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"She gave each of her grandchildren a Bible .",
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"The book has been translated into 15 languages and is regarded by many across the world as a bible of ecological principles. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"Neither Dylann Roof, who pled guilty to massacring nine people at a Charleston bible study, nor James Fields, who was convicted of killing a Charlottesville demonstrator with his car, were sentenced with the terrorism enhancement. \u2014 Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Reznikoff has handled several auctions of former first lady items, including a bible of Mary Todd Lincoln's, which sold for $90,000, and accessories that belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy, including a pair of white gloves that fetched $2,400. \u2014 Kate Bennett, CNN , 13 Jan. 2022",
"For nearly seven decades, Finley\u2019s publication remained the bible of New York Fashion Week. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 8 Mar. 2022",
"To me Manu Chao has always represented hope, his lyrics were like a bible to me growing up. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Aspiras and Tanno spent months building a bible to guide their looks that referenced every shade, color and hairstyle for every single scene of the movie. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 26 Nov. 2021",
"Luckily, photographs of Tammy were easy to acquire from the archives as well as her friends and family, a collection Travers studiously turned into a design bible . \u2014 Tomris Laffly, Vulture , 28 Sep. 2021",
"My personal bible on the topic is The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins. \u2014 Michael Adler, Forbes , 18 June 2021"
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"\u2014 Susan Campbell , Hartford Courant , 18 Dec. 2001"
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"The old-style Bible-bashers were street-corner evangelists who bawled all Hell out of luckless sinners for the greater glory of the Lord.",
"\u2014 Douglas Fairey , Weekend , 7\u201313 Feb. 1968",
"\u2026 the activities of opium-smugglers and bible-bashers in the early nineteenth century provide some wryly amusing material of which the author makes the most.",
"\u2014 Times Literary Supplement , 26 Jan. 1967"
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"Implementing issue 24, which voters approved resoundingly in November, that adds another layer of oversight to police and bib obviously grasps the gravity of the moment for Cleveland police. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The film cuts to the right-centrist soon-to-be president Val\u00e9ry Giscard d\u2019Estaing careening clownishly on skis, in a race bib . \u2014 Rachel Kushner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"The packet contains your bib , a shirt, a rainforest worth of coupons/advertising and sundry other items. \u2014 Channing King, The Indianapolis Star , 5 May 2022",
"Kathrine Switzer, who was the first official woman entrant in the Boston Marathon 50 years ago, wears the same bib number and displays her medal after finishing the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday, April 17, 2017, in Boston. \u2014 CBS News , 11 June 2022",
"All participants receive a colorful T-shirt, a finisher's medal, custom bib number, candy packet and race photos. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 25 May 2022",
"Every participant in the event will receive a race t-shirt and bib , the organization says, and will provide training workouts and guides as well. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Convene government agencies, nonprofits, businesses, and others in the private sector to address the social problems and the lack of opportunities that underlie crime, but bib and prior Jones are kind of re-imagining this job. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 8 Apr. 2022",
"All participants will receive a race T-shirt, race bib and a superhero medal. \u2014 Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The other half: In the four corners of his race bib , Meb had hand-scrawled the names of the previous year\u2019s four bombing victims. \u2014 Amby Burfoot, Outside Online , 7 Oct. 2021"
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"practically every horizontal surface in the Victorian parlor was blanketed with fussy little bibelots",
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"The painting then remained in the artist\u2019s possession and out of public sight until it was bought, in 1927, as a chic bibelot for a swanky members-only social club in London. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"Well, nobody ever brought in any bibelot on Dominique. \u2014 William Middleton, Town & Country , 7 Mar. 2018",
"Inside there is a small desk with a computer; a bookshelf is adorned with bibelots and certificates of appreciation with her name in fancy script. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2018",
"Oh, if only Trump had a crystal ball among those Bedminster bibelots ! \u2014 Lynn Yaeger, Vogue , 3 Sep. 2017"
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"\u2014 Debra Samuels"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The menu included bibimbap , dumplings and sous-vide beef ribs. \u2014 Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post , 22 May 2022",
"There\u2019s the office caterer turned lunch spot Rootastes and the fast-casual Korean kitchen Perillas, which already sells bibimbap in Somerville\u2019s Bow Market and Allston-Brighton. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"There\u2019s Korean bibimbap , bowls of warm white rice topped with assorted fresh, marinated and sauteed vegetables with meat. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Then there is Mandoo Bar in Koreatown on 32nd Street, where Dixon likes bibimbap with an egg. \u2014 Jessica Mathews, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Ki Kim has scattered winter truffles over bibimbap and reconceived beef galbi using beets at Kinn, his new K-town tasting-menu restaurant. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Learn how to prepare bulgogi, a Korean barbecue, rice cake soup and dumplings, kimchi pancakes and jjigae, a Korean stew, fried noodles, a spicy rice cake or bibimbap , a traditional dish of rice with vegetables and chili paste. \u2014 Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Selections have included shrimp and grits, lasagna, eggplant Parmesan, risotto, peanut butter noodles and bibimbap , a Korean rice dish which can include meat and vegetables. \u2014 Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Other menu items include Korean-style chicken wings, bibimbap and ramen. \u2014 Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer , 21 Dec. 2021"
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"She gave each of her grandchildren a Bible .",
"The book is famous among foodies\u2014it's the gourmet's bible .",
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"The book has been translated into 15 languages and is regarded by many across the world as a bible of ecological principles. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"Neither Dylann Roof, who pled guilty to massacring nine people at a Charleston bible study, nor James Fields, who was convicted of killing a Charlottesville demonstrator with his car, were sentenced with the terrorism enhancement. \u2014 Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Reznikoff has handled several auctions of former first lady items, including a bible of Mary Todd Lincoln's, which sold for $90,000, and accessories that belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy, including a pair of white gloves that fetched $2,400. \u2014 Kate Bennett, CNN , 13 Jan. 2022",
"For nearly seven decades, Finley\u2019s publication remained the bible of New York Fashion Week. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 8 Mar. 2022",
"To me Manu Chao has always represented hope, his lyrics were like a bible to me growing up. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Aspiras and Tanno spent months building a bible to guide their looks that referenced every shade, color and hairstyle for every single scene of the movie. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 26 Nov. 2021",
"Luckily, photographs of Tammy were easy to acquire from the archives as well as her friends and family, a collection Travers studiously turned into a design bible . \u2014 Tomris Laffly, Vulture , 28 Sep. 2021",
"My personal bible on the topic is The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins. \u2014 Michael Adler, Forbes , 18 June 2021"
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"special drying cloths that are so bibulous that they can absorb 10 times their weight in water",
"a campaign to make the bibulous fraternity brother a collegiate archetype of the past",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Aside from his bibulous peculiarities, Old Roy is generous, brave, courteous and a keen lover of fun. \u2014 John Maccormack, San Antonio Express-News , 20 Jan. 2018",
"But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU\u2019s bibulous president",
"Aside from his bibulous peculiarities, Old Roy is generous, brave, courteous and a keen lover of fun. \u2014 John Maccormack, San Antonio Express-News , 20 Jan. 2018",
"Old-school voters expecting him to reinstate the fading habit of the long and bibulous lunch may have to wait. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 9 May 2017"
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"The film revolves around the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene who has withdrawn from the world since the death of Jesus. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 26 Apr. 2022",
"They were named for the biblical figure Joshua by members of a band of Mormons traveling through the Cajon Pass back to Utah in 1857. \u2014 Louis Sahag\u00fanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Arabs recognize it from Hajar, the Arabic-language pronunciation of the name of that biblical figure. \u2014 Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com , 22 Sep. 2021",
"The team is unsure whether a connection between the writing and the biblical figure exists but says this is the first time the name has been recorded outside of the text. \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 July 2021",
"During an Easter Sunday visit to the Church of God of East Flatbush, Mr. Adams cited a biblical passage that describes a test of courage under duress. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2021",
"In the biblical passage Leviticus 23:24-25, God tells Moses that the people of Israel should observe the first day of the seventh month as a day of rest and mark it with the blast of horns. \u2014 Erin Blakemore, National Geographic , 18 Sep. 2020",
"The compound also is the holiest site for Jews, who call it the Temple Mount and revere it as the home of the biblical Temples. \u2014 Josef Federman, ajc , 29 May 2022",
"The process of harvesting fruits and vegetables that otherwise would go to waste, known as gleaning, is a practice that dates back to biblical times. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"\u2014 Charles Starmer-Smith, Daily Telegraph (London) , 24 July 2010"
"for bibliophiles , no electronic device could possibly give the tactile pleasure of a beautifully bound book",
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"Ignace\u2019s son \u2014 and de Waal\u2019s great-grandfather \u2014 Viktor, who inherited the family business and the Palais Ephrussi, was more of a bibliophile . \u2014 New York Times , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Any young bibliophile can soon enjoy multiple opportunities \u2014 all of them outdoors and free \u2014 to dive deeply into the world of books, and not just by investigating what\u2019s between their covers. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Established in 1825 and located near the Boston Common, this bibliophile \u2019s haven has three floors packed with books. \u2014 Olivia Hosken, Town & Country , 30 July 2021",
"Tito is a mercurial bibliophile given to bold claims. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 28 May 2021",
"Flora Sassoon, Aziza\u2019s daughter, became the matriarch of the most pious branch of the family in Britain, and her son, noted London bibliophile David Solomon Sassoon, expanded its collection of Jewish objects and manuscripts. \u2014 J.s. Marcus, WSJ , 11 Dec. 2020",
"But in Sittenfeld\u2019s telling, the former first lady\u2014or someone quite like her\u2014was a shy but sharp bibliophile with seething guilt and compelling self-doubt. \u2014 The New Yorker , 1 Dec. 2020",
"Sure, the thought of getting rid of books sickens most bibliophiles . \u2014 Michael Ansaldo, PCWorld , 20 Apr. 2020",
"Throughout the day, the two lifelong bibliophiles keep the space tidy, input new books and organize returns. \u2014 Houston Chronicle , 16 Apr. 2020"
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"So Toynbee gave up his omnivorous bibliophagy and adopted a new literary diet: He would take up only the works he needed to know in order to write his own books.",
"\u2014 Michael Dirda , Washington Post , 14 May 2000",
"A busy autodidact, he failed to establish an educational program for his son apart from the schoolroom, effectively leaving Tom to indulge his bibliophagy .",
"\u2014 Robert E. Sullivan , Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power , 2009"
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"definitions":{
": the application of statistical methods to the study of bibliographic data":[
"How many publishing scientists know anything at all about citation networks \u2026 bibliometrics , or even basic information retrieval?",
"\u2014 Donald A. Windsor , Chemical & Engineering News , 18 Nov. 1974",
"Two of the primary concerns of information scientists have been information retrieval and bibliometrics .",
"\u2014 Fred Lerner , The Story of Libraries , (1945) 1998",
"\u2026 growing scientific opportunities confront governments with increasingly tough choices of where to focus support. Bibliometrics appears to provide a powerful management tool to help make such decisions.",
"\u2014 Lee Elliot Major, The Guardian (London) , 16 June 1998"
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"\u2014 Kirkus Reviews , 1 Mar. 2006",
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"In all seriousness, the result of Jurassic World: Dominion is a franchise entry that feels less like Spielberg and the most like Crichton\u2019s bibliography , a grab-bag of elements from The Andromeda Strain, Westworld, Congo, Prey and Jurassic Park. \u2014 Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"The paper must have a clear argument and use both primary and secondary sources, Chicago Style footnotes and a bibliography with primary sources listed separately from secondary sources. \u2014 Adam Sabes, Fox News , 20 Feb. 2022",
"However, although there is a bibliography at the end of the book, Fiennes seldom cites the sources for his pronouncements about Shackleton, so there is no way to judge the veracity of his claims and we are left to take his perspective at face value. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Over the summer, Pachner worked on creating a 50-page bibliography of primary and secondary sources relating to this semester's Milwaukee history moment \u2014 the first polar bear to be born in captivity who survived to maturity in North America. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Nov. 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021"
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"The book includes a lengthy bibliography .",
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"In all seriousness, the result of Jurassic World: Dominion is a franchise entry that feels less like Spielberg and the most like Crichton\u2019s bibliography , a grab-bag of elements from The Andromeda Strain, Westworld, Congo, Prey and Jurassic Park. \u2014 Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"The paper must have a clear argument and use both primary and secondary sources, Chicago Style footnotes and a bibliography with primary sources listed separately from secondary sources. \u2014 Adam Sabes, Fox News , 20 Feb. 2022",
"However, although there is a bibliography at the end of the book, Fiennes seldom cites the sources for his pronouncements about Shackleton, so there is no way to judge the veracity of his claims and we are left to take his perspective at face value. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Over the summer, Pachner worked on creating a 50-page bibliography of primary and secondary sources relating to this semester's Milwaukee history moment \u2014 the first polar bear to be born in captivity who survived to maturity in North America. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Nov. 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021"
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": one of a class of biblical picture books that depicted important scriptural events and were used in medieval and somewhat later times as a means of instructing large numbers of people in the Christian faith":[]
"One of the most macabre practices featured in The Madman\u2019s Library is anthropodermic bibliopegy , or the art of binding books in human skin. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 Apr. 2021"
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"ultimately from Greek bibli- + p\u0113gnynai to fasten together \u2014 more at pact":""
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": a necklace with a broad front section that covers part of the chest":[
"\u2026 immense bib necklaces encrusted with precious stones.",
"\u2014 Carolyn Purden , Toronto Star , 27 Feb. 1988",
"This dramatic piece of jewelry consisted of multi-strands of pearls overlaying a bib necklace of rhinestones.",
"\u2014 Mary Tomer , Mrs. O: The Face of Fashion Democracy , 2009",
"MARNI is known for its inventive, statement-making jewelry, and this silk hand-embroidered bib necklace with beading \u2026 is no exception.",
"\u2014 Chelsea Zalopany , New York Times , 28 Nov. 2010"
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"Neither personal nor grounded in immediate circumstance, his was the more sweeping and fundamental distrust with which a bibliocentric society views one grounded in oral practice \u2026",
"\u2014 Bruce Lincoln , Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship , 1999",
"Although the bibliocentric nature of the volume is not entirely unexpected given the subject matter, a more conscientious push into the mainstream of historiographic research \u2026 would have been welcome.",
"\u2014 Vadim Jigoulov , Journal of the American Oriental Society , 1 Apr. 2007",
"Science journals and reports thrive in an electronic environment. But for bibliocentric disciplines\u2014the humanities and the narrative-driven social sciences\u2014a different calculus applies. Here the book remains the real coin of the academy's imaginary realm.",
"\u2014 William P. Germano , Getting It Published , 2008"
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"A bibliocentric regard for sacred texts and the irresistibleness of secular appeal inhabit Tschernichowsky's declaration of faithfulness, a duality that offered a bridge between Hebrew soul and foreign idyll.",
"\u2014 Joe Lockard , American Indian Quarterly , 1 Jan. 2000",
"Unlike Platonic esoteric thinking, which embraces a form of secrecy that is much more political and is articulated in an environment that did not cultivate a canonic text, i.e., the Greek polis, rabbinic religiosity gravitated around a bibliocentric mentality.",
"Parker points to Andr\u00e1s Riedlmayer, who retired last year from his post as a bibliographer in Islamic art and architecture at Harvard\u2019s Fine Arts Library, as a personal inspiration. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"With Pound\u2019s encouragement, Barnard relocated to New York City in the depths of the Great Depression, finding temporary work as Aldous Huxley\u2019s bibliographer . \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2021",
"By the nineteen-sixties, many of the letters are responses to queries and fan mail, clarifications for curious readers and bibliographers and producers of academic studies. \u2014 Kevin Young, The New Yorker , 2 Dec. 2019",
"Those items made the trip from California to Indiana in 2013 in a 53-foot moving van that also included a cache of Bradbury\u2019s typescripts and other documents donated by his long-time friend and principal bibliographer , Donn Albright. \u2014 Rick Callahan, Indianapolis Star , 16 Apr. 2018",
"Those items made the trip from California to Indiana in 2013 in a 53-foot moving van that also included a cache of Bradbury\u2019s typescripts and other documents donated by his long-time friend and principal bibliographer , Donn Albright. \u2014 Rick Callahan, Indianapolis Star , 16 Apr. 2018",
"Those items made the trip from California to Indiana in 2013 in a 53-foot moving van that also included a cache of Bradbury\u2019s typescripts and other documents donated by his long-time friend and principal bibliographer , Donn Albright. \u2014 Rick Callahan, Indianapolis Star , 16 Apr. 2018",
"Those items made the trip from California to Indiana in 2013 in a 53-foot moving van that also included a cache of Bradbury\u2019s typescripts and other documents donated by his long-time friend and principal bibliographer , Donn Albright. \u2014 Rick Callahan, Indianapolis Star , 16 Apr. 2018",
"Those items made the trip from California to Indiana in 2013 in a 53-foot moving van that also included a cache of Bradbury\u2019s typescripts and other documents donated by his long-time friend and principal bibliographer , Donn Albright. \u2014 Rick Callahan, Indianapolis Star , 16 Apr. 2018"
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"The instructor provided the students with an excellent bibliography on local history.",
"The book includes a lengthy bibliography .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It is illustrated with wonderful photographs and comes replete with bibliography and index. \u2014 Martha Anne Toll, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"In all seriousness, the result of Jurassic World: Dominion is a franchise entry that feels less like Spielberg and the most like Crichton\u2019s bibliography , a grab-bag of elements from The Andromeda Strain, Westworld, Congo, Prey and Jurassic Park. \u2014 Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"The paper must have a clear argument and use both primary and secondary sources, Chicago Style footnotes and a bibliography with primary sources listed separately from secondary sources. \u2014 Adam Sabes, Fox News , 20 Feb. 2022",
"However, although there is a bibliography at the end of the book, Fiennes seldom cites the sources for his pronouncements about Shackleton, so there is no way to judge the veracity of his claims and we are left to take his perspective at face value. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Over the summer, Pachner worked on creating a 50-page bibliography of primary and secondary sources relating to this semester's Milwaukee history moment \u2014 the first polar bear to be born in captivity who survived to maturity in North America. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Nov. 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021",
"But her crowning achievement was her illustrated, annotated, 3,235-entry bibliography on Halley\u2019s comet, replete with citations of books, journals, charts and pamphlets, as well as references in fiction, music, cartoons and paintings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2021"
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"definitions":{
": one of certain scholars who read the lessons in chapel or say grace in hall at some colleges of Oxford University":[]
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"My favorite is No. 14, a wonderfully rich and seductively spicy meat broth poured over noodles and slow-cooked slices of surprisingly tender flank, soft tendon, and bible tripe .",
"\u2014 William Rice , Gourmet , February 2003",
"Not everyone, apparently, cares to be served tendon and bible tripe .",
"\u2014 Scott Joseph , Orlando Sentinel , 27 Feb. 2005"
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"first_known_use":{
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": an aggressively zealous advocate of Christian fundamentalism":[]
": one that has comprehensive knowledge of books and bibliography":[]
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"\u02c8bi-bl\u0113-\u0259g-\u02ccn\u00e4st"
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"French bibliognoste , from biblio- + -gnoste (from Greek gn\u014dst\u0113s one who knows, from gign\u014dskein to know)":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-130840"
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"definitions":{
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One of the most macabre practices featured in The Madman\u2019s Library is anthropodermic bibliopegy , or the art of binding books in human skin. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 Apr. 2021"
],
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"ultimately from Greek bibli- + p\u0113gnynai to fasten together \u2014 more at pact":""
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": a microfilm used especially for photographing pages of books":[]
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"-bl\u0113-\u014d-"
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"noun"
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"\u02c8b\u012b-blist",
"specific variants can be found at senses below",
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"\u02c8bi-blist"
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"A typical God-fearing Bible-pounder who believes that money in the bank is a sign of God's approval.",
"\u2014 Trevanian , Incident at Twenty-Mile , 1999",
"He wants to connect the kind of people that he represents\u2014Evangelical Christians\u2014but not necessarily the image of Evangelical Christians that you may have of some sort of fundamentalist Bible-pounder , those sorts of clich\u00e9s from popular imagination.",
"\u2014 Ron Elving , National Public Radio , 18 Aug. 2008"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin bibliopola bookseller, from Greek bibliop\u014dl\u0113s , from bibli- + p\u014dlein to sell":""
"The trend toward bibliotherapy -- a strategy of seeking books that aid you through difficult times and aspects of your life -- is starting to catch on. \u2014 David G. Allan, CNN , 26 Jan. 2022",
"My first inclination was to run to a local bookstore and engage in some bibliotherapy . \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"Bhat, for instance, points to the practice of bibliotherapy , the use of books to improve one\u2019s mental health. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz India , 29 May 2020",
"Books can also be therapeutic, as Price points out in the chapter on bibliotherapy , which delves into a book prescription program launched in Wales in 2005. \u2014 David Silverberg, Washington Post , 5 Sep. 2019",
"The term bibliotherapy was first coined in 1916 by Samuel Crothers, a Unitarian minister who believed in prescribing books to help people deal with their troubles. \u2014 Charlotte Cowles, The Cut , 12 Apr. 2018",
"More recently, bibliotherapy has been incorporated into medical treatment programs for depression and other psychological disorders, with positive results. \u2014 Charlotte Cowles, The Cut , 12 Apr. 2018",
"Or that can be sought through bibliotherapy : book prescriptions custom-designed with your reading history, dilemmas, and desires in mind. \u2014 Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED , 7 Feb. 2012"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1914, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-204636"
},
"bibliotic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to bibliotics":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6bi-bl\u0113-\u00a6\u00e4-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"from bibliotics , after such pairs as English aesthetics: aesthetic":""
