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"\u0101-\u02c8r\u0101-t\u035fhy\u00e4",
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"Mercury was the gods' herald ."
],
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"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
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"a gong used to herald the new year",
"the approach of a cold air mass \u2026 is heralded by a shift of the wind",
"\u2014 P. E. James"
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"doctors are heralding a new drug"
],
": to signal the approach of : foreshadow":[
"The technology heralded a new age of space exploration."
]
},
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"Noun",
"The early flowers are heralds of spring.",
"Mercury was the herald of the Roman gods.",
"Verb",
"Rain heralds the arrival of spring.",
"The technology heralded a new age of space exploration.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Professor Anne Curry became the first female herald to take part in the royal procession inside Westminster, having been appointed to the post of Arundel Herald Extraordinary on Monday. \u2014 Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022",
"And yet in both cases a Trump endorsement is hardly a herald of victory. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Indeed, weekday mornings and midafternoons in the city herald a choke of cars dropping off and picking up students. \u2014 Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Capone was indicted and Chicago freed to argue that its fair wouldn\u2019t be mobbed up or a casualty of the Depression, but a herald of better times. \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"However, the material has also helped herald in a lot of development in various forms. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper herald in the new year at Times Square. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 26 Dec. 2021",
"If anything, Virginia\u2019s election results could act as an especially accurate herald about the midterms and the next presidential election. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Execute pilots to evaluate assumptions about the future and spot weak signals that herald industry shifts. \u2014 Ganes Kesari, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Thiel and Musk may herald the rise of a new breed of tech billionaire, turning their deep pockets and distinct ideologies away from the companies that made their fortunes toward building a new version of the American right. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2022",
"Thiel and Musk may herald the rise of a new breed of tech billionaire, turning their deep pockets and distinct ideologies away from the companies that made their fortunes toward building a new version of the American right. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post , 19 June 2022",
"The availability of apps to translate spoken or written words on smartphones or devices may herald another solution. \u2014 Aidan Connolly, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Still, weak market breadth may herald further declines for US stocks in the near term as fewer stocks moving major indexes higher. \u2014 Jessica Menton, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"What those who might herald Cawthorn\u2019s ouster might do well to reflect upon was just how much of all that the party cheerfully tolerated. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 20 May 2022",
"Four out of five migraineurs may have symptoms that herald the onset of the migraine before the headache itself. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But -- even from his lofty vantagepoint -- Healy was yet to see the first dust-clouds that would herald the stomping of 80,000 hooves. \u2014 Mark Eveleigh, CNN , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Adding Finland and Sweden would cap an eight-year rejuvenation of NATO, which rediscovered its purpose after Russia\u2019s seizure of Crimea in 2014, and could herald a new, stronger era for the alliance. \u2014 Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ , 18 May 2022"
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"Middle English heraud, herald, harawd, borrowed from Anglo-French heraud, herald (continental Old French nominative hirauz, oblique hyraut ), borrowed from Old Low Franconian *heriwalda-, from *heri- \"body of armed men\" (going back to Germanic *harja- ) + *-walda- \"one directing or having authority,\" noun derivative of *waldan- \"to have authority over, rule\" \u2014 more at harry , wield":"Noun",
"Middle English herauden \"to sound the praises of,\" borrowed from Middle French hirauder, herauder \"(of a herald) to proclaim publicly, to praise unreservedly,\" derivative of hiraud, heraud herald entry 1":"Verb"
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"protagonist",
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Japanese wedding kimonos, the prints of Hokusai, Kashmiri shawls, medieval heraldry , Persian carpets and jewellery are all sources of inspiration here. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Oscar nominees are likely receiving the top-tier $225 package, which includes a deed for a 100-square-foot plot and all the heraldry and plaid-branded accouterments that evoke Scottish peerage. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 27 Mar. 2022",
"The top half is embossed with the Royal Navy Crest, with the British Army heraldry to the lower left, and the Royal Air Force insignia to the lower right. \u2014 Matthew Catellier, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Old Guard families, who, wealthy from industries whose economic miracle depended on free or exploited labor\u2014the China trade, the railroads, manufacturing\u2014began to supply themselves with heraldry and property. \u2014 Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker , 30 Nov. 2020",
"The event kicked off May 2 with a solemn but colorful parade of flags and heraldry . \u2014 Laura Mallonee, WIRED , 27 Aug. 2019",
"Ascension is arguably the most princess-y, with its white and gray floral heraldry -like packaging and shades of sweet pastels and soft, neutral browns with names like Glass Slipper, Tulle, and Curtsy. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 26 Apr. 2019",
"The British are known to take matters of heraldry seriously, and Mr. Trump\u2019s American coat of arms belongs to another family. \u2014 Danny Hakim, New York Times , 28 May 2017",
"Historically admired by royalty, ermine pelts were used for royal robes, in portraits, and as a design in heraldry . \u2014 National Geographic , 6 Feb. 2016"
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"1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"added some ferns and other herbage to the sidewalk planters",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When left to themselves, their great delight, after filling themselves with the coarse herbage of the desert, is to lie and roll in the hot sand. \u2014 Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American , 1 Jan. 2021",
"Instead of giving away free drinks to gamblers, Chicago\u2019s new casino and others across the state should have servers carrying large hookahs filled with primo, mind-bending herbage . \u2014 Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com , 5 June 2019",
"The infertility may have resulted from a hormone imbalance, triggered by the herbage that the sheep ate, according to the study. \u2014 Jacqueline Howard, CNN , 27 Sep. 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02cch\u0259r-ky\u0259-\u02c8l\u0113-\u0259n",
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"backbreaking",
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"hard",
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"rugged",
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"sweaty",
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"antonyms":[
"drive",
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"run"
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": a congregation of gregarious wild animals":[
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": a group of people usually having a common bond":[
"a herd of tourists"
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": a large assemblage of like things":[
"herds of cars"
],
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"a herd of cattle"
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"isolate the individual prophets from the herd",
"\u2014 Norman Cousins"
],
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"herding onto the subway"
],
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"herded the children into the car"
],
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"dogs that are trained to herd sheep"
],
": to place in a group":[
"herd us with their kindred fools",
"\u2014 Jonathan Swift"
],
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"it is desirable that young noblemen should herd",
"\u2014 Sir Walter Scott"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The herd grazed peacefully in the pasture.",
"A herd of shoppers waited anxiously for the store to open.",
"Verb",
"The horses were herded into the corral.",
"We left the hotel and were herded onto a bus.",
"They herded the students into the auditorium.",
"The commuters herded onto the train.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The appropriate management level for that herd is between 165 to 250 animals on the area\u2019s 265,711 acres. \u2014 Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"Big Bone Lick's website recommends visiting the bison herd , touring the museum and diorama pit, seeing the salt springs along the Big Bone Creek trail, camping overnight and, of course, grabbing a souvenir t-shirt. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 23 June 2022",
"More than 3 million herd animals have perished since mid-2021, according to monitoring agencies. \u2014 Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"Over three million herd animals have perished since mid-2021, according to monitoring agencies. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"The Moon is in your fun sector, turning your focus on your favorite things, but Luna will make a rough opposition to stern Saturn in your social sector, forcing you to come to terms with herd mentality. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"In 2015 and 2016, 73 Kentucky elk were used to establish the central Wisconsin herd near Black River Falls. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
"Unless a rancher has access to tens of thousands of acres, herd sizes have to be limited to make this kind of agriculture work. \u2014 Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News , 1 June 2022",
"Hitchens saw 9/11 as a moment to decisively break from the left and, if not to join the right, at least to join the pro-war herd . \u2014 Matthew Duss, The New Republic , 1 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Fans say the medium-sized, shaggy dogs are vigorous, versatile and hard working, able to herd sheep, hunt boar, snag rats and compete in canine sports such as agility and dock diving. \u2014 Jennifer Peltz, ajc , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Your questions answered Today\u2019s question comes from readers who want to know: Did Omicron infect enough people to get the U.S. to herd immunity",
"The Great Pyrenees were once used to herd livestock on steep mountain slopes of France and will eagerly embark on a tough, rugged hike. \u2014 Mattie Schuler, Outside Online , 6 Dec. 2013",
"The numbers offer a clue as to how close to herd immunity the state and various regions are. \u2014 Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Mar. 2021",
"The mandate was to lasso viewers and herd them to Paramount+, where the shows will complete their runs. \u2014 John Jurgensen, WSJ , 2 Jan. 2022",
"The moose hung around campus for a time until officials were able to herd him west out of town. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 5 Nov. 2021",
"The agents, wearing chaps and cowboy hats, maneuvered their horses to forcibly block and move the migrants, almost seeming to herd them. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Finding cattle, trying to herd them in and cutting them through this field. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 17 Jan. 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
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"Middle English, from Old English heord ; akin to Old High German herta herd, Middle Welsh cordd troop, Lithuanian kerd\u017eius shepherd":"Noun and Verb"
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"\u02c8h\u0259rd"
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],
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],
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"a book here , a paper there"
],
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"\u2014 often used interjectionally especially in answering a roll call"
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"here it's morning already"
],
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"Where do we go from here "
],
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"come here"
]
},
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"Adverb",
"I'm here to help you.",
"They have lived here for 30 years.",
"\u201cHey, where are you",
"I'm planning to be back here by 6:00.",
"I've come here to help you.",
"He rode his bicycle here this morning.",
"When will you get here ",
"Here the author introduces a new character.",
"The speaker paused here for a moment.",
"Here the film changes from black-and-white to color.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"There were lots of complaints about strange flavors here \u2014 two tasters pegged it as slightly chocolate-y, and others found unpleasant hits of celery, licorice and vinegar in its bouquet. \u2014 Emily Heil, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
"Such conflicts of interest are simply the way things are done around here . \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 29 June 2022",
"And here \u2019s to everyone living as their authentic selves every day of the year. \u2014 Giovanny Garzon, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Georgia Public Health officials ordered a small number of a monkeypox vaccines for high-risk people as new cases of the virus continue to climb here and around the world. \u2014 Helena Oliviero, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"Games here have been sold out every year since 1960, the famously frigid weather of the Upper Midwest appearing to only embolden Green Bay fans. \u2014 Fox News , 29 June 2022",
"Selena Gomez Opens Up About Attending Britney Spears' 'Beautiful' Wedding: 'Really Happy for Her' For more on Britney Spears, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe here . \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Read more about Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the House January 6 committee here . \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 29 June 2022",
"Begin the registration process by clicking right here . \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"One is here June 8 against Trinidad and Tobago, followed by a crucial match at Mexico on June 11. \u2014 John Meyer, The Denver Post , 4 May 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Heres \u2019s his response: http://www.kevindeutsch.us/blog/my-response-newsdays-review-8.) \u2014 vanityfair.com , 13 July 2017"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1605, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adverb"
},
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"Middle English, from Old English h\u0113r ; akin to Old High German hier here, Old English h\u0113 he":"Adverb, Adjective, and Noun"
},
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"\u02c8hir"
],
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]
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"antonyms":[],
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"\u2014 used with the man's obligation is in the here and now \u2014 W. H. Whyte"
]
},
"examples":[
"while we can plan for the future, we must first deal with the here and now",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Which brings us to the here and now : The brand is launching eyewear, tech accessories, and bags for the first time as part of its Collection 3 with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. \u2014 Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 May 2022",
"Having a negative self-perception\u2014feeling ashamed of oneself, for example\u2014is also likely to lead to distraction from the here and now . \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 19 May 2022",
"But in the here and now , her timing seems almost perfect for capturing the moment \u2014 and with it, similar moments for millions of her listeners. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"Fast forward to the here and now , and buzzy brands like Tom Ford, Blumarine, Diesel, Balmain, and Dion Lee have shown iterations of cargos on their runways. \u2014 Alex Kessler, Vogue , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The impact, though, isn\u2019t isolated to the here and now . \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 18 Dec. 2021",
"Much of it is highly sensitive, but only a fraction is ever pertinent to the here and now . \u2014 Abhishek Agrawal, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
"According to Rudaz, anyone can start this by introducing small exercises and mindset changes in their everyday lives like: Generating feelings of happiness in the here and now . \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Dystopian dramas invariably have more impact when one foot is firmly planted in the here and now . \u2014 Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune , 1 June 2022"
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"1829, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165038",
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": in one place and another":[]
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"examples":[
"an overgrown lawn with yellow patches of dandelions scattered here and there",
"she spoke so softly that I only caught a word here and there",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sure, there were a few lines here and there that didn\u2019t quite land, and the pacing was plodding in certain areas, but overall, the team really nailed it. \u2014 Mitch Wallace, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Sure, here and there are painful excavations of trauma or equally tear-jerking moments of defiant joy. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022",
"There is also the matter of Russian culture and the Russian language, and there will be elements or islets of Russian culture here and there , and that is important. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"Memorial Day is here and there are many summer traditions to enjoy: Having a BBQ with friends, opening up the pool and wearing white again for the season. \u2014 Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping , 30 May 2022",
"There are references here and there , but there are no big cameos or anything. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 5 May 2022",
"Hunting for spring ephemerals is a little like a scavenger hunt, especially early in the season when there might only be a few pops of color here and there . \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Sure, there may be some additional pound-feet available from a tweak here and there . \u2014 K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver , 20 Apr. 2022",
"While the Native American students profiled here and there seem to thrive, the programs Lowe facilitated, a squishy verb if ever there was one, seem to be symbolic rather than substantive. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 26 Mar. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171231",
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": in many different places : all over":[
"I've been looking for you here, there, and everywhere ."
]
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"idiom"
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": on the spot : right here":[
"let's settle it here-right",
"\u2014 F. T. Elworthy"
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"hereabouts":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": in this vicinity":[]
},
"examples":[
"We don't see a lot of snow hereabouts .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Or maybe the good people of Shell Lake and hereabouts earned it by putting out the small-town, big-hearted welcome mat. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 May 2022",
"Unfortunately, there was not enough room to accommodate the huge crowd that came to the Energy Center last month for the discussion about what to do about tree loss hereabouts . \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Mar. 2020",
"To meet a certain piano player called Reg Dwight, who I\u2019ve been informed will be somewhere hereabouts . \u2014 Harper's BAZAAR , 28 May 2019",
"Both our champion and reserve champion were Texas entries not likely to be found hereabouts . \u2014 Mike Dunne, sacbee , 13 Feb. 2018",
"Wine isn\u2019t subject to such tradition, at least hereabouts , where another month or two of warm weather can be anticipated, thus more opportunities to drink white wine. \u2014 Mike Dunne, sacbee , 30 Aug. 2017"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8hir-\u0259-\u02ccbau\u0307ts"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180712",
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"adverb"
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"antonyms":[
"by-and-by",
"future",
"futurity",
"offing",
"tomorrow"
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": after this in sequence or in time":[],
": an existence beyond earthly life":[
"belief in the hereafter"
],
": future":[],
": in some future time or state":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adverb",
"Hereafter the two companies will operate in full partnership.",
"We don't know what will happen hereafter .",
"Noun",
"apologized, for being late to the meeting and assured his boss that there would be no such recurrences in the hereafter",
"hoped to be reunited with his deceased wife in the hereafter",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"That\u2019s why the 2018 announcement of the properties of NGC 1052-DF2, hereafter known as DF2 for short, came as such a shock. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 22 June 2021",
"In ancient times, families hoped that through such intercession, the dead person would receive a better place in the life hereafter . \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 26 Apr. 2021",
"And now for some bad news: Aside from an occasional episode shared out of the goodness of my heart, Plaintext will hereafter be available only for subscribers. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 21 Jan. 2021",
"The Washington Team \u2013 hereafter known in This Space as the Teamskins \u2013 already have started 3 QBs this season. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 19 Nov. 2020",
"Saying that to them out loud, and thanking them, would be a fitting end bracket to this period \u2014 and a start to your seeing their choices hereafter as standing up for themselves. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Sep. 2020",
"There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. \u2014 William Anthony Hay, WSJ , 15 Apr. 2020",
"According to Mitchell, Wray, and Watts ( hereafter MW&W), the standard approach, which relates the present value of tax revenue to the present value of government spending and the government debt, is misleading. \u2014 WSJ , 14 Jan. 2020",
"The detective won\u2019t forget, not on any Christmas Eve hereafter , his awful duty to carry out a little body as evidence of a felony. \u2014 Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com , 6 June 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"On the individual level, the Talmud states, there is no reward for doing a mitzvah in this world; that comes in the hereafter (Kiddushin 39b). \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"All are songs of loss, love, hope and faith in the hereafter \u2014 the greatest tribute Willie Nelson could offer his beloved sister. \u2014 Thom Duffy, Billboard , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Industry captains say that the economy has bottomed out and will be on an upswing hereafter reaching pre-covid levels in another six months. \u2014 Ramakrishnan Narayanan, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021",
"Somewhere in the hereafter , Tony Stark is exceedingly jealous. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 14 July 2021",
"And yet, though the book\u2019s hereafter looks backward to us today, there\u2019s something very timely about its play with gender fluidity and the social construction of identity. \u2014 Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times , 25 May 2021",
"Flash forward 50 years: Both my parents recently passed into the hereafter . \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2021",
"In spiritual seclusion, Muslims reflect on their faith, their relationship with Allah (SWT), their relationships with others, where their life is going, and the hereafter . \u2014 Nadia Ebrahim, refinery29.com , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Instead, the film takes an open, and almost radically vulnerable, look at the future of being famous, a hereafter Eilish is crafting before our very eyes. \u2014 Angela Watercutter, Wired , 26 Feb. 2021"
],
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"1546, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1591, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adverb"
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"pronounciation":[
"hir-\u02c8af-t\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"henceforth",
"henceforward"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053949",
"type":[
"adjective",
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"noun"
]
},
"hereat":{
"antonyms":[],
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": at or because of this":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English here at , from here + at (preposition)":""
},
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"hereaway":{
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": hereabouts":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8hir-\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101"
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"type":[
"adverb"
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"hereby":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": by this means":[]
},
"examples":[
"I hereby declare the Olympic Games officially open.",
"The sum will hereby be charged to your account.",
"The parties to the lawsuit hereby agree to settle the matter out of court.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Nor is there any recourse for young transgender women who are hereby stripped of their right to play sports. \u2014 Peter Greene, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"So, the death sentences are hereby vacated or set aside. \u2014 Tasha Lemley, Scientific American , 4 Feb. 2022",
"In light of the current state of play, plaintiffs hereby move for a sixty-day extension of time to file the Joint Appendix of the Administrative Record which is due on December 6, 2021. \u2014 Stuart Anderson, Forbes , 9 Dec. 2021",
"And that Representative Paul Gosar be and is hereby removed from the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Oversight and Reform. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Both donated by Dave Prevar, who hereby admits to sending viruses through the mail. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Nov. 2021",
"The Institute is hereby passing a bylaw that glam on all trips outside of RHOBH will not be tolerated and will be relentlessly made fun of. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 7 June 2021",
"Kingdoms are hereby united into a single office, a succession of powerful sorcerer-kings could prove stranger and stronger than anyone expected. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 19 May 2021",
"All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"hir-\u02c8b\u012b",
"\u02c8hir-\u02ccb\u012b"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022636",
"type":[
"adverb"
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"Definition of heredes plural of heres"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-081909",
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"nonhereditary"
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": characteristic of or fostered by one's predecessors":[
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],
": genetically transmitted or transmittable from parent to offspring":[
"The disease is hereditary ."
],
": having title (see title entry 1 sense 4a ) or possession through inheritance or by reason of birth":[
"hereditary nobility"
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": of a kind established by tradition":[
"hereditary enemies"
],
": of or relating to inheritance or heredity":[
"unless he had the hereditary dispositions which he has, he would not behave the way he does",
"\u2014 Arthur Pap"
],
": received or passing by inheritance or required to pass by inheritance or by reason of birth":[
"hereditary wealth"
]
},
"examples":[
"He suffers from a rare hereditary condition.",
"eye and hair color are hereditary",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"My attorneys were able to show that my nine-month-old son, Walter, died from a hereditary kidney condition. \u2014 ELLE , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In the eternal debate of whether or not talent is hereditary , the Matisse family makes a good case. \u2014 Olivia Hosken, Town & Country , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Plasma is used to treat bleeding disorders, primary immune deficiencies, hereditary angioedema, inherited respiratory disease and neurological disorders. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 7 Oct. 2021",
"In Seborga, where the monarchy is not hereditary , elections take place every seven years and Princess Nina is the first woman to hold the post. \u2014 Jacopo Prisco, CNN , 28 Mar. 2022",
"And it\u2019s like a hereditary disease that\u2019s passed on from one generation to the next. \u2014 Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The cats live in prides presided over by a handful of related females who share the duties of raising young, and hunting a hereditary territory stretching dozens or even hundreds of square miles in size. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Judaism does not believe in hereditary guilt within families, and within nations. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 Mar. 2022",
"By the nineteen-twenties, doctors were recognizing sickle-cell disease as a distinct, hereditary form of anemia, and its varied manifestations had been well described by physicians and researchers. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 22 Mar. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hereditarie, borrowed from Latin h\u0113r\u0113dit\u0101rius \"of inheritance, passed by means of inheritance,\" from h\u0113r\u0113dit- (probably extracted from h\u0113r\u0113dit\u0101t-, h\u0113r\u0113dit\u0101s \"succession to an heir, inheritance,\" taken as h\u0113r\u0113dit- + -\u0101t-, -\u0101s ) + -\u0101rius -ary entry 2 \u2014 more at heredity":""
},
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"h\u0259-\u02c8red-\u0259-\u02ccter-\u0113",
"h\u0259-\u02c8re-d\u0259-\u02ccter-\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for hereditary innate , inborn , inbred , congenital , hereditary mean not acquired after birth. innate applies to qualities or characteristics that are part of one's inner essential nature. an innate sense of fair play inborn suggests a quality or tendency either actually present at birth or so marked and deep-seated as to seem so. her inborn love of nature inbred suggests something either acquired from parents by heredity or so deeply rooted and ingrained as to seem acquired in that way. inbred political loyalties congenital and hereditary refer to what is acquired before or at birth, the former to things acquired during fetal development and the latter to things transmitted from one's ancestors. a congenital heart murmur eye color is hereditary",
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"genetic",
"genetical",
"heritable",
"inborn",
"inheritable",
"inherited"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202800",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": inheritance or succession : the rights and liabilities to which an heir succeeds : an estate of a deceased person regarded as a juridical person":[]
},
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"Latin":""
},
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194145",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an amalgamation of South African political parties":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Afrikaans hereniging (formerly spelled hereeniging ), literally, reunion, reuniting, from herenig to reunite + -ing":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120520",
"type":[
"noun"
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"hereof":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of this":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"hir-\u02c8\u0259v",
"-\u02c8\u00e4v"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200805",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"hereon":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": on this":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"hir-\u02c8\u022fn",
"-\u02c8\u00e4n"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184059",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"hereout":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": out of this place : from here":[],
": out of this premise : hence":[],
": out of this:":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English herout, herut , from here + out, ut out (preposition)":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021423",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"heres necessarius":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a slave who is instituted by his master as his heir and who upon his master's death automatically attains his freedom and becomes his heir":[]
": an originator or chief advocate of a heresy":[]
},
"examples":[
"his about-face on welfare reform has led him to be seen as a heresiarch among his party's faithful"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1624, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Late Latin haeresiarch\u0113s, haeresiarcha, borrowed from Greek hairesi\u00e1rch\u0113s, \"leader of a school or sect,\" from ha\u00edresis \"system of principles, sect, faction\" + -arch\u0113s -arch entry 1 \u2014 more at heresy":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8her-\u0259-s\u0113-",
"h\u0259-\u02c8r\u0113-z\u0113-\u02cc\u00e4rk"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"dissenter",
"dissentient",
"dissident",
"heretic",
"nonconformist"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220540",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"heresimach":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an active opponent of heresy and heretics":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Greek hairesimachos , from hairesis heresy + Greek -machos (from machesthai to fight)":""
": adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma sense 2 )":[
"They were accused of heresy ."
],
": an opinion or doctrine contrary to church dogma":[],
": an opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs or standards":[
"our democratic heresy which holds that \u2026 truth is to be found by majority vote",
"\u2014 M. W. Straight"
],
": denial of a revealed truth by a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church":[],
": dissent or deviation from a dominant theory, opinion, or practice":[
"To disagree with the party leadership was heresy ."
]
},
"examples":[
"They were accused of heresy .",
"He was preaching dangerous heresies .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Take the Hamilton Porter, a sandwich that probably borders on heresy in some parts of the Carolinas. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"The baseball establishment swiftly quashed his heresy . \u2014 WSJ , 11 May 2022",
"Trump coaxed former Georgia Sen. David Perdue into the Republican primary against Brian Kemp after the governor committed the heresy of refusing to overturn Joe Biden\u2019s victory in the state. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
"This approach is seen as heresy in some military quarters. \u2014 David Hambling, Forbes , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Given the political dynamics of gas prices\u2014and the political interest in cutting those fees\u2014any move to increase the gas tax would be political heresy . \u2014 Justin Worland, Time , 24 Mar. 2022",
"In effect, as Del Noce argued throughout his career, Marxism was and is a new form of an old heresy , gnosticism. \u2014 Francis X. Maier, WSJ , 6 Jan. 2022",
"And there\u2019s a tempting heresy in the idea of being aroused by apocalypse, as Blanchett\u2019s character is, rather than petrified or numbed. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The indoor parties \u2014 and the fee to get in \u2014 are a heresy for many Brazilians who say that Carnival's block parties are essentially and historically parties by the people and for the people. \u2014 Diane Jeantet, ajc , 26 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English heresie, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed (with assimilation to the suffix -ie -y entry 2 ) from Late Latin haeresis, heresis \"school (of philosophy or theology), sect, belief contrary to church dogma,\" borrowed from Greek ha\u00edresis \"act of taking, choice, course of action or thought, system of principles, sect, faction,\" from haire\u00een \"to take, grasp, (middle voice) obtain, choose, prefer\" (of obscure origin) + -sis -sis":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8he-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8her-\u0259-s\u0113"
],
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"synonyms":[
"dissent",
"dissidence",
"heterodoxy",
"nonconformity"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202803",
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"heretic":{
"antonyms":[
"conformer",
"conformist"
],
"definitions":{
": one who differs in opinion from an accepted belief or doctrine : nonconformist":[]
},
"examples":[
"The church regards them as heretics .",
"Galileo was condemned as a heretic for supporting Copernicus's thesis that the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Benedetta\u2019s rise to power ignites the indignation of Sister Christina (Louise Chevillotte), who tries to out her as a charlatan and a heretic . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Likewise, referring to Francis as unorthodox or a heretic is unacceptable. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 Sep. 2021",
"In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic , was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2021",
"An apostate from the faith, a heretic , or a schismatic automatically incurs excommunication, when the delict (or violation) is committed. \u2014 Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review , 13 June 2021",
"In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic , was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2021",
"In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic , was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2021",
"The bishop has to decide whether to have the minister tried as a heretic . \u2014 Celia Storey, Arkansas Online , 24 May 2021",
"As this example illustrates, one of the hardest questions a science commentator faces is when to take a heretic seriously. \u2014 Matt Ridley, WSJ , 9 Oct. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English heretik, borrowed from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French heretic, heretik, borrowed from Late Latin haereticus, hereticus, borrowed from Late Greek hairetik\u00f3s, from hairetik\u00f3s, adjective, \"departing from dogma, heretical,\" going back to Greek, \"able to choose, due to choice,\" from hairet\u00f3s \"that may be taken, eligible, chosen,\" verbal adjective of haire\u00een \"to take, grasp, (middle voice) obtain, choose, prefer\" + -ikos -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at heresy":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8he-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8her-\u0259-\u02cctik"
],
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"synonyms":[
"dissenter",
"dissentient",
"dissident",
"heresiarch",
"nonconformist"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060107",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[
"conforming",
"conformist",
"conventional",
"orthodox"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma : characterized by heresy":[
"heretical writings"
],
": of, relating to, or characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards : unorthodox":[
"It would be heretical to suggest changing company policy."
]
},
"examples":[
"the belief that women should be allowed to have careers outside the home was once considered heretical",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The attack came as worshipers at the Sunni mosque gathered for zikr \u2014 an act of religious remembrance seen as heretical by some hard-line Sunni groups. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, corporate studios transform these stories into quasi-religious texts that are pharisaically protected by copyright from heretical reinterpretation and innovation\u2014in other words, fan service. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022",
"In this new order, Subin argues, deification would become, at best, heretical and, at worst, nonsensical. \u2014 Casey Cep, The New Yorker , 6 Dec. 2021",
"But innovations meant to attract newcomers are considered by the old guard as impure, even heretical or just tacky. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Such changes might sound heretical to those who grew up at a time when the theater was almost sacrosanct \u2014 a place to get lost in the latest cinematic adventure. \u2014 Brian Raftery, EW.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The first stratagem of the racist is not to quote Adolph Hitler, or George Wallace, or bad science, or heretical religion. \u2014 John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Throughout history, our communities have comprised the pious and the heretical , the observant and the indifferent. \u2014 Mark Oppenheimer, WSJ , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Wilson has too often been ignored here in Alabama, where too much heretical religion allows people to ignore the balance of nature in the name of God. \u2014 John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al , 18 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English heretikel, borrowed from Medieval Latin haeretic\u0101lis, from Late Latin haereticus heretic + Latin -\u0101lis -al entry 1":""
},
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"h\u0259-\u02c8re-ti-k\u0259l"
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"dissenting",
"dissident",
"heterodox",
"iconoclastic",
"maverick",
"nonconformist",
"nonorthodox",
"out-there",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104552",
"type":[
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"adverb"
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"heritable":{
"antonyms":[
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": hereditary":[]
},
"examples":[
"heritable characteristics like skin and eye and hair color",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The research focused on finding heritable differences in IQ and propensity to violence between racial groups. \u2014 Janet D. Stemwedel, Scientific American , 24 May 2022",
"Physical traits are strongly heritable ; behavioral traits, less so. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 30 Apr. 2022",
"While some findings suggest behavior traits are heritable , the association between a breed and its behaviors is far less direct than the association between a breed and its aesthetic traits. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 24 May 2022",
"Physical traits are strongly heritable ; behavioral traits, less so. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The team\u2019s findings confirmed that some aspects of canine behavior do seem quite heritable \u2014and sometimes even echo kennel-club dogma. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Physical traits are strongly heritable ; behavioral traits, less so. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 30 Apr. 2022",
"While the lowly mitochondria don\u2019t influence those traits, altering their DNA would nonetheless introduce a heritable change that could be passed on to future generations. \u2014 Stephen S. Hall, Wired , 11 Mar. 2021",
"Physical traits are strongly heritable ; behavioral traits, less so. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"Lately, Huerta has been working to build on their French technique training to cook food inspired by their Mexican heritage . \u2014 Isle Mcelroy, Bon App\u00e9tit , 22 June 2022",
"People should know the truth about their DNA heritage , if at all possible. \u2014 cleveland , 20 June 2022",
"Bisma takes great pride in her heritage and often sports bright West African turbans and political t-shirts. \u2014 Shadan Larki, Variety , 20 June 2022",
"Learn about the garden\u2019s history, heritage trees, seasonal plants, habitat restoration and more. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 June 2022",
"Aldridge reportedly explored her mixed ethnic heritage through music. \u2014 Melissa Noel, Essence , 17 June 2022",
"The 7,823-square-foot home also sits on a large lot of about 1.36 acres and includes brick patios, gardens, fountains, heritage trees and pool. \u2014 Katharine Jose, Chron , 16 June 2022",
"And sometimes, guests may notice Filipino ingredients like calamansi and coconut vinegar, an in initiative by Collantes to inflect parts of his Filipino heritage (his parents were originally from Bulacan and Manila) at his restaurant. \u2014 Cheryl Tiu, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Leftist Chemnitz takes pride in its Communist heritage , although the far right has an ominous presence, as violent anti-immigrant demonstrations in 2018 made plain. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022"
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"Winslow Homer, dour and hermetic , spent the last decades of his life perched in his small studio above the sharp stone ledges of Prouts Neck, Maine. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"There\u2019s something hermetic about her work that feels true to New York. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"The environment is hermetic , though her disposition is bubbly. \u2014 Kelly Crow, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"What\u2019s more, the action takes place in a hermetic bubble, floating somewhere above New Jersey and the world, with no connection to anything more tangible than a screenwriter\u2019s keyboard. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"Rhyming poets tended to be liberals, trying to make poetry high-hearted and popular again at a moment when the hermetic side of modernism seemed exhausted. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Similarly, the hermetic North Korea has been test-firing ballistic missiles amid a coronavirus outbreak, a possible risk to South Korea\u2019s manufacturing sector should the brinksmanship escalate. \u2014 Josh Boak, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"What, beyond the suggestion of a tobacco factory, lay beyond the hermetic seal of this set",
"Students from Glenbrook North and South High Schools will combine their talents to share the tale of a hermetic green ogre who is forced to venture into the world with surprising results. \u2014 Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022"
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"Winslow Homer, dour and hermetic , spent the last decades of his life perched in his small studio above the sharp stone ledges of Prouts Neck, Maine. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"There\u2019s something hermetic about her work that feels true to New York. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"The environment is hermetic , though her disposition is bubbly. \u2014 Kelly Crow, WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"What\u2019s more, the action takes place in a hermetic bubble, floating somewhere above New Jersey and the world, with no connection to anything more tangible than a screenwriter\u2019s keyboard. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"Rhyming poets tended to be liberals, trying to make poetry high-hearted and popular again at a moment when the hermetic side of modernism seemed exhausted. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Similarly, the hermetic North Korea has been test-firing ballistic missiles amid a coronavirus outbreak, a possible risk to South Korea\u2019s manufacturing sector should the brinksmanship escalate. \u2014 Josh Boak, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"What, beyond the suggestion of a tobacco factory, lay beyond the hermetic seal of this set",
"Students from Glenbrook North and South High Schools will combine their talents to share the tale of a hermetic green ogre who is forced to venture into the world with surprising results. \u2014 Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022"
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"North Korea missiles: The hermit nation has recently stepped up its missile testing, in defiance of international law and to the alarm of Japan and the US. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 24 May 2022",
"One weapon prominently featured at the parade was the hermit nation's biggest and newest intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-17. \u2014 Lorraine Taylor, Fox News , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The island\u2019s first named occupant is believed to be the Christian hermit Saint Baldred, who died in his humble cell in 606; in the 15th century, a chapel was built on its site. \u2014 Karen Gardiner, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"Here are some warblers coming by: yellow, hermit , Townsend\u2019s. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Represented by the crab, Cancer has a reputation for being a bit of a hermit . \u2014 Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Or hermit crabs, among whom empty mollusk shells are prime real estate, and who regularly engage in home invasions. \u2014 David P. Barash, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"The hermit , after all, may be a reclusive character but one who is also wise, emerging from a period of introspection and reflection with newfound perspective. \u2014 Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Over time, Fred has seen hermit crabs fighting over an increasingly shrinking territory until it was nearly covered by the Caribbean. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One man even wrote to Edward III in the late 1330s, saying that his father was living in a hermitage in Italy. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
"And Russian and Ukrainian officials traded blame for the burning of the main temple of the All Saints hermitage , a 16th-century monastery in eastern Ukraine that is considered one of the three most sacred sites in Ukraine for Orthodox believers. \u2014 Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"Manyava flourished, becoming the dominant hermitage in Galicia, until its abrupt closure in 1785, the dispersal of its monks, and the confiscation of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis and other icons. \u2014 Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022",
"Most of this writing was done at the Encinitas hermitage , which was secretly built for Yogananda as a surprise during his years abroad. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Janakananda, who built the Encinitas hermitage , succeeded him as Fellowship president until his own death three years later in Borrego Springs. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Perhaps the most memorable corner of Jeollanam-do is Chunjinam, the tranquil hermitage where Jeong Kwan resides. \u2014 Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 31 Dec. 2021",
"This doesn\u2019t mean total hermitage at a time when the economy is desperately in need of participation. \u2014 Chris Wilson, Time , 12 Nov. 2021",
"The islands' sole archaeologist Katharine Sawyer, who runs Scilly Walks, takes groups out here, or to other islands like St. Helen's (which has a medieval hermitage ) or Samson. \u2014 Kate Eshelby, CNN , 14 June 2021"
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"A motto of his hero , Thomas Edison, is inscribed on a favorite sweatshirt : \"To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.\" \u2014 Britt Robson , Mother Jones , May/June 2008",
"Greater authors\u2014Arthur Conan Doyle most notably\u2014have been in the same dilemma when seeking closure. And, like Conan Doyle, Rowling has won imperishable renown for giving us an identifiable hero and a fine caricature of a villain, and for making a fictional bit of King's Cross station as luminous as a certain address on nearby Baker Street. \u2014 Christopher Hitchens , New York Times Book Review , 12 Aug. 2007",
"Here's a novel by a decorated war hero with a fictional Middle Eastern desert war at its core. It pits an American-led coalition against a potentially lethal enemy \u2026 \u2014 Lorenzo Carcaterra , People , 3 June 1991",
"Other physicists, long wedded to the notion that nothing can escape from a black hole, have generally come to accept that discovery. And the stuff emitted from little black holes (and big ones too, but far more slowly) is now called Hawking radiation. \"In general relativity and early cosmology, Hawking is the hero ,\" says Rocky Kolb, a physicist at Fermilab in Illinois. \u2014 Leon Jaroff , Time , 8 Feb. 1988",
"He returned from the war a national hero .",
"the hero of a rescue",
"She was a hero for standing up to the government.",
"His father has always been his hero .",
"He has always been a hero to his son.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Skeens\u2019s loyal legion continued to look for their baking and canning hero on social media, or anywhere on the internet, for that matter. \u2014 Sydney Page, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"The story follows four best friends and New England Patriots fans who take a trip to 2017\u2019s Super Bowl LI to see their hero Brady in action. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 June 2022",
"When comedian Jenny Slate and her then-husband, director Dean Fleischer-Camp, first started making the short adventures of a miniscule shell as a creative past time, the expectations were as low as their hero \u2019s stature. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 25 June 2022",
"Throughout the evening, Danza made a point of crediting the songwriters much like his hero Frank Sinatra. \u2014 Robin Raven, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, hundreds of cyclists traveled to Indianapolis to honor its hometown hero . \u2014 Elise Preston, CBS News , 20 June 2022",
"Just as Earth's fate was sealed, our hero Ziggy Stardust can't save himself, succumbing to the fate of the archetypal has-been rock star. \u2014 Allaire Nuss, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Nothing is particularly egregious about Angus MacLane\u2019s film, which tosses its bulbous-jawed hero into a narrative of planet colonization and time dilation that feels a little like diet Interstellar. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 16 June 2022",
"Comedian Mike Young had the privilege of touring with Saget for 12 years and spoke with The Times about trying to figure out an organic way to talk about his comedy hero in his own stand-up set. \u2014 Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022"
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"He objects to the unthinking hero worship of great athletes by their fans.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But asking them feels right in line with the series-long quest to interrogate the all-American project of unthinking hero worship . \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"If Zelenskyy represents a democratic hero, it should nonetheless be remembered that democracy does not need \u2013 and should not seek \u2013 the sorts of hero worship that authoritarians like Putin demand. \u2014 Michael Blake, The Conversation , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Devoid of insight and ricocheting between dull vulgarity and vacuous hero worship , the show, which had its official opening Wednesday at the Longacre Theatre, is less edifying than a scroll through the archives of the tabloids. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Nov. 2021",
"In selecting Shiraz, a city in the southwest of Iran, Farhadi wanted to build a bridge between his contemporary saga about a man put on a pedestal and hero worship in antiquity. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Chinese hero worship is impressive to witness \u2014 and surreal to experience when your grandmother is the one being revered. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Other fans have likewise defended the books by pointing to Herbert's numerous quotes about how his series is intended as a cautionary tale against zealotry, idolization, and hero worship . \u2014 Jeva Lange, The Week , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Organizers promise that this anniversary won't all involve hero worship of the Founding Fathers and won't turn a blind eye to the slavery that steered South Carolina's history for 400 years. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 27 Nov. 2021",
"The Couric episode highlights the perils of hero worship . \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Oct. 2021"
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"He objects to the unthinking hero worship of great athletes by their fans.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But asking them feels right in line with the series-long quest to interrogate the all-American project of unthinking hero worship . \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"If Zelenskyy represents a democratic hero, it should nonetheless be remembered that democracy does not need \u2013 and should not seek \u2013 the sorts of hero worship that authoritarians like Putin demand. \u2014 Michael Blake, The Conversation , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Devoid of insight and ricocheting between dull vulgarity and vacuous hero worship , the show, which had its official opening Wednesday at the Longacre Theatre, is less edifying than a scroll through the archives of the tabloids. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Nov. 2021",
"In selecting Shiraz, a city in the southwest of Iran, Farhadi wanted to build a bridge between his contemporary saga about a man put on a pedestal and hero worship in antiquity. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Chinese hero worship is impressive to witness \u2014 and surreal to experience when your grandmother is the one being revered. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Other fans have likewise defended the books by pointing to Herbert's numerous quotes about how his series is intended as a cautionary tale against zealotry, idolization, and hero worship . \u2014 Jeva Lange, The Week , 14 Oct. 2021",
"Organizers promise that this anniversary won't all involve hero worship of the Founding Fathers and won't turn a blind eye to the slavery that steered South Carolina's history for 400 years. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 27 Nov. 2021",
"The Couric episode highlights the perils of hero worship . \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Oct. 2021"
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"And, on Sunday, his heroics once again buoyed the Broncos after Oakland cut its deficit to one point late in the fourth quarter with Renfrow\u2019s short touchdown catch. \u2014 Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post , 29 Dec. 2019",
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"People across Texas and the U.S. have been reminded this week\u2014with or without Abbott\u2019s help\u2014of the heroism of teachers. \u2014 Katie Reilly, Time , 27 May 2022",
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"There is the herb doctor peddling cures; the cosmopolitan selling charity as confidence; and the agent of the Philosophical Intelligence Office, whose trick is pressing youth into work. \u2014 Hannah Zeavin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Malik Mitchell, who plays Dromio of Syracuse, has an amusing interlude as Dr. Pinch, an herb doctor with a buzzsaw flow like Busta Rhymes. \u2014 James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022"
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"With the new 7 Series, BMW is presenting a hermaphrodite , in contrast to the Mercedes EQS. \u2014 Neil Winton, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The lancetfish found onshore in Drake\u2019s Bay at Point Reyes National Seashore had a gaping fanged jaw, is cannibalistic, a hermaphrodite and has no scales, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. \u2014 Gale Hollandstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Jeffdanielsi are mostly self-fertilizing hermaphrodites that produce their own sperm and eggs; on average, a single hermaphrodite can produce 160 babies in its lifespan. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Over centuries, the matted-haired, animal-skin wearing, hash-smoker has evolved into many things, including a hermaphrodite , for many people. \u2014 Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India , 18 Dec. 2019",
"The majority of worms, also known as nematodes, generally break down into males and hermaphrodites . \u2014 Fox News , 27 Sep. 2019",
"Leeches are hermaphrodites and have what's known as accessory pores that secrete mucus, which helps them stick together while mating. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Sep. 2019",
"More than 30 years ago a team of scientists painstakingly traced the connections among each of the 302 nerve cells in the hermaphrodite Caenorhabditis elegans worm. \u2014 Karen Weintraub, Scientific American , 3 July 2019",
"Typically the female roundworms of this intriguing species (Caenorhabditis elegans) are hermaphrodites and don\u2019t need males to reproduce. \u2014 National Geographic , 14 June 2019"
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"\u2014 Katherine Hobson",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Doula and herbalist Synmia Rosine is perpetually radiant. \u2014 Vogue , 5 May 2022",
"Join Nora Toomey, clinical herbalist of True Bloom, to discuss the roots of seasonal allergies, and learn how to support the body with plants that not only address the most common symptoms but can prevent allergies entirely. \u2014 courant.com , 15 Mar. 2022",
"In addition to filling prescriptions, Carter was an herbalist who created formulas to treat everything from razor burn to ringworm. \u2014 James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Caroline Archer, center, came to London from her home in rural Norfolk for the march and dressed as a wise woman and herbalist . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Feb. 2022",
"According to herbalist Brooklyn Guillebeau, lack of compassion in the medical space is a common narrative surrounding Black and brown people. \u2014 Celeste Polanco, refinery29.com , 7 Sep. 2021",
"Tiffani Hudson, an herbalist and mother of three children who attend Clayton\u2019s public schools, does not see the benefit of the COVID vaccine. \u2014 Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Saint-Onge describes himself as an orthotherapist, naturopath, kinesitherapist, reiki master, holistic practitioner, herbalist and aromatherapist. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Robert\u2014a man born in Africa, enslaved in America, and now a free farmer\u2014and his freeborn African-American herbalist wife, Mary, had worked diligently to ensure this security for themselves and their children. \u2014 Janet Barber, Scientific American , 9 Nov. 2021"
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"a lone herdsman stood with his sheep and his dog on the hillside",
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"Their secret leaked the first weekend in June when the other herdsman , Happy Mthabela, showed some of the stones to guests at a wedding. \u2014 New York Times , 4 July 2021",
"Noah Lemaiyan -- a herdsman clad in a red and blue shawl -- lives on the outskirts of Amboseli. \u2014 CNN , 24 May 2021",
"In January of that year, Robert Kirotich, a Sengwer herdsman was reported to have been gunned down by the KFS guards while tending to his cattle in the forest. \u2014 Geoffrey Kamadi, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 Oct. 2020",
"Angba, the herdsman in Xilin Gol, said by the first grade, many children haven't even properly learned their mother tongue yet, and adding another language would be a big burden. \u2014 Nectar Gan, CNN , 5 Sep. 2020",
"On July 5, a herdsman in Inner Mongolia (a part of China) was diagnosed with bubonic plague and is receiving treatment at a hospital, Bayannur city health officials confirmed. \u2014 Claire Gillespie, Health.com , 6 July 2020",
"In Italy the transumanza proceeds along tratturi, lanes etched into the land by herdsmen , cows and other livestock over two millenniums. \u2014 Maria Russo, New York Times , 16 Sep. 2019",
"Human Rights Watch said last year that more than 150 men \u2014 mostly ethnic Peuhl herdsmen \u2014 had been killed by Burkinabe security forces after being accused of supporting or harboring extremists. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Jan. 2020",
"The Christian Post reported Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen have killed over 1,000 Christians in Nigeria in 2019 alone. \u2014 Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo, Quartz Africa , 28 Dec. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If Pope Francis can toss away the hermeneutic of continuity, on what basis can defenders of this pontificate oblige me to remain faithful to it",
"The vast majority of priests who took up Benedict\u2019s permission in 2007 also say the new Mass; no clearer demonstration can be made of their commitment to Benedict\u2019s idea of the hermeneutic of continuity. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 15 Sep. 2021",
"Far from autofiction, their novels are as varied as their poems, with suspenseful plots and untrustworthy characters and an understanding that drama arises from bad hermeneutics \u2014that is, misreading people. \u2014 Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books , 10 Mar. 2020",
"For Brookhiser, part of what killed the old order was modernism\u2014meaning characters like Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche, the instigators of what the French philosopher Paul Ric\u0153ur called the hermeneutics of suspicion. \u2014 Doug Henwood, Harper's magazine , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Some certainly are rooted in history, but figuring that out is the work of hermeneutics . \u2014 Emily Mcfarlan Miller, Washington Post , 22 June 2018"
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"Some herbals may indeed be gentle remedies. But using them with prescription drugs can be a dangerous mix.",
"\u2014 Josh Fischman"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"From sweet to savory to spicy to herbal , this spread hits an impressive number of notes. \u2014 Gabriela Aoun, Outside Online , 10 Nov. 2020",
"The result is a sweet herbal and almond softness that lingers long after the last sip. \u2014 Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Main Course: Maitake Mushrooms with Thyme and Sherry Woodsy and herbal , these mushrooms pair well with just about anything. \u2014 Magdalena O'neal, Sunset Magazine , 14 Dec. 2021",
"After a rain, the prairie smells woodsy and herbal . \u2014 Chadd Scott, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Their meads, honey wines that harken back to medieval times but have made a comeback, offer the mouthfeel of an English cider with varying levels of dry to fruity with apple, citrus, herbal , and floral flavors. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Pintas 2017 is like an explosion of herbal and minty notes on the palate. \u2014 Per And Britt Karlsson, Forbes , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The color is translucent ruby, the aromas lifted with violets and roses, the flavors light and herbal . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Dec. 2020",
"Maccabeer, described by this kosher brewery as an herbal and piney IPA with some fruity notes, is being canned for the first time in 2020. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 Nov. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The smooth Bouchaine Estate Pinot Noir (Cal, $35) has notes of black cherry, is somewhat herbal and spicy, and has some chocolate and licorice. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Mildly herbal and utterly beguiling, the wine is like vermouth without the kick, and may transport your mind to a scenic mountain pasture studded with herbs and brush. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Hansen\u2019s Mendocino Chenin, made without any sulfur or filtration, is savory, herbal and lightly hazy, for example, while his Dry Creek Chenin is richer, weightier and creamier. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 July 2021",
"Spa goers start the experience with a macaron that corresponds to their spa treatment and cup of Ladur\u00e9e herbal tea. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"With antioxidants and herbal extracts that can do things like calm your skin, nourish it, and moisturize it, this is a great toner to try, regardless of your skin type. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"The whisky is herbal and fruity on the nose with hits of caramel. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"The convention floor is typically full of vendors and exhibitors that represent a large swath of the LGBTQ community, from illustrators to herbal tea purveyors. \u2014 Alexander Kacala, NBC News , 16 May 2022",
"Try using the leaves and flowers in more herbal wreaths. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Shaw, 46, was serving a 194-month sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a measurable quantity of heroin , the agency said in the news release. \u2014 Keith Allen And Ralph Ellis, CNN , 20 June 2022",
"The officers confiscated three pounds of methamphetamine, 19 grams of heroin and nearly 450 counterfeit prescription pills suspected to contain fentanyl. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 June 2022",
"Dwayne Thompson was charged with an associate, Jose Carrasquillo, for arranging to buy a distribution quantity of heroin . \u2014 Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022",
"Nearly half a million counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl were seized as a part of the operation, as well as about 112 pounds of methamphetamine, 22 pounds of cocaine, 10 pounds of powder fentanyl, 9 pounds of heroin , and about $230,000 in assets. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 15 June 2022",
"Within a month\u2019s period, the Alaska State Troopers and police departments in Wasilla and Palmer reported six deaths and at least 17 other overdose cases in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough from a lethal batch of heroin , according to a trooper dispatch. \u2014 Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News , 10 June 2022",
"That was an increase from up to 590 tons of heroin in 2020. \u2014 Abdul Khaliq, The Christian Science Monitor , 3 June 2022",
"Prosecutors say the conspiracy involved over 66 pounds of cocaine and at least 10 pounds of heroin . \u2014 Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 2 June 2022",
"Police found 39 packets containing heroin and a bloody knife on Whack. \u2014 Audrey Conklin, Fox News , 16 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An herbarium is, in essence, a library of taminate them, and affix them to large sheets of stiff white paper to be stacked and stored landscapes and the human powers that shaped them. \u2014 Harpers Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Santore runs down a list of coordinates where prostrata has been observed in the area, thanks to tips from other botanists and old herbarium records. \u2014 Jesse Will, Outside Online , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The names of these substances are perversely poetic: cat\u2019s claw, stevia, goldenseal, andrographis\u2014a virtual herbarium of desperation. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The specimens conserved in the herbarium are used for research, with the ultimate goal of identifying each one and naming new species. \u2014 CNN , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Edinburgh\u2019s herbarium carpology \u2013 plant collection \u2013 is 3 million specimens strong and counting. \u2014 Barbara Hall, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 May 2021",
"The herbarium includes dried, pressed plant specimens from as far back as the 1840s and serves as a sort of living lab for students in the CMBG\u2019s native plants and ecological horticulture and botanical arts continuing education programs. \u2014 Alyssa Giacobbe, BostonGlobe.com , 4 Mar. 2021",
"Website Open seasonally from May through October, this botanical garden is known not only for its lush flowers, but also for its comprehensive herbarium , which draws botanical enthusiasts from all around. \u2014 Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Despite this, many algal herbarium collections are underused and underfunded. \u2014 Annie Roth, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Sep. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"People throw parties, set up their haft-sin (a collection of seven items like garlic and vinegar that symbolize hope for the new year), and eat sabzi polo ba mahi, fish with herbed rice. \u2014 Priya Krishna, New York Times , 27 Mar. 2020",
"These miniature hand pies sport a housemade crust and simple but satisfying herbed spinach-and-feta filling and make excellent consolation prizes for those who missed the meal. \u2014 Lauren Saria, azcentral , 9 Mar. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The company, which produces 12- and 24-ounce jars of marinated herring , will keep its headquarters in Milwaukee County. \u2014 Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
"Most of the herring is frozen whole and shipped out in 15-pound bags to secondary processors in Seattle or Asia, and then sent to Japan. \u2014 Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Business/Economy Frigid February fishing in Alaska features crabbing from the Panhandle to the Bering Sea, followed in March by halibut, black cod and herring . \u2014 Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Katsura imports about 300 shipping containers of products a year, including Eastern European juices, teas, herring , soda and sunflower seeds. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Mar. 2022",
"As the men who\u2019d once processed the herring on the docks increasingly went out on the water, a labor gap emerged onshore. \u2014 Elizabeth Heath, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Feb. 2022",
"On their advice, my winter menu would include a lot of oily fish, such as salmon, trout, char, herring , sardines, mackerel, swordfish and tuna; beef liver; and egg yolks. \u2014 Kathleen Squires, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The dinner serves and includes mushroom barley soup, deviled eggs, beet, cabbage and carrot salad, potato and cheese or sauerkraut and mushroom pierogi, rolled herring , mushroom golabki, dill potatoes, herbed trout, and a polish poppy seed roll. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Trident diversified from king crab to salmon, herring and pollock. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 22 Oct. 2021"
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"Basil is a fast-growing herb that produces plenty of flavorful foliage. \u2014 Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 May 2022",
"Rich, smoky Hinoki from Japan evokes a blissful sense of tranquility, as does lavender, which was originally a Mediterranean herb . \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"With notes that include Ylang, Bergamont, Lavender, and Rose, this moisturizer and softener are made with Sea Lavender, a marine herb with remarkable antioxidant characteristics. \u2014 Essence , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Cilantro is a good-for-you herb that offers important nutrients like vitamins A, K, and C as well as heart-healthy antioxidants. \u2014 Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Bananas, which are actually the berry of the largest herb in the world, are one of the most popular fruits around. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press , 11 June 2022",
"Other videos on Kamburov's channel feature everyday objects from dirty diapers to a piece of an herb to plaque on a piece of floss. \u2014 Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"There are plenty of edible herb and veggie options for you too. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living , 26 May 2022",
"But catnip isn't the only plant that can send kitties into a frenzy of entertaining antics from repeatedly rolling in the herb to munching on the leaves and then racing around the room. \u2014 Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 June 2022"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And above the strip, reaching to the ceiling, are the Madrid Blanco tiles in a herringbone pattern. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"This classic herringbone throw blanket warms up any room, its neutral grays and egg-shell whites serving as a great way to temper bolder statement pieces like the velvet Reading Room chair. \u2014 Anna Tingley, Variety , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The rooms themselves vary in size, shape, and furnishings, but many include custom and handmade furniture in classic and retro styles, as well as herringbone upholstered bed frames, throw pillows, and bedroom benches. \u2014 Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2022",
"The back wall is covered in a soft, white-on-white herringbone pattern wallpaper, while on the floor is Bianca Narino honed tile in a Versaille pattern. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Also on sale is this computer desk, featuring a mango wood finish and side panels with a herringbone design. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE.com , 22 Jan. 2022",
"The home\u2019s formal dining room has plenty of natural light and a herringbone design on the walls. \u2014 Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News , 13 Aug. 2021",
"At the end of each day, for example, the dirt surrounding his barns was raked in the same herringbone pattern. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"The artificial wicker is handwoven in a herringbone pattern on a heavy-gauge robust aluminum frame that's durable enough to withstand harsh weather conditions. \u2014 Daria Smith, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The individual condos will have herringbone white-oak floors and large windows. \u2014 Helena Madden, Robb Report , 17 Dec. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1659, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1787, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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"noun"
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"Spanish, brotherhood, from hermano brother (from Latin germanus , from germanus , adjective, having the same parents) + -dad (from Latin -tat-, -tas -ty)":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The company, which produces 12- and 24-ounce jars of marinated herring , will keep its headquarters in Milwaukee County. \u2014 Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
"Most of the herring is frozen whole and shipped out in 15-pound bags to secondary processors in Seattle or Asia, and then sent to Japan. \u2014 Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Business/Economy Frigid February fishing in Alaska features crabbing from the Panhandle to the Bering Sea, followed in March by halibut, black cod and herring . \u2014 Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Katsura imports about 300 shipping containers of products a year, including Eastern European juices, teas, herring , soda and sunflower seeds. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Mar. 2022",
"As the men who\u2019d once processed the herring on the docks increasingly went out on the water, a labor gap emerged onshore. \u2014 Elizabeth Heath, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Feb. 2022",
"On their advice, my winter menu would include a lot of oily fish, such as salmon, trout, char, herring , sardines, mackerel, swordfish and tuna; beef liver; and egg yolks. \u2014 Kathleen Squires, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The dinner serves and includes mushroom barley soup, deviled eggs, beet, cabbage and carrot salad, potato and cheese or sauerkraut and mushroom pierogi, rolled herring , mushroom golabki, dill potatoes, herbed trout, and a polish poppy seed roll. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Trident diversified from king crab to salmon, herring and pollock. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 22 Oct. 2021"
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"Middle English hering , from Old English h\u01e3ring ; akin to Old High German h\u0101rinc herring":""
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": any of numerous chiefly marine small decapod crustaceans (especially families Diogenidae, Paguridae, and Parapaguridae) having soft asymmetrical abdomens and occupying the empty shells of gastropods":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The hermit crab shells found in this survey were heavily damaged, and researchers suggested this was a sign of cannibalism or competition for lodging among hermit crabs that were stuck. \u2014 Sherry Liang, CNN , 29 Oct. 2021",
"In rough weather, however, Derreumaux will have to climb inside the cabin and hunker down like a hermit crab rather than power through. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 May 2021",
"Take the king crab\u2019s ancestor, for instance\u2014the hermit crab . \u2014 Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science , 14 Dec. 2020",
"She\u2019s like a creature of the earth, a veritable human hermit crab . \u2014 Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times , 12 Nov. 2020",
"In the mix there was a giant hermit crab , a polar bear taking a selfie next to a narwhal, a mushroom cap, Mr. Potato Head, Snoopy and an octopus emerging from the pages of an open book and gripping its tentacles around a submarine. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 2 Mar. 2020",
"That may make hermit crabs one of the first animals known to experience wealth inequality. \u2014 Elizabeth Preston, New York Times , 13 Dec. 2019",
"In one famous photograph a mannequin\u2019s hand protrudes from the shell of a hermit crab , which sits on a beach below a stormy sky (Untitled, Hand-Shell, 1934. Pictured, top). \u2014 The Economist , 3 Dec. 2019",
"Crabs\u2014coconut crabs plus the smaller, more numerous strawberry hermit crabs \u2014swarmed the body, removing most of the flesh within two weeks. \u2014 Rachel Hartigan Shea, National Geographic , 20 Aug. 2019"
"The tortoise, the largest cold-blooded terrestrial herbivore found on Earth, plays a critical role as an agent of stability in the Galapagos. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"Only about two dozen bison lived in the park by the 1880s, in Pelican Valley, and their plight provided an opportunity for an unprecedented attempt to recover populations of a large grazing herbivore . \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The ongoing tragedy has also raised awareness of the plight of this herbivore , which is related to the elephant and has long suffered from the threats of boats, development and cold weather. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The fossil sheds light on the evolution of whales from herbivore land mammals into carnivorous species that today live exclusively in water. \u2014 Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Sep. 2021",
"Diliberti-Shea said the trees fit perfectly with the elephants' herbivore diet. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Jan. 2022",
"The fossil sheds light on the evolution of whales from herbivore land mammals into carnivorous species that today live exclusively in water. \u2014 Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Sep. 2021",
"The fossil sheds light on the evolution of whales from herbivore land mammals into carnivorous species that today live exclusively in water. \u2014 Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Sep. 2021",
"The nitrogen isotope signals can show if an animal was an herbivore , carnivore or omnivore. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 8 Nov. 2021"
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"New Latin Herbivora , group of mammals, from neuter plural of herbivorus":""
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"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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"The town remembered her as the heroine of the flood and erected a statue in her honor.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The book champions its heroine , Elnora, who collects the chrysalides of moths, then raises, kills, and mounts them. \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"At the beginning of Netflix\u2019s new adaptation of Persuasion, our heroine Anne Elliot, still in the flush of youth, embraces a handsome soldier in a field of wild grass overlooking the sea, while lush, romantic strings play in the background. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
"The musical manages a deft balancing act in excavating much ribald humor from its heroine \u2019s troubles, while also honestly depicting their emotional cost. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"This sparks a wave of chaos as every human with some Inhuman DNA is affected, including our heroine . \u2014 PCMAG , 8 June 2022",
"This is a fat, juicy, soulful, gorgeous historical novel with a flawed and vibrant heroine , a journey to Tahiti, and lots of moss (yes, moss!). \u2014 Riza Cruz, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"Its heroine , Julia, is a Black seamstress in love with a white baker named Herman, a situation that her neighbors and the law disapprove of. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"The streamer released a peek at character renderings for the titular heroine , voiced by Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz, and Ballister Boldheart, voiced by Riz Ahmed. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Rodrigo has long been a fan of the Twilight films, and once posted a video to her Instagram singing an original song written from the perspective of the saga\u2019s heroine , Bella Swan. \u2014 Hannah Dailey, Billboard , 8 Apr. 2022"
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"a dish seasoned with chopped fresh herbs",
"rosemary, sage, and other herbs",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Basil is a fast-growing herb that produces plenty of flavorful foliage. \u2014 Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 May 2022",
"Rich, smoky Hinoki from Japan evokes a blissful sense of tranquility, as does lavender, which was originally a Mediterranean herb . \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"With notes that include Ylang, Bergamont, Lavender, and Rose, this moisturizer and softener are made with Sea Lavender, a marine herb with remarkable antioxidant characteristics. \u2014 Essence , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Cilantro is a good-for-you herb that offers important nutrients like vitamins A, K, and C as well as heart-healthy antioxidants. \u2014 Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Bananas, which are actually the berry of the largest herb in the world, are one of the most popular fruits around. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press , 11 June 2022",
"Other videos on Kamburov's channel feature everyday objects from dirty diapers to a piece of an herb to plaque on a piece of floss. \u2014 Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"There are plenty of edible herb and veggie options for you too. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living , 26 May 2022",
"But catnip isn't the only plant that can send kitties into a frenzy of entertaining antics from repeatedly rolling in the herb to munching on the leaves and then racing around the room. \u2014 Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 June 2022"
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": the proportion of observed variation in a particular trait (such as height) that can be attributed to inherited genetic factors in contrast to environmental ones":[]
"When investigating whether a trait is genetic, scientists look at its heritability . \u2014 Madeleine Streets, SELF , 13 June 2022",
"But with enough dogs, heritability is a good measure of what\u2019s inherited. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"There are chapters on the development of genetics, the eugenics movement, the heritability of family traits and the field of epigenetics, which studies whether our genes can be altered by experience (short answer: it\u2019s complicated). \u2014 Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Schizophrenia has a high level of heritability in families. \u2014 Sonia Suter, Quartz , 22 Jan. 2022",
"Studies have also shown that it's commonly associated with genetics and has a high heritability . \u2014 Health.com , 27 Oct. 2021",
"In consideration of its effects on Lucas\u2019 brother, however, the abuse parallel falls flat while the heritability of trauma angle (if that\u2019s the interpretation) feels uncharitable to victims of trauma. \u2014 Jeff Ewing, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021",
"That\u2019s on par with the heritability of cognitive traits like IQ in people, MacLean says. \u2014 David Grimm, Science | AAAS , 17 Mar. 2021",
"The mystery of missing heritability dates back to the late-2000s, when researchers began to use new tools to scan human genomes for common markers linked to diseases and traits. \u2014 Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS , 3 Nov. 2020"
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"\u02c8h\u0259r-d\u0259r"
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"the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia live in reindeer-skin tents",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After weeks of drought, the single night of rain brought more tragedy to Safiya Abdullahi, a goat and camel herder in Somaliland. \u2014 David Bruckmeier, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 May 2022",
"The bot herder can continue to remotely manage and grow their botnet to carry out various malicious activities. \u2014 Chuck Brooks, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In the S\u00e1mi hub of Jokkmokk, the reindeer herder and specialty meat purveyor works closely with Eva Gunnare, a local forager and cultural guide to bring guests on an epicurean journey. \u2014 Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure , 4 Mar. 2022",
"These same peaks are vital to the kingdom\u2019s wind energy plans, and native herder Lena Haugen says her people pay the price. \u2014 Jesper Starn, Fortune , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Then there is another school, one that says: hey, listen, nerf herder , Star Wars is forever. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 25 Feb. 2022",
"In the film\u2019s twist ending, the medical student Peter (played by Kodi Smit-McPhee) fatally infects the cow herder Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch). \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 20 Jan. 2022",
"His herder family lost all their cattle and now live in Gorom Gorom, an area where violent attacks on civilians and security forces are also a regular occurrence. \u2014 Clair Macdougall, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Jan. 2022",
"An illiterate immigrant from Ireland, Cashier was a manual laborer whose jobs over the years included animal herder , church janitor and mechanic. \u2014 Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com , 16 Dec. 2021"
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": a low annual or biennial geranium ( Geranium robertianum ) with small reddish-purple flowers":[]
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"from obsolete herdwick pasture ground, from Middle English, from hierde, herde herdsman + wick ; from the breed's having been developed on the herdwicks of the Abbey of Furness in Lancashire, England":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"\u02c8he-ri\u014b-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And above the strip, reaching to the ceiling, are the Madrid Blanco tiles in a herringbone pattern. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"This classic herringbone throw blanket warms up any room, its neutral grays and egg-shell whites serving as a great way to temper bolder statement pieces like the velvet Reading Room chair. \u2014 Anna Tingley, Variety , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The rooms themselves vary in size, shape, and furnishings, but many include custom and handmade furniture in classic and retro styles, as well as herringbone upholstered bed frames, throw pillows, and bedroom benches. \u2014 Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2022",
"The back wall is covered in a soft, white-on-white herringbone pattern wallpaper, while on the floor is Bianca Narino honed tile in a Versaille pattern. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Also on sale is this computer desk, featuring a mango wood finish and side panels with a herringbone design. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE.com , 22 Jan. 2022",
"The home\u2019s formal dining room has plenty of natural light and a herringbone design on the walls. \u2014 Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News , 13 Aug. 2021",
"At the end of each day, for example, the dirt surrounding his barns was raked in the same herringbone pattern. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"The artificial wicker is handwoven in a herringbone pattern on a heavy-gauge robust aluminum frame that's durable enough to withstand harsh weather conditions. \u2014 Daria Smith, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The individual condos will have herringbone white-oak floors and large windows. \u2014 Helena Madden, Robb Report , 17 Dec. 2021"
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"noun"
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": patience sense 3":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054826"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-055158"
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": a small prickly eastern U.S. tree ( Aralia spinosa ) of the ginseng family with large compound leaves":[],
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"\u02c8her-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8h\u0259r-d\u0259r"
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"examples":[
"the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia live in reindeer-skin tents",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After weeks of drought, the single night of rain brought more tragedy to Safiya Abdullahi, a goat and camel herder in Somaliland. \u2014 David Bruckmeier, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 May 2022",
"The bot herder can continue to remotely manage and grow their botnet to carry out various malicious activities. \u2014 Chuck Brooks, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"In the S\u00e1mi hub of Jokkmokk, the reindeer herder and specialty meat purveyor works closely with Eva Gunnare, a local forager and cultural guide to bring guests on an epicurean journey. \u2014 Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure , 4 Mar. 2022",
"These same peaks are vital to the kingdom\u2019s wind energy plans, and native herder Lena Haugen says her people pay the price. \u2014 Jesper Starn, Fortune , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Then there is another school, one that says: hey, listen, nerf herder , Star Wars is forever. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 25 Feb. 2022",
"In the film\u2019s twist ending, the medical student Peter (played by Kodi Smit-McPhee) fatally infects the cow herder Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch). \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 20 Jan. 2022",
"His herder family lost all their cattle and now live in Gorom Gorom, an area where violent attacks on civilians and security forces are also a regular occurrence. \u2014 Clair Macdougall, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Jan. 2022",
"An illiterate immigrant from Ireland, Cashier was a manual laborer whose jobs over the years included animal herder , church janitor and mechanic. \u2014 Jay Jones, chicagotribune.com , 16 Dec. 2021"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": botany":[]
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"noun"
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"plural noun"
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": a group of mammals nearly or exactly equivalent to Ungulata and feeding mainly on herbage":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073234"
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"\u02c8(h)\u0259r-b\u0259-\u02ccliz-\u0259m",
"\u02c8(h)\u0259r-b\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Learn from teachers, businesses and plant-minded locals about herbalism , healthy living and more. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 June 2022",
"Learn from teachers, businesses and plant-minded locals about herbalism , healthy living and more. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 June 2022",
"Learn from teachers, businesses and plant-minded locals about herbalism , healthy living and more. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 May 2022",
"While the Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors tap into ancient wisdom and herbalism to curate a spectrum of treatments, Soneva Soul also champions cutting-edge technology. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"The bottle, in clever fashion, is even meant to look like a medicine bottle from an apothecary, also a nod to traditional herbalism . \u2014 Essence , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Nestled within the lush mangroves, and inspired by the legends of the Mayan gods, the spa offers treatments that combine traditional Mexican herbalism and healing techniques with modern science and tech. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 14 Jan. 2022",
"So the teen turned to traditional herbalism , the study or practice of medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, to heal. \u2014 Gabrielle Bunton, The Courier-Journal , 10 Aug. 2021",
"So the teen turned to traditional herbalism , the study or practice of medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, to heal. \u2014 Gabrielle Bunton, The Courier-Journal , 10 Aug. 2021"
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"definitions":{
": a gear with double helical teeth inclined in reverse directions and making a herringbone pattern":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073718"
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"\u02c8h\u0259r-b\u0259rt"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075550"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a European herb ( Opopanax chironium ) \u2014 compare woundwort":[]
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"town in Herefordshire , western England population 49,800":[]
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"\u02c8h\u0259r-f\u0259rd",
"US also \u02c8h\u0259r-f\u0259rd",
"\u02c8her-\u0259-f\u0259rd",
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": a red or white Rhone valley wine":[]
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"\u02c8h\u0259r-m\u0259-tij"
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"den",
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"Noun (1)",
"On weekends he escapes to his hermitage in the mountains.",
"the artist's desert hermitage was a small adobe house at the end of a long dusty road",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One man even wrote to Edward III in the late 1330s, saying that his father was living in a hermitage in Italy. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
"And Russian and Ukrainian officials traded blame for the burning of the main temple of the All Saints hermitage , a 16th-century monastery in eastern Ukraine that is considered one of the three most sacred sites in Ukraine for Orthodox believers. \u2014 Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"Manyava flourished, becoming the dominant hermitage in Galicia, until its abrupt closure in 1785, the dispersal of its monks, and the confiscation of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis and other icons. \u2014 Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022",
"Most of this writing was done at the Encinitas hermitage , which was secretly built for Yogananda as a surprise during his years abroad. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Janakananda, who built the Encinitas hermitage , succeeded him as Fellowship president until his own death three years later in Borrego Springs. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Perhaps the most memorable corner of Jeollanam-do is Chunjinam, the tranquil hermitage where Jeong Kwan resides. \u2014 Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 31 Dec. 2021",
"This doesn\u2019t mean total hermitage at a time when the economy is desperately in need of participation. \u2014 Chris Wilson, Time , 12 Nov. 2021",
"The islands' sole archaeologist Katharine Sawyer, who runs Scilly Walks, takes groups out here, or to other islands like St. Helen's (which has a medieval hermitage ) or Samson. \u2014 Kate Eshelby, CNN , 14 June 2021"
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"Tain-l' Ermitage , commune in France":"Noun"
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095021"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": the study of the methodological principles of interpretation (as of the Bible)":[],
": a method or principle of interpretation":[
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"-\u02c8ny\u00fc-",
"\u02cch\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02c8n\u00fc-tik"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If Pope Francis can toss away the hermeneutic of continuity, on what basis can defenders of this pontificate oblige me to remain faithful to it",
"The vast majority of priests who took up Benedict\u2019s permission in 2007 also say the new Mass; no clearer demonstration can be made of their commitment to Benedict\u2019s idea of the hermeneutic of continuity. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 15 Sep. 2021",
"Far from autofiction, their novels are as varied as their poems, with suspenseful plots and untrustworthy characters and an understanding that drama arises from bad hermeneutics \u2014that is, misreading people. \u2014 Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books , 10 Mar. 2020",
"For Brookhiser, part of what killed the old order was modernism\u2014meaning characters like Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche, the instigators of what the French philosopher Paul Ric\u0153ur called the hermeneutics of suspicion. \u2014 Doug Henwood, Harper's magazine , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Some certainly are rooted in history, but figuring that out is the work of hermeneutics . \u2014 Emily Mcfarlan Miller, Washington Post , 22 June 2018"
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"see hermeneutical":""
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"1737, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095222"
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259r-(\u02cc)p\u0113z"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like a train along a track, herpes rides down tiny fibers in our nerve endings. \u2014 USA Today , 23 May 2022",
"Like a train along a track, herpes rides down tiny fibers in our nerve endings. \u2014 USA Today , 23 May 2022",
"Like a train along a track, herpes rides down tiny fibers in our nerve endings. \u2014 USA Today , 23 May 2022",
"But there are prophylactics and antivirals that reduce the duration of herpes outbreaks and lower the risk of transmitting the virus. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Like a train along a track, herpes rides down tiny fibers in our nerve endings. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 5 May 2022",
"In addition to suffering from ailments like feline herpes and stomatitis, Pot Roast recently contracted the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
"In one scene, Holmes announces to the office that Theranos has received FDA approval to do herpes tests. \u2014 Arielle Pardes, Wired , 14 Mar. 2022",
"For years, scientists have found evidence that Alzheimer\u2019s disease might be driven by inflammation triggered by viral infections, including other herpes viruses. \u2014 Megan Molteni, STAT , 14 Jan. 2022"
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"Latin, from Greek herp\u0113s , from herpein to creep \u2014 more at serpent":""
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"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-100510"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"Urogenital carcinoma, present in a quarter of sea lions necropsied in California, is definitively caused by a herpesvirus . \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 25 May 2021",
"The maintenance problems have added to a difficult spring for the Jockey Club, which previously canceled two weekends of racing because of an equine herpesvirus outbreak that touched both Laurel Park and Pimlico. \u2014 Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Earlier this year, the deadly virus, known as elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), killed two young African elephants at the Indianapolis Zoo. \u2014 Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post , 17 Jan. 2020",
"And genes that seemed to make tissues more susceptible to harm from the herpesviruses were expressed most strongly in two brain areas that are especially damaged in Alzheimer\u2019s, Dr. Dudley said. \u2014 Pam Belluck, New York Times , 21 June 2018",
"The Houston Zoo has worked in recent years to control and treat the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus , the leading cause of death for elephants in North America zoos, through a partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine. \u2014 Jennifer Radcliffe, Houston Chronicle , 17 June 2018",
"To investigate that hypothesis, Edgar and her collaborators exposed mice to herpesvirus at different times. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 30 May 2019",
"The team found more viral DNA in Alzheimer\u2019s brains compared with healthy brains\u2014specifically, high levels of DNA from human herpesvirus 6A (HHV-6A). \u2014 Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American , 21 June 2018",
"And genes that seemed to make tissues more susceptible to harm from the herpesviruses were expressed most strongly in two brain areas that are especially damaged in Alzheimer\u2019s, Dr. Dudley said. \u2014 Pam Belluck, New York Times , 21 June 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1925, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": hermaphroditic":[]
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"-\u00a6d\u012bt|ish",
"-\u012bt|",
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"type":[
"biographical name"
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"definitions":{
"Francisco de 1576\u2013 circa 1656 el Viejo Spanish painter":[]
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"(h)\u0259-\u02c8rer-\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-120311"
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"Herisau":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"commune in northeastern Switzerland; capital of the demicanton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes population 15,560":[]
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"pronounciation":[
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"type":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Part of the answer, researchers report in the journal Palaeontology, rests in what herbivorous dinosaurs were munching on. \u2014 Riley Black, Scientific American , 21 June 2022",
"When Happy the elephant arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1977, the herbivorous mammal was placed inside a fenced area separating her from the zoo\u2019s other elephant. \u2014 Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"The armored dinosaur's closest relatives are the herbivorous Scelidosaurus and the Emausaurus -- both of which originated in Europe during the Jurassic period, Barrett said. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The ancient fossil belongs to a stegosaur, an herbivorous dinosaur with a tiny head and bony plates marching down its back, ending in a spiked tail. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 3 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019s the conclusion of a new study that investigated the social habits of a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur called Mussaurus that lived around 200 million years ago. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Dec. 2021",
"This new finding comes just a month after the announcement of another new species found on the Isle of Wight, the iguanodontian, a 26-foot-long herbivorous dinosaur. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 22 Dec. 2021",
"It is consumed by herbivorous fish, which are then eaten by larger fish. \u2014 Sarah Burchard, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Mussaurus was a type of dinosaur called a sauropodomorph, which represented the first great success story among herbivorous dinosaurs. \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 22 Oct. 2021"
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"There's a nutritionist on staff, as well as an acupuncturist and a pediatrician who is licensed in Chinese herbal medicine . \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 6 May 2022",
"Its centerpiece is the Friends Store, a gathering place that once sold food, gas and even ginseng, which was used as an herbal medicine . \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Botany, geography, astronomy, herbal medicine and wildlife biology all factored into her ability to survive and guide others to safety. \u2014 Liza Weisstuch, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The shingles vaccine is very safe, but no vaccine, like no drug, supplement or herbal medicine , is 100% safe. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Anansi and Br\u2019er Rabbit get their way through clever dissembling, despite being smaller and physically weaker than their compatriots; conjurers use sorcery and a knowledge of their more literal roots: herbal medicine . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
"His practice at Meridian offers services like acupuncture, massages, yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, herbal medicine , cupping therapy and more. \u2014 Gabrielle Bunton, The Courier-Journal , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Rarely known, both plants were used and documented some 5,000 years ago by the father of modern herbal medicine Emperor Shen Nung. \u2014 Jackie Bryant, Forbes , 11 Sep. 2021",
"Kratom is a tropical evergreen plant native to Southeast Asia frequently used in herbal medicine . \u2014 Sarah Bahari, Dallas News , 3 Sep. 2021"
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"Latin, from Greek H\u0113rakl\u0113s":""
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"For a party trapped in a personality cult and drunk on herrenvolk mythology, there can be no rest in the endless task of informing against and excluding the unworthy. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 4 Dec. 2021",
"Fascism weaponizes identity, validating the herrenvolk and invalidating all the other folk. \u2014 Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books , 22 June 2020"
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"The maintenance problems have added to a difficult spring for the Jockey Club, which previously canceled two weekends of racing because of an equine herpesvirus outbreak that touched both Laurel Park and Pimlico. \u2014 Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Earlier this year, the deadly virus, known as elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), killed two young African elephants at the Indianapolis Zoo. \u2014 Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post , 17 Jan. 2020",
"And genes that seemed to make tissues more susceptible to harm from the herpesviruses were expressed most strongly in two brain areas that are especially damaged in Alzheimer\u2019s, Dr. Dudley said. \u2014 Pam Belluck, New York Times , 21 June 2018",
"The Houston Zoo has worked in recent years to control and treat the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus , the leading cause of death for elephants in North America zoos, through a partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine. \u2014 Jennifer Radcliffe, Houston Chronicle , 17 June 2018",
"To investigate that hypothesis, Edgar and her collaborators exposed mice to herpesvirus at different times. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 30 May 2019",
"The team found more viral DNA in Alzheimer\u2019s brains compared with healthy brains\u2014specifically, high levels of DNA from human herpesvirus 6A (HHV-6A). \u2014 Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American , 21 June 2018",
"And genes that seemed to make tissues more susceptible to harm from the herpesviruses were expressed most strongly in two brain areas that are especially damaged in Alzheimer\u2019s, Dr. Dudley said. \u2014 Pam Belluck, New York Times , 21 June 2018"
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"However, many members of the LGBTQ community in the U.S. have heretofore felt safest in large urban areas and some of the largest cities have very high costs of living. \u2014 Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The heretofore surging Sox fell to 2-6 against the Blue Jays and 7-15 in the American League East as the Jays pulled to within a half-game of second-place Boston. \u2014 Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"The climate crisis has become an inescapable fact of daily life, with each new heretofore -unheard-of weather phenomenon offering a solemn reminder that the time to act is now \u2013 if there is still time to spare. \u2014 Christopher Vourlias, Variety , 19 June 2022",
"That American Sage Erickson, heretofore marketed by sponsors and the WSL as a delicate, unruffled soul, is capable of unleashing cutting verbal lashings on competitors who have pulled less than sportsmanlike maneuvers in a heat. \u2014 Andrew S. Lewis, Outside Online , 10 June 2022",
"This, as should have been expected, is over NIL, which now allows athletes to make money for their name, image and likeness, heretofore exclusive to greedy schools and the NCAA. \u2014 Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"Recent polls show dark horse candidate Kathy Barnette gaining steam, dampening the momentum of the heretofore leading candidates, David McCormick and Mehmet Oz. \u2014 Grace Segers, The New Republic , 17 May 2022",
"What is happening to what has heretofore been the third-largest denomination in the United States, after the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention, is emblematic of mainline Protestantism in general. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 5 May 2022",
"Previous seasons have also delved into a single piece of art for the entirety of their runs, although heretofore , all of the shows have been about singular albums and not recordings that dovetailed with comedy or streaming specials. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 19 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Explore the Cuyahoga Valley National Park beaver marsh and Bath Road heronry 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 7. \u2014 Joan Rusek, cleveland.com , 1 Apr. 2018",
"The young herons leave the nests by July and either stay near their parents or head out to live at one of the other heronry areas in the national park, such as Piney Narrows or the Wetmore Trail area. \u2014 Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com , 15 Feb. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
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"first_known_use":{
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"definitions":{
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": any of various long-necked and long-legged wading birds (family Ardeidae) with a long tapering bill, large wings, and soft plumage":[]
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"\u02c8he-r\u0259n",
"\u02c8her-\u0259n"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Garter Day at Windsor, which sees knights wear long velvet robes and a hat decorated with white ostrich and black heron feathers, is the first day of a festive week for the Queen. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"During the late spring and early summer, Ibis Pond here is a hotspot to see species of breeding heron and egrets. \u2014 Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure , 5 June 2022",
"The flatworm begins its life in a snail, then moves into a California killifish, then to its final destination in the gut of a predatory water bird, such as a heron or egret. \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The Baker's Lake preserve is home to one of the most significant heron rookeries in the Midwest, according to the Forest Preserves organization. \u2014 Mallika Kallingal And Amanda Musa, CNN , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Another nest in the national park that was first noticed this year is atop a heron nest off Canal Road, south of Rockside Road, and the birds appear to be incubating, Trimbath said. \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Workers digging up a spring near a dry riverbed in 1951, for instance, discovered four specimens of a species now known as the Blanco blind salamander, but left unattended, the story goes, two were quickly eaten by a heron . \u2014 James Gaines, Wired , 12 Feb. 2022",
"In one breath, your guide might point out an osprey or a majestic heron and, in the next, describe the square footage and multimillion-dollar glamour of some of the homes lining the lakes. \u2014 Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com , 23 Jan. 2022",
"The larger species behaved like a heron , a long-necked bird that wades through water, Gizmodo reports. \u2014 Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Dec. 2021"
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"Middle English heiroun, hayroun , from Anglo-French heiron , of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German heigaro heron":""
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-070330"
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"Herbert River cherry":{
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"noun"
],
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": queensland cherry":[]
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"\u02c8h\u0259rb\u0259rt-"
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"from the Herbert river , Australia":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-070923"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"\u02c8her\u0259\u02ccgeld",
"-\u02ccye-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-092348"
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"here to stay":{
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"She's convinced that her bad luck is here to stay ."
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-093249"
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"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an agent used to destroy or inhibit plant growth":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8(h)\u0259r-b\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bd"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Passage of the bill will cap years of advocacy work by veterans groups and others who liken burn pits to the Agent Orange herbicide that Vietnam era veterans were exposed to in Southeast Asia. \u2014 Kevin Freking, ajc , 16 June 2022",
"Whereas the Champagne region as a whole aims to stop using chemical herbicides by 2025, Maison Mumm is one of the first champagne houses to have already done so, having implemented a zero- herbicide policy on its own parcels at the beginning of 2016. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Glyphosate, a broad-spectrum, nonselective herbicide will kill the grass, as well as your garden plants. \u2014 Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022",
"Apply a pre-emergent herbicide to prevent winter weeds. \u2014 Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Control Bermuda grass and other grassy weeds with a contact herbicide such as Grass-Be-Gone or Poast that is labeled for grass control. \u2014 Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News , 6 May 2022",
"This is the second time in about a year that a court has invalidated the way nine of the herbicide -regulating board\u2019s 17 voting members are selected by trade groups. \u2014 John Lynch, Arkansas Online , 17 May 2022",
"Here the culprit is agrochemical giant Monsanto, and their product Roundup, purportedly for some time the world\u2019s most popular herbicide . \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 15 May 2022",
"The Air Force veteran had overcome multiple cancers after being exposed to Agent Orange, a herbicide that can lead to serious health problems, during the Vietnam War. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin herba + International Scientific Vocabulary -cide":""
},
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"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-093715"
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"hermitize":{
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"intransitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to live a solitary life":[]
},
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"\u02c8h\u0259rm\u0259\u0307t\u02cc\u012bz"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-094029"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-100212"
},
"heraldic":{
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"adjective",
"adverb"
],
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": of or relating to heralds or heraldry":[]
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"h\u0259-",
"he-\u02c8ral-dik"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The county\u2019s heraldic bearings are on the uniforms of sheriff's deputies and the fire marshal. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Across cultures and millennia, dating back to Mesopotamia, the eagle has been a dominant heraldic figure; Charlemagne had one, as did Napoleon, and Saladin\u2019s eagle survives in the coats of arms of much of the Arab world. \u2014 Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic , 15 Feb. 2022",
"And the center true love knot also known as Bowen's Knot, is a heraldic knot representing the connectivity of true love. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Drawings of snow leopards, however, are ancient and appear all across the heraldic iconography of Central Asia, from the coat of arms of the Tatars to the official seal of the city of Samarqand. \u2014 Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 5 July 2021",
"Up close and at eye level, the work is reborn as these huge heraldic thunderous paintings, visually vehement and emotionally commanding. \u2014 Jerry Saltz, Vulture , 18 Mar. 2021",
"Wrapped around the base just above street level is a 386-foot frieze of colonial life by the South African heraldic sculptor Ivan Mitford-Barberton; at the time, it was said to be one of the world\u2019s longest such carvings. \u2014 Nancy Hass, New York Times , 13 Nov. 2020",
"The female reproductive system is this emblematic heraldic form. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Oct. 2020",
"The totality evokes a heraldic banner, but also a fortress facade. \u2014 Roberta Smith, New York Times , 19 Mar. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French h\u00e9raldique, from Medieval Latin heraldus \"herald\" (Latinization of Middle French hiraud, heraud, Old French hirauz, hiraut ) + French -ique -ic entry 1 , herald entry 1":""
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"1772, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-100444"
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"herpes simplex":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": either of two diseases caused by herpesviruses (species Human herpesvirus 1 and Human herpesvirus 2 of the genus Simplexvirus ) and marked especially by watery blisters on the skin or mucous membranes of the lips, mouth, face, or genital region":[]
},
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"-\u02c8sim-\u02ccpleks"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When these experiments were repeated with mice infected with influenza A virus, encephalomyocarditis virus, herpes simplex virus-1, or coronavirus MHV-A59, only coronavirus MHV-A59 was linked to an upregulated expression of S100A8 and neutrophils. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Viruses such as herpes simplex 1, which causes cold sores and, less commonly, genital herpes, are considered endemic throughout the world. \u2014 Jacob Stern, The Atlantic , 1 Feb. 2022",
"For example, some small studies during the pandemic offered hints that severe COVID-19 is associated with a quickening of latent cytomegalovirus or herpes simplex virus. \u2014 Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Shingles and herpes simplex are more devious, hibernating like a bear until severe stress wakes them up, often years later. \u2014 Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Oct. 2021",
"About half the population of the U.S. is thought to have herpes simplex 1. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Researchers already know that some conditions, such as HIV and herpes simplex , can cause brain inflammation that leads to cognitive decline, Isaacson said. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Feb. 2021",
"The question then arose as to whether the microbe was a more virulent form of a common existing pathogen, such as ubiquitous herpes simplex , or if AIDS was caused by a new one. \u2014 Kenneth H. Mayer, STAT , 7 June 2021",
"In the United States, bacterial infections can cause meningitis, as can enteroviruses, mumps and herpes simplex . \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, literally, simple herpes":""
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"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-101121"
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"herb Gerard":{
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"noun"
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": goutweed":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"translation of Medieval Latin or New Latin herba (Sancti) Gerardi , after Gerardus (St. Gerard) \u20201120 founder of the Knights of St. John":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-110136"
},
"heriotable":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": subject to payment of a heriot":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0113\u0259t\u0259b\u0259l"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-111825"
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"Herefordshire":{
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"noun"
],
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"county of western England on the border with Wales":[],
"town in Herefordshire , western England population 49,800":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"sometimes \u02c8her-\u0259-",
"\u02c8her-\u0259-f\u0259rd",
"\u02c8h\u0259r-f\u0259rd",
"US also \u02c8h\u0259r-f\u0259rd"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"after hereford , county in England":""
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"1805, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-113134"
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"her":{
"type":[
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"adjective",
"pronoun"
],
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": of or relating to her or herself especially as possessor, agent, or object of an action":[
"her house",
"her research"
],
"\u2014 compare she entry 1":[
"her house",
"her research"
],
"heraldry":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(h)\u0259r",
"\u02c8h\u0259r",
"\u0259r"
],
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"She bought her own house.",
"Her parents will visit soon.",
"I would like to read some of her essays.",
"She was jailed for her crime.",
"It's her turn to play."
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hire , from Old English hiere , genitive of h\u0113o she \u2014 more at he":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-114616"
},
"herds":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control":[
"a herd of cattle"
],
": a congregation of gregarious wild animals":[
"herds of antelopes"
],
": a group of people usually having a common bond":[
"a herd of tourists"
],
": a large assemblage of like things":[
"herds of cars"
],
": the undistinguished masses : crowd":[
"isolate the individual prophets from the herd",
"\u2014 Norman Cousins"
],
": to gather, lead, or drive as if in a herd (see herd entry 1 sense 1a )":[
"herded the children into the car"
],
": to keep or move (animals) together":[
"dogs that are trained to herd sheep"
],
": to place in a group":[
"herd us with their kindred fools",
"\u2014 Jonathan Swift"
],
": to assemble or move in a herd (see herd entry 1 )":[
"herding onto the subway"
],
": to place oneself in a group : associate":[
"it is desirable that young noblemen should herd",
"\u2014 Sir Walter Scott"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259rd"
],
"synonyms":[
"drove",
"flock"
],
"antonyms":[
"drive",
"punch",
"run"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"The herd grazed peacefully in the pasture.",
"A herd of shoppers waited anxiously for the store to open.",
"Verb",
"The horses were herded into the corral.",
"We left the hotel and were herded onto a bus.",
"They herded the students into the auditorium.",
"The commuters herded onto the train.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Grand Canyon herd didn't always live within the park's boundaries, where they can be seen along the highway leading to the North Rim entrance. \u2014 Felicia Fonseca, The Arizona Republic , 27 June 2022",
"The Grand Canyon herd didn't always live within the park's boundaries, where they can be seen along the highway leading to the North Rim entrance. \u2014 Felicia Fonseca, ajc , 26 June 2022",
"Last year, the park used skilled volunteers selected through a highly competitive and controversial lottery to kill bison, part of an effort to downsize the herd that has been trampling meadows and archaeological sites on the canyon\u2019s North Rim. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"Morgan has never followed the herd , and as larger and more sensible automakers continue to downsize their powerplants (or swap to electric power entirely), the British sports-car maker has gone the other way. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 15 June 2022",
"Port Lympne houses a number of rare and endangered species such as Siberian tigers and has Britain\u2019s largest breeding herd of black rhinoceros. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"Outside Amman, the landscape opened up, with golden wheat fields, greenhouses full of tomatoes and eggplants, flocks of sheep, the occasional herd of camels and barking dogs chasing the train. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"There are about 25 bulls in the herd who sire all of the babies. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"If the hyped up anticipation from Houstonians is any indication, guests will likely flock in by the herd for fins, feathers, and all. \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 1 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Fans say the medium-sized, shaggy dogs are vigorous, versatile and hard working, able to herd sheep, hunt boar, snag rats and compete in canine sports such as agility and dock diving. \u2014 Jennifer Peltz, ajc , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Your questions answered Today\u2019s question comes from readers who want to know: Did Omicron infect enough people to get the U.S. to herd immunity? \u2014 Karen Kaplan Science And Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The Great Pyrenees were once used to herd livestock on steep mountain slopes of France and will eagerly embark on a tough, rugged hike. \u2014 Mattie Schuler, Outside Online , 6 Dec. 2013",
"The numbers offer a clue as to how close to herd immunity the state and various regions are. \u2014 Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Mar. 2021",
"The mandate was to lasso viewers and herd them to Paramount+, where the shows will complete their runs. \u2014 John Jurgensen, WSJ , 2 Jan. 2022",
"The moose hung around campus for a time until officials were able to herd him west out of town. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 5 Nov. 2021",
"The agents, wearing chaps and cowboy hats, maneuvered their horses to forcibly block and move the migrants, almost seeming to herd them. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Finding cattle, trying to herd them in and cutting them through this field. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 17 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English heord ; akin to Old High German herta herd, Middle Welsh cordd troop, Lithuanian kerd\u017eius shepherd":"Noun and Verb"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-121936"
},
"hereticator":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one that hereticates":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-123744"
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"hermaphrodite calipers":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a drawing instrument having one caliper and one divider leg":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-124704"
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"herbalize":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to collect plants (as medicinal herbs)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccl\u012bz"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-125359"
},
"herola":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a large yellowish tawny African antelope ( Damaliscus hunteri ) with markings on face and tail":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"h\u0259\u0307\u02c8r\u014dl\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-132221"
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"heralds":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": an official at a tournament of arms (see arm entry 3 sense 1a ) with duties including the making of announcements and the marshaling of combatants":[],
": an officer with the status of ambassador acting as official messenger between leaders especially in war":[],
": officer of arms":[],
": an officer of arms ranking above a pursuivant and below a king of arms":[],
": an official crier or messenger":[
"Mercury was the gods' herald ."
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": one that precedes or foreshadows":[
"heralds of a coming storm"
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": one that conveys news or proclaims : announcer":[
"it was the lark, the herald of the morn",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": one who actively promotes or advocates : exponent":[],
": to give notice of : announce":[
"a gong used to herald the new year",
"the approach of a cold air mass \u2026 is heralded by a shift of the wind",
"\u2014 P. E. James"
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": to greet especially with enthusiasm : hail":[
"doctors are heralding a new drug"
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": publicize":[
"a highly heralded event"
],
": to signal the approach of : foreshadow":[
"The technology heralded a new age of space exploration."
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8he-r\u0259ld",
"\u02c8her-\u0259ld"
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"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"hierophant",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
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"adumbrate",
"forerun",
"foreshadow",
"harbinger",
"prefigure"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for herald Noun forerunner , precursor , harbinger , herald mean one that goes before or announces the coming of another. forerunner is applicable to anything that serves as a sign or presage. the blockade was the forerunner of war precursor applies to a person or thing paving the way for the success or accomplishment of another. 18th century poets like Burns were precursors of the Romantics harbinger and herald both apply, chiefly figuratively, to one that proclaims or announces the coming or arrival of a notable event. their early victory was the harbinger of a winning season the herald of a new age in medicine",
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The early flowers are heralds of spring.",
"Mercury was the herald of the Roman gods.",
"Verb",
"Rain heralds the arrival of spring.",
"The technology heralded a new age of space exploration.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Professor Anne Curry became the first female herald to take part in the royal procession inside Westminster, having been appointed to the post of Arundel Herald Extraordinary on Monday. \u2014 Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022",
"And yet in both cases a Trump endorsement is hardly a herald of victory. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Indeed, weekday mornings and midafternoons in the city herald a choke of cars dropping off and picking up students. \u2014 Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Capone was indicted and Chicago freed to argue that its fair wouldn\u2019t be mobbed up or a casualty of the Depression, but a herald of better times. \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"However, the material has also helped herald in a lot of development in various forms. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper herald in the new year at Times Square. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 26 Dec. 2021",
"If anything, Virginia\u2019s election results could act as an especially accurate herald about the midterms and the next presidential election. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 2 Nov. 2021",
"Execute pilots to evaluate assumptions about the future and spot weak signals that herald industry shifts. \u2014 Ganes Kesari, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Thiel and Musk may herald the rise of a new breed of tech billionaire, turning their deep pockets and distinct ideologies away from the companies that made their fortunes toward building a new version of the American right. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2022",
"Thiel and Musk may herald the rise of a new breed of tech billionaire, turning their deep pockets and distinct ideologies away from the companies that made their fortunes toward building a new version of the American right. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post , 19 June 2022",
"The availability of apps to translate spoken or written words on smartphones or devices may herald another solution. \u2014 Aidan Connolly, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Still, weak market breadth may herald further declines for US stocks in the near term as fewer stocks moving major indexes higher. \u2014 Jessica Menton, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"What those who might herald Cawthorn\u2019s ouster might do well to reflect upon was just how much of all that the party cheerfully tolerated. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 20 May 2022",
"Four out of five migraineurs may have symptoms that herald the onset of the migraine before the headache itself. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But -- even from his lofty vantagepoint -- Healy was yet to see the first dust-clouds that would herald the stomping of 80,000 hooves. \u2014 Mark Eveleigh, CNN , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Adding Finland and Sweden would cap an eight-year rejuvenation of NATO, which rediscovered its purpose after Russia\u2019s seizure of Crimea in 2014, and could herald a new, stronger era for the alliance. \u2014 Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ , 18 May 2022"
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": the true myrrh of commerce said to be obtained from an East African and Arabian tree ( Commiphora myrrha )":[]
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"origin unknown":""
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"noun"
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"first_known_use":{
"1578, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"biographical name"
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"Dudley R(obert) 1932\u2013 American chemist":[]
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"\u02c8h\u0259rsh-\u02ccb\u00e4k"
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"geographical name"
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"mountain 9232 feet (2814 meters) high on the border between Syria and Lebanon; highest in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains":[]
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": a feudal duty or tribute due under English law to a lord on the death of a tenant":[]
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a first positive afterimage in a succession of visual afterimages resulting from a brief light stimulus and appearing in the same hue as the original sensation":[]
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"\u02c8he|",
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"after Ewald Hering \u20201918 German physiologist and psychologist":""
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"biographical name"
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"Avram 1937\u2013 originally":[
"Hersk\u00f3 Ferenc \\ \u02c8hersh-\u200bk\u014d-\u200b\u02c8fer-\u200bents \\"
],
"Israeli (Hungarian-born) biologist":[
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"\u02c8hersh-k\u014d"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-190628"
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"type":[
"biographical name"
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"Ewald 1834\u20131918 German physiologist and psychologist":[]
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"\u02c8h\u0101-ri\u014b",
"\u02c8her-i\u014b"
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"type":[
"geographical name"
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"mountain 9232 feet (2814 meters) high on the border between Syria and Lebanon; highest in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains":[]
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"\u02c8h\u0259r-m\u0259n"
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"biographical name",
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"\u2014 abbreviation Hz"
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"Gustav Ludwig 1887\u20131975 German physicist":[],
"Heinrich Rudolf 1857\u20131894 German physicist":[]
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"\u02c8h\u0259rts",
"\u02c8herts"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With some overlap, males are usually below 180 hertz . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Most people wouldn\u2019t be able to discern such microtonal shifts up or down 8 hertz . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"The female range is considered anything above 160 hertz . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Power grids are designed to operate at a certain frequency; European grids run at 50 hertz while in the US it\u2019s 60 hertz. \u2014 Matt Reynolds, Wired , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Will that be enough to draw people toward these high- hertz peripherals? \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Game+ Mode ensures your connected device reaches maximum resolution with support for up to a 4K Ultra HD resolution at 30 hertz . \u2014 Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics , 2 Nov. 2021",
"As Reineke stood confidently atop the platform using a rubber mallet and a lathed mulberry branch to find the perfect hertz , Raynovich's eyes were like stars. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 15 July 2021",
"The main event really is the laptops\u2019 new Liquid Retina XDR displays, which are brighter and have refresh rates up to 120 hertz , to make everything from scrolling to videos seem smoother. \u2014 Joanna Stern, WSJ , 18 Oct. 2021"
": of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an herb":[],
": having little or no woody tissue and persisting usually for a single growing season":[],
": having the texture, color, or appearance of a leaf":[]
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"\u02cc(h)\u0259r-\u02c8b\u0101-sh\u0259s"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Puritan usually calls for orange bitters, this recipe calls for herbaceous and slightly savory lemon thyme bitters. \u2014 Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
"The herbaceous and briny taste of the succulent marries beautifully with zesty notes of orange, grapefruit, and fennel, a nose of lavender, lemon, sea salt, and aniseed, and a spicy red peppercorn finish. \u2014 Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"The smoky beef merguez \u2014 a spicy North African sausage \u2014 had an herbaceous note that played off the creamy bed of melted mozzarella. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 10 June 2022",
"However, if shade is cast by large trees immediately overhead, shrubs and herbaceous plants may lose the competition and need to be watered more often, so pay attention. \u2014 Jessica Damiano, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
"An herbaceous perennial, Lami Dark Purple has lush green and silver foliage with abundant purple flowers. \u2014 Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine , 4 May 2022",
"The beloved ros\u00e9 brand presents its signature, herbaceous C\u00f4tes de Provence wine in a striking 6-pack of 375ml, twist-off bottles, perfect for pouring into a glass or popping a straw into the pale rosy liquid to enjoy the ros\u00e9 as is. \u2014 Jillian Dara, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Lauder for Men from Estee Lauder comes in a sophisticated bottle and features a scent described as masculine, woodsy, and herbaceous . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 June 2022",
"This herbaceous citrusy cocktail is a great alternative to a traditional brunch cocktail. \u2014 Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1640, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": moravian":[]
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"\u02c8hern\u02cch\u00fct\u0259r"
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"German, from Herrnhut (literally, Lord's protection), town near Dresden, Germany founded by the Moravians in 1722":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-193136"
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"type":[
"adjective",
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"definitions":{
": a protrusion of an organ or part (such as the intestine) through connective tissue or through a wall of the cavity (as of the abdomen) in which it is normally enclosed":[]
},
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"\u02c8h\u0259r-n\u0113-\u0259"
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"He was treated for hernia .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Two of the largest pieces of Strattice biologic mesh made by the supplier were sewn together to repair the hernia . \u2014 Ashley Andreou, Scientific American , 26 May 2022",
"The day of the discovery in 2007 was quite stormy, and since Julian had a hernia with stitches, Lincoln replaced him as lead diver. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 10 June 2022",
"The other transfer \u2014 defensive lineman Deven Lamp (Tulsa) \u2014 missed most of practice after requiring surgery for a sports hernia and is listed as third-string defensive end. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 May 2022",
"Arelis Mart\u00ednez Pacheco rushed her 15-year-old daughter to the hospital Wednesday for treatment of a hernia . \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"The sixth transfer \u2014 defensive end Deven Lamp \u2014 missed most of practice after requiring surgery for a sports hernia and is listed as third-string DE. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Outfielder Kyle Garlick, who had moved into the lineup on a regular basis, has a sports hernia and will go on the Injured List. \u2014 Phil Miller, Star Tribune , 9 June 2021",
"Hoke said Lamp had surgery for a sports hernia and will be sidelined another couple weeks. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Durham had been hobbled by a sports hernia , was 0-of-7 until that shot and had not made a 3-pointer since January. \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 10 Mar. 2022"
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"Middle English hernia, hernie, hirnia, borrowed from Latin hernia, hirnia, of uncertain origin":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-203405"
},
"Herrmann":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Bernard 1911\u20131975 American composer and conductor":[]
},
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"\u02c8h\u0259r-m\u0259n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-224153"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of fungi (family Sphaeriaceae) having perithecia on a brown mycelial layer and including a form ( Herpotrichia nigra ) that is a parasite on conifers":[]
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"\u02cch\u0259rp\u0259\u02c8trik\u0113\u0259"
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"New Latin, from Greek herpein to creep + New Latin -o- + -trichia":""
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
": a genus of small Old World herbs (family Caryophyllaceae) with minute green flowers \u2014 see rupturewort":[]
},
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"\u02cch\u0259rn\u0113\u02c8a(a)r\u0113\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin hernia rupture + New Latin -aria":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a specialist in heraldry":[]
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"\u02c8her\u0259ld\u0259\u0307st"
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to make heroic":[]
},
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"\u02c8her-\u0259-\u02ccw\u012bz",
"\u02c8he-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8hir-(\u02cc)\u014d-\u02cc\u012bz"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"King Richard pushes aside the story of the Williams sisters to heroize their father\u2019s determination to launch their talents. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 11 Feb. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1695, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-000009"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a crystalline compound C 10 H 8 O 2 found especially in a rupturewort ( Herniaria hirsuta ); the methyl ether of umbelliferone":[]
},
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"-r\u0259\u0307n"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary herniar- (from New Latin Herniaria , genus name of Herniaria hirsuta ) + -in":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-005711"
},
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"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": under or in accordance with this writing or document":[]
},
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"hir-\u02c8\u0259n-d\u0259r"
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"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-012636"
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"type":[
"combining form"
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"definitions":{
": hereditary : hereditarily":[
"heredo ataxia",
"heredo familial"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin hered-, heres heir":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-014158"
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"herpes zoster":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": shingles":[]
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"-\u02c8z\u00e4s-t\u0259r"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The good news is that there is a vaccine that can reduce your risk of getting any type of herpes zoster . \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"The virus that causes chicken pox stays dormant in the body until something triggers it, returning in form of herpes zoster (Ramsay Hunt), which can inflame different nerves in the abdomen, back and face. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"Shingles, also called herpes zoster , is caused by the recurrence of the chickenpox virus after years or decades of the virus being dormant. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 16 Sep. 2021",
"The researchers detected six cases of shingles (also called herpes zoster ) among those with AIIRD but did not find any cases among the controls. \u2014 Sarah Jacoby, SELF , 21 Apr. 2021",
"Six women between the ages of 36 to 61 with stable rheumatic diseases developed herpes zoster (or HZ) infection. \u2014 Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY , 7 May 2021",
"Varicella-zoster virus, which causes herpes zoster and chickenpox in children, does not cause genital herpes or cold sores. \u2014 Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY , 7 May 2021",
"According to the article published this morning, scientists in Israel allegedly identified six cases of patients developing a skin rash known as herpes zoster , also known as shingles, after receiving the Pfizer vaccine. \u2014 Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com , 21 Apr. 2021",
"So the confusion seems to be coming from the name of this condition: shingles, aka herpes zoster . \u2014 Sarah Jacoby, SELF , 21 Apr. 2021"
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"Heredity plays no part in the disease.",
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"Wilson believed democracy wasn\u2019t an abstract system but a racial endowment of the Saxon people carried forward genetically through our germ plasm (the conduit of heredity according to German scientists in the late 19th century). \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 16 Mar. 2022",
"In the years between Passing the book and the release of Passing the movie, ideas around race, heredity , and multiracial identity have transformed countless times \u2014 within families, within institutions, and within pop culture. \u2014 Brittany Luse, Vulture , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Other lifestyle factors such as obesity, lack of activity, blood pressure, and heredity can influence cholesterol levels. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 29 Aug. 2021",
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"Not surprisingly, the findings suggest that heredity and environment do contribute to musical aptitude and achievement. \u2014 Cindi May, Scientific American , 21 May 2021",
"Such cases have increasingly come to light as children born as a result of such procedures take DNA heredity tests, though some victims have encountered trouble bringing the doctors to justice. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 8 Feb. 2021",
"All this culminated in the untimely and unethical use of CRISPR by the scientist He Jiankui to edit the germline DNA of human embryos, an irresponsible and cavalier act that affected the heredity of two girls forever. \u2014 Adrian Woolfson, Washington Post , 20 Nov. 2020",
"The implication that plants, animals, and, by extension, people, could be shaped in any desirable way, unconstrained by heredity , fit with Marxist theory. \u2014 Sean B. Carroll, The Atlantic , 6 Oct. 2020"
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"And the liberty to tell one\u2019s story, one\u2019s history, herstory , their story, and be heard, is profoundly American. \u2014 Jeryl Brunner, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But what's really got pulses racing is a little bit of herstory repeating. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Scour the used car lots near you for this piece of herstory , an Orange 1963 Chevy StepSide C-10 Pickup a.k.a. \u2014 Vulture Editors, Vulture , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The influential drag competition series is back in the United Kingdom, with 12 new queens vying to make herstory \u2014 including the franchise\u2019s first-ever cisgender woman contestant. \u2014 NBC News , 3 Nov. 2021",
"No queen has ever been eliminated, returned to the same contest, and won Drag Race in the show's 12-year herstory . \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Farrah Moan's as some of the most adorably off-beat dancing in the show's herstory ), Jan further etched her name into the Drag Race legacy by exiting the show under unprecedented circumstances. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 29 July 2021",
"Light up your fake cigarettes and tip back those citrus libations, because everyone's favorite RuPaul's Drag Race challenge is here \u2014 and the All Stars 6 edition is one of the best editions in recent herstory . \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 5 Aug. 2021",
"These tales lurking under the surface are finally springing to the fore, jumping from the footnotes to the main text, making herstory . \u2014 Judy Batalion, Time , 8 Apr. 2021"
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"\u02cchir-(\u02cc)\u0259n-\u02c8t\u00fc",
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": a European herb ( Paris quadrifolia ) resembling and closely related to the trilliums and commonly reputed to be poisonous":[]
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"Andy Snider, curator of herpetology and aquatics at the Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo, said Argentine boas are a subspecies of boa constrictor that, as the name suggests, are native to portions of Argentina. \u2014 Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Audubon first described the bird in 1833, and just a century later, the species was almost wiped out of existence, Dirk Stevenson, a naturalist with a background in herpetology , told ABC News. \u2014 Julia Jacobo, ABC News , 15 Oct. 2021",
"What is a tragedy for one chick is in fact a promising sign for the birds of Fre\u0301gate Island as a whole, says Gregory Pauly, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, who wasn\u2019t involved in the new paper. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 23 Aug. 2021",
"Little is known about the mating behavior of these creatures, which is why Greg Pauly, curator of herpetology at L.A. County\u2019s Natural History Museum, started a community science campaign five years ago. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2021",
"Coca growers use pesticides and fertilizers that are poisoning local waterways, according to Steffen Reichle, a Bolivian ecologist and leader of the herpetology team on the expedition. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 14 Dec. 2020",
"Santa Claus, who in real life is herpetology collections manager Jens Vindum, reaches out to Willow, a frisky reindeer grazing on the Living Roof of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. \u2014 Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com , 27 Nov. 2020",
"Scientists from both Madagascar and Germany published a report in the Salamandra Journal (a journal dedicated to herpetology ), according to the Associated Press. \u2014 Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure , 4 Nov. 2020",
"Camping and herpetology in the Shawnee National Forest, also this spring. \u2014 Linda Gandee, cleveland , 2 Nov. 2020"
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"\u2014 George Krauss , Advanced Materials & Processes , 1 Mar. 2009",
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"New Latin, from Francisco Hern\u00e1ndez \u20201578 Spanish botanist + New Latin -ia":""
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"Heinrich Rudolf 1857\u20131894 German physicist":[]
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"With some overlap, males are usually below 180 hertz . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Most people wouldn\u2019t be able to discern such microtonal shifts up or down 8 hertz . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"The female range is considered anything above 160 hertz . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Power grids are designed to operate at a certain frequency; European grids run at 50 hertz while in the US it\u2019s 60 hertz. \u2014 Matt Reynolds, Wired , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Will that be enough to draw people toward these high- hertz peripherals? \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Game+ Mode ensures your connected device reaches maximum resolution with support for up to a 4K Ultra HD resolution at 30 hertz . \u2014 Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics , 2 Nov. 2021",
"As Reineke stood confidently atop the platform using a rubber mallet and a lathed mulberry branch to find the perfect hertz , Raynovich's eyes were like stars. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 15 July 2021",
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"Basil is a fast-growing herb that produces plenty of flavorful foliage. \u2014 Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 May 2022",
"Rich, smoky Hinoki from Japan evokes a blissful sense of tranquility, as does lavender, which was originally a Mediterranean herb . \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"With notes that include Ylang, Bergamont, Lavender, and Rose, this moisturizer and softener are made with Sea Lavender, a marine herb with remarkable antioxidant characteristics. \u2014 Essence , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Cilantro is a good-for-you herb that offers important nutrients like vitamins A, K, and C as well as heart-healthy antioxidants. \u2014 Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Bananas, which are actually the berry of the largest herb in the world, are one of the most popular fruits around. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press , 11 June 2022",
"Other videos on Kamburov's channel feature everyday objects from dirty diapers to a piece of an herb to plaque on a piece of floss. \u2014 Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"There are plenty of edible herb and veggie options for you too. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living , 26 May 2022",
"But catnip isn't the only plant that can send kitties into a frenzy of entertaining antics from repeatedly rolling in the herb to munching on the leaves and then racing around the room. \u2014 Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 June 2022"
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": a reflecting telescope in which the need for a secondary mirror is avoided by tilting the primary mirror slightly and thereby throwing the focused image to the side where it can be observed without obstruction to the incoming light rays":[]
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"In monogrammed stockings, the coal lumps were loaded, some naughtier names being herewith decoded: Roy Moore and Matt Lauer and creepier men, who prey on young women and then prey again; lunatic leaders who play near the brink with nuclear arms. \u2014 Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal , 24 Dec. 2017",
"Dear Sir Klansmen: By to Tender you herewith my resignation as a member of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [officially] from this date on. \u2014 Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post , 1 Sep. 2017"
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"Audubon first described the bird in 1833, and just a century later, the species was almost wiped out of existence, Dirk Stevenson, a naturalist with a background in herpetology , told ABC News. \u2014 Julia Jacobo, ABC News , 15 Oct. 2021",
"What is a tragedy for one chick is in fact a promising sign for the birds of Fre\u0301gate Island as a whole, says Gregory Pauly, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, who wasn\u2019t involved in the new paper. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 23 Aug. 2021",
"Little is known about the mating behavior of these creatures, which is why Greg Pauly, curator of herpetology at L.A. County\u2019s Natural History Museum, started a community science campaign five years ago. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2021",
"Coca growers use pesticides and fertilizers that are poisoning local waterways, according to Steffen Reichle, a Bolivian ecologist and leader of the herpetology team on the expedition. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 14 Dec. 2020",
"Santa Claus, who in real life is herpetology collections manager Jens Vindum, reaches out to Willow, a frisky reindeer grazing on the Living Roof of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. \u2014 Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com , 27 Nov. 2020",
"Scientists from both Madagascar and Germany published a report in the Salamandra Journal (a journal dedicated to herpetology ), according to the Associated Press. \u2014 Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure , 4 Nov. 2020",
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": a widely distributed genus of plants (family Umbelliferae) having wing-margined fruit and large umbels of white flowers \u2014 see cow parsnip":[]
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"geographical name"
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"city in central Jutland , Denmark population 86,793":[]
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"\u02c8her-ni\u014b"
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": an electromagnetic wave produced by the oscillation of electricity in a conductor (as a radio antenna) and of a length ranging from a few millimeters to many kilometers":[]
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"intransitive verb"
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": botanize":[]
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"French herboriser , from herbor iste + -iser -ize":""
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"noun"
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": a statue in the form of a square stone pillar surmounted by a bust or head especially of Hermes":[]
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"\u02c8h\u0259rm"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This female image of fruitfulness is matched across the painting\u2019s 10-foot expanse by a menacing herm of Pan \u2014 the god of the fields, symbol of fertility and, according to Plutarch, the only Greek deity who dies \u2014 peering out from the bushes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Publicly displayed for the first time, the tripod\u2019s legs are adorned with carved ivory bas-reliefs of cupids cavorting around herms , boundary markers of stone pillars with human heads. \u2014 Christopher Knight, latimes.com , 3 July 2019"
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"Latin hermes , from Greek herm\u0113s statue of Hermes, herm, from Herm\u0113s":""
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"circa 1580, in the meaning defined above":""
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": hernia":[
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"French, from Latin hernia":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": an excursion for the study or collection of plants":[]
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"-\u02ccr\u012b\u02c8z-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-194257"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": european vervain":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-210718"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": herbalist":[]
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"\u02c8(h)\u0259rb\u0259r\u0259\u0307st"
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"Middle French herboriste, herboliste , irregular from herbe herb (from Latin herba ) + -iste -ist":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-221746"
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"hertzian telegraphy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": telegraphy by means of Hertzian waves : radiotelegraph":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-222141"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": herbal medicine sense 1":[]
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"(h)\u0259r-\u02c8b\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The five-night minimum stay allows time to decompress through the spa's multiple treatments: Watsu therapy pools, sensory deprivation chambers, ayurvedic massages, and herbology lessons, among others. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 12 Apr. 2022",
"My personal highlight, though, was Aktar, the on-site herbology center led by master herbologist Tamara Warner. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 8 Mar. 2022",
"For vibe-y candles with fragrance blends that lean into Ayurveda, mysticism, and herbology , check out Heretic. \u2014 Talia Abbas, Glamour , 24 Aug. 2021",
"But the truth is, the glass buried my lack of herbology skills. \u2014 Kevin Fisher-paulson, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Mar. 2021"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-231322"
},
"herehence":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": from or away from this point or source":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"here entry 1 + hence":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-232214"
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"hertzian":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or developed by the physicist Hertz":[]
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"-s\u0113\u0259n"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"H. R. Hertz + English -ian":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-232900"
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"herein":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": in this":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"hir-\u02c8in"
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"examples":[
"For an explanation of the abbreviations used herein , see the section entitled \u201cAbbreviations in this Work.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Alas, herein lies the sad truth of the current economic crisis: It's gotten so bad that bankruptcy has actually become a poor option for many distressed companies. \u2014 Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Apr. 2020",
"And herein lies a big problem: faith in many American institutions is declining, especially in government. \u2014 John Manzella, Twin Cities , 17 Nov. 2019",
"And herein lies another problem: If the US is unable to locate and extradite the attackers, they may never be punished for their crimes. \u2014 Allen Kim, CNN , 8 Oct. 2019",
"Mutu\u2019s are no ordinary caryatids, and herein lies the source of her feminist intervention. \u2014 Daniel Gelernter, National Review , 21 Sep. 2019",
"Among the delicious tidbits herein is that in 1969, future felon Bob Halderman offered Brokaw the job of being Nixon\u2019s press secretary. \u2014 David Holahan, USA TODAY , 29 Oct. 2019",
"Each Winner is responsible for the reporting and payment of all taxes (if any) as well as any other costs and expenses associated with acceptance and use of prize not specified herein as being awarded. \u2014 CNN , 19 Aug. 2019",
"Winner is responsible for all applicable federal, state and local taxes, if any, as well as any other costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 8 July 2019",
"And herein lies the lasting legacy of the 1968 election. \u2014 Elaine C. Kamarck, Washington Post , 18 July 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-000837"
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"hereinabove":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": at a prior point in this writing or document":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)hir-\u02ccin-\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259v"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1812, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-015501"
},
"hereinafter":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": in the following part of this writing or document":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cchir-\u0259-\u02c8naf-t\u0259r"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1590, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-015700"
},
"hereinbefore":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": in the preceding part of this writing or document":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)hir-\u02ccin-bi-\u02c8f\u022fr"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1687, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-022516"
},
"hereinbelow":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": at a subsequent point in this writing or document":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)hir-\u02ccin-bi-\u02c8l\u014d"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-030138"
},
"here is":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-030926"
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"herem":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one of three forms of ecclesiastical excommunication pronounced by a rabbi or by the officials of a synagogue or community":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hebrew \u1e25\u0113rem":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-033808"
},
"Herend porcelain":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": Hungarian hard-paste porcelain made since the 18th century and often imitative of other wares":[]
},
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"\u02c8he\u02ccrend-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Herend , town in Hungary where it was made":""
