dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/hig_MW.json

{
  "Higgs field":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a physical field that endows elementary particles with mass and that is mediated by the Higgs boson":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1980, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114647",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "High Church":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": favoring especially in Anglican worship the sacerdotal, liturgical, ceremonial, and traditional elements in worship":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1704, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125718",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "Highland fling":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a lively Scottish folk dance":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1804, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110806",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "higgledy-piggledy":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": in a confused, disordered, or random manner":[
        "tiny hovels piled higgledy-piggledy against each other",
        "\u2014 Edward Behr"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1598, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cchi-g\u0259l-d\u0113-\u02c8pi-g\u0259l-d\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080611",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "adverb or adjective"
    ]
  },
  "high":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": rising or extending upward a great distance : taller than average, usual, or expected":[
        "a high wall",
        "a high fly ball"
      ],
      ": having a specified height or elevation : tall":[
        "six feet high",
        "\u2014 often used in combination sky- high waist- high"
      ],
      ": situated or passing above the normal level, surface, base of measurement, or elevation":[
        "the high desert"
      ],
      ": advanced toward the acme or culmination":[
        "high summer"
      ],
      ": advanced toward the most active or culminating period":[
        "on the Riviera during high season"
      ],
      ": constituting the late, most fully developed, or most creative stage or period":[
        "high Gothic"
      ],
      ": advanced in complexity, development, or elaboration":[
        "the higher primates including humans",
        "higher mathematics"
      ],
      ": verging on lateness":[
        "\u2014 usually used in the phrase high time It's high time he won an award."
      ],
      ": long past : remote":[
        "high antiquity"
      ],
      ": elevated in pitch (see pitch entry 4 sense 4b(1) )":[
        "a high note"
      ],
      ": relatively far from the equator":[
        "high latitude"
      ],
      ": rich in quality : luxurious":[
        "high living"
      ],
      ": exalted or elevated in character : noble":[
        "high purposes"
      ],
      ": of greater degree, amount, cost, value, or content than average, usual, or expected":[
        "high prices",
        "high temperatures",
        "high blood pressure",
        "traveling at a high rate of speed",
        "unemployment was high"
      ],
      ": of relatively great importance: such as":[],
      ": foremost in rank, dignity, or standing":[
        "high officials"
      ],
      ": serious , grave":[
        "high crimes"
      ],
      ": observed with the utmost solemnity":[
        "high religious observances"
      ],
      ": critical , climactic":[
        "the high point of the novel"
      ],
      ": intellectually or artistically of the first order or best quality":[
        "high culture"
      ],
      ": marked by sublime, heroic, or stirring events or subject matter":[
        "high tragedy",
        "a tale of high adventure"
      ],
      ": forcible , strong":[
        "high winds"
      ],
      ": filled with or expressing great joy or excitement":[
        "high spirits"
      ],
      ": intoxicated by or as if by a drug or alcohol":[
        "high on cocaine"
      ],
      ": articulated or pronounced with some part of the tongue close to the palate":[
        "a high vowel"
      ],
      ": enthusiastically in approval or support of":[
        "party leaders high on a new candidate"
      ],
      ": at or to a high place, altitude, level, or degree":[
        "climbed higher",
        "passions ran high"
      ],
      ": well , luxuriously":[
        "\u2014 often used in the phrases high off the hog and high on the hog"
      ],
      ": an elevated place or region: such as":[],
      ": hill , knoll":[],
      ": the space overhead : sky":[
        "\u2014 usually used with on birds wheeling on high"
      ],
      ": heaven":[
        "\u2014 usually used with on wisdom from on high"
      ],
      ": a region where the pressure of the atmosphere is greater than normal : a region of high barometric pressure":[
        "a high moving out to the east"
      ],
      ": a point or level of greater amount, number, or degree than average or expected : a high point or level":[
        "sales reached a new high",
        "mostly sunny with highs in the 80s",
        "the highs and lows of her career"
      ],
      ": the transmission gear of a vehicle (such as an automobile) giving the greatest speed of travel":[
        "put it into high"
      ],
      ": an excited, euphoric, or stupefied state produced by or as if by a drug":[
        "produces a high that lasts several hours",
        "coming down from the high of their wedding day"
      ],
      ": a state of elation or high spirits":[
        "the high of victory"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "altitudinous",
      "lofty",
      "tall",
      "towering"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "expensively",
      "extravagantly",
      "fatly",
      "grandly",
      "large",
      "lavishly",
      "luxuriously",
      "opulently",
      "palatially",
      "plushly",
      "richly",
      "sumptuously"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for high Adjective high , tall , lofty mean above the average in height. high implies marked extension upward and is applied chiefly to things which rise from a base or foundation or are placed at a conspicuous height above a lower level. a high hill a high ceiling tall applies to what grows or rises high by comparison with others of its kind and usually implies relative narrowness. a tall thin man lofty suggests great or imposing altitude. lofty mountain peaks",
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "The apartment has high ceilings.",
      "The airplane was high above the clouds.",
      "The bush is six feet high .",
      "a building 100 stories high",
      "They have a home in the high country.",
      "The houses are built on high ground.",
      "They reached speeds as high as 100 mph.",
      "He's being treated for high blood pressure.",
      "She earns a high salary.",
      "His books are in high demand.",
      "Adverb",
      "The painter climbed high on the ladder.",
      "The hawks were circling high in the air.",
      "The letters were stacked high on the table.",
      "buy low and sell high",
      "Noun",
      "Oil prices reached a new high last winter.",
      "The forecast is for showers with highs in the 70s.",
      "The high only lasted a few minutes.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Fans know all too well the Giants finished runners-up several times in sweepstakes for high -profile players. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 July 2022",
      "The singer's third film received mixed reviews at the time, with several high -profile publications panning it vociferously. \u2014 Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
      "The justices will hear arguments in the Alabama case in October, among several high -profile cases involving race or elections, or both. \u2014 Mark Sherman, ajc , 2 July 2022",
      "Roberts sided with conservatives on gun rights, the death penalty, workplace mask mandates, EPA authority over greenhouse gases and two high -profile religious liberty appeals. \u2014 Fox News , 2 July 2022",
      "Going against this is the sheer number of high -profile leakers who have been talking about an iPhone 14 Max for months. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high -profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. \u2014 Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
      "Laws establishing ethical practices in treating pregnant people behind bars usually follow high -profile controversies. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 2 July 2022",
      "Rulings in the most contentious and high -profile cases ran counter to public opinion and may be driving an erosion in public faith in the court itself, some experts say. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 1 July 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "Is that a folding card table piled high with desserts",
      "Indeed, as Fortune has documented, equity valuations had flown so high that many felt a big correction was inevitable. \u2014 Ali Fazal, Fortune , 4 July 2022",
      "Teenager Yuu Ominae leads a double life as a high school student and a high -ranking agent at a secretive corporation called Arcam. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
      "There was fire through the roof, and firefighters had to get ladders up high and around multiple wires, the department said. \u2014 Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com , 4 July 2022",
      "However, a preliminary investigation found the driver was going too fast through curves, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 3 July 2022",
      "But a preliminary investigation determined the driver was taking curves too fast, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
      "Keep your head up high , stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
      "Beyonc\u00e9 looks like a goddess of lightning in a spiky metallic outfit with matching heels, sitting with her head held high on the horse full of lightning bolts. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 30 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Primary global energy consumption grew by 5.5% last year to a new all-time high . \u2014 Robert Rapier, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
      "The travel industry is certainly rebounding, and search interest for international flights reached a new high after the White House revoked the requirement for a negative COVID test before entry to the U.S. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 3 July 2022",
      "On June 23, departing passenger traffic at the airport hit a new high for the pandemic of 31,436, surpassing the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2021 as the airport\u2019s busiest day since the start of the pandemic. \u2014 Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun , 30 June 2022",
      "The ruble hit a new high against the dollar this week, continuing its streak as the best-performing currency in the world this year. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
      "The rolling seven-day average for new daily cases hit a four-month high on Saturday, when an average of 827 cases were reported on each of the seven days in the period. \u2014 Olivia Alexander, Arkansas Online , 26 June 2022",
      "In addition, power demand there has reached a new all-time high . \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 22 June 2022",
      "That's the biggest box office jump last week on Broadway and a new high for the show. \u2014 Mark Kennedy, ajc , 22 June 2022",
      "Those box office returns come as moviegoing comfort reaches a new all-time high , according to the National Research Group. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 22 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Old English h\u0113ah ; akin to Old High German h\u014dh high, Lithuanian kaukaras hill":"Adjective, Adverb, and Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234314"
  },
  "high altar":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the principal altar in a church":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Before disassembly, the component parts of large items like the high altar were carefully labeled, photographed and documented, so each artifact could one day be put back together like a giant, sacred jigsaw puzzle. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
      "Archbishop Thabo Makgoba laid a small box containing Tutu's remains to rest in the floor in front of the high altar at St George\u2019s Cathedral. \u2014 Andrew Meldrum, ajc , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "Two of the most striking items in the warehouse are a pair of white-marble angels that once flanked the high altar at the Church of All Saints, on Madison Avenue and 129th Street. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
      "In its place now, in the high altar of the oratory, hangs a copy commissioned in 2009 and painted from photographs of the original, a plucky facsimile that looks nothing like an authentic Caravaggio. \u2014 Teju Cole, New York Times , 23 Sep. 2020",
      "Even without the fire that damaged the medieval cathedral's roof, spire and high altar , older structures sometimes need loving repairs after years of weather and massive foot traffic take their toll. \u2014 James Carroll, USA TODAY , 7 Aug. 2019",
      "The choir was completed in 1170, the high altar in 1182. \u2014 Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country , 19 Apr. 2019",
      "Next came the high altar and the nave, followed by the bases of the church fa\u00e7ade around 1190. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 16 Apr. 2019",
      "In 1182, under the reign of the new king, Philip II, the high altar was consecrated. \u2014 National Geographic , 15 Apr. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123552",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "high analysis":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": containing more than 20 percent of total plant nutrients":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1949, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122038",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "high and dry":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": being out of reach of the current or tide or out of the water":[],
      ": being in a helpless or abandoned position":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[
      "hamstrung",
      "handcuffed",
      "helpless",
      "hog-tied",
      "impotent",
      "impuissant",
      "paralyzed",
      "powerless",
      "weak"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "mighty",
      "potent",
      "powerful",
      "puissant",
      "strong"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "the inadequate supplies of vaccine left many people high and dry when the flu season arrived",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Photos taken Monday show the eldest of the agency's three intake valves high and dry above the water line. \u2014 Stephanie Elam, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Pictures of Endurance, taken by the expedition\u2019s photographer, Frank Hurley, show the great ship iced into place, high and dry on the ocean\u2019s wintry wastes. \u2014 Jody Rosen, New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Roman doesn't want to go in so aggressive against their father, but Shiv and Kendall convince him that Logan is going to leave them all high and dry \u2014 him especially because of the Gerri incident. \u2014 Lauren Morgan, EW.com , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "These poop deposits could also benurturing important ecosystems that would be left high and dry if our gulls and pelicans were to disappear, according to this Science Friday episode. \u2014 Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Meanwhile, launching boats at Powell, at 23% capacity, has become nearly impossible with most ramps high and dry . \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 May 2022",
      "The fear is that if these applications are not processed within say a month or two, the confidence of foreign investors in the regional center program will be shaken to the point where the program will be left high and dry . \u2014 Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "Authorities in Prineville are confident that the work being done won\u2019t leave Prineville high and dry . \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "This useful feature has been available on Android since 2017, but YouTube had left iPhone and iPad users high and dry for years. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 31 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1727, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152218"
  },
  "high and low":{
    "antonyms":[
      "nowhere"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": everywhere":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "I've been looking high and low for my glasses.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "When a filmmaker like Miller is at the peak of powers, the distinctions that festivals like Cannes often reinforce \u2014 between high and low , art and commerce \u2014 simply collapse. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 22 May 2022",
      "Under his mantle, Duke has become known as a press that blends scholarly rigor with conceptual risk-taking, where high and low art boldly intermingle on principle. \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "Same with Sitake, a man seemingly mystified, searching high and low , wide and far, hither and thither, hunting, scratching, grasping for the right conclusion. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Aug. 2021",
      "And Proietti searched high and low for just the right interior accents, perhaps the crown jewel of which is a 100-year-old bronze bank vault door that is entirely at home here as a sliding door for the tasting room proper. \u2014 Kim Westerman, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "Parents searched high and low for alternatives, many of them . \u2014 Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic , 26 May 2022",
      "Wong began to thrive in his new school, exhibiting a teen-ager\u2019s enthusiasm for high and low culture. \u2014 Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
      "The Dow industrials ranged about 588 points between their high and low of the day. \u2014 Caitlin Mccabe, WSJ , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "In the three weeks since the start of 2022, en route to a steep overall decline, ARKK's price on average careened by an astonishing 6.5% between its high and low for the day. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 7 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1525, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "all over",
      "everyplace",
      "everywhere",
      "far and wide",
      "throughout"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105516",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "high beam":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a vehicle headlight beam with a long-range focus":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The car's headlights were on high beam .",
      "Turn off your high beams .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The main island hub and 11-room residence, Great House, has been restored to its former glory, perched majestically on a hilltop with arresting views of the sea beneath its high beam ceilings. \u2014 Travis Levius, Travel + Leisure , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "The technology is significantly more advanced than automatic high beam technology currently available in some vehicles here. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "In the light of this show\u2019s recent obsession with imperialism, the pointy objects are missiles that have to hit small circular targets on a high beam . \u2014 Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture , 27 Oct. 2021",
      "More good stuff: The Roxim Z4E Pro LED headlight is incredibly bright and even features a high beam , and a bright LED taillight/brake light is under the seat. \u2014 Bill Roberson, Forbes , 16 Sep. 2021",
      "All models come with forward emergency braking with pedestrian detection, rear automatic braking, predictive forward collision warning, high beam assist, lane departure warning, blind spot warning and rear cross-traffic alert. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 17 July 2021",
      "At the entry price customers only get Pre-collision assist with automatic emergency braking and auto high beam control. \u2014 Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes , 8 June 2021",
      "In addition, police cited the woman for weaving, driving with her high beam lights activated, driving through a red light, and failure to use a turn signal. \u2014 cleveland , 30 Apr. 2021",
      "Despite her dislike of her instructor and her fear of the high beam that ended her own gymnastic career, my daughter remained attached to the team. \u2014 Dylan Hern\u00e1ndez Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 27 Feb. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1932, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121732",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "high blood pressure":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Both his doctor and I urged him to get vaccinated because of his age, his weight and his high blood pressure . \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Unfortunately, there\u2019s no cure for high blood pressure once a person is diagnosed with it. \u2014 Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
      "This is a condition that arises during pregnancy that\u2019s characterized by high blood pressure . \u2014 Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence , 26 May 2022",
      "It\u2019s characterized by a frenzy of activity in the nervous system, and physical symptoms like high blood pressure , a fast pulse, fever, and sweating. \u2014 Carly Vandergriendt, SELF , 17 May 2022",
      "The highest risk for high blood pressure was found among people with asthma, researchers said. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Losartan and hydrochlorothiazide are most commonly used as treatment for high blood pressure . \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 21 Feb. 2022",
      "Often the goal is weight loss or some other health benefit, like a reduction in cancer risk or an improvement in type two diabetes or high blood pressure . \u2014 Julie Stewart, Men's Health , 7 June 2022",
      "All three were unvaccinated and had underlying health conditions such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure , according to officials. \u2014 Nectar Gan, CNN , 18 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1899, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105154",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "high blower":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a horse that produces blowing especially during exercise":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1817, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110819",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "high blueberry":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": highbush blueberry":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013023",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "high chair":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a child's chair with long legs, a footrest, and usually a feeding tray":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Inside the modern kitchen, there was a steel cooking station with red accents, rows of cabinets, and a dining table, with a baby\u2019s high chair at the end of it. \u2014 The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "The war of words escalated the second an unidentified customer at the Golden Corral lifted a high chair over his head and wielded it like a hatchet. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Feb. 2022",
      "Alicia Jackson, 25, was stabbed to death in her Columbus apartment on Dec. 2, 2010, with her 2-year-old son sitting in his high chair , unharmed. \u2014 Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Alec Baldwin, 63, posted a photo of his one of his children eating in a high chair on Tuesday as well. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "Our first attempt was somehow smoother than in a high chair , despite bumping along corduroy roads. \u2014 Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Once, Jacob stomped up the porch into the house and pulled Max from his high chair . \u2014 Zach Williams, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "In the video, Sterling picks up her spoon while sitting in her high chair and passes it to her dog for a lick. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "In the clip, Sterling picks up her spoon while sitting in her high chair and passes it to her dog for a lick. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 21 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1913, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110938",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "high cholesterol":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": too much cholesterol in one's blood":[
        "My doctor told me that high cholesterol can lead to serious medical problems such as heart attacks and strokes."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112941",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "high cockalorum":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a boys' game of leapfrog":[
        "\u2014 used as a shout during the game"
      ],
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The ham-handed manner in which the Senate Republicans presented their case furnished some high comedy . \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Creator Sam Levinson toys with our emotions from scene to scene, giving us high comedy (verging on camp) as well as pathos. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "Bless this show for being able to walk that line of thought-provoking social commentary and high comedy ! \u2014 Maggie Fremont, Vulture , 14 July 2021",
      "The affair begins in high comedy and ends in sadness after the two discover that infidelity is terrifically hard to schedule. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Mar. 2021",
      "In keeping with the high comedy of this whole business Trump had been assigned a pseudonym for the purpose: Trump is David Dennison and Daniels is Peggy Peterson. \u2014 Elizabeth Drew, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2018",
      "And of course there\u2019s the high comedy of a film critic \u2014 someone paid to watch screens \u2014 griping about not having enough time in the real world. \u2014 Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com , 8 Mar. 2018",
      "The zone where normalcy collides with extremity \u2014 where high comedy and psychological terror keep company \u2014 is her sweet spot. \u2014 A.o. Scott & Wesley Morris, New York Times , 7 Dec. 2017"
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      "1707, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Ukrainian military high command said that Moscow was continuing to add men and armor in the fight to capture Lysychansk and finish off the Ukrainian resistance in nearby Sievierodonetsk. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
      "Just one year later, The New York Times reported that Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, chief of naval operations, rebuked the Navy\u2019s high command for failing to take action against racial discrimination. \u2014 Arturo Conde, NBC News , 24 May 2022",
      "That is, assuming the high command ordered the strike. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
      "Also unknown is how many fighters remain inside the Azovstal plant, with commanders now under orders from the army\u2019s high command to save the lives of their personnel instead of pressing on with their defense. \u2014 Patrick J. Mcdonnell, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
      "More specifically: British intelligence used a corpse planted with fake troop orders to convince the Nazi high command that the Allies would be invading Greece, not Sicily. \u2014 Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY , 11 May 2022",
      "Madness clearly abounded in the high command , but three countries going insane in the same way at the same time isn\u2019t exactly a satisfying explanation. \u2014 Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "There\u2019s a National Republican Senatorial Committee that is basically the high command for Republican candidates for U.S. Senate. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 29 Oct. 2021",
      "Each one sat in silence in the atrium of his own house, on the ivory throne that symbolized his high office, his hands holding the insignia of imperium\u2014 high command . \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 23 Mar. 2022"
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      "1917, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "As the Xinjiang police file reports were being published by USA TODAY and other media around the world, a visit to the region by the UN's high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, was getting under way. \u2014 Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY , 24 May 2022",
      "Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is also visiting the region on a trip that faces severe limitations. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
      "On the second day of her mission to China to look into human rights violations in Xinjiang, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, received a gift. \u2014 Lily Kuo, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
      "The ministers also met with Nada al-Nashif, the U.N. deputy high commissioner for Human Rights. \u2014 Jamey Keaten, ajc , 19 May 2022",
      "More than 953 civilians have been killed, including at least 78 children, according to the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, who noted that the real toll was likely to be considerably higher. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "The migrant pact comes just weeks after Johnston Busingye, Rwanda\u2019s new high commissioner to Britain, arrived in London. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Refugees fleeing Ukraine during the Russian invasion, now into its third week, have reached 2.5 million, Filippo Grandi, United Nations high commissioner for refugees, said Friday. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, told the U.N. Security Council last week that support for Ukrainians was direly needed while reminding them of humanitarian conflicts unfolding in other parts of the world. \u2014 Hannan Adely, USA TODAY , 9 Mar. 2022"
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      "1606, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": an explosive (such as TNT) that generates gas with extreme rapidity and has a shattering effect":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Iskander-M has a range of 310 miles and can carry a high explosive or nuclear payload. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "The Air Force could quickly pass along target data to an Army artillery battery within range of the launcher, whose high explosive shells would get through any defense. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 15 Sep. 2021",
      "Air and ship-launched missiles both do damage through the onboard high explosive warhead. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 16 Sep. 2021",
      "Submarine torpedoes, however, use their high explosive warheads to create an even more powerful underwater shockwave. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 16 Sep. 2021",
      "The missile\u2019s 500-pound high explosive charge then detonates, blowing the target apart from the inside. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 11 Feb. 2021",
      "The high explosive round detonated shortly after leaving the gun barrel. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 25 Mar. 2021",
      "These rockets are usually unguided and armed with a high explosive warhead of 10 pounds or less. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 13 May 2021",
      "The gun is capable of firing high explosive shells and anti-tank shells, and its 42-degree elevation gives it the ability to fire like a mortar or howitzer at non-line of sight targets. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 10 May 2021"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1877, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "boutiques that sell high fashion to the very wealthy",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Her character's stylish transformation speaks not only to our fascination with high fashion , but also to female empowerment and professional success. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
      "Ivy Getty is no stranger to high fashion \u2014see her wedding for further proof\u2014but still, the magic of Paris Fashion Week can enchant even the most jaded among us. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "But there's at least one Jobs who's out to change the association of the name from hardware to high fashion . \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "Collaborations between high fashion brands and sneaker companies have become old hat in recent years. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
      "As Kendall Jenner knows very well, the realities of high fashion aren't always pretty. \u2014 Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour , 23 May 2022",
      "Many were actually super- high fashion , from Dolce & Gabbana and Versace to Lillie Rubin, Todd Oldham, Thierry Mugler, and Moschino. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Outside of the commercial scope of the fashion industry, what does high fashion look like to you both in the future",
      "Its high fashion , Instagram-worthy, photo installations, VIP experiences, and culinary offerings from celebrity chefs like Wolfgang Puck and Kelis have made C\u00e9l\u00e9brez en Ros\u00e9 a can\u2019t-miss event. \u2014 Kimberly Wilson, Essence , 6 June 2019"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1870, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": the reproduction of an effect (such as sound or an image) that is very faithful to the original":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This very capable amp could power much larger speakers but is refined enough for high fidelity listening in any room. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
      "The market for high-end, affordable audio equipment still exists and so does the possibility of a pivot back to high fidelity . \u2014 Zenger News, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
      "Well, one of the things is that high fidelity is not that important. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "And the care that was taken to present the music in high fidelity is unparalleled. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 15 Oct. 2021",
      "There is also high fidelity sound streamed right into your ears. \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "PacBio uses a system called HiFi, where base pairs are circulated, literally as circles, until they\u2019re read in full and in high fidelity \u2014hence the name. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 June 2021",
      "The UC College of Medicine's Simulation Center inside the Medical Sciences Building in Corryville offers nonanimal training tools such as high fidelity patient mannequins and procedural task trainers. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 26 May 2021",
      "Travelers who demand premium audio quality from in-flight entertainment systems or from their own personal devices will appreciate the high fidelity these offer. \u2014 Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science , 24 Feb. 2021"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1938, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234341",
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      "noun"
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      "People began cheering and giving each other high fives ."
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1980, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "one would have thought that having the superior product would have given the company the high ground in the video format war",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ukrainian troops dug in across the city could inflict terrible casualties on Russian and separatist attackers before finally retreating across the river to the adjacent city of Lysychansk, which occupies high ground that\u2019s easier to defend. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "The idea was to help prepare military pilots to take high ground of space. \u2014 Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022",
      "With the threat from China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran on the rise, your mission to seize the high ground of space is critically important. \u2014 Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al , 13 May 2022",
      "Ukrainian forces occupying the high ground in Lysychansk fired down on the Russian troops in Severodonetsk. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
      "On May 10, 1869, the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was marked at a ceremony on high ground in Utah. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022",
      "But when the couple purchased the 100 acres in 1990, the high ground had been farmed intensively for corn and other parts of the property were pocked by out-of-place trees and invasive plants. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 May 2022",
      "It can be cancelled into Rocket Punch to help Doomfist reach some serious high ground . \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Aaron attempts to claim the Black American high ground in this debate, triggering a real-life version of the game where he is being stalked and burned by Felix, before the cops shoot the darker Felix in the shoulder. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 13 May 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1800, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": shoes with high heels":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There is a great scene where Bullock climbs a 20-foot, 5.6-grade pitch in high heels and a sequin pantsuit. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 9 June 2022",
      "Sparkly dresses, high heels and bold patterns strutted the Eastern Market Shed 3 Friday for Michigan Fashion Week\u2019s 10th anniversary show. \u2014 Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press , 11 June 2022",
      "Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers, a red bandana, black Christian Louboutin high heels and a sailor cap. \u2014 Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Ashley lovingly recalled her mother's attentiveness to fans and support staff, while Wynonna \u2014 now with her high heels shed and steadier on her feet \u2014 was ready to dish on the woman who was also her favorite sparring partner. \u2014 Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com , 16 May 2022",
      "Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa already count on this emerging label for their most dizzyingly high heels . \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Perhaps the Manolo-Birkenstock teamup is an acknowledgement from the foremost king of high heels that many consumers, even luxury shoppers, are ready to privilege comfort over beauty. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "More precisely, about the need to be herself and not have to conform to all those beauty standards of wearing a dress, high heels , and make-up. \u2014 Carolina Milanesi, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "The moving walkways installed by SLC's airport have preventative measures against high heels \u2014 or other loose clothing \u2014 getting stuck. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Feb. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1671, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": an arrogant and unyielding mood or attitude":[]
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      "I won't deal with you until you get off your high horse and stop patronizing me.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Get off your high horse and follow the customer and your team. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
      "Visible displays of sustainability \u2014 and the moralistic high horse that comes with them \u2014 has become yet a status symbol. \u2014 Sydney Clarke, refinery29.com , 22 Apr. 2021",
      "LeBron James is living on a high horse in a multimillion dollar house, living near nothing but White people. \u2014 Fox News Staff, Fox News , 22 Apr. 2021",
      "Trying to climb on any high horse would only be embarrassing at best, and at the very least hypocritical. \u2014 Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com , 5 Jan. 2021",
      "There\u2019s a reason Scott doesn\u2019t travel anywhere by high horse . \u2014 Sean Keeler, The Denver Post , 18 July 2020",
      "Just emphasize your concern and leave the high horse at home. \u2014 Courtney Shea, refinery29.com , 22 May 2020",
      "Players around Major League Baseball have mounted their high horses to belittle the Astros and commissioner Rob Manfred, who hasn\u2019t punished those players in any way. \u2014 Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com , 19 Feb. 2020",
      "The vandals apparently felt the 32-foot- high horse of a different color ought to be at least partially orange. \u2014 Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post , 6 Sep. 2019"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1782, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "self-importance",
      "superciliousness",
      "superiority",
      "toploftiness"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001401",
    "type":[
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      ": boisterous or rambunctious carryings-on : carefree antics or horseplay":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "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",
      "On their long-running reality series, the Chrisleys and their five children entertained viewers with their quirky family dynamics and high jinks . \u2014 Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
      "Matafeo is a comedic delight, a master of both physical high jinks and witty repartee who deserves to catch the eye of Emmy voters. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
      "Occasionally, of course, the volume of high jinks on Beowulf Boritt\u2019s grandly rendered, revolving set of West Wing interiors becomes a little too frenetically amplified. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "And some of that excitement might happen in Las Vegas, where Jenner\u2019s daughter Kourtney Kardashian and her fianc\u00e9, Travis Barker, seem to have fooled a few people with their wedding-chapel high jinks . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "Closer to home, Helfferich was involved in an endless stream of community building organizations and efforts, and more than a few high jinks , most famously co-founding the Great Tanana Raft Classic, which took place from 1968 to 1971. \u2014 David James, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "While Tammy bought furs, her husband Jim got up to some financial high jinks \u2014 and worse. \u2014 Sarah Jones, Vulture , 18 Sep. 2021",
      "The glove belonged to Toby Spiselman, one of Johnson\u2019s dearest friends, secretary of the Correspondance School and partner in innumerable high jinks . \u2014 Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com , 17 Feb. 2022"
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      "1825, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "monkeyshine(s)",
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": a jump for height over a horizontal bar in a track-and-field contest":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Looking at Division 1, where most of the area\u2019s athletes will compete, the area is home to the defending champion or top returner in the high jump , long jump, triple jump and pole vault for boys. \u2014 Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 1 June 2022",
      "Saturday\u2019s field events finals start at noon with girls discus and high jump , and boys long jump, pole vault and shot put. \u2014 cleveland , 1 June 2022",
      "His specialty events for the Dragons this season included the 100, 4x100 relay, high jump and shot put. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 27 May 2022",
      "The Monster Jam World Finals brings two days of competitions in racing, freestyle, high jump and skills to the City Beautiful May 21-22. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
      "Despite almost no formal training in high school, Thomas now competes in the 200-meter and 400-meter races, 400-meter relay, high jump and long jump. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Indiana\u2019s other national champion was Warren Central\u2019s Brion Stephens, who cleared 6 feet, 11 inches in the boys high jump . \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "The Lions won four events, highlighted by Gavin Shaffer, who won the 55-meter hurdles and the high jump . \u2014 Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com , 21 Feb. 2022",
      "She was selected Stark County's Girls Athlete of the Year for 2020-21 after being all-county in volleyball (helping team to regional finals last two years), basketball and track and field (state qualifier in discus and high jump last season). \u2014 Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer , 19 Nov. 2021"
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      "1846, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "The duel was to take place at high noon .",
      "We are approaching high noon of the election campaign.",
      "the high noon of her career",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "At high noon on an early-spring day in 2017, six steers doomed to die escaped their slaughterhouse and stormed the streets of my city. \u2014 Ian Bogost, The Atlantic , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "An early poster from the relaunched event declared the races would begin at high noon with the tipping of the flask. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 Mar. 2022"
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      "1887, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "the high priest of tax relief for the state's property owners",
      "as the high priest of nouvelle cuisine, he was enormously influential in the food world",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Coatl flees to Tenochtitlan to warn King Moctezuma and his high priest , Yoka, of looming danger. \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 13 June 2022",
      "The tall stone slab includes a decree by Tutankhamen guaranteeing the protection of a high priest and dates back to 1327 BCE. \u2014 Miriam Berger, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
      "For the high priest wearing the Urim v\u2019Tumim, this message is critical. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "As the high priest of the Sankat Mochan, one of the most influential Hindu temples in Varanasi, Mishra made for an unlikely critic of the BJP. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "At times, the high priest would turn to the Urim v\u2019Tumim for advice. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "Her brother Matt Marostica, a Latter-day Saint high priest living in Berkeley, Calif., also welcomed the statement. \u2014 Emily Kaplan, Washington Post , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "One sibling, Jonathan, was elected high priest of Jerusalem and enjoyed a relative amount of autonomy but was betrayed and murdered by a Seleucid general in 143. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021",
      "Her brother Matt Marostica, a Latter-day Saint high priest living in Berkeley, Calif., also welcomed the statement. \u2014 Emily Kaplan, Washington Post , 27 Sep. 2021"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212431",
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      "noun"
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      "hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "If the bad press is unsubstantiated, then take the high road , flood your communication channels with positivity and move forward. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Kardashian has mostly taken the high road during all this, and she and West were actually seen together last weekend at son Saint West's soccer game. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "Rebel Wilson is taking the high road after an Australian newspaper threatened to publicize her relationship with Ramona Agruma without her consent. \u2014 Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 June 2022",
      "The high road might be a more noble choice for all concerned; sinking into the muck will be more entertaining. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 June 2021",
      "For his part, Butler took the high road in the wake of Monday night\u2019s 102-82 Game 4 loss at TD Garden. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 24 May 2022",
      "Khloe is visibly frustrated at the news, telling her sister to take the high road . \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 26 May 2022",
      "If employees take the high road and raise their level of performance, any issues might take a back seat or even fade away. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
      "Armstrong: The term of art in my field is that there are certain companies that follow a high road and certain companies that follow a low road. \u2014 Ethan Karp, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1613, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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      "noun"
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      ": a person who spends freely in luxurious living":[]
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      "a high roller known for his lavish parties",
      "The casino offers special deals to attract high rollers .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "LaBarron Burton attended a vendor fair at Hard Rock Northern Indiana Casino on Thursday, hoping his gourmet popcorn would make its way to one of the casino\u2019s guests, perhaps as a gift for a high roller or for purchase in its retail store. \u2014 Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "The days leading up to Feb. 13\u2019s Super Bowl \u2014 a matchup that pits the home team Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals inside SoFi Stadium \u2014 are filled with enough party amenities to make any high roller salivate. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "All be will be ready by launch time, and the show will start with as much energy as when a high roller throws down a $10,000 bet. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "The most noticeable of what's new is the Riptide, a 55-foot- high roller coaster that will loom over the Midway. \u2014 Paul Walsh, Star Tribune , 28 July 2021",
      "No public reckoning has ever explained why a casino high roller stocked his hotel room with assault rifles and opened fire on an outdoor concert below. \u2014 Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune , 30 June 2021",
      "Anbang Insurance Group, another private high roller , has been taken over by the state, while its founder Wu Xiaohui in 2018 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. \u2014 Lingling Wei, WSJ , 20 Dec. 2020",
      "Give your tush some cush by upgrading your desk chair to this high roller from Steelcase. \u2014 Carla Sosenko, Popular Science , 13 Nov. 2020",
      "The high rollers \u2014mostly wealthy businessmen from mainland China\u2014may come back sooner than casual gamblers, provided their businesses recover from the hit. \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1873, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212813",
    "type":[
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      "noun"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "As the tallest building in the city, Hotel Arts Barcelona has the only spa in Barcelona boasting sky- high sea views. \u2014 Chelsea Davis, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "There were no artisanal fishermen selling their catch \u2014 the only fish available was caught by boats on the high sea , far from the spill. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Satellite data that stretches back to 1978 shows that the region was still producing record- high sea ice extent as recently as 2014 and 2015. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "Hurricane-protection features include the home\u2019s ground floor sitting over 14 feet above sea level and protected by a nine-foot- high sea wall. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 23 Nov. 2021",
      "Victorino mentioned the threat to Maui\u2019s roadways, saying that waves run over the roads because of high sea level rise and tidal action. \u2014 Janae Morris, ABC News , 31 Oct. 2021",
      "And, extreme temperature fluctuations, dangerously high sea levels and devastating droughts are disrupting daily life and endangering communities across every continent. \u2014 Suzanne Dibianca, Forbes , 6 Oct. 2021",
      "Most paths also include signs outlining the connection to the Impressionist painters; a few overlap with the coastal GR21 trail atop that skirts the rim of the 300-foot- high sea -cliffs. \u2014 Adam H. Graham, WSJ , 28 May 2021",
      "This adaptation of the tool shows how sea rise is expected to affect coastal roads in your neighborhood under the NOAA intermediate high sea level rise projection, the estimate most commonly used by infrastructure designers in Southeast Florida. \u2014 Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com , 19 Mar. 2021"
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      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1899, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The gaming industry has truly mastered building huge IPs that take brands beyond the gaming space and onto the high street \u2014 and in some cases, the big screen. \u2014 Victor Potrel, Forbes , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "On a higher note, Prada; the high street brand recently worked with Charli D\u2019Amelio number one TikTok influencer to capture branded Milan Fashion Week content for her followers. \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "The always considered Kate frequently re-wears pieces already hanging in her wardrobe for formal occasions and public appearances, and is careful to mix in high street labels with her designer pieces. \u2014 Vogue , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Though the high street is struggling, the industrial park near Amazon is humming with small businesses. \u2014 Sarah O'connor, Ars Technica , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "This week, the team revealed its new Guild Academy and corporate headquarters, which will be situated at 2 Chance Street in London\u2019s thriving Shoreditch area, just off its high street . \u2014 Matt Gardner, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
      "However, the current challenges the retail industry faces, both on the high street and in ecommerce, mean buying in bulk might not be possible, or the most effective way to operate. \u2014 Tejas Dave, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "Iconic brands disappeared for good from the high street , including Miss Selfridge, Topshop and Debenhams. \u2014 Kate Hardcastle, Forbes , 30 Dec. 2021",
      "Last week, Queen Letitzia gave a sartorial nod to her hosts King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden at a state dinner in Stockholm by wearing a tulle dress from the Swedish high street brand H&M. \u2014 Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com , 3 Dec. 2021"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": an elevated table in the dining room of a British college for use by the master and fellows and distinguished guests":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This bistro set is perfect for entertaining, with four bar-height swivel chairs and a high table topped with smoky gray tempered glass. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Anne Cortez, 57, founder of the consulting firm Federal Strategies, stood near a high table covered with materials about her company \u2014 and tiny Dove brand chocolate hearts wrapped in foil. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Curiously, because people have been waiting for something to fall off the high table of rock and roll, some crumbs! \u2014 Derek Scancarelli, Forbes , 1 Sep. 2021",
      "Nissley, an architect, spent $45 on a 4-foot high table -top tree at a lot near her home. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, USA TODAY , 20 May 2020",
      "On the food side, Revy said the 200-seat venue, which includes a 15-seat bar as well as high tables , will transform obligatory brew-pub options into something special. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 22 Jan. 2020",
      "The street level, home to the open kitchen and set off with high tables and a bar, is meant to be casual. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2019",
      "The happiness, the high table , the low table, the big house, the fields, the slaves, the jook joints, the fish fries. \u2014 Michael Russell | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 17 Sep. 2019",
      "Karen and Bagel receive guests inside a plastic dome, where Bagel is curled up on a blue blanket atop a high table . \u2014 Andrea Sachs, Washington Post , 11 June 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1555, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": a fairly substantial late afternoon or early evening meal at which tea is served":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Also among the well-wishers was mother and daughter Lin Quinn and Lucy Edwards who were enjoying their high tea with a glass of champagne. \u2014 NBC News , 2 June 2022",
      "The Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum is offering high tea May 8 at 2 p.m., and for $25 a person, hot and cold teas, punch and finger foods will be served and crafts will be available. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 2 May 2022",
      "Ladies from Glenview and the surrounding area, stepped back in time on Saturday, for a special Mother\u2019s Day treat, to attend high tea at the historic 1856 Kennicott House. \u2014 Gina Grillo, Chicago Tribune , 9 May 2022",
      "For tea lovers at the height of luxury, there would be nothing more impressive than pulling out this Christofle egg of small spoons for their high tea . \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Included in every all-inclusive booking is a daily buffet breakfast, lunch, and dinner; high tea ; and unlimited drinks. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 20 Feb. 2022",
      "The hotel features Acqua di Parma toiletries, a heated saltwater pool, hot tub and fitness center in a secluded courtyard and offers local transportation in their Maserati and high tea with an Italian twist. \u2014 Rebecca Treon, Chron , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "The ship arrives at Falmouth, Jamaica, located between Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, for options like horseback riding, river tubing, duty-free shopping, hiking to a waterfall, or high tea at historical Good Hope Estate. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 28 Nov. 2021",
      "Some highlights include an agrarian historical tour going to two different types of nearby farms, making chowder with local produce, and a high tea on Saturday afternoon, a hat tip to P\u00e9rez Kennealy's culinary education in London. \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure , 18 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1831, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": scientific technology involving the production or use of advanced or sophisticated devices especially in the fields of electronics and computers":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "This region has become a center of high technology .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Gallagher is now executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, a nonprofit working to grow the Great Lakes region's high technology entrepreneurial economy and culture. \u2014 Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
      "Gallagher is now executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, a nonprofit working to grow the Great Lakes region's high technology entrepreneurial economy and culture. \u2014 Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
      "Gregory Coll wants to develop the high technology systems that are required for the U.S. military and the defense of the nation. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
      "Gallagher is now executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, a nonprofit working to grow the Great Lakes region's high technology entrepreneurial economy and culture. \u2014 Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 10 May 2022",
      "Western governments have responded to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine by imposing tough restrictions on trade, including on high technology exports and imports of Russian oil. \u2014 Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
      "Those include an export ban that would deny Russia U.S. high technology for its industries and military, and more sweeping financial bans that could cripple Russia\u2019s ability to do business with the rest of the world. \u2014 Raf Casert, Aamer Madhani And Zeke Miller, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "That system worked to foster explosive growth and the creation of many of the signature companies of high technology \u2014 Intel, Apple and Google among them. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "In this spirit, Mo\u00ebt & Chandon inaugurated in 2012 a new facility dedicated to winemaking: an amazing benchmark in terms of sustainability and high technology . \u2014 Y-jean Mun-delsalle, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1964, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": culminating point : climax":[
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      ": the tide when the water is at its greatest elevation":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "At high tide the water covers the rocks completely.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Promiscuity may be an adaptation to the danger of a nest full of eggs being destroyed by a peak high tide ; mating opportunistically lets adults start over right away before a breeding season ends. \u2014 Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine , 20 May 2022",
      "That effort washed away his first-half brilliance like an ornate sand sculpture succumbing to high tide . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
      "The southern two-thirds of Oceanside\u2019s coastline has been scoured down to the rock revetments, and at high tide there\u2019s no beach at all. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "There were no reports of major flooding in the state on Sunday morning, and any damage on the Cape, the South Shore, Martha\u2019s Vineyard and Nantucket from the overnight high tide was still being assessed. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Jan. 2022",
      "After covering a large distance, the dog became stranded on mud flats that can flood in high tide , 20-year-old DDSI volunteer Stefani Dennis told CNN. \u2014 Sara Spary, CNN , 21 Jan. 2022",
      "King tides are coming to the Bay Area this weekend, potentially raising the high tide to 7 feet and possibly swamping the seawall on the San Francisco Embarcadero. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "Buoys in the Chesapeake Bay near Havre De Grace recorded a high tide of 5.59 feet overnight, just shy of the record flood level of 5.8 feet. \u2014 Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com , 30 Oct. 2021",
      "Minor saltwater flooding will be possible around the times of high tide in low-lying, vulnerable coastal areas in Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach and other coastal cities between Broward and Miami-Dade. \u2014 CBS News , 20 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1546, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113823",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": treason sense 1":[]
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    "examples":[
      "The conspirators were hanged for high treason .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Harry Johannes Knoesen, 61, a leader of the National Christian Resistance Movement, was on Monday found guilty of high treason , incitement to carry out violent attacks, and recruiting people to commit attacks. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 6 June 2022",
      "Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian politician and a businessman, was put under arrest after prosecutors accused him of high treason and terrorist financing. \u2014 Fortune , 22 May 2022",
      "Shariy is suspected of high treason by the Ukrainian authorities. \u2014 Artem Grudinin, NBC News , 5 May 2022",
      "At least two different calls had warned of a coming police raid at TV Rain; after the site was blocked, the false alarms regarding police seemed like a warning shot\u2014leave or face arrest and charges of high treason . \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "In May, Ukrainian authorities charged Medvedchuk with high treason , shut down his television network and placed him under house arrest. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "His speech and actions drew the ire of the country\u2019s military leaders, who accused Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun of high treason and tried to replace him as their ambassador. \u2014 Dom Calicchio, Fox News , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "Ukraine\u2019s top prosecutor later accused Mr. Medvedchuk of high treason , and a court placed him under house arrest. \u2014 James Marson, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "His speech and actions drew the ire of the country\u2019s military leaders, who accused Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun of high treason and tried to replace him as their ambassador. \u2014 Dom Calicchio, Fox News , 2 Feb. 2022"
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      "noun"
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      "unpretentious"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1633, in the meaning defined above":""
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        "\u2014 Stuart Keate"
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      "1623, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "adjective"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060100",
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      "adjective"
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      "1911, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "adjective"
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      "wretched"
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      "1833, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "adjective"
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      "1971, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8k\u00e4n-\u02ccsept"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120853",
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      "adjective"
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      ": having a large number of warp and weft yarns to the square inch":[
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1926, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8kau\u0307nt"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120417",
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      "adjective"
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      "downscale",
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      ": of superior quality or sophistication and usually high in price":[
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1956, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221719",
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      ": having such speed and kinetic energy as to exhibit relativistic departure from classical laws of motion":[
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      "1934, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8e-n\u0259r-j\u0113"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111131",
    "type":[
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1647, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094647",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8fl\u012b-i\u014b"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113145",
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      ": being near the upper or most favorable extreme of a specified range":[],
      ": medically serious or life-threatening":[
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1826, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064522",
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      ": having or showing no regard for the rights, concerns, or feelings of others : arbitrary , overbearing":[]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1606, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8han-d\u0259d"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005626",
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      ": a pair of cymbals operated by a foot pedal":[],
      ": beaver entry 1 sense 2":[],
      ": snooty , snobbish":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down. \u2014 Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun , 4 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s one of those ABBA songs that fools you with its mirror ball synths, a classic disco rhythm on the high hat and lush harmonizing. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 6 Nov. 2021",
      "Indeed, at Thursday\u2019s show in Charlotte, Jordan integrated Watts\u2019 signature swing \u2013 and his unusual way of playing by not hitting the high hat and snare simultaneously \u2013 with his own muscular approach. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "Deja stifled a yawn and cranked up her music; the warring bass and high hat thrummed in her chest and kept her mostly awake. \u2014 Brittany N. Williams, NOLA.com , 26 Oct. 2020",
      "The song -- a frenetic trap banger built from buzzy synths and high hat -- debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 on March 2, 2013, the same week Billboard started factoring YouTube streaming data into the chart's methodology. \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 21 Nov. 2019",
      "Here comes one now, rattling catastrophically, like Max Roach whaling on the high hat . \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 18 Nov. 2019",
      "The disco-pop track is about as close as Mitski has come to mainstream radio fare, with its bubbly beat, toe-tap-ready high hat and her sweet croon recalling another era. \u2014 Raisa Bruner, Time , 29 June 2018",
      "The bouncy instrumental, produced by Kato on the Track, features Wright showcasing a more staccato flow over a high hats and quick synths. \u2014 Mackenzie Cummings-grady, Billboard , 6 June 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1885, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1924, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8hat"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005301",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074944",
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    "antonyms":[
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      "debased",
      "degenerate",
      "degraded",
      "ignoble",
      "low"
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    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1556, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8m\u012bn-d\u0259d"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
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      "elevated",
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      "magnanimous",
      "natural",
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      "sublime"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224201",
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    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1556, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020843",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173356",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1856, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "by folk etymology from Chinook Jargon hayo makamak plenty to eat":""
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    "pronounciation":[
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      "mucky-muck",
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      "nawab",
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      "poo-bah",
      "wheel"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001912",
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      "by folk etymology from Chinook Jargon hayo makamak plenty to eat":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041834",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
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        "\u2014 Geoffrey Rice"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034850",
    "type":[
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      ": having or conferring great influence":[
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1917, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110215",
    "type":[
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    "definitions":{
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      "LaBarron Burton attended a vendor fair at Hard Rock Northern Indiana Casino on Thursday, hoping his gourmet popcorn would make its way to one of the casino\u2019s guests, perhaps as a gift for a high roller or for purchase in its retail store. \u2014 Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "The days leading up to Feb. 13\u2019s Super Bowl \u2014 a matchup that pits the home team Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals inside SoFi Stadium \u2014 are filled with enough party amenities to make any high roller salivate. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "All be will be ready by launch time, and the show will start with as much energy as when a high roller throws down a $10,000 bet. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "The most noticeable of what's new is the Riptide, a 55-foot- high roller coaster that will loom over the Midway. \u2014 Paul Walsh, Star Tribune , 28 July 2021",
      "No public reckoning has ever explained why a casino high roller stocked his hotel room with assault rifles and opened fire on an outdoor concert below. \u2014 Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune , 30 June 2021",
      "Anbang Insurance Group, another private high roller , has been taken over by the state, while its founder Wu Xiaohui in 2018 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. \u2014 Lingling Wei, WSJ , 20 Dec. 2020",
      "Give your tush some cush by upgrading your desk chair to this high roller from Steelcase. \u2014 Carla Sosenko, Popular Science , 13 Nov. 2020",
      "The high rollers \u2014mostly wealthy businessmen from mainland China\u2014may come back sooner than casual gamblers, provided their businesses recover from the hit. \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2020"
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      "1624, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "1943, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "1909, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The yield on the 10-year Treasury note finished on Friday at 2.785%, well below the high-water mark this year of 3.124% recorded two weeks earlier. \u2014 Matt Grossman, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
      "The previous nationwide high-water mark , also set in 2008, was $4.27, or $5.73 in today\u2019s dollars. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
      "That's only a tick below the high-water mark of 99 incidents recorded in 2020. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "By 2015, the legal fight against corruption in Guatemala was reaching its high-water mark . \u2014 Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "His wife and doctor begged him to stop, so 80 minutes became his high-water mark . \u2014 Greg Presto, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Additionally, 557 patients were boarding in emergency departments at state hospitals on May 16 \u2014 another high-water mark since the association began tracking the numbers in October. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022",
      "Caruso\u2019s campaign largesse remains well below the mayoral money high-water mark set by Michael R. Bloomberg in New York City. \u2014 Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "The following night featured perhaps the season\u2019s high-water mark in terms of opulence and fantasy. \u2014 The Masked Observer, al , 1 Mar. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1691, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165516"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043115",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1579, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Place ice cubes in a tall highball glass, add 1 ounce vodka and half of cocktail mixture to each glass. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
      "For each drink, fill a highball glass with the crushed ice and set aside. \u2014 M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
      "In a tall highball glass, combine the lime slices and juice with the sugar and three mint leaves. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "The drink is served in a highball glass and is a yellowish green color at the bottom. \u2014 Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Fill a highball glass nearly to the top with rocks cracked from a solid ice block, or 1-inch ice cubes, or a frozen spear of ice. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Rub the rim of a highball glass with cut side of lime wedge, then dip rim into salt. \u2014 Odette Williams, WSJ , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "The three-ingredient version is a bright low-sugar sip; adding orange liqueur makes for something like a margarita in highball form. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 July 2021",
      "Other cocktail options include approachable classics like a highball made with Botanist Gin, lime and a touch of California absinthe and a sidecar made with cognac and Alessio Bianco Vermouth. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 24 Nov. 2021"
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      "1894, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
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      "skeptics have argued that these dramatic masterpieces must have been written by someone more highborn than one William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Nannette, with her plain, angular face and hawklike eyes, wasn\u2019t beautiful or highborn . \u2014 Patricia Morrisroe, New York Times , 6 Nov. 2020",
      "Live, Love, Laugh, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex AVAILABLE ITEMS PRINCELY AF sweatshirt (\u00a380): Sharpie on a Champion-brand hooded sweatshirt\u2014the perfect blend of highborn -lowbrow! \u2014 Emily Flake, The New Yorker , 15 Jan. 2020",
      "Modern Jerusalem was spared Disneyfication, first by the highborn culture of British colonialism, with its awe for the city\u2019s antique past, and next by Jordanian paralysis, which froze the Old City as if in amber. \u2014 Michael Kimmelman, New York Times , 13 Sep. 2019",
      "One is a seedy refuge in Pigalle, with rat droppings on the floor and a lone bullet, left in a drawer; another is a ch\u00e2teau in the countryside, with snow on the ground and a highborn family in residence. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 30 Aug. 2019",
      "His highborn friends\u2014including the funny Menenius Agrippa, played by Teagle F. Bougere, who makes Elizabethan English sound easy-peasy, the smoothest conversation\u2014try to coax him out of war mode and into the hearts of the people. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2019",
      "And lucky for Arthur, Mera feels the same way, giving up her highborn birthright to marry ornery Orm, and choosing instead to travel with Arthur to the Sahara Desert and Sicily to find clues regarding the whereabouts of the super trident. \u2014 Alex Abad-santos, Vox , 11 Dec. 2018",
      "That a hotheaded, highborn Southerner killed a working man confirmed Northern fears about the intemperate behavior of Southern defenders of slavery, according to Gugliotta. \u2014 Robert Mitchell, Washington Post , 23 June 2018",
      "The dispute, no highborn version of a Thanksgiving dinner argument, involves divestment of ExxonMobil stock, lawsuits, and accusations of conspiracy by ExxonMobil against two family funds. \u2014 Ben Ryder Howe, Town & Country , 18 Oct. 2017"
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      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072918",
    "type":[
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Here, Morris incorporated antiques, like the highboy and a sunburst mirror, with more contemporary pieces such as the 10-seater dining table (from Tritter Feefer) and Woodbridge Furniture side chairs. \u2014 Marisa Spyker, Southern Living , 23 Apr. 2021",
      "But whereas Johnson specialized in imagery meant to shock and titillate\u2014typified by his AT&T Building of 1977\u20131984 in New York, a cartoon Chippendale highboy \u2014Pei favored iconography that aimed to soothe and impress. \u2014 Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books , 24 May 2019",
      "While across the hall stands a highboy with spindle legs that give away its age - sometime in the early 1700s. \u2014 Joan Hunt, Courant Community , 21 Dec. 2017",
      "There was a stellar American highboy that came from her grandfather for the living room. \u2014 Carrie Nieman Culpepper, House Beautiful , 4 Nov. 2013",
      "Its main entrance, slapped onto the building's front, is a giant highboy . \u2014 Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com , 23 June 2017",
      "Add personal lifestyle objects: On a Craftsman highboy in the bedroom, Palmer has men's collar holders and painted glass jars that held cosmetics. \u2014 Susan Green, OregonLive.com , 11 July 2017",
      "Broken English The taqueria's new Lincoln Park location has a dog-friendly patio seating 100 people at a mix of highboys and picnic tables. \u2014 Adam Lukach And Samantha Nelson, chicagotribune.com , 12 May 2017"
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      "The ideas in Hamaguchi\u2019s stories develop emotions \u2014 the specter of loneliness \u2014 rather than meander toward quizzical, highbrow pathos. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "There are more cynical interpretations of the rise of highbrow science or speculative fiction. \u2014 Katie Roiphe, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "While the slow-burning western psychodrama has sturdy cross-branch support from disparate ends of the Academy, many forecasters have noted that its highbrow appeal might not be enough to sustain the swell of passion building for other titles. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "And yet, Apple seems perfectly content with its current approach: methodically building a platform with really good highbrow movies and TV. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "This too primed him for an age when comics went highbrow and genre began to infuse literature. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Books on Tape advertised in highbrow publications including the New Yorker magazine, the Wall Street Journal and Smithsonian magazine. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "But streaming companies are now in the dominant position, in part because the pandemic accelerated a consumer shift away from theaters, at least where highbrow films are concerned. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "With her East Boston Oysters event series, Cervasio paired oysters and caviar with Cheetos and potato chips, aiming to make the highbrow accessible and gaining a huge following in the process. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2021"
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      "guests at her elegant dinner parties are a mix of the city's highbrows and captains of industry",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The ideas in Hamaguchi\u2019s stories develop emotions \u2014 the specter of loneliness \u2014 rather than meander toward quizzical, highbrow pathos. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "There are more cynical interpretations of the rise of highbrow science or speculative fiction. \u2014 Katie Roiphe, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "While the slow-burning western psychodrama has sturdy cross-branch support from disparate ends of the Academy, many forecasters have noted that its highbrow appeal might not be enough to sustain the swell of passion building for other titles. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "And yet, Apple seems perfectly content with its current approach: methodically building a platform with really good highbrow movies and TV. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "This too primed him for an age when comics went highbrow and genre began to infuse literature. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Books on Tape advertised in highbrow publications including the New Yorker magazine, the Wall Street Journal and Smithsonian magazine. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "But streaming companies are now in the dominant position, in part because the pandemic accelerated a consumer shift away from theaters, at least where highbrow films are concerned. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "With her East Boston Oysters event series, Cervasio paired oysters and caviar with Cheetos and potato chips, aiming to make the highbrow accessible and gaining a huge following in the process. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2021"
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      "1898, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "White made taming the Northern highbush berries in her woods her life\u2019s work, and made American agricultural history in the process. \u2014 Rachel Wharton, New York Times , 2 July 2018",
      "White made taming the Northern highbush berries in her woods her life\u2019s work, and made American agricultural history in the process. \u2014 Rachel Wharton, New York Times , 2 July 2018"
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      "1805, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Shrubs planted included speckled alder, service berry, sweet pepperbush, elderberry, highbush blueberry , and bayberry, and varieties of holly, dogwood, and choke cherry among others. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 July 2021",
      "Southern highbush blueberry varieties, such as Cooper, Gulfcrest, Blue Ridge and Cape Fear, may also be planted. \u2014 Dan Gill, NOLA.com , 3 Feb. 2021",
      "But one highbush blueberry can only successfully cross with a small handful of other blueberry species. \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 20 June 2020",
      "In the 1850s, Thoreau charted when Walden Pond\u2019s highbush blueberry first flowered. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 June 2018",
      "The dramatic change is happening right in front of us.\u2019\u2019 In the 1850s, Thoreau charted when Walden Pond\u2019s highbush blueberry first flowered. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2018",
      "Set lowbush blueberries two feet apart, highbush blueberries six feet apart, and rabbiteyes fifteen feet apart. \u2014 The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping , 14 Mar. 2017",
      "Northern highbush blueberries grow best in USDA Plant Hardiness zones 4-7. \u2014 The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping , 14 Mar. 2017"
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      "Adjective",
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      "He's being treated for high blood pressure.",
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      "Adverb",
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      "The hawks were circling high in the air.",
      "The letters were stacked high on the table.",
      "buy low and sell high",
      "Noun",
      "Oil prices reached a new high last winter.",
      "The forecast is for showers with highs in the 70s.",
      "The high only lasted a few minutes.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Fans know all too well the Giants finished runners-up several times in sweepstakes for high -profile players. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 July 2022",
      "The singer's third film received mixed reviews at the time, with several high -profile publications panning it vociferously. \u2014 Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
      "The justices will hear arguments in the Alabama case in October, among several high -profile cases involving race or elections, or both. \u2014 Mark Sherman, ajc , 2 July 2022",
      "Roberts sided with conservatives on gun rights, the death penalty, workplace mask mandates, EPA authority over greenhouse gases and two high -profile religious liberty appeals. \u2014 Fox News , 2 July 2022",
      "Going against this is the sheer number of high -profile leakers who have been talking about an iPhone 14 Max for months. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high -profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. \u2014 Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
      "Laws establishing ethical practices in treating pregnant people behind bars usually follow high -profile controversies. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 2 July 2022",
      "Rulings in the most contentious and high -profile cases ran counter to public opinion and may be driving an erosion in public faith in the court itself, some experts say. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 1 July 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "Is that a folding card table piled high with desserts",
      "Indeed, as Fortune has documented, equity valuations had flown so high that many felt a big correction was inevitable. \u2014 Ali Fazal, Fortune , 4 July 2022",
      "Teenager Yuu Ominae leads a double life as a high school student and a high -ranking agent at a secretive corporation called Arcam. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
      "There was fire through the roof, and firefighters had to get ladders up high and around multiple wires, the department said. \u2014 Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com , 4 July 2022",
      "However, a preliminary investigation found the driver was going too fast through curves, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 3 July 2022",
      "But a preliminary investigation determined the driver was taking curves too fast, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
      "Keep your head up high , stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
      "Beyonc\u00e9 looks like a goddess of lightning in a spiky metallic outfit with matching heels, sitting with her head held high on the horse full of lightning bolts. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 30 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The entire crypto sector has lost about 66%, or $2 trillion, since its November high . \u2014 Paul Vigna, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
      "The incident unfolded as Phoenix faces sweltering temperatures, with a high of around 108 degrees expected on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. \u2014 Chantal Da Silva, NBC News , 24 June 2022",
      "That is 1 percentage point below the all-time high reached during the Great Recession, according to the report. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 24 June 2022",
      "With inflation at a 40-year high , and even higher rates on the horizon due to massive increases in the producer price index, the Fed had no real choice but to increase rates and attempt to slow the economy. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
      "After Massachusetts road deaths reached an 11-year high in 2021, the toll could be even higher this year, according to state Transportation Secretary Jamey Tesler. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
      "But the adrenaline rush of being in the middle of a breaking news story not to mention the high of witnessing history in real time",
      "Portland will likely see a high of about 92 degrees, and a northeast wind with gusts as strong as 28 mph at times. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 June 2022",
      "Bitcoin\u2019s value has fallen nearly 70 percent from its November high of more than $68,000. \u2014 Taylor Telford, Washington Post , 23 June 2022"
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      "Adjective",
      "The apartment has high ceilings.",
      "The airplane was high above the clouds.",
      "The bush is six feet high .",
      "a building 100 stories high",
      "They have a home in the high country.",
      "The houses are built on high ground.",
      "They reached speeds as high as 100 mph.",
      "He's being treated for high blood pressure.",
      "She earns a high salary.",
      "His books are in high demand.",
      "Adverb",
      "The painter climbed high on the ladder.",
      "The hawks were circling high in the air.",
      "The letters were stacked high on the table.",
      "buy low and sell high",
      "Noun",
      "Oil prices reached a new high last winter.",
      "The forecast is for showers with highs in the 70s.",
      "The high only lasted a few minutes.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Fans know all too well the Giants finished runners-up several times in sweepstakes for high -profile players. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 July 2022",
      "The singer's third film received mixed reviews at the time, with several high -profile publications panning it vociferously. \u2014 Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
      "The justices will hear arguments in the Alabama case in October, among several high -profile cases involving race or elections, or both. \u2014 Mark Sherman, ajc , 2 July 2022",
      "Roberts sided with conservatives on gun rights, the death penalty, workplace mask mandates, EPA authority over greenhouse gases and two high -profile religious liberty appeals. \u2014 Fox News , 2 July 2022",
      "Going against this is the sheer number of high -profile leakers who have been talking about an iPhone 14 Max for months. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high -profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. \u2014 Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
      "Laws establishing ethical practices in treating pregnant people behind bars usually follow high -profile controversies. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 2 July 2022",
      "Rulings in the most contentious and high -profile cases ran counter to public opinion and may be driving an erosion in public faith in the court itself, some experts say. \u2014 Devin Dwyer, ABC News , 1 July 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "Is that a folding card table piled high with desserts",
      "Indeed, as Fortune has documented, equity valuations had flown so high that many felt a big correction was inevitable. \u2014 Ali Fazal, Fortune , 4 July 2022",
      "Teenager Yuu Ominae leads a double life as a high school student and a high -ranking agent at a secretive corporation called Arcam. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
      "There was fire through the roof, and firefighters had to get ladders up high and around multiple wires, the department said. \u2014 Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com , 4 July 2022",
      "However, a preliminary investigation found the driver was going too fast through curves, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 3 July 2022",
      "But a preliminary investigation determined the driver was taking curves too fast, and he was cited for driving at a speed too high for conditions, Richey said. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
      "Keep your head up high , stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
      "Beyonc\u00e9 looks like a goddess of lightning in a spiky metallic outfit with matching heels, sitting with her head held high on the horse full of lightning bolts. \u2014 Gabi Thorne, Allure , 30 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Primary global energy consumption grew by 5.5% last year to a new all-time high . \u2014 Robert Rapier, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
      "The travel industry is certainly rebounding, and search interest for international flights reached a new high after the White House revoked the requirement for a negative COVID test before entry to the U.S. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 3 July 2022",
      "On June 23, departing passenger traffic at the airport hit a new high for the pandemic of 31,436, surpassing the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2021 as the airport\u2019s busiest day since the start of the pandemic. \u2014 Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun , 30 June 2022",
      "The ruble hit a new high against the dollar this week, continuing its streak as the best-performing currency in the world this year. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
      "The rolling seven-day average for new daily cases hit a four-month high on Saturday, when an average of 827 cases were reported on each of the seven days in the period. \u2014 Olivia Alexander, Arkansas Online , 26 June 2022",
      "In addition, power demand there has reached a new all-time high . \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 22 June 2022",
      "That's the biggest box office jump last week on Broadway and a new high for the show. \u2014 Mark Kennedy, ajc , 22 June 2022",
      "Those box office returns come as moviegoing comfort reaches a new all-time high , according to the National Research Group. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 22 June 2022"
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      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
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      "Middle English, from Old English h\u0113ah ; akin to Old High German h\u014dh high, Lithuanian kaukaras hill":"Adjective, Adverb, and Noun"
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for high Adjective high , tall , lofty mean above the average in height. high implies marked extension upward and is applied chiefly to things which rise from a base or foundation or are placed at a conspicuous height above a lower level. a high hill a high ceiling tall applies to what grows or rises high by comparison with others of its kind and usually implies relative narrowness. a tall thin man lofty suggests great or imposing altitude. lofty mountain peaks",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110933",
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      ": expressed in or marked by the use of language that is elaborated or heightened by artificial or empty means : pompous":[
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      "a highfalutin way of talking",
      "his highfalutin paean to the working class failed to win over a crowd that wanted to hear down-to-earth proposals for economic relief",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Philip thought Woody Allen was a phony pseudo-intellectual who had never finished a book in his life and made all these highfalutin allusions to Strindberg and whatnot. \u2014 Jordan Reife, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2021",
      "In less highfalutin language, increasing taxes on an activity leads to less of it; cutting taxes on an activity leads to more of it. \u2014 Star Tribune , 30 Jan. 2021",
      "But after some highfalutin remarks, Crowe makes a hard turn to a profane, confrontational rant pitching his movie about a homicidal maniac. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, chicagotribune.com , 22 Aug. 2020",
      "American politicians, the pusillanimous and the mountebanks and even their opposites, used to be as highfalutin as Foghorn Leghorn with their gibes, which made politics fun for fans of Shakespeare, the Bible or obscure history. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 Mar. 2020",
      "What began as semi-legal \u2014 if highfalutin \u2014 graffiti has taken off in recent years, with local and even international artists being commissioned to turn once-seedy downtown walls into canvases for all manner of murals. \u2014 Paul Abercrombie, Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2020",
      "And even the most highfalutin fly rodder won\u2019t argue against a hot fried bluegill with a side of onions and potatoes. \u2014 T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream , 12 Mar. 2020",
      "The highfalutin words, plastered on the side of the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum, might ring hollow to those who know him largely as the most prominent of eight White Sox players who allegedly conspired with gamblers to lose a World Series. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Oct. 2019",
      "The highfalutin words, plastered on the side of the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum, might ring hollow to those who know him largely as the most prominent of eight White Sox players who allegedly conspired with gamblers to lose a World Series. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Oct. 2019"
    ],
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      "1839, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "perhaps from high entry 2 + alteration of fluting , present participle of flute":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082051",
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      ": an ambitiously competitive person with high aspirations":[]
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      "one of New York's largest law firms, it attracts highfliers looking for a big-time legal career",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The deal, the exact dollar figure of which remained unclear, represents quite a comedown for the one-time highflier . \u2014 Amy Feldman, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2021",
      "At first look, Biogen seems more like a plodding drugmaker than a pending highflier : The neurology specialist boasts a market cap of about $46 billion. \u2014 Charley Grant, WSJ , 26 Aug. 2020",
      "The bankruptcy follows that of another highflier in the U.S. oil patch, Whiting Petroleum Corp., which filed for Chapter 11 at the start of April after championing what was once the premiere U.S. shale field, the Bakken of North Dakota. \u2014 David Wethe, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
      "The Federal Reserve lent trillions of dollars to bail out Wall Street highfliers , hoping that by stabilizing big banks, the benefits would flow through to the rest of the economy. \u2014 Sheila Bair For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 27 Mar. 2020",
      "Traders have turned to derivatives to bet on the continued rise of some tech highfliers , wagering that there are even bigger gains ahead for the group. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 20 Feb. 2020",
      "O\u2019Neal continued, referring to the legendary former Nets and Philadelphia 76ers highflier Julius Erving. \u2014 Marc Stein, New York Times , 21 Feb. 2020",
      "Although manufacturing heavyweights delivered lackluster news, some tech highfliers outperformed, soaring to unprecedented heights. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 31 Jan. 2020",
      "The implication is that as long as the Fed keeps the money flowing, and highfliers and stock repurchases continue to supercharge earnings, the party can continue. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1961, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8fl\u012b(-\u0259)r"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bootstrapper",
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      "hummer",
      "hustler",
      "live wire",
      "powerhouse",
      "self-starter"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054144",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  "highflyer":{
    "antonyms":[],
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      ": a company whose stock is a highflier":[],
      ": a stock whose price rises much more rapidly than the market average":[],
      ": an ambitiously competitive person with high aspirations":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "one of New York's largest law firms, it attracts highfliers looking for a big-time legal career",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The deal, the exact dollar figure of which remained unclear, represents quite a comedown for the one-time highflier . \u2014 Amy Feldman, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2021",
      "At first look, Biogen seems more like a plodding drugmaker than a pending highflier : The neurology specialist boasts a market cap of about $46 billion. \u2014 Charley Grant, WSJ , 26 Aug. 2020",
      "The bankruptcy follows that of another highflier in the U.S. oil patch, Whiting Petroleum Corp., which filed for Chapter 11 at the start of April after championing what was once the premiere U.S. shale field, the Bakken of North Dakota. \u2014 David Wethe, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
      "The Federal Reserve lent trillions of dollars to bail out Wall Street highfliers , hoping that by stabilizing big banks, the benefits would flow through to the rest of the economy. \u2014 Sheila Bair For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 27 Mar. 2020",
      "Traders have turned to derivatives to bet on the continued rise of some tech highfliers , wagering that there are even bigger gains ahead for the group. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 20 Feb. 2020",
      "O\u2019Neal continued, referring to the legendary former Nets and Philadelphia 76ers highflier Julius Erving. \u2014 Marc Stein, New York Times , 21 Feb. 2020",
      "Although manufacturing heavyweights delivered lackluster news, some tech highfliers outperformed, soaring to unprecedented heights. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 31 Jan. 2020",
      "The implication is that as long as the Fed keeps the money flowing, and highfliers and stock repurchases continue to supercharge earnings, the party can continue. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1961, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02c8fl\u012b(-\u0259)r"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bootstrapper",
      "go-ahead",
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      "hummer",
      "hustler",
      "live wire",
      "powerhouse",
      "self-starter"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210202",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": kidnap":[
        "A robber who claimed he was hijacked from home \u2026 to rob a corner shop has been jailed for four years.",
        "\u2014 Evening Gazette (Middlesborough, England)"
      ],
      ": to steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle":[
        "Shipping cargo internationally, however, is rife with pitfalls. Shipments may be stolen, hijacked , destroyed, damaged or delayed.",
        "\u2014 David Drake",
        "A shipment of \u2026 albums by British pop idol Sting was hijacked in transit while being transported from Germany to an Italian warehouse.",
        "\u2014 Willem Hoos",
        "At last count, Parmalat had given away 5.2 million stuffed animals in a massive Brazilian promotion, not including the truckload of furry animals hijacked earlier this year by thieves too impatient to collect their own Parmalat labels.",
        "\u2014 Laurel Wentz"
      ],
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        "Police are hunting two men who hijacked a truck at knifepoint and made off with its \u2026 load of whisky.",
        "\u2014 Commercial Motor (Sutton, England)"
      ],
      ": to subject to extortion or swindling":[
        "\u2026 hijacks them into spending nearly a billion dollars \u2026",
        "\u2014 Dave Armstrong"
      ]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092315",
    "type":[
      "verb"
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      ": kidnap":[
        "A robber who claimed he was hijacked from home \u2026 to rob a corner shop has been jailed for four years.",
        "\u2014 Evening Gazette (Middlesborough, England)"
      ],
      ": to steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle":[
        "Shipping cargo internationally, however, is rife with pitfalls. Shipments may be stolen, hijacked , destroyed, damaged or delayed.",
        "\u2014 David Drake",
        "A shipment of \u2026 albums by British pop idol Sting was hijacked in transit while being transported from Germany to an Italian warehouse.",
        "\u2014 Willem Hoos",
        "At last count, Parmalat had given away 5.2 million stuffed animals in a massive Brazilian promotion, not including the truckload of furry animals hijacked earlier this year by thieves too impatient to collect their own Parmalat labels.",
        "\u2014 Laurel Wentz"
      ],
      ": to stop and steal from (a vehicle in transit)":[
        "Police are hunting two men who hijacked a truck at knifepoint and made off with its \u2026 load of whisky.",
        "\u2014 Commercial Motor (Sutton, England)"
      ],
      ": to subject to extortion or swindling":[
        "\u2026 hijacks them into spending nearly a billion dollars \u2026",
        "\u2014 Dave Armstrong"
      ]
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    "examples":[
      "He hijacked a truck, threatening the driver at gunpoint.",
      "A band of robbers hijacked the load of furs from the truck.",
      "A group of terrorists hijacked the plane.",
      "The organization has been hijacked by radicals.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "To us, the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive, small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific, to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country. \u2014 Brad Lendon And Heather Chen, CNN , 12 June 2022",
      "The second component can hijack industrial control systems from Schneider Electric to delete files, crash the device, or upload additional payloads. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Two bank robbers, the adoptive brothers Danny (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), hijack an ambulance after a heist gone wrong, using it to sneak by the cops. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 9 Apr. 2022",
      "There\u2019s the producer (Yannick Bono) who conspires to let the veteran male DP (Maxime Ruiz) hijack Dalle\u2019s big set-piece and direct the film himself. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 4 May 2022",
      "The action-thriller stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez and centers on a pair of adoptive siblings who hijack an ambulance while trying to pull of a bank heist. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Of course, the heist doesn\u2019t go as planned, and in their getaway Danny and Will hijack an ambulance. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "The researchers had seen similar symptoms in fire ants infected with other kinds of microsporidia, which hijack an ant's fat cells to produce even more spores. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Samuel Joseph Byck tries to hijack a Delta passenger jet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, with the plan to crash it into the White House. \u2014 CNN , 12 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1923, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-\u02ccjak"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "commandeer"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163117",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "noun,",
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      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "highland":{
    "antonyms":[
      "lowland"
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      ": elevated or mountainous land":[],
      ": of or relating to a highland":[],
      ": of or relating to the Highlands of Scotland":[],
      "administrative area of northern Scotland bordering the North Sea and the Atlantic area 9806 square miles (25,398 square kilometers), population 232,132":[],
      "city in southeastern California east of San Bernardino population 53,104":[],
      "town in northwestern Indiana south of Hammond population 23,727":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "there are permanent glaciers in the cool, humid highlands of the Pacific Northwest",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The holiday is filled with gorgeous Scottish vistas and highland balls, but the Flintshire household is a deeply unhappy one. \u2014 Tom Fitzgerald And Lorenzo Marquez, Town & Country , 17 May 2022",
      "The highland patio chat table is crafted from a weather-resistant resin weave that the manufacturer says retains its color for 2,500 UV hours. \u2014 Daria Smith, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 May 2022",
      "The Parker Solar Probe's views aligned with topographical landmarks seen by the Magellan spacecraft, including the Tellus Regio plateau in the northern hemisphere of Venus and a continent-sized highland known as Aphrodite Terra. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "The band\u2019s lineup features three highland bagpipers and traditional marching snare, backed by the most-famous bagpipe band on the planet. \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "At around eight o\u2019clock in the evening on October 28th, Fredy L\u00f3pez Ar\u00e9valo, a journalist in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, pulled up in front of his home in the highland city of San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas. \u2014 Peter Canby, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
      "Take a cinematic cruise down the long flat farm roads, cooing at highland cattle and relaxed quarter horses, or stop to collect a local farmer\u2019s bounty in exchange for a few dollars in the honor system jar. \u2014 Kaitlyn Wylde, Vogue , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "These include Birkhall, formerly home to the Queen Mother and since taken over by Prince Charles, and the modest house that Queen Victoria had built for her highland servant, John Brown. \u2014 Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "The scene is announced with the portentous drone of bagpipes, an aural assault generated by a battalion of 30 highland pipers playing in a converted church in Scotland. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The highland town is surrounded by lush countryside in northern Sulawesi, home to the Minahasa people and an amazing diversity of wildlife. \u2014 The Economist , 26 May 2020",
      "Under four miles, the easy trail rings a highland lake that reflects the steep and treeless mountains surrounding it. \u2014 Elaine Glusac, New York Times , 27 Feb. 2020",
      "Maybe their bloodline spirits crossed, perhaps hundreds of years ago across a highland moor, their prey the red grouse. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Mar. 2020",
      "Wearing the trappings of highland Mexican warriors could communicate that the Maya leader had military prowess. \u2014 Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS , 27 Feb. 2020",
      "Now the divide between a wealthier, more European-descended lowland east and a more indigenous, poorer, highland west is once again exposed. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Nov. 2019",
      "Two ancient Christian sites, in the highland towns of Axum and Lalibela, are undergoing restoration. \u2014 The Economist , 7 Nov. 2019",
      "The best choice is colonial or highland bentgrass, but as mentioned above, plant perennial ryegrass with it at about 4 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Sep. 2019",
      "Torres\u2019 support is strongest in Guatemala\u2019s poorer rural and highland areas. \u2014 Ciara Nugent, Time , 11 Aug. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-l\u0259nd"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "altitude(s)",
      "elevation",
      "eminence",
      "height",
      "hill",
      "hump",
      "mound",
      "prominence",
      "rise",
      "upland"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105422",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "geographical name",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "highlander":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an inhabitant of a highland":[],
      ": an inhabitant of the Highlands of Scotland":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The guileless turns of the film's real-life highlander cast also grounds the film nicely and act as an effective foil to Ugyen. \u2014 Thomas Page, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "The show's core relationship, that of Claire and eternally-hunky Scottish highlander Jamie Fraser (played by Sam Heughan) remains one of the steamiest on modern television. \u2014 Taylore Glynn, Allure , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "The tan exterior is complemented by an orange highlander plaid interior. \u2014 Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "Linked together by a series of tiny medieval hamlets, the area is known for its distinct highlander culture, mysterious folk customs and ancient local tongue. \u2014 Melanie Hamilton, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "Outlander fans know Sam Heughan for his performance as Jamie Fraser, a Scottish highlander in the 1700s. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 18 June 2020",
      "Population groups that don\u2019t have deep local roots, like the thousands of Guatemalan highlanders who have moved to the Bay Area in recent years, have become especially tough to track now that most face-to-face contact is impossible. \u2014 Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com , 24 Apr. 2020",
      "But like the highlander (the one with the sword, not the Toyota SUV) there can be only one, and 2020's World Urban Car of the Year is the Kia Soul EV. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 8 Apr. 2020",
      "Pem and her fellow highlanders have become some of the wealthiest people in Bhutan, the heart of an unusual economy. \u2014 Chris Jones, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1610, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u012b-l\u0259n-d\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111748",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "highlight":{
    "antonyms":[
      "de-emphasize",
      "play down"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a spot or area that is lighter than surrounding spots or areas: such as":[],
      ": a summary of the most significant or interesting parts of something (such as a completed sporting event) presented typically on a television broadcast":[
        "\u2014 usually plural watched highlights of the night's games"
      ],
      ": something (such as an event or detail) that is of major significance or special interest":[
        "Visiting the Alps was a highlight of their trip to Europe."
      ],
      ": to cause (something, such as text or an icon) to be displayed in a way that stands out on an electronic screen (as of a computer or smartphone)":[
        "highlighted the sentence and deleted it"
      ],
      ": to center attention on : emphasize , stress":[
        "The speech will highlight the need for education reform."
      ],
      ": to constitute a significant or especially interesting part of : to constitute a highlight of":[
        "His trip to Europe was highlighted by a visit to Vatican City."
      ],
      ": to mark (text) with a highlighter":[],
      ": to throw a strong light on":[
        "highlighting featured merchandise on the shelves"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "I missed the game, but I saw the highlights on the evening news.",
      "Verb",
      "Unfortunately, the media insisted upon highlighting his troubled past.",
      "Our trip was highlighted by a great jazz concert we attended.",
      "The students highlighted important vocabulary words in their textbooks.",
      "Important names and dates in each chapter are highlighted .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "On a sunny Sunday last October, dozens of kids came to the Victoria and Albert Museum to celebrate with Amal, sing in Arabic, play and, the highlight , pick a cupcake. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
      "With plastic waste growing around the world, Buthelezi is using his work to both highlight and combat the issue. \u2014 CNN , 14 June 2022",
      "Extending warmth and sympathy, as well as spreading wealth to those who may not have a home or stable income, are all acts of generosity which these Bible verses highlight . \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 10 June 2022",
      "Indy Pride traditionally hosts numerous LGBTQ+-themed events throughout the month of June, but the Saturday that features both its parade and festival is undoubtedly the month's highlight . \u2014 Channing King, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022",
      "Joey Votto was robbed of a two-run homer in the first inning by Thomas, who sprinted to the wall, timed his jump and made a leaping catch with his outstretched arm past the wall to make the highlight grab. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 9 June 2022",
      "Finally, our engineers evaluated general construction, such as materials and fittings, to highlight models that should deliver the longest service. \u2014 Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
      "With some time now to reflect on the special night, Wade says her biggest highlight was having her entire family come out to Nashville to support her. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
      "The first race Saturday is USF2000 at 11 a.m., with IndyCar qualifying the highlight at 12:45. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 7 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "With about 6,000 square feet of interior living space, the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath condo is framed by wide walls of glass that highlight panoramic vistas throughout. \u2014 Brenda Richardson, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
      "There are tons of cute fall quotes that highlight the beauty of the season from authors and celebrities. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 27 June 2022",
      "The ensemble cast's star power and captivating chemistry makes for some fascinating, interconnected stories that highlight the ups and downs of love. \u2014 Angela Andaloro, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
      "Six new and upcoming historical novels take readers across World War II Europe, in tales that highlight both the atrocities of that conflict and the resilience of everyday people. \u2014 Carol Memmott, Washington Post , 20 June 2022",
      "The result is a new Solo Traveler in-app experience that will highlight new safety features for people traveling alone. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 15 June 2022",
      "Here, men were the usual suspects, for reasons that highlight the frighteningly capricious ways power and hierarchy structured everyday life. \u2014 Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
      "Their daily updates that highlight real setbacks are atypically honest by the standards of military press offices, a tactic perhaps intended to add a sense of urgency to their daily calls for heavy Western weaponry. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
      "The town is a center point for three nearby Indian reservations: Leech Lake, Red Lake and White Earth, which have joined together to highlight and promote Native artists and their works at the festival. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Case numbers generally were relatively lower in the past couple of months, and public health experts estimate cases of the highly contagious omicron variant peaked in Arizona around mid-January. \u2014 Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic , 29 June 2022",
      "The increase comes as Oregon sees more iterations of the highly contagious omicron variant. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2022",
      "The United Kingdom has declared a rare \u2018national incident\u2019 after traces of the highly contagious polio virus were found in sewage in London, the government said. \u2014 Adela Suliman, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
      "Hundreds of dead birds have washed up on Martha's Vineyard and animal control officials there think a highly contagious strain of avian flu may be responsible. \u2014 CBS News , 23 June 2022",
      "The variola virus that caused smallpox was not only lethal but also highly contagious. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Hundreds of dead birds have washed up on Martha's Vineyard and animal control officials there think a highly contagious strain of avian flu may be responsible. \u2014 Fox News , 21 June 2022",
      "Although most children with covid-19 recover uneventfully, data presented to the CDC panel Friday made clear that this highly contagious virus has managed to sicken thousands of children who were too young until now to get vaccinated. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 19 June 2022",
      "Despite the persistence of highly contagious strains of COVID-19 in Connecticut and elsewhere, restrictions designed to curb the spread of the virus are more relaxed than ever. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 17 June 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The color will be trooped, and then all back to her royal highness \u2019s for a party at the palace. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
      "Don\u2019t call her Brandy no more \u2014 call her your highness . \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022",
      "If your recipe calls for a crumb crust, such as her highness the B.S.G.C.C., the shape of the loaf pan actually allows for another cool trick. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Trixie advises Alma to playact highness to flummox E.B. \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 18 Dec. 2021",
      "To avoid any misunderstanding, steer clear of any mention of his royal highness . \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 14 July 2021",
      "Introducing his serene highness , Kaiser Otto Von Stop-Zalot. \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 12 June 2021",
      "Under new rules bestowed by the king, designed to limit titles of members of the royal family, only those in direct succession to the British throne could receive HRH (his or her royal highness ) titles. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2021",
      "And every last email between the first lady, her royal highness , and their staff \u2014 every personal reflection, reservation, itinerary change and security detail \u2014 was beaming back to former N.S.A. analysts\u2019 computers in Abu Dhabi. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Feb. 2021"
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      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "short for earlier hightobyman , from thieves' argot hightoby highway, highway robbery (from high entry 1 + toby ) + man":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Russian forces continue their attempts to take over the strategically important Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway . Mykolaiv. \u2014 Katya Soldak, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "There are mini piles that are encased in concrete between the highway and the railroad tracks, and larger steel H piles drilled between 230 and 270 feet deep into the ground below. \u2014 Globe Staff, 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",
      "But because the actual course, located three miles off a major highway , is relatively isolated, there were no casual onlookers passing by. \u2014 Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
      "Officials said examples could include a pedestrian walkway under or over a highway slicing through a neighborhood, or a new deck and park above a freeway - an idea being explored in Atlanta with federal help. \u2014 Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2022",
      "Three large wildfires skirted the mountainous city this spring alone, prompting hundreds of people to evacuate, closing down a major highway and destroying some homes. \u2014 Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 July 2022",
      "Two decades after his wife's killing, authorities named late Ohio business owner Edward Geddes as the person responsible for the murder of Lina Reyes-Geddes, who was found dead along an interstate highway near Maidenwater Spring, Utah. \u2014 Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News , 30 June 2022",
      "While a number flee into a nearby field, one instead runs into the highway -- and into the path of an approaching vehicle. \u2014 Bill Melugin, Fox News , 30 June 2022"
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      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "How many other writers could convincingly depict a blind highwayman or cap that eerie encounter with a duel on bagpipes between Alan and a son of the famous Rob Roy",
      "Others are the result of bizarre last requests, like when a highwayman asked for his memoir to be bound in his own skin after his execution. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 29 Sep. 2020",
      "Thieves of the Wood (Netflix) Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Flanders. \u2014 Nina Zafar, Washington Post , 2 Jan. 2020",
      "This later-season standout stars Cleese as a bumbling, flower-thieving highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 4 Oct. 2019",
      "In the late 1950s, Zorro grew especially popular because of a Disney television series featuring handsome Guy Williams as the daredevil highwayman . \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 10 July 2019",
      "What started as the usual conduct by the highwaymen in the Freedom Caucus is now spreading. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 25 May 2018",
      "The story the museum tells is laced with human connections and studded with violence, from wartime bombs to pirate attacks on postal ships to highwaymen 's raids on mail coaches. \u2014 Jill Lawless, Detroit Free Press , 29 July 2017",
      "The story the museum tells is laced with human connections and studded with violence, from wartime bombs to pirate attacks on postal ships to highwaymen \u2019s raids on mail coaches. \u2014 Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times , 27 July 2017"
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      "1617, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But a woman \u2014 and all the women in the audience \u2014 will endorse her decision to hightail it in the opposite direction. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 9 May 2022",
      "Families with little kids often hightail it out, but the native of Spain wanted to settle down in a walkable city with a European flair. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Dec. 2021",
      "Additionally, this totalitarian system produces only poverty and hunger, and these poor, hungry people hightail it to the United States. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 19 Apr. 2021",
      "Fox hired two drivers to hightail it from the port to the festival. \u2014 Margaret Littman, Fortune , 24 Apr. 2020",
      "Once Ratzinger has been elected, Bergoglio hightails it back to Argentina and never looks back. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 26 Nov. 2019",
      "Living in Stockholm since her split from husband Mattias (Sverrir Gudnason), Alice (Ane Dahl Torp) hightails it to a small far-northern community after receiving an alarming phone call from young son Vincent (Troy Lundkvist). \u2014 Todd Mccarthy, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 Feb. 2020",
      "The culprit, a 31-year-old woman, allegedly followed up on the attack by snatching the man\u2019s phone off the table and hightailing it out of the restaurant. \u2014 Josh Koehn, SFChronicle.com , 4 Nov. 2019",
      "Forget all the conditions, just book a JetBlue flight to LaGuardia and hightail it to Katz\u2019s itself (be prepared to wait in line and tip your slicer). \u2014 Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com , 22 Aug. 2019"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Make no mistake, patent leather still holds a high place in a well-rounded wardrobe. \u2014 Blake Newby, Essence , 19 Oct. 2021",
      "The closest thing to one of my favorite places in Los Angeles would be a view from a high place , preferably a mountain or hilltop. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2021",
      "Does Graham really mean to place Donald Trump in the same high place as Jesus in this comparison",
      "So when the Feds came for him, Mr Milken had few friends in high places and a lot of enemies. \u2014 The Economist , 20 Feb. 2020",
      "Use it with the telescoping wand for floors and high places or as a handheld for stairs, the sofa and the car. \u2014 Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping , 8 Apr. 2020",
      "But Project Veritas maintains friends in high places : that Erik Prince, the security-contractor brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has recruited ex-spies to help Project Veritas infiltrate Democratic groups. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Mar. 2020",
      "At Division 1 All-States, Jacobs was the highest placing sophomore, taking 10th in 16 minutes, 42.62 seconds. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2019",
      "In years past, when city investigations into his behavior arose, Nuru could count on friends in high places \u2014 including mayors and supervisors \u2014 to come to his aide. \u2014 Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com , 10 Feb. 2020"
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142522"
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      ": an elementary particle that has zero spin and large mass and that is required by some gauge theories to account for the masses of other elementary particles":[]
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      "1974, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "1931, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143329"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Colors have low and high frequency \u2026 especially music. \u2014 Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo, Rolling Stone , 9 June 2022",
      "Nevada's attempts to serve and volley their way into a high-scoring affair with Western Michigan were quickly stopped as they were forced on three-and-outs with high frequency . \u2014 Andrew Hammond, USA TODAY , 27 Dec. 2021",
      "The high frequency wavelengths used by phones don\u2019t travel well through water. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 20 May 2017",
      "The rise of the (multi/hybrid) cloud and DevOps culture has led to a dramatic spike in the use of advanced machines such as containers, virtual machines and microservices that are created and destroyed at a high frequency . \u2014 Gregory Webb, Forbes , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "Other primates exhibit varying degrees of lateralization, but only humans show such a high frequency of right-handedness. \u2014 David W. Frayer, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2022",
      "However, the high frequency of face-to-face encounters in regular market trading is not feasible at the moment. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 12 Jan. 2022",
      "Nevada's attempts to serve and volley their way into a high-scoring affair with WMU were quickly stopped as they were forced on three-and-outs with high frequency . \u2014 Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press , 27 Dec. 2021",
      "AirPods 3 comes with spatial audio, better sound quality -- providing a more powerful bass and crisp high frequency -- and is sweat and water resistant for workouts. \u2014 Aditi Sangal, CNN , 18 Oct. 2021"
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        "Matth\u00e4us is the greatest German sweeper since Beckenbauer, but he's high-maintenance . At various times in his career, he has accused a ref of taking bribes, scrapped with a teammate and, three years ago, ripped his universally beloved German teammate J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann in a tell-all book.",
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      "What\u2019s uncertain is whether passage would mark the beginning of slow but gradual action to curb gun violence, or the high water mark on the issue. \u2014 Alan Fram, Chron , 22 June 2022",
      "Hamilton County Emergency Management reported several roads impacted by high water just before 7 a.m. \u2014 Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "First responders searched for people trapped by the high water as the region braced for more storms. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "In southeastern Baton Rouge, rescuers were using boats to ferry people from apartment buildings and other structures surrounded by high water late Monday and early Tuesday, CNN affiliate WAFB reported. \u2014 Jason Hanna And Amanda Jackson, CNN , 18 May 2021",
      "Police believe the man was swept away by high water after getting out of a car that ran off the road into a culvert. \u2014 Caroline Linton, CBS News , 29 Mar. 2021",
      "Authorities believe the man's car ran off the road into a culvert at Nashboro Boulevard and Flintlock Court and that the man exited the car and was swept away by high water , police said. \u2014 John Bacon, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2021",
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      "Ruddy personally brokered every deal, and insisted Marlon Brando be cast, come hell or high water . \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 28 Apr. 2022"
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      "noun"
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      "From traditional West African highlife music to modern-day Afrobeat R&B, Adekunle Gold has become one of the top exports during the genre\u2019s globalization. \u2014 Emanuel Okusanya, Variety , 8 June 2022",
      "Afrobeat is a genre with the familiar universal appeal of jazz, soul and Ghanaian highlife , alongside the polyrhythmic drumming foundations of the Yoruba, Ewe, and Ga tribes. \u2014 Christian Adofo, Billboard , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Pat Thomas brought distinct approaches, having honed their craft in big dance highlife bands. \u2014 Christian Adofo, Billboard , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Now, Los Bitchos are interested in mixing some Seventies highlife rhythms into their music. \u2014 Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "Nigerian highlife duo the Cavemen, also featured on V, tweeted that their union with A\u1e63a was a dream realized. \u2014 Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "One common thread of my heritage was listening to my father's cassettes of highlife , a musical genre that combines ancient Ashanti rhythms with the rhythms of Ghana's other tribes, along with Western influences and instrumentation. \u2014 Nadia Owusu, Travel + Leisure , 9 Aug. 2021",
      "His own music increasingly looked to Caribbean and African styles, including compas from Haiti, Congolese soukous from what was then Zaire, rumba from Cuba, highlife from Ghana and makossa from Cameroon. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Aug. 2021",
      "From there Bejuco construct a sound that draws significant inspiration from Fela Kuti and Afrobeat, while nodding to cumbia, dub, hip-hop, highlife , and more. \u2014 Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone , 7 May 2021"
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      "1942, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "But things are starting to change and recent outside forces, such as the pandemic, have kicked the restaurant industry into high gear \u2014with new technologies, digitization, and established and lucrative off-premises business. \u2014 Alex Canter, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "In the second quarter of 2020 alone, as government restrictions kicked into high gear , BED statistics indicate that more than 72,500 food and drink establishments closed, more than three times the quarterly average of about 20,300. \u2014 Tim Carman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
      "The researchers sigh in relief as the dogs jump back into high gear , abandoning the settlement area and heading southeast along rough, uninhabited terrain. \u2014 New York Times , 20 June 2022",
      "As the summer travel season kicks into high gear , airlines have struggled with routine disruptions such as weather, flight cancellations and worker shortages. \u2014 Deon J. Hampton, NBC News , 17 June 2022",
      "The singer and entrepreneur spoke about all of his endeavors before the Backstreet Boys\u2019 extensive summer tour \u2013 which stops at Riverbend on July 26 \u2013 kicked into high gear . \u2014 The Enquirer , 15 June 2022",
      "And that\u2019s exactly what the writers did, kicking things into high gear \u2014 literally \u2014 as Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels hit the road on a larger-than-life tour bus. \u2014 Katcy Stephan, Variety , 13 June 2022",
      "As the pandemic closed, the Great Resignation kicked into high gear . \u2014 Ashley Stahl, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
      "The Jurassic World discourse is kicking back into high gear . \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 7 June 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There\u2019s also a new high mass and low-resonance tonearm designed to keep resonance to a minimum. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
      "As the procession disbanded the throngs crowded into the little church to attend high mass . \u2014 Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
      "San Diego\u2019s colony of Portuguese yesterday, White Sunday, celebrated its Sociedade Espirito Santo fiesta with a colorful procession high mass at the St. Agnes church and a feast. \u2014 Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
      "That would require removing an unimaginable high mass of CO2 from the atmosphere, which in kilograms would be equal to a number with 20 zeroes following it, says Hoening. \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "But simulations for collisions with a high mass ratio are incredibly difficult. \u2014 Steve Nadis, Wired , 23 May 2021",
      "The addition of high mass aluminum casework to the motor improves its damping for a steadier performance. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 9 May 2021",
      "These devices are commonly used to power satellites and can have more than five times higher mass efficiency than chemical systems. \u2014 Popular Science , 27 May 2020",
      "The exceptionally high mass of the two-star system was the first indication that this collision was unprecedented. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 Feb. 2020"
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      "Tri-C, working with them, could contribute a skilled workforce for apprenticeships needed to fill jobs in high tech industries. \u2014 Robert Higgs, cleveland , 22 May 2022",
      "But the Prime Minister\u2019s hand is weak, not least because U.S. investors have been more willing to entertain eye-wateringly high tech valuations. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 13 May 2022",
      "The result is both high tech and high camp, a glittery supernova of stupefying technology, 1970s nostalgia and pop music genius. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 29 May 2022",
      "The new and the high tech are suddenly out of fashion, with the Nasdaq down around 23% this year. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 29 May 2022",
      "Apple\u2019s high tech workers have been pushing for better working conditions, too. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "In 2014, the Supreme Court reinterpreted laws that have been enacted by Congress since 1790 and created a stricter test for receiving patents for innovations in health care and high tech . \u2014 Adam Mossoff, STAT , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "In addition to examining the outcrop with its suite of high tech instruments, the rover also collected several samples from the layered lava rock. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "China reduces non-productive investment and replaces it with productive investment, such as in the high tech industry. \u2014 Mary Hui, Quartz , 16 Feb. 2022"
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      "Josh Brolin and Jason Momoa play trusted members of his father's court, while Rebecca Ferguson co-stars as Paul's high priestess mother, who helps Paul harness his own prophetic abilities. \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 21 Oct. 2021",
      "With Budapest serving as high priestess , the coven grew. \u2014 Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times , 18 Sep. 2021",
      "While there, an Osun high priestess showed Thompson two objects with great spiritual value: a dagger and a fan. \u2014 CNN , 17 June 2021",
      "The legend of Simone de Beauvoir\u2014of how an obedient Catholic schoolgirl cast off her rigid, patriarchal upbringing to become the high priestess of existential feminism\u2014is often narrated as a love story. \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 23 Aug. 2021",
      "Inspired by Gaynor, the high priestess of the discotheque, Gloria\u2019s case and crown sport black spinels, pink and yellow sapphires, and diamonds, making a striking contrast against a dial plate of hematite, onyx and pink opal. \u2014 Harper's BAZAAR , 9 Dec. 2020",
      "Grand high priestess of TikTok Charli D\u2019Amelio has truly shown the strength of her power. \u2014 Natalie Morin, refinery29.com , 24 Nov. 2020",
      "Anna Korakaki, a Rio shooting champion, will take the torch from high priestess Xanthi Georgiou and hand off to Japan\u2019s Mizuki Noguchi, who won the marathon at the Athens Games. \u2014 John Powers, BostonGlobe.com , 22 Feb. 2020"
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      "Those looking to unwind in high style will want to beeline to El Jardin, the hotel\u2019s achingly atmospheric garden, another rarity for a hotel in the city center. \u2014 Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "The Tempur-Pedic breeze Pro + Advanced Cooling Pillow comes in two different heights, high and low, with the high style being ideal for side sleepers. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 23 May 2022",
      "Each year, the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess hosts a party to celebrate the Kentucky Derby in high style . \u2014 Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic , 1 May 2022",
      "The high style of the music video is something else, however, with settings, costume, and decor awash in vibrant, warm pop-out tropical colors, which will make many viewers inside and outside Colombia wanting more. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "Her adults photographed on the streets of New York aren\u2019t active, as are her child subjects, but onlookers, some looking very prosaic indeed while others affect what for them is high style . \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 12 Feb. 2022",
      "Walmart also offers good deals, while Warby Parker will provide high style at a relatively low price. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
      "The over-all effect is of a striving toward a high style that isn\u2019t achieved\u2014and that undercuts the mighty import of the play. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 25 Dec. 2021",
      "The Cotswolds\u2019 brand of pastoral high style has been developing over the past two decades. \u2014 Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ , 12 Jan. 2022"
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      "The state\u2019s high court overturned a unanimous 11th District Court of Appeals decision upholding the 28-year sentence and reinstated the original 22-year sentence. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 7 June 2022",
      "But in no state is the issue more immediate than Iowa, where Republicans are calling for a state high court with new, conservative justices to reverse a decision made just four years ago. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 May 2022",
      "The state\u2019s high court has not said whether the state constitution protects the right. \u2014 David Eggert, chicagotribune.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "In the case involving U.S. congressional districts, Republican members of Congress from Wisconsin had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block that state high court \u2019s ruling that would adopt the map proposed by Mr. Evers. \u2014 Jess Bravin, wsj.com , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "But the state\u2019s high court refused to block Fagundes\u2019 murder prosecution of Chelsea Becker, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time of her stillbirth in September 2019. \u2014 Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "After Democrats sued, the state\u2019s high court selected a map that likely will elect at least six Democrats. \u2014 Mark Sherman, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "In late January, the girls petitioned the state\u2019s high court , challenging the restrictions. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Feb. 2022"
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      "The cities\u2019 differences were in high relief at high school graduation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Sep. 2021",
      "Misty\u2019s willingness to cross boundaries, not just to menace but to endanger, puts into high relief the grief of Natalie, another outsider, who is also unstable. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
      "These circumstances are cast in high relief when a single event \u2014 like Ida or Henri or a summer downpour \u2014 reveals just how fragile a system really is. \u2014 Diana Budds, Curbed , 2 Sep. 2021",
      "But, in one of the most striking photographs, three fleeing figures\u2014two women and a man, in high relief against a gray background\u2014do occupy the central space. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "Juxtaposed with Athey, an extremist of an effectively harmless sort, narratives of bloody martyrdom as the path to salvation are thrown into high relief . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 July 2021",
      "The contemporary design and engineering of the movement come alive when positioned in high relief against the Razzle Dazzle pattern, breaking up the monochrome look of previous Freak X models. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 5 May 2021",
      "The most imposing sculpture is a 17th-century metal plaque showing the figure of a royal courtier in high relief . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2021",
      "The optics of having an award expected to be used as a celebration of a life of a Black actor suddenly won by a white one stand out in high relief , but beyond that, the pacing of the whole thing was deeply abrupt. \u2014 Kathryn Vanarendonk And Jackson Mchenry, Vulture , 26 Apr. 2021"
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      "As large-scale projects like LBNF/DUNE have ramped up over the last five years, Congress has increased the DOE\u2019s overall budget for high-energy physics by nearly 30 percent. \u2014 Thomas Lewton, Scientific American , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Other work established links between the geometric program and high-energy physics . \u2014 Rachel Crowell, Scientific American , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "Critical phenomena show up all over the place \u2014 in cosmology, high-energy physics , even biological systems. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "MZMs are their quasiparticle equivalent, illustrating how behaviors of particles seen or suggested in high-energy physics are now turning up in materials governed by quantum laws. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 29 Sep. 2021",
      "Finally, the advent of modern experimental high-energy physics taught us that even the proton and neutron have smaller particles inside of them: quarks and gluons. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2021",
      "Finding out exactly what happens when particles get even cozier is a major goal of high-energy physics . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 17 Sep. 2020",
      "And so, led by genomics researchers\u2014who, like their cousins in high-energy physics , were also used to working on big multidisciplinary collaborative projects\u2014preprint servers like bioRxiv and medRxiv began to be created for biomedical science. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 6 May 2020",
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      "One of the most common of these is the lipid profile, whereby total cholesterol, LDL and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) are reviewed as indicators and even as treatment targets for statin therapy. \u2014 Christos Varounis, Scientific American , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "In addition, trans fat lowers high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or 'good,' cholesterol levels. \u2014 Katie Landeck, USA TODAY , 17 Dec. 2020",
      "The 13,078 patients in this study were being treated with statins and had a high cardiovascular risk, high blood troglycerides and low levels of the good cholesterol known as high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 15 Nov. 2020",
      "The new study found that high levels of high-density lipoprotein , commonly considered the good kind of cholesterol, are 50% inherited, whereas high levels of low-density lipoprotein, the more dangerous kind, are 25% inherited. \u2014 Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS , 17 May 2018",
      "For the past 13 years, Rodriguez, a physician-scientist in the university\u2019s Center for Vascular Biology, has kept her eye on one particular gene in those DNA strands that is integral to the function of high-density lipoproteins (HDL). \u2014 Lori Miller Kase, Discover Magazine , 20 Nov. 2017"
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      "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",
      "As a high school student, Walker had been a standout wrestler at Buchtel High School. \u2014 Jim Mackinnon, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
      "The 90 grads range in age from 18 to 64 and include a high school student, a pastor and a mother and son. \u2014 Mike Householder, ajc , 30 June 2022",
      "Of those surveyed, 28% said transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete in professional and college sports alongside cisgender women and girls, 30% for high school sports and 33% for youth sports. \u2014 Varun Shankar, Baltimore Sun , 24 June 2022",
      "In 2019, a federal judge ruled that Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation violated a transgender high school student\u2019s rights by refusing to allow the student to use the male restrooms, the restrooms consistent with his gender identity. \u2014 Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
      "Six teenagers were involved in a robbery that killed a Weymouth high school student. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
      "During the protest, Ari Funk, 16, a local high school student, raised another concern about guns and gun accessibility: the large number of people who use them to take their own lives. \u2014 Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press , 12 June 2022",
      "Since the law\u2019s passage, the number of girls playing high school sports has increased more than 10-fold, to 3.4 million, according to the Women\u2019s Sports Foundation. \u2014 Rachel Bachman, WSJ , 20 June 2022"
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        "\u2014 Johnathan Winslow",
        "People with an extremely rare condition called \" highly superior autobiographical memory \" have the ability to remember every single event in their lives from a certain date in their childhood onward. If you ask them about an event they can remember the exact date, the weather and what they ate for lunch that day\u2014and they can visualize it as vividly as if it happened yesterday.",
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      "The holiday is filled with gorgeous Scottish vistas and highland balls, but the Flintshire household is a deeply unhappy one. \u2014 Tom Fitzgerald And Lorenzo Marquez, Town & Country , 17 May 2022",
      "The highland patio chat table is crafted from a weather-resistant resin weave that the manufacturer says retains its color for 2,500 UV hours. \u2014 Daria Smith, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 May 2022",
      "The Parker Solar Probe's views aligned with topographical landmarks seen by the Magellan spacecraft, including the Tellus Regio plateau in the northern hemisphere of Venus and a continent-sized highland known as Aphrodite Terra. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "The band\u2019s lineup features three highland bagpipers and traditional marching snare, backed by the most-famous bagpipe band on the planet. \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "At around eight o\u2019clock in the evening on October 28th, Fredy L\u00f3pez Ar\u00e9valo, a journalist in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, pulled up in front of his home in the highland city of San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas. \u2014 Peter Canby, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022",
      "Take a cinematic cruise down the long flat farm roads, cooing at highland cattle and relaxed quarter horses, or stop to collect a local farmer\u2019s bounty in exchange for a few dollars in the honor system jar. \u2014 Kaitlyn Wylde, Vogue , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "These include Birkhall, formerly home to the Queen Mother and since taken over by Prince Charles, and the modest house that Queen Victoria had built for her highland servant, John Brown. \u2014 Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "The scene is announced with the portentous drone of bagpipes, an aural assault generated by a battalion of 30 highland pipers playing in a converted church in Scotland. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Oct. 2021",
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      "The highland town is surrounded by lush countryside in northern Sulawesi, home to the Minahasa people and an amazing diversity of wildlife. \u2014 The Economist , 26 May 2020",
      "Under four miles, the easy trail rings a highland lake that reflects the steep and treeless mountains surrounding it. \u2014 Elaine Glusac, New York Times , 27 Feb. 2020",
      "Maybe their bloodline spirits crossed, perhaps hundreds of years ago across a highland moor, their prey the red grouse. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Mar. 2020",
      "Wearing the trappings of highland Mexican warriors could communicate that the Maya leader had military prowess. \u2014 Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS , 27 Feb. 2020",
      "Now the divide between a wealthier, more European-descended lowland east and a more indigenous, poorer, highland west is once again exposed. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Nov. 2019",
      "Two ancient Christian sites, in the highland towns of Axum and Lalibela, are undergoing restoration. \u2014 The Economist , 7 Nov. 2019",
      "The best choice is colonial or highland bentgrass, but as mentioned above, plant perennial ryegrass with it at about 4 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Sep. 2019",
      "Torres\u2019 support is strongest in Guatemala\u2019s poorer rural and highland areas. \u2014 Ciara Nugent, Time , 11 Aug. 2018"
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      "Lastly, the collection features a slightly shimmering serum, which can act as a primer, a highlighter , and a skincare product thanks to its cocktail of hyaluronic acid, castor oil, and glycerin. \u2014 ELLE , 28 June 2022",
      "McGrath recommends adding her iconically brilliant highlighter to take your glow to the next level. \u2014 Emerald Elitou, Essence , 6 June 2022",
      "This take-along book lets kids use the orange highlighter to spotlight hidden pictures in spooky scenes. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
      "Her face contour is sculptural and stunning, with highlighter emphasizing her cheekbones and deeper shades lining her cheeks and jawline. \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "His signature color palette along with fluorescent greens, sharp blues, and highlighter shades awaken the collection. \u2014 Allyson Portee, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "There's an option for everyone, but the cushy Milky Jelly Cleanser and highlighter -serum hybrid Futuredew are sure to please every complexion. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 26 May 2022",
      "In the age where glass skin rules supreme, a great liquid highlighter is a must-have in any makeup kit. \u2014 Allure , 16 May 2022",
      "Her brows are set with the Patrick Ta Major Brow Lamination Gel, while a Westman Atelier blush stick, Dior highlighter powder, and Armani Beauty eyeshadow offer subtle color. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 11 Apr. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1963, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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      ": the line that marks the limit of the rise of the medium tides of the sea between the spring and neap tides":[],
      ": the line that marks the limit of the soil so affected by the water of a lake or river as to have a nature and vegetation distinct from that of the banks":[],
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        "\u2014 Hamilton Basso"
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        "\u2014 see also guelder rose"
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      "Alaska\u2019s northern woodlands feel uniquely Alaskan, from the dense brush and spindly evergreen trees to the distinctive seasonal scents of labrador tea, wild rose and highbush cranberry . \u2014 Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2021",
      "Perhaps the best native viburnums for hedging are the arrowwood (viburnum dentatum), which can grow 6 to 10 feet tall and wide, and the highbush cranberry (Viburnum opulus var. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 Aug. 2021",
      "Along with hunting, which is the primary contributor to bear mortality in Minnesota, statewide failures of dogwood, hazelnut, highbush cranberry , acorns and other berries in 1995 and 2001 contributed to the precipitous decline. \u2014 Star Tribune , 28 Jan. 2021"
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      "1805, in the meaning defined above":""
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        "their trial began in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh",
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        "\u2014 J. F. Dobie"
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      ": highlight sense 1a":[]
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      "1894, in the meaning defined above":""
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