": a device for testing radio frequencies that consists of a vacuum-tube oscillator having in its grid circuit a current-indicating meter which indicates a decrease in current when the oscillator and the circuit to which it is coupled resonate at the same frequency":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105402",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"griddle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a flat stone or metal surface on which food is baked or fried":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Oven Pan is made with the same non-stick ceramic coating as the other pieces of cookware and is designed to be both a stovetop griddle (hello, flapjacks) and an oven-roasting pan. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 22 June 2022",
"The conflagration is also abetted by a corn tortilla (made off-site for the taqueria) dipped in chorizo oil before hitting the griddle . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Powering the griddle was an energy-friendly Jackery solar generator, and a small traditional grill served nearby. \u2014 The Indianapolis Star , 29 May 2022",
"Plus, the griddle was a fun addition for breakfast items, especially bacon. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
"McDonough and Grace disdain the griddle , opting instead for one of Gunselman\u2019s five cast-iron skillets, passed down through McDonough\u2019s brother. \u2014 cleveland , 9 May 2022",
"To make the pancakes: Heat a griddle over medium heat. \u2014 Southern Kitchen, USA TODAY , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Over the phone, Kim recounts memories of watching old ladies at the end of the grocery store checkout line hand-roasting paper-size sheets of gim over a metal griddle , brushing them with sesame oil and then sprinkling them with salt. \u2014 Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
"This popular four-burner model from Royal Gourmet is half grill, and half griddle , offering an impressive total of 584 square inches of cooking space. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 13 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gredil gridiron, from Anglo-French greil, gredile , from Latin craticulum , diminutive of cratis wickerwork \u2014 more at hurdle":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gri-d\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083726",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"griddle cake":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": pancake":[]
},
"examples":[
"buckwheat griddle cakes served with strawberry butter",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It was inspired in part by a large, dinner-plate-size griddle cake I was served at a restaurant called Salt\u2019s Cure in Los Angeles. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Apr. 2021",
"But the majority of O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s recipes are practical and austere\u2014rye bread, griddle cakes , oatmeal soup, roasted chicken. \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Yorker , 6 Mar. 2020",
"The restaurant serves Belgian-style waffles and bacon, griddle cakes and various egg dishes. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 5 Feb. 2020",
"The restaurant serves Belgian-style waffle and bacon, griddle cakes and various egg dishes. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 3 Feb. 2020",
"The national launch of the Chicken McGriddles \u2014 made with griddle cakes and a McChicken patty \u2014 and the McChicken Biscuit could help appease franchise operators. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 28 Jan. 2020",
"The Chicken McGriddles sandwich houses a McChicken between two griddle cakes , while the other option has a warm biscuit with the chicken. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Known for its all-day breakfast, menu items include Belgian-style waffle and bacon, griddle cakes and various egg dishes. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 6 Jan. 2020",
"Meal for two, sans drinks: $55-$85 What to order: Corn and ricotta griddle cakes ($13), pizza, hummus, baby lettuces, fruit crisp dessert ($10) Meat-free options: The menu is all yours. \u2014 Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com , 3 Oct. 2019"
": a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance":[
"Her chief grievance was the sexual harassment by her boss."
],
": suffering , distress":[],
": the formal expression of a grievance : complaint":[
"filed a grievance against her employer"
]
},
"examples":[
"He has a deep sense of grievance against his former employer.",
"She has been nursing a grievance all week.",
"In the petition, the students listed their many grievances against the university administration.",
"Several customers came to the front desk to air their grievances .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That line paved the way for grievance procedures in colleges across the nation. \u2014 Tara Adhikari, The Christian Science Monitor , 20 June 2022",
"The former President has been sowing white- grievance politics and lies about election corruption from Pennsylvania to Wyoming, setting the scene for a potential constitutional crisis. \u2014 The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
"Posters explaining the grievance procedures were available only in English, and many of the plant\u2019s 624 employees are Spanish-speaking. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Vance acknowledged the risk but countered that a healthy nationalism was an antidote to right-wing grievance politics. \u2014 Simon Van Zuylen-wood, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Vance acknowledged the risk but countered that a healthy nationalism was an antidote to right-wing grievance politics. \u2014 Simon Van Zuylen-wood, Washington Post , 4 Jan. 2022",
"The deal also includes new requirements for working and living conditions and a new set of grievance procedures. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 5 Oct. 2021",
"There is no magic formula for undoing anger and grievance . \u2014 Michael Kimmage, The New Republic , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Richards filed a grievance and an arbitrator found she\u2019d been terminated without just cause. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 Dec. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see grieve":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0113-v\u0259ns",
"\u02c8gr\u0113-v\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grievance injustice , injury , wrong , grievance mean an act that inflicts undeserved hurt. injustice applies to any act that involves unfairness to another or violation of one's rights. the injustices suffered by the lower classes injury applies in law specifically to an injustice for which one may sue to recover compensation. libel constitutes a legal injury wrong applies also in law to any act punishable according to the criminal code; it may apply more generally to any flagrant injustice. determined to right society's wrongs grievance applies to a circumstance or condition that constitutes an injustice to the sufferer and gives just ground for complaint. a list of employee grievances",
"synonyms":[
"down",
"grudge",
"resentment",
"score"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083333",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"grim":{
"antonyms":[
"benign",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"mild",
"nonintimidating",
"tender"
],
"definitions":{
": fierce in disposition or action : savage":[
"grim wolves"
],
": ghastly, repellent, or sinister in character":[
"a grim tale"
],
": somber , gloomy":[
"grim news of the disaster"
],
": stern or forbidding in action or appearance":[
"a grim taskmaster"
],
": unflinching , unyielding":[
"grim determination"
]
},
"examples":[
"Hikers made a grim discovery when they came across a dead body in the woods.",
"The accident serves as a grim reminder of the dangers of drinking and driving.",
"The prognosis is grim \u2014doctors do not expect her to live longer than six months.",
"He paints a grim picture of the prospects for peace.",
"His face looked grim , and we knew his news wouldn't be good.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Brutalism began to be criticized for seeming too severe, grim , and abstract, while brutalist structures fell into disrepair as dirty, graffitied eyesores. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 13 June 2022",
"The soil collection Saturday was a grim and solemn memorial for members of the Black community and others in Utah who say Coleman\u2019s and Harvey\u2019s lives and deaths have never been properly recognized. \u2014 Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"But the drama, based on the 2009 Philipp Meyer novel about a murder in a Pennsylvania steel town, was relentlessly grim and lacking in urgency. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"The experience of many North African and Middle Eastern immigrants here has been grim . \u2014 Rick Noack And Sandra Mehl, Anchorage Daily News , 13 May 2022",
"The experience of many North African and Middle Eastern immigrants here has been grim . \u2014 Sandra Mehl, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"The conditions were grim , as illnesses often run through the units. \u2014 Phil Mccausland, NBC News , 6 May 2022",
"With no end in sight to Chinese President Xi Jinping's zero-Covid strategy, the outlook for Adidas' business in China \u2014 which accounted for about 20% of the company's sales last year \u2014 is grim . \u2014 Anna Cooban, CNN , 6 May 2022",
"The Soviet-style estate where the Vilchynskas are staying in Warsaw may be grim , but their apartment reverberates with their hearty laughter. \u2014 Amandas Ong, ELLE , 3 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, \"fierce, savage, terrifying, repellent, violent, severe,\" going back to Old English grimm \"fierce, savage, harsh, severe,\" going back to Germanic *grimma-, from earlier *gremma- (whence also Old Frisian grim, grem \"fierce, severe, frightening,\" Old Saxon grimm \"fierce, hostile, severe,\" Old High German grim, grimmi, Old Norse grimmr ), adjective derivative from the base of *grimman- \"to rage\" (whence Old English & Old Saxon grimman \"to rage,\" Old High German grimmen ), probably going back to *ghrem-ne-, nasal present from an Indo-European verbal base *ghrem- \"roar, rage,\" whence Avestan gram\u0259\u1e47t- \"raging,\" Greek chremet\u00edzein \"to neigh, whinny,\" chr\u00e9misan \"(they) neighed\"; with zero-grade ablaut Old Church Slavic v\u016dzgr\u012dm\u011b \"thundered, roared,\" Lithuanian grumi\u00f9, grum\u0117\u0301ti \"to roar, thunder\"; with o-grade ablaut Germanic *gram- (whence Old English, Old Saxon & Old High German gram \"angry, hostile, fierce,\" Old Norse gramr \"anger,\" Old English gremman, gremian \"to anger, enrage,\" Old High German gremmen, Old Norse gremja, Gothic gramjan ), Old Church Slavic grom\u016d \"thunder,\" Greek chr\u00f3mos, chr\u00f3m\u0113 (Hesychius) \"kind of noise, snorting, neighing,\" chr\u00f3mados \"grinding of jaws\" (cf. chromis )":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grim"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"austere",
"dour",
"fierce",
"flinty",
"forbidding",
"gruff",
"intimidating",
"lowering",
"louring",
"rough",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stark",
"steely",
"stern",
"ungentle"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112256",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"grinch":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a grumpy person who spoils the pleasure of others : killjoy , spoilsport":[
"It was a Christmas only a grinch could appreciate.",
"\u2014 Sky & Telescope",
"In between indulgent wine collectors who ignore price tags and frugal wine grinches who live by them are those wine lovers who know quality when they taste it, but refuse to spend a small fortune to get it.",
"\u2014 Robyn Bullard",
"\u2026 the sheer delight of watching Britain's Got Talent judge and notorious grinch Simon Cowell grow a heart right before the audience's eyes.",
"\u2014 Michelle Tauber et al."
]
},
"examples":[
"Only a grinch would complain about the movie's silly plot.",
"accused the mayor of being a grinch after he cancelled the city's annual holiday parade for budgetary reasons",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Which brings us to this Christmas and a pernicious grinch named COVID who has teamed up with the Grim Reaper to batter us with waves of record-setting deaths, a resurgence of jobless claims and another lockdown here and in much of California. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Dec. 2020",
"Does the sentimentality of the golden age Miracle on 34th Street (or its 1994 remake) warm the cockles of a grinch -like heart",
"Consider this my public service announcement one for all the grinches , the recluses, and sufferers of seasonal affective disorder. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 20 Dec. 2019",
"Only California, Hawaii and Nevada are bigger grinches , the study found. \u2014 David Selig, sun-sentinel.com , 10 Dec. 2019",
"These grinches , who formed the Saint Nicholas Society of New York, would change the world with two little poems. \u2014 Daniel Burke, CNN , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Sellers are playing the grinch as 2019 draws to a close. \u2014 Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post , 4 Dec. 2019",
"Christmas at Pemberley Manor features a grinch -like billionaire (William Darcy) who comes up against an event planner (Elizabeth Bennett) who's determined to use his sprawling mansion for a holiday festival. \u2014 Lourdes Avila Uribe, Glamour , 24 Dec. 2018",
"To protect yourself from these grinches , the BBB recommends taking these steps: Grab your gift card from the back of the rack. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 7 Dec. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1966, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from the Grinch , character in the children's story How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957) by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grinch"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"drag",
"killjoy",
"party pooper",
"spoilsport",
"wet blanket"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114406",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"grind":{
"antonyms":[
"creak",
"jar",
"rasp",
"scrape",
"scratch"
],
"definitions":{
": an act of grinding":[],
": an action of rotating the hips in an erotic manner (as in a dance or in a burlesque striptease act) \u2014 compare bump entry 1 sense 3":[],
": dreary, monotonous, or difficult labor, study, or routine":[
"the dull grind of office work"
],
": one who works or studies excessively":[
"a grind who never goes to parties"
],
": oppress , harass":[
"tyrants who grind their subjects"
],
": the sound of grinding":[],
": to become pulverized, polished, or sharpened by friction":[],
": to move with difficulty or friction especially so as to make a grating noise":[
"gears grinding"
],
": to operate or produce by turning a crank":[
"grind a hand organ"
],
": to perform the operation of grinding":[],
": to press together with a rotating motion":[
"grind the teeth"
],
": to reduce to powder or small fragments by friction (as in a mill or with the teeth)":[
"grind the coffee beans"
],
": to rotate the hips in an erotic manner":[],
": to rub or press harshly":[
"ground the cigarette out"
],
": to weaken or destroy gradually":[
"\u2014 usually used with down poverty ground her spirit down"
],
": to wear down, polish, or sharpen by friction":[
"grind an ax"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The corn is ground into meal.",
"The steel grinds to a sharp edge.",
"She kept grinding the car's gears.",
"He grinds his teeth in his sleep.",
"I could hear the gears grinding .",
"Noun",
"I need a break from the daily grind .",
"the dull grind of office work",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Ask your butcher to grind part chuck with short ribs or brisket and live your most bespoke life. \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
"The sneaky way is to let inflation do its thing having stopped printing new money and watch inflation grind to a halt as no new money drives its vicious circle. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"On a day of fighting that put even territory thought to be securely in Ukrainian hands in play, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, warned that the war could grind on for years. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"The Tigers will let the rookies grind through their struggles at the plate, as long as their defense doesn't waver. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
"If the research proves successful, Rinke said waste managers could collect and grind Styrofoam materials and put them into a liquid solution made with the superworm enzyme. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"In any spot, just to be able to hit the ball the other way and grind at-bats and hit homers and then steal bases. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"San Joaquin Valley air regulators have struggled for nearly 20 years to outlaw the practice of agricultural burning, encouraging farmers instead to grind up forsaken crops in wood chippers and spread them as mulch. \u2014 Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2022",
"This leads to that rise & grind mentality that justifies our dehumanization. \u2014 Courtney Mccluney, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Van Horn wasn't interested in talking about getting away from the grind of playing SEC teams in the regional. \u2014 Bob Holt, Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
"From the daily work grind to navigating parenthood, including unpleasant diaper changing and attempting every trick in the book to calm a crying baby, a new dad has many sleepless nights ahead of him. \u2014 Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health , 24 May 2022",
"This meant that if a trainee had an opportunity that pulled you away from the grind of medical residency, you were seen as abandoning ship. \u2014 Sachin H. Jain, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Lucas Raymond turned down an invitation to play for Sweden, citing a need to recover from the grind of an 82-game NHL season. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2022",
"Big Santa Anita Canyon is known for the string of cottages that line a sylvan creek as well as the historic Sturtevant Camp, which until the fire was open to all who wanted a nearby respite from the urban grind . \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The Governors Awards, an annual event that presents Hollywood luminaries with honorary Oscar statuettes, is a reprieve, of sorts, from the awards season grind . \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Last week in upstate New York, Eric Musselman took his Arkansas team to Niagara Falls for an educational experience and nice break from the basketball grind . \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 24 Mar. 2022",
"While physically, Lillard, who could be seen taking shots at Monday\u2019s practice, appears to be on the mend, Cronin said that the 6-time All-Star is also benefitting mentally from being away from the NBA grind . \u2014 oregonlive , 11 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English grindan ; akin to Latin frendere to crush, grind":"Verb and Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u012bnd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grind Noun work , labor , travail , toil , drudgery , grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force. too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion. farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering. years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body. the grind of the assembly line",
"synonyms":[
"buff",
"file",
"hone",
"rasp",
"rub",
"sand"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114941",
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"grind house":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an often shabby movie theater having continuous showings especially of pornographic or violent films":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1923, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114230",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"grind in":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to lap in (as a valve and valve seat) so that each surface serves as a lap for the other":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122855",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
]
},
"grindability":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": capacity for or resistance to being ground":[
"prepared an index of the grindability of various southern coals"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccgr\u012bnd\u0259\u02c8bil\u0259t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130625",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"grinderman":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one who tends an edge runner in papermaking":[],
": one who tends the grinders in preparing groundwood":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccman",
"-m\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121749",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"grinders":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a machine or device for grinding":[],
": an athlete who succeeds through hard work and determination rather than exceptional skill":[],
": molar":[],
": one that grinds":[],
": submarine entry 2 sense 2":[],
": teeth":[]
},
"examples":[
"ordered a meatball grinder from the beach's concession stand",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The designer\u2019s nice-to-haves include a mug drawer, a fridge drawer for creamer, a coffee grinder and a back-up carafe. \u2014 Jamie Gold, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
"The Zwilling Fresh & Save vacuum pump is a mini handheld vacuum sealer about the size of a pepper grinder . \u2014 Alex Beggs, Bon App\u00e9tit , 4 May 2022",
"It was subsequently found that the driver, a Cleveland Heights woman, 20, was in possession of a grinder used to grind marijuana. \u2014 cleveland , 20 Jan. 2021",
"Place coffee beans into a grinder and turn handle to grind. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 20 May 2022",
"Schoocraft\u2019s overall size and patient half-court offense put Beecher, a nine-time state champion, in a meat grinder en route to a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter. \u2014 Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Nearby, four other employees in a concrete shed manned three briquette machines, crushing husks into the grinder with a tool that resembled a baseball bat. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Millions of unvaccinated children are being sent into a meat grinder this fall thanks to America's anti-vaxxers and the Republican death cult governors intent on preventing school districts from making instruction safer. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 25 Aug. 2021",
"Transfer to a spice grinder or food processor and process to a coarse blend. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u012bn-d\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"Cuban sandwich",
"hero",
"hoagie",
"hoagy",
"Italian sandwich",
"po'boy",
"poor boy",
"sub",
"submarine",
"torpedo"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124328",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"griot":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"So do Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell\u2014and so does Boubacar Traor\u00e9, a Malian griot whose personal influence on Frisell has been substantial. \u2014 Paul Elie, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Fujiie lives and works with Maboudou Sanou, a griot , and his family in a modest home in a community on the outskirts of Ouagadougou. \u2014 Clair Macdougall, Quartz , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Questlove is nothing short of what West Africans call a griot ; a lyricist, musician, keeper and an orator of history. \u2014 Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Those in the crowd on Wednesday night included Davis; the museum's griot , or storyteller, Reggie Jackson; Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley; and Ald. \u2014 La Risa R. Lynch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Kilomba, who is of West African descent, describes her role in the film as that of a griot , a storyteller of the African oral tradition, while an ensemble of Black actors dance and mime, silently acting out the tales. \u2014 New York Times , 8 July 2021",
"Director Sheri Williams Pannell also served as onstage griot (and occasional sixth singer). \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 June 2021",
"These scenes are framed by interjections from a griot , or traditional Black storyteller. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Both the playwright and the actor have a touch of griot in them. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 Mar. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1820, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0113-\u02cc\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104329",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"grip":{
"antonyms":[
"carry-on",
"carryall",
"handbag",
"holdall",
"portmanteau",
"suitcase",
"traveling bag",
"wallet"
],
"definitions":{
": a firm tenacious hold typically giving control, mastery, or understanding":[
"has the country in his grip"
],
": a part or device for gripping":[],
": a stage worker who handles scenery, properties, or lights : stagehand":[],
": a strong or tenacious grasp":[
"had a good grip on the tennis racket"
],
": a technician on a motion-picture or television set who handles and maintains equipment (such as cameras and their dollies and cranes)":[],
": manner or style of gripping":[
"the balanced grip of an expert golfer"
],
": mental grasp":[
"can't seem to get a grip [=gain a good understanding of] on calculus",
"\u2026 I'm curious to see if preteens have a grip on this fairly sophisticated concept.",
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"a golfer with an incorrect grip",
"He has been doing all he can to maintain his grip on the company's finances.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Crypto still seems to grip the imaginations of some congressional policymakers. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"As a bonus, the new outsole also seems to grip the road better. \u2014 Cory Smith, Outside Online , 15 June 2022",
"This may be surprising to some considering how far crypto units have fallen as inflation and recession fears grip the market. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"Until this truth is acknowledged and dealt with collectively as a nation, this theory will sadly continue to grip in the hearts and minds of individuals and incidents like Buffalo will never cease. \u2014 Deidre Montague, Essence , 31 May 2022",
"Grab a medium dumbbell and grip the middle of the weight in both hands. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
"To prep skin, the pro leaned on primer to create the perfect base; one that smoothes fine lines, reduces shine, and helps grip the makeup that follows. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
"But as Badr briefly lowered his hands in an apparent attempt to put his shoes on, one of the officers let loose a police dog, which sunk its teeth into Badr\u2019s arm and continued to grip it for close to a minute, causing Badr to scream in agony. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Bend your left knee and left hip to be able to grip the kettlebell in your right hand. \u2014 Jon-erik Kawamoto, Outside Online , 8 Feb. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Despite the jubilant tone in Chinese state media ahead of Friday\u2019s ceremonies, there are signs that Xi remains uneasy about Beijing\u2019s grip in Hong Kong. \u2014 Christian Shepherd, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"But halfway through that half-century, Hong Kong\u2019s distinctive differences have shrunk as Mr. Xi has tightened Beijing\u2019s grip on the city. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Toretsk, like so many other mining cities across the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, may soon be excised from Kyiv\u2019s grip . \u2014 Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"Putin will want to tighten the grip in his immediate neighbourhood through an alliance of authoritarian regimes. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022",
"The SmallRig grip has a clever design that holds the remote. \u2014 Jim Fisher, PCMAG , 29 June 2022",
"The decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade has raised new questions about Chief Justice John Roberts' grip on the Supreme Court, and whether his fellow conservatives are speeding past his incrementalist approach. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022",
"When Sega pulled the plug on the Saturn in 1998 and announced new hardware, Stolar worked feverishly to create a marketing campaign that aimed to stymie Sony\u2019s grip on American gamers. \u2014 Matt Gardner, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Unlike more traditional media outlets, livestreams are ephemeral and potentially harder to monitor\u2014and therefore more worrying for a state that likes to maintain an iron grip over the political narrative. \u2014 Jane Li, Quartz , 24 June 2022"
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"All of the workers were griping about the new regulations.",
"The students griped that they had too much homework.",
"Noun",
"I would rather not listen to gripes about your latest disasters in the dating game.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Gore Vidal used to gripe that every morning a tourist boat would pass below his cliff-hugging villa on the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Salerno\u2014a vertiginous one thousand feet below, to be exact. \u2014 Christopher Bollen, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
"Many workers were quick to gripe in the comment section underneath the post announcing the change, according to several employees who viewed the post. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"While some Northeast Ohio residents may gripe about shoveling out from a big snowstorm, skiers couldn\u2019t be more ecstatic. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Indeed, customers around the Louisville area have taken to social media over the past few months to gripe about bills that are 30% to 100% higher than those in previous months. \u2014 Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Unions representing health care workers gripe that far too many hospitals failed to fill staff vacancies or to retain pandemic-weary staff. \u2014 Philip Marcelo, Anne D'innocenzio, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021",
"Privately, some may even gripe that Manchin might as well be a Republican. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 20 Dec. 2021",
"In its comments section, followers do occasionally gripe and grumble about Mr. Todisco\u2019s picks. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 9 Aug. 2021",
"In Season 8, one contestant, Lex, used his time to gripe about Rob, one of the finalists. \u2014 Sallie Tisdale, The Atlantic , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But that was my first and last real gripe about the motorcycle. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"My one major gripe is that this movie has left me low-key obsessed with wanting an emotional support cat robot like Sox, the feline automaton companion assigned to Buzz by Star Command to ease his troubled mind after a series of setbacks. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"Despite the lack of any legitimate gripe , Lakeway sided with the golfers. \u2014 Erica Smith Ewing, National Review , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Because for a few years, the biggest gripe about foldables was their $2,000-ish price. \u2014 Ben Sin, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The biggest gripe one could have with the offense was third down (3 for 10) and those numbers can be misleading consider two included aforementioned sacks and another was followed by a conversion on fourth down. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 20 Sep. 2021",
"To be sure, Young\u2019s primary gripe is the fact that Boudin did not prosecute one of the alleged assailants in his son\u2019s killing in adult court, which could have yielded a longer sentence. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 May 2022",
"Those delicacies had disappeared from their homes, appearing only on Facebook, where millions of Cubans had started selling things and engaging in once-unthinkable gripe -fests, and Yanira was now staring at a post. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"The Law & Order star also revealed his top gym gripe : bad equipment etiquette. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 18 May 2022"
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": taking a powerful hold upon one's interest or feelings":[
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"\u2014 Mark Coleman"
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"1896, in the meaning defined above":""
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": gripped , caught , apprehended":[
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"\u2014 John Buchan"
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": a monkey ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) of the upper Nile and Abyssinia having the back dull olive green and the lower parts white":[]
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"Verb",
"He is always grizzling about the weather.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Nearly every inhabitant of an Arctic scientific-research station has evacuated in advance of encroaching danger, but grizzle -bearded Augustine, who is gravely ill, has stayed behind. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 23 Dec. 2020",
"Aside from his charismatic grizzle , the role was educational. \u2014 Sopan Deb And Katie Rogers, New York Times , 22 Aug. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Grizzlies are typically brown, though their fur can appear to be white-tipped, or grizzled , lending them their name. \u2014 Fox News , 10 Mar. 2020",
"Given that the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt - both grizzled and a bit beaten up but all the more handsome for it - that's saying a lot. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, chicagotribune.com , 25 Aug. 2019",
"That, for me, is praise for a work of art that\u2019s as close to puppy love as this grizzled , jaded old WASP will ever feel. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 24 Aug. 2019",
"Given that the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt \u2014 both grizzled and a bit beaten up but all the more handsome for it \u2014 that\u2019s saying a lot. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 23 Aug. 2019",
"For as long as anyone can remember, the Spurs have been grizzled . \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, ExpressNews.com , 20 June 2019",
"Is Yellowstone big enough for both Roarke and Costner\u2019s grizzled rancher John Dutton",
"And then, after 110 fraught minutes, England switched off for a single second and Mandzukic, that grizzled old warrior, stole in and smashed home the winner. \u2014 Rory Smith, New York Times , 12 July 2018",
"Family groups of sea otters bob in the swells, the lone males, with their grizzled , silver faces, lay back like old men in their recliners, pining away their days. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 13 June 2018"
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"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1740, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
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"He had thinning hair and a grizzled beard.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At once grizzled and robust, Bridges doesn\u2019t really need anybody to play off of, including the strong if slightly adrift Brenneman. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"The Stars\u2019 skaters are a hodgepodge of grizzled veterans and up-and-coming youngsters. \u2014 Carol Schram, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The grizzled and avuncular Admiral Karl L. Schultz, the current Coast Guard Commandant, is legally required to leave his post by June 1. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"But to the grizzled veteran who loved and lost, the one who has been outbid countless times, scrolling through listings becomes work. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Young, tech-savvy adventurers are taking sponsors and funding away from grizzled , old-school explorers who aren\u2019t strong on Facebook and Twitter. \u2014 Devon O\u2019neil, Outside Online , 20 Apr. 2016",
"Baylor, last year\u2019s champions, won with a grizzled starting five and an average team age of 20.8 years. \u2014 Laine Higgins, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But even the most grizzled promoters leave 2021 with some cause for optimism for next year. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Only the remaining coterie of grizzled Beatles fans, surely, would respond. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The animal is a hybrid created by the mating of a grizzly bear and a polar bear \u2014 a pairing scientists found could be happening more often due to climate change. \u2014 Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
"Is it being stalked by a mountain lion or chased by a grizzly bear ",
"Two Idaho men have been sentenced to jail time and banned from hunting for years after pleading guilty to poaching a grizzly bear near Yellowstone National Park. \u2014 CBS News , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Two men have been sentenced to jail time and banned from hunting for years after pleading guilty to poaching a grizzly bear near Yellowstone National Park. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The body of a Montana man, who appears to have died after being attacked by a grizzly bear , has been found by search and rescue teams. \u2014 NBC News , 27 Mar. 2022",
"No details were provided on where he was found or why a grizzly bear was believed responsible for his death. \u2014 Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
"When a wildlife official from anywhere in the American West, Alaska, or Canada has a nuisance grizzly bear and wants to avoid euthanizing it, the GWDC is often near the top of their call list. \u2014 Emma Walker, Outside Online , 9 Oct. 2020",
"The couple enjoyed a date night on top of a glacier and even had an encounter with a grizzly bear in the remote area, which had no cell service or wi-fi. \u2014 Jessica Sager, PEOPLE.com , 21 Apr. 2022"
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"Verb",
"All of the workers were griping about the new regulations.",
"The students griped that they had too much homework.",
"Noun",
"I would rather not listen to gripes about your latest disasters in the dating game.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Gore Vidal used to gripe that every morning a tourist boat would pass below his cliff-hugging villa on the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Salerno\u2014a vertiginous one thousand feet below, to be exact. \u2014 Christopher Bollen, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
"Many workers were quick to gripe in the comment section underneath the post announcing the change, according to several employees who viewed the post. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"While some Northeast Ohio residents may gripe about shoveling out from a big snowstorm, skiers couldn\u2019t be more ecstatic. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Indeed, customers around the Louisville area have taken to social media over the past few months to gripe about bills that are 30% to 100% higher than those in previous months. \u2014 Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Unions representing health care workers gripe that far too many hospitals failed to fill staff vacancies or to retain pandemic-weary staff. \u2014 Philip Marcelo, Anne D'innocenzio, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021",
"Privately, some may even gripe that Manchin might as well be a Republican. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 20 Dec. 2021",
"In its comments section, followers do occasionally gripe and grumble about Mr. Todisco\u2019s picks. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 9 Aug. 2021",
"In Season 8, one contestant, Lex, used his time to gripe about Rob, one of the finalists. \u2014 Sallie Tisdale, The Atlantic , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But that was my first and last real gripe about the motorcycle. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"My one major gripe is that this movie has left me low-key obsessed with wanting an emotional support cat robot like Sox, the feline automaton companion assigned to Buzz by Star Command to ease his troubled mind after a series of setbacks. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"Despite the lack of any legitimate gripe , Lakeway sided with the golfers. \u2014 Erica Smith Ewing, National Review , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Because for a few years, the biggest gripe about foldables was their $2,000-ish price. \u2014 Ben Sin, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The biggest gripe one could have with the offense was third down (3 for 10) and those numbers can be misleading consider two included aforementioned sacks and another was followed by a conversion on fourth down. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 20 Sep. 2021",
"To be sure, Young\u2019s primary gripe is the fact that Boudin did not prosecute one of the alleged assailants in his son\u2019s killing in adult court, which could have yielded a longer sentence. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 May 2022",
"Those delicacies had disappeared from their homes, appearing only on Facebook, where millions of Cubans had started selling things and engaging in once-unthinkable gripe -fests, and Yanira was now staring at a post. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
"The Law & Order star also revealed his top gym gripe : bad equipment etiquette. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 18 May 2022"
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"Middle English, from Old English gr\u012bpan ; akin to Old High German gr\u012bfan to grasp, Lithuanian griebti":"Verb and Noun"
},
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3":"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun"
},
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},
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"noun"
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},
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"gripe entry 2":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143208"
},
"grind on":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
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": to continue for a long time":[
"\u2014 used to describe something unpleasant The war ground on for many more months."
]
},
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144157"
},
"grind down":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
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": to make (something hard) smaller and smoother by gradually rubbing off tiny bits":[
"The old dog's teeth had been ground down by use."
],
": to weaken or destroy (someone or something) gradually":[
"Poverty ground her spirit down .",
"These people have been ground down by years of oppression."
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145329"
},
"grippe":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grip"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And even though Aidan suffers from the grippe every other Tuesday, Zane has never missed a day of school for medical reasons. \u2014 Kevin Fisher-paulson, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 May 2018",
"It was called many names; Catarrh and la grippe and the sweating sickness. \u2014 Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star , 31 Jan. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, seizure":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1776, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150606"
},
"grimace":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain":[
"a grimace of hate and rage"
],
": to distort one's face in an expression usually of pain, disgust, or disapproval":[
"Grimacing slightly, he runs his finger over the back of his heel, where a deep \u2026 fissure has opened inside a callus.",
"\u2014 Chris Ballard",
"My father shifted his weight and grimaced . The sheet slid off his injured leg, the calf swollen, purple as a plum \u2026",
"\u2014 Bernard Cooper"
]
},
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"\u02c8gri-m\u0259s",
"gri-\u02c8m\u0101s"
],
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"face",
"frown",
"lower",
"lour",
"moue",
"mouth",
"mow",
"mug",
"pout",
"scowl",
"snoot"
],
"antonyms":[
"mouth",
"mug"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The patient made a painful grimace as the doctor examined his wound.",
"he made a grimace when he tasted the medicine",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Then there was the stumble on No. 8, and the grimace in obvious pain. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"Bradley would enter the room wearing a grimace more often than a grin, sit behind a microphone and begin by explaining how his team could get better. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
"But show the identical face on a runner crossing the finish line of a race, and the same grimace conveys triumph. \u2014 Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Tiger clearly was in pain, a grimace frozen on his face. \u2014 USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
"In the fourth, a pair of straight rights to the face made Kozin grimace . \u2014 New York Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Yes, that concert was 59 years ago now \u2014 a figure Wolfe relays with a self-deprecating grimace . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The carved channels delineate in negative space the pendulous breasts, somnolent grimace and agitated body. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The appreciative holiday crowd of 3,417 cheered every grunt, every grimace , every snap of the head until Ramirez ended the drama with a barrage of blows early in the 10th to win the WBA light heavyweight title eliminator in impressive fashion. \u2014 John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News , 19 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The thought of Daytona\u2019s orange beaches caused a few to grimace . \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"While some may grimace , natural gas will remain a prominent part of the American economy not just to generate electricity but also to assist in the manufacturing process. \u2014 Ken Silverstein, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Above her, the rest of the art-world figures\u2014all, as Bloemink shows, caricatural portraits of real people\u2014gesticulate and grimace . \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Matthew doesn\u2019t speak but can grimace , shrug, grunt, nod, or frown. \u2014 Weike Wang, The New Yorker , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Lava-red splashes oozed across the screens as Collins dug into his theatrical leanings to sneer and grimace through the lyrics, punctuating them with the song's trademark reptilian cackle. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 20 Nov. 2021",
"While those from the pro-vaccination camp might grimace in disdain at Minaj, her rationale for refraining from getting vaccinated is shared by many others who also remain unvaccinated. \u2014 Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Having something to look forward to is important, so use family meetings to create ideas that will make everyone smile (or at least not grimace ). \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Sep. 2021",
"DeGrom apeared to grimace after a third-inning pitch to Eric Sogard. \u2014 Jerry Beach, Star Tribune , 16 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Middle French, alteration of grimache , of Germanic origin; akin to Old English gr\u012bma mask":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1651, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1762, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150707"
},
"grin and bear it":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{
": to accept something that one does not like because there is no choice":[
"I don't agree with their decision, but all I can do is grin and bear it ."
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151328"
},
"grim reaper":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": death especially when personified as a man or skeleton with a scythe":[]
},
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"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"CinemaCon comes amid signs that investors are starting to sour a bit on the streaming business, which has been positioned as both the grim reaper and the savior of movies, depending on who\u2019s talking. \u2014 Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"On the southern end of Gatorland are more photo opportunities, including a headless horseman, a way to look like a Gatorlandized grim reaper and an eerie set of jack-o\u2019-lanterns. \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com , 8 Oct. 2021",
"From its perch, Spirit\u2019s mascot \u2014 a grim reaper , fittingly enough \u2014 grins down upon Portage Park. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Collaborating with sculpture artist and grim reaper painter Josh Smith, Williams created a collection of contrasts, a trend that fashion is seeing in the spring summer 2022 season. \u2014 Allyson Portee, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Still, for some, the adrenaline fix is worth staring the grim reaper in the face. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 9 May 2021",
"But one thing is certain: The grim reaper is waiting in Samarra. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Mulligan stars as Cassie, a twentysomething former medical student who moonlights as the good guy grim reaper . \u2014 Morgan Baila, refinery29.com , 18 Jan. 2021",
"Mulligan stars as Cassie, a twentysomething former medical student who moonlights as the good guy grim reaper . \u2014 Morgan Baila, refinery29.com , 18 Jan. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1846, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152235"
},
"Grim's ditch":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of several ancient entrenchments found in the British Isles some of which are prehistoric":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152625"
},
"grill":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to torment as if by broiling":[],
": to question intensely":[
"the police grilled the suspect"
],
": a cooking utensil of parallel bars on which food is exposed to heat (as from charcoal or electricity)":[],
": food that is broiled usually on a grill \u2014 compare mixed grill":[],
": a usually informal restaurant or dining room":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gril"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechize",
"examine",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"query",
"question",
"quiz",
"sweat"
],
"antonyms":[
"beanery",
"caf\u00e9",
"cafe",
"caff",
"diner",
"eatery",
"restaurant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We're planning to grill some chicken and burgers at the cookout.",
"Her parents grilled her when she came home late.",
"Noun",
"She put the hamburgers on the grill .",
"headed down to the local bar and grill for a beer and a burger",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Among those damaged were the Holly Hotel, a bar and grill , and the Holly Moose Lodge. \u2014 Fox News , 22 June 2022",
"Grill steak 3 to 4 minutes, turn and grill another 3 to 4 minutes. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Pack your camping gear, food, drinks, and grill along with costumes and dress-up clothes for evening dance parties and the glow-in-the-dark celebration and laser show. \u2014 Patricia Harris And David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"On Saturday evening, Daniel and a friend headed to the popular Sons of Boston bar and grill , just steps from Faneuil Hall Marketplace. \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Drizzle both sides of the bread with a bit of olive oil and grill until toasted, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Spread the bread with the cheese, dividing it evenly, and top each slice with the asparagus. \u2014 Colu Henry, Vogue , 26 May 2022",
"Place the steak on the cooking grate and grill for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on size. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The two-wheel design also makes this 36.5-pound grill a breeze to move around. \u2014 Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 May 2022",
"The two-piece Nordicware 365 Grill, Steam & Bake Multi-Cooker with vent holes can broil, smoke, or grill whole fish. \u2014 Erin Cavoto, Country Living , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pour out the chimney into the grill when the coals are covered in gray ash. \u2014 Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"This holiday weekend, as family and friends gather around the grill and attempt to cool off in the pool, temperatures could hit 106 degrees in parts of Arizona. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 29 June 2022",
"There's also this large black and gray grill from Weber that is $90 less at Target. \u2014 Rachel Simon, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"Johnny Bajjalieh, whose father opened Sammy\u2019s Sandwich Shop in the early \u201860s, works the grill while his wife, Susan, and their son, Sidney, take care of the customers. \u2014 Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al , 28 June 2022",
"Paella lends itself very well to being cooked on an outdoor grill or even over an open fire. \u2014 Cathy Huyghe, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"When ready to cook, prepare your gas or charcoal grill for direct-heat grilling or preheat a grill pan over medium-high heat. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"According to prosecutors and court documents, the bribery scheme centered around a custom gold and diamond grill made by a Houston jeweler. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"White must have come away with more than a few tiger stripes, or scars, from scalding his arms on the oven and the grill in his time with them. \u2014 Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French gril , from Old French greil , from Latin craticulum \u2014 more at griddle":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1668, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1685, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152707"
},
"grind along":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to continue in a slow and steady way":[
"The economy continues to grind along ."
],
": to continue moving down or along (something) in a slow and steady way":[
"The traffic was grinding along the highway."
]
},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154645"
},
"gripped":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to seize or hold firmly":[
"gripped the door handle"
],
": to hold the interest of strongly":[
"a story that grips the reader"
],
": a strong or tenacious grasp":[
"had a good grip on the tennis racket"
],
": strength in gripping":[],
": manner or style of gripping":[
"the balanced grip of an expert golfer"
],
": a firm tenacious hold typically giving control, mastery, or understanding":[
"has the country in his grip"
],
": mental grasp":[
"can't seem to get a grip [=gain a good understanding of] on calculus",
"\u2026 I'm curious to see if preteens have a grip on this fairly sophisticated concept.",
"\u2014 John Hoffman"
],
": a part or device for gripping":[],
": suitcase":[],
": a stage worker who handles scenery, properties, or lights : stagehand":[],
": a technician on a motion-picture or television set who handles and maintains equipment (such as cameras and their dollies and cranes)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grip"
],
"synonyms":[
"clench",
"cling (to)",
"clutch",
"hold"
],
"antonyms":[
"carry-on",
"carryall",
"handbag",
"holdall",
"portmanteau",
"suitcase",
"traveling bag",
"wallet"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The little boy gripped his mother's hand tightly.",
"I gripped the door handle and pulled as hard as I could.",
"The story really grips the reader.",
"The scandal has gripped the nation.",
"Noun",
"His tennis instructor showed him the proper backhand grip .",
"a golfer with an incorrect grip",
"He has been doing all he can to maintain his grip on the company's finances.",
"I need new grips for my golf clubs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Crypto still seems to grip the imaginations of some congressional policymakers. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"As a bonus, the new outsole also seems to grip the road better. \u2014 Cory Smith, Outside Online , 15 June 2022",
"This may be surprising to some considering how far crypto units have fallen as inflation and recession fears grip the market. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"Until this truth is acknowledged and dealt with collectively as a nation, this theory will sadly continue to grip in the hearts and minds of individuals and incidents like Buffalo will never cease. \u2014 Deidre Montague, Essence , 31 May 2022",
"Grab a medium dumbbell and grip the middle of the weight in both hands. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
"To prep skin, the pro leaned on primer to create the perfect base; one that smoothes fine lines, reduces shine, and helps grip the makeup that follows. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
"But as Badr briefly lowered his hands in an apparent attempt to put his shoes on, one of the officers let loose a police dog, which sunk its teeth into Badr\u2019s arm and continued to grip it for close to a minute, causing Badr to scream in agony. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Bend your left knee and left hip to be able to grip the kettlebell in your right hand. \u2014 Jon-erik Kawamoto, Outside Online , 8 Feb. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Despite the jubilant tone in Chinese state media ahead of Friday\u2019s ceremonies, there are signs that Xi remains uneasy about Beijing\u2019s grip in Hong Kong. \u2014 Christian Shepherd, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"But halfway through that half-century, Hong Kong\u2019s distinctive differences have shrunk as Mr. Xi has tightened Beijing\u2019s grip on the city. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Toretsk, like so many other mining cities across the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, may soon be excised from Kyiv\u2019s grip . \u2014 Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"Putin will want to tighten the grip in his immediate neighbourhood through an alliance of authoritarian regimes. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022",
"The SmallRig grip has a clever design that holds the remote. \u2014 Jim Fisher, PCMAG , 29 June 2022",
"The decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade has raised new questions about Chief Justice John Roberts' grip on the Supreme Court, and whether his fellow conservatives are speeding past his incrementalist approach. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022",
"When Sega pulled the plug on the Saturn in 1998 and announced new hardware, Stolar worked feverishly to create a marketing campaign that aimed to stymie Sony\u2019s grip on American gamers. \u2014 Matt Gardner, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Unlike more traditional media outlets, livestreams are ephemeral and potentially harder to monitor\u2014and therefore more worrying for a state that likes to maintain an iron grip over the political narrative. \u2014 Jane Li, Quartz , 24 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English grippen , from Old English grippan ; akin to Old English gr\u012bpan":"Verb and Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155109"
},
"gridder":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a football player":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gri-d\u0259r"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The high school football season for Harford County gridders came to an abrupt end Friday night in three games on the road. \u2014 Randy Mcroberts, baltimoresun.com , 16 Nov. 2019",
"Missing the post-season hurts college recruits\u2019 chances of playing on the next level, said Josh Helmholdt, Midwest analyst for Rivals, a media organization that rates prep gridders . \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Oct. 2019",
"The San Luis Valley, with its cheap land, was a sort of magnet for these off- gridders . \u2014 Ted Conover, Harper's magazine , 22 July 2019",
"In my mind, most off- gridders were trying to live lightly off the earth by reducing their needs, unplugging from both utilities and society\u2019s expectations of achievement. \u2014 Ted Conover, Harper's magazine , 22 July 2019",
"The Pompano teen gridders earned the trip to Orlando by taking titles at both the local (Super Bowl) and regional/state levels of the Gold Coast Pop Warner Football League. \u2014 Emmett Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com , 17 Dec. 2017",
"The Dolphins displayed effort and determination in this opening contest featuring gridders ages 5 and 6. \u2014 Sun-Sentinel.com , 10 Dec. 2017",
"The Wildcats pulled out their first victory via a 12-10 squeaker by the 9-Under Division squad, while Plantation's 10-unders got things rolling with a 38-0 shutout of the Delray Beach gridders . \u2014 Emmett Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com , 1 Sep. 2017",
"To that end, the Miami Dolphins' organization has shown a willingness to help produce outstanding mentors for youth gridders and recently hosted its annual coaches' clinic at the Rick Case Arena on the Nova Southeastern University campus. \u2014 Emmett Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com , 30 May 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1928, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155447"
},
"grinds":{
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to reduce to powder or small fragments by friction (as in a mill or with the teeth)":[
"grind the coffee beans"
],
": to wear down, polish, or sharpen by friction":[
"grind an ax"
],
": oppress , harass":[
"tyrants who grind their subjects"
],
": to weaken or destroy gradually":[
"\u2014 usually used with down poverty ground her spirit down"
],
": to press together with a rotating motion":[
"grind the teeth"
],
": to rub or press harshly":[
"ground the cigarette out"
],
": to operate or produce by turning a crank":[
"grind a hand organ"
],
": to perform the operation of grinding":[],
": to become pulverized, polished, or sharpened by friction":[],
": to move with difficulty or friction especially so as to make a grating noise":[
"gears grinding"
],
": to rotate the hips in an erotic manner":[],
": an act of grinding":[],
": the sound of grinding":[],
": dreary, monotonous, or difficult labor, study, or routine":[
"the dull grind of office work"
],
": one who works or studies excessively":[
"a grind who never goes to parties"
],
": an action of rotating the hips in an erotic manner (as in a dance or in a burlesque striptease act) \u2014 compare bump entry 1 sense 3":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u012bnd"
],
"synonyms":[
"buff",
"file",
"hone",
"rasp",
"rub",
"sand"
],
"antonyms":[
"creak",
"jar",
"rasp",
"scrape",
"scratch"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grind Noun work , labor , travail , toil , drudgery , grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force. too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion. farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering. years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body. the grind of the assembly line",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The corn is ground into meal.",
"The steel grinds to a sharp edge.",
"She kept grinding the car's gears.",
"He grinds his teeth in his sleep.",
"I could hear the gears grinding .",
"Noun",
"I need a break from the daily grind .",
"the dull grind of office work",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Ask your butcher to grind part chuck with short ribs or brisket and live your most bespoke life. \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
"The sneaky way is to let inflation do its thing having stopped printing new money and watch inflation grind to a halt as no new money drives its vicious circle. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"On a day of fighting that put even territory thought to be securely in Ukrainian hands in play, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, warned that the war could grind on for years. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"The Tigers will let the rookies grind through their struggles at the plate, as long as their defense doesn't waver. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
"If the research proves successful, Rinke said waste managers could collect and grind Styrofoam materials and put them into a liquid solution made with the superworm enzyme. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"In any spot, just to be able to hit the ball the other way and grind at-bats and hit homers and then steal bases. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"San Joaquin Valley air regulators have struggled for nearly 20 years to outlaw the practice of agricultural burning, encouraging farmers instead to grind up forsaken crops in wood chippers and spread them as mulch. \u2014 Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2022",
"This leads to that rise & grind mentality that justifies our dehumanization. \u2014 Courtney Mccluney, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Van Horn wasn't interested in talking about getting away from the grind of playing SEC teams in the regional. \u2014 Bob Holt, Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
"From the daily work grind to navigating parenthood, including unpleasant diaper changing and attempting every trick in the book to calm a crying baby, a new dad has many sleepless nights ahead of him. \u2014 Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health , 24 May 2022",
"This meant that if a trainee had an opportunity that pulled you away from the grind of medical residency, you were seen as abandoning ship. \u2014 Sachin H. Jain, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Lucas Raymond turned down an invitation to play for Sweden, citing a need to recover from the grind of an 82-game NHL season. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2022",
"Big Santa Anita Canyon is known for the string of cottages that line a sylvan creek as well as the historic Sturtevant Camp, which until the fire was open to all who wanted a nearby respite from the urban grind . \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The Governors Awards, an annual event that presents Hollywood luminaries with honorary Oscar statuettes, is a reprieve, of sorts, from the awards season grind . \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Last week in upstate New York, Eric Musselman took his Arkansas team to Niagara Falls for an educational experience and nice break from the basketball grind . \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 24 Mar. 2022",
"While physically, Lillard, who could be seen taking shots at Monday\u2019s practice, appears to be on the mend, Cronin said that the 6-time All-Star is also benefitting mentally from being away from the NBA grind . \u2014 oregonlive , 11 Feb. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Old English grindan ; akin to Latin frendere to crush, grind":"Verb and Noun"
},
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a cable car operator":[]
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"\u02c8grip-m\u0259n",
"-\u02ccman"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The job of a gripman involves operating 148-year-old technology on busy city streets while managing a load of passengers. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Sep. 2021",
"From Heather Knight: Beloved S.F. cable car gripman takes last bell-ringing trip after nearly 40 years riding city\u2019s hills. \u2014 Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Sep. 2021",
"Fred Butler, a former gripman who\u2019s now the assistant division manager for the cable cars, said just 20% of trainees pass the test to become employees. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Sep. 2021",
"The actor, writer and director worked as a cable car gripman in San Francisco, which was the subject of his first book The Big Heart. \u2014 Alexia Fern\u00e1ndez, PEOPLE.com , 22 Sep. 2021",
"And Jesus Vargas worked as the gripman at the front, handling the device that clutches the cable under the street that pulls the little car halfway to the stars at 9 miles an hour. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Aug. 2021",
"Val Lupiz, another gripman , said the buzz around the cable car barn is that another cable car could be rolled out and parked for visitors at the Beach and Hyde streets turntable if the Powell Street photo opp is a success. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com , 26 Sep. 2020",
"But gripmen and conductors soon realized its musical potential, and the bell-ringing contest began more than a half-century ago. \u2014 Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com , 3 Dec. 2019",
"My grandfather earned his living as a gripman on Chicago\u2019s cable cars; my grandmother scrubbed floors. \u2014 WSJ , 17 June 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-160905"
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"noun",
"transitive verb"
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": an act of grilling":[],
": to cook (food) by grilling":[]
},
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"gr\u0113\u02c8y\u00e4d",
"gr\u0259\u0307\u02c8l\u00e4d"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from griller to grill + -ade":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161054"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": courageously persistent : plucky":[
"a gritty heroine"
],
": having strong qualities of tough uncompromising realism":[
"a gritty novel"
]
},
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"\u02c8gri-t\u0113"
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"examples":[
"I admire her gritty determination to succeed.",
"The book describes the gritty realities of life on the streets.",
"He gave us all of the gritty details of his divorce.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The San Diego Sockers capped one of the most dominating seasons in indoor soccer history with a gritty performance that claimed the MASL\u2019s Ron Newman Cup. \u2014 Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"That gritty performance was followed up by a classier, more composed 3-1 victory against Inter Miami CF at TQL Stadium on Saturday. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Hull\u2019s was also a gritty , physical performance as well. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Mar. 2022",
"All-American forward Keegan Murray scored most of his 21 points late and Iowa was missing a counter-punch to Richmond's gritty performance. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Hero says: The Tigers turned in a gritty performance last year and upset the Gators with the help of the shoe-throwing incident by a Florida player. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 14 Oct. 2021",
"After a gritty 1-1 draw at the New York Red Bulls, the Portland Timbers make a quick divergence from their MLS schedule to compete in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on Tuesday. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 May 2022",
"So this piece was a chance to really get into the nitty- gritty of different players\u2019 styles. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 8 May 2022",
"The tech kindly handed it off to Sadler Vaden, the band\u2019s guitarist, who was immediately struck by Wade\u2019s gritty voice and transparent songwriting style. \u2014 Jessica Nicholson, Billboard , 4 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"grit entry 1 + -y entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162004"
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"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": a facial expression produced by grinning especially in pleasure or amusement":[
"a happy grin",
"She grew into a nimble young girl of seven winters, a thoughtful girl with shining brown eyes and a wide grin \u2026",
"\u2014 Louise Erdrich",
"I wanted to wipe the grin off his face [=make him stop smiling.]"
]
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"\u02c8grin"
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"beam",
"smile"
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"She continued to tease her brother, grinning wickedly.",
"grinned at the kids' fooling around in the pool",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"My heart goes out to all who have to grin and bear it, or grimace and bear it. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 29 June 2022",
"All that was left to do was grin and bear it and hope that Mom would give me a turkey sandwich for lunch the next day. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
"All the Blazers can do is grin and bear it and hope their luck turns at the June 23 NBA draft, during free agency or in the trade market. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
"Even as the show around her stutters, Garner leans into her role with a vulpine, barely there grin that proves irresistible. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 9 Feb. 2022",
"For instance, when infielder Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas worked a walk-off walk to beat the Yankees earlier this month, his first move was to grin and bring his hands to his face. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 28 Apr. 2022",
"In the photo, the father-son duo both grin with their arms crossed for the camera while standing back-to-back in sweatshirts. \u2014 Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Williams may not have wanted to flash a smile, but Auburn gave him plenty to grin about Saturday. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Ten teenage girls grin from a stage, standing side by side with their arms intertwined and right feet kicked up in the air. \u2014 Kaila Yu, Travel + Leisure , 13 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English grennen , from Old English grennian ; akin to Old High German grennen to snarl":"Verb"
},
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1565, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163001"
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"grilled":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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": to torment as if by broiling":[],
": to question intensely":[
"the police grilled the suspect"
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": food that is broiled usually on a grill \u2014 compare mixed grill":[],
": a usually informal restaurant or dining room":[]
},
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"\u02c8gril"
],
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"catechize",
"examine",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"query",
"question",
"quiz",
"sweat"
],
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"beanery",
"caf\u00e9",
"cafe",
"caff",
"diner",
"eatery",
"restaurant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We're planning to grill some chicken and burgers at the cookout.",
"Her parents grilled her when she came home late.",
"Noun",
"She put the hamburgers on the grill .",
"headed down to the local bar and grill for a beer and a burger",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Among those damaged were the Holly Hotel, a bar and grill , and the Holly Moose Lodge. \u2014 Fox News , 22 June 2022",
"Grill steak 3 to 4 minutes, turn and grill another 3 to 4 minutes. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Pack your camping gear, food, drinks, and grill along with costumes and dress-up clothes for evening dance parties and the glow-in-the-dark celebration and laser show. \u2014 Patricia Harris And David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"On Saturday evening, Daniel and a friend headed to the popular Sons of Boston bar and grill , just steps from Faneuil Hall Marketplace. \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Drizzle both sides of the bread with a bit of olive oil and grill until toasted, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Spread the bread with the cheese, dividing it evenly, and top each slice with the asparagus. \u2014 Colu Henry, Vogue , 26 May 2022",
"Place the steak on the cooking grate and grill for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on size. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The two-wheel design also makes this 36.5-pound grill a breeze to move around. \u2014 Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 May 2022",
"The two-piece Nordicware 365 Grill, Steam & Bake Multi-Cooker with vent holes can broil, smoke, or grill whole fish. \u2014 Erin Cavoto, Country Living , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pour out the chimney into the grill when the coals are covered in gray ash. \u2014 Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"This holiday weekend, as family and friends gather around the grill and attempt to cool off in the pool, temperatures could hit 106 degrees in parts of Arizona. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 29 June 2022",
"There's also this large black and gray grill from Weber that is $90 less at Target. \u2014 Rachel Simon, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"Johnny Bajjalieh, whose father opened Sammy\u2019s Sandwich Shop in the early \u201860s, works the grill while his wife, Susan, and their son, Sidney, take care of the customers. \u2014 Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al , 28 June 2022",
"Paella lends itself very well to being cooked on an outdoor grill or even over an open fire. \u2014 Cathy Huyghe, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"When ready to cook, prepare your gas or charcoal grill for direct-heat grilling or preheat a grill pan over medium-high heat. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"According to prosecutors and court documents, the bribery scheme centered around a custom gold and diamond grill made by a Houston jeweler. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"White must have come away with more than a few tiger stripes, or scars, from scalding his arms on the oven and the grill in his time with them. \u2014 Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French gril , from Old French greil , from Latin craticulum \u2014 more at griddle":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1668, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1685, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163724"
},
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"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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": to reduce to powder or small fragments by friction (as in a mill or with the teeth)":[
"grind the coffee beans"
],
": to wear down, polish, or sharpen by friction":[
"grind an ax"
],
": oppress , harass":[
"tyrants who grind their subjects"
],
": to weaken or destroy gradually":[
"\u2014 usually used with down poverty ground her spirit down"
],
": to press together with a rotating motion":[
"grind the teeth"
],
": to rub or press harshly":[
"ground the cigarette out"
],
": to operate or produce by turning a crank":[
"grind a hand organ"
],
": to perform the operation of grinding":[],
": to become pulverized, polished, or sharpened by friction":[],
": to move with difficulty or friction especially so as to make a grating noise":[
"gears grinding"
],
": to rotate the hips in an erotic manner":[],
": an act of grinding":[],
": the sound of grinding":[],
": dreary, monotonous, or difficult labor, study, or routine":[
"the dull grind of office work"
],
": one who works or studies excessively":[
"a grind who never goes to parties"
],
": an action of rotating the hips in an erotic manner (as in a dance or in a burlesque striptease act) \u2014 compare bump entry 1 sense 3":[]
},
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"\u02c8gr\u012bnd"
],
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"buff",
"file",
"hone",
"rasp",
"rub",
"sand"
],
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"creak",
"jar",
"rasp",
"scrape",
"scratch"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grind Noun work , labor , travail , toil , drudgery , grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force. too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion. farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering. years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body. the grind of the assembly line",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The corn is ground into meal.",
"The steel grinds to a sharp edge.",
"She kept grinding the car's gears.",
"He grinds his teeth in his sleep.",
"I could hear the gears grinding .",
"Noun",
"I need a break from the daily grind .",
"the dull grind of office work",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Ask your butcher to grind part chuck with short ribs or brisket and live your most bespoke life. \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
"The sneaky way is to let inflation do its thing having stopped printing new money and watch inflation grind to a halt as no new money drives its vicious circle. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"On a day of fighting that put even territory thought to be securely in Ukrainian hands in play, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, warned that the war could grind on for years. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"The Tigers will let the rookies grind through their struggles at the plate, as long as their defense doesn't waver. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
"If the research proves successful, Rinke said waste managers could collect and grind Styrofoam materials and put them into a liquid solution made with the superworm enzyme. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"In any spot, just to be able to hit the ball the other way and grind at-bats and hit homers and then steal bases. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"San Joaquin Valley air regulators have struggled for nearly 20 years to outlaw the practice of agricultural burning, encouraging farmers instead to grind up forsaken crops in wood chippers and spread them as mulch. \u2014 Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2022",
"This leads to that rise & grind mentality that justifies our dehumanization. \u2014 Courtney Mccluney, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Van Horn wasn't interested in talking about getting away from the grind of playing SEC teams in the regional. \u2014 Bob Holt, Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
"From the daily work grind to navigating parenthood, including unpleasant diaper changing and attempting every trick in the book to calm a crying baby, a new dad has many sleepless nights ahead of him. \u2014 Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health , 24 May 2022",
"This meant that if a trainee had an opportunity that pulled you away from the grind of medical residency, you were seen as abandoning ship. \u2014 Sachin H. Jain, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Lucas Raymond turned down an invitation to play for Sweden, citing a need to recover from the grind of an 82-game NHL season. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2022",
"Big Santa Anita Canyon is known for the string of cottages that line a sylvan creek as well as the historic Sturtevant Camp, which until the fire was open to all who wanted a nearby respite from the urban grind . \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The Governors Awards, an annual event that presents Hollywood luminaries with honorary Oscar statuettes, is a reprieve, of sorts, from the awards season grind . \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Last week in upstate New York, Eric Musselman took his Arkansas team to Niagara Falls for an educational experience and nice break from the basketball grind . \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 24 Mar. 2022",
"While physically, Lillard, who could be seen taking shots at Monday\u2019s practice, appears to be on the mend, Cronin said that the 6-time All-Star is also benefitting mentally from being away from the NBA grind . \u2014 oregonlive , 11 Feb. 2022"
],
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"Middle English, from Old English grindan ; akin to Latin frendere to crush, grind":"Verb and Noun"
},
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165333"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": greedy and grasping : avaricious":[],
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},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grip\u0259l"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gripel , from Old English gripul , from the stem of gr\u012bpan to seize, attack":"Adjective",
"probably blend of grip entry 1 and grapple entry 1":"Verb"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165418"
},
"grilse":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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"\u02c8grils"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The group says young salmon who spent only one winter at sea before returning to the river, called grilse , fared especially poorly last year. \u2014 Patrick Whittle, The Seattle Times , 18 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English grills":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171923"
},
"grindable":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": capable of being ground":[]
},
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"\u02c8gr\u012bnd\u0259b\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172418"
},
"grittle":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to grind (grain) coarsely":[]
},
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"\u02c8grit\u1d4al"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"grit entry 1 + -le":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172458"
},
"Grindelwald":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"valley and village in central Switzerland in Bern canton in the Berner Alpen east of Interlaken":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grin-d\u1d4al-\u02ccw\u022fld",
"-\u02ccv\u00e4lt"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172623"
},
"grind away":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to work or study in a steady, determined way":[
"She was grinding away at her studies."
],
": to remove (a part of something) by rubbing something rough against it":[
"He uses a special tool to grind away the stone."
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180130"
},
"grizzler":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a peevish person : a chronic griper":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-z(\u0259)l\u0259(r)"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"grizzle entry 4 + -er":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183503"
},
"grin from ear to ear":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{
": to grin very broadly":[
"He was grinning from ear to ear so we knew he had good news to tell us."
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183511"
},
"Grindletonian":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of an English familist sect of the 17th century":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccgrind\u1d4al\u02c8t\u014dn\u0113\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Grindleton , parish in Yorkshire, England + English -ian":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184937"
},
"grievant":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one who submits a grievance for arbitration":[]
},
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"\u02c8gr\u0113-v\u0259nt"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1958, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194000"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u012bm"
],
"synonyms":[
"crud",
"dirt",
"filth",
"gunk",
"muck",
"smut",
"soil"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"The windows were coated with grime .",
"this new product really cuts through grime",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This shampoo aids in removing excess oil, dirt and grime that has accumulated after a long day at work. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"Then, use your hands to agitate the hat so that the water and detergent can penetrate its fibers and to dislodge dirt and grime . \u2014 Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 May 2022",
"Unlike clothes, your sneakers, heels and boots may go into your suitcase already carrying dirt and grime . \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"And our black leather seats should show less dirt and grime than the optional brown leather\u2014or the light-beige leather in our Sienna, which is looking worse for the wear. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Our new smart vacuums aren\u2019t just great at picking up stubborn dirt and grime \u2014they\u2019re also great at picking up stray bits of union-organizing chatter. \u2014 Lillian Stone, The New Yorker , 31 Mar. 2022",
"This is because your serums and moisturizers are less able to penetrate if your skin is covered with a layer of dead skin cells, dirt and grime . \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Dust, dirt, and grime can get into every nook and cranny. \u2014 Kim Komando, USA TODAY , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Drake is pop music\u2019s most famous genre burglar \u2014 from U.K. grime to drill to Afrobeats and Jamaican dub patois. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle Dutch grime soot, mask; akin to Old English gr\u012bma mask":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194436"
},
"gripsack":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": suitcase":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grip-\u02ccsak"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1877, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-200657"
},
"grind to a halt":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{
": to stop working or moving forward":[
"The machinery slowly ground to a halt .",
"\u2014 often used figuratively Without more money, work on the project will soon grind to a halt ."
]
},
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"grimp":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": climb":[],
": to draw up":[
"the line grimped into a hard knot"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grimp"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French grimper , from Middle French, alteration (probably influenced by ramper to crawl) of gripper to climb, to seize with the claws or nails, of Germanic origin; akin to Old Saxon gr\u012bpan to grasp, seize":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-204601"
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"grits":{
"type":[
"noun plural",
"noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction"
],
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grits"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Congee\u2019s consistency mainly depends on personal preferences; it can be cooked thin like a soup or thick like grits . \u2014 Jenny Liao, Bon App\u00e9tit , 8 June 2022",
"New to the downtown scene is Khalipha's Mobile Kitchen with halal beef ribs and lamb shanks and the Egg Hunt food truck with chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits , breakfast burritos and biscuits and gravy options. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 15 May 2022",
"Those red beet grits are topped with a spicy pineapple chow chow, another preservation sought after in Southern cooking. \u2014 Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Zaslav confirmed that the newly-merged Discovery and WarnerMedia, including CNN, will combine many types of programming, from HBO's gritty dramas to Food Network's grits recipes, on a single global streaming platform. \u2014 Brian Stelter, CNN , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The portobello mushroom appetizer stuns with its rich flavor, and the Smoky Mountain trout and creamy shrimp and grits are also standouts. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Bailey\u2019s dishes like foie and grits , sizzling smoky pig and smashed potatoes with brewer\u2019s yeast have kept diners coming time and again over the years. \u2014 Michelle Gross, Robb Report , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In each city, Big Bad Breakfast tries to partner with local farms for items like grits , honey, syrup or molasses. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Alamo Biscuit offers a diverse menu, including nachos, shrimp and grits , burgers, and tacos. \u2014 Camille Sauers, Chron , 7 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"late Old English grutta \"bran, coarse meal,\" going back to Old English grytt \"finely ground flour,\" going back to Germanic grutj\u014d- or grutja- (whence also Middle Dutch gorte \"groats, grits\" [with metathesis], Middle Low German gr\u00fctte, Old High German gruzzi ), noun derivative from zero-grade of *greutan- \"to grind, crush\" \u2014 more at grit entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1579, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212909"
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"noun",
"verb"
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": sand , gravel":[],
": any of several sandstones":[],
": the structure of a stone that adapts it to grinding":[],
": the size of abrasive particles usually expressed as their mesh":[],
": firmness of mind or spirit : unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger":[
"managed to survive by his grit and guile"
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": a Liberal in Canadian politics":[],
": to give forth a grating sound":[
"dry snow gritting beneath our feet"
],
": to cause (one's teeth) to grind or grate":[
"gritted his teeth and faced the challenge"
]
},
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"\u02c8grit"
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"backbone",
"constancy",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grittiness",
"guts",
"intestinal fortitude",
"pluck",
"spunk"
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"crunch",
"gnash",
"grate",
"grind",
"scrape",
"scrunch"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"He shook out his shoes to remove the small rocks and grit .",
"Through resourcefulness and grit , the pioneers survived the winter.",
"Verb",
"the crash victim gritted his teeth as a way of coping with the pain",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Initially, ebike riders drew the ire of mountain-biking traditionalists who chided them as trail cheaters capable of coasting easily on battery power rather than grinding out miles under their own grit . \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
"Just really pleased with her grit and her performance, and the team for that matter. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 13 May 2022",
"Boston showed its grit by bouncing back two nights after blowing a 14-point, fourth-quarter lead in a 110-107 Game 5 home loss. \u2014 Steve Megargee, Hartford Courant , 13 May 2022",
"My mother was slight, but her frame belied her grit and resilience. \u2014 Nadja Halilbegovich, Time , 5 May 2022",
"The Phoenix Suns looked determined to not waver on their defensive grit , offensive attack, and the lead in Game 5's third quarter over the Pelicans on Tuesday in Phoenix. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Over the past two decades, the street has gentrified and lost much of its grit \u2014 a Lululemon replaced the world-music BamBoo club and many of the vintage clothing stores have been supplanted by chains. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Rivals acknowledge her grit and call her The Beast. \u2014 Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Along with the nightmare logistics, the loneliness and the financial strain comes a staggering level of resilience, grit and bloody hard work. \u2014 Marisa Bate, refinery29.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Most everybody hates doing this in the moment, but founders who grit their teeth and get through the delegation process give themselves more time. \u2014 Carl Gould, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"For the untold millions who don\u2019t have access to adequate public transportation or otherwise can\u2019t forgo their car, the solution is to grit their teeth and pay while cutting costs elsewhere. \u2014 Daniel Niemann, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"On my high school track team, the distance guys were built like deer\u2014lean and long\u2014and able to grit out the pain of running the mile at a blistering pace. \u2014 Brendan Leonard, Outside Online , 8 May 2020",
"And yet, when life throws us a curveball, our default is to straighten our backs, grit our teeth and press on. \u2014 Jeannine Amber, Essence , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The fortunes of basketball, the accumulating losses and the COVID-19 pandemic that won\u2019t go away forced Thibodeau to grit his teeth and call on Walker again. \u2014 Dom Amore, courant.com , 22 Dec. 2021",
"That sets off a feeding frenzy where one buyer \u2014 sometimes a reseller with a bot \u2014 snags the item, while hundreds more grit their teeth in frustration. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Being able to run around and go to the park with her sons without having to grit her teeth through the pain has been life-changing. \u2014 Natasha Lavender, SELF , 19 Nov. 2021",
"There is a harrowing story in the New Yorker that everyone should grit their teeth and read. \u2014 Ross Douthat New York Times, Star Tribune , 26 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English greet, grete, going back to Old English gr\u0113ot, going back to Germanic *greuta- \"broken bits of stone, sand, gravel,\" (whence also Old Saxon griot \"sand, gravel,\" Middle Dutch griet \"coarse sand, grit,\" Old High German grioz, Old Icelandic grj\u00f3t \"gravel, pebbles\"), noun derivative of *greutan- \"to grind, crush\" (whence Old High German gegrozan \"coarse-grained,\" past participle of a presumed strong verb griozan \"to crush\"), going back to dialectal Indo-European *g h reu\u032fdH-e/o-, whence, from zero grade, Lithuanian gr\u016b\u0301d\u017eiu/gr\u016b\u0301du, gr\u016b\u0301sti \"to crush, pulverize\"; and from a nominal derivative with o-grade Russian gr\u00fada \"heap, pile,\" Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian gr\u0215da \"lump, clod\"":"Noun",
"derivative of grit entry 1 , with some senses probably in part phonesthemic and in part influenced by grate entry 3":"Verb"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1762, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213806"
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"noun",
"verb"
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": to torment as if by broiling":[],
": to question intensely":[
"the police grilled the suspect"
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": a cooking utensil of parallel bars on which food is exposed to heat (as from charcoal or electricity)":[],
": food that is broiled usually on a grill \u2014 compare mixed grill":[],
": a usually informal restaurant or dining room":[]
},
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"\u02c8gril"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechize",
"examine",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"query",
"question",
"quiz",
"sweat"
],
"antonyms":[
"beanery",
"caf\u00e9",
"cafe",
"caff",
"diner",
"eatery",
"restaurant"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We're planning to grill some chicken and burgers at the cookout.",
"Her parents grilled her when she came home late.",
"Noun",
"She put the hamburgers on the grill .",
"headed down to the local bar and grill for a beer and a burger",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Among those damaged were the Holly Hotel, a bar and grill , and the Holly Moose Lodge. \u2014 Fox News , 22 June 2022",
"Grill steak 3 to 4 minutes, turn and grill another 3 to 4 minutes. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Pack your camping gear, food, drinks, and grill along with costumes and dress-up clothes for evening dance parties and the glow-in-the-dark celebration and laser show. \u2014 Patricia Harris And David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"On Saturday evening, Daniel and a friend headed to the popular Sons of Boston bar and grill , just steps from Faneuil Hall Marketplace. \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Drizzle both sides of the bread with a bit of olive oil and grill until toasted, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Spread the bread with the cheese, dividing it evenly, and top each slice with the asparagus. \u2014 Colu Henry, Vogue , 26 May 2022",
"Place the steak on the cooking grate and grill for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on size. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The two-wheel design also makes this 36.5-pound grill a breeze to move around. \u2014 Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 May 2022",
"The two-piece Nordicware 365 Grill, Steam & Bake Multi-Cooker with vent holes can broil, smoke, or grill whole fish. \u2014 Erin Cavoto, Country Living , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pour out the chimney into the grill when the coals are covered in gray ash. \u2014 Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"This holiday weekend, as family and friends gather around the grill and attempt to cool off in the pool, temperatures could hit 106 degrees in parts of Arizona. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 29 June 2022",
"There's also this large black and gray grill from Weber that is $90 less at Target. \u2014 Rachel Simon, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"Johnny Bajjalieh, whose father opened Sammy\u2019s Sandwich Shop in the early \u201860s, works the grill while his wife, Susan, and their son, Sidney, take care of the customers. \u2014 Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al , 28 June 2022",
"Paella lends itself very well to being cooked on an outdoor grill or even over an open fire. \u2014 Cathy Huyghe, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"When ready to cook, prepare your gas or charcoal grill for direct-heat grilling or preheat a grill pan over medium-high heat. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"According to prosecutors and court documents, the bribery scheme centered around a custom gold and diamond grill made by a Houston jeweler. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"White must have come away with more than a few tiger stripes, or scars, from scalding his arms on the oven and the grill in his time with them. \u2014 Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French gril , from Old French greil , from Latin craticulum \u2014 more at griddle":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1668, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
"1685, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214557"
},
"grinding aid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a material added in small amount to cement clinker to aid in the pulverizing of the clinker into powder":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215429"
},
"grief":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement":[
"his grief over his son's death"
],
": a cause of such suffering":[
"life's joys and griefs"
],
": trouble , annoyance":[
"enough grief for one day"
],
": annoying or playful criticism":[
"getting grief from his friends"
],
": an unfortunate outcome : disaster":[
"\u2014 used chiefly in the phrase come to grief"
],
": mishap , misadventure":[],
": grievance sense 2":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0113f"
],
"synonyms":[
"affliction",
"anguish",
"dolefulness",
"dolor",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"sorriness",
"sorrow",
"woe"
],
"antonyms":[
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"delight",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"happiness",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"pleasure",
"rapture",
"rapturousness"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grief sorrow , grief , anguish , woe , regret mean distress of mind. sorrow implies a sense of loss or a sense of guilt and remorse. a family united in sorrow upon the patriarch's death grief implies poignant sorrow for an immediate cause. the inexpressible grief of the bereaved parents anguish suggests torturing grief or dread. the anguish felt by the parents of the kidnapped child woe is deep or inconsolable grief or misery. cries of woe echoed throughout the bombed city regret implies pain caused by deep disappointment, fruitless longing, or unavailing remorse. nagging regret for missed opportunities",
"examples":[
"He has been unable to recover from his grief at his son's death.",
"She was overcome with grief .",
"the joys and griefs of our lives",
"I've had enough grief for one day.",
"Trying to fix the computer isn't worth the grief .",
"He's taken a lot of grief from his friends.",
"His friends have been giving him a lot of grief .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Doing that through grief , with unrelenting perseverance, might make playing a full season seem impossible, especially after spending two years away from the sport. \u2014 Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 July 2022",
"The community is small, and signs of grief and shock were visible. \u2014 Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 2 July 2022",
"The Witch and Raq are both mothers longing for something and dealing with immense grief in their own ways. \u2014 Alicia Ram\u00edrez, ELLE , 1 July 2022",
"In just 24 hours, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin Jr. went from secret questioning by a Texas House committee to being a target of an emotional outpouring of grief and anger at a City Council meeting Thursday. \u2014 Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News , 30 June 2022",
"Finally, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine casts a long shadow of grief and anxiety, which finds its expression also in wine. \u2014 Cathy Huyghe, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"By Akwaeke Emezi Feyi Adekola is an artist working through immense grief , but a whirlwind romance complicates her life even as new opportunities emerge. \u2014 Hanif Abdurraqib, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Navigating through this hideous grief that absolutely destroyed & shattered my heart and my soul into almost nothing has swallowed me whole. \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"But behind the comedic act was grief the star still felt decades after her mother and baby sister were killed in a tragic car accident. \u2014 Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com , 30 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gref , from Anglo-French gref, grief injustice, calamity, from gref , adjective heavy, grievous, from Vulgar Latin *grevis , alteration of Latin gravis \u2014 see grieve":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220815"
},
"grindlestone":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": grindstone":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grin(d)\u1d4alzt\u0259n",
"-\u1d4alst-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English grindelston , from grindel- (from grinden to grind) + ston stone":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-224818"
},
"grieve":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to cause to suffer : distress":[
"it grieves me to see him this way"
],
": to feel or show grief over":[
"grieving the death of her son"
],
": to submit a formal grievance concerning":[
"grieve a dismissal"
],
": to feel grief : sorrow":[
"still grieving over their mother's death"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0113v"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonize",
"anguish",
"bleed",
"hurt",
"mourn",
"sorrow",
"suffer"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"It grieves me to see my brother struggling like this.",
"Her decision to live overseas grieved her mother.",
"People need time to grieve after the death of a family member.",
"The children are still grieving the death of their mother.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The family tributes come as the nation continues to grieve a spate of recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Tex., Tulsa, Okla., Buffalo, N.Y., and elsewhere. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"The atmosphere at San Francisco\u2019s Abraham Lincoln High School was somber Wednesday as students and teachers gathered around an impromptu memorial to grieve and reflect on Tuesday\u2019s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 May 2022",
"Season 6 wraps up as with the finale where The Big Three attend Rebecca\u2019s funeral to grieve and celebrate her life. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 May 2022",
"Our faculty and alumni grieve her passing and send our love, support, and condolences to her family and friends. \u2014 Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic , 24 May 2022",
"Family and friends gathered around Duerson's memorial as many came forward to pray, to grieve and to ask for help to solve this case. \u2014 Alexi Eastes, The Indianapolis Star , 16 Apr. 2022",
"For the veterans, that is expressed in who is allowed to grieve and how. \u2014 NBC News , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Nick\u2019s learned that you\u2019re supposed to grieve in public and puts that grief on stage where his audience is there for him. \u2014 A.d. Amorosi, Variety , 29 Mar. 2022",
"But she was forced to grieve in public when her husband of 32 years, Dr. Steve Fritz, died in a car crash in September 2014 while commuting to his job at Oregon State Hospital. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Dec. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English greven , from Anglo-French grever , from Latin gravare to burden, from gravis heavy, grave; akin to Greek barys heavy, Sanskrit guru":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232103"
},
"grieced":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": degraded entry 2":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0113st"
],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-235256"
},
"grindstone":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": millstone sense 1":[],
": a flat circular stone of natural sandstone that revolves on an axle and is used for grinding , shaping, or smoothing":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u012bn(d)-\u02ccst\u014dn",
"\u02c8gr\u012bnd-\u02ccst\u014dn"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hard-fisted leaders hold worker noses to the grindstone and consider celebrations a distraction from productivity. \u2014 Bryan Robinson, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"What came after\u2014a world war and the 1950s\u2014was a more sober, nose-to-the- grindstone economic era. \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"But most torture ideas come from just putting your nose to the grindstone \u2014locking yourself in a small, dark room with a lamp shining in your face, staring down at a pen and a blank piece of paper, until the ideas are forced out of you. \u2014 Jack Handey, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"After all, keeping your nose to the grindstone will make your company survive and thrive, right",
"Things are about to pick up at work, so get ready to roll up your sleeves and put your nose to the grindstone ! \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Working doesn\u2019t have to be nose-to-the- grindstone misery. \u2014 Bryan Robinson, Forbes , 26 Sep. 2021",
"Starting today, Mars may get your nose to the grindstone , encouraging you to focus on practical work. \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 29 July 2021",
"It\u2019s like nose to the grindstone , sunup to sundown and longer. \u2014 Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone , 2 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000323"
},
"grimalkin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8mal-",
"gri-\u02c8m\u022f(l)-k\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gray + malkin":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1630, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-004352"
},
"grid current":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": current flowing between the grid and cathode in an electron tube":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005955"
},
"grizzly":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": grizzled":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8griz-l\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Questionable animal fathers include grizzly bears that eat their young when food is scarce, and lions that primarily stand guard and look tough while female lions venture out to hunt and kill. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"Of the 15 animals listed, grizzly bears came in first place of least likely to kill at 6%. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"It\u2019s not uncommon to encounter deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goats and, yes, black and grizzly bears. \u2014 Outside Online , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Montana held grizzly hunts until 1991 under an exemption to the federal protections that allowed 14 bears to be killed each fall. \u2014 Matthew Brown, ajc , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Montana held grizzly hunts until 1991 under an exemption to the federal protections that allowed 14 bears to be killed each fall. \u2014 Matthew Brown, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Wyoming has asked the federal government to remove grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park from protection under the Endangered Species Act, a request which if approved could allow the animals to be hunted. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com , 13 Jan. 2022",
"The agency recommended no changes to the status of grizzly bears in the Lower 48. \u2014 Sara Smart, CNN , 8 Dec. 2021",
"The nonprofit was founded by the Seuses in 1990 to promote the protection and restoration of grizzly habitats in North America. \u2014 Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1594, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010035"
},
"griefful":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": sorrowful , anguished":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u0113ff\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English greful , from gref, grefe + -ful":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012809"
},
"grit cell":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a stone cell especially in leaves or fleshy fruits (as pears and quinces)":[]
},
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"synonyms":[],
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"I admire her gritty determination to succeed.",
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"He gave us all of the gritty details of his divorce.",
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"The San Diego Sockers capped one of the most dominating seasons in indoor soccer history with a gritty performance that claimed the MASL\u2019s Ron Newman Cup. \u2014 Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"That gritty performance was followed up by a classier, more composed 3-1 victory against Inter Miami CF at TQL Stadium on Saturday. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Hull\u2019s was also a gritty , physical performance as well. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Mar. 2022",
"All-American forward Keegan Murray scored most of his 21 points late and Iowa was missing a counter-punch to Richmond's gritty performance. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Hero says: The Tigers turned in a gritty performance last year and upset the Gators with the help of the shoe-throwing incident by a Florida player. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 14 Oct. 2021",
"After a gritty 1-1 draw at the New York Red Bulls, the Portland Timbers make a quick divergence from their MLS schedule to compete in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on Tuesday. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 May 2022",
"So this piece was a chance to really get into the nitty- gritty of different players\u2019 styles. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 8 May 2022",
"The tech kindly handed it off to Sadler Vaden, the band\u2019s guitarist, who was immediately struck by Wade\u2019s gritty voice and transparent songwriting style. \u2014 Jessica Nicholson, Billboard , 4 May 2022"
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"after several years of aborted attempts, the band finally ground out a new album"
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"The jurors saw grisly photos of the crime scene.",
"recounted the visit to the murder scene in grisly detail",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the late 1990s, on one of their earliest tours, the Drive-By Truckers nearly met a grisly fate. \u2014 Stephen Deusner, SPIN , 28 June 2022",
"The grisly discovery is likely the deadliest human smuggling event on U.S. soil. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"The trial has had the impact of sending survivors down a rabbit hole of re-experiencing not just the grisly details of their abuse, but the aftermath \u2014 particularly, watching their abuser get away with it. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 1 June 2022",
"First there is Jacoba Ballard's grisly discovery that she was secretly fathered by her mother\u2019s fertility doctor, who impregnated patients without their knowledge or consent throughout the 1980s. \u2014 Maybelle Morgan, refinery29.com , 10 May 2022",
"The males that don\u2019t launch themselves out of their lover\u2019s embrace in time suffer a grisly fate. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The department began investigating Parchman in February 2020 after the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica reported on increases in grisly violence, gang control and substandard living conditions. \u2014 Jerry Mitchell, ProPublica , 21 Apr. 2022",
"As the large serpent swallows one of the dim-witted hunters, the other stares it down, accepting the grisly fate that\u2019s about to come, when his buddy sets off a sacrificial grenade in the snake\u2019s belly and blows it up. \u2014 Matt Cohen, The Week , 1 Oct. 2018",
"David Bonola, the handyman arrested in the grisly murder of Queens mother Orsolya Gaal, had been living in the United States in violation of immigration law when he was arrested, law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News Digital on Friday. \u2014 Stephanie Pagones, Fox News , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": a variable color averaging a grayish yellow green that is yellower and paler than average sage green, mermaid, or palmetto and yellower and less strong than celadon":[]
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"noun"
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": a statement in historical linguistics: Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops became Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives (as in Greek pyr, treis, kardia compared with English fire, three, heart ), Proto-Indo-European voiced stops became Proto-Germanic voiceless stops (as in Latin duo, genus compared with English two, kin ), and Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirated stops became Proto-Germanic voiced fricatives (as in Sanskrit n\u0101bhi, madhya \"mid\" compared with English navel , Old Norse mithr \"mid\")":[]
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"Jacob Grimm":""
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"noun"
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": work constituting or resembling a grille":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The home\u2019s lot, enclosed by a perimeter of brick walls and wrought-iron grillwork , has traces of the original landscaping by the Olmsted brothers, America\u2019s pre-eminent landscape architects in the first half of the 20th century. \u2014 J.s. Marcus, WSJ , 11 May 2021",
"Reflecting that grandeur, the current owner, Silverstein Properties, completed a $50 million renovation in 2019 that left the century-old bronze grillwork on the elevators intact. \u2014 Chris Pomorski, Curbed , 26 Apr. 2021",
"The entrance doors have plate glass panels and grillwork . \u2014 oregonlive , 1 Apr. 2021",
"His food was named Best BBQ in America by Travel and Leisure magazine in 2009 and four times his grillwork was featured in Vogue. \u2014 Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com , 30 Dec. 2020",
"Seen from the street, the building had a starchy, Beaux-Arts elegance, with limestone pediments and wrought-iron grillwork . \u2014 Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker , 23 Nov. 2020",
"And farther east on 50th Street the wonderful grillwork covering the fire escapes was Stone\u2019s idea. \u2014 Michael Kimmelman, New York Times , 15 Apr. 2020",
"Despite incursions by Urban Outfitters, Starbucks and a very fancy CVS, these dozen blocks are still mostly lined with vintage clothing shops, bars, gold grillworks and establishments with unprintable names to keep it real. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Sep. 2019",
"The dark green marble that now fills the arch above the Broadway entrance will be replaced with glass decorated with more grillwork , allowing sunlight to bathe the lobby once again. \u2014 Jane Margolies, New York Times , 20 Mar. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1896, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a chrome green containing usually about 75 percent of extending pigments and commonly used for preparing green paints and pastes for tinting":[]
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"Grimaldian":{
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"adjective"
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": of or relating to the Grimaldi race":[]
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"-m\u022fl-",
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"definitions":{
"Jacob 1785\u20131863 and his brother Wilhelm 1786\u20131859 German philologists and folklorists":[]
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": a genus of Mustelidae comprising the grisons":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-084147"
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"noun"
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"hoagy",
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"poor boy",
"sub",
"submarine",
"torpedo"
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"examples":[
"ordered a meatball grinder from the beach's concession stand",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The designer\u2019s nice-to-haves include a mug drawer, a fridge drawer for creamer, a coffee grinder and a back-up carafe. \u2014 Jamie Gold, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
"The Zwilling Fresh & Save vacuum pump is a mini handheld vacuum sealer about the size of a pepper grinder . \u2014 Alex Beggs, Bon App\u00e9tit , 4 May 2022",
"It was subsequently found that the driver, a Cleveland Heights woman, 20, was in possession of a grinder used to grind marijuana. \u2014 cleveland , 20 Jan. 2021",
"Place coffee beans into a grinder and turn handle to grind. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 20 May 2022",
"Schoocraft\u2019s overall size and patient half-court offense put Beecher, a nine-time state champion, in a meat grinder en route to a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter. \u2014 Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Nearby, four other employees in a concrete shed manned three briquette machines, crushing husks into the grinder with a tool that resembled a baseball bat. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Millions of unvaccinated children are being sent into a meat grinder this fall thanks to America's anti-vaxxers and the Republican death cult governors intent on preventing school districts from making instruction safer. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 25 Aug. 2021",
"Transfer to a spice grinder or food processor and process to a coarse blend. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022"
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"-\u014b(\u02cc)g\u00e4",
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"adverb",
"noun"
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"\u02c8gr\u0113-v\u0259s"
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"inhuman",
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"onerous",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rugged",
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"severe",
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"tough",
"trying"
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"easy",
"light",
"soft"
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"examples":[
"the grievous cost of war",
"He took a foolish financial risk and suffered a grievous loss.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lukashenko signed a decree that those caught participating in extremist activities or causing grievous harm to the interest of the republic could be deprived of citizenship. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"In Connecticut, a Farmington police officer suffered grievous injuries last year when a converter thief crushed him between the getaway car and the officer\u2019s cruiser. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Further dampening the vibe was the absence of Tiger Woods, who had sustained grievous injuries in a car wreck two months prior. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 6 Apr. 2022",
"As the fighting, now in its third week, continues to exact a grievous human toll in Ukraine with Russian troops bombarding many of the country\u2019s most populous cities, the number of those crossing into the EU has begun to slowly wane in recent days. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Local hospitals can also provide credible accounts of how many wounded have been admitted after particularly grievous attacks, or when there is widespread fighting in urban areas. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Putin has called the breakup of the Soviet Union a grievous tragedy in the history of his country. \u2014 Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Coming out a full two years after the cultural rubbernecking that made Netflix\u2019s Tiger King a brief sensation, the show\u2019s refusal or inability to streamline the themes and narrative of this story has gone from innocuous to grievous . \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Because animals can\u2019t speak for themselves, welfare laws tend to protect them only when there is clear proof of grievous physical harm. \u2014 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": full of or covered with grime : dirty":[]
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"filthy",
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"grubby",
"grungy",
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"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
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"spic-and-span",
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"unsoiled",
"unstained",
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"examples":[
"this mirror is so grimy you can barely see your reflection in it",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lustig's New York City is grimy , dark, and lonely, a fascinating and terrifying wonderland where danger lurks around every corner. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"The somewhat grimy stretch \u2014 just a block from the famed Fort Lauderdale beach on busy Sunrise Boulevard \u2014 hasn\u2019t changed much in the past five decades, except for the wildly popular Franco & Vinny\u2019s old-time Italian restaurant closing a year ago. \u2014 Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Kenobi might be disappointing, but the upcoming Disney+ series Andor looks surprisingly promising; the trailer shows a wartime struggle that mirrors the grimy , weighty aesthetic of Rogue One, a fresh story with new characters. \u2014 Dani Di Placido, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The Dark Knight is depicted in a grimy Gotham city fighting for justice with Commissioner Gordon. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 9 May 2022",
"Miles to the west, on a grimy corner near the Slavyansk train station, where a trio of stray dogs growled at each other over a scrap of food, Yuri Kovalenko, a 58-year-old coal miner, waited for the bus that would take him and his family to safety. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Claire Denis revives that sort of grimy glamor in this humid, intoxicating American-abroad thriller, but she\u2019s not nearly so naive or nostalgic as her young protagonist. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 25 May 2022",
"Abassi, who wrote the script with Afshin Kamran Bahrami, is less interested in religious tourism than in Mashhad\u2019s grimy back-alleys and industrial wastelands. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"Made with a durable brush roll, the vacuum gets grimy bits and crumbs stuck in your carpets and uses edge-to-edge suction, which means less time vacuuming and more time doing spent something else. \u2014 Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com , 15 May 2022"
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"noun"
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": a deep narrow glen or ravine":[]
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": in a grimy condition or manner":[]
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a capacitor connected in the grid circuit of an electron tube":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114825"
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"The vent was covered with a grille .",
"The truck has a large metal grille at the front.",
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"Other embellishments include a pull tab on the front grille , sporting the retro PSB logo. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"The front end features narrower headlights and a new front grille . \u2014 Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver , 30 June 2022",
"His nature poetry is more charged: there are poems about pippies, green catbirds, Australian pelicans, and a weebill caught in the grille of Murray\u2019s car. \u2014 The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"The chunky grille on the front bumper along with the fog lights, lower cladding, and noticeable roof rails wouldn't look out of place on a Subaru or really any modern crossover with adventurous aspirations. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 18 May 2022",
"The climate controls are identical, as is the metallic grille in the dashboard that forms some of the most attractive vents on any vehicle. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 26 May 2022",
"Some sites recommend removing the outer grille to better clean the coils and straighten any bent fins. \u2014 Carolyn Fort\u00e9, Good Housekeeping , 18 May 2022",
"Mansory has also ditched the Roma's body-color egg-crate grille for black mesh. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Urwerk, however, says the design is partly inspired by the grille of the Bugatti Atlantique. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 2 Mar. 2022"
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"French grille , from Old French graille , from Latin craticula , diminutive of cratis wickerwork \u2014 more at hurdle":""
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"city south-southeast of Atlanta in west central Georgia population 23,643":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hart said the debate over the griffin missed the bigger picture. \u2014 Ryan J. Foley, USA TODAY , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Hart said the debate over the griffin missed the bigger picture. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Supporters of the griffin , including the Back the Blue group, framed its removal as an affront to officers. \u2014 Ryan J. Foley, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Supporters of the griffin , including the Back the Blue group, framed its removal as an affront to officers. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Supporters of the griffin , including the Back the Blue group, framed its removal as an affront to officers. \u2014 Ryan J. Foley, USA TODAY , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Yet as noted, geomyths like the griffin and Cyclopes arose from specific geographical regions that feature remains not found elsewhere. \u2014 Timothy John Burbery, The Conversation , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Historian Adrienne Mayor argues that the Asian dinosaur Proceratops may have inspired myths of the griffin . \u2014 Manuel Balce Ceneta, National Geographic , 21 Sep. 2020",
"Bacteria had eaten away at the iron artifacts onboard, but wooden artifacts, including the masthead of a griffin -dog chimera holding a person\u2019s head in its mouth, remained intact. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Sep. 2020"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143806"
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"\u2014 Virginia Hughes",
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"\u2014 David B. Feldman"
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"\u2014 The Altamont Enterprise",
"Mr. Moseley is a union \" griever ,\" or shop steward as he would be called in some unions, handling union members' complaints against his employer \u2026",
"\u2014 Alex Kotlowitz"
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"French, from Old French, alteration of gramaire grammar, grammar book, learned work, book of witchcraft":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-190817"
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"French, from griller to supply with grillwork, from gril":""
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"Spanish, alteration of griego Greek, stranger, from Latin Graecus Greek":""
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"1849, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a prickly pear ( Opuntia erinacea ) of the southwestern U.S. with very long flexible ashy gray spines":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001551"
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"adverb"
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": with grief":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002501"
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"noun"
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": a genus of fossil plants of the Jurassic formations of England that are usually considered to be angiosperms and have pyriform carpels or carpellary fruits enclosing ovule or seed":[]
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"gris\u02c8th\u022f(r)p\u0113\u0259"
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"New Latin, from Gristhorpe , Yorkshire, England + New Latin -ia":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gril-\u02ccp\u00e4rt-s\u0259r"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043836"
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"Grimm's law":{
"type":[
"noun"
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": a statement in historical linguistics: Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops became Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives (as in Greek pyr, treis, kardia compared with English fire, three, heart ), Proto-Indo-European voiced stops became Proto-Germanic voiceless stops (as in Latin duo, genus compared with English two, kin ), and Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirated stops became Proto-Germanic voiced fricatives (as in Sanskrit n\u0101bhi, madhya \"mid\" compared with English navel , Old Norse mithr \"mid\")":[]
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"\u02c8grimz-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Jacob Grimm":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1838, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044132"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a tube or rod of square cross section fitted into a square hole in the rotary-drill table and forming the top section of the rotary-drill shaft in an oil well":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045225"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gris-\u0259l",
"-z\u0259l",
"\u02c8gri-s\u0259l"
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"examples":[
"a cheap piece of meat, full of gristle and fat",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mangled bunnies figure prominently in a show that somehow managed to keep it light while not being afraid to talk about gristle and blood. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 19 June 2022",
"You'll get chewed up and spit out like a hunk of gristle . \u2014 Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com , 16 Feb. 2022",
"My wife got the brisket and turkey which were both smoky but the brisket had a titch too much gristle . \u2014 cleveland , 23 Dec. 2021",
"While the pork knuckle is still warm, separate the meat from the bone; discard the bone with the fat, and the gristle . \u2014 Kate Krader, Fortune , 11 Dec. 2021",
"There\u2019s gristle to Druig\u2019s (Barry Keoghan) slim portion of the story. \u2014 Angelica Jade Basti\u00e9n, Vulture , 5 Nov. 2021",
"This surpasses international standards of biodegradability and eliminates wasted fuel for burning off gristle and grit. \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 25 May 2021",
"The high heat delivered a crispy gristle on the steak that sealed in the seasoning like a blanket and allowed the beef flavor to stand out more than the fuel. \u2014 Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News , 15 Feb. 2021",
"Remove as much fat, gristle , fascia\u2014anything but muscle\u2014since fat and other non-muscle parts can oxidize quicker and spoil meat. \u2014 Jack Hennessy, Outdoor Life , 3 Dec. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gristil , from Old English gristle ; akin to Middle Low German gristel gristle":""
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"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045805"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a worker that screens ore in a grizzly":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-m\u0259n"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"grizzly entry 2 + man":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045949"
},
"grimme":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small West African antelope ( Cephalophus rufilotus ) of a deep bay color":[]
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"\u02c8grim"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from New Latin grimmia (specific epithet of the Linnaean designation Capra grimmia ), from Hermann N. Grimm \u20201711 German scientist + New Latin -ia":""
"Middle English grisbiten , from Old English gristbitian , from grist-bite act of gnashing, from gr\u012bst act of grinding + bite biting, from b\u012btan to bite":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-052147"
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": a mythical animal typically having the head, forepart, and wings of an eagle and the body, hind legs, and tail of a lion":[],
"Walter Burley 1876\u20131937 American architect":[],
"city south-southeast of Atlanta in west central Georgia population 23,643":[]
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"\u02c8gri-f\u0259n"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hart said the debate over the griffin missed the bigger picture. \u2014 Ryan J. Foley, USA TODAY , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Hart said the debate over the griffin missed the bigger picture. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Supporters of the griffin , including the Back the Blue group, framed its removal as an affront to officers. \u2014 Ryan J. Foley, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Supporters of the griffin , including the Back the Blue group, framed its removal as an affront to officers. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Supporters of the griffin , including the Back the Blue group, framed its removal as an affront to officers. \u2014 Ryan J. Foley, USA TODAY , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Yet as noted, geomyths like the griffin and Cyclopes arose from specific geographical regions that feature remains not found elsewhere. \u2014 Timothy John Burbery, The Conversation , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Historian Adrienne Mayor argues that the Asian dinosaur Proceratops may have inspired myths of the griffin . \u2014 Manuel Balce Ceneta, National Geographic , 21 Sep. 2020",
"Bacteria had eaten away at the iron artifacts onboard, but wooden artifacts, including the masthead of a griffin -dog chimera holding a person\u2019s head in its mouth, remained intact. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Sep. 2020"
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"Middle English griffon , from Anglo-French grif, griffun , from Latin gryphus , from Greek gryp-, gryps":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-054357"
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"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": rather grim":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-071058"
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"type":[
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"gringol\u00e9e":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": having at the end of each arm a pair of serpent heads with each head turned outward":[
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},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6gri\u014bg\u0259\u00a6l\u0101"
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"French gringol\u00e9 , from gringole serpent's head":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-102813"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a long slender crusty breadstick usually of Italian style or origin":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, from Italian dialect (Piedmont) griss\u00ecn, ghers\u00ecn , from ghersa strip":""
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"grinding wheel":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an abrasive wheel or disk used for cutting or smoothing hard materials":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-123459"
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"griphite":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a mineral (Na,Al,Ca,Fe) 6 Mn 4 (PO 4 ) 5 (OH) 4 consisting of basic phosphate of sodium, calcium, iron, aluminum, and manganese with a crystal structure related to that of garnet":[]
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek griphos enigma + English -ite ; from its unusual composition":""
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": matter of interest or value forming the basis of a story or analysis":[],
": something turned to advantage or use":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And even the peculiar prejudices of the island became grist for the mill once Booster read Austen\u2019s novel and realized that her story of social stratification would map neatly onto his own experiences. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"The troubling episode between Smith and Rock provided more grist for some on social media who lambasted the show and Hollywood. \u2014 Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The property offers a unique opportunity to observe rural 19th century grist mill technology. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 19 May 2022",
"The primary grist of Platt\u2019s Q&A with Music Business Assn. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 11 May 2022",
"Fewer than a half-dozen early grist mills have survived in Carroll County. \u2014 Madison Bateman, Baltimore Sun , 10 May 2022",
"But these services also lack the grist of that risky, human relationship. \u2014 Ana Cecilia Alvarez, The Atlantic , 1 May 2022",
"Still, even if it is destined for the dustbin, the measure\u2019s mere existence means it could be used as grist to energize conservatives on the campaign trail \u2014 and a trial balloon that sets the stage for more serious discussion next year. \u2014 al , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Gun battles, life-endangering treachery, and duffel bags of cash\u2014the pulp grist that had always been on the show\u2019s periphery\u2014were now central. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 14 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Old English gr\u012bst ; akin to Old English grindan to grind":""
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"noun"
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": cleavers":[]
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"noun"
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"\u02c8gr\u012bk"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of Middle English crike , from Old Norse kriki crack, bend, concavity":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a genus related to Delesseria and comprising red algae with lanceolate fronds often 18 inches or more in length":[]
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"-ly\u0259",
"gr\u0259\u0307\u02c8nel\u0113\u0259"
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"New Latin, from Henry Grinnell \u20201874 American merchant + New Latin -ia":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a grid terminal (as on some amplifier tubes) that resembles a cap and is connected to the grid circuit by means of a spring clip":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": chipmunk , ground squirrel":[]
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"origin unknown":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a small constant component of the grid potential in a vacuum tube that is usually negative for ordinary triode control grids":[]
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"noun",
"verb"
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": a facial expression produced by grinning especially in pleasure or amusement":[
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"\u2014 Louise Erdrich",
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"She continued to tease her brother, grinning wickedly.",
"grinned at the kids' fooling around in the pool",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"My heart goes out to all who have to grin and bear it, or grimace and bear it. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 29 June 2022",
"All that was left to do was grin and bear it and hope that Mom would give me a turkey sandwich for lunch the next day. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
"All the Blazers can do is grin and bear it and hope their luck turns at the June 23 NBA draft, during free agency or in the trade market. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
"Even as the show around her stutters, Garner leans into her role with a vulpine, barely there grin that proves irresistible. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 9 Feb. 2022",
"For instance, when infielder Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas worked a walk-off walk to beat the Yankees earlier this month, his first move was to grin and bring his hands to his face. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 28 Apr. 2022",
"In the photo, the father-son duo both grin with their arms crossed for the camera while standing back-to-back in sweatshirts. \u2014 Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Williams may not have wanted to flash a smile, but Auburn gave him plenty to grin about Saturday. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Ten teenage girls grin from a stage, standing side by side with their arms intertwined and right feet kicked up in the air. \u2014 Kaila Yu, Travel + Leisure , 13 Mar. 2022"
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"Middle English grennen , from Old English grennian ; akin to Old High German grennen to snarl":"Verb"
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": given to grinning":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-072512"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a mill for grinding grain":[]
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"\u02c8grist-\u02ccmil"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fun fact: it's filmed inside a gristmill from the 1800s. \u2014 Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Those who survive are grizzled veterans who evangelize the gristmill of the tech mindset. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Their plan was to build a gristmill to grind wheat into flour, giving the tobacco industry a run for its money. \u2014 Janet Barber, Scientific American , 9 Nov. 2021",
"The water wheels of Virginia\u2019s last gristmill still turn in the village of Aldie, while Middleburg, often referred to as America\u2019s horse and hunt country capital, is an equestrian\u2019s paradise. \u2014 Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes , 26 Feb. 2021",
"Stitt later took a little tour of McEwen\u2019s gristmill operation, and he was sold. \u2014 Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al , 24 Feb. 2021",
"There was also a large gristmill at nearby Honey Springs, founded by Aaron Overton, another plantation owner, that had been in operation since 1853. \u2014 Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News , 23 Sep. 2020",
"The humble farming locale included a few amenities such as boardinghouse that opened in 1845 and a gristmill on the Five Mile Creek. \u2014 Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News , 15 Aug. 2020",
"This show will take place inside an old gristmill that the couple had purchased a few years back and renovated. \u2014 Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful , 8 Apr. 2020"
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"first_known_use":{
"1602, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-075200"
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"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to remodel (an ancient building) without proper knowledge or care to retain its original quality and character":[]
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"\u02c8grim(p)\u02ccth\u022f(\u0259)rp"
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"after Sir Edmund Beckett, first Baron Grimthorpe \u20201905 English lawyer and architect whose restoration of St. Albans cathedral in England was severely criticized":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-105007"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": technical jargon (as of legal matters)":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Grimgribber , an imaginary estate subject of a legal discussion in the play Conscious Lovers (1722) by Sir Richard Steele \u20201729 British essayist and dramatist":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-112329"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": cruel and fierce : dreadful":[]
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"\u02c8grim(p)f\u0259l"
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"Middle English, from grim + -ful":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-122220"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": consisting of or containing gristle":[
"gristly steak"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gri-s\u0259-l\u0113",
"\u02c8griz-",
"\u02c8gris-l\u0113"
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-133921"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a widely distributed genus of tufted rock mosses that is the type of the family Grimmiaceae":[]
},
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"\u02c8grim\u0113\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Johann F. K. Grimm \u20201821 German botanist + New Latin -ia":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-151956"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain":[
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"\u2014 Chris Ballard",
"My father shifted his weight and grimaced . The sheet slid off his injured leg, the calf swollen, purple as a plum \u2026",
"\u2014 Bernard Cooper"
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"gri-\u02c8m\u0101s",
"\u02c8gri-m\u0259s"
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"face",
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"lower",
"lour",
"moue",
"mouth",
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"mug",
"pout",
"scowl",
"snoot"
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"mouth",
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"Noun",
"The patient made a painful grimace as the doctor examined his wound.",
"he made a grimace when he tasted the medicine",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Then there was the stumble on No. 8, and the grimace in obvious pain. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"Bradley would enter the room wearing a grimace more often than a grin, sit behind a microphone and begin by explaining how his team could get better. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
"But show the identical face on a runner crossing the finish line of a race, and the same grimace conveys triumph. \u2014 Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Tiger clearly was in pain, a grimace frozen on his face. \u2014 USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
"In the fourth, a pair of straight rights to the face made Kozin grimace . \u2014 New York Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Yes, that concert was 59 years ago now \u2014 a figure Wolfe relays with a self-deprecating grimace . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The carved channels delineate in negative space the pendulous breasts, somnolent grimace and agitated body. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The appreciative holiday crowd of 3,417 cheered every grunt, every grimace , every snap of the head until Ramirez ended the drama with a barrage of blows early in the 10th to win the WBA light heavyweight title eliminator in impressive fashion. \u2014 John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News , 19 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The thought of Daytona\u2019s orange beaches caused a few to grimace . \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"While some may grimace , natural gas will remain a prominent part of the American economy not just to generate electricity but also to assist in the manufacturing process. \u2014 Ken Silverstein, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Above her, the rest of the art-world figures\u2014all, as Bloemink shows, caricatural portraits of real people\u2014gesticulate and grimace . \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Matthew doesn\u2019t speak but can grimace , shrug, grunt, nod, or frown. \u2014 Weike Wang, The New Yorker , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Lava-red splashes oozed across the screens as Collins dug into his theatrical leanings to sneer and grimace through the lyrics, punctuating them with the song's trademark reptilian cackle. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 20 Nov. 2021",
"While those from the pro-vaccination camp might grimace in disdain at Minaj, her rationale for refraining from getting vaccinated is shared by many others who also remain unvaccinated. \u2014 Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Having something to look forward to is important, so use family meetings to create ideas that will make everyone smile (or at least not grimace ). \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Sep. 2021",
"DeGrom apeared to grimace after a third-inning pitch to Eric Sogard. \u2014 Jerry Beach, Star Tribune , 16 June 2021"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Middle French, alteration of grimache , of Germanic origin; akin to Old English gr\u012bma mask":"Noun"
},
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"1651, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1762, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the second stage in the Brahmanic ashrama in which a man assumes the duties and responsibilities of a householder":[]
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"Sanskrit g\u1e5bhastha":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-184337"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": one of the pits sunk near Brandon, Suffolk, England, in Neolithic times for the mining of flint":[]
},
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"origin unknown":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-191720"
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"adjective",
"plural noun"
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"definitions":{
": a family of acrocarpous mosses that have the capsule on a short stalk and with a single peristome the teeth of which are often split or perforated and that form dark mats or cushions lacking chlorophyll except at the tips of stems and branches":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-202037"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
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"definitions":{
": an order of Musci comprising acrocarpous mosses that are usually blackish green with branching stems and densely crowded leaves and that grow chiefly on rocks":[]
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"\u02ccgrim\u0113\u02c8\u0101(\u02cc)l\u0113z"
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"New Latin, from Grimmia + -ales":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-202221"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": free from grime : clean , immaculate":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-l\u0259\u0307s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-222114"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a talisman, amulet, voodoo charm, spell, or incantation believed capable of warding off evil and bringing good luck to oneself or of bringing misfortune to another":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-223455"
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"grim-the-collier":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": orange hawkweed":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6grim-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"after Grim the Collier , character in the anonymous play Grim the Collier of Croydon (1662); from its black smutty involucre":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-231607"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": the starting positions of cars on a racecourse":[],
": a device in a photocomposer on which are located the characters to be exposed as the text is composed":[]
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"\u02c8grid"
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"examples":[
"The students plotted points on a grid .",
"The city streets form a grid .",
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"Forstner recommends grouping nine or 12 pieces from one artist to create a grid . \u2014 Marissa Hermanson, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"Piet Mondrian\u2019s name is indistinguishable from his signature style: blocks of reds, blues and yellows against a black-and-white grid . \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 June 2022",
"The airport is three miles away, and the central shopping and dining district is contained within a pert five-block grid . \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 16 June 2022",
"There\u2019s a grid of rusty iron separating us from the other half of the room, where what looks like a birdcage hangs from the ceiling. \u2014 Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone , 15 June 2022",
"Survivors must fend with a shut-down energy grid , supply shortages and a widespread descent into feral behavior that happens much too quickly. \u2014 Bob Verini, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"Additionally, the editors look for a grid packed with interesting and exciting entries. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"Ellie has that very memorable sequence in the power grid with some raptor buddies. \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"The wars returned things to white, this time in an endless 4-by-4 square grid , while also bringing industrialization, standardization and the beginning of cheaper \u2014 and less durable \u2014 ways of building. \u2014 Krystal Chang, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"back-formation from gridiron":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1839, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-025715"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of various compounds of magnesium with an organic radical and a halogen (as ethyl-magnesium iodide C 2 H 5 MgI) that react readily (as with water, alcohols, amines, acids) in the Grignard reaction":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"after Victor Grignard":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the reaction of a Grignard reagent with any of several types of compounds (as an aldehyde, ketone, or ester) to yield any of a variety of compounds (as an alcohol)":[]
},
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"(\u02c8)gr\u0113n\u00a6y\u00e4r(d)-"
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"after Victor Grignard \u20201934 French chemist":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-072508"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": small or inferior apples left on a tree after picking":[]
},
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"\u02c8grig\u0259lz"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from grig entry 1 + -le , diminutive suffix":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-090336"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a young pig":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gr\u012bs",
"\u02c8gr\u0113s"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English grys, grise , from Old Norse gr\u012bss":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-090921"
},
"gridiron":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a grate for broiling food":[
"Put the steaks on the gridiron ."
],
": something consisting of or covered with a network":[
"a gridiron of streets"
],
": a football field":[
"The two teams will face each other on the gridiron ."
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8grid-\u02cc\u012b(-\u0259)rn",
"\u02c8grid-\u02cc\u012b-\u0259rn"
],
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"examples":[
"The book recounts his many moments of glory on the gridiron .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yes, the Pac-12 as a whole has been behind the curve on the gridiron in recent years. \u2014 Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY , 30 June 2022",
"On the gridiron , tackle football player Lelatasiosamoa Vaeao is a USA All-Star who has played offensive guard, defensive tackle and nose tackle in games around the world. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"The Hilltoppers already have two straight state football championships, with nine players on the baseball team who contributed last fall on the gridiron . \u2014 Matt Goul, cleveland , 11 June 2022",
"Colin Price amassed 5,394 rushing yards over four seasons on the gridiron . \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022",
"Wall, a talented wide receiver on the gridiron , discovered a love for track and field, developing a passion for long jump. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"The drone-racing fan is not your typical gridiron or hoops fanatic, Jacobson told CBS MoneyWatch. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 14 Sep. 2021",
"What bad examples for all the little Texas kids wanting to grow up to become gridiron legends. \u2014 Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY , 11 Oct. 2020",
"Born from an athletic family, Williams is a two-sport athlete, centering himself around the gridiron and track, which Gschwnder also coaches. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 4 June 2022"
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"The two most common borers are a kind of shipworm called Teredo navalis, which is actually a wormlike clam, and tiny crustaceans known as gribbles . \u2014 New York Times , 13 Sep. 2019",
"So, discovering how gribbles break through lignin would be an important step to figuring out how humans can use it, and scientists from the Universities of York, Portsmouth, Cambridge, and S\u00e3o Paulo figured it out. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 5 Dec. 2018",
"The scientists discovered that gribbles use hemocyanins to attack the strong bonds of lignin. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 5 Dec. 2018",
"Deep-sea wood borers (Xylophaga, a genus of bivalve mollusks) take over where shallow water gribbles and shipworms left off. \u2014 Brian Payton, Smithsonian , 9 Feb. 2018"
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"this mirror is so grimy you can barely see your reflection in it",
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"Lustig's New York City is grimy , dark, and lonely, a fascinating and terrifying wonderland where danger lurks around every corner. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"The somewhat grimy stretch \u2014 just a block from the famed Fort Lauderdale beach on busy Sunrise Boulevard \u2014 hasn\u2019t changed much in the past five decades, except for the wildly popular Franco & Vinny\u2019s old-time Italian restaurant closing a year ago. \u2014 Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Kenobi might be disappointing, but the upcoming Disney+ series Andor looks surprisingly promising; the trailer shows a wartime struggle that mirrors the grimy , weighty aesthetic of Rogue One, a fresh story with new characters. \u2014 Dani Di Placido, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The Dark Knight is depicted in a grimy Gotham city fighting for justice with Commissioner Gordon. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 9 May 2022",
"Miles to the west, on a grimy corner near the Slavyansk train station, where a trio of stray dogs growled at each other over a scrap of food, Yuri Kovalenko, a 58-year-old coal miner, waited for the bus that would take him and his family to safety. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Claire Denis revives that sort of grimy glamor in this humid, intoxicating American-abroad thriller, but she\u2019s not nearly so naive or nostalgic as her young protagonist. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 25 May 2022",
"Abassi, who wrote the script with Afshin Kamran Bahrami, is less interested in religious tourism than in Mashhad\u2019s grimy back-alleys and industrial wastelands. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"Made with a durable brush roll, the vacuum gets grimy bits and crumbs stuck in your carpets and uses edge-to-edge suction, which means less time vacuuming and more time doing spent something else. \u2014 Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com , 15 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Bennett sought to unite the country after a prolonged period of political gridlock that brought four elections in less than two years, but in the end his own small party largely crumbled, as members rebelled against his coalition. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"The vote, expected later this year, could bring about the return of a nationalist religious government led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or another prolonged period of political gridlock . \u2014 Ilan Ben Zion, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
"Asking if this time would finally be enough to change the political landscape here in Washington and break through decades of gridlock . \u2014 ABC News , 5 June 2022",
"The hearing featured emotional pleas from Democratic lawmakers for Congress to respond to the mass shootings after years of gridlock on gun issues, one of the most riveting coming from Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia. \u2014 Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"The hearing featured emotional pleas from Democratic lawmakers for Congress to respond to the mass shootings after years of gridlock on gun issues, one of the most riveting coming from Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia. \u2014 Kevin Freking, Chron , 2 June 2022",
"The hearing featured emotional pleas from Democratic lawmakers for Congress to respond to the mass shootings after years of gridlock on gun issues, one of the most riveting coming from Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia. \u2014 Kevin Freking, Chicago Tribune , 2 June 2022",
"Congress also lagged behind, with pandemic funding caught in intraparty squabbles and partisan fights \u2014 the kind of gridlock that has often prevented lawmakers from getting things done in recent years. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"To this day, does Walton know the identity of his gridlock angels? \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 June 2022"
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"\u2014 Timothy Egan",
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"\u2014 Andrew Sullivan"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Known for: passionate defense of global women; using White House position to grift for fashion brand until shuttering it in 2018 after slumping sales. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Anna Sorokin, who posed as a German heiress named Anna Delvey to grift her way into a luxurious Manhattan lifestyle, has been released from prison this week after years of backlash for her famous SoHo scam. \u2014 Erin Corbett, refinery29.com , 14 Feb. 2021",
"The coronavirus era has plainly shown how unprepared nursing homes were to deal with such a huge crisis, but equally how many of them are eager to grift and skim, even in the direst times. \u2014 Libby Watson, The New Republic , 26 May 2020",
"From fancy little pens to fancy little snacks, report after report has emerged of Pruitt using his position and his influence to grift the hell out of taxpayers. \u2014 Gabriella Paiella, The Cut , 3 July 2018",
"If nothing else, McFarland\u2019s utter commitment to grifting at just 26 years old is impressive. \u2014 Jasmine Sanders, The Cut , 13 June 2018",
"But after using hundreds of fake online identities to grift the online retail giant, the husband and wife team face up to 20 years behind bars for fraud and money laundering. \u2014 Grace Donnelly, Fortune , 2 Oct. 2017",
"Not to alarm you, fellow Chicagoans, but someone is trying to grift our fair city: Heinz, that ubiquitous purveyor of ketchup, is trying to sneak the red stuff on your hot dogs. \u2014 Joseph Hernandez, chicagotribune.com , 18 July 2017",
"And that\u2019s just in the opening scene \u2014 a splashy tableau of gleeful street grifting that\u2019s staged with plenty of midcentury-Manhattan grit and wit in the Old Globe\u2019s crackling new revival of the musical favorite. \u2014 James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com , 8 July 2017"
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"the grievous cost of war",
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"The Supreme Court ruled for the first time in its history that states have concurrent jurisdiction with the federal government to prosecute a broad swath of crimes in Indian country, dealing a grievous blow to tribal sovereignty. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 29 June 2022",
"Ukraine is suffering a grievous blow, but nations that are proud and have a strong sense of identity can survive imperial impositions, or there wouldn\u2019t be a nation of Poland or, for that matter, Ukraine. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 25 Feb. 2022",
"But most observers outside of Poland view it the other way \u2014 that Warsaw\u2019s gambit is a grievous blow to the European project. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Lukashenko signed a decree that those caught participating in extremist activities or causing grievous harm to the interest of the republic could be deprived of citizenship. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"In Connecticut, a Farmington police officer suffered grievous injuries last year when a converter thief crushed him between the getaway car and the officer\u2019s cruiser. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Further dampening the vibe was the absence of Tiger Woods, who had sustained grievous injuries in a car wreck two months prior. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 6 Apr. 2022",
"As the fighting, now in its third week, continues to exact a grievous human toll in Ukraine with Russian troops bombarding many of the country\u2019s most populous cities, the number of those crossing into the EU has begun to slowly wane in recent days. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Local hospitals can also provide credible accounts of how many wounded have been admitted after particularly grievous attacks, or when there is widespread fighting in urban areas. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022"
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