": the joint between the cannon bone and pastern (as in the horse)":[]
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"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259l"
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"Other residents told Fox 26 that the victim suffered an ankle bite from two of the dogs two months ago. \u2014 Emmett Jones, Fox News , 22 June 2022",
"One was found in Lynnfield this week, and a third was seen hiding in plain sight, at ankle height, in Chestnut Hill, said Patty Neal. \u2014 Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
"Griffin missed the entirety of her junior season with ankle and knee issues and later had to have surgery in January for a disc injury in her back. \u2014 Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant , 22 June 2022",
"Stick to ankle -skimming pants or midi skirts to let the jewelry shine. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"Krahl found the stiffened elbow, knee, hand, and ankle joints were different than the functioning shoulder, hip, and finger joints. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 21 June 2022",
"Woodruff, who was initially sidelined with an ankle issue but is now dealing with Raynaud's Syndrome, is scheduled to make his second minor-league rehab start Thursday at Class A Wisconsin. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
"Briefly: Starter Anthony DeSclafani ( ankle ) joined the team and will travel with the Giants to Atlanta. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 19 June 2022",
"The air was humid and earthy, the ground everywhere an ankle -turning carpet of fallen coconuts. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022"
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"Middle English ancle, ankill, perhaps going back to an unattested Old English outcome of Germanic *ankula- (whence Old Frisian & Middle Dutch ankel \"ankle,\" Old High German anchal ) alongside *ankila- (whence 16th-century Dutch enckel \"ankle,\" Middle Low German enkel, Old High German enchil ) and *ankil\u014dn-, *ankul\u014dn- (whence Old High German anchla, anchala, anchila \"ankle,\" Old Norse \u01ebkkla ), diminutive of a base seen in *ankj\u014dn- (whence Old High German ancha, anca \"limb, nape of the neck,\" Old Norse ekkja \"heel\"), of uncertain origin":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a cross having a loop for its upper vertical arm and serving especially in ancient Egypt as an emblem of life":[]
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"\u02c8\u00e4\u014bk"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After slashing their victims\u2019 throats with blades hidden in matching golden ankh pendants, John and Miriam drink them up and immediately burn the remains in a basement incinerator. \u2014 Rina Nkulu, Vulture , 30 Oct. 2021",
"This incarnation of Death was not a scythe-wielding Grim Reaper but rather a cute goth girl with a spunky attitude and a pretty ankh symbol. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 22 Aug. 2020",
"The ancient Egyptian symbol for life, the ankh \u2014a cross shape with an oval loop\u2014influenced the development of the cross known as the crux ansata, used extensively in Coptic symbolism. \u2014 National Geographic , 19 Apr. 2019",
"In ancient Egypt the ankh was the symbol of both eternal life and a sacred metal, copper. \u2014 Emily Dudding, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 Mar. 2014",
"Badu\u2014an Afrofuturistic artist who uses fictional worlds, technology, and outer space in her videos\u2014was perhaps the most stylistically influential with her larger-than-life head wraps, afro-wigs, face paint, and Egyptian ankh rings. \u2014 Taylor Hosking, The Atlantic , 1 Mar. 2018",
"Holding a sparkling ankh , his cortege paused at Osiris's signature tables where he was cascaded with confetti and honorifics. \u2014 Michael Dumas, AL.com , 7 Feb. 2018",
"While everyone is grabbing the popcorn for the Blac Chyna-Rob Kardashian beef, the real donnybrook was happening Monday on TV One\u2019s News One Now, when host Roland Martin had ankh -right leader Umar Abdullah-Johnson on his morning show. \u2014 Michael Harriot, The Root , 11 July 2017"
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"Egyptian \u02bdn\u1e2b live":""
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"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a yellowish to brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of calcium and iron":[]
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"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bt"
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"German Ankerit , from M. J. Anker \u20201843 Austrian mineralogist":""
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"1825, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a unit of South Africa equal to 7\u00b9/\u2082 imperial gallons (34.10 liters)":[],
": a cask or keg having a capacity of one anker":[]
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"\u02c8a-",
"\u02c8\u00e4\u014bk\u0259r"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Dutch, probably from Medieval Latin ancheria, anceria":""
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"1673, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"type":[
"combining form"
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": crooked : curved":[
"Ancylo stoma"
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"ankylo glossia",
"ankyl urethria"
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": ankylosis":[
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"New Latin, from Greek ankyl-, ankylo- , from ankylos ; akin to Greek ankos glen":""
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"geographical name"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a young child":[
"The only topics of conversation among parents are about the ankle biters and their various extracurricular activities \u2026 and food allergies.",
"\u2014 Deborah Hill Cone"
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": a small, aggressive dog":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cut these ankle biters some slack and don\u2019t roll your eyes. \u2014 Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2018"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun"
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"first_known_use":{
"1837, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an elephant goad used in India having a sharp spike and hook and resembling a short-handled boat hook":[]
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"\u02c8\u0259\u014bk\u0259sh",
"\u02c8a\u014bk\u0259s"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi a\u1e45kus , from Sanskrit a\u1e45ku\u015ba ; akin to Sanskrit a\u1e45ka bend, hook":""
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"1823, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": any of a suborder (Ankylosauria) of herbivorous Cretaceous ornithiscian dinosaurs having a long low-lying thickset body covered dorsally with bony plates":[]
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"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259-l\u014d-\u02ccs\u022fr"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Stegouros elengassen, described this year from bones found in the 72-to-75-million-year-old rock of Chile, was an ankylosaur with a fern-like splash of bones at the end of its tail. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Fossils finds elsewhere revealed the earliest ankylosaur from Africa, a Chinese sauropod and the oldest carnivorous dinosaur to be found in the UK. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 29 Dec. 2021",
"However, the jawbones confirmed that the skeleton did in fact belong to an ankylosaur , New Scientist reports. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Ankylosaurus magniventris is an ankylosaur \u2014a suborder of four-legged, armored, and mostly herbivorous dinosaurs\u2014but not all ankylosaurs were Ankylosaurus. \u2014 Amy Mckeever, National Geographic , 22 Sep. 2020",
"In life, the dinosaur \u2014 a type of ankylosaur \u2014 weighed more than a ton. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 2 June 2020",
"In a separate project, for example, researchers unearthed a new species of ankylosaur , or armored dinosaur, in the Beehive State. \u2014 Fox News , 27 Jan. 2020",
"In related work, New York Institute of Technology paleontologist Jason Bourke found in 2018 that a group of armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs may have had large, convoluted nasal passages filled with blood vessels. \u2014 John Pickrell, National Geographic , 4 Sep. 2019",
"Pentland said that the Winton area, which is now comprised of sheep and cattle farms, was full of long-necked sauropods, carnivorous theropods (including T. rex), ankylosaurs , ornithopods, as well as pterosaurs. \u2014 Fox News , 3 Oct. 2019"
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"borrowed from New Latin ankylosaur-, base of the taxa Ankylosaurus ankylosaurus , Ankylosauridae (from Anykylosaurus + -idae -idae ), and Ankylosauria (from Ankylosaurus + -ia -ia entry 2 )":""
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"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": any of a North American genus ( Ankylosaurus ) of large ankylosaurs having a bony club at the end of the tail":[]
"There\u2019s the tank-like ankylosaurus crushing opponents with its wrecking-ball tail. \u2014 Cody Cassidy, Wired , 9 Apr. 2021",
"The ankylosaurus was not the only prehistoric beast to have an intimidating backside. \u2014 Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times , 16 Jan. 2018",
"And the bat and club were iconic features seen in both ankylosaurus and the glyptodons, which were ancient boulder-sized armadillos. \u2014 Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times , 16 Jan. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from New Latin, from Greek ank\u00fdlos \"bent, crooked, curved\" + -saurus -saurus \u2014 more at angle entry 3":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-185833"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a melanocratic nephelite-basalt containing some feldspar, phenocrysts of olivine, microlites of titanaugite, and from 10 to 15 percent nephelite":[]
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"-\u00e4\u2027\u02cctr\u012bt"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French ankaratrite , from Ankaratra mountains, Madagascar, its locality + French -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1916, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-041817"
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"ankou":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": death personified as a skeleton with a scythe or spear especially in the mythology of Brittany, France":[
"Ankou is the figure in Breton myth who collects spirits of the dead and brings them to hell.",
"\u2014 Miriam Van Scott , Encyclopedia of Hell , 1998",
"\u2014 often used with the Legend has it that whenever a cemetery was started, some poor, unfortunate slob was buried alive to create the ankou . \u2014 The Orlando (Florida) Sentinel , 28 Oct. 1993 \u2026 serpents, demons and omens of death including the ankou . \u2014 David Powell, The Daily Post (Liverpool, England) , 11 Apr. 2005"
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"\u02c8\u00e4\u014b-(\u02cc)k\u00fc"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Breton, going back to Middle & Old Breton ancou , going back to Indo-European *\u1e47k\u0301u- \"death\" (whence Cornish ancou \"death,\" Middle Welsh angheu , Welsh angau , Old Irish \u00e9c ), zero-grade form of *nek\u0301- \"be destroyed, disappear\"":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1869, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-054921"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a melanocratic basaltic rock with a feldspar content greater than picrite and less than basalt and differing from picrite in containing more augite than olivine":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca\u014bk\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4\u02ccm\u012bt"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Ankaramy , Madagascar + French -ite":""
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"1916, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-055307"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": any of a suborder (Ankylosauria) of herbivorous Cretaceous ornithiscian dinosaurs having a long low-lying thickset body covered dorsally with bony plates":[]
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"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259-l\u014d-\u02ccs\u022fr"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Stegouros elengassen, described this year from bones found in the 72-to-75-million-year-old rock of Chile, was an ankylosaur with a fern-like splash of bones at the end of its tail. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Fossils finds elsewhere revealed the earliest ankylosaur from Africa, a Chinese sauropod and the oldest carnivorous dinosaur to be found in the UK. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 29 Dec. 2021",
"However, the jawbones confirmed that the skeleton did in fact belong to an ankylosaur , New Scientist reports. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Ankylosaurus magniventris is an ankylosaur \u2014a suborder of four-legged, armored, and mostly herbivorous dinosaurs\u2014but not all ankylosaurs were Ankylosaurus. \u2014 Amy Mckeever, National Geographic , 22 Sep. 2020",
"In life, the dinosaur \u2014 a type of ankylosaur \u2014 weighed more than a ton. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 2 June 2020",
"In a separate project, for example, researchers unearthed a new species of ankylosaur , or armored dinosaur, in the Beehive State. \u2014 Fox News , 27 Jan. 2020",
"In related work, New York Institute of Technology paleontologist Jason Bourke found in 2018 that a group of armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs may have had large, convoluted nasal passages filled with blood vessels. \u2014 John Pickrell, National Geographic , 4 Sep. 2019",
"Pentland said that the Winton area, which is now comprised of sheep and cattle farms, was full of long-necked sauropods, carnivorous theropods (including T. rex), ankylosaurs , ornithopods, as well as pterosaurs. \u2014 Fox News , 3 Oct. 2019"
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"borrowed from New Latin ankylosaur-, base of the taxa Ankylosaurus ankylosaurus , Ankylosauridae (from Anykylosaurus + -idae -idae ), and Ankylosauria (from Ankylosaurus + -ia -ia entry 2 )":""
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"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of depth sufficient to reach the ankles":[
"a street ankle-deep in mud"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1665, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-110732"
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"Ankole-Watusi":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of an African breed of medium-sized cattle that have very large, long horns and often a small hump on the neck":[
"A trio of Ankole-Watusi cattle made the Denver Zoo their new home Tuesday.",
"ankole + watusi (alluding to Tutsi breeders of the cattle in Rwanda and Burundi)":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1985, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-114715"
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"ankle boot":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a boot reaching only to the ankle":[],
": a protective covering for a horse's ankle":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1824, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-115234"
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"anklet":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": something (such as an ornament) worn around the ankle":[],
": a short sock reaching slightly above the ankle":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-kl\u0259t"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The look was styled with a romantic updo and, my favorite detail, an anklet of pearls. \u2014 Glamour , 3 May 2022",
"The Fenty Beauty founder also accessorized her look with a long gold chain that was placed over her baby bump, stud earrings, plus gold rings on her fingers and an anklet . \u2014 Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Salvatore Ferragamo top, $1,090, ferragamo.com; Miu Miu skirt, $1,100, briefs and belt, price on request, and shoes, $1,020, miumiu.com; Khiry earrings, $325, khiry.com; and Catbird anklet , $184, catbirdnyc.com. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Her earrings and anklet were by Laura Lombardi, while her amber and gold necklace was passed down from her mother. \u2014 Vogue , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Throw on a pair of Balenciaga sunglasses, clasp an intricate Graff bracelet on as an anklet and hit the town. \u2014 WSJ , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The capsule collection\u2014launched earlier this month\u2014includes chic gold hoops in variety of sizes, a sleek body chain, an anklet , medallion necklaces, lockets, lariats and various dainty and chunky rings. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Elevate your warm-weather outfits with gold anklet styles, strappy pastel visions, or wear-everywhere raffia slides. \u2014 Talia Abbas, Glamour , 27 July 2021",
"Gemstones lined each strap on the two-piece aqua swimsuit, which Blige paired with gold earrings, a matching anklet and a messy bun. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 28 July 2021"
"Here's What Experts Say See, Ann has a condition called ankylosing spondylitis, which is an inflammatory form of arthritis. \u2014 Maggie O'neill, Health.com , 14 Oct. 2019",
"For the past 10 years, Dripps had struggled with spinal deterioration and had a dual diagnosis of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and ankylosing spondylitis. \u2014 Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News , 10 July 2018",
"There is no cure for ankylosing spondylitis, but therapy and medication can alleviate some of its symptoms. \u2014 Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker , 7 May 2018",
"Hannah Gaber, USA TODAY Corrections & clarifications: A previous version of this story misidentified which Try Guys member has ankylosing spondylitis and the purpose of their tour. \u2014 Anika Reed, USA TODAY , 18 June 2019",
"For the past 10 years, Dripps had struggled with spinal deterioration and had a dual diagnosis of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and ankylosing spondylitis. \u2014 Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News , 10 July 2018",
"There is no cure for ankylosing spondylitis, but therapy and medication can alleviate some of its symptoms. \u2014 Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker , 7 May 2018",
"Symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis and irritable bowel syndrome forced Gutierrez to miss the entire 2014 season. \u2014 J.p. Hoornstra, Orange County Register , 5 June 2017",
"Reynolds has been open about overcoming his past struggles with anxiety and depression while dealing with an inflammatory arthritic disease, Ankylosing spondylitis. \u2014 Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com , 22 May 2017"
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"earlier anchylose, back-formation from ancylosis, anchylosis ankylosis":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1771, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-190636"
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"Ankole":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an African breed of long-horned humpless cattle":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Ankole, Nkole former kingdom in southwestern Uganda, where the cattle were bred":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-195354"
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"anklebone":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": talus entry 2 sense 1":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cca\u014b-k\u0259l-\u02c8b\u014dn",
"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259l-\u02ccb\u014dn"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Think ape arm with human hand, ape heelbone adjoining human anklebone . \u2014 Scientific American , 11 Mar. 2021",
"An irregular band of solid red ringed both legs, just above the anklebone . \u2014 Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times , 6 July 2017"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-202638"
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"Ankara":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"city and capital of Turkey in north central Anatolia population 2,559,471":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a\u014b-k\u0259-r\u0259",
"\u02c8\u00e4\u014b-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-095426"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": stiffness or fixation of a joint by disease or surgery":[],
": union of separate bones or hard parts to form a single bone or part":[]
},
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"\u02cca\u014b-ki-\u02c8l\u014d-s\u0259s"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"earlier ancylosis, anchylosis, borrowed from New Latin ancylosis, borrowed from Greek ank\u00fdl\u014dsis \"tongue-tie, stiffening of joints,\" from ankyl\u014d-, variant stem of ankylo\u00fbn \"to crook, bend\" (derivative of ank\u00fdlos \"bent, crooked, curved\") + -sis -sis , angle entry 3":""
