unimpressive"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grandiose grand , magnificent , imposing , stately , majestic , grandiose mean large and impressive. grand adds to greatness of size the implications of handsomeness and dignity. a grand staircase magnificent implies an impressive largeness proportionate to scale without sacrifice of dignity or good taste. magnificent paintings imposing implies great size and dignity but especially stresses impressiveness. an imposing edifice stately may suggest poised dignity, erectness of bearing, handsomeness of proportions, ceremonious deliberation of movement. the stately procession majestic combines the implications of imposing and stately and usually adds a suggestion of solemn grandeur. a majestic waterfall grandiose implies a size or scope exceeding ordinary experience grandiose hydroelectric projects but is most commonly applied derogatorily to inflated pretension or absurd exaggeration. grandiose schemes",
"examples":[
"He was full of grandiose ideas.",
"a grandiose plan to upgrade the entire interstate highway system in 10 years",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Meant to be part of grandiose plans to make Kinshasa a glittering capital, the building was constructed in the 1970s as the International Trade Center but soon went into disrepair and sat abandoned and decaying for years. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Both wars morphed into something more grandiose and utterly unachievable \u2014 the transformation of Afghanistan and Iraq into friendly, governable, democratic states. \u2014 Michael Krepon, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"All are expected to take centre stage at G\u00f6teborg\u2019s grandiose Stora Teatern opera house with sessions to be live streamed and available to registered online delegates. \u2014 Annika Pham, Variety , 25 Jan. 2022",
"And that reminded me that there\u2019s an awful lot of outdoor gear out there that, despite grandiose marketing claims, doesn\u2019t actually do anything. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 3 Mar. 2017",
"Beneath silver, shimmering draping, grandiose curtains, and gigantic orbs suspended from the ceiling, waiters served Champagne and Campari cocktails to early guests as the stars of the movie made their way from the Grand Theatre Lumiere. \u2014 Douglas Greenwood, Vogue , 26 May 2022",
"At one point in the show, just after Buss, the new team owner, has given his staff a motivational speech, West makes a grandiose public display of quitting his job as head coach, completely souring the vibe. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"What might bring you back down to Earth in an unexpectedly pleasant way is working on the boring parts of your grandiose plan, like taxes and insurance. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"These grandiose promises have left employees questioning how the company will actually change once the deal closes later this year. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 9 May 2022"
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"French, from Italian grandioso , from grande great, from Latin grandis":""
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"1818, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fraser fir was most affected, followed by noble fir, then grand fir . \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Nov. 2021",
"Dense and brimming with nearly 10,000 branch tips, this gorgeous grand fir replica from Home Decorators Collection is a home run for anyone looking for a main-event tree in their home this year. \u2014 Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored , 19 Nov. 2020",
"Many conifers, including western red cedar, incense cedar, grand fir and even valley ponderosa pine are succumbing, as well. \u2014 oregonlive.com , 20 Aug. 2019",
"Drought also is killing grand fir and might be contributing to declines in Western red cedar and bigleaf maple. \u2014 USA TODAY , 22 July 2019",
"Fischer pointed out younger grand firs , which grow in the shade of the Douglas firs that in several hundred years might surpass them in height. \u2014 Nicole Tsong, The Seattle Times , 8 Aug. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1874, in the meaning defined above":""
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"adjective"
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": not holding the purple dye when stained by Gram's stain":[
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"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
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": one of the lamellar stacks of chlorophyll-containing thylakoids found in plant chloroplasts":[]
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Peter Svidler, Russian chess grand master , usually tweets about chess, wordle and dogs. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Big grand master plans, in the past, have cost a lot of money. \u2014 Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News , 19 Jan. 2022",
"So for the first time, there will be racing on Friday morning, with singles events for the senior veteran, veteran, grand master , and senior master categories, and doubles events for the senior and grand masters. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Twenty-five years ago Garry Kasparov became the first chess grand master to lose to a computer. \u2014 Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2021",
"A few weeks later, Susan introduced me to Kumu Ipolani Vaughan, a grand master in many traditional Hawaiian disciplines, from hula to the Hawaiian language. \u2014 Whitney Robinson, Travel + Leisure , 22 Mar. 2021",
"Over time, players\u2014including grand master Larry Kaufman in his 2004 book The Chess Advantage in Black and White: Opening Moves of the Grandmasters\u2014have argued that, if played perfectly, the white side should always win. \u2014 Chazz Mair, Wired , 8 Mar. 2021",
"Wolff is a chess grand master who won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1992 and 1995. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Mar. 2021",
"The judge found that Seay, a Freemason currently serving as most honorable grand master for The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Arizona, lives at the organization's lodge in south Phoenix. \u2014 Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic , 24 Oct. 2020"
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"1722, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": a genus of gelatinous red algae (family Sphaerococcaceae) several species of which are important sources of agar-agar":[]
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"noun"
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": one of the laws passed in various states of the middle west between 1869 and 1876 under influence of the Grange":[]
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": the quantity of an element, group, or compound that has a mass in grams equal to the equivalent weight":[]
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"circa 1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a close-fitting removable device or partition used in boxcars hauling grain to seal openings around the lower part of permanent car doors and prevent leakage":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183808"
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Under the terms of the leases, solar developers must give ranchers holding grazing permits two years\u2019 notice before beginning any work that would displace their operations and compensate them for any range improvements that would be affected. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Further, conservation grazing of livestock would be increased on the three properties from the current level of 1,200 acres to 3,300 acres annually. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
"Early livestock grazing had mowed grasses that in prior eras would have routinely burned off seedlings to leave a patchwork of fat pines and natural pastures. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 20 June 2022",
"Includes set-up and take-down, picnic furniture and pillows, and grazing boards. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"This set is built to handle serious flow: the tank features a shelf bra for support, and the leggings have a belly-button- grazing rise that stays put. \u2014 Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"The cattle are never put in feedlots, and calves are left with their mothers to learn grazing and social behaviors. \u2014 Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2021",
"This growth strategy helps to explain why lawns survive mowing and how grasslands dominate more than a quarter of Earth\u2019s land area: by tolerating grazing and wildfires better than stem-growing competitors. \u2014 Julia Rosen, Scientific American , 30 Mar. 2022",
"There were clear differences in the seeds collected from the two areas, possibly owing to past grazing or fire. \u2014 Kylie Mohr, Wired , 23 Oct. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1517, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a usually 2-passenger coupe":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Skysphere is a sporty roadster that, with the push of a button, physically stretches into a grand touring car that drives itself while passengers relax\u2014at least in theory. \u2014 Laura Burstein, Robb Report , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The standard Chiron is really a grand touring car -- easygoing, beautiful to look at, comfortable and pleasant to drive -- but with weirdly outrageous power and acceleration. \u2014 CNN , 10 June 2021",
"The Bugatti Chiron was designed to be the ultimate grand touring car , combining outrageous power with comfort, ease and refinement. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 5 Oct. 2019",
"This new addition to the Lexus line is a quintessential grand touring car , right down to its long hood/short deck proportions. \u2014 Al Haas, Philly.com , 25 Apr. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1956, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184312"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from granum":"Combining form"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All three suspects were charged with armed burglary, grand theft of a firearm, and other crimes. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 17 June 2022",
"The brothers were each charged with 22 counts of grand theft of a firearm, one count of armed burglary, one count of criminal mischief over $1,000, one count of possessing burglary tools and one count of resisting without violence, Green said. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Yinger faces charges of first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and grand theft , according to the five-count indictment. \u2014 NBC News , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Van Zant pleaded guilty last month to felony conspiracy to commit grand theft , the District Attorney\u2019s Office said. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"The criminal charges filed earlier this month against the six defendants include conspiracy to commit grand theft and recycling fraud. \u2014 Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 29 May 2022",
"Central Florida authorities arrested a towing company\u2019s office manager on a charge of grand theft . \u2014 Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
"Jean Lugo Romero pleaded guilty to felony grand theft , misdemeanor petty theft and received a year of probation in addition to the jail term, San Francisco prosecutors said. \u2014 Fox News , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Duenas received probation in August after pleading no contest to grand theft of a firearm and illegally transferring a firearm. \u2014 Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1930, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184942"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": any of an extinct class (Graptolithina) of hemichordate colonial marine animals of the Paleozoic era with zooids contained in conical cups along a chitinous support":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Surrounding remains\u2014fossils of tiny, extinct marine animals called graptolites and conodonts\u2014served as biomarkers to help confirm when the early scorpions wandered the earth. \u2014 Katie Camero, WSJ , 16 Jan. 2020",
"One of the most emblematic animals of the Ordovician Radiation is the now-extinct graptolite . \u2014 Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica , 21 Nov. 2017"
],
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"Greek graptos painted (from graphein to write, paint) + English -lite \u2014 more at carve":""
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"1841, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a disease of tomatoes caused by the fungus ( Stemphylium solani ) and characterized by regular water-soaked brown leaf spots that become gray with age":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": ironware with grayish or bluish mottled enamel":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Homegrown tomatoes, green beans, and corn \u2013 in addition to the vegetables cooked with the original roast \u2013 filled a large graniteware pot. \u2014 Carolyn Hall, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
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"grand jury":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a jury that examines accusations against persons charged with crime and if the evidence warrants makes formal charges on which the accused persons are later tried":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On June 1, a grand jury in New York returned a 25-count indictment against Gendron. \u2014 Sonia Moghe, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"On Monday, a grand jury in Shelby County returned an indictment against Michael D. Robinson, formally charging him with the first-degree murder of ZaQune Harris, a statement from prosecutors confirms. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"In addition, a grand jury in Atlanta is investigating the pressure Trump put on Georgia election officials to change the election. \u2014 David Jackson, USA TODAY , 12 June 2022",
"On March 1, 2021, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging Metz, Foster, and 15 others. \u2014 Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022",
"In December, a federal grand jury in Connecticut indicted a former manager at jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney and five executives of its suppliers over no-poach agreements. \u2014 Dave Michaels, WSJ , 5 June 2022",
"Neal was indicted by a grand jury in Maricopa County, which includes the Phoenix metropolitan area, on May 16, and a warrant for his arrest was issued shortly after. \u2014 CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"Pocatello police said that Neal was indicted by a grand jury in Maricopa County on May 16, according to the report. \u2014 Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic , 2 June 2022",
"This past week, Young Thug and 27 others, including numerous rappers from the label, were charged in a major racketeering indictment handed down by a grand jury in Fulton County. \u2014 Joe Coscarelli, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022"
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"Officer Kathryn Winters of the SFPD Officers Pride Alliance said law enforcement officers were grateful for the compromise agreement. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022"
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"There is no grand unified theory for Justice Kennedy\u2019s jurisprudence,\u2019 says Viet Dinh, a leading conservative court watcher whose law partner Paul Clement argued the case against Obamacare. \u2014 Katie Reilly, Time , 27 June 2018",
"Westworld, on some level, is telling a story that takes aim at presenting a grand unified theory of oppression. \u2014 Todd Vanderwerff, Vox , 18 Apr. 2018",
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"The two biggest discoveries of the 20th century have resisted all attempts by physicists to combine them into one grand unified theory , leading some physicists to question whether they can even be combined at all. \u2014 Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics , 8 Mar. 2018",
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"The consequences of these oversights become much graver and potentially life-threatening. \u2014 Lewis Liu, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"An even graver shortcoming is successful realpolitik relies on your opponent being rational. \u2014 Marcus Mabry, CNN , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Those deeply involved in Hollywood\u2019s economic relationship with China grew quiet too, worried not only about losing their business but also about graver consequences: being called in for questioning, getting thrown out of the country, disappearing. \u2014 Erich Schwartzel, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022",
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"In a speech last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland urged his critics to be patient, noting that federal conspiracy investigations typically start with the lesser allegations and work their way toward graver charges. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
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"Ahead of the party, four future queens of Europe and a future grand duke gathered for a portrait. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
"When Francesco died, his brother Ferdinando became the grand duke . \u2014 Catherine Sabino, Forbes , 3 Oct. 2021",
"The villa was the site of a number of high-profile Medici weddings, including that of Francesco de\u2019 Medici, a grand duke of Tuscany, who married his long-time amour, Bianca Cappello, here; their romance was the talk of 16th-century Florence. \u2014 Catherine Sabino, Forbes , 3 Oct. 2021",
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a stake driven in the ground so that the top has a predetermined elevation and used to establish the grade of an engineering work":[]
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"adjective combining form",
"noun",
"verb"
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"will enter eleventh grade this year",
"students in the second grade"
],
": the students in the same year of study in elementary, middle, or secondary school":[
"The ninth grade is away on a field trip."
],
": a position in a scale of ranks or qualities":[
"Each grade of steel contains sub-divisions corresponding to steels of different yield stress and impact requirements.",
"\u2014 G. D. Taylor"
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": a stage in a process":[
"\u2026 we should bear in mind that animals displaying early transitional grades of the structure will seldom continue to exist to the present day, for they will have been supplanted by the very process of perfection through natural selection.",
"\u2014 Charles Darwin"
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": a degree of severity in illness":[
"grade III carcinoma"
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": a military or naval rank":[
"To be prepared for burial Claggart's body was delivered to certain petty-officers of his mess. And \u2026 the Master-at-arms was committed to the sea with every funeral honor properly belonging to his naval grade .",
"\u2014 Herman Melville",
"\u2026 her father being a country clergyman who had never reached a higher grade than that of an archdeacon \u2026",
"\u2014 Anthony Trollope"
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": a mark indicating a degree of accomplishment in school":[
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"What was your grade on the math test"
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": a class of things of the same stage or degree":[],
": a standard of food quality":[
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"\u2014 Lisa McManus"
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": a domestic animal with one parent purebred and the other of inferior breeding":[],
": any of the variants of a root or affix (distinguished by a particular vowel or the absence of any vowel) in the ablaut series of an Indo-European language":[],
": the elementary school system":[],
": to assign to a grade or assign a grade to":[
"\u2026 Mrs. Granger would be the one grading their spelling tests and their reading tests \u2026",
"\u2014 Andrew Clements",
"\u2026 these students are being graded by the instructor whose methods or information they have reason to question.",
"\u2014 Mary Lefkowitz"
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": to arrange in grades : sort":[
"Each printing plant sends sample copies of its press run to the color lab, where they are graded for quality.",
"\u2014 Robert Neuwirth"
],
": to arrange in a scale or series":[],
": to level off to a smooth horizontal or sloping surface":[
"The ground should be graded to direct water flow away from the home.",
"\u2014 Consumer Reports"
],
": to form a series":[],
": blend":[
"Notice that the mud and the sand grade into each other along the sandbar.",
"\u2014 Sheldon Judson and Marvin E. Kauffman"
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"grade ewes",
"grade breeding"
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": walking":[
"planti grade"
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"\u02c8gr\u0101d"
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"chapter",
"cut",
"degree",
"inch",
"notch",
"peg",
"phase",
"place",
"point",
"stage",
"step"
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"assort",
"break down",
"categorize",
"class",
"classify",
"codify",
"compartment",
"compartmentalize",
"digest",
"distinguish",
"distribute",
"group",
"peg",
"place",
"range",
"rank",
"relegate",
"separate",
"sort",
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"The fifth grade will perform their annual play this week.",
"a grade of 90 percent or better",
"Her grades are up this semester.",
"an expensive grade of leather",
"Verb",
"Students will be graded on their reading ability.",
"She hasn't finished grading the exams.",
"How would you grade your meal on a scale from one to five",
"The eggs are graded according to size.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Winkler, an actor, drew on his childhood experiences with dyslexia to write about Hank and his fourth- grade high jinks and trouble with reading and writing. \u2014 Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"Every Everglades has comfy seats covered in material that's marine grade but still manages to look nice. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 28 June 2022",
"Two popular brands with thousands of rave reviews are the DivaCup and Saalt Cup that are made with medical- grade silicone and are eco-friendly. \u2014 Carly Kulzer, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"This commercial- grade pedestal fan is great for a basement or garage workshop, or even a home gym. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 27 June 2022",
"Masks on Amazon have been passed off as being higher grade . \u2014 Hannah Zeavin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Rebecca Gault, a ninth- grade English teacher at Bel Air High School, is a recipient one of three Education Ambassador Awards from the Pegasus Springs Education Collective. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 21 June 2022",
"During a first- grade gym class, a classmate careened into his face, essentially knocking out two teeth. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Scott Henderson, 43, left his job as a ninth- grade social studies teacher in Herriman, Utah, midway through the school year. \u2014 Kathryn Dill, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"For the second time this season, Just Fields did not grade out as a champion after completing a career-low 44.4 percent of his passes for 114 yards and two interceptions. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 21 Dec. 2020",
"Participants are asked to grade the schools overall as well as in a variety of areas including leadership, safety, innovation and responsiveness to the community. \u2014 Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star , 12 Apr. 2022",
"At first, Murphy did not grade as highly on pitches down in the strike zone, an area Jensen views as vital. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 May 2022",
"Trying to grade how teams did immediately after a draft is pretty futile. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 2 May 2022",
"Despite the rejection, the Sheriff\u2019s Department hired a crew to grade the dirt. \u2014 Alene Tchekmedyianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"There are 150 students in the class, so if the strike continues, the professor will have to grade all the final exams without help. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"And after the \u2019bacco was cured, my grandmother would grade it. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The program will use machine learning and artificial intelligence to teach and grade . \u2014 Susan Harmeling, Forbes , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Earlier this month, Poly launched two new pro- grade collaboration devices, the Poly Studio R30 and the Poly Sync 10, to improve collaboration experiences in a hybrid work environment. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The Surface can run pro- grade Windows-compatible design apps, like Photoshop and Illustrator. \u2014 Kenny Wassus, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"As of Wednesday, AAA's national average for medium or mid- grade gas was $4.50, and the medium average in Kentucky was listed at $4.18. \u2014 Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The era where mid- grade luxury SUVs can tangle with American muscle cars is upon us. \u2014 David Beard, Car and Driver , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The microphone has a pro- grade capsule and includes a foam windscreen for crisp and warm audio without plosives or wind noise. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"But if this brand new iPhone 14 specs rumor is accurate, buyers who choose the more affordable models might get a few key Pro- grade features for a discount. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 14 Jan. 2022",
"The pro- grade camera system sports three rear-facing cameras including a 3x optical telephoto 8MP camera, while the front camera has a 32 megapixel ultra-wide lens as well. \u2014 Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Ready to transform your workshop to pro- grade status"
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"Latin gradus step, degree, from Latin gradi to step, go; akin to Lithuanian gridyti to go, wander":"Noun, Verb, and Adjective",
"French, from Latin -gradus , from gradi":"Adjective combining form"
},
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"1796, in the meaning defined at sense 1c(2)":"Noun",
"1659, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1b":"Verb",
"1852, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210448"
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"noun"
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": a potentially fatal bodily condition that results when T cells from a tissue or organ transplant and especially a bone marrow transplant react immunologically against the recipient's antigens attacking cells and tissues":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tinkov resigned as Tinkoff Bank\u2019s chairman in 2020 after being diagnosed with acute leukemia and is battling graft-versus-host disease following a bone marrow transplant. \u2014 Derek Saul, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"The donor\u2019s immune cells can attack the recipient\u2019s body, a condition called graft-versus-host disease , or GVHD. \u2014 Max G. Levy, Wired , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Dietrich Beelen, a transplant doctor at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, was interested in using MSCs to treat a patient with severe graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). \u2014 Michael Eisenstein, Scientific American , 17 June 2020",
"In July, Kadmon secured U.S. approval for Rezurock, a new treatment for chronic graft-versus-host disease \u2014 a debilitating immune condition that can affect as many as half of the blood cancer patients who undergo bone marrow transplants. \u2014 Adam Feuerstein, STAT , 11 Sep. 2021",
"But finding a matching cell donor can be difficult, and a transplant can lead to graft-versus-host disease , a potentially deadly condition in which donor cells attack a patient\u2019s cells. \u2014 Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS , 11 Aug. 2021",
"That means there is less risk of graft-versus-host disease or a rejection of the stem cells. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 9 June 2021",
"Even five years ago, using a donor who was a half match was impossible because the risk of graft-versus-host disease was too high. \u2014 Ginny Graves, Good Housekeeping , 17 Nov. 2020",
"The deal comes on the heels of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration telling the Australian drug developer in October that further study was needed before the agency would consider an approval in another ailment, graft-versus-host disease . \u2014 Cristin Flanagan, Bloomberg.com , 20 Nov. 2020"
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"first_known_use":{
"1965, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a serranid fish ( Cephalopholis cruentata ) of the tropical western Atlantic typically reddish gray with vermilion spots but sometimes darker with brown spots or pale and banded":[]
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"\u02c8gr\u0101zb\u0113"
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"origin unknown":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210939"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a sauce made from the thickened and seasoned juices of cooked meat":[],
": something additional or unexpected that is pleasing or valuable":[
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"\u2014 K. Crossen"
],
": unearned or illicit gain : graft entry 3":[]
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"\u02c8gr\u0101-v\u0113"
],
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"dressing",
"sauce"
],
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"examples":[
"The bonus he received in addition to his salary was pure gravy .",
"order a large serving of fries with extra gravy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It's got major thickening power\u2014think half a teaspoon or less for an entire pan of gravy . \u2014 Antara Sinha, Bon App\u00e9tit , 13 June 2022",
"Husband had roast beef dinner which came with soup, salad, stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy . \u2014 cleveland , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Every day, my grandmother would come home with cotton in her hair ... and make the most amazing chicken and dumplings, biscuits and gravy . \u2014 Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com , 5 June 2022",
"Finally, the pre-seared cabbage wedges go in, and the whole setup braises in the oven until the cabbage is super tender and the sauce has been reduced to a velvety smooth gravy . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Some folks add a tablespoon of coffee to their gravy . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Big picture: This is a young team building for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, and anything that happens in Qatar is gravy . \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Apr. 2022",
"All of the effort and attention-to-detail Curry provides defensively is gravy for the Warriors. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Shows were very much created with the idea of the local Japanese audience in mind, and whatever happened after that was gravy . \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 19 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gravey , from Anglo-French grav\u00e9 broth, stew":""
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211352"
},
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": a diagram (such as a series of one or more points, lines, line segments, curves, or areas) that represents the variation of a variable in comparison with that of one or more other variables":[],
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"\u02ccgraf",
"\u02c8graf"
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"Verb",
"Students were asked to graph each equation."
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"short for graphic formula":"Noun",
"probably from -graph":"Noun",
"Latin -graphum , from Greek -graphon , from neuter of -graphos written, from graphein to write \u2014 more at carve":"Noun combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
"1898, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1933, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211612"
},
"gravid":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": pregnant":[
"gravid mares"
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": distended with or full of eggs":[
"a gravid fish"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grav-\u0259d",
"\u02c8gra-v\u0259d"
],
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"big",
"caught",
"enceinte",
"expectant",
"expecting",
"gone",
"heavy",
"pregnant",
"quick"
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"nonpregnant"
],
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"examples":[
"the patient is a gravid woman in her seventh month",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jay enlisted artist Lukas Geronimas to DJ after dinner, smoothing out what usually ends up as an ad hoc dance party with tipsy guests fighting over the aux cord while those too gravid with barbeque to dance sip ginger ale and watch. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Heritage Restaurant & Caviar Bar opened in early August, the week of the Sturgeon Moon, which is when the Algonquins believed the Great Lakes teemed with gravid fish. \u2014 Mike Sula, Chicago Reader , 27 Sep. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin gravidus , from gravis heavy":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212141"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": paper ruled for drawing graphs":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lacking access to a computer, the students made calculations on graph paper by hand. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Dec. 2021",
"When he's gone, Chachu crumples up the graph paper . \u2014 Seija Rankin, EW.com , 25 Aug. 2021",
"Close up, arrays of microshutters resemble graph paper , with each cell functioning as a lens cover that can be opened or closed. \u2014 Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Start, for example, with a piece of graph paper with its grid of perpendicular lines. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 7 June 2021",
"Inspired by a photo of a repurposed greenhouse on Pinterest, the couple designed the structure by drawing it on graph paper and then laying it out on the lawn like the pattern pieces of a sewing project. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Apr. 2021",
"The tablet of graph paper , green colored with quarter-inch squares used for drafting, sat on the low table before me. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Apr. 2021",
"To see how a fluid might travel through this lattice, imagine that each tiny edge on the graph paper is a pipe that is either open or closed. \u2014 Kelsey Houston-edwards, Scientific American , 16 Mar. 2021",
"In fact, pen and graph paper sketches are entirely sufficient at this step. \u2014 Mohan Giridharadas & Sanjeev Agrawal, Forbes , 26 Feb. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1927, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212211"
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"noun"
],
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"\u02c8gr\u00e4n-\u02c8pr\u0113",
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Williams driver Alexander Albon was also caught up in the grand prix carnage and flown to hospital in Coventry by helicopter for precautionary checks. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 4 July 2022",
"Long Beach\u2019s grand prix street race, which dropped its first green flag in 1975, is one of the few survivors from the massive events like the Santa Monica and Venice and Pasadena races. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Well, Gilles Villeneuve may have been the fastest and boldest driver in Formula One, winner of six grand prix races, before his death in a racing crash a dozen years before the question. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"Seeking a victory in his home grand prix , Sainz later was blown off course by the wind in the same spot as Verstappen but ultimately rallied to finish fourth. \u2014 Joseph Wilson, ajc , 22 May 2022",
"The grand prix winner will receive a cash prize of 10,000 euros, and winners of the other two categories will receive 5,000 euros each. \u2014 Morgan Sung, NBC News , 17 May 2022",
"The organization is funded by both donations and participants\u2019 entrance fees to the grand prix , though Hodgkinson said the fees are waived for participants who cannot afford them. \u2014 Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com , 21 Feb. 2022",
"White went on to win the halfpipe competition in all five of grand prix events that would qualify him for the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics. \u2014 Aliyah Thomas, ABC News , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The Mercedes driver wore a Black Lives Matter helmet with a black racing suit, while also taking the knee before each grand prix and encouraging his colleagues to do the same. \u2014 John Sinnott, CNN , 3 July 2021"
],
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"French Grand Prix de Paris , an international horse race established 1863, literally, grand prize of Paris":""
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"1899, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun",
"verb"
],
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},
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"\u02c8gra-ch\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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"a gratuitous assumption",
"a movie criticized for gratuitous violence"
],
": given unearned or without recompense":[
"We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own industry.",
"\u2014 Roger L'Estrange"
],
": costing nothing : free":[
"It was printed in France at the author's expense, for gratuitous distribution to educators and others.",
"\u2014 Current Biography"
],
": not involving a return benefit, compensation, or consideration":[
"has gratuitous permission to pass over private land"
]
},
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"gr\u0259-\u02c8t\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0259s, -\u02c8ty\u00fc-",
"gr\u0259-\u02c8t\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0259s",
"-\u02c8ty\u00fc-"
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"complimentary",
"costless",
"free",
"gratis"
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"examples":[
"The film was criticized for its gratuitous violence.",
"they will throw in a gratuitous box of chocolates when you spend $30 or more in their shop",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Every day, the war in Ukraine reminds us of the gratuitous and appalling loss that occurs in a conflict between forces set up for the express purpose of killing. \u2014 John R. Macarthur, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"And unfortunately in this day and age, disturbing, gratuitous and horrifying crime sticks in our memory like a piece of spinach caught in your teeth. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Another broad comedy with lazy writing and perfunctory acting, with lots of gratuitous guest spots from his friends",
"Known as the Pilot FL400R, it's rated R for gratuitous use of red paint on its tubular frame and plastic bodywork. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 26 May 2022",
"In 2019, the New York Times was condemned for its gratuitous use of dead victims\u2019 bodies in covering a terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya. \u2014 Alexander Onukwue, Quartz , 24 May 2022",
"His music is wondrously odd, relentlessly logical, frequently funny and without a gratuitous note. \u2014 Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a detour to contested spraying of First Nations lands in Canada that feels gratuitous because the facts of the dispute are poorly articulated. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 15 May 2022",
"Some considered that the use of nudity was gratuitous , objectified women by sexualizing them and reducing them to body parts, according to the ASA ruling, published online Wednesday. \u2014 Amarachi Orie, CNN , 12 May 2022"
],
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"Latin gratuitus , from gratus grateful":""
},
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"1617, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213140"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
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},
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],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The bustling Bush family just got one grandkid bigger! \u2014 Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Amy had one more grandkid there for the big day, as her son Jacob Roloff, 24, and his wife Isabel are pregnant with their first child. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Or do these things pass when the next grandkid comes",
"Kelley has five children, 30 grandkids, 88 great-grandkids, 49 great-great-grandkids and one great-great-great- grandkid , according to one of her great-granddaughters, Kelley Oakley. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 12 Aug. 2020",
"Include photos of your favorite memories with Dad, or fill the book with pictures of his grandkids . \u2014 Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens , 21 May 2020",
"At Johns Hopkins, Hosey told me, the glass windows of patients\u2019 rooms now feature handwritten notes about their occupation or the names of their grandkids . \u2014 Marion Renault, The Atlantic , 5 May 2020",
"Mary Stewart\u2019s consistent greatness and love of sports for over 50 years involving kids and grandkids will hopefully put her over the top. \u2014 Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star , 9 May 2020",
"When state-at-home orders were first given, Rommel would swing by her family\u2019s homes for window visits, peeking through front windows at her kids and grandkids while sharing conversations and giggles through cell phones. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Apr. 2020"
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"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": having higher rank than others bearing the same general designation":[
"the grand champion"
],
": inclusive , comprehensive":[
"the grand total of all money paid out"
],
": definitive , incontrovertible":[
"grand example"
],
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"the grand ballroom"
],
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"grand design"
],
": lavish , sumptuous":[
"a grand celebration"
],
": marked by a regal form and dignity":[],
": fine or imposing in appearance or impression":[
"sported a grand mustache"
],
": lofty , sublime":[
"writing in the grand style"
],
": pretending to social superiority : supercilious":[],
": intended to impress":[
"a person of grand gestures"
],
": very good : wonderful":[
"a grand time"
],
"river 260 miles (418 kilometers) long in southwestern Michigan flowing north and west into Lake Michigan":[],
"river 300 miles (483 kilometers) long in northwestern Missouri flowing southeast into the Missouri River":[],
"river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in northern South Dakota flowing east into the Missouri River":[],
"the Colorado River from its source to its junction with the Green River in southeastern Utah":[
"\u2014 a former name"
],
": grand piano":[],
": a thousand dollars":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grand"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
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"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grand Adjective grand , magnificent , imposing , stately , majestic , grandiose mean large and impressive. grand adds to greatness of size the implications of handsomeness and dignity. a grand staircase magnificent implies an impressive largeness proportionate to scale without sacrifice of dignity or good taste. magnificent paintings imposing implies great size and dignity but especially stresses impressiveness. an imposing edifice stately may suggest poised dignity, erectness of bearing, handsomeness of proportions, ceremonious deliberation of movement. the stately procession majestic combines the implications of imposing and stately and usually adds a suggestion of solemn grandeur. a majestic waterfall grandiose implies a size or scope exceeding ordinary experience grandiose hydroelectric projects but is most commonly applied derogatorily to inflated pretension or absurd exaggeration. grandiose schemes",
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He thinks everything the government does is part of some grand conspiracy.",
"the beauty of nature's grand design",
"The neighborhood includes many grand old homes.",
"His job is much less grand than his title makes it sound.",
"My great aunt lived to the grand old age of 103.",
"Despite its grand name, the hotel is small and somewhat seedy.",
"He made some grand statements about the company's future.",
"They celebrated their anniversary in grand style .",
"He planned to make a grand entrance , driving up to the house in a fancy red sports car.",
"We won the grand prize.",
"Noun",
"He bought a used car for about five grand .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Luhrmann similarly saw the dynamic as one on a grand scale that defied any simple construct of villainy. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
"The Gift, a soundtrack/companion album that spotlighted Afrobeats on a grand scale. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022",
"But this isn\u2019t the first time L.A. has launched a grand -scale tree planting campaign that has run into significant hurdles. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"For more than a decade, the Drake factory has been operating at full capacity \u2014 recalibrating the relationship between hip-hop, R&B and pop; balancing grand -scale ambition with granular experimentation; embracing the meme-ification of his celebrity. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"In the 1970s and 1980s, the proliferation of standardized cargo containers revolutionized global shipping, dramatically reducing transportation and distribution costs and opening the door to international commerce on a grand scale. \u2014 Dan Ikenson, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"The grand -scale discoveries of Dr. Hautakanga and her team\u2019s study were made possible due to the larger research samples available. \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022",
"This is a home that is perfect for daily living and entertaining on a grand scale. \u2014 James Alexander, Hartford Courant , 12 June 2022",
"The greater question is whether the Heat have an arm or leg even to put into play for anything on a grand scale. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Created by Emma Hamberg and Denize Karabuda, the series set in the 1980\u2019s and follows a teenage girl who lives with her mother and grand -mother in a suffocating small Swedish town. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate A new section of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park in downtown San Antonio is near completion and set for an October grand opening, despite the challenges of a pandemic and a major archaeological discovery. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News , 10 June 2022",
"The most memorable and dramatic interior feature of the hotel is the seven-story Italian Renaissance-style marble grand staircase which rises up from the High Holborn entrance of the hotel. \u2014 Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"The South Windsor Chamber of Commerce celebrates the Bahler Brothers grand reopening of its design showroom with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 28, at 24 Jeffrey Drive. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Browder said her team would be able to use the money to bolster the projects, including enhancing the campus grand opening and Day of Reckoning conference. \u2014 al , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Wasserman wasn\u2019t intimidated by celebrities, so one day when film star Debbie Reynolds showed up at a dance studio grand opening in La Costa, Wasserman approached Reynolds and talked her into taking a photo with herself and Frances Hodes. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Feb. 2022",
"This trunk helps explain the experiences of a student\u2019s own grandparents or great- grand -parents who lived during the war years. \u2014 Austin Hewitt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 8 Jan. 2022",
"Given this year marked The Great White Way\u2019s grand reopening in September, the celebratory fashion will be especially omnipresent this evening. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 12 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Anglo-French grant, grand , large, great, grand, from Latin grandis":"Adjective and Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213306"
},
"grand opening":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a special celebration held to mark the opening of a new business or public place (such as a park or stadium)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213412"
},
"Grapevine":{
"type":[
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": grape sense 2":[],
": an informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip":[
"heard it through the grapevine"
],
": a secret source of information":[],
"city in northern Texas northeast of Fort Worth population 46,334":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0101p-\u02ccv\u012bn"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The scientists extracted grapevine pollen, plant tissue residue and other chemical markers to conclude that these wine jars\u2013called amphorae\u2013were winemaking tools. \u2014 Darreonna Davis, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"To play Diamond, producer Davenport approached Swenson, having heard through the grapevine that the actor did a good Neil Diamond impression. \u2014 Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Reputations are made and lost by what\u2019s heard on the grapevine . \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
"The grapevine theme is on the pitcher and matching glasses, along with the covered compote and a sugar bowl with a lid. \u2014 Brenda Yenke, cleveland , 9 June 2022",
"Apple, typically, saves its hardware launches for the fall, closer to the holiday shopping season, but the grapevine is indicating that a new MacBook Air could be in the cards for Monday\u2019s event. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 6 June 2022",
"Napa Valley vintners are on cautious alert for a voracious, grapevine -eating pest that was recently spotted in a vineyard. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2022",
"Cell phones and online journals are a way for hikers to communicate, but old-fashioned notebook communal-trail registers found in shelters remain an important part of the hiker grapevine . \u2014 Karen Berger, Outside Online , 28 June 2021",
"Last week, a story published by The Oregonian/OregonLive broke the news that early breaking grapevine buds in numerous Willamette Valley vineyards were damaged by a sustained spring frost. \u2014 Michael Alberty, oregonlive , 29 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1736, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213827"
},
"grand climacteric":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the sixty-third or the eighty-first year of a person's life":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213928"
},
"grab (the) headlines":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{
": to be given much attention in the news":[
"A new cancer treatment grabbed (the) headlines this week."
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214101"
},
"gravy train":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"bonus",
"cumshaw",
"dividend",
"donative",
"extra",
"gratuity",
"gravy",
"lagniappe",
"perk",
"perquisite",
"throw-in",
"tip"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"They're trying to get on board the gravy train .",
"the new tax law offers a real gravy train to certain categories of investors",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"New competition\u2014particularly from Disney+, but also from Amazon and HBOMax\u2014had finally started to cut into the endless gravy train . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 3 June 2022",
"Other potential casualties of such a ban would be things close to his heart: his populist campaign promises, and a financial gravy train for culture warriors in Europe and in the United States. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"It\u2019s the boosters and their attorneys on one end of the gravy train and sports agents on the other. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 11 May 2022",
"In the meantime, taxpayers, who financed those debts, were left holding the bag while many high-earning borrowers rode the gravy train . \u2014 Beth Akers, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Mitchell\u2019s cooperation spelled the end to a gravy train for himself and Bickers, who was then his boss and a long-time friend. \u2014 J. Scott Trubey, ajc , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The Reds rode the Nasty Boys and that gravy train to a World Series sweep. \u2014 Mike Bass, The Enquirer , 28 Jan. 2022",
"That stimulus effort fueled a stock bonanza in 2020 and 2021, but the Fed gravy train is going away in the first half of this year. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Each sector has been on the gravy train , which makes the difference between conservative tax cuts and progressive government grants a bit murky and a product of political posturing. \u2014 Ken Silverstein, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1914, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214145"
},
"grand total":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a final total reached by adding together other total amounts":[
"They have managed to raise a grand total of $15 million in the past two years.",
"\u2014 often used in a humorous or critical way to refer to a total that is unusually small A grand total of two people have signed up for the class. They scored a grand total of three points in the first quarter."
]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214419"
},
"Granite Peak":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"mountain 12,799 feet (3901 meters) high in the Beartooth Range (a spur of the Absaroka Range) in southern Montana; highest point in the state":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214738"
},
"Grays Peak":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"mountain 14,270 feet (4349 meters) high in central Colorado; highest in the Front Range":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214816"
},
"graphicacy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the ability to understand, use, or generate graphic images (such as maps and diagrams)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gra-f\u0259-k\u0259-s\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"graphic + -acy (as in literacy )":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1965, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215116"
},
"grandiloquence":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language":[
"was urged to follow up his grandiloquence with positive action"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"gran-\u02c8di-l\u0259-kw\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluster",
"bombast",
"brag",
"braggadocio",
"bull",
"cockalorum",
"fanfaronade",
"gas",
"gasconade",
"hot air",
"magniloquence",
"rant",
"rodomontade",
"rhodomontade"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"a heavyweight champion who was famous for his entertaining grandiloquence prior to every match",
"the predictably wearisome grandiloquence of the speeches at a political convention",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rylance plays him with chest puffed out into grandiloquence , the painful shuffle of a man with no unbroken bones, and the periodic grace of a pixie. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"At least some of the grandiloquence proved justified. \u2014 Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Many times, vision statements end up being washed up by grandiloquence . \u2014 Nacho De Marco, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"There will be plenty more rhetoric, pomposity and grandiloquence in the next few weeks as negotiations between the union and MLB get hot and heavy. \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 13 May 2020",
"Behind the grandiloquence of his note was a young man, alone, under extraordinary stress. \u2014 Barton Gellman, Washington Post , 11 May 2020",
"His most recent high-profile job, foreign secretary, found him ill at ease in a role that required more gravitas than grandiloquence . \u2014 Benjamin Mueller, New York Times , 22 July 2019",
"Bird never did have the hops to transport himself from one piece of famed parquet to another, but that didn\u2019t stop Pitino from selling the kind of grandiloquence that epitomized the too-good-to-be-true verbiage and essence of the college game. \u2014 Harvey Araton, New York Times , 28 Sep. 2017",
"Rose\u2019s plain-spokenness is the necessary counterweight to her husband\u2019s grandiloquence . \u2014 A. O. Scott, New York Times , 15 Dec. 2016"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from Middle French, from Latin grandiloquus using lofty language, from grandis + loqui to speak":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1589, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215325"
},
"granadilla wood":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the wood of the granadilla tree":[],
": a dark red hardwood derived from a cocobolo ( Dalbergia retusa ) of northern South America and used in making musical instruments (as clarinets)":[],
": the yellow satiny wood of a tropical American tree ( Buchenavia capitata ) of the family Combretaceae":[],
": the chocolate-brown hardwood of a tropical American tree ( Caesalpinia granadillo )":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215353"
},
"graphic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adjective combining form",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or involving such reproductive methods as those of engraving, etching, lithography, photography, serigraphy, and woodcut":[],
": of or relating to the art of printing":[],
": relating or according to graphics":[],
": formed by writing, drawing, or engraving":[
"graphic inscriptions"
],
": vividly or plainly shown or described":[
"a graphic sex scene"
],
": using offensive or obscene words : including swear words":[
"\u2026 used graphic language on camera and then abruptly ended the impromptu press conference. The vulgarity made headlines.",
"\u2014 Michael Martinez"
],
": marked by clear lifelike or vividly realistic description":[
"\u2026 its most graphic and beautiful stanzas \u2026",
"\u2014 John Livingston Lowes"
],
": of, relating to, or represented by a graph":[],
": of or relating to the written or printed word or the symbols or devices used in writing or printing to represent sound or convey meaning":[
"the graphic symbols of the ancient Egyptians"
],
": a product of graphic art":[],
": the graphic media":[],
": a graphic representation (such as a picture, map, or graph ) used especially for illustration":[
"His presentation included a number of informational graphics ."
],
": a pictorial image displayed on a computer screen":[
"the program's graphics are impressive"
],
": the art or science of drawing a representation of an object on a two-dimensional surface according to mathematical rules of projection":[],
": the process whereby a computer displays graphics":[],
": a printed message superimposed on a television picture":[],
": written or transmitted in a (specified) way":[
"stylo graphic",
"tele graphic"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gra-fik"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineated",
"pictorial",
"picturesque",
"visual",
"vivid"
],
"antonyms":[
"diagram",
"figure",
"illustration",
"plate",
"visual"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for graphic Adjective graphic , vivid , picturesque mean giving a clear visual impression in words. graphic stresses the evoking of a clear lifelike picture. a graphic account of combat vivid suggests an impressing on the mind of the vigorous aliveness of something. a vivid re-creation of an exciting event picturesque suggests the presentation of a striking or effective picture composed of features notable for their distinctness and charm. a picturesque account of his travels",
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the report offered many graphic details about the devastating earthquake that rocked the area",
"got a degree in graphic design",
"Noun",
"She illustrated her talk with a graphic showing state population growth.",
"the use of graphics in the text of the dictionary helps to break up the visual monotony of the page",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Andrea Honor\u00e9, a Weymouth graphic designer and mother of two, was among the study\u2019s volunteer participants. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"In its deliberately hideous way, the project showcases the distinctive skill set of Dril\u2019s anonymous creator, who was revealed in 2017 to be a graphic designer living in the New York\u2013New Jersey area. \u2014 Colin Marshall, The New Yorker , 17 June 2022",
"Beijing resident Zhao Meng hasn\u2019t found work since being laid off as a graphic designer at a large for-profit education company last October. \u2014 Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"Duffy\u2019s design started out as a pen and ink drawing and was sharpened with the help of mentor Martin Burciaga, a graphic designer in the county\u2019s Bureau of Administration. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"The national average for a graphic designer is $35/hour or $73,154 a year, according to ZipRecruiter. \u2014 Nicol Natale, Woman's Day , 13 June 2022",
"Eva Noble, a graphic designer who recently relocated to West Valley City from Midvale, visited the restaurant with her boyfriend on a weekend without knowing about the Venezuelan fusion. \u2014 Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"Sean Campbell, a gay graphic designer, created the flag in 1999. \u2014 Kiersten Willis, ajc , 8 June 2022",
"Another student who, after 25 years working as a graphic designer, enrolled in L.A. City College to begin a career as a teacher. \u2014 Melissa Gomezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Tucked in an alcove, my husband, Dave, son, Seth, and I lift our beers high while parsing the graphic , almost violent, nature of Iceland, a place where the Earth seems to split open to reveal its internal organs. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"Zumaya's post shows a graphic of the two worst teams in baseball history: the 1962 Mets who lost 120 games while scoring 617 runs and the 2003 Tigers, who lost 119 games while scoring 591 runs. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 25 May 2022",
"Just months ago, the graphic , the rhetoric and the seeming casualness of such conversations would have been shocking, even by the standards of Russian propaganda. \u2014 Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News , 14 May 2022",
"Haith said Graf helped turn that idea into a graphic . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"In one of the most dramatic moments of the hearing, the committee displayed a graphic of Mr. Pence\u2019s flight from the Senate chamber as rioters stormed the Capitol. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"The outside-in framework requires the artificial insertion of a human experimenter who observes this event [see graphic below]. \u2014 Gy\u00f6rgy Buzs\u00e1ki, Scientific American , 14 May 2022",
"This includes renderings of the original black-and-white paste-up Kruger made of the graphic (at the top of this post), as well as the silk-screen version trimmed in a screaming red that is now in the collection of the Broad museum. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"Trudeau is not part of the graphic originally broadcast on CNN. \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 22 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin graphicus , from Greek graphikos , from graphein":"Adjective and Noun",
"Late Latin -graphicus , from Greek -graphikos , from graphikos":"Adjective combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1637, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1944, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215406"
},
"grandfather clause":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Because of a grandfather clause , the strict emission standards only apply to new cars.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Senator Jeanine Calkin, a Warwick Democrat, noted that Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has said that a grandfather clause would render the bill meaningless and unenforceable. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"But a grandfather clause in the legislation allowed sitting officeholders to still tap the contents of their political war chests at the time the legislation was signed for everything from mortgages to college tuition. \u2014 John Byrne, chicagotribune.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"And guns purchased before the ban were protected by a grandfather clause . \u2014 Lauren Hern\u00e1ndez, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 June 2021",
"Some have pointed out that the rule change could include a grandfather clause , meaning that justices confirmed before the passage of the bill would not be subject to the term limit. \u2014 Aron Ravin, National Review , 14 June 2021",
"And guns purchased before the ban were protected by a grandfather clause . \u2014 Lauren Hern\u00e1ndez, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 June 2021",
"The law includes a grandfather clause that exempts employees already in their positions from the ban. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2021",
"Several states instituted a grandfather clause as a loophole for white men who could not afford the poll tax or pass a literacy test. \u2014 Javonte Anderson, USA TODAY , 5 Mar. 2021",
"The new rules, which were approved quickly and unanimously by the City Council late last year, do not include a grandfather clause \u2014 a provision that would apply to Aguirre and other current operators. \u2014 Jim Buchta, Star Tribune , 21 Jan. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215522"
},
"grasping":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": used, designed, or adapted to grasp":[
"When the eggs hatch, the first-stage grub \u2026 is a minute but highly active larva with well-developed grasping legs.",
"\u2014 John Alcock",
"His choice of surgical instruments includes everything from grasping forceps and trimmers to motorized shavers and drills.",
"\u2014 Arnold Schechter"
],
": desiring material possessions urgently and excessively and often to the point of ruthlessness":[
"Her grasping children fought over her property when she died."
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gra-spi\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquisitive",
"avaricious",
"avid",
"coveting",
"covetous",
"grabby",
"greedy",
"mercenary",
"moneygrubbing",
"rapacious"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grasping covetous , greedy , acquisitive , grasping , avaricious mean having or showing a strong desire for especially material possessions. covetous implies inordinate desire often for another's possessions. covetous of his brother's country estate greedy stresses lack of restraint and often of discrimination in desire. greedy for status symbols acquisitive implies both eagerness to possess and ability to acquire and keep. an eagerly acquisitive mind grasping adds to covetous and greedy an implication of selfishness and often suggests unfair or ruthless means. a hard grasping businesswoman who cheated her associates avaricious implies obsessive acquisitiveness especially of money and strongly suggests stinginess. an avaricious miser",
"examples":[
"Her grasping children fought over her property when she died.",
"a grasping person who would rather buy a car he didn't need than give a dime to charity"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"see grasp entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220152"
},
"grade school":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": elementary school":[]
},
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Financial literacy should be a fundamental part of grade school . \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"In a span of five years, her nonprofit, Literacy in the H.O.O.D., has distributed more than 100,000 books to help boost the reading lives of youths, many of them in grade school . \u2014 Alexis Oatman, cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"Near the garage, on Metrobudivnykiv Street, was a grade school , Gymnasium No.172. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"Smith was addressing these inequities in her writings, in classrooms and on the streets when Kamala Harris, the first woman and Black person to become vice president, was still in grade school in the Bay Area. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"On the way home from a day photographing at Beringer and Christian Brothers wineries, Cakebread decided to pay a visit to his mother\u2019s best friend from grade school , who owned Sturdivant Ranch in Rutherford. \u2014 Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 May 2022",
"Sen Dog immigrated to South Gate from Cuba with his brother Sergio \u2014 who raps as Mellow Man Ace \u2014 and their parents when the kids were in grade school . \u2014 Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"James, for example, found a target in an Alabama grade school that seeks to provide an affirming education to LGBTQ students. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Watts filled a void in the local AAU circuit by diving into grade school and grew from there with his own program called Net Gain. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 10 Apr. 2022"
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"The lushly cast production, which opened Saturday at the San Diego Civic Theatre, is French grand opera at its finest, with gorgeous singing and music, a large chorus, stunning scenery, lavish costumes, sword-fighting and even ballet dancing. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Paris Opera extends across the city in two grand opera houses: the historic Palais Garnier and its main theater, the modern Op\u00e9ra Bastille. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2021",
"The main thoroughfare, Emad al-Din Street, boasted a grand opera house, expensive hotels, and innumerable dance halls, bars and caf\u00e9s. \u2014 Moira Hodgson, WSJ , 5 Mar. 2021",
"Bruce Eggler, a New Orleans journalist who over a half-century career covered subjects ranging from grand opera to media criticism to the minutiae of city government, died Wednesday in his apartment in New Orleans\u2019 Riverbend neighborhood. \u2014 John Pope, NOLA.com , 9 Sep. 2020",
"From the late 1920s, professional wrestling had an uneasy relationship with the auditorium, muscling in between other presentations of grand opera , graduations, Boy Scout pow-wows, educational lectures and other more elevated events. \u2014 Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com , 5 Sep. 2020",
"Even more revealing was the response of my wife, who loves grand opera but isn\u2019t a full-fledged buff and had never previously shown any special interest in Maria Callas. \u2014 Terry Teachout, WSJ , 14 Nov. 2018",
"There were moments when his powerful voice proved too much for the arena\u2019s amplification system more suited to broadcasting scores for sporting events or a circus than grand opera . \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com , 20 June 2019",
"Her silky mezzo voice had the heft to parody grand opera , and her divinely expressive face carried over-the-top theatrics with no self-consciousness. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2019"
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"This is not a surprise given the welcome, gracious atmosphere, the uncommon competence of the kitchen, with its familiar Little Italy Italian menu \u2026 and the restaurant's credible wine list. \u2014 Mark Bittman , New York Times , 26 June 2002",
"If there are not too many in the group, you might inquire solicitously about their health. If you are in a particularly gracious mood, you might even give them a brief resume of your physical condition. \u2014 Groucho Marx , letter , 15 Nov. 1951 , in The Groucho Letters , 1987",
"Phoebe closed her eyes, seeing her father moving like a shadow among his guests, gracious , smiling, pouring wine and exchanging greetings. \u2014 Judith Berry Griffin , Phoebe the Spy , 1977",
"The reception started in orderly enough fashion\u2014 gracious and leisurely. Paula Locker, the President of the Club, met me at the door, and I took my place in line with her, with Fishbait Miller doing the introducing. \u2014 Lady Bird Johnson , A White House Diary , 1970",
"Thank you for your gracious hospitality.",
"The magazine promotes gracious living.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Through his example, Mark showed me how to be gracious in victory, resilient in defeat, and humble in the small measure of fame that is the lot of a TV commentator. \u2014 Paul Begala, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"Perfume Genius was incredibly gracious to roll in the very cold mud as my co pilot and steal scene after scene with his surreal charm. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Thus far, Harlow has remained gracious to those who have embraced him in the industry and inspired him along the way. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Wallace and Ruth, their children said, taught them the value of financial responsibility, education, the ability to fix things, and being gracious . \u2014 Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"Gaga was gracious after the Grammys, congratulating BTS and all the other performers on their work on the show in an Instagram post. \u2014 ELLE , 15 Apr. 2022",
"So when this truly lovely young woman comes in and is so gracious , Agnes is taken by her. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The extension would also provide a far more gracious way to reach the Rock Hall and the science center, which are now as isolated on their disconnected patches of lakefront as if they were located in a distant suburb. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 16 May 2021",
"The Velelli family was spared \u2014 a miracle owed, in large part, to Elias Michalos, a gracious non-Jewish man who invited them to hide in his family\u2019s small cottage in the tiny mountain village of Michaleika. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French gracieus , from Latin gratiosus enjoying favor, agreeable, from gratia":""
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"\u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pick up some grappa -like grape brandy, too, which most vineyards also produce. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 22 Sep. 2021",
"The first is citrusy, smelling and tasting like a very good grappa . \u2014 Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times , 5 Nov. 2020",
"That afternoon in Civetta, I was informed that a shot of grappa could improve my speed. \u2014 Amy Tara Koch, New York Times , 25 Nov. 2019",
"Participants will also be able to try a dessert wine and digestive spirit, as well \u2014 Fattoria Montellori vin santo from Tuscany, and Marolo grappa . \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 Nov. 2019",
"The two drank grappa and smoked late into the night. \u2014 Eric Sylvers, WSJ , 25 July 2018",
"He and a friend made grappa , an Italian brandy distilled from grape pomace, the solid residue of the winemaking process. \u2014 Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times , 20 June 2018",
"Warm up with apr\u00e8s-brunch drinks (like herbal tisane Tulsi Immunitea or a Nuovo Giorno\u2014Qui tequila, chamomile grappa , lime and agave) in the hotel's lounge, which features a chic toasty fireplace. \u2014 Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 Nov. 2014",
"Desserts are simple: panna cotta, semifreddo and soft-serve gelato are among the options, but so is the sizeable list of amari and grappa . \u2014 Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press , 27 June 2018"
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"Italian, from Italian dialect, grape stalk, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German kr\u0101pfo hook":""
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"circa 1893, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Using the gravure method, Trachtman creates works that seem more like emanations than photographs. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2021",
"Plus there are still plenty of bite-sized distractions in Kamurocho and Sotenbori\u2014like arcades with fully functional Virtual-On cabinets, mahjong parlors, and... live-action gravure photography. \u2014 Steven Strom, Ars Technica , 28 Aug. 2018",
"In the two photo- gravures here, Miller\u2019s body is enmeshed in white lines, as if turned on by the current. \u2014 Richard B. Woodward, WSJ , 18 Sep. 2017",
"Then rotogravure (color gravure ) in the magazines allowed people to shoot in color and that introduced a new element certainly in photojournalism. \u2014 Pete Brook, WIRED , 15 Nov. 2012"
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"French, from graver to cut, engrave, from Old French, to make a line, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German graban to dig, engrave \u2014 more at grave entry 5":""
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"1893, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Her students say that she's a tough grader .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Within hours, investigators were searching around the school for the second grader . \u2014 Elaine Aradillas, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"Now, Amine is a typical second grader , learning math, science, and French, in an effort to make his temporary exile in France more bearable. \u2014 Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 June 2022",
"Dora worried about her grandson, Jayden, a second grader at Robb. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022",
"Dora worried about her grandson, Jayden, a second grader at Robb. \u2014 Mark Berman, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
"Edward Timothy Silva, a second- grader at Robb Elementary, also worries about returning after summer break. \u2014 Adrienne Broaddus, CNN , 27 May 2022",
"Certainly not as a second- grader , when King, Connecticut\u2019s 2022 Teacher of the Year, was granted American citizenship. \u2014 Seamus Mcavoy, Hartford Courant , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Hatim and Marium Rahman of Glenview brought their children Asiya, 8, a second- grader , Safiya, 3, and Ameen, 2. \u2014 Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Maya, also a second- grader , wants to be an animal trainer. \u2014 Linda Gandee, cleveland , 7 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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": the part of a gram-positive bacterial cell responsible for the characteristic staining by Gram's method and usually considered to be a layer of ribonucleate in complex association with polysaccharides and protein immediately underlying the cell wall":[]
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"first_known_use":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": any of the small short-lived brilliant spots on the sun's photosphere":[]
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"atom",
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"dribble",
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"flyspeck",
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"snippet",
"speck",
"tittle"
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"examples":[
"is there one granule of truth in that statement",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For example, any crystal, whether a granule of table salt or a diamond necklace, is just a bunch of atoms arranged in a repeating pattern. \u2014 Karmela Padavic-callaghan, Scientific American , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The lethal version detects cells that have been infected with a virus, then kills them (by releasing a toxic version of a granule called a cytokine) to stop the virus from replicating. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Keep fertilizer applications to once a month with a liquid product or use a slow-release granule every few months as instructed on the label. \u2014 Tom Maccubbin, orlandosentinel.com , 26 June 2021",
"Then reduce the feedings to every other week or apply a slow-release granule . \u2014 Tom Maccubbin, orlandosentinel.com , 5 June 2021",
"Still, the discovery of a tiny dead microbe would offer a granule of hope. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 30 July 2020",
"The process involves minimal extra work for the farmer, being easily applied as a seed treatment or a granule in the field that will grow out to become an extension of the root system of the crop and function alongside it. \u2014 James Thornhill, Houston Chronicle , 26 June 2020",
"Finns will take time out of their day to indulge in some strong coffee paired with a sweet treat\u2014usually korvapuusti, or cinnamon buns baked with a dash of cardamom, then topped with thick granules of pearl sugar. \u2014 Caitlin Morton, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 9 Apr. 2020",
"In a photo Chen took to accompany her story, a parked truck was loaded with bags of polypropylene granules for sale. \u2014 Dian Zhang, USA TODAY , 30 Apr. 2020"
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"Late Latin granulum , diminutive of Latin granum grain":""
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"1652, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"examples":[
"You need to learn to share and not be so grabby .",
"very young children tend to be grabby and often refuse to share",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The film has a grabby premise, lightly fictionalizing the story of the pre-fame Whitney Houston, here named Beauty (Gracie Marie Bradley). \u2014 Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"Fully vaccinated is also grabby in a way that up to date is not. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"The French luxury label certainly chose a grabby location at which to reveal its spring 2023 collection. \u2014 Rory Satran, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
"These washable microfiber cloths feature a super- grabby texture and come in a box of 10. \u2014 Better Homes & Gardens , 9 Mar. 2022",
"After the grabby initial setup, there\u2019s one major surprise remaining. \u2014 Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
"In this line of work, a PR pitch occasionally works its magic with grabby adjectives, leaving you no choice but to click play. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Typically, in fantasy fiction, goblins are depicted as cruel, grabby , and untrustworthy, the type of creatures to join orcs in battle against the forces of good, to stab an adventurer with a rusty dagger, and steal their valuables. \u2014 Dani Di Placido, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"In other developments, Beth (Kelly Reilly), starting her position with the land- grabby development company Market Equities, was alarmed by what the firm has planned for her home turf. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Dec. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1910, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an opening ceremony at a ball that consists of a march participated in by all the guests":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Their Trans Pride event, which includes a grand march and block party, will take place June 4 at Charles and North 23rd streets. \u2014 Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The junior prom will start with the grand march running from 4 to 4:45 p.m., dinner from 5 to 6 p.m. and the dance from 6 to 9 p.m. \u2014 Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Mar. 2021",
"The senior prom's grand march will run from 5 to 5:45 p.m., followed by dinner from 6 to 7 p.m. and the dance from 7 to 10 p.m. \u2014 Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Mar. 2021",
"The inaugural parade at the Capitol will begin at 10 a.m. EST, and Beshear will be sworn in at 2 p.m. A grand march presenting the new governor and lieutenant governor will begin at 8 p.m., and two inaugural balls will run from 9 p.m. to midnight. \u2014 USA TODAY , 3 Dec. 2019",
"Following the court's grand march , the festivities continued at the hotel's Waterbury Ballroom. ******* To reach Sue Strachan, send an email to socialscene@nola.com or call 504.450.5904. \u2014 Sue Strachan, NOLA.com , 30 Jan. 2018",
"The King and Queen of Freret, Ryan Gerlich and Kristi Jacobs-Stanley, were introduced to the court before the grand march ended the official presentation. \u2014 Sue Strachan, NOLA.com , 30 Jan. 2018",
"Concluding the ball portion of the night (there was a queen's supper after) was a grand march of Proteus and Queen Layne and maids with escorts. \u2014 Sue Strachan, NOLA.com , 24 Feb. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1872, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232140"
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"grandfather clock":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a tall pendulum clock that stands on the floor":[]
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His victims know they are being hunted when the grandfather clock and its ominous chime appear in hallucinations. \u2014 Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"Among the pieces handed down over five generations is the grandfather clock in the living room. \u2014 Victoria Johnson, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"The new trailer for Stranger Things season 4 has arrived, following a rather strange activation: Netflix set up a mysterious grandfather clock , similar to the one fans have seen in previous teasers for the upcoming season, in Los Angeles. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"These include a very suspicious grandfather clock , which is a predominant theme throughout the trailer, both in the Upside Down and the human world. \u2014 Hattie Lindert, PEOPLE.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"But the Upside Down is gearing up for one last onslaught, and the mysterious Creel House seems to be at the center of it\u2014specifically, the grandfather clock in the house, which is attached to the wall by those same oozing tentacles. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Thieves took a replica of an 1897 Imperial Coronation Faberg\u00e9 coach egg, 12 sets of silver candelabras and a clock face from a William IV grandfather clock among other antique props from the England set. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Over 350 items were taken during the heist, including a replica Faberg\u00e9 egg, a grandfather clock clockface, a dressing table, crystal glassware and silver and gold candelabras. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 24 Feb. 2022",
"In a series of photos shared to Instagram on New Year's Eve, Kardashian struck some poses standing next to a grandfather clock wearing a high-shine metallic sequin bra with matching silver high-rise shorts featuring a brocade print. \u2014 Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com , 14 Jan. 2022"
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"WFF Migratory Bird Coordinator Seth Maddox said the window for planting crops like corn, grain sorghum or sunflowers to attract doves to private lands has passed, but there is a short window for browntop millet remaining. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 12 July 2020",
"More than 3 million jobs in Texas rely on international trade, and at one point China had targeted $10 billion in state exports for retaliatory tariffs, including liquefied propane, grain sorghum and cotton. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 13 Jan. 2020",
"Whole grain: Choose from quinoa, emmer farro, einkorn, spelt, whole- grain sorghum (as opposed to pearled), whole-grain barley (again, not pearled), bulgur wheat, freekeh, Kamut wheat, brown rice, black rice, red rice and wild rice. \u2014 Carrie Dennett, The Seattle Times , 28 Nov. 2018",
"Remember, grain sorghum \u2019s going into premium products. \u2014 Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News , 6 July 2018",
"People will adapt over time, even if temperatures are increasing, said Manuel Gabriel Ortega, 39, who grows cotton, grain sorghum and sugar cane. \u2014 Scott Waldman, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2018",
"China has already started an anti-subsidy and anti-dumping investigation into U.S. grain sorghum , less than two weeks after President Donald Trump announced tariffs on solar panels and washing machines. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 7 Feb. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His newest, Sitting Pretty, is a grandiflora that gets lots of pink blooms, but his favorite is the red Double Knock Out. \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 27 Aug. 2021",
"Collinsia grandiflora \u2014 large-flowered blue-eyed Mary 2. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Mar. 2020",
"There is a Chinese species, C. grandiflora , valued for having a bigger, better flower display. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 July 2019",
"Those key notes are blended with black pepper, lemon sfuma, magnolia grandiflora , jasmine absolute, olibanum essential oil, and Ambrox Super. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 16 July 2018",
"Here is the basic procedure for pruning hybrid tea and grandiflora roses: Remove all diseased or dead canes by cutting them back to their point of origin. \u2014 Dan Gill, NOLA.com , 27 Jan. 2018",
"The three main species are grandiflora , stellultaum and rubrum. \u2014 Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities , 20 May 2017"
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"In 2017, he was sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to grand larceny and impersonating a police officer, court records show. \u2014 Paul Duggan, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"Prosecutors dumped the case just days before a trial on the robbery and grand larceny charges was set to begin on May 16, defense lawyer Gia Marina tells Rolling Stone. \u2014 Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone , 9 May 2022",
"In April alone, there were 1,261 robberies, 2,044 felony assaults, 3,867 instances of grand larceny and 105 shootings. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Authorities asked anyone with information about the grand larceny suspect to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). \u2014 Fox News , 24 May 2022",
"In 2012, he was found guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny and sentenced to nearly 24 years in prison. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 May 2022",
"Anna Sorokin was found guilty of theft of services and grand larceny in 2019. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
"An irregularity is not necessarily an illegality, let alone electoral grand larceny . \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 12 Feb. 2022",
"In 2019, Sorokin was convicted of grand larceny and theft of services. \u2014 Analisa Novak, CBS News , 12 Apr. 2022"
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"There is as much grandeur in the soil of a backyard garden as there is in the canyons of Zion. \u2014 Jennifer Szalai, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"There\u2019s a meditative grandeur to some of his best poems, a gradual disclosure of the self that\u2019s as much intellectual as moral. \u2014 Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic , 17 June 2022",
"But those who visit San Jose also have the chance to take in some ecclesiastical grandeur . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"At times, the album flirts with bombast, walking right up to the edge and sometimes teetering over, which is how rock and pop records often achieve real grandeur . \u2014 Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker , 20 May 2022",
"Modesty has an afterlife as well as a compelling grandeur of its own. \u2014 Willard Spiegelman, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"Gilded glamour, the dress code of the 2022 Met Gala, welcomed guests to show off their interpretation of a sort of white tie grandeur reflective of the late 19th-century style. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 3 May 2022",
"Taken as a whole, at least from renders, the building evokes a Gaudi-esque grandeur while fully occupying the 21st century. \u2014 Kim Westerman, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The Suns are favorites to return and win the NBA Finals, but Cameron's more proud of his younger brother Puff experiencing the Final Four's grandeur because Cameron never got there. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Less gray eminence perhaps -- Santi Hernandez is mop-haired and bearded -- but this man is an almost permanent fixture at the side of five-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez. \u2014 Jonathan Hawkins, CNN , 11 June 2019",
"Few active country artists possess the deep knowledge and love of the tradition\u2019s history and lore of singer-songwriter Marty Stuart, who\u2019s evolved into a gray eminence with a mixture of elegance and unquenchable curiosity. \u2014 Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader , 8 Dec. 2017",
"Image The maverick genius of the 1980s, now the gray eminence of the 2010s, Mr. Moss is perhaps the most successful editor of his generation. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Sep. 2017",
"But aren\u2019t the series\u2019 subjects\u2014the ones still breathing\u2014usually gray eminences ",
"At a moment of doctrinal crisis in the Republican party, Newt Gingrich is the only major figure in his party who is both insurgent and gray eminence . \u2014 John H. Richardson, Esquire , 10 Aug. 2010"
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"The biggest awards night in the music industry took place in Las Vegas on Sunday night to see who would be rewarded with a golden gramophone for all of their chart-topping achievements on Sunday night. \u2014 Rivea Ruff, Essence , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Some moms have even made their way to the stage when their child took home a gramophone ! \u2014 Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Apart from an iconic gramophone statue, winners at the 2022 Grammys will be gifted with a Bulova watch engraved with their name and Grammy category. \u2014 Latifah Muhammad, Billboard , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Just as the end of the gramophone didn't represent the end of music, the art will continue. \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The only accessory these guys need now is a tiny golden gramophone . \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Nov. 2021",
"With first-round voting ending Nov. 5, one last Grammy question: Is the gold gramophone still something that artists value",
"The team also uncovered a gramophone and several records, including Beethoven\u2019s Moonlight Sonata and Ninth Symphony. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Stranger things have happened: in music, vinyl has been kept alive by boutique enthusiasts of all ages, while CDs\u2014though still beloved by some\u2014are as quaint as gramophone records. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 14 Sep. 2021"
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"His grandnephew succeeded him, but the monarchy ended when the war did. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Aug. 2014",
"Her sister said after staying inside last year and missing celebrations and holidays, Barrows had many plans for after she was vaccinated, including driving to Florida to meet her newborn grandnephew . \u2014 Fox News , 25 June 2021",
"The swatch made the 300 million-mile journey to Mars with the blessing of the Wright brothers\u2019 great-grandniece and great- grandnephew , said park curator Steve Lucht. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Mar. 2021",
"The swatch made the 300 million-mile journey to Mars with the blessing of the Wright brothers' great-grandniece and great- grandnephew , said park curator Steve Lucht. \u2014 Marcia Dunn, The Enquirer , 24 Mar. 2021",
"David B Haight, who was the grandnephew of Isaac Haight, one of the principal participants in the massacre. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2020",
"In my case, my 2-year-old grandnephew , James, lives in Duluth, not far from the terminus of Enbridge's Line 3 \u2014 a 1,000-mile pipeline being constructed to deliver tar-sands oil from Alberta. \u2014 Jack Uldrich, Star Tribune , 17 Dec. 2020",
"Talanei reports that Leauma was a grandnephew of the governor. \u2014 Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Sep. 2020",
"Kennedy, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is the grandson of the late senator and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and grandnephew of the late President John F. Kennedy. \u2014 Paul Steinhauser, Fox News , 1 Sep. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What sort of public action might effectively mimic a reserve or a granary to solve this conundrum",
"In a frenzy of competitive energy, the city\u2019s guilds lavished attention on its unfinished cathedral, its neighboring baptistery and the former granary -turned-church of Orsanmichele. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"For some Argentine agricultural experts, the rise in global food insecurity and tightening food supplies risks turning the country away from its roots as a great granary to the world. \u2014 Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor , 5 May 2022",
"Near their pitch is an ancient granary that climbers can\u2019t visit. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Residents and property owners of Ogden's west 2nd Street petitioned the city's Landmarks Commission to place an 1870 granary on the historic register. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Oct. 2021",
"The Latter-day Saint congregation met first in a schoolhouse, Amott said, and then on the upper floor of a granary before the church was built around 1900. \u2014 Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Feb. 2021",
"The festival took a few years off during World War II but returned to San Jose in 1946 for a Columbus Day Festival, to benefit the mission\u2019s granary . \u2014 Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com , 24 Oct. 2020",
"Masten stored these finds on the floor of his granary for public viewing. \u2014 Hans-dieter Sues, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 May 2020"
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"Knox will be attending either Spelman College or The Julliard School to study graphic design , clothing design or become a ballet instructor. \u2014 Hunter Boyce, ajc , 5 June 2022",
"Typical gigs on sites like Fiverr, UpWork, Flexjobs, etc. include WordPress coding, website design, graphic design , mobile app development and typesetting. \u2014 Terry Rybolt, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Kim and Tauri turn to art forms like graphic design , writing, and dance to spread awareness about mental health and prioritizing wellness. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 12 May 2022",
"The remote work program will match eligible Bowie State students with A+E staffers, who will provide mentorship in graphic design , marketing, digital content distribution, social media, digital media production and other major areas. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"Its scope ranges from banners and jerseys to the less expected, such as stadium architecture, graphic design , collectibles and new developments like eSports. \u2014 Jacopo Prisco, CNN , 8 Apr. 2022",
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"With her proximity to Meadows and other key members of the inner Trump circle, the granular details of Hutchinson\u2019s testimony are among the most damning to come out of the Jan. 6 hearings so far. \u2014 Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"In a huge space like the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center, not everyone can see these very granular features. \u2014 Liz Appel, Vogue , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, affectionately known as Fred is interesting but not very granular . \u2014 Roger Valdez, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Instead, L\u2019Eclair dove deeper into the granular sonic details. \u2014 Jonathan Cohen, SPIN , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"While applying, employers have to attest to labour market conditions and furnish granular details of the existence, duration, wages, and location associated with the job. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 14 Feb. 2022",
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"Fuller, who needs one more year to retire from the Alabama public school system, plans to continue to teach at Fairhope next year and spend much of his time following his son, Keaton, on the Troy baseball team and spending time with a new grandbaby . \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"Perfect for first-time grandmas, this book will beautifully express the depth of her love for her grandbaby . \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 14 Apr. 2022",
"My parents still work full time, and his parents are too old (in my opinion) to safely watch their grandbaby while also keeping him engaged. \u2014 Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Three days after a gunman shot and killed 69-year-old Litha Varone and her sweet grandbaby , neighbors and friends were still in shock over how such a horrible thing could happen to such good people. \u2014 Joe Cavaretta, sun-sentinel.com , 13 June 2021",
"All God wants is to make a nice roast chicken to share with his sons and the mother of his grandbaby , who reluctantly gets roped into this awkward affair. \u2014 Sara Netzley, EW.com , 28 May 2021",
"Roger and Grace are hoping for a Weir reunion in a central location once the next grandbaby is born. \u2014 Harriet L. Blake, Dallas News , 27 May 2021",
"My Beautiful grandbaby Blue Ivy looking like a little super model in her Ivy Park . \u2014 Emily Dixon, Marie Claire , 18 Feb. 2021",
"On the way to his mother\u2019s house, the Army recruiter picked up his mother\u2019s sister and her grandbaby . \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 31 Dec. 2020"
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"The production, in which Denmark was imagined as a chilling surveillance state, incorporated the use of video to powerful effect\u2014the Ghost is initially observed on grainy security footage\u2014and was heralded for its emotional veracity. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
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"In the original \u201960s television series, the Tin Can Man was a robot that Eddie built for a science fair before it was sabotaged, forcing his grandpa (Al Lewis) to fix it. \u2014 Sasha Urban, Variety , 29 June 2022",
"My great- grandpa was a linotype operator and my family tells me the letters on the machine were in order by frequency. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 14 Jan. 2022",
"My mom recently visited my grandpa , who is 90, maybe 89, and used to be a city planner for L.A. \u2014 Julissa Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"The 15 year old will join his dad and grandpa in the bleachers near Turn 4. \u2014 The Indianapolis Star , 29 May 2022",
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"My maternal grandparents who were born and raised in California lost everything \u2014 including my grandpa 's pharmacy \u2014 when Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. \u2014 Clarissa Cruz, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"This photo was from spring break, provided by his grandpa . \u2014 Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022",
"My Chicano grandpa moved to Los Angeles with his parents in 1934. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022"
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"This graphic novel is a comprehensive and inclusive guide to gender identity, sexuality and many other subjects on teens\u2019 minds. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"As for her influences, Keller namechecks Jesscia Abel, author of Out on the Wire, a graphic novel about radio and podcasting, and Swedish illustrator Liv Str\u00f6mquist. \u2014 David Vetter, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel recounts the ordeal of the author\u2019s father during the Holocaust. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
"Venice Beach is getting its time the sun in a graphic novel that is years in the making. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"But four days after news broke that the McMinn County School Board had unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from the district's curriculum, Cockrum celebrated the birth of his daughter. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 13 Feb. 2022",
"Her comments followed a segment on the show discussing a Tennessee school district\u2019s decision to ban Maus, a the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel centering on the horrific experiences of a Holocaust survivor. \u2014 Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone , 1 Feb. 2022",
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"Touching and warm-hearted, this graphic novel shows the joy in embracing family traditions while still being true to yourself. \u2014 Lauren Morgan, EW.com , 12 May 2022"
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"The storylines eventually converge on that fateful day in 1918 when the Russian royal family faced its end and the legend of the young grand duchess ' survival would begin. \u2014 Mary Cadden, USA TODAY , 21 Mar. 2018",
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"The Philadelphia native is credited with designing the first graphics tablet for Apple in 1979, the first platform for commercial music downloads in 1992 and the first online artist subscription service, PatroNet, in 1998. \u2014 Dallas News , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Another day in the laboratory, and all was quiet apart from the scritch-scratch of styluses on graphics tablets . \u2014 Wired , 24 Sep. 2019"
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"The killer whales are called aaxlu, tukxukuak, agliuk, mesungesak, polossatik, skana, keet, feared one, grampus , blackfish, orca, big-fin, fat-chopper. Whale killer. \u2014 Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Nov. 2019"
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"In addition, there are utility NFTs\u2014tokens that are used to reward community members or grant membership in a community. \u2014 Andrey Drobitko, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Upcoming courses will feature Tracey N. Bonner, Javon Johnson, Ann Joseph Douglas and Allen Gilmore, and cover topics like writing for film and television, grant writing for artists, and breaking into the industry. \u2014 Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"In recent months, the Biden administration, Elon Musk and companies like Alphabet and Meta have poured millions \u2014 in some cases, billions \u2014 into investment funds, research proposals, grant opportunities and competitions to develop it. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Title IX required colleges and universities to provide the same opportunities for men and women, whether that was sports, scholarships, grant money or facilities. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Dorow announced Monday that a change of venue is not required, but did grant Brooks a sequestered jury. \u2014 Amir Vera, Amanda Musa And Jarrod Wardwell, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"And beyond Amtrak, a new high-speed rail line between North Carolina and Virginia is in the works, being funded as part of a federal Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements grant . \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 21 June 2022",
"While the country\u2019s labor laws grant mothers 14 weeks of maternity leave, fathers have often been left out of the conversation. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"Lewis, meanwhile, was very surprised that Heard\u2019s legal team agreed to let their client grant the interview. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
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"LaVecchia said childcare centers will need the public\u2019s help to continue operating if the state ends the grant program. \u2014 Cici Yu, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"The grant program is ongoing under Johnnie Walker's First Strides Initiative. \u2014 Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The Alliance\u2019s grant program annually awards a nonprofit organization for its contributions to the advancement of sustainable production. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
"State law already requires state police, municipal police departments that have received reimbursement for body camera purchases under the state\u2019s grant program and college police in the course of their duties to use body cameras. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"Gutierrez said that school districts can apply for up to $45 million from the grant program. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"This could be put toward major repairs, such as roof work that may need to be addressed elsewhere, Councilwoman Nancy Moore said after learning that there is no longer as much funding available through the Peterson grant program. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"The new law creates a grant program allowing schools throughout the state to apply for funding to purchase period products beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. \u2014 Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"Recently, Blacktag teamed up with Johnnie Walker to launch a creator grant program that will award five finalists $1,000 to create custom content. \u2014 Scarlett Newman, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022"
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"For example, any crystal, whether a granule of table salt or a diamond necklace, is just a bunch of atoms arranged in a repeating pattern. \u2014 Karmela Padavic-callaghan, Scientific American , 9 Mar. 2022",
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"Still, the discovery of a tiny dead microbe would offer a granule of hope. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 30 July 2020",
"The process involves minimal extra work for the farmer, being easily applied as a seed treatment or a granule in the field that will grow out to become an extension of the root system of the crop and function alongside it. \u2014 James Thornhill, Houston Chronicle , 26 June 2020",
"Finns will take time out of their day to indulge in some strong coffee paired with a sweet treat\u2014usually korvapuusti, or cinnamon buns baked with a dash of cardamom, then topped with thick granules of pearl sugar. \u2014 Caitlin Morton, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 9 Apr. 2020",
"In a photo Chen took to accompany her story, a parked truck was loaded with bags of polypropylene granules for sale. \u2014 Dian Zhang, USA TODAY , 30 Apr. 2020"
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"Emboldened, Fisher this May has had two gallant missives directed at \u2026 a couple of gramps at least a decade his senior",
"Nonetheless, there is a quality in Sanders that is not a grandfather or a grandpa or a gramps but a Zaydie, which is the Yiddish word for grandfather. \u2014 Talia Lavin, The New Republic , 13 Feb. 2020"
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"And with another grandchild on the way, new memories are already being made\u2014thanks to the cinematic vision of a true design auteur. \u2014 David Nash, ELLE Decor , 23 June 2022",
"Teresa Torres stood with her grandchild in her arms and her eyes fixed on something far away. \u2014 Douglas Belkin, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
"Princess Eugenie is another royal grandchild who works outside the palace, and over the past few years, she's established a career in the art world. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 19 May 2022",
"At his age, Williams has had to retire from many subsistence activities, and was looking forward to his wife\u2019s return from a trip into Anchorage for a grandchild \u2019s graduation. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 19 May 2022",
"Amid the mysterious visitors and intergalactic vistas of the eight-episode storyline is a sprinkling of the naturalistic nuances of everyday life \u2014 doctor visits, nosy neighbors and a grandchild \u2019s concern for her aging grandparents. \u2014 Jim Cooke, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"Forget about being able to pass along a small inheritance to help cover a grandchild \u2019s college tuition. \u2014 Robert W. Bache, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Over the past couple years, Vicky White sent Christmas gifts and birthday gifts to Casey White\u2019s grandchild and his 12-year-old son. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 13 May 2022",
"Chance is also George\u2019s favorite grandchild , if only by default. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 11 May 2022"
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"In a bowl, whisk together eggs and granulated sugar until pale and slightly thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. \u2014 Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping , 10 Mar. 2020",
"In an electric mixer on low speed, mix the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar for 1 to 2 minutes until the mixture looks like wet sand. 6. \u2014 Lisa Yockelson, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2019",
"From a nutritional standpoint, molasses has the same amount of calories as granulated sugar. \u2014 Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press , 16 Apr. 2020",
"Whisk eggs, granulated sugar, \u00bd teaspoon salt and half the vodka together in a bowl. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 6 Apr. 2020",
"In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high, beat butter and granulated sugar until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. \u2014 Chris Ross, chicagotribune.com , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Variations: Use brown sugar instead of granulated for a butterscotch-like flavor, or add a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and lightly press cookie mounds down with your palm instead of a fork. \u2014 Daniela Galarza, New York Times , 15 Apr. 2020",
"In an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment, on medium speed, beat together the olive oil and 3/4 cup granulated sugar until thickened and golden. \u2014 Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com , 8 Apr. 2020",
"In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high, beat butter and granulated sugar until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. \u2014 Chris Ross, Twin Cities , 11 Dec. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Terry Allen\u2019s 19-year-old grandson was one of them. \u2014 Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star , 1 July 2022",
"Tericia Blount, whose 9-year-old grandson Ezra Blount was among the victims who died from their injuries after Astroworld previously criticized the foundation as a means of winning over the public\u2019s favor. \u2014 Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone , 27 June 2022",
"Sam Lemon, Ridley\u2019s great grandson , finished what his ancestor started when a judge overturned a conviction for Alexander McClay Williams, achieving justice for his great grandfather\u2019s former client. \u2014 Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence , 22 June 2022",
"In January, Scottsdale police responded to a report of an unresponsive person at an Extended Stay America Hotel and found 11-year-old Chaskah, Davis' grandson , not breathing in a bathtub. \u2014 Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic , 21 June 2022",
"Hudson\u2019s 12-year-old grandson Patrick Igou dumped a bag on a flat rock and counted more than 50 slugs. \u2014 Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
"It's been family-owned since, now headed by grandson Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. \u2014 Roy Schwartz, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"Serious archaeological excavation at the site began in the 1930s under the leadership of Eric Birley, whose sons and grandson continued the work after his death, right up to the present day. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
"The grandfather of one of the children who died at the hospital, 10-year-old Xavier Lopez, blamed the police for not getting his grandson medical attention sooner. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 10 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There\u2019s an Eames chair, a concert harp, and a grand piano . \u2014 Anna Russell, The New Yorker , 2 July 2022",
"The interiors by Ric Owens of Roberts Design are unabashedly opulent, as evidenced by the Grand Lobby adorned with soaring 20-foot ceilings, twinkling Swarovski crystal chandeliers, oversized stone fireplace, and grand piano . \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"Everything here is tasteful and suggestive of money: the overstuffed furniture, prodigous art, the grand piano standing erect in the corner. \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 6 May 2022",
"Another highlight is the glitzy grand piano bar on the upper deck, which is replete with TB Marmi\u2019s exquisite Italian marble. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Meanwhile, Melinda drinks too much, undresses in front of the baby sitter, and stands atop a neighbor\u2019s grand piano \u2014not all at once, but almost. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 18 Mar. 2022",
"In the brief, six-second snippet, the rising pop star sits on the end of a bench, licking a chocolate ice cream cone in an all-white suit when, out of the blue, a bright red grand piano drops out of the sky onto his head. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The Lounge, a spacious outdoor gathering place with a bar and a grand piano , overlooking the ocean, is the perfect spot to end the day at The Shoals with a cocktail in hand. \u2014 Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Presented on the hotel\u2019s outdoor garden terrace, guests can enjoy an open-air alfresco tea service surrounded by wild flowers and verdant hedges accompanied by the sounds of a grand piano . \u2014 Caroline Tell, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"He made a grand slam .",
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"Then, as if it were scripted, 23-year-old Buddy Kennedy blew Sunday's game wide open, crushing a sixth-inning grand slam to left field. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 19 June 2022",
"But in a rematch his next start, Kremer didn\u2019t get out of the first inning, allowing five walks and a grand slam before being optioned to the minors. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 18 June 2022",
"Seth Brown\u2019s two-out, go-ahead grand slam keyed a five-run seventh inning that eclipsed the A\u2019s total scoring output in any of their prior 10 games. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 June 2022",
"Rafael Nadal won the French Open for the 14th time on Sunday, setting a new record for men\u2019s singles grand slam wins. \u2014 Sam Sussman, Vogue , 11 June 2022",
"Garner's first win with the Brewers ended on B.J. Surhoff's walk-off grand slam against the Twins in Garner's second game at the helm. \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
"Ultimately his bid for perfection ended when Jared Walsh (the same guy who dinged Aroldis Chapman for a go-ahead grand slam in the rain on June 30/July 1) doubled and then scored the game\u2019s first run. \u2014 Larry Fleisher, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Lakewood Ranch then broke the game open in the bottom of the fourth on a home run by Addyson Bruneman and then a grand slam by Ella Coiner to center field. \u2014 Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel , 28 May 2022",
"How about a grand slam from sophomore Kaden Miller in an 8-3 win to finish off the title"
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"his singing voice is a little gravelly , but otherwise he's a fine musician",
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"Wild columbine is a fine choice for a gravelly slope, rock ledge, or rock garden. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2022",
"Rosemead Boulevard, just south of the 60 Freeway and running through the Whittier Narrows, is a fast-moving stretch with gravelly shoulders. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"From the 1960s through the 1980s, scientists captured about 100 specimens in steep, fast-flowing, rocky and gravelly sections of the lower portions of tributaries to the Susquehanna River. \u2014 Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Another park site name being reconsidered: Negro Bar in Folsom Lake State Recreation Area northeast of Sacramento, a gravelly stretch of land where Black settlers in 1850 set up gold-mining camps. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Sep. 2021",
"From his gravelly Cajun voice, to his emotional sideline presence, to the fears that his raw personality would not connect with elite Trojans boosters, Orgeron didn\u2019t fit the athletic administration\u2019s idea of a Trojans leader. \u2014 Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Just sit back, relax and enjoy the gravelly intonations of Vin Diesel as the gang\u2019s ringleader, Dominic Toretto. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2021",
"Dark and Hell Is Hot, played on the speakers, his gravelly voice rising, falling, and echoing around the sparsely populated arena. \u2014 Ben Dandridge-lemco, Rolling Stone , 25 Apr. 2021",
"The fat was rendered to its golden sweet spot, and the bark gave off the gravelly growl of salt, pepper and something savory ($11.25 per half-pound). \u2014 Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com , 7 Jan. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The open-casket viewings for Eliahana Torres, his grandniece , were being held there, and Cabralez would be officiating a service. \u2014 Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker , 21 June 2022",
"Christ Revealed Ministries told CBS News' Tanya Rivero Thursday that Eliahna Cruz Torres, his grandniece , was a victim in the shooting. \u2014 Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News , 27 May 2022",
"Many who work for Disney, as well as Walt Disney\u2019s own grandniece , weren\u2019t pleased. \u2014 Angela Watercutter, Wired , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The victim was a grandniece of Eric Halliburton, founder of the transnational Halliburton oil company based in Houston. \u2014 David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com , 6 Dec. 2021",
"His survivors include his daughter; a brother, Danny Wayne Hamm; and a grandniece , Dwan Powell. \u2014 Sam Roberts, New York Times , 29 Nov. 2021",
"And before him, like his 27-year-old grandniece , Dominique. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Nov. 2021",
"At the second, the family laid to rest his 27-year-old grandniece , Dominique Moore, who was shot and killed on the streets of Watts last month. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 26 Oct. 2021",
"The founder\u2019s grandniece , Frances Hashimoto, later took the reins of the business; the company is now owned by an investment firm that will continue to sell its sweets under the Mikawaya brand at retail stores nationwide. \u2014 Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times , 7 July 2021"
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"examples":[
"This is not a surprise given the welcome, gracious atmosphere, the uncommon competence of the kitchen, with its familiar Little Italy Italian menu \u2026 and the restaurant's credible wine list. \u2014 Mark Bittman , New York Times , 26 June 2002",
"If there are not too many in the group, you might inquire solicitously about their health. If you are in a particularly gracious mood, you might even give them a brief resume of your physical condition. \u2014 Groucho Marx , letter , 15 Nov. 1951 , in The Groucho Letters , 1987",
"Phoebe closed her eyes, seeing her father moving like a shadow among his guests, gracious , smiling, pouring wine and exchanging greetings. \u2014 Judith Berry Griffin , Phoebe the Spy , 1977",
"The reception started in orderly enough fashion\u2014 gracious and leisurely. Paula Locker, the President of the Club, met me at the door, and I took my place in line with her, with Fishbait Miller doing the introducing. \u2014 Lady Bird Johnson , A White House Diary , 1970",
"Thank you for your gracious hospitality.",
"The magazine promotes gracious living.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Through his example, Mark showed me how to be gracious in victory, resilient in defeat, and humble in the small measure of fame that is the lot of a TV commentator. \u2014 Paul Begala, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"Perfume Genius was incredibly gracious to roll in the very cold mud as my co pilot and steal scene after scene with his surreal charm. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Thus far, Harlow has remained gracious to those who have embraced him in the industry and inspired him along the way. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Wallace and Ruth, their children said, taught them the value of financial responsibility, education, the ability to fix things, and being gracious . \u2014 Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"Gaga was gracious after the Grammys, congratulating BTS and all the other performers on their work on the show in an Instagram post. \u2014 ELLE , 15 Apr. 2022",
"So when this truly lovely young woman comes in and is so gracious , Agnes is taken by her. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Jan. 2022",
"The extension would also provide a far more gracious way to reach the Rock Hall and the science center, which are now as isolated on their disconnected patches of lakefront as if they were located in a distant suburb. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 16 May 2021",
"The Velelli family was spared \u2014 a miracle owed, in large part, to Elias Michalos, a gracious non-Jewish man who invited them to hide in his family\u2019s small cottage in the tiny mountain village of Michaleika. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French gracieus , from Latin gratiosus enjoying favor, agreeable, from gratia":""
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"Middle English grape , of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian greip forked tool, Old Norse greip hand spread out, grip; akin to Old English gr\u0101p grasp, grip, Old High German greifa fork, Old Norse gr\u012bpa to grip, grasp":"Noun"
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"stunning pictures of the giraffes and zebras roaming the grasslands of Africa",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Wildfires broke out early this spring in multiple states in the Western U.S., where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires. \u2014 Fox News , 14 June 2022",
"The fire has consumed more than 486 square miles of timber, grassland and brush, with evacuations in place for weeks. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"The floor has been reburied to preserve it, and the land\u2019s owners are working with Historic England to convert the area to grassland and pasture to avoid damaging the ruins with ploughing. \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Wildfires have broken out this spring in multiple states in the West, where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires. \u2014 CBS News , 26 May 2022",
"Pushed by strong winds over tinder dry forest and grassland , wildfires were reported Friday from northwestern Kansas to Cambridge, Nebraska. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Where there was once wide, open grassland now sits a forest of trees. \u2014 Michaela Chesin, The Arizona Republic , 12 July 2020",
"Vande Hei, the last one out, grinned and waved as he was carried to a reclining chair out in the open Kazakh grassland . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Aug. 2014",
"The plain was a mosaic of open grassland and woods 6,000 years ago, and archaeological evidence there shows that people once hunted herds of extinct cattle called aurochs. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 4 May 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070120"
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": vividly or plainly shown or described":[
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": using offensive or obscene words : including swear words":[
"\u2026 used graphic language on camera and then abruptly ended the impromptu press conference. The vulgarity made headlines.",
"\u2014 Michael Martinez"
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": marked by clear lifelike or vividly realistic description":[
"\u2026 its most graphic and beautiful stanzas \u2026",
"\u2014 John Livingston Lowes"
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": of, relating to, or represented by a graph":[],
": of or relating to the written or printed word or the symbols or devices used in writing or printing to represent sound or convey meaning":[
"the graphic symbols of the ancient Egyptians"
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": a pictorial image displayed on a computer screen":[
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": the process whereby a computer displays graphics":[],
": a printed message superimposed on a television picture":[],
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"stylo graphic",
"tele graphic"
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"\u02c8gra-fik"
],
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"delineated",
"pictorial",
"picturesque",
"visual",
"vivid"
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"diagram",
"figure",
"illustration",
"plate",
"visual"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for graphic Adjective graphic , vivid , picturesque mean giving a clear visual impression in words. graphic stresses the evoking of a clear lifelike picture. a graphic account of combat vivid suggests an impressing on the mind of the vigorous aliveness of something. a vivid re-creation of an exciting event picturesque suggests the presentation of a striking or effective picture composed of features notable for their distinctness and charm. a picturesque account of his travels",
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"Adjective",
"the report offered many graphic details about the devastating earthquake that rocked the area",
"got a degree in graphic design",
"Noun",
"She illustrated her talk with a graphic showing state population growth.",
"the use of graphics in the text of the dictionary helps to break up the visual monotony of the page",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Andrea Honor\u00e9, a Weymouth graphic designer and mother of two, was among the study\u2019s volunteer participants. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"In its deliberately hideous way, the project showcases the distinctive skill set of Dril\u2019s anonymous creator, who was revealed in 2017 to be a graphic designer living in the New York\u2013New Jersey area. \u2014 Colin Marshall, The New Yorker , 17 June 2022",
"Beijing resident Zhao Meng hasn\u2019t found work since being laid off as a graphic designer at a large for-profit education company last October. \u2014 Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"Duffy\u2019s design started out as a pen and ink drawing and was sharpened with the help of mentor Martin Burciaga, a graphic designer in the county\u2019s Bureau of Administration. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"The national average for a graphic designer is $35/hour or $73,154 a year, according to ZipRecruiter. \u2014 Nicol Natale, Woman's Day , 13 June 2022",
"Eva Noble, a graphic designer who recently relocated to West Valley City from Midvale, visited the restaurant with her boyfriend on a weekend without knowing about the Venezuelan fusion. \u2014 Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"Sean Campbell, a gay graphic designer, created the flag in 1999. \u2014 Kiersten Willis, ajc , 8 June 2022",
"Another student who, after 25 years working as a graphic designer, enrolled in L.A. City College to begin a career as a teacher. \u2014 Melissa Gomezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Tucked in an alcove, my husband, Dave, son, Seth, and I lift our beers high while parsing the graphic , almost violent, nature of Iceland, a place where the Earth seems to split open to reveal its internal organs. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"Zumaya's post shows a graphic of the two worst teams in baseball history: the 1962 Mets who lost 120 games while scoring 617 runs and the 2003 Tigers, who lost 119 games while scoring 591 runs. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 25 May 2022",
"Just months ago, the graphic , the rhetoric and the seeming casualness of such conversations would have been shocking, even by the standards of Russian propaganda. \u2014 Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News , 14 May 2022",
"Haith said Graf helped turn that idea into a graphic . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"In one of the most dramatic moments of the hearing, the committee displayed a graphic of Mr. Pence\u2019s flight from the Senate chamber as rioters stormed the Capitol. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"The outside-in framework requires the artificial insertion of a human experimenter who observes this event [see graphic below]. \u2014 Gy\u00f6rgy Buzs\u00e1ki, Scientific American , 14 May 2022",
"This includes renderings of the original black-and-white paste-up Kruger made of the graphic (at the top of this post), as well as the silk-screen version trimmed in a screaming red that is now in the collection of the Broad museum. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"Trudeau is not part of the graphic originally broadcast on CNN. \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 22 Dec. 2021"
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"Latin graphicus , from Greek graphikos , from graphein":"Adjective and Noun",
"Late Latin -graphicus , from Greek -graphikos , from graphikos":"Adjective combining form"
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"1637, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1944, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070941"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a passionflower that produces granadillas":[]
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"\u02ccgra-n\u0259-\u02c8di-l\u0259",
"-\u02c8d\u0113-(y)\u0259"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Take some time to sample the exotic fruit, like tangy granadillas and guanabana, and salute the live chickens. \u2014 Timothy J. Burger, Town & Country , 1 Oct. 2019",
"Tables were decorated with foliage and accented with exotic tropical fruits such as corozo, granadillas , watermelons, and pitayas. \u2014 Bruno Rezza, Harper's BAZAAR , 21 May 2019",
"First-time visitors are almost guaranteed to get lost among the market\u2019s mountains of Lulo fruits that look like stuffed roma tomatoes, syrupy granadillas , and fleshy Hall avocados the size of small footballs. \u2014 Claudia Mcneilly, Vogue , 14 Jan. 2018"
],
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"Spanish, diminutive of granada pomegranate, from Late Latin granata \u2014 more at grenade":""
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"1613, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": the quality or state of being gravelly":[]
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"-l\u0113n\u0259\u0307s",
"-lin-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071655"
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"noun",
"verb"
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"an open granulating wound"
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"\u02c8gran-y\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In a bowl, whisk together eggs and granulated sugar until pale and slightly thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. \u2014 Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping , 10 Mar. 2020",
"In an electric mixer on low speed, mix the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar for 1 to 2 minutes until the mixture looks like wet sand. 6. \u2014 Lisa Yockelson, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2019",
"From a nutritional standpoint, molasses has the same amount of calories as granulated sugar. \u2014 Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press , 16 Apr. 2020",
"Whisk eggs, granulated sugar, \u00bd teaspoon salt and half the vodka together in a bowl. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 6 Apr. 2020",
"In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high, beat butter and granulated sugar until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. \u2014 Chris Ross, chicagotribune.com , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Variations: Use brown sugar instead of granulated for a butterscotch-like flavor, or add a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and lightly press cookie mounds down with your palm instead of a fork. \u2014 Daniela Galarza, New York Times , 15 Apr. 2020",
"In an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment, on medium speed, beat together the olive oil and 3/4 cup granulated sugar until thickened and golden. \u2014 Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com , 8 Apr. 2020",
"In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high, beat butter and granulated sugar until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. \u2014 Chris Ross, Twin Cities , 11 Dec. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"1666, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071907"
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"noun"
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},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Krista Allison smiled and waved as grand marshal of the Pearl Road procession. \u2014 Beth Mlady, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"The parade starts at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 18, and features Fire Chief Sara Boone as the grand marshal and Nikki Brown Clown. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2022",
"And the genre- and gender- defying polymath Janelle Mon\u00e1e played grand marshal in a parade featuring a surprise appearance by superstar Cardi B. \u2014 Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 June 2022",
"Indeed, WeHo had its own star power, with Janelle Mon\u00e1e as grand marshal and an appearance by JoJo Siwa. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 June 2022",
"Stokes, the grand marshal , had arranged the second ball at Fort Whiting as an intimate affair to accommodate those who, still wary of the virus, might prefer a party of more sedate proportions. \u2014 The Masked Observer, al , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Last year's pick for grand marshal was Ron Murphy, a Norwood police officer and parade photographer, who recovered from an early 2021 brain aneurysm. \u2014 Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Lomax was also the grand marshal of the 2022 Joe Nuxhall Miracle League Fields Opening Day Parade earlier in April. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 28 Apr. 2022",
"If so, Walton is the fitting grand marshal of this month\u2019s wild basketball parade. \u2014 John Canzano, oregonlive , 4 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071930"
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"noun"
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": severe epilepsy characterized by seizures in which there is an abrupt loss of consciousness with initially prolonged tonic muscle contractions followed by clonic muscle spasms":[],
": a seizure marked by abrupt loss of consciousness with initially prolonged tonic muscle contractions followed by clonic muscle spasms":[]
},
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"-\u02ccmal",
"\u02c8gr\u00e4\u207f-\u02ccm\u00e4l",
"\u02c8gr\u00e4n(d)-\u02ccm\u00e4l",
"-\u02ccmal; \u02c8gran(d)-\u02ccmal",
"\u02c8gran(d)-\u02ccmal"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"First, her son, Louie, had a grand mal seizure from a high fever. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Going a bit deeper, tonic-clonic seizures (formerly known as a grand mal seizures), are how seizures are typically depicted in media. \u2014 Patti Greco, Health.com , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Mitchell had epilepsy, and his grand mal seizures couldn\u2019t be controlled with medication. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2021",
"My grand mal seizure left me with two thoughts: What is life going forward",
"Since developing epilepsy after sustaining an injury in the military, Liana Ruppert has endured four grand mal seizures. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Dec. 2020",
"Game Informer Associate Editor Liana Ruppert wrote yesterday about her experience with a grand mal seizure while playing a pre-release version of the game. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 8 Dec. 2020",
"The syndrome caused Figi to have as many as 300 grand mal seizures a week, putting her in a wheelchair, barely able to speak, and undergoing repeated cardiac arrests. \u2014 Audrey Mcnamara, CBS News , 9 Apr. 2020",
"The little girl who had 300 grand mal seizures a week went on to have only two or three a month. \u2014 Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN , 8 Apr. 2020"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, great illness":""
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"1833, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072140"
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"noun"
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"granary weevil":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small brown weevil ( Sitophilus granarius ) which feeds on and lays its eggs in the kernels of stored grain (as wheat, barley, maize) in which the larva develops and within the hull of which it pupates":[]
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"gray ultramarine ash":{
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"noun"
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": a light bluish gray":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-074115"
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"grand-ducal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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": of, relating to, or befitting a grand duke or grand duchess":[]
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"-raan-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-074157"
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"grace cup":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075036"
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"gray oak":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075439"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": clamshell sense 2a":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a light-colored intrusive rock having the quartz crystals so arranged in the feldspar as to appear in a transverse section like written characters":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-081230"
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"gram-positive":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": holding the purple dye when stained by Gram's stain":[
"\u2014 used chiefly of bacteria"
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"-\u02c8p\u00e4z-tiv",
"\u02c8gram-\u02c8p\u00e4-z\u0259-tiv",
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"first_known_use":{
"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-081602"
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"type":[
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": the study and analysis of a writing system in terms of graphemes":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"\u02c8gra-k\u0259l"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Daniel zeroed in on two of the birds \u2014 an adult grackle and fledgling blue jay. \u2014 Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star , 21 Mar. 2022",
"The bird is common across Texas and is known as the great-tailed grackle , according to the Houston Audubon. \u2014 Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Jan. 2022",
"There are also resident starling flocks that can often be confused with the common grackle , said Clive Pinnock, a birding expert and tour guide for Audubon Everglades in West Palm Beach. \u2014 Kimberly Miller, orlandosentinel.com , 12 Sep. 2021",
"The songbirds most commonly affected include the American robin, blue jay, common grackle , yellowtail flicker, European starling, northern cardinal, house finch, house sparrow, Eastern bluebird, red-bellied woodpecker, and Carolina wren. \u2014 courant.com , 10 Aug. 2021",
"The birds most commonly affected include the American robin, blue jay, common grackle , yellowtail flicker, European starling, northern cardinal, house finch, house sparrow, Eastern bluebird, red-bellied woodpecker, and Carolina wren. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 8 July 2021",
"Jim Monsma is the executive director of City Wildlife, where Dimsdale took the grackle . \u2014 Washington Post , 26 May 2021",
"In the video, the young grackle takes a few wobbly steps along a sidewalk, pauses and then wobbles some more. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 May 2021",
"Another first state record, a great-tailed grackle , was discovered at Nelson\u2019s Field in Plymouth on April 10. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Apr. 2021"
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"New Latin Gracula , genus name, alteration of Latin graculus jackdaw":""
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"1772, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-081803"
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"noun"
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": the glancing angle occurring in grazing incidence":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from present participle of graze entry 3":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-081949"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": gray speck":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082823"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an officer appointed by a Masonic grand lodge to supervise an exemplification":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"\u2014 William Sansom",
"New Delhi has become a sort of Grand Hotel for touring statesmen",
"\u2014 Christopher Rand"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a rock consisting of an orthogneiss or paragneiss having the composition of a granite":[]
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy part of his pedigree, Tapit also is the grandsire of last year\u2019s shorter Belmont winner, Tiz the Law. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 5 June 2021",
"Sir Winston joined his dam sire, Afleet Alex, and one of his great- grandsires Affirmed as winners of the Belmont Stakes. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al.com , 8 June 2019",
"Sir Winston's maternal grandsire is 2005 Belmont winner Afleet Alex. \u2014 John Cherwa, latimes.com , 7 June 2019",
"His great grandsire is Seattle Slew, a Triple Crown winner in 1977. \u2014 Neil Greenberg, chicagotribune.com , 1 May 2018"
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"type":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Take some time to sample the exotic fruit, like tangy granadillas and guanabana, and salute the live chickens. \u2014 Timothy J. Burger, Town & Country , 1 Oct. 2019",
"Tables were decorated with foliage and accented with exotic tropical fruits such as corozo, granadillas , watermelons, and pitayas. \u2014 Bruno Rezza, Harper's BAZAAR , 21 May 2019",
"First-time visitors are almost guaranteed to get lost among the market\u2019s mountains of Lulo fruits that look like stuffed roma tomatoes, syrupy granadillas , and fleshy Hall avocados the size of small footballs. \u2014 Claudia Mcneilly, Vogue , 14 Jan. 2018"
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": any of several small bulbous spring-flowering herbs (genus Muscari ) of the lily family with racemes of usually blue flowers":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Try planting bulbs such as daffodils, ornamental onions, grape hyacinth , fritillaria, snowdrops, winter aconite and Siberian squill that are more resistant to animals. \u2014 Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com , 13 Nov. 2021",
"Muscari Muscari \u2014 or grape hyacinth \u2014 produce clumps of grassy leaves in the fall as a prelude to blooming the following April. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Mix them with grape hyacinth to mimic the look of a river winding through your garden beds. \u2014 Marty Ross, Better Homes & Gardens , 20 Feb. 2021",
"This weeks-long parade is enlivened by specialty bulbs, which bloom in the following order, loosely: giant snowdrop, bulbous iris, common snowdrop, crocus, scilla, chionodoxa (glory-of-the-snow), windflower and muscari ( grape hyacinth ). \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2020",
"Apple trees near the orchard are ready to offer up white flower buds, and so are the purple and blue grape hyacinths on the soft earth floor beneath them. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star , 27 Apr. 2020",
"For flowers in spring, plant some of the more shade-tolerant spring-flowering bulbs, such as early daffodils, Siberian squill, snowdrops and grape hyacinths , among your ground cover plants. \u2014 Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com , 28 Aug. 2019",
"Consider Scillas, Squills, grape hyacinths and Galantuhus or snowdrops. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Aug. 2019",
"The largest bed is planted full of spring bulbs, like daffodils, tulips and grape hyacinths , adding vibrant color to the landscape before the maples and snowbell trees open their leaves and come into full bloom. \u2014 Amy Pennington, The Seattle Times , 19 May 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-092948"
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"She was grazing on snacks all afternoon."
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": to put to graze":[
"grazed his livestock in pastures"
],
": to put cattle to graze on":[
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": to supply herbage for the grazing of":[
"That pasture will graze 30 head of cattle."
],
": an act of grazing":[],
": herbage for livestock to feed on":[],
": to touch lightly in passing":[
"The car's wheel grazed the curb."
],
": abrade , scratch":[
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],
": to touch or rub against something in passing":[
"Our fenders just grazed ."
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"browse",
"forage",
"pasture",
"rustle"
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"abrade",
"scrape",
"scratch",
"scuff"
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"Middle English grasen , from Old English grasian , from gr\u00e6s grass":"Verb and Noun",
"perhaps from graze entry 1":"Verb and Noun"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1857, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"1847, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-094732"
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"granite cloth":{
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"noun"
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": a lightweight clothing fabric usually of wool or worsted in various weaves and characterized by an irregular, pebbled, hard-finished surface":[]
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"graduated cylinder":{
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"noun"
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": a tall narrow container with a volume scale used especially for measuring liquids":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While some tinkered with microscopes and graduated cylinders , others were searching the stars. \u2014 Doug Main, The Atlantic , 7 Apr. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1948, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095934"
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"gray cast iron":{
"type":[
"noun"
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": gray iron":[]
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"grantsman":{
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"noun"
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": a specialist in grantsmanship":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1966, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Grand":{
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"adverb",
"geographical name",
"noun"
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": having higher rank than others bearing the same general designation":[
"the grand champion"
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": inclusive , comprehensive":[
"the grand total of all money paid out"
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": definitive , incontrovertible":[
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],
": chief , principal":[
"the grand ballroom"
],
": large and striking in size, scope, extent, or conception":[
"grand design"
],
": lavish , sumptuous":[
"a grand celebration"
],
": marked by a regal form and dignity":[],
": fine or imposing in appearance or impression":[
"sported a grand mustache"
],
": lofty , sublime":[
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": pretending to social superiority : supercilious":[],
": intended to impress":[
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],
": very good : wonderful":[
"a grand time"
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"river 260 miles (418 kilometers) long in southwestern Michigan flowing north and west into Lake Michigan":[],
"river 300 miles (483 kilometers) long in northwestern Missouri flowing southeast into the Missouri River":[],
"river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in northern South Dakota flowing east into the Missouri River":[],
"the Colorado River from its source to its junction with the Green River in southeastern Utah":[
"\u2014 a former name"
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": grand piano":[],
": a thousand dollars":[]
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"\u02c8grand"
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"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
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"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He thinks everything the government does is part of some grand conspiracy.",
"the beauty of nature's grand design",
"The neighborhood includes many grand old homes.",
"His job is much less grand than his title makes it sound.",
"My great aunt lived to the grand old age of 103.",
"Despite its grand name, the hotel is small and somewhat seedy.",
"He made some grand statements about the company's future.",
"They celebrated their anniversary in grand style .",
"He planned to make a grand entrance , driving up to the house in a fancy red sports car.",
"We won the grand prize.",
"Noun",
"He bought a used car for about five grand .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Luhrmann similarly saw the dynamic as one on a grand scale that defied any simple construct of villainy. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
"The Gift, a soundtrack/companion album that spotlighted Afrobeats on a grand scale. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022",
"But this isn\u2019t the first time L.A. has launched a grand -scale tree planting campaign that has run into significant hurdles. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"For more than a decade, the Drake factory has been operating at full capacity \u2014 recalibrating the relationship between hip-hop, R&B and pop; balancing grand -scale ambition with granular experimentation; embracing the meme-ification of his celebrity. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"In the 1970s and 1980s, the proliferation of standardized cargo containers revolutionized global shipping, dramatically reducing transportation and distribution costs and opening the door to international commerce on a grand scale. \u2014 Dan Ikenson, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"The grand -scale discoveries of Dr. Hautakanga and her team\u2019s study were made possible due to the larger research samples available. \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022",
"This is a home that is perfect for daily living and entertaining on a grand scale. \u2014 James Alexander, Hartford Courant , 12 June 2022",
"The greater question is whether the Heat have an arm or leg even to put into play for anything on a grand scale. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Created by Emma Hamberg and Denize Karabuda, the series set in the 1980\u2019s and follows a teenage girl who lives with her mother and grand -mother in a suffocating small Swedish town. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate A new section of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park in downtown San Antonio is near completion and set for an October grand opening, despite the challenges of a pandemic and a major archaeological discovery. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News , 10 June 2022",
"The most memorable and dramatic interior feature of the hotel is the seven-story Italian Renaissance-style marble grand staircase which rises up from the High Holborn entrance of the hotel. \u2014 Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"The South Windsor Chamber of Commerce celebrates the Bahler Brothers grand reopening of its design showroom with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 28, at 24 Jeffrey Drive. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Browder said her team would be able to use the money to bolster the projects, including enhancing the campus grand opening and Day of Reckoning conference. \u2014 al , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Wasserman wasn\u2019t intimidated by celebrities, so one day when film star Debbie Reynolds showed up at a dance studio grand opening in La Costa, Wasserman approached Reynolds and talked her into taking a photo with herself and Frances Hodes. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Feb. 2022",
"This trunk helps explain the experiences of a student\u2019s own grandparents or great- grand -parents who lived during the war years. \u2014 Austin Hewitt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 8 Jan. 2022",
"Given this year marked The Great White Way\u2019s grand reopening in September, the celebratory fashion will be especially omnipresent this evening. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 12 June 2022"
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"Anglo-French grant, grand , large, great, grand, from Latin grandis":"Adjective and Noun"
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103057"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": the principles and practice of grafting":[]
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"\u02c8graf-tij"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1895, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103123"
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"grass webworm":{
"type":[
"noun"
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": any of numerous small grubs that are the larvae of grass moths and that spin webs around the base and roots of the grasses on which they feed":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103145"
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"noun"
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": a burial monument":[]
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"headstone",
"monument",
"stone",
"tombstone"
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"examples":[
"we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"A few years ago, writer Charlie Vascellaro created a trophy case as an homage to Ashford, and had the umpire\u2019s gravestone refurbished. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Th poem is written on her gravestone in its entirety, her father said. \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"The gravestone , part of an art exhibition at the coffee shop, is dedicated to the memory of those killed in President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s bloody war on drugs. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
"The 200-pound gravestone was discovered by Richard and John Ryan on April 18. \u2014 Megan Becka, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
"In 2019, for instance, Shore led a fundraising effort to buy a gravestone for Nicolai De Raylan, a transgender man who moved to Phoenix from Chicago for tuberculosis treatment and died in 1906. \u2014 Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The names on the single gravestone are Wilhelm and Rosa Krochmalnik, with two death dates, nine months apart in 1921. \u2014 Jessica Hornik, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The next step, Vucetic said, would be for the family to come to the lab, confirm the identification, and consent to the burial \u2014 in which case there\u2019d be one more gravestone in Srebrenica. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Feb. 2022",
"On Tuesday, the reality star shared a carousel of photos on Instagram from the gravestone of Derek Underwood, her former partner and the father of their 13-year-old daughter, Sophia. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 28 Dec. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103615"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": used, designed, or adapted to grasp":[
"When the eggs hatch, the first-stage grub \u2026 is a minute but highly active larva with well-developed grasping legs.",
"\u2014 John Alcock",
"His choice of surgical instruments includes everything from grasping forceps and trimmers to motorized shavers and drills.",
"\u2014 Arnold Schechter"
],
": desiring material possessions urgently and excessively and often to the point of ruthlessness":[
"Her grasping children fought over her property when she died."
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gra-spi\u014b"
],
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"acquisitive",
"avaricious",
"avid",
"coveting",
"covetous",
"grabby",
"greedy",
"mercenary",
"moneygrubbing",
"rapacious"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grasping covetous , greedy , acquisitive , grasping , avaricious mean having or showing a strong desire for especially material possessions. covetous implies inordinate desire often for another's possessions. covetous of his brother's country estate greedy stresses lack of restraint and often of discrimination in desire. greedy for status symbols acquisitive implies both eagerness to possess and ability to acquire and keep. an eagerly acquisitive mind grasping adds to covetous and greedy an implication of selfishness and often suggests unfair or ruthless means. a hard grasping businesswoman who cheated her associates avaricious implies obsessive acquisitiveness especially of money and strongly suggests stinginess. an avaricious miser",
"examples":[
"Her grasping children fought over her property when she died.",
"a grasping person who would rather buy a car he didn't need than give a dime to charity"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"see grasp entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103838"
},
"grand national assembly":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a unicameral parliament in a government (as the Turkish republic)":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103846"
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"Gran Paradiso":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"mountain 13,323 feet (4061 meters) high in the northwestern Italy region of Piedmont; highest in the Graian Alps":[]
},
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"\u02ccgr\u00e4n-\u02ccp\u00e4r-\u00e4-\u02c8d\u0113-(\u02cc)z\u014d"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103949"
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"graduated":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
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": marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement":[
"a graduated cylinder/tube",
"graduated measuring cups"
],
": divided into or arranged in grades, steps, or successive levels usually proportionally":[
"a graduated series of honors"
],
": increasing in rate with increase in taxable base : progressive":[
"a graduated income tax"
]
},
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"\u02c8gra-j\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101-t\u0259d"
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"examples":[
"a series of bowls in graduated sizes",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"South Carolina is one of the graduated income tax states that indexes tax brackets for inflation, but that annual inflation adjustment is capped at 4%. \u2014 Patrick Gleason, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"That\u2019s because South Carolina is one of only 10 states with a graduated income tax whose top rate hits income below $20,000. \u2014 Patrick Gleason, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"As freshly graduated health care professionals, they all are required to serve an ao rural, working one year in a rural community in order to get their professional license or advance into postgraduate courses in medicine. \u2014 Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American , 10 June 2022",
"To make: Cut paper straws into graduated lengths and group to form pennant shapes. \u2014 Charlyne Mattox, Country Living , 6 June 2022",
"First, there\u2019s the graduated hem, which is shorter on the outside and longer on the inside of the leg. \u2014 Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"In states with graduated driver licensing (GDL) restrictions but no professional behind-the-wheel training requirements, the youngest novice drivers have the highest crash rates, researchers said. \u2014 Tanya Mohn, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"In 1906, Gabrielle Chanel (later Coco) worked at Vichy as a donneuse d\u2019eau\u2014a water girl, ladling prescribed beverages into graduated glasses that curistes toted around in wicker holders. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Spring progress: The two biggest changes were replacing the graduated Eldridge with Levengood at center, and moving Kipper, a three-year starter at right tackle, to right guard. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 May 2022"
],
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"see graduate entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1679, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104312"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a rattle or noisemaker traditionally used by children during the Purim festival at every mention of Haman's name during the reading in the synagogue of the scroll of the Book of Esther":[]
},
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"\u02c8gr\u00e4g\u0259(r)"
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"Yiddish grager, greger , from Polish grzegarz rattle":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105654"
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"gravity wave":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a wave in a fluid (such as the ocean or the atmosphere) which is propagated because of the tendency of gravity to maintain a uniform level or in which gravity is the restoring force":[],
": gravitational wave":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That induced an up and down oscillating motion known as a gravity wave \u2014 akin to the ripples produced by a bobber in a pond. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Atmospheric gravity waves can be seen in satellite images taken by Australian weather forecast service Weatherzone on Monday and Tuesday. \u2014 Maisy Mok, CNN , 24 Oct. 2019",
"Even when the objects generating a gravity wave are as massive as neutron stars or large black holes, the blip\u2019s effects are tiny\u2014a distortion a thousandth of the width of a proton over the course of a 4km-long detector arm. \u2014 The Economist , 20 Aug. 2019",
"The combination of the two was so powerful, that the equivalent of the mass of five Suns was turned into gravity waves \u2014 waves that reached Earth on July 29th. \u2014 Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge , 3 Dec. 2018",
"Programmers have used Python to power innovation in everything from the detection of gravity waves (resulting in last year\u2019s Nobel Prize in Physics) to reducing the cost of developing new drugs. \u2014 Paul Romer, WSJ , 20 Nov. 2018",
"If a perturbation were to jostle this fluid, a gravity wave would result. \u2014 Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2018",
"The cloud ridge was located above a region of highlands called Aphrodite Terra and seemed to be a shockingly large atmospheric gravity wave \u2014not unlike a stationary ripple above a rock in a flowing stream. \u2014 Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica , 22 June 2018",
"This is because mountains provide the lift, wind shear and associated gravity waves needed to produce these unusual cloud formations. \u2014 Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post , 26 Jan. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110728"
},
"graftonite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mineral (Fe,Mn,Ca) 3 (PO 4 ) 2 consisting of an iron manganese calcium phosphate occurring in salmon-pink laminated intergrowths with triphylite (hardness 5, specific gravity 3.7)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8graft\u0259\u02ccn\u012bt"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Grafton , New Hampshire + English -ite":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-111210"
},
"grand lodge":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the chief lodge in a major division of lodges of Freemasons and some other fraternal orders":[]
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"Fidelity\u2014which Johnson\u2019s grandfather founded the year after World War II ended\u2014stood up a separate legal entity called Fidelity Digital Assets, in October 2018. \u2014 Ian Allison, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
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"The former Ole Miss and NFL quarterback - father to Peyton and Eli Manning, and grandfather to highly recruited Arch - has been on a whirlwind tour of celebrating his sons\u2019 contributions to the game. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 19 Oct. 2021",
"All of those features will not be possible with respect to trusts that are formed or to the extent funded after the date of enactment, but the legislation would grandfather trusts, to the extent funded, up through the date of enactment. \u2014 Alan Gassman, Forbes , 6 Oct. 2021",
"And the legislation would grandfather in existing trusts, meaning that those who have already established trusts would be able to continue to use them to avoid paying estate taxes. \u2014 Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica , 28 Sep. 2021",
"At a minimum, the rule should grandfather existing IRAs with alternative investments. \u2014 Garth Friesen, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021",
"Clemson, Georgia, LSU, Texas and Ole Miss are also on that list, with the Rebels being the alma mater of Arch\u2019s uncle Eli and grandfather Archie. \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 16 Sep. 2021"
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"The character\u2019s a Stanford grad , Harvard Law School, has a talk show, has a cookbook, has a regular book, has a gallery and is proficient in Taekwondo. \u2014 Court Stroud, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Hubbard, a Moeller grad , played his college ball at Ohio State before being drafted by the Bengals in 2018. \u2014 Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer , 18 June 2022",
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"It\u2019s not an unfamiliar place for the 2018 Catonsville grad , whose previous two trips there were for the 2017 state championship game \u2014 a win \u2014 and again in 2018 \u2014 a loss. \u2014 Craig Clary, baltimoresun.com , 10 Feb. 2022",
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"For a college grad who is bringing a group of 10 friends, the trip leader could travel for free. \u2014 Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes , 16 Sep. 2021",
"That\u2019s 29 homers this season for the Mitty High grad . \u2014 Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Stop by Artichoke at Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine and select some cookware options for the new grad . \u2014 Jean Chen Smith, The Enquirer , 15 May 2021"
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"the city's grandes dames still hold considerable sway in its cultural life",
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"Burnett will star as Norma, the grande dame of Palm Beach high society and a keeper of secrets with more than a few of her own, in the series based on the novel by Juliet McDaniel. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"Burnett will star as Norma, the grande dame of Palm Beach high society, a keeper of secrets with more than a few of her own. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 7 June 2022",
"The destination is also home to the grande dame seaside hotel the Ocean House, originally built in 1868 and painstakingly updated for the 21st century about a decade ago. \u2014 Andrew Sessa, Robb Report , 7 June 2022",
"She soon became known as the grande dame of dividends. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"South Florida socialite fondly remembered as the city's grande dame . \u2014 Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But Baranski, who plays the show's grande dame Agnes van Rhijn, would be interested in coming back if the show does get renewed. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Child today remains the grande dame of American gastronomy, a towering icon against whom few can compare in stature and influence. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The news that Ramses will head Cairo, which is the grande dame of Arab film events, follows shortly after prominent producer Mohamed Hefzy stepped down as Cairo fest president earlier this month. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 29 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For example, Tesla and SK Innovation have pushed for tariff waivers for artificial graphite , which is needed to make lithium-ion batteries. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"Dark and earthy notes open on the nose, with graphite , black pepper and minerality layered under blackberry, toasted spice and high-toned floral aromas emerging as the wine opens up. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The large version comes in off-white, graphite , red, and blue. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Using cast moldings of her legs, his team made carbon graphite braces, and even added a giraffe pattern. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 26 May 2022",
"In their race to build a civilian nuclear program, Soviet officials simply scaled up an outdated military design that employed a temperamental graphite core. \u2014 James B. Meigs, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Brown dropped off a sketchbook and some graphite pencils, but Hambling hasn\u2019t picked them up often. \u2014 Anna Russell, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022",
"Cordova creates graphite drawings through warm earth tones and sand colors. \u2014 Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic , 3 May 2022",
"The company plans to explore a graphite deposit in western Coosa County in the Alabama Graphite Belt. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 20 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"My grandma had the same two books on her shelf my whole life. \u2014 Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"This is something that my grandma \u2019s been working for \u2013 pushing for. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"Finding family-friendly swimsuits to wear around your in-laws or, say, your grandma can feel like an impossible task. \u2014 Vogue , 2 June 2022",
"There were thousands of ways her grandma would prepare the asparagus from pasta and salad to soups and frittatas. \u2014 Janelle Davis, CNN , 30 May 2022",
"So my grandma took everything out of her savings\u2014$527\u2014and took me to this acting school that was not legit at all. \u2014 Glamour , 20 May 2022",
"But his mom, who also played basketball, his grandma and his friends encouraged him to give basketball a shot. \u2014 Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 May 2022",
"The first piece was the Nipomo chair, named after his hometown and inspired by afternoons spent in his grandma \u2019s garden. \u2014 Julissa Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"Following that poem, Alyssa said her grandma started taking her to poetry slams, competitions where people read poems and receive scores based on those experiences. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 16 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Germany\u2019s Vulcan Energy believes this unusual geological formation, known as a graben , is the key to sustainably producing thousands of tons of the chemically reactive metal needed to power zero-emission cars. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 11 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the last few years, however, gravitational wave astronomy has made great strides in detecting gravitational radiation rippling through spacetime at the speed of light. \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Einstein first predicted that any accelerating mass should emit gravitational radiation in the form of waves. \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
"This is also the speed that any form of pure radiation, such as gravitational radiation , must travel at, and also the speed, under the laws of relativity, that any massless particle must travel at. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 12 May 2021",
"The infall of normal matter, dark matter, neutrinos, and even regular (electromagnetic) radiation vastly outstrips the energy gain from incoming gravitational radiation . \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 18 June 2021",
"The quantum counterpart of gravitational radiation , the (spin=2) graviton, is only theorized; it has never been measured or detected directly. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 18 June 2021",
"And there\u2019s the energy in gravitational waves, a form of gravitational radiation that carries energy away from a system. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 5 May 2021",
"Within the past two years simultaneous increases in the output of detectors at these sites have provided evidence of bursts of gravitational radiation emanating from the center of our galaxy. \u2014 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2021",
"To provide a faithful simulation of the universe, the code accounts for the effects of relativity, magnetism, gravitational radiation and much more. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 Feb. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"None of them contain grain alcohol or artificial sugar. \u2014 Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping , 15 Apr. 2022",
"In one example of shocking behavior, my grandfather recalls men siphoning grain alcohol \u2014intended to clean the command module\u2014into baggies to take home and consume or sell. \u2014 Matthew Beddingfield, Scientific American , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Most people drank the beer; a few not-so-subtly slugged from their own bottles of baijiu, a grain alcohol that dates back to the Ming Dynasty and burns like regret incarnate. \u2014 Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2021",
"Most troubling, the distillery \u2014 full of highly flammable grain alcohol , in the form of grappa \u2014 was still billowing smoke. \u2014 Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com , 21 Aug. 2020",
"As one man douses its genitals with grain alcohol , another unfolds a Swiss Army knife, yanks the scrotum taut, and excises the testes in two quick cuts. \u2014 Max Falkowitz, Saveur , 28 Nov. 2018",
"Isopropyl alcohol contains 91% alcohol content and ethanol (also known as grain alcohol ) contains 95% alcohol content. \u2014 Rachel Moskowitz, USA TODAY , 14 May 2020",
"Earth Edith\u2019s stone cleaner uses a natural grain alcohol base to create a natural solution to disinfect your granite countertops while still keeping them shiny. \u2014 Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine , 13 Mar. 2020",
"After a grueling workout, refuel your body and lubricate your muscles with a combo of frozen mango, trace amounts of undisclosed grain alcohol , coconut water, and chia seeds. \u2014 Alex Beggs, Bon App\u00e9tit , 4 Mar. 2020"
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"a heavyweight champion who was famous for his entertaining grandiloquence prior to every match",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rylance plays him with chest puffed out into grandiloquence , the painful shuffle of a man with no unbroken bones, and the periodic grace of a pixie. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"At least some of the grandiloquence proved justified. \u2014 Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Many times, vision statements end up being washed up by grandiloquence . \u2014 Nacho De Marco, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"There will be plenty more rhetoric, pomposity and grandiloquence in the next few weeks as negotiations between the union and MLB get hot and heavy. \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 13 May 2020",
"Behind the grandiloquence of his note was a young man, alone, under extraordinary stress. \u2014 Barton Gellman, Washington Post , 11 May 2020",
"His most recent high-profile job, foreign secretary, found him ill at ease in a role that required more gravitas than grandiloquence . \u2014 Benjamin Mueller, New York Times , 22 July 2019",
"Bird never did have the hops to transport himself from one piece of famed parquet to another, but that didn\u2019t stop Pitino from selling the kind of grandiloquence that epitomized the too-good-to-be-true verbiage and essence of the college game. \u2014 Harvey Araton, New York Times , 28 Sep. 2017",
"Rose\u2019s plain-spokenness is the necessary counterweight to her husband\u2019s grandiloquence . \u2014 A. O. Scott, New York Times , 15 Dec. 2016"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Since Nicoleta started preaching the gospel of gran on TikTok, the term has gained traction with the many women in the great pantheon of coastal grandmothers. \u2014 Glamour , 26 Apr. 2022",
"He\u2019s from Guadalajara, from Jalisco, another gran tapat\u00edo. \u2014 Tommy Calle, Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The latest and final gasoline Bentley GT Speed is as elegantly luxurious and powerful a gran turismo a driver could wish for. \u2014 Nargess Banks, Forbes , 1 Oct. 2021",
"In true Disney fashion, though, all these things should be able to be enjoyed alongside not merely your date but also your wee, darling daughter (over whom the dancers will fawn) and your dear, old, great gran . \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 26 Feb. 2021",
"Fans of The Farewell, about a struggling twenty-something in New York missing her gran in China, indeed might find superficial similarities between Nora From Queens and Lulu Wang's award-winning film. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Feb. 2020",
"In a video posted by Daily Mail online, the Queen can be seen in the backseat of a Range Rover and sitting right next to the groom\u2019s gran , peeping out of the window, is an adorable beagle. \u2014 Southern Living , 18 May 2018",
"My gran would tell me how my grandfather would turn himself into a cat at night. \u2014 Alex Frank, Vogue , 20 Oct. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To my eyes, most of the acrobats\u2019 repetitions of the same swings and flips looked identical, but Raman could see every gradation of weight, force, and grip. \u2014 Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Creative energy whirls, as contemporary artist RISK and musician Dave Navarro collaborate in a semi-outdoor studio space, working quickly yet painstakingly to place stencils, layer motifs, and build gradation with an array of spray paints. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 22 Oct. 2021",
"False Positive has a lot going for it: Glaser, who brought such marvelous deadpan charm to Broad City, makes a hugely sympathetic mom-to-be, shifting through every believable gradation of joy and outright terror at the thought of what awaits her. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 25 June 2021",
"For monolids like mine, Maki suggests trying a simple single-tone gradation , layering a darker shadow along the lash line and fading it upward. \u2014 Monica Kim, Vogue , 28 May 2021",
"The red petals have lushness and gradation of red color that is contrasted with yellow pistils completed with a detailed lacquer technique. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 19 May 2021",
"There are hair accessories\u2014a rare design for Harry Winston\u2014as well as rings, and a pair of combination chandelier/ear climber earrings with gems set in a gradation of colors. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 17 May 2021",
"This gradation fed into the basic concept of the whole site as a landscape that is formal, then informal and finally pastoral. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2021",
"No gradation exists between the two: You are born either a knowledge-acquiring intellectual or a sensation-seeking normal. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Mar. 2021"
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"The statement is original as published in London; no text has been edited \u2014 all apparent elisions and grammatical peculiarities are rendered as published in London. \u2014 Guy Martin, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"This impressive achievement is a result of a decades-long program to build models that generate grammatical , meaningful language. \u2014 Kyle Mahowald And Anna A. Ivanova, Ars Technica , 27 June 2022",
"Intellectual, political, religious, domestic, gendered, grammatical , educational. \u2014 Carolyn Hax, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"The verbal portion has done away with grammatical analogies, and the math portion now favors geometry and algebra over riddle-like quantitative reasoning. \u2014 The New Yorker , 24 May 2022",
"Not even the Supreme Court is immune from grammatical mishaps. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"The bureau said signs of a potential scam include fake reviews, suspicious addresses and grammatical errors. \u2014 Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press , 20 May 2022",
"Check for misspellings, grammatical errors, or other descriptive language that is inconsistent with the product. \u2014 Cameron Knight, The Enquirer , 16 May 2022",
"Misspellings, grammatical errors, or other descriptive language that is inconsistent with the product. \u2014 Corrinne Hess, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Del Toro is stolid and poignant as an overreaching underling, Duke awe-inspiring as a mastermind with a grand manner and a core of principle, and Matt Damon comes in for an archly grandiloquent turn as a shadowy string-puller. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 1 July 2021",
"The new grand manner is again showing us the course of empire, on the far side of the apogee. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Nov. 2020",
"The Los Angeles Philharmonic opened its new season on Sept. 26 in a grand manner . \u2014 Jane Napier Neely, La Ca\u00f1ada Valley Sun , 9 Oct. 2017"
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"In addition, there are utility NFTs\u2014tokens that are used to reward community members or grant membership in a community. \u2014 Andrey Drobitko, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Upcoming courses will feature Tracey N. Bonner, Javon Johnson, Ann Joseph Douglas and Allen Gilmore, and cover topics like writing for film and television, grant writing for artists, and breaking into the industry. \u2014 Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"In recent months, the Biden administration, Elon Musk and companies like Alphabet and Meta have poured millions \u2014 in some cases, billions \u2014 into investment funds, research proposals, grant opportunities and competitions to develop it. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Title IX required colleges and universities to provide the same opportunities for men and women, whether that was sports, scholarships, grant money or facilities. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Dorow announced Monday that a change of venue is not required, but did grant Brooks a sequestered jury. \u2014 Amir Vera, Amanda Musa And Jarrod Wardwell, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"And beyond Amtrak, a new high-speed rail line between North Carolina and Virginia is in the works, being funded as part of a federal Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements grant . \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 21 June 2022",
"While the country\u2019s labor laws grant mothers 14 weeks of maternity leave, fathers have often been left out of the conversation. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"Lewis, meanwhile, was very surprised that Heard\u2019s legal team agreed to let their client grant the interview. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"LaVecchia said childcare centers will need the public\u2019s help to continue operating if the state ends the grant program. \u2014 Cici Yu, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"The grant program is ongoing under Johnnie Walker's First Strides Initiative. \u2014 Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The Alliance\u2019s grant program annually awards a nonprofit organization for its contributions to the advancement of sustainable production. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
"State law already requires state police, municipal police departments that have received reimbursement for body camera purchases under the state\u2019s grant program and college police in the course of their duties to use body cameras. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"Gutierrez said that school districts can apply for up to $45 million from the grant program. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"This could be put toward major repairs, such as roof work that may need to be addressed elsewhere, Councilwoman Nancy Moore said after learning that there is no longer as much funding available through the Peterson grant program. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"The new law creates a grant program allowing schools throughout the state to apply for funding to purchase period products beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. \u2014 Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"Recently, Blacktag teamed up with Johnnie Walker to launch a creator grant program that will award five finalists $1,000 to create custom content. \u2014 Scarlett Newman, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022"
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"Having been buried with the Etruscans, granulation first came to Castellani\u2019s attention when archaeologists of his time started unearthing treasures from Etruscan sites. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
"This Roman master goldsmith devoted his life to replicating labor-intensive and exquisitely elegant jewelry-making techniques, such as Etruscan granulation . \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
"Linda Hoj's center rainbow moonstone pendant with sapphires surround in 22K gold with handmade chain and detailed granulation work. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 1 June 2021",
"Thoreau crushed graphite to different granulations to find the right consistency to produce a solid mixture with clay. \u2014 Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics , 16 Aug. 2016",
"Thus, reliefs adorning a bronze mirror emulate Chinese models; the makers of gold earrings used a granulation technique that traveled from the Mediterranean along the Silk Road. \u2014 Lee Lawrence, WSJ , 30 Sep. 2017"
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"Another 50,000 are estimated to have lost a secondary caregiver, such as a grandparent , to the disease. \u2014 Robert Hart, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"This special edition of PEOPLE begins with Streisand's pre-fame roots, includes a look at her life off-stage: Streisand as a mom to singer Jason Gould, and more recently as a grandparent with husband James Brolin. \u2014 Allison Adato, PEOPLE.com , 18 Apr. 2022",
"If you get infected as a kid when a grandparent gives you a hug or kiss, the virus has a long way to travel from the nose or mouth all the way to the nervous system. \u2014 USA Today , 23 May 2022",
"Caitlyn Jenner arrived, raving about becoming a grandparent for the 20th time. \u2014 Nicole Pajer, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
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"An uncle or grandparent , one degree removed from parents, shares half as much DNA on average. \u2014 Josh Zumbrun, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Even \u2014 or especially \u2014 in front of 50,000 adoring fans, Paul McCartney was just another proud grandparent . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
"If you get infected as a kid when a grandparent gives you a hug or kiss, the virus has a long way to travel from the nose or mouth all the way to the nervous system. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 5 May 2022"
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"To my eyes, most of the acrobats\u2019 repetitions of the same swings and flips looked identical, but Raman could see every gradation of weight, force, and grip. \u2014 Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Creative energy whirls, as contemporary artist RISK and musician Dave Navarro collaborate in a semi-outdoor studio space, working quickly yet painstakingly to place stencils, layer motifs, and build gradation with an array of spray paints. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 22 Oct. 2021",
"False Positive has a lot going for it: Glaser, who brought such marvelous deadpan charm to Broad City, makes a hugely sympathetic mom-to-be, shifting through every believable gradation of joy and outright terror at the thought of what awaits her. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 25 June 2021",
"For monolids like mine, Maki suggests trying a simple single-tone gradation , layering a darker shadow along the lash line and fading it upward. \u2014 Monica Kim, Vogue , 28 May 2021",
"The red petals have lushness and gradation of red color that is contrasted with yellow pistils completed with a detailed lacquer technique. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 19 May 2021",
"There are hair accessories\u2014a rare design for Harry Winston\u2014as well as rings, and a pair of combination chandelier/ear climber earrings with gems set in a gradation of colors. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 17 May 2021",
"This gradation fed into the basic concept of the whole site as a landscape that is formal, then informal and finally pastoral. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2021",
"No gradation exists between the two: You are born either a knowledge-acquiring intellectual or a sensation-seeking normal. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Mar. 2021"
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"As a 2006 study demonstrated, a Jupiter-mass planet in tight orbit around a neutron star would interact with approximately one graviton per decade, which is collisionless enough to fit the bill to describe dark matter. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2021",
"In the 1930s, Wolfgang Pauli and Markus Fierz proposed a graviton with mass. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 Aug. 2020",
"Two groups of scientists may have finally solved that problem, by proposing an experiment to determine if the graviton exists without ever observing it directly. \u2014 Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics , 8 Mar. 2018",
"The elusive graviton has been the subject of debate in theoretical physics for almost 100 years. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 27 Jan. 2020",
"On the plus side, researchers realized that a certain vibration mode of the string fit the profile of a graviton , the coveted quantum purveyor of gravity. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 Feb. 2015",
"During this trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, quantum mechanical fluctuations in space-time generated gravitons , gravitational ripples in space-time. \u2014 Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine , 3 July 2014",
"And on that stormy night in Aspen in 1984, Green and Schwarz discovered that the graviton contributed a term to the equations that, for a particular version of string theory, exactly canceled out the problematic anomaly. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 Feb. 2015",
"That inclusion would imply that the graviton has a supersymmetric partner called the gravitino, which the theory predicts to (uniquely) have a spin of 3/2. \u2014 Philip Ball, Scientific American , 6 Aug. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gervin will select organics like linen for lamp shades, marble or wood for side tables, and grass cloth for wallpaper. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"Schumacher\u2019s yellow grass cloth wall covering with a custom\u2014and undeniably striking\u2014 Brazilian quartzite sink. \u2014 Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor , 3 May 2022",
"For the less daring, even the subtle cross-hatching of grass cloth will add depth to shallow spaces. \u2014 Lauren Joseph, WSJ , 12 Feb. 2022",
"Walls are covered in a Cowtan & Tout metallic grass cloth . \u2014 Anna Molvik, Better Homes & Gardens , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The grass cloth continues the home's blue-and-white color story with a twist in saturation. \u2014 Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens , 30 July 2021",
"Stained walnut accentuated by navy grass cloth creates a cozy vibe for dining. \u2014 Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens , 30 July 2021",
"Beaded board and grass cloth speak to the details in this space, where a handmade quilt from Newfoundland covers the bed and hand-painted lampshades sit atop antique nightstands. \u2014 Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens , 30 July 2021",
"Anchored by a generous island painted green to contrast its white shell, the kitchen gains texture from wipable vinyl grass cloth applied to the walls. \u2014 Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens , 7 May 2021"
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"And my granddaughter , who is 6 years old, said, \u2018Oh, Grammy is at a war. \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 6 May 2022",
"Yolanda Langhorne, whose 6-year-old granddaughter is severely immunocompromised, attended a Cumberland County school board meeting in August hoping to hear board members discuss the school mask policy. \u2014 Meagan Flynn, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Dec. 2021",
"Yolanda Langhorne, whose 6-year-old granddaughter is severely immunocompromised, attended a Cumberland County school board meeting in August hoping to hear board members discuss the school mask policy. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Dec. 2021",
"His granddaughter , Ashley Plamp, said the family has followed through on his wishes and donated his brain to the Boston University Brain Bank. \u2014 Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Watts -- whose granddaughter goes to school in Newton County, about 26 miles east of Atlanta, and whose son goes to school in DeKalb -- doesn't see an issue with students wearing masks. \u2014 CNN , 11 Aug. 2021",
"With another emergency auction date approaching, Mr. Duguid, whose granddaughter may carry on as the fourth generation in his family\u2019s farming tradition, is planning to sell 50 of his 300 cows this week, and then another 50 at the next sale. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Aug. 2021",
"Neither of them would live to find out what happened to their daughter and granddaughter . \u2014 Kyani Reid, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
"Behind her, an oversized photo of her daughter and granddaughter beamed from a screen. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 10 May 2022"
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"A guilty verdict would gratify the victim's relatives.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Brooks didn\u2019t know how to gratify his master, and therefore was killed. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Benedetta and Bartolomea awaken and gratify each other\u2019s desires, at times making strategic use of a sacred figurine that has been retooled to heighten their pleasure and, of course, to offend those with more parochial sensibilities in the audience. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Jennifer\u2019s literal survival depends (for supernatural reasons) on her ability to gratify her vampiric, cannibalistic hungers, and thus to pursue her revenge plot unimpeded. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 1 Sep. 2021",
"Protecting the liberty of the people ranks lower than the legislators\u2019 desire to gratify their own vain ambitions by doling out privileges and cash. \u2014 Lance Christensen, National Review , 14 May 2021",
"Each camp of Democrats thus has a responsibility to learn from, if not gratify , the other. \u2014 Michael Kazin, The New Republic , 11 Feb. 2021",
"Porter was in a position to provide information to a reporter but dictated terms that would gratify him and degrade her. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Jan. 2021",
"Bailey\u2019s family tearfully told 3rd District Judge Paul Parker how French had begun manipulating the young teenager in order to gratify himself. \u2014 Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Aug. 2020",
"How about writing to entertain or inform others, or perhaps gratify myself and my life's personal agenda"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One of the more recent efforts involved using graphene and molybdenum disulfide to make the transistor with the smallest gate length. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 27 Apr. 2022",
"On the other, there's a chemical group that interacts with graphene . \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The Cleer Arc\u2019s dynamic sound quality is produced by 16.2mm neodymium drivers that are coated with graphene and custom-tuned. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"From there, all the researchers had to do was produce graphene to get the batteries working. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 1 Mar. 2022",
"This isolated everything but the edge of the graphene from the rest of the transistor hardware. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Another idea is to perhaps wrap the blades or towers in material similar to the radar-absorbing carbon or graphene polymers used on stealth aircraft to dampen some, but not all, of the radar signal and prevent the distortion. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 2 Mar. 2022",
"As well as providing faster-charging speeds, the graphene used in the ElecJet Apollo Ultra is more sustainable and environmentally friendly because it can be charged up to 2,500 times, as opposed to the typical 500 cycles of lithium-ion batteries. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
"The Kore line also forgoes titanal in favor of weight-saving materials like graphene and multiple applications of carbon fiber. \u2014 Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online , 9 Jan. 2022"
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"had the granite to see the project out to the end",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The granite was formed as intrusive igneous rock approximately 350 million years ago. \u2014 Walter Nicklin, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Its oldest granite and limestone temples date back to about 1200 BCE, but people have lived at the site for much longer, since at least 3000 BCE. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
"Some have ripped out turf in favor of succulents, decomposed granite and other drought-tolerant landscaping, only to see their monthly bills stay the same or in some cases increase. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"This includes wine made from grapes grown above decomposed granite and Table Mountain Sandstone. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"This reserve protects a rare pine forest atop 2,000-foot-tall mountains, but the real gem here are the rivers, which have carved tight gorges through granite and massive caves through limestone. \u2014 Graham Averill, Outside Online , 7 May 2022",
"As muons move through the pyramid, the high-energy particles interact with different materials \u2014 granite or limestone, for instance, or air in an open cavity \u2014 deflecting their energy and light in measurable ways. \u2014 NBC News , 4 May 2022",
"Workers in the granite quarry were skilled stonecutters from countries such as Scotland, England, Wales, Sweden, Norway and Italy. \u2014 AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
"This wired rock speaker from Klipsch comes in a lovely granite or sandstone finish and doesn't require any mounting! \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022"
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": a shallow-water spider crab ( Macrocoeloma trispinosum ) brownish in color, covered with short velvety hairs, and common alongshore from North Carolina to Brazil":[]
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": giving the impression of grandeur":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-192943"
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": the characteristic system of inflections (see inflection sense 2 ) and syntax of a language":[],
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"alphabet",
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"English grammar can be hard to master.",
"comparing English and Japanese grammar",
"comparing the grammars of English and Japanese",
"\u201cHim and I went\u201d is bad grammar .",
"I know some German, but my grammar isn't very good.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sessions include math, grammar and reading practice tests and intensive test-taking strategies. \u2014 Cindy Kent, Sun Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
"For: Speedy typists with strong grammar and punctuation. \u2014 Nicol Natale, Woman's Day , 13 June 2022",
"Ukrainian and Russian languages both use Cyrillic letters with similar grammar , and many Ukrainians today are bilingual. \u2014 Alina Dizik, WSJ , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Newspaper headlines are routinely criticized for employing grammar that exculpates or depersonalizes acts of violence, yet this film seems at pains to do the same. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"There are native English speakers who, because of regional accents, cannot understand one another at all, and many people who learn English later in life have decidedly better grammar than those born to it. \u2014 Jacobina Martin, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"It is best evaluated by an individual's interaction skills with technology and includes: grammar , composition, typing skills and the ability to produce text, images, audio and designs using technology. \u2014 Cindy Gordon, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Lithuania borrowed from Kyiv a grammar of politics, as well as a good deal of law. \u2014 Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Russian grammar is similar to Ukrainian \u2014 perhaps a tad closer than, say, Ukrainian and Polish \u2014 but the semantics are not that close. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English gramere , from Anglo-French gramaire , modification of Latin grammatica , from Greek grammatik\u0113 , from feminine of grammatikos of letters, from grammat-, gramma \u2014 more at gram":""
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"\u2014 formerly a U.S. registered trademark"
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"grantsmanship":{
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"noun"
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": the art of obtaining grants":[]
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"noun"
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": a decorative narrow curtain hung along the top of a proscenium arch on the side toward the audience":[]
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In three weeks, Oklahoma officials could plot space in Heisman Park just to the east of Oklahoma\u2019s stadium to add Mayfield\u2019s graven image next to the statues of Billy Vessels, Steve Owens, Billy Sims, Jason White and Sam Bradford. \u2014 John Shinn, ajc , 18 Nov. 2017"
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"\u2014 a former name"
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"He thinks everything the government does is part of some grand conspiracy.",
"the beauty of nature's grand design",
"The neighborhood includes many grand old homes.",
"His job is much less grand than his title makes it sound.",
"My great aunt lived to the grand old age of 103.",
"Despite its grand name, the hotel is small and somewhat seedy.",
"He made some grand statements about the company's future.",
"They celebrated their anniversary in grand style .",
"He planned to make a grand entrance , driving up to the house in a fancy red sports car.",
"We won the grand prize.",
"Noun",
"He bought a used car for about five grand .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Luhrmann similarly saw the dynamic as one on a grand scale that defied any simple construct of villainy. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
"The Gift, a soundtrack/companion album that spotlighted Afrobeats on a grand scale. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022",
"But this isn\u2019t the first time L.A. has launched a grand -scale tree planting campaign that has run into significant hurdles. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"For more than a decade, the Drake factory has been operating at full capacity \u2014 recalibrating the relationship between hip-hop, R&B and pop; balancing grand -scale ambition with granular experimentation; embracing the meme-ification of his celebrity. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"In the 1970s and 1980s, the proliferation of standardized cargo containers revolutionized global shipping, dramatically reducing transportation and distribution costs and opening the door to international commerce on a grand scale. \u2014 Dan Ikenson, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"The grand -scale discoveries of Dr. Hautakanga and her team\u2019s study were made possible due to the larger research samples available. \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022",
"This is a home that is perfect for daily living and entertaining on a grand scale. \u2014 James Alexander, Hartford Courant , 12 June 2022",
"The greater question is whether the Heat have an arm or leg even to put into play for anything on a grand scale. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Created by Emma Hamberg and Denize Karabuda, the series set in the 1980\u2019s and follows a teenage girl who lives with her mother and grand -mother in a suffocating small Swedish town. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate A new section of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park in downtown San Antonio is near completion and set for an October grand opening, despite the challenges of a pandemic and a major archaeological discovery. \u2014 Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News , 10 June 2022",
"The most memorable and dramatic interior feature of the hotel is the seven-story Italian Renaissance-style marble grand staircase which rises up from the High Holborn entrance of the hotel. \u2014 Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"The South Windsor Chamber of Commerce celebrates the Bahler Brothers grand reopening of its design showroom with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 28, at 24 Jeffrey Drive. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Browder said her team would be able to use the money to bolster the projects, including enhancing the campus grand opening and Day of Reckoning conference. \u2014 al , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Wasserman wasn\u2019t intimidated by celebrities, so one day when film star Debbie Reynolds showed up at a dance studio grand opening in La Costa, Wasserman approached Reynolds and talked her into taking a photo with herself and Frances Hodes. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Feb. 2022",
"This trunk helps explain the experiences of a student\u2019s own grandparents or great- grand -parents who lived during the war years. \u2014 Austin Hewitt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 8 Jan. 2022",
"Given this year marked The Great White Way\u2019s grand reopening in September, the celebratory fashion will be especially omnipresent this evening. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 12 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In other instances, someone can develop a leukemia rash if they have already been diagnosed with leukemia and are being treated with a granulocyte -colony stimulating factor drug. \u2014 Barbara Brody, Health.com , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Caffeinated coffee can help the brain in several ways by increases production of granulocyte -colony stimulating factor, according to the UK Alzheimer's Society. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 16 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Expect schmears and gravlax -style lox made in-house, too. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Neophytes should approach the counter with reverence, having learned to distinguish between the delicatessen and the appetizing store, the lox and the gravlax , the cured and the smoked. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
"From New Orleans beignets to Chicago deep dish pizza to the gravlax of New York City, order and ship something edible this holiday season. \u2014 Cnt Editors, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 8 Nov. 2021",
"At chef/owner Steven Brown's Parisian charmer, enjoy a six-course dinner ($125 per person) that includes Dover sole, slow-roasted lamb loin and gravlax . \u2014 Rick Nelson, Star Tribune , 29 Jan. 2021",
"Highlights include a gravlax BLT board, Frog Hollow Farms pear salad and crispy chicken and pancakes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2020",
"And instead of intermingling tricky recipes like spinach pie or gravlax with easy lifts, Copeland relegates the labor-intensive stuff to the back of the book. \u2014 Kelsey Lindsey, Outside Online , 22 Dec. 2019",
"Hash Brown Latke Benedict with crispy potatoes, poached eggs, gravlax , hollandaise, seasonal fruit. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 8 Nov. 2019",
"Step it up by adding a thin layer of gravlax or other cured fish. \u2014 Martha Holmberg, The Denver Post , 15 July 2019"
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"\u2026 the nature of modern grandparenting has received relatively scant scholarly attention.",
"\u2014 Maggie Scarf",
"\"We've got magazines on everything from walking to jogging to fly-fishing to grandparenting ,\" says Marvin M. Gropp, vice president of the Magazine Publishers Association.",
"\u2014 David Brock"
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"nugget",
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"patch",
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"scruple",
"snip",
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"speck",
"tittle"
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"Noun",
"bread made from whole wheat grain",
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"The farm grows a variety of grains .",
"Anyone with a grain of sense knows that she's lying.",
"There is not a grain of truth in what he said.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"These timelessly chic chaise lounges are crafted from solid acacia hardwood, with natural variation in the grain and an elegant teak stain. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2022",
"Ukraine exports much of its grain , wheat and other foodstuffs from those ports, which are now menaced by Russia\u2019s fleet. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Top Russian official Sergey Lavrov is holding talks with Turkish officials today on a plan that could allow Ukraine to export its grain through the Black Sea amid an escalating food crisis. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"The distinctive buildings with vaulted ceilings are ghorfas, used by Berbers to store their grain . \u2014 Griffin Shea, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"If much of northern India\u2019s wheat had yet to form its grain before the heat wave began, the effects could be severe. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 4 May 2022",
"Often, neutral visual narratives turned murky if read against their intrinsic grain . \u2014 Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The barn contained farm machinery, grain and a workshop, Alkire said. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 20 June 2022",
"The next harvest is expected to bring in as much as 2,000 tons of new seeds and grain . \u2014 Alistair Macdonald, WSJ , 19 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"White Ash features more subtle graining while Black Ash has a dark grain that contrasts with its light background. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 13 Mar. 2020",
"The cereal grains mixed with clover attract deer first while the brassicas stand tall and are accessible above snow in northern areas for late-season forage. \u2014 Gerald Almy, Field & Stream , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Microphenomena, such as tornadoes, may be missed because models are not sufficiently fine- grained . \u2014 The Economist , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Each one would resemble the (A) to (E) outline above, but would be much more finely grained . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 June 2019",
"The surface appears to be very, very fine- grained . . . . \u2014 Charles Bethea, The New Yorker , 25 May 2018",
"Within 15 minutes, a portion of this radioactive dust \u2014 mostly grains the size of salt or sand \u2014 would begin to fall directly on the city. \u2014 Daily Intelligencer , 12 June 2018",
"The raw flesh of the fish is opalescent, fine- grained and smooth and nearly translucent, with a flavor to match. \u2014 Ben Lowy, Smithsonian , 23 May 2018",
"As in other full-size pickups at this price, the dashboard is largely made up of hard plastics, although their graining looks nice and most critical touch points inside the F-150 are made from softer materials. \u2014 Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver , 9 Mar. 2018"
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"the gravitation of young people to computer careers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Northwestern scientists who wrote the article hope this halts peoples\u2019 gravitation toward certain supplements and compels them to invest in their health in a myriad of other ways. \u2014 Alexa Mikhail, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"While rest mass energy, gravitational potential energy, and kinetic energy are all concepts that work perfectly well with Newtonian mechanics and gravitation, the idea of gravitation radiation is inherently novel in Einstein\u2019s General Relativity. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 5 May 2021",
"Their likability and other people\u2019s natural gravitation toward them provides a boost of confidence in return. \u2014 Jill Griffin, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"The famous German scientist was working with Besso to test his theory of the relationship between gravitation and the space-time curvature by examining the anomaly of the planet Mercury\u2019s orbit. \u2014 Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Nov. 2021",
"There is gravitation toward Bubba Watson, who has won the Travelers Championship three times and made the state a second home. \u2014 Dom Amore, courant.com , 29 Dec. 2021",
"The famous German scientist was working with Besso to test his theory of the relationship between gravitation and the space-time curvature by examining the anomaly of the planet Mercury\u2019s orbit. \u2014 Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The famous German scientist was working with Besso to test his theory of the relationship between gravitation and the space-time curvature by examining the anomaly of the planet Mercury\u2019s orbit. \u2014 Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The gravitation of youth in Chile to the more distant left explains the rise of Boric. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Nov. 2021"
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"Adjective",
"We noticed a gradual change in temperature.",
"The hospital has made gradual improvements in health care.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"For all my vivid impressions and memorable moments, though, Xan\u2019s gradual decline is what has left the deepest mark on me. \u2014 Andr\u00e9 Alexis, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Bear markets may begin with a gradual decline or sudden plunge, followed by weeks, months or even years of stagnant or falling stock prices. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"Still, Moscow\u2019s aggression may help reverse what had been an arc of the industry\u2019s gradual decline. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"At least one economist believes the inflation numbers for March could be the peak with a gradual decline to follow. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"After a few weeks of gradual decline, Oregon\u2019s gas prices are holding steady, as crude oil prices rise and demand for gasoline pushes costs upward. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Apr. 2022",
"On Tuesday, she was hospitalized after a gradual decline in health. \u2014 Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Apr. 2022",
"So media companies have to manage through the gradual decline of those businesses, so that harvesting that cash flow can drive the growth and ultimate profitability of their streaming business. \u2014 Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Feb. 2022",
"That trend could change in the coming months, leading to a gradual decline in overall deficit, economists say. \u2014 Anthony Debarros, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022"
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"-\u02ccw\u0101t",
"-\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101t",
"\u02c8gra-j\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101t",
"\u02c8graj-w\u0259t",
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"Verb",
"He graduated from the university last June.",
"They both graduated with honors.",
"She graduated with a degree in history.",
"He joined the navy after graduating from high school.",
"a graduating class of 300 students",
"He joined the navy after graduating high school.",
"The word has graduated from slang to accepted use.",
"My nephew has graduated from baby food to solid food.",
"Adjective",
"He is taking graduate classes at the university.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"She was supposed to graduate from the eighth grade at the Fifty-Third Street School the next day. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel , 28 June 2022",
"Research also shows that increases in grant aid, including Pell Grants, help students graduate sooner, decreasing overall tuition costs and potential debt. \u2014 M. Peter Mcpherson, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Across the city, hundreds of students from D.C. Public Schools\u2019 21 high schools were scheduled to graduate this week. \u2014 Nicole Asbury, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"He is survived by his mother; his sister, Maggie Sale; and his partner, Susan Bailey. Mr. Sale studied at the University of Washington and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, but did not graduate from either. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"The fifth-year senior was among the UO softball players to graduate this weekend. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"The California Education Code establishes a minimum set of requirements to graduate from high school. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Her 2011 novel, Caleb\u2019s Crossing, is about a young white Puritan girl\u2019s friendship with Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, a character inspired by a Wampanoag man of the same name who was the first Native American to graduate from Harvard, in 1665. \u2014 Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic , 10 June 2022",
"Alex is a lifelong New Yorker\u2014having left just long enough to attend and graduate from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. \u2014 People Staff, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Utah State University graduate student and colleagues are on a mission to save the humpback chub, an ancient fish under assault from nonnative predators in the Colorado River. \u2014 Brittany Peterson And John Flesher, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"In this case, the partnership is a bit of both, with MIT supplying a steady stream of graduate students and postdocs who want to work on the continuing refinement of CFS\u2019s tokamak technology. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 6 June 2022",
"The class of 2022 has 697 undergraduate and 306 graduate students, the college said. \u2014 Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
"Men have been part-time undergrads at USJ since 1965 and graduate students since 1974, Free said. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 15 May 2022",
"Junior midfielder Dani Donoghue notched two goals on four shot attempts, while graduate students Beanie Colson and Alayna Pagnotta and senior Erin Anderson each found the back of the net. \u2014 Ryan Mcfadden, Baltimore Sun , 13 May 2022",
"This month, thousands of Cal undergraduates and graduate students may struggle to find housing. \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"This year\u2019s winner of the $10,000 Cat Zingano Overcoming Loss Scholarship is Destiny Wallace, a Birmingham native, graduate of Ramsay IB High School and a current student at Auburn University at Montgomery. \u2014 Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al , 2 June 2022",
"Singer-songwriter and Grammy Award-nominee Maggie Rogers has another accolade: Harvard Divinity School graduate . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Initially introduced in hopes of getting more women into graduate schools, the law today is most commonly associated instead with athletics because of its seismic impact on women's sports. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Zeglin is a 22-year-old right handed pitcher from Gonzaga University going into his graduate senior season. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2022",
"While only 14% of the U.S. population has a graduate or professional degree, about half of our survey respondents held these degrees. \u2014 Bradley Allf, The Conversation , 22 June 2022",
"The recognition marks an enrollment milestone that university officials say will open the door to federal funding and help more Latino students graduate . \u2014 Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic , 21 June 2022",
"When Souley decided to take advantage of a graduate transfer year, there was a common thread that tied his past to his future. \u2014 Adam Baum, The Enquirer , 18 June 2022",
"Founded in 1884 by Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce, the Naval War College is a graduate -level facility that now educates leaders from all U.S. military services, U.S. government agencies and departments, and international navies. \u2014 Sam Dangremond, Town & Country , 18 June 2022",
"Noriega-Murphy does hold a certificate of advanced graduate study from UMass Boston; two master\u2019s degrees from Cambridge College, in education and management; and a bachelor\u2019s degree in art history from UMass Boston. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Initially introduced in hopes of getting more women into graduate schools, the law today is most commonly associated instead with athletics because of its seismic impact on women's sports. \u2014 USA Today , 13 June 2022"
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"While rest mass energy, gravitational potential energy, and kinetic energy are all concepts that work perfectly well with Newtonian mechanics and gravitation, the idea of gravitation radiation is inherently novel in Einstein\u2019s General Relativity. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 5 May 2021",
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"There is gravitation toward Bubba Watson, who has won the Travelers Championship three times and made the state a second home. \u2014 Dom Amore, courant.com , 29 Dec. 2021",
"The famous German scientist was working with Besso to test his theory of the relationship between gravitation and the space-time curvature by examining the anomaly of the planet Mercury\u2019s orbit. \u2014 Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Nov. 2021",
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"The gravitation of youth in Chile to the more distant left explains the rise of Boric. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Nov. 2021"
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"After its grand tour from London to Los Angeles, Frieze is landing in Manhattan\u2019s Hudson Yards, at The Shed. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 13 May 2022",
"The visit was short; Uranus was one stop on the mission\u2019s grand tour of the solar system, and the probe made its observations while on the move. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Slipstream is easy to pick up yet tough to master, with an often brutal difficulty that may put off casual gamers who crave first-place finishes, or even just the satisfaction of reaching the end of a five-stage grand tour . \u2014 Matt Gardner, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Part of its yearly grand tour of the outer solar system, NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope captured new technicolor images of the giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Nov. 2021",
"In cycling, World Tour riders usually have at least 3 different bikes for a grand tour \u2014 a normal bike, at least one TT bike, and a climbing bike. \u2014 Outside Online , 29 Jan. 2021",
"Nearby is Saint Theo's, which serves up a grand tour of Italy \u2014 and has quickly become a hotspot for the style set. \u2014 Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure , 7 Jan. 2022",
"After graduating from college with a B.A. in acting, Rosebud and the sister closest to her in age, Hallie, these days a pediatric nurse, went on a grand tour of Europe, which Rosebud spent in an alcoholic haze. \u2014 Lloyd Grove, Rolling Stone , 30 Dec. 2021"
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"I cannot grant you that wish.",
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"Upcoming courses will feature Tracey N. Bonner, Javon Johnson, Ann Joseph Douglas and Allen Gilmore, and cover topics like writing for film and television, grant writing for artists, and breaking into the industry. \u2014 Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"In recent months, the Biden administration, Elon Musk and companies like Alphabet and Meta have poured millions \u2014 in some cases, billions \u2014 into investment funds, research proposals, grant opportunities and competitions to develop it. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Title IX required colleges and universities to provide the same opportunities for men and women, whether that was sports, scholarships, grant money or facilities. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Dorow announced Monday that a change of venue is not required, but did grant Brooks a sequestered jury. \u2014 Amir Vera, Amanda Musa And Jarrod Wardwell, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"And beyond Amtrak, a new high-speed rail line between North Carolina and Virginia is in the works, being funded as part of a federal Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements grant . \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 21 June 2022",
"While the country\u2019s labor laws grant mothers 14 weeks of maternity leave, fathers have often been left out of the conversation. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"Lewis, meanwhile, was very surprised that Heard\u2019s legal team agreed to let their client grant the interview. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
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"The grant program is ongoing under Johnnie Walker's First Strides Initiative. \u2014 Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
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"State law already requires state police, municipal police departments that have received reimbursement for body camera purchases under the state\u2019s grant program and college police in the course of their duties to use body cameras. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
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"This could be put toward major repairs, such as roof work that may need to be addressed elsewhere, Councilwoman Nancy Moore said after learning that there is no longer as much funding available through the Peterson grant program. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
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"Recently, Blacktag teamed up with Johnnie Walker to launch a creator grant program that will award five finalists $1,000 to create custom content. \u2014 Scarlett Newman, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022"
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"Upcoming courses will feature Tracey N. Bonner, Javon Johnson, Ann Joseph Douglas and Allen Gilmore, and cover topics like writing for film and television, grant writing for artists, and breaking into the industry. \u2014 Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"In recent months, the Biden administration, Elon Musk and companies like Alphabet and Meta have poured millions \u2014 in some cases, billions \u2014 into investment funds, research proposals, grant opportunities and competitions to develop it. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Title IX required colleges and universities to provide the same opportunities for men and women, whether that was sports, scholarships, grant money or facilities. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Dorow announced Monday that a change of venue is not required, but did grant Brooks a sequestered jury. \u2014 Amir Vera, Amanda Musa And Jarrod Wardwell, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"And beyond Amtrak, a new high-speed rail line between North Carolina and Virginia is in the works, being funded as part of a federal Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements grant . \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 21 June 2022",
"While the country\u2019s labor laws grant mothers 14 weeks of maternity leave, fathers have often been left out of the conversation. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"Lewis, meanwhile, was very surprised that Heard\u2019s legal team agreed to let their client grant the interview. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
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"LaVecchia said childcare centers will need the public\u2019s help to continue operating if the state ends the grant program. \u2014 Cici Yu, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"The grant program is ongoing under Johnnie Walker's First Strides Initiative. \u2014 Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The Alliance\u2019s grant program annually awards a nonprofit organization for its contributions to the advancement of sustainable production. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
"State law already requires state police, municipal police departments that have received reimbursement for body camera purchases under the state\u2019s grant program and college police in the course of their duties to use body cameras. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"Gutierrez said that school districts can apply for up to $45 million from the grant program. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"This could be put toward major repairs, such as roof work that may need to be addressed elsewhere, Councilwoman Nancy Moore said after learning that there is no longer as much funding available through the Peterson grant program. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
"The new law creates a grant program allowing schools throughout the state to apply for funding to purchase period products beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. \u2014 Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"Recently, Blacktag teamed up with Johnnie Walker to launch a creator grant program that will award five finalists $1,000 to create custom content. \u2014 Scarlett Newman, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This story has been updated with photos of both a granny knot and a square knot. \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 9 July 2021",
"An earlier version included a photo of a square knot misidentified as a granny knot . \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 9 July 2021",
"Starting with the simple reef and granny knots , the team studied where high pressure was occurring and used that information to generalize. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 Jan. 2020",
"His example is the reef (or square) knot compared with the inferior granny knot . \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 Jan. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jay enlisted artist Lukas Geronimas to DJ after dinner, smoothing out what usually ends up as an ad hoc dance party with tipsy guests fighting over the aux cord while those too gravid with barbeque to dance sip ginger ale and watch. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Heritage Restaurant & Caviar Bar opened in early August, the week of the Sturgeon Moon, which is when the Algonquins believed the Great Lakes teemed with gravid fish. \u2014 Mike Sula, Chicago Reader , 27 Sep. 2017"
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"For those who like to tweak the tone of the sound, the Adapt 660 headset comes with several EQ presets including Club, Movie, Speech, and Director, plus the tone can be customized using a graphic equalizer . \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"The sound can be tailored using the ShurePlus Play app which provides a multi-band graphic equalizer and tone pre-sets for the ideal sound to suit all genres of music. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The new smartphone app enables users to make the most of the new features and includes a 7-band graphic equalizer with presets and the ability to shape a custom sound profiles to suit an individual\u2019s tastes. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 19 May 2021",
"There\u2019s an elegantly intuitive dashboard, a control for adjusting sidetone, a 5-band graphic equalizer (Windows only). \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
"The instrument cluster features an analog speedometer and a digital tachometer that looks like the readout of a graphic equalizer . \u2014 Elana Scherr, Car and Driver , 2 Aug. 2021",
"This can customize the headset, apply firmware updates and change other settings such as the amount of sidetone, Busy light status, graphic equalizer settings, volume protection and even the choice of voice prompt language. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 20 Apr. 2021",
"The swiping functions can be altered by using the free Tronsmart app which can remap the functions and also includes a graphic equalizer for tickling the tonal response of the headphones. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 5 Mar. 2021"
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"When one worker, in his early 60s, was diagnosed with lung cancer early this year, his organs were covered in granulomas , a tissue inflammation that occurs when the body is trying to fight off infection. \u2014 Yamil Berard, star-telegram , 12 Dec. 2015",
"In the months and years after surgery, a granuloma \u2014an inflammatory response in the tissue where your body tries to wall off a foreign substance by forming tough tissue around it\u2014can develop, causing pain, inflammation, and disfigurement. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 13 Apr. 2018",
"People with granuloma annulare experience rings of bumps on their skin that can spontaneously appear or resolve. \u2014 Erin Blakemore, Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2018",
"It was also filled with a cluster of immune cells, known as a granuloma , that had likely gathered there to fight off what the body perceived as a foreign threat. \u2014 Health.com , 3 Oct. 2017",
"The type of inflammatory response found in her lymph nodes, called a granuloma , was not found in her skin. \u2014 Michael Nedelman, CNN , 2 Oct. 2017",
"Sarcoidosis is a rare disease of the immune system in which clumps of inflammatory cells known as granulomas attack the body\u2019s organs, most commonly the lungs and lymph nodes. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 12 Sep. 2017",
"The FDA also lists granulomas (nodules that form around foreign material), keloids (excessive scarring), and removal problems as risks of permanent makeup. \u2014 Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News , 3 July 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Hernandez had the backing of a number of grassroots groups, including the L.A. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and Councilman Mike Bonin. \u2014 David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"Her decision to wade into the primaries did not go unnoticed by the grassroots groups animating the current divide in the state GOP. \u2014 Stephen Groves, ajc , 12 June 2022",
"Local governments, grassroots groups and others in recent years have worked to bring attention to Cleveland\u2019s diminished canopy. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 25 May 2022",
"The grassroots effort was led by two men, Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, who faced all manner of racist and classist indignities, often as a matter of policy created by Amazon officials to derail unionization. \u2014 Longreads , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Those kinds of clear directives and little projects helped build Heart of Dinner\u2019s grassroots effort, which Tsai and Chang discussed earlier today at the Forbes Power Women\u2019s Summit. \u2014 Chloe Sorvino, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The grassroots effort has blossomed over time into something bigger. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Through it all, the consortium was growing and transforming into a broader grassroots effort with a huge cast of talented scientists. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Biagi said that, although the fundraising of the Park Ridge Holiday Light Fund largely was a grassroots effort, that working with the Park Ridge Chamber of Commerce would be a logical fundraising launch point for the city to help pay for the effort. \u2014 Brian Slupski, chicagotribune.com , 3 Aug. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"This is a grass roots effort to truly understand the underlying causes and address them. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"As for starting at the grass roots , too often a political candidate will claim to be an independent voice for the people, only to fall in line with party leadership after the election. \u2014 WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"Among the most interesting questions for Republicans in the coming months will be: How will the emphasis on social conservatism within the grass roots shift the balance of power in the Party, and how effective will Trump be at co-opting it",
"What began as a rhetorical talking point on the fringe right is now an article of faith for some in the Republican grass roots , and a tool to stoke outrage and boost fundraising. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Amy Gardner And Emma Brown, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Berlin has loosened environmental regulations to speed up work on the infrastructure, putting Mr. Habeck at odds with the grass roots of his Green Party. \u2014 Bojan Pancevski, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"But many in the party\u2019s grass roots have now embraced a false narrative of the day, believing the riot was the work of antifa activists or a setup by federal law enforcement. \u2014 Colby Itkowitz And Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"The third explanation, though, was the most intriguing: that the conservative grass roots were evolving in ways that the former President could not always direct or control. \u2014 The New Yorker , 15 May 2022",
"Her supporters have suggested that her grass roots campaign which brought together diverse swaths of pink-wearing volunteers across sectors should maintain its momentum and prepare to take on a role as the opposition under the new administration. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": celestial mechanics":[]
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to an Upper Paleolithic culture widespread in Europe and typified by a narrow pointed-blade tool with a straight blunted back edge":[]
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"gr\u0259\u02c8vet\u0113\u0259n"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"La Gravette , rock shelter in the Couze valley of the Dordogne, France + English -ian":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021342"
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"noun"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1874, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022458"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": smooth green snake":[],
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"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
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"-\u02c8zh\u0259r",
"-\u02c8zh\u0259",
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"French, literally, grand play":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a former sultan of Turkey":[]
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024043"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small anchor with usually four or five flukes used especially to recover a sunken object or to anchor a small boat \u2014 see anchor illustration":[]
},
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"Middle English grapenel , from Anglo-French grapinel , diminutive of Middle French grapin , diminutive of Old French grape hook, grape stalk, bunch of grapes \u2014 more at grape":""
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025634"
}
}
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