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"Our focus was on body recomposition, keeping me at a caloric deficit to shred fat while building muscle . \u2014 Jesse Hicks, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
"In the past, the program has developed countermeasures to help astronauts combat muscle and bone loss, such as daily workouts on the space station. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 4 June 2022",
"Some of that is method, sure, but as has been pointed out here repeatedly of late \u2014 the Bruins lack the speed, skill, muscle , and depth to maintain puck possession around the net and score goals. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"Additionally, whole prey, rabbits, and mice are added to the mix to provide the necessary blend of muscle , bone, organs, fur, and skin in their diet. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"Building your managing up muscle will take practice, so be patient with yourself\u2014and your manager. \u2014 Kevin Kruse, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"In addition to building muscle and stability, an indoor rowing machine can provide one of the best cardio workouts. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 13 May 2022",
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"Those have included Italian exotics, Japanese sports cars, classic muscle , actual race cars, trucks, fire equipment, military vehicles and antiques. \u2014 Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
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"Prosecutors portrayed Wright as defiant, willing to muscle through the contract. \u2014 Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The Uncle Vanya application wasn\u2019t the only one to try to muscle in on McDonald\u2019s intellectual property in Russia, Gerben said. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s a version of the Russian MICLIC, the UR-83P, that dismounted engineers can muscle into position. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Seeds will muscle in on nuts as an alternative protein source, in products like butters and ice creams. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Williams said help is especially necessary when Antetokounmpo bodies up to him and attempts to muscle him down in a one-on-one. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"With the end of the slavery of the long-term contract, the stars achieved free agency and began to muscle the studios that had kept them on board wages. \u2014 David Mamet, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But after the war, Europe was in no position to economically muscle others. \u2014 Amanda Shendruk, Quartz , 11 Mar. 2022",
"With a weak-kneed European Union and a Trump administration focused more on trying to steal its own election, the West watched a moment of potential transformational change in Belarus fizzle out, unwilling to muscle Lukashenko from office. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"The Terminal List is all beef, all muscular stringy beef \u2014 and, at eight hours for a book that easily could have been adapted in two hours, it\u2019s been left on the grill for so long that the result is dry and tasteless. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 June 2022",
"A week after the initial test results, an amniocentesis and an ultrasound to see Juliet\u2019s anatomy confirmed the worst: Juliet had a severe heart condition, muscular problems, and other complications. \u2014 al , 29 June 2022",
"These large, muscular dogs are a cross between Bulldogs and Mastiffs in a super-size package. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 28 June 2022",
"Its motley assembly of muscular club bangers and cameo-laden anthems lacked the grimy amiability so prevalent in the songs from his early mixtape run. \u2014 Will Dukes, Rolling Stone , 27 June 2022",
"A week after the initial test results, an amniocentesis and an ultrasound to see Juliet's anatomy confirmed the worst: Juliet had a severe heart condition, muscular problems, and other complications. \u2014 Sara Reardon, CBS News , 27 June 2022",
"At 6-3 and 210 pounds, the muscular Harper and his left-handed swing are perfectly matched to Citizens Bank Park, a South Philadelphia ballpark commonly called a bandbox by opposing pitchers. \u2014 Dan Schlossberg, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
"But Black Tie White Noise was hardly a Let\u2019s Dance sequel, presenting jazzier melodies and Lester Bowie trumpet solos over muscular breakbeats. \u2014 Al Shipley, SPIN , 25 June 2022",
"But for King, who was carried to the court at the Houston Astrodome on a litter held by muscular , shirtless men, the occasion had a profound subtext. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022"
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"The Terminal List is all beef, all muscular stringy beef \u2014 and, at eight hours for a book that easily could have been adapted in two hours, it\u2019s been left on the grill for so long that the result is dry and tasteless. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 June 2022",
"A week after the initial test results, an amniocentesis and an ultrasound to see Juliet\u2019s anatomy confirmed the worst: Juliet had a severe heart condition, muscular problems, and other complications. \u2014 al , 29 June 2022",
"These large, muscular dogs are a cross between Bulldogs and Mastiffs in a super-size package. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 28 June 2022",
"Its motley assembly of muscular club bangers and cameo-laden anthems lacked the grimy amiability so prevalent in the songs from his early mixtape run. \u2014 Will Dukes, Rolling Stone , 27 June 2022",
"A week after the initial test results, an amniocentesis and an ultrasound to see Juliet's anatomy confirmed the worst: Juliet had a severe heart condition, muscular problems, and other complications. \u2014 Sara Reardon, CBS News , 27 June 2022",
"At 6-3 and 210 pounds, the muscular Harper and his left-handed swing are perfectly matched to Citizens Bank Park, a South Philadelphia ballpark commonly called a bandbox by opposing pitchers. \u2014 Dan Schlossberg, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
"But Black Tie White Noise was hardly a Let\u2019s Dance sequel, presenting jazzier melodies and Lester Bowie trumpet solos over muscular breakbeats. \u2014 Al Shipley, SPIN , 25 June 2022",
"But for King, who was carried to the court at the Houston Astrodome on a litter held by muscular , shirtless men, the occasion had a profound subtext. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022"
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"After the memorial, Bejani\u2019s acrylic-on-canvas artwork will be installed in the museum as a permanent memorial. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 15 June 2022",
"The work was created as part of a two-year collaboration with the Akron Art Museum in response to pieces in the museum \u2019s permanent collection. \u2014 Megan Becka, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
"However, Santos said in 2015 that items found at the scene of the wreck would eventually go in a museum to be built in Cartagena. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
"And while that sounds like a fantastical premise, it's based on a true story, and the raft is still on display in a museum in Oslo. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 1 June 2022",
"Artist Salvador Dal\u00ed designed and conceived everything in this museum in the Catalonian city of his birth. \u2014 Dina Mishev, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"The Circular Lab arena made from liquid containers defined a lecture area in the museum \u2019s courtyard. \u2014 Damon Johnstun, oregonlive , 26 May 2022",
"Highlighting the African diaspora was important for the museum in many ways, including being the first show greenlighted by Director Kaywin Feldman, who took on her role in 2019. \u2014 Chris Kelly, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
"Plans for the museum were first publicly announced by the former Mayor of Charleston, Joseph P. Riley, Jr., in 2000. \u2014 Devon M. Sayers, CNN , 1 June 2022"
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"That old computer will soon be a museum piece .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most importantly, the new cast and creatives didn\u2019t want to build a museum piece . \u2014 Deborah Wilker, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022",
"After all, the show is hardly a museum piece when the millionaires are now billionaires, and the sources of income are no longer railroads or mining, but the data surveillance and worker exploitation that exist in the shadow of Big Tech. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 15 Feb. 2022",
"But Rubin understood two things: that Johnny Cash was a living encyclopedia of American song, not a museum piece ; and that his voice deserved to be presented unadorned. \u2014 Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic , 7 Dec. 2021",
"The relatively small private house is part stuffy Edwardian museum piece , part down-to-earth family retreat. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The Opry had been in danger of becoming encased in amber, a museum piece that was treasured but no longer relevant. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Elliott did not intend Alexander\u2019s sarcophagus to become a museum piece . \u2014 Mary Beard, WSJ , 16 Oct. 2021",
"With its walls charred, the building is enclosed behind chain-link fence, like a museum piece on display for curious, or confused, passersby. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 July 2021",
"The unprecedented pace of technological change combined with intense global competition means that today's innovation rapidly becomes tomorrow's museum piece . \u2014 James Scapa, Forbes , 28 May 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The inclusion of recent immigrants, meanwhile, offers another message, pulling the museumgoer out of black-and-white history and into the familiarity of the present. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Every museumgoer , from first-time visitors to your 10th grader\u2019s beginning drawing class, will have an unprecedented opportunity to get up close and personal with great works of art. \u2014 Mary Carole Mccauley, baltimoresun.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Ringgold, who was raised in Harlem and supported the Black Power movement in the 1960s, is remembered in the reductive shorthand of the casual museumgoer as a political artist, and a provocative one. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Mar. 2021",
"Studies suggest that the average museumgoer looks at an artwork for less than 30 seconds. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Apr. 2021",
"Returning home to her Upper West Side apartment, the museumgoer encouraged the couple to contact the Met, per a statement. \u2014 Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Oct. 2020",
"Such an exhibit, held without Banksy\u2019s consent, may seem tame to museumgoers in Europe or the U.S. \u2014 Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 May 2020",
"Austrian art has evolved past such concerns, but what could the Albertina Modern mean for museumgoers in Vienna",
"But museumgoers don\u2019t have to wait for Tate to reopen to appreciate the exhibition. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Apr. 2020"
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"mushy fruit that was obviously overripe",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the rest of its buttons left me quite unmoved; the tension on the analog triggers felt cheap, and its D-pad and ABXY button array were mushy . \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 28 June 2022",
"In the past, capelin delivered near the end of the fishing season was mushy , forcing zoo officials to switch from one region to another or try different types of fish altogether. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"Discard roots and leaves that are mushy , diseased, or contain the white grubs called iris borers. \u2014 Carol Stocker, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
"The midsole foam is soft and highly responsive but not mushy . \u2014 Brian Metzler, Outside Online , 25 Apr. 2022",
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"The model shares a mushy , loving Instagram post for Justin's 28th birthday. \u2014 Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR , 2 May 2022",
"Brown rice, however, used to come out a bit mushy and overcooked. \u2014 Chris Morocco, Bon App\u00e9tit , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the world of edible mushrooms, the morel mushroom is one of the most coveted and tasty species. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022",
"Mycelium, the buzzy mushroom alternative to leather, was on Burton's mind as a theme, and sewn or woven into some of her autumn-winter looks. \u2014 Leanne Italie, ajc , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The mustard allows the mushroom coating to adhere, lends a layer of tangy flavor, and helps keep the meat moist with cooking. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"And yet, the mushroom is also a symbol of hope; fungi have the power to break down most hydrocarbon materials, including oil spills, and can be used to produce sustainable alternatives to plastic. \u2014 Charlotte Kent, Wired , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Flip the mushroom caps over and spread about 1 tablespoon of the shrimp paste on the underside of each c ap. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The Maitake mushroom has even been found to reduce tumor growth in mice. \u2014 Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The child remains unidentified more than a month and a half after his body was discovered by a mushroom hunter in Washington County. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Not to mention, many beloved ingredients like snow mushroom , rice, ginseng, and silk have been deeply embedded in Asian cultures for centuries upon centuries. \u2014 Allure , 29 May 2022",
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"Many weeks would see more than one event featuring the big-name pros, so the number of yearly tournaments would mushroom from today's roster. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"But by Fortune's estimates, the Twitter numbers imply that net earnings will mushroom to approximately $3.2 billion in 2027. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 21 May 2022",
"At the moment of full vehicle autonomy, the amount of connectivity within a vehicle should mushroom out, considering the driver is now free to be connected. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Tesla\u2019s revenues would need to mushroom from $47 billion over the past four quarters, to $783 billion in 2030. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The cost of business subscriptions and data services can quickly and easily mushroom unless carefully managed. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Workhuman\u2019s artificial intelligence work around of language in an employee recognition system show that unintentional bias, which is human nature, can create problems that mushroom over time. \u2014 Eric Mosley, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Bakkt projects that by 2025, the total pool of rewards will mushroom from today\u2019s $1.6 trillion to $5.0 trillion, for an annual growth rate of 25%. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Public shaming and individual harassment would mushroom . \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021"
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"Science, in other words, became strongly associated with power, perhaps exemplified by the mushroom cloud exploding over Hiroshima in August 1945. \u2014 Francis Fukuyama, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Military officials have said that the explosion of a GBU-57 feels like a nuclear blast, and a test of the bomb in 2003 produced a mushroom cloud visible 20 miles (32 kilometers) away. \u2014 Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg.com , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Standing at the edge of the pier and looking through a mobile device held up against the sky, viewers will see an enormous, fiery mushroom cloud swell up from the surface of the ocean before exploding. \u2014 Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The plume of ash and smoke flared 12 miles in the air, bursting on satellite feeds like a mushroom cloud and gripping the attention of meteorologists and tsunami scientists. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Telegram channel showed a rising fireball similar to a mushroom cloud . \u2014 NBC News , 26 Feb. 2022",
"When an underwater volcano erupted in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday with the force of 500 Hiroshima nuclear bombs, a massive mushroom cloud blanketed the nearby nation of Tonga in ash \u2014 and cut it off from the rest of the world. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Jan. 2022",
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"Because this mushroom cloud is visible only from the Santa Monica Pier. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Feb. 2022"
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"But the rest of its buttons left me quite unmoved; the tension on the analog triggers felt cheap, and its D-pad and ABXY button array were mushy . \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 28 June 2022",
"In the past, capelin delivered near the end of the fishing season was mushy , forcing zoo officials to switch from one region to another or try different types of fish altogether. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
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"The model shares a mushy , loving Instagram post for Justin's 28th birthday. \u2014 Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR , 2 May 2022",
"Brown rice, however, used to come out a bit mushy and overcooked. \u2014 Chris Morocco, Bon App\u00e9tit , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Over the tinkling of music box chimes, the singer wordlessly locks eyes with her partner, Alev Aydin, who also serves as the video\u2019s director as well as inspiration for the song. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 7 June 2022",
"This beautifully detailed music box encompasses the most universal aspects of the song. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 3 June 2022",
"And, like creating one of the most complicated watches, building the combs for the music box is no easy feat. \u2014 Roberta Naas, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"In fact, the fan regulators in the music box work similarly to those in a minute repeater. \u2014 Roberta Naas, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"Jim Steinman originally wrote it for Neverland \u2014 his Peter Pan rock musical that Bat Out of Hell stems from \u2014 wanting the melody to sound like a music box . \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Around 2000, Lentz began dreaming of a music box amid a copper landscape, a place where his music could live alongside its muse. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The sound of a broken music box to my ears could be a crashing piano to someone else. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Dec. 2021",
"If the waves of Zicatela were a full-size orchestra, the fountain shows in Las Vegas would be a dollar-store music box . \u2014 Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure , 30 Nov. 2021"
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"In the clip, which dropped Wednesday (June 29), the East High Wildcats head to California for two weeks of summer romance, sleep-away camp and musical theater at Camp Shallow Lake. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 29 June 2022",
"Savannah, who has a background in musical theater, has initiatives of her own, including writing and performing conservative rap songs. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"And there\u2019s something very classic and archaic about musical theater. \u2014 Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Co-founder Julia Cuppy earned her master\u2019s degree in musical theater from San Diego State and was director of education and outreach at La Jolla Playhouse. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Your voice toes the line between that pop sound and musical theater. \u2014 Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer , 17 June 2022",
"Her mother did musical theater in high school, and her father was a painter and sketch artist. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"There is none of the complexity of traditional musical theater lyrics or of worthwhile rap, just a lot of words and easy rhymes. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 13 June 2022",
"He is seen as the father of modern musical theater, paving the way for Jonathan Larson\u2019s Rent, Miranda\u2019s Hamilton and more. \u2014 Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Loewith greenlighted a workshop to explore Caverly\u2019s concept, then set the musical for the summer of 2021 before the coronavirus pandemic intervened. \u2014 Chris Kelly, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Building a musical around the Oscar-winning 1995 short film that inspired the Trevor Project, a suicide-prevention program for LGBTQ youth, wasn\u2019t an obvious fit. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"The country is at long last training a spotlight on a long-unsung World War II unit of Black women, with Congress bestowing its highest honor on them \u2014 and with a new musical on the way, too, to sing about their astonishing story. \u2014 Peter Marks, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Simon Hale won best orchestrations for his work on Girl from The North Country, a musical of Bob Dylan songs. \u2014 Paul Grein, Billboard , 12 June 2022",
"On Sunday, the brother-and-sister duo attended the 75th Tony Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, showing support for the Broadway musical based on their father Michael Jackson. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 12 June 2022",
"One Shot to Broadway, a documentary chronicling the creation of Lin Manuel-Miranda's groundbreaking musical . \u2014 Amy Mitchell, Country Living , 3 June 2022",
"Director Rachel Chavkin worked with Mitchell for nearly 13 years to turn the composer\u2019s concept album into a stellar musical . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 June 2022",
"Almost every famous musical has one version that dwarfs the rest One that is so resonant that all others either ape or try to consciously avoid. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 1 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"She\u2019s saved by her nurse who hurls the musical box at Henry, returning him to the spirit world. \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 11 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But for now, incumbents of both parties are playing musical chairs as they\u2019re forced to adapt to new counties, move to avoid primaries and deal with the surprises the maps have sprung on them. \u2014 Steven Lemongello, orlandosentinel.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Hollywood studio chiefs move around the business like players in a game of musical chairs , with the same people rotating through the top jobs for decades. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Independent professionals are not caught up in this long game of musical chairs regarding the discussions and decisions around location flexibility. \u2014 Camille Fetter, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"Part of Carolina\u2019s offensive problems could be attributed to the game of musical chairs played by the line throughout last season. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 30 Mar. 2022",
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"So while the band has persevered through lineup changes that resemble a game of rock\u2019n\u2019roll musical chairs , Flea\u2019s departure would be serious business indeed. \u2014 Alan Light, SPIN , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Here\u2019s a look at who\u2019s locked-in, who\u2019s likely to find one of the last musical chairs and who could be on the outside looking in even before cars hit the IMS oval. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Then Keaton tapped out, and thus began the Batman Hollywood musical chairs . \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The scene was a joyous reminder of Mr. Morse\u2019s flair for musical comedy , even if some of his fellow cast members were unaware of his earlier work. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
"With everyone subdued, Schneider and Schultz at least have a genuine love story to play out, and Jennifer Smith and Kevin Ligon give an old-school melodramatic musical comedy tone. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 1 June 2022",
"Comedian Bo Burnham passed time during the pandemic with the undertaking of a grand creative project: writing, filming, directing, editing, and performing his existential musical comedy special Inside. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 31 May 2022",
"The musical comedy introduces Ramadan traditions in a number of Arab countries, recollecting with much nostalgia the joy that marked the holy month of fasting in the Lebanese capital, currently mired in a severe economic crisis. \u2014 Adam Pourahmadi And Bear Hutchison, CNN , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This Youth Theater Production is based on the 1976 musical comedy film. \u2014 cleveland , 12 May 2022",
"Saturday's lineup at Las Sendas Golf Club in Mesa was the usual unusual assortment Cooper tends to gather, from R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills to the singers of Creed, Collective Soul and Judas Priest to the musical comedy of Gary Mule Deer. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 May 2022",
"The revival of the classic Stephen Sondheim musical comedy had been scheduled to open March 22, 2020, on Sondheim\u2019s 90th birthday, but was delayed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. \u2014 Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Off overseas, is being adapted to a stage musical comedy this summer. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 21 Jan. 2022"
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"Two new compact disks, both of them more or less perfect and charming, evoke the ambience of the Proustian musicale . \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 15 Mar. 2021",
"The concert itself felt both intimate and grand \u2014 like a musicale staged in a living room with 2,364 vacant red seats. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Sep. 2020",
"In 2013, John Pizzarelli figured among a handful of musicians invited to the Supreme Court\u2019s annual musicale . \u2014 oregonlive , 30 Dec. 2019",
"Having left her 1-year-old daughter, Millicent, in Washington with her parents, Mabel solaced herself with the bustle of dinners, carriage rides, musicales and games of whist mainly organized by the town\u2019s eminent couple, Susan and Austin Dickinson. \u2014 Brenda Wineapple, WSJ , 25 Oct. 2018",
"With Centennial chairwoman Jan Buckley, gala chairs Deepa Pakianathan and Diane Zack led a musicale \u2014 its largest ever \u2014 that raised more than $1 million for student scholarships and community engagement programs on March 19. \u2014 Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Mar. 2018",
"At one of the musicales , Mrs. Bodine had a first date with her future husband, John W. Bodine. \u2014 Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com , 13 July 2017"
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"What was recorded six years ago as a demo in New Orleans sat for a while until Skerik had the epiphany to ask his friend, the singer, musician , artist and activist Ani DiFranco, to add her voice and words. \u2014 Jonathan Cohen, SPIN , 22 June 2022",
"The musician , whose real name is Kieron Hebden, also has been reimbursed for an underpayment of \u00a356,921, plus interest. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 21 June 2022",
"The aforementioned artists \u2014 and many others \u2014 all sent in short video messages celebrating the musician , who entered his eighth decade today, June 20. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022",
"Her oldest friend, Ivy, is a musician , who also goes on tour. \u2014 Rebecca Sacks, ELLE , 16 June 2022",
"The Del Records musician , who isn\u2019t named in the affidavit, ultimately did perform at the concert Perez staged in Aguascalientes, Radke wrote. \u2014 Matthew Ormsethstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"The mysterious musician , whose last public appearance was in 2014, has issued rare statements in response. \u2014 Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 June 2022",
"Ahead of the album's creation, Lavigne had been performing country music and once performed onstage with fellow Canadian musician Shania Twain after winning a contest at 16. \u2014 Jack Irvin, PEOPLE.com , 31 May 2022",
"In July 2020, Megan thee Stallion was involved in an intense police stop after attending a celebrity pool party in Los Angeles, leading to the shocking reveal that she had allegedly been shot in the feet by fellow musician Tory Lanez. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 27 Apr. 2022"
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"The initial reaction to the panel could be seen as a zillennial overreaction to the musing of old-timers reminiscing about their early days. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The noise of the titular car, which rumbles in the background as Watari ferries Kafuku home from rehearsals, becomes a motif that amplifies the depths of his quiet musing . \u2014 Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic , 5 Mar. 2022",
"May, a founding member of the band, responded to the streaming milestone with a poetic musing . \u2014 NBC News , 22 Dec. 2021",
"Yet, the designs remained finessed despite the street- musing : One loose, menswear suit in emerald had a silk foulard collar in lavender flapping out delicately from underneath. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 2 Oct. 2021",
"His second-in-command Grady (DeWanda Wise) doesn\u2019t have a lot of patience for his existential musing , though, because there is weird stuff happening in Idabel. \u2014 Roxana Hadadi, Vulture , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Whatever the case, although Squid Game does plenty of post-apocalyptic musing about how humanity might behave under extreme conditions, the sense of collapse is different. \u2014 Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture , 8 Oct. 2021",
"And yet, as soon as guests had the chance to fall in love with the nostalgia of the 1890s, a pair of drainpipe jeans brought their musing to the 1990s. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Mixing Glam Rock references from Westwood\u2019s 80s heyday with historic musing and a tongue firmly in cheek, Kronthaler created 66 pieces of fashion mayhem and put on one of the most fun shows this Paris fashion season. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 2 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The soundtrack, in which dialogue is subsumed by sound effects, is a masterful piece of musique concrete ; Tati rerecorded and embellished it in 1961. \u2014 Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader , 16 May 2018"
"from obsolete English musive , noun, mosaic, from Late Latin musivum":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its other notes include vetiver, cedar, red ginger and musk , all of which help to create a round and pleasant fragrance profile. \u2014 Justin Fenner, Robb Report , 23 June 2022",
"Harlem Nights from World of Chris Collins takes wearers to a speakeasy with notes of musk and rum that evoke cigars, top-shelf liquor and 1920s nightlife. \u2014 Rachel Strugatz, New York Times , 23 June 2022",
"The spritz is centered around notes of musk , amber, wood and vanilla. \u2014 April Franzino, Good Housekeeping , 23 June 2022",
"The base is grounded with wood, moss and musk to add a bit of sophistication to an otherwise playful scent. \u2014 Kristin Corpuz, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"Still, fans crammed into cars on the Long Island Rail Road and breathed life into the 117-year-old track with floral headwear, pastel suits and the unmistakable musk of booze and cigars. \u2014 Jake Seiner, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022",
"There is also a healthy hint of leather, musk , and smoke. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"The atmosphere of the perfect summer road trip is brought to life with a sunny, cheery combination of kumquat, iced mint tea, musk and vetiver. \u2014 Celia Shatzman, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Another clean fragrance brand, St. Rose, imbues its creations with a macrocyclic synthetic musk called juniper lactone to lend scents like St. Rose\u2019s Desert Nomad an earthy bounce. \u2014 ELLE , 30 Apr. 2022"
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": any of a genus ( Moschus ) of small heavy-limbed hornless deer of central Asian uplands with tusked musk-producing males":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In its earliest form, musk was made from natural secretions of the male musk deer , says Fran\u00e7ois-Rapha\u00ebl Balestra, principal perfumer and director of New Ingredients Discovery at Swiss fragrance house Firmenich. \u2014 ELLE , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Not everyone is optimistic about the musk deer \u2019s future. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 6 Nov. 2014",
"On page 98, the annex says that on December 7, 2019, samples were collected from 69 kinds of animals including macaques, forest musk deer , porcupines and bamboo rats. \u2014 Nick Paton Walsh, CNN , 25 May 2021",
"In the 1600s, an Armenian merchant started poking around, looking for musk, an incredibly lucrative perfume ingredient that came from glandular secretions of Tibetan musk deer . \u2014 New York Times , 5 Jan. 2021",
"The Akron Zoo recently welcomed a baby Siberian musk deer , the second fawn born at the zoo in less than a year. \u2014 Robin Goist, cleveland.com , 21 June 2019",
"Siberian musk deer are vulnerable to extinction, the zoo said. \u2014 Robin Goist, cleveland.com , 21 June 2019",
"As further evidence of a single origin for bony headgear, Chinese water deer and two species of musk deer , both of which lack antlers, have a mutation in one of the genes linked to bone formation. \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 20 June 2019",
"To recover, the players took traditional medicine made from the glands of musk deer . \u2014 Jer\u00e9 Longman, New York Times , 10 June 2019"
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"local farmers can make extra money by digging peat out of the nearby muskeg",
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"The terrain gives way to a mixture of forest, muskeg and drylands, where the sandy soil rises to the surface. \u2014 NBC News , 22 Nov. 2021",
"That muskeg excludes the rainforest Sitka spruce and hemlock that dominate most of this plain beneath high mountains. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Aug. 2021",
"Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg , a type of cold-climate swamp. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Oct. 2020",
"After a lightning strike sparked it on June 21, that fire had consumed spruce and muskeg over a swath the size of New York City. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 Aug. 2019",
"Ruhle lives in an Anchorage neighborhood on Elmore Road and East 66th Avenue where the city butts up against the muskeg and forest of the 730-acre Bureau of Land Management Campbell Tract. \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Nov. 2019",
"Authorities have used helicopters, drones, boats, and dogs to search approximately 4,200 square miles of tundra, muskeg and dense forests. \u2014 Fox News , 5 Aug. 2019",
"The spongy bog lands \u2014 known as muskeg \u2014 dot the landscape beside expansive lakes and rivers. \u2014 Morgan Krakow, Washington Post , 31 July 2019",
"The terrain is immense & varied w/lakes, ponds, muskeg etc. \u2014 Fox News , 29 July 2019"
"the two little musketeers were never seen apart",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Brosnan\u2019s take on Louis XIV is a velvet-clad, swashbuckling royal with a magnificent mane and plenty of eyeliner, a sort of modernist musketeer . \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Widowmaker gets an elegant musketeer outfit this time around. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 6 Apr. 2021",
"The scheming and cruel femme fatale, Milady de Winter, is judged guilty of the most heinous murders by an ad hoc tribunal consisting of the musketeers and her late husband\u2019s brother. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 13 Nov. 2019",
"Neither of his characters is on screen as much as D\u2019Artagnan (Gabriel Byrne) or the three musketeers (G\u00e9rard Depardieu, John Malkovich, and Jeremy Irons). \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Oct. 2019",
"Band members Quavos, Offset, and Takeoff might as well be known as the three musketeers of OTT style. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 15 Dec. 2018",
"The eight musketeers The eight states involved in the lawsuit include: Washington, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and also the District of Columbia. \u2014 Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica , 1 Aug. 2018",
"All for one, and one for all: the Marlboro musketeers . \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 21 June 2018",
"Camus was considered the third Existentialist musketeer . \u2014 Longreads , 10 Apr. 2018"
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"1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"For a no- muss , no-fuss cleanser, this one is a standout. \u2014 ELLE , 28 June 2022",
"This kit is a no- muss no-fuss guide to bouncy, voluminous hair. \u2014 ELLE , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The no- muss , no-fuss ethos works like a charm in The Post, which recounts the Washington Post\u2019s harrowing journey to publish the Pentagon Papers and bring down the Nixon White House\u2019s failed Vietnam policy. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
"For backpackers, travelers, office workers and others who want to make coffee with less fuss and muss , Anodyne Coffee Roasters now sells packs of single-serving bags of ground coffee for steeping. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Aug. 2021",
"The point of the trusts was that the creditors could seize the assets with no muss no fuss from other creditors in the event of Jackson's bankruptcy. \u2014 Peter J Reilly, Forbes , 4 May 2021",
"Protecting my spot in the slab cut-and-thrust was without muss . \u2014 Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Mar. 2021",
"After all, who wants to muss up a beautiful slab of marble with a cheap, plastic shower caddy. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 11 Feb. 2021",
"Garner's no muss no fuss attitude in the kitchen can be reassuring to cooking newcomers who might not feel ready to tackle seemingly complicated recipes. \u2014 Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The story goes that the pastry chef Lasne, who had a shop near the Paris stock exchange in the late 1800s, created these little cakes for his stockbroker clients as a treat that wouldn\u2019t muss their hands. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Curreri came onstage in jeans and a Led Zeppelin T-shirt, his beard short and his dark hair mussed . \u2014 Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads , 14 Mar. 2020",
"The black and white clip -- tinged with a touch of red on Trump's tie and his signature MAGA hats -- includes his legendary hair- mussing on The Tonight Show and a deep, soulful American flag embrace. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 1 Oct. 2019",
"So, is Chrissy and John's a custom piece, adding additional anxiety to the concept of mussing it",
"His hair was fairly mussed sitting down to discuss the preceding 47-23 Alabama win on a hot day in South Carolina. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 15 Sep. 2019",
"Then, once the decision is made, the nervousness around mussing up the pristine new member of the household. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 3 Sep. 2019",
"The show used to be the king of late night but stumbled in the ratings after Fallon\u2019s now-infamous hair mussing appearance with Donald Trump. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 July 2019",
"Cillian passes him, mussing Rhys\u2019s carefully parted hair into wild curls and laughing at Rhys\u2019s frustration. \u2014 David Canfield, EW.com , 17 July 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For a no- muss , no-fuss cleanser, this one is a standout. \u2014 ELLE , 28 June 2022",
"This kit is a no- muss no-fuss guide to bouncy, voluminous hair. \u2014 ELLE , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The no- muss , no-fuss ethos works like a charm in The Post, which recounts the Washington Post\u2019s harrowing journey to publish the Pentagon Papers and bring down the Nixon White House\u2019s failed Vietnam policy. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
"For backpackers, travelers, office workers and others who want to make coffee with less fuss and muss , Anodyne Coffee Roasters now sells packs of single-serving bags of ground coffee for steeping. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Aug. 2021",
"The point of the trusts was that the creditors could seize the assets with no muss no fuss from other creditors in the event of Jackson's bankruptcy. \u2014 Peter J Reilly, Forbes , 4 May 2021",
"Protecting my spot in the slab cut-and-thrust was without muss . \u2014 Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Mar. 2021",
"After all, who wants to muss up a beautiful slab of marble with a cheap, plastic shower caddy. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 11 Feb. 2021",
"Garner's no muss no fuss attitude in the kitchen can be reassuring to cooking newcomers who might not feel ready to tackle seemingly complicated recipes. \u2014 Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The story goes that the pastry chef Lasne, who had a shop near the Paris stock exchange in the late 1800s, created these little cakes for his stockbroker clients as a treat that wouldn\u2019t muss their hands. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Curreri came onstage in jeans and a Led Zeppelin T-shirt, his beard short and his dark hair mussed . \u2014 Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads , 14 Mar. 2020",
"The black and white clip -- tinged with a touch of red on Trump's tie and his signature MAGA hats -- includes his legendary hair- mussing on The Tonight Show and a deep, soulful American flag embrace. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 1 Oct. 2019",
"So, is Chrissy and John's a custom piece, adding additional anxiety to the concept of mussing it",
"His hair was fairly mussed sitting down to discuss the preceding 47-23 Alabama win on a hot day in South Carolina. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 15 Sep. 2019",
"Then, once the decision is made, the nervousness around mussing up the pristine new member of the household. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 3 Sep. 2019",
"The show used to be the king of late night but stumbled in the ratings after Fallon\u2019s now-infamous hair mussing appearance with Donald Trump. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 July 2019",
"Cillian passes him, mussing Rhys\u2019s carefully parted hair into wild curls and laughing at Rhys\u2019s frustration. \u2014 David Canfield, EW.com , 17 July 2019"
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"\u02c8m\u0259-s\u0113"
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"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"hugger-mugger",
"jumbled",
"littered",
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"pell-mell",
"rumpled",
"sloppy",
"topsy-turvy",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"upside-down"
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],
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"you must stop"
],
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"one must eat to live",
"we must hurry to catch the bus"
],
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"if you must go at least wait for me"
],
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"it must be time"
],
": be obliged to : be compelled by social considerations to":[
"I must say you're looking well"
],
": be required by immediate or future need or purpose to":[
"one must eat to live",
"we must hurry to catch the bus"
],
": be required by law, custom, or moral conscience (see conscience sense 1 ) to":[
"we must obey the rules"
],
": be unreasonably or perversely compelled to":[
"why must you argue"
],
": be urged to : ought by all means to":[
"you must read that book"
],
": may , shall":[
"\u2014 used chiefly in questions"
],
": mold entry 3 , mustiness":[],
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": to be obliged to go":[
"I must to Coventry",
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
],
": was or were presumably certain to : was or were bound to":[
"if he did it she must have known"
]
},
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"Verb",
"we must be quiet during the performance"
],
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"1598, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
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"Middle English (Scots) moist , from Middle French must , alteration of musc musk":"Noun",
"Middle English moste , from Old English m\u014dste , past indicative & subjunctive of m\u014dtan to be allowed to, have to; akin to Old High German muozan to be allowed to, have to":"Verb and Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English, from Latin mustum":"Noun"
},
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"m\u0259s(t)",
"\u02c8m\u0259st"
],
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"have (to)",
"need",
"ought (to)",
"shall",
"should"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093646",
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"helping verb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"nonnecessity"
],
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": something that is essential to have or obtain":[]
},
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"1839, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8m\u0259st-\u02cchav"
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"condition",
"demand",
"essential",
"must",
"necessary",
"necessity",
"need",
"needful",
"requirement",
"requisite",
"sine qua non"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235927",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"muster":{
"antonyms":[
"marshal",
"marshall",
"mobilize",
"rally"
],
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": a representative specimen (see specimen sense 1 ) : sample":[
"musters of goods for sale"
],
": an assembled group : collection":[
"a muster of biographical facts",
"\u2014 Time"
],
": critical examination":[
"slipshod work that would never pass muster"
],
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"were sent \u2026 to take the musters of this expedition",
"\u2014 G. R. Elton"
],
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": to bring together : collect":[],
": to call forth : rouse":[],
": to call the roll of":[],
": to cause to gather : convene":[],
": to come together : congregate":[],
": to enroll formally":[
"\u2014 usually used with in or into was mustered into the army"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a muster of concerned citizens",
"considering the muster of suggestions that were submitted for \u201cword of the year\u201d",
"Verb",
"They pushed the car with all the strength they could muster .",
"a command to muster the troops",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The ban didn\u2019t apply to shotguns or to certain less powerful long guns, which young adults could acquire so long as the buyer held a valid, unexpired hunting license, a requirement that passed muster with the Ninth Circuit. \u2014 Jacob Gershman, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
"Investments made by strategics signal to other potential investors that these funds have passed muster . \u2014 Geri Stengel, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
"If the suggestions pass muster , they are put on a ballot for the public to decide, Chase said. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 20 June 2022",
"The update essentially alerted equipment manufacturers that the USGA and R&A were considering changing the rules on what balls and drivers would pass muster in the future. \u2014 Dave Shedloski, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"Andrew Tobias reports Republicans have approved their latest state legislative map plan, in their third attempt to produce a plan that passes muster with the Ohio Supreme Court. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Both sweeteners involved a breakup fee, an insurance policy that would kick in if the deal should be approved by shareholders but later fail to pass muster with federal antitrust regulators. \u2014 Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Both versions of the bill would sharply curtail that practice by requiring cities and towns to document any impacts and tailor their fees accordingly, with the cannabis commission empowered to reject deals that don\u2019t pass muster . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"She\u2019s been criticizing LaRose for his role on the Ohio Redistricting Commission, which still hasn\u2019t passed state legislative maps that pass constitutional muster for a majority of the Ohio Supreme Court, despite starting the process in September. \u2014 Laura Hancock, cleveland , 3 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Many had been infected by then, and even people who had gladly gotten doses one and two couldn\u2019t muster the same urgency or enthusiasm again. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 28 June 2022",
"Also in high demand is Evusheld, an antibody infusion that could bolster the immune systems of the 10 million to 17 million Americans who can\u2019t muster strong reactions to COVID-19 vaccines or can\u2019t take them at all. \u2014 Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"In the intervening period, Nirenberg solidified his support and Brockhouse couldn\u2019t muster the energy of his first challenge. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News , 22 Jan. 2022",
"The Detroit Red Wings were put on their heels early Thursday at Little Caesars Arena, and couldn\u2019t muster the energy to challenge the Winnipeg Jets and lost, 3-0. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 14 Jan. 2022",
"The trouble is games need huge investments of time and focus, something most of us can\u2019t muster . \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Kushnir himself has failed to muster investment in the concept. \u2014 Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"But so far Biden\u2019s failed to muster the votes to get any of that passed. \u2014 Brian Bennett, Time , 16 May 2022",
"The mood was one of anger and defiance, three days after the Senate failed to muster enough votes to codify Roe v. Wade. \u2014 Ashraf Khalil, David Sharp, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English mustre , from Anglo-French mostre, monstre , from mustrer":"Noun",
"Middle English mustren to show, muster, from Anglo-French mustrer, monstrer , from Latin monstrare to show, from monstrum evil omen, monster \u2014 more at monster entry 1":"Verb"
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"\u02c8m\u0259-st\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for muster Verb summon , call , cite , convoke , convene , muster mean to demand the presence of. summon implies the exercise of authority. was summoned to answer charges call may be used less formally for summon . called the legislature into special session cite implies a summoning to court usually to answer a charge. cited for drunken driving convoke implies a summons to assemble for deliberative or legislative purposes. convoked a Vatican council convene is somewhat less formal than convoke . convened the students muster suggests a calling up of a number of things that form a group in order that they may be exhibited, displayed, or utilized as a whole. mustered the troops",
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"assemblage",
"assembly",
"conference",
"congregation",
"convocation",
"gathering",
"ingathering",
"meeting"
],
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"muster out":{
"antonyms":[
"employ",
"engage",
"hire",
"retain",
"sign (up ",
"take on"
],
"definitions":{
": to discharge from service":[]
},
"examples":[
"mustered out of the army at the end of the war"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1834, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[
"ax",
"axe",
"bounce",
"can",
"cashier",
"discharge",
"dismiss",
"fire",
"pink-slip",
"release",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate",
"turn off"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194647",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"muster roll":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Head to the Old City destination Thursday to partake in trivia and games and also to sign your name on a Revolutionary muster roll , destined for a time capsule that will be locked away until 2026, the 250th anniversary of American independence. \u2014 Philly.com , 12 Apr. 2018"
],
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"1605, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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": an officer or official charged with keeping a muster roll":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082718",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"definitions":{
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": one that musters":[]
},
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"pronounciation":[
"-t\u0259r\u0259(r)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012625",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"musth":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a periodic state of the bull elephant characterized especially by aggressive behavior and usually connected with the rutting season":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The elephants are only chained, said Visit, when males become aggressive due to a rise in reproductive hormones, a natural state known as musth . \u2014 David Luekens, CNN , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Instead, a bull spends his annual two- or three-month stint of erotic drive searching for willing females in estrus, or fighting with other males in musth , all the while eating relatively little. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2021",
"Bull elephants in musth can be aggressive and attack. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2020",
"The researchers were ostensibly trying to incite a state called musth : a period of intense aggression in bull elephants where testosterone spikes. \u2014 Popular Science , 13 Feb. 2020",
"The onset of musth typically occurs when males are between 20 and 40 years old. \u2014 Natasha Daly, National Geographic , 7 Aug. 2019",
"Males in musth are so attractive to females that almost 80 percent of calves in the same population are sired by them, according to a 2007 study. \u2014 Grant Currin, National Geographic , 2 July 2019",
"Females live in matriarchal groups, and males tend to live in separate groups until going into musth . \u2014 Grant Currin, National Geographic , 2 July 2019",
"Sometimes, elephants in musth are paraded in festivals. \u2014 Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India , 13 June 2019"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for musty malodorous , stinking , fetid , noisome , putrid , rank , fusty , musty mean bad-smelling. malodorous may range from the unpleasant to the strongly offensive. malodorous fertilizers stinking and fetid suggest the foul or disgusting. prisoners were held in stinking cells the fetid odor of skunk cabbage noisome adds a suggestion of being harmful or unwholesome as well as offensive. a stagnant, noisome sewer putrid implies particularly the sickening odor of decaying organic matter. the putrid smell of rotting fish rank suggests a strong unpleasant smell. rank cigar smoke fusty and musty suggest lack of fresh air and sunlight, fusty also implying prolonged uncleanliness, musty stressing the effects of dampness, mildew, or age. a fusty attic the musty odor of a damp cellar",
"examples":[
"a dark and musty basement",
"the musty prose of writers who use the same expressions over and over",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Inspect the wood for dry rot by looking for spore dust, fruiting bodies of fungus, or a lingering damp or musty smell. \u2014 Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 July 2022",
"Those quick moments of serendipity mix with long stretches of relentless work, with the pair reading legal and medical canon side by side, then pursuing the sources of those musty papers and reports in the flesh. \u2014 Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 July 2022",
"Water rot can cause stained or discolored baseboards, and musty odors mean water is hiding somewhere. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 7 June 2022",
"This history lesson wasn\u2019t musty or in black-and-white. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"On a recent visit to the exhibit, a couple of passersby could be heard muttering about the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples next door, a dark, musty exhibit that opened in 1982 and has remained mostly the same since. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"Now the spaces were full of the stuff of ruptured lives: cots and bedrolls and chipped mugs and folding chairs and spare end tables and plastic bags stretched taut with musty clothing. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"One of the biggest consumer complaints about front loading washing machines is the musty smell that develops when water puddles inside. \u2014 Carolyn Fort\u00e9, Good Housekeeping , 5 May 2022",
"The Electoral Count Act of 1887 was a musty piece of legislation only discussed in academic circles. \u2014 Edward-isaac Dovere, CNN , 5 Apr. 2022"
"chiefly Northern and Midland US -\u02ccr\u00fcn",
"-\u02ccr\u00fcn"
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"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"boom",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"gain",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax"
],
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"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"cut up some mushrooms for the salad",
"Verb",
"Interest in local history is suddenly mushrooming .",
"Her hobby mushroomed into a thriving business.",
"He goes mushrooming in the spring every year.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the world of edible mushrooms, the morel mushroom is one of the most coveted and tasty species. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022",
"Mycelium, the buzzy mushroom alternative to leather, was on Burton's mind as a theme, and sewn or woven into some of her autumn-winter looks. \u2014 Leanne Italie, ajc , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The mustard allows the mushroom coating to adhere, lends a layer of tangy flavor, and helps keep the meat moist with cooking. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"And yet, the mushroom is also a symbol of hope; fungi have the power to break down most hydrocarbon materials, including oil spills, and can be used to produce sustainable alternatives to plastic. \u2014 Charlotte Kent, Wired , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Flip the mushroom caps over and spread about 1 tablespoon of the shrimp paste on the underside of each c ap. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The Maitake mushroom has even been found to reduce tumor growth in mice. \u2014 Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The child remains unidentified more than a month and a half after his body was discovered by a mushroom hunter in Washington County. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Not to mention, many beloved ingredients like snow mushroom , rice, ginseng, and silk have been deeply embedded in Asian cultures for centuries upon centuries. \u2014 Allure , 29 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Many weeks would see more than one event featuring the big-name pros, so the number of yearly tournaments would mushroom from today's roster. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"But by Fortune's estimates, the Twitter numbers imply that net earnings will mushroom to approximately $3.2 billion in 2027. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 21 May 2022",
"At the moment of full vehicle autonomy, the amount of connectivity within a vehicle should mushroom out, considering the driver is now free to be connected. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Tesla\u2019s revenues would need to mushroom from $47 billion over the past four quarters, to $783 billion in 2030. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The cost of business subscriptions and data services can quickly and easily mushroom unless carefully managed. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Workhuman\u2019s artificial intelligence work around of language in an employee recognition system show that unintentional bias, which is human nature, can create problems that mushroom over time. \u2014 Eric Mosley, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Bakkt projects that by 2025, the total pool of rewards will mushroom from today\u2019s $1.6 trillion to $5.0 trillion, for an annual growth rate of 25%. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Public shaming and individual harassment would mushroom . \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021"
],
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"Middle English musheron , from Anglo-French musherum, musseron , from Late Latin mussirion-, mussirio":"Noun"
},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1893, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142542"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an anchor that has a bowl-shaped head with the shank welded to its center, is capable of grasping the ground however it falls, and is used chiefly for permanent moorings \u2014 see anchor illustration":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144202"
},
"mushroom body":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of various neural centers in the insect brain that are especially well developed in social insects and are thought to be possible integration or association centers":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151539"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one in charge of musical activities (as in a school)":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155205"
},
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],
"definitions":{
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"muscul ar"
],
": muscular and":[
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]
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"Late Latin muscul- , from Latin musculus":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155825"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of various flattened disk-shaped stony corals of Fungia or related genera that are usually solitary and in the adult stage completely free from the substrate":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-160406"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a turned chair of the 17th and early 18th centuries having enlarged and usually flattened balls topping and made in one piece with the front posts":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161358"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an opera in which the action is not interrupted by formal song divisions (such as recitatives or arias) and the music is determined solely by dramatic appropriateness":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Country music drama Monarch, which was slated to air this season, was also pushed to next season. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Apr. 2022",
"When a director empowers a composer to carry a film and not simply to tag along with it, a singular kind of music drama emerges. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon stars alongside country singer Trace Adkins in the trailer for the new country- music drama Monarch. \u2014 Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht wrote the song for their 1928 German music drama Threepenny Opera. \u2014 Paul Grein, Billboard , 29 Mar. 2021",
"Modern sitcoms can get so painfully serious, moving with self-conscious artfulness from laughs into mood- music drama . \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 19 Mar. 2021",
"The music drama ended its impressive run in April 2020, with the final season announced following the months-long 2019 controversy involving star Jussie Smollett. \u2014 Glamour , 9 July 2020",
"The hit Fox music drama was supposed to have five more episodes to go in its final season, but like nearly every TV series and film, production was shut down due to the coronavirus breakout. \u2014 Derek Lawrence, EW.com , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Fox music drama Empire returned on Wednesday night (March 13) from a mid-season hiatus with the usual compliment of plot twists, heated arguments, snitches dangled from windows and palace intrigue swirling around the Lyon family. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 14 Mar. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"1874, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170135"
},
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],
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"\u2014 see russia sense 3":[]
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"noun"
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"transitive verb"
],
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": contrapuntal music in which accidentals or notes foreign to the mode are introduced":[]
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"Medieval Latin, literally, feigned music":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214019"
},
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"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
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"muscarinic receptors"
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"\u2014 compare nicotinic":[
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]
},
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"-k\u0259-\u02ccrin-ik",
"\u02ccm\u0259-sk\u0259-\u02c8ri-nik"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Karuna drug, called KarXT, works by targeting muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain. \u2014 Adam Feuerstein, STAT , 18 Nov. 2019",
"All nerve agent victims are given atropine, which blocks muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. \u2014 Richard Stone, Science | AAAS , 19 Mar. 2018"
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"Outside, a construction crew is cutting sliding doors into the walls of The Station\u2019s dim music hall to boost eventual capacity. \u2014 Outside Online , 7 May 2020",
"Maybe even get a side gig as an usher at the intimate music hall . \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Apr. 2022",
"But Feldstein doesn\u2019t quite have the theatrical confidence to convince us that this hoary music hall business could really kill. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Romero's office said Ronstadt is scheduled to be in Tucson to unveil the music hall 's new sign. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 19 Mar. 2022",
"In the scene, Michael and Kay Corleone are seen exiting the music hall after attending a screening of The Bells of St. Mary\u2019s, a musical comedy-drama starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman released in 1945. \u2014 Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Enjoy live music by the Boys from the County Hell (10 a.m.), Sparky B (noon) and Billy Morris & the Sunset Strip at 2 p.m. in the music hall . \u2014 cleveland , 11 Mar. 2022",
"For a few years prior, Franklin had been the live-in weirdmeister and poster designer for Austin\u2019s original psychedelic music hall , the Vulcan Gas Company. \u2014 Steve Ditlea, SPIN , 14 Mar. 2022",
"It\u2019s a concept album that blends a range of styles, including music hall , rock and traditional Indian music. \u2014 Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"The variety is zibibbo, a Sicilian name for muscat of Alexandria. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Dec. 2021",
"The eye-catching mansion is surrounded by lawns, gardens, ponds and rows of chardonnay, Viognier, muscat , merlot, Syrah and Pinot noir vines. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Oct. 2021",
"In Japan\u2019s Yamagate prefecture, a farmer complained this week that bears ate nearly $1,000 worth of premium shine muscat grapes, with public broadcaster NHK capturing one animal in action. \u2014 Simon Denyer And, Washington Post , 30 Oct. 2020",
"In Japan\u2019s Yamagata prefecture, a farmer complained this week that bears ate nearly $1,000 worth of premium shine muscat grapes, with public broadcaster NHK capturing one animal in action. \u2014 Simon Denyer And, Washington Post , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Another must-order is the gateau basque ($35), a hybrid of cake, pie and tart that goes great with tea or a glass of muscat . \u2014 Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com , 10 Sep. 2020",
"Another of Cain\u2019s favorites, available for now only from Murray, is Sweet Mayabelle, which is small, red and crunchy like Flame but packed with muscat flavor. \u2014 David Karp, Los Angeles Times , 23 July 2019",
"If the combination of prosciutto and melon rings your chimes, try prosciutto with any of many other sweet or ripe fruits: mango, papaya, stone fruit (peach, plum, apricot, nectarine), pineapple, orange, muscat grapes, kiwi, star fruit, and so on. \u2014 Bill St. John, The Denver Post , 23 July 2019",
"The wine is 60 percent chenin blanc, with the rest chardonnay and muscat . \u2014 Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post , 19 July 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The variety is zibibbo, a Sicilian name for muscat of Alexandria. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Dec. 2021",
"The eye-catching mansion is surrounded by lawns, gardens, ponds and rows of chardonnay, Viognier, muscat , merlot, Syrah and Pinot noir vines. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 Oct. 2021",
"In Japan\u2019s Yamagate prefecture, a farmer complained this week that bears ate nearly $1,000 worth of premium shine muscat grapes, with public broadcaster NHK capturing one animal in action. \u2014 Simon Denyer And, Washington Post , 30 Oct. 2020",
"In Japan\u2019s Yamagata prefecture, a farmer complained this week that bears ate nearly $1,000 worth of premium shine muscat grapes, with public broadcaster NHK capturing one animal in action. \u2014 Simon Denyer And, Washington Post , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Another must-order is the gateau basque ($35), a hybrid of cake, pie and tart that goes great with tea or a glass of muscat . \u2014 Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com , 10 Sep. 2020",
"Another of Cain\u2019s favorites, available for now only from Murray, is Sweet Mayabelle, which is small, red and crunchy like Flame but packed with muscat flavor. \u2014 David Karp, Los Angeles Times , 23 July 2019",
"If the combination of prosciutto and melon rings your chimes, try prosciutto with any of many other sweet or ripe fruits: mango, papaya, stone fruit (peach, plum, apricot, nectarine), pineapple, orange, muscat grapes, kiwi, star fruit, and so on. \u2014 Bill St. John, The Denver Post , 23 July 2019",
"The wine is 60 percent chenin blanc, with the rest chardonnay and muscat . \u2014 Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post , 19 July 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Since the plan was announced three months ago, Muscovites like the Rumyantsevs have mobilized on social media and neighborhood groups to organize demonstrations, gather signatures for petitions and swap ideas on how to fight the plan. \u2014 Sabra Ayres, latimes.com , 14 June 2017",
"Guggenberger is one of 1.6 million Muscovites who could be affected by a city plan to demolish their Soviet-era apartment buildings and replace them with modern high-rises. \u2014 David Filipov, Washington Post , 10 June 2017"
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"He used a small pair of scissors to trim his mustache .",
"He decided to grow a mustache .",
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"For five seasons, Martin Lawrence and co. produced some of the wackiest comedy on television with Martin, a show about young Black love, the bonds of friendships, and one man's fondness of wigs with a mustache . \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 16 June 2022",
"Outfielder Reggie Jackson, as the story goes, arrived for spring training with a mustache . \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 June 2022",
"On Hale-Cusanelli's cellphone, investigators found photos of him with the distinctive mustache along with pro-Nazi cartoons. \u2014 Michael Kunzelman, ajc , 24 May 2022",
"There was even a private Facebook group dedicated to his mustache . \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 6 June 2022",
"Stocky and with a dark trace of a mustache , Mr. S\u00e1nchez enjoyed his job as foreman. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
"And very finally, there\u2019s been a lot of discussion around your new mustache . \u2014 Radhika Seth, Vogue , 24 May 2022",
"Another part of Franzoni's power comes from maybe the most unlikely place: his mustache . \u2014 Adam Baum, The Enquirer , 23 May 2022",
"But was the most important moment of the episode actually the origin story of Jack's mustache in the '80s flashback scenes"
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"Middle French moustache , from Old Italian mustaccio , from Middle Greek moustaki , diminutive of Greek mystak-, mystax upper lip, mustache":""
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"noun,"
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"In 1992, the National Institutes of Health created an Office of Alternative Medicine \u2026 to evaluate therapies ranging from homeopathy and music therapy to acupuncture.",
"\u2014 Corinna Wu"
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"\u02c8m\u0259-sk\u0259-\u02ccr\u0113n",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The latter aspect is due to two compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol, with muscarine (first discovered in 1869) most likely responsible for some of the more unpleasant side effects. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 21 Sep. 2019",
"The latter aspect is due to two compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol, with muscarine (first discovered in 1869) most likely responsible for some of the more unpleasant side effects. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 21 Sep. 2019",
"The latter aspect is due to two compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol, with muscarine (first discovered in 1869) most likely responsible for some of the more unpleasant side effects. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 21 Sep. 2019",
"The latter aspect is due to two compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol, with muscarine (first discovered in 1869) most likely responsible for some of the more unpleasant side effects. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 21 Sep. 2019",
"The latter aspect is due to two compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol, with muscarine (first discovered in 1869) most likely responsible for some of the more unpleasant side effects. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 21 Sep. 2019",
"The latter aspect is due to two compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol, with muscarine (first discovered in 1869) most likely responsible for some of the more unpleasant side effects. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 21 Sep. 2019",
"The latter aspect is due to two compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol, with muscarine (first discovered in 1869) most likely responsible for some of the more unpleasant side effects. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 21 Sep. 2019",
"The latter aspect is due to two compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol, with muscarine (first discovered in 1869) most likely responsible for some of the more unpleasant side effects. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Wired , 21 Sep. 2019"
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"German Muskarin , from New Latin ( Amanita ) muscaria fly agaric":""
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, S.F. www.randallmuseum.org Breakfast with Enzo Drop in at anytime for two different sets of voice, accordion, guitar, banjo, jaw harp, ocarina, percussion and musical saw sing along fun for everyone. \u2014 Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 May 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1910, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-142232"
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": a usually sweet edible melon that is the fruit of an annual trailing or climbing Asian vine ( Cucumis melo ) of the gourd family: such as":[],
": winter melon sense 1":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Oka, for example, is a muskmelon bred around 1912 by a priest at a Montreal monastery. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Nov. 2019",
"That cuts down on labor costs, too; other muskmelon varieties need to be picked four or more times during the season. \u2014 Debbie Arrington, sacbee , 22 Sep. 2017",
"My journey to the heart of the muskmelon cult started with a strawberry. \u2014 Bianca Bosker, Slate Magazine , 27 Mar. 2017",
"Monozumi leads me back downstairs to the Sembikiya store and proudly shows me the muskmelons . \u2014 Bianca Bosker, Slate Magazine , 27 Mar. 2017"
": a genus of Old World bulbous herbs (family Liliaceae) having narrow fleshy leaves and racemes or spikes of urn-shaped flowers with the lower portion of the perianth segments united \u2014 see grape hyacinth":[]
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"New Latin, from (assumed) obsolete New Greek moschari grape hyacinth, from Greek moschos musk":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are several ways his research could help Reclamation keep quagga mussel populations under control. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Along the way, riders will gorge on blueberry pie, the best lobster rolls in the state, and mussels straight from a mussel farm. \u2014 Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure , 26 Mar. 2022",
"The wild mussel catch declined from 25 million pounds to a mere nine million over the past two decades. \u2014 Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"Banchan include tomato-basil kimchi, mussel -seaweed soup, kimchi oysters, quail eggs and cucumber salad. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The broth is crafted from octopus, clam juice, mussel juice and fish fumet, then reduced and blended with olive oil and chiles. \u2014 Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Just one small section of the Escambia River, which flows through the Florida Panhandle, is home to two imperiled mussel species, along with a turtle and crayfish also at risk of extinction. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The odds are slim against any freshwater mussel surviving into adulthood \u2014 a one in a million chance, according to Ford of the wildlife service \u2014 but those that do can live a century or longer. \u2014 Matthew Brown, chicagotribune.com , 29 Sep. 2021",
"The odds are slim against any mussel surviving into adulthood - a one in a million chance, according to Ford of the wildlife service - but those that do can live a century or longer. \u2014 CBS News , 29 Sep. 2021"
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"Middle English muscle , from Old English muscelle , from Vulgar Latin *muscula , from Latin musculus muscle, mussel":""
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"It\u2019s used for farming, timbering, harvesting muskrat . \u2014 Liza Weisstuch, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"Wines in the program will run the gamut from traditional varietals such as chardonnay, riesling, merlot, and cabernet sauvignon to country muscadine and fruit wines --watermelon, peach, apple, blueberry, skeeter pee, a lemon wine. \u2014 al , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"The muscle shirt is just one of several outlandish and expertly curated outfits worn by Williams over the years. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 26 May 2022",
"For all these reasons, raiding the household toolbox for the adjustable wrench and figuring out how to remove your kickstand is a rite of passage, as time-honored as taking scissors to sleeves and making your first muscle shirt . \u2014 Eben Weiss, Outside Online , 16 Nov. 2021",
"According to Barnes, McGee was last seen wearing a muscle shirt . \u2014 William Sanders, Arkansas Online , 11 Apr. 2021",
"Five days after the decision, Strangio tweeted a picture of himself wearing a black muscle shirt , a pink headband, and an upturned ponytail held in place by a pink hair tie. \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 12 Oct. 2020",
"Rafael Nadal, a 17-year-old swashbuckling Spaniard in a muscle shirt and capri pants bursts onto the tennis scene on Key Biscayne in 2004. \u2014 Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald , 19 Mar. 2018",
"The suspect is described as a male, 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches tall, approximately 140 to 180 pounds and wearing a white muscle shirt . \u2014 Dana Guthrie, Houston Chronicle , 24 Oct. 2017"
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"This musk ox of the northern forest near Wiseman is probably related to those pioneer creatures. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 2 Apr. 2022",
"One month featured a man curled up next to musk ox named Guacamole. \u2014 Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Sep. 2021",
"Each bomb is about the length of two refrigerators laid down end to end and as heavy as the average adult male musk ox . \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Part of the farm\u2019s animal husbandry involves collecting the hair that\u2019s shed from musk ox undercoats each spring. \u2014 Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2021",
"This nonprofit complex provides large-enclosure spaces for orphaned and rehabilitating Alaska animals such as bears, moose, musk ox and caribou, and is open year-round. \u2014 Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2021",
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"The episode was about a musk ox Carabajal presented through a partnership with the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 20 June 2021",
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"The law says law enforcement officers can write a ticket if the music or other sound-making devices can be heard 25 feet from the car. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 3 July 2022",
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"Upon clicking past the message, the sunny disposition of the website takes on a gloomy blue as the music distorts into a sinister boom. \u2014 J. Kim Murphy, Variety , 2 July 2022",
"One of the greatest evangelistic arms of our church is the music . \u2014 al , 1 July 2022",
"Today, the band is also made up of 2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, and Russel Hobbs\u2014four animators who help give the music its trademark accompanying visual flare. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
"New manufacturing techniques and a post-war economic boom came together to create a whole new market for people who were eager to hear some of the amazing music of the 1960s and 1970s in glorious stereo offered by the LP records of the time. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
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"The law says law enforcement officers can write a ticket if the music or other sound-making devices can be heard 25 feet from the car. \u2014 Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel , 1 July 2022"
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"The first difficult chore, once a mustang has been brought to where it will be trained, is to get a halter on it. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2021",
"Training a wild mustang can be, to no one\u2019s surprise, an intimidating task. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 4 Jan. 2021",
"Meanwhile, the Comanche, mounted on fleet mustangs , galloped toward them, firing arrows at a rate of 20 or 30 per minute. \u2014 Jim Rasenberger, Time , 26 May 2020",
"The nonprofit\u2019s signature program involves pairing veterans with wild mustangs to gentle and train, but interacting with the animals is not a requirement. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Jan. 2020",
"Bureau officials warn that the mustang herds are a looming catastrophe for the land, and there is no cheap or obvious solution. \u2014 Dave Philipps, BostonGlobe.com , 22 Mar. 2020",
"By the 1960s, only a few thousand mustangs were left. \u2014 Dave Philipps, New York Times , 22 Mar. 2020",
"The well-digging behavior of feral mustangs and burros in the American West most likely echoes the original American horses, which died out about 12,000 years ago. \u2014 Asher Elbein, New York Times , 26 Mar. 2020",
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"Oka, for example, is a muskmelon bred around 1912 by a priest at a Montreal monastery. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Nov. 2019",
"That cuts down on labor costs, too; other muskmelon varieties need to be picked four or more times during the season. \u2014 Debbie Arrington, sacbee , 22 Sep. 2017",
"My journey to the heart of the muskmelon cult started with a strawberry. \u2014 Bianca Bosker, Slate Magazine , 27 Mar. 2017",
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"The Judge is a special example of a muscle car from the late '60s. \u2014 Becca Hackett, Car and Driver , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Dodge is also planning to unveil an electric muscle car concept this summer, but Kuniskis suggested this reveal could also be pushed back. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Stellantis brand Dodge also has its first electric muscle car due that year. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 2 Mar. 2022",
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"As muscle car enthusiasts searched for ways to improve the performance and reliability of their vintage machines, a cottage industry of folks adapting late-model powertrain and chassis components soon began to emerge. \u2014 Bradley Iger, Ars Technica , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Car and Driver has upgraded family haulers since the \u201860s, when the staff gamed the order sheet on a Plymouth Fury wagon with a muscle car \u2019s 383 V-8. \u2014 Elana Scherr, Car and Driver , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Stellantis has plans for an electric Ram 1500 pickup and Dodge muscle car . \u2014 Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This sophisticated and intoxicating Giorgio Armani scent is perfect for a night out, thanks to its slightly sweet, musky notes of blackcurrant nectar, rose and white cedarwood. \u2014 April Franzino, Good Housekeeping , 23 June 2022",
"Pink pepper, ambrette seeds, ambrox (a velvety ingredient that contains salty, musky and clean woody notes in it) and iris all come together to complete this blend. \u2014 Kristin Corpuz, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"With a fruity top note of black currant, a floral heart of jasmine, lily, rose and carnation, and a dark, musky base of oud, sandalwood and oakmoss, the Two Kings Aftershave Splash might just knock your favorite cologne out of its top spot. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"Patchouli is a strong, sweet, musky aroma that is a subtle base note and the perfect accompaniment for the sage and citrus. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s also great-smelling, characterized by a deep, musky scent with hints of lavender, violet, and bergamot. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Used correctly, even a half-dozen strands can impart saffron\u2019s sweet and musky essence and enhance a meal. \u2014 Jane Black, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Lima \u00e1gria has a typical bright, musky lime quality yet is also a bit sweet and bitter. \u2014 Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Yes, Connery's 007 gave off a musky whiff of unpredictability and danger (killing was Bond's business . . . \u2014 Chris Nashawaty, EW.com , 15 Sep. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Superman\u2019s muscled arm rests approvingly on the shoulder of a Navy man. \u2014 Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Many of these scuffles are involving the game\u2019s most muscled players, which certainly was the case on Sunday night in Detroit. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The man stands 12 feet tall, eyes closed in what might be pain or transcendence, chains falling off his outstretched arms, scars striped across his muscled back. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Suddenly, a snowflake moray eel named Qani heaves its muscled bucatini of a body out of the water and onto the ramp. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2021",
"The Russian ad shows a muscled guy with a shaved head doing pushups and loading a gun. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 21 May 2021",
"On the production Evos, the muscled stance and super-thin headlights from the concept look very natural on this higher-riding vehicle. \u2014 Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver , 19 Apr. 2021",
"Against the muscled front line of Steven Adams and Zion Williamson the Heat will almost assuredly counter at the start with Adebayo and Olynyk. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 3 Mar. 2021",
"An Instagram photo of him wearing a sleeveless t-shirt showing his muscled physique and tribal arm tattoo had the ladies doing a double-take. \u2014 Jasmine Grant, Essence , 11 July 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first difficult chore, once a mustang has been brought to where it will be trained, is to get a halter on it. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2021",
"Training a wild mustang can be, to no one\u2019s surprise, an intimidating task. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 4 Jan. 2021",
"Meanwhile, the Comanche, mounted on fleet mustangs , galloped toward them, firing arrows at a rate of 20 or 30 per minute. \u2014 Jim Rasenberger, Time , 26 May 2020",
"The nonprofit\u2019s signature program involves pairing veterans with wild mustangs to gentle and train, but interacting with the animals is not a requirement. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Jan. 2020",
"Bureau officials warn that the mustang herds are a looming catastrophe for the land, and there is no cheap or obvious solution. \u2014 Dave Philipps, BostonGlobe.com , 22 Mar. 2020",
"By the 1960s, only a few thousand mustangs were left. \u2014 Dave Philipps, New York Times , 22 Mar. 2020",
"The well-digging behavior of feral mustangs and burros in the American West most likely echoes the original American horses, which died out about 12,000 years ago. \u2014 Asher Elbein, New York Times , 26 Mar. 2020",
"The roundup operation itself is strikingly efficient; a helicopter and a few workers in jean jackets can catch scores of mustangs in a day. \u2014 Dave Philipps, BostonGlobe.com , 22 Mar. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The seasons for walleyes, northern pike and muskellunge typically close for at least a couple months in early spring to protect the fish during their typical spawning periods. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel , 18 June 2022",
"In addition to walleyes, the lake features northern pike, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, black crappies, bluegills and muskellunge . \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 May 2022",
"By the late 20th century catch-and-release was firmly embedded in the ethics of modern sport fishing, especially but not limited to those pursuing bass, muskellunge and trout. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Nolan Sprengeler caught a 55-pound muskellunge on Nov. 22 during a fishing trip to Millie Lacs Lake, according to a press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. \u2014 Michael Hollan, Fox News , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Nolan Sprengeler caught a 55-pound muskellunge on Nov. 22 during a fishing trip to Millie Lacs Lake, according to a press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. \u2014 Michael Hollan, Fox News , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Nolan Sprengeler caught a 55-pound muskellunge on Nov. 22 during a fishing trip to Millie Lacs Lake, according to a press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. \u2014 Michael Hollan, Fox News , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Nolan Sprengeler caught a 55-pound muskellunge on Nov. 22 during a fishing trip to Millie Lacs Lake, according to a press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. \u2014 Michael Hollan, Fox News , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Nolan Sprengeler caught a 55-pound muskellunge on Nov. 22 during a fishing trip to Millie Lacs Lake, according to a press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. \u2014 Michael Hollan, Fox News , 29 Dec. 2021"
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"alteration of Canadian French maskinong\u00e9 , from Ojibwa ma\u00b7skino\u00b7\u0161e\u00b7":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Weapons technology will also change dramatically in future decades, Milley said, and the shift will be as radical as the change from musket to the rifle, the rifle to the machine gun or from sailing to steam ships. \u2014 Thomas Phippen, Fox News , 21 May 2022",
"Artifacts include cavalry uniform buttons, musket balls, grinding stones, arrowheads and human remains. \u2014 Louis Sahag\u00fanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
"To date, the legal debate over the Second Amendment has largely assumed that gun technology unfolds over time according to a single, linear logic, from the colonial flintlock musket to the modern AR-15. \u2014 Jennifer Tucker, CNN , 20 Oct. 2021",
"In another, Flynn stood jut-jawed and eagle-eyed, wielding a musket . \u2014 New York Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The potential 2024 presidential contender and former South Carolina governor received the Nathan Hale Patriot Award, an honor that comes along with a replica Revolutionary War musket . \u2014 Meg Kinnard, ajc , 3 Dec. 2021",
"The soldier, still alive, calmly tore off a piece of paper from either his gunpowder bag or musket cartridge (depending on the version of the story) and rolled a cigarette. \u2014 Joan Oleck, Forbes , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Stripling\u2019s Wagner character also will have on hand an 1861 Springfield single-loading musket . \u2014 George Castle, chicagotribune.com , 3 Aug. 2021",
"Buried under the salts was an assortment of musket balls, bullets, buttons from US Cavalry uniforms, and artifacts from the native Paiute peoples (also known by their self-designation, Numa). \u2014 Frederic Wehrey, The New York Review of Books , 16 Feb. 2021"
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"Middle French mousquet , from Old Italian moschetto small artillery piece, sparrow hawk, from diminutive of mosca fly, from Latin musca \u2014 more at midge":""
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"Noun",
"the muscles of the arm",
"an athlete with bulging muscles",
"He pulled a muscle playing tennis.",
"She has a strained muscle in her back.",
"She started lifting weights to build muscle .",
"She doesn't have the muscle to lift something so heavy.",
"Verb",
"They muscled the heavy boxes onto the truck.",
"They muscled the furniture up the stairs.",
"He muscled through the crowd.",
"They muscled into line behind us.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Our focus was on body recomposition, keeping me at a caloric deficit to shred fat while building muscle . \u2014 Jesse Hicks, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
"In the past, the program has developed countermeasures to help astronauts combat muscle and bone loss, such as daily workouts on the space station. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 4 June 2022",
"Some of that is method, sure, but as has been pointed out here repeatedly of late \u2014 the Bruins lack the speed, skill, muscle , and depth to maintain puck possession around the net and score goals. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"Additionally, whole prey, rabbits, and mice are added to the mix to provide the necessary blend of muscle , bone, organs, fur, and skin in their diet. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"Building your managing up muscle will take practice, so be patient with yourself\u2014and your manager. \u2014 Kevin Kruse, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"In addition to building muscle and stability, an indoor rowing machine can provide one of the best cardio workouts. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 13 May 2022",
"Yet my quad muscle , which naturally shrinks with this surgery, wasn't improving \u2014 and my knee pain and swelling were prevalent. \u2014 Lanae Brody, PEOPLE.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Those have included Italian exotics, Japanese sports cars, classic muscle , actual race cars, trucks, fire equipment, military vehicles and antiques. \u2014 Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Prosecutors portrayed Wright as defiant, willing to muscle through the contract. \u2014 Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The Uncle Vanya application wasn\u2019t the only one to try to muscle in on McDonald\u2019s intellectual property in Russia, Gerben said. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s a version of the Russian MICLIC, the UR-83P, that dismounted engineers can muscle into position. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Seeds will muscle in on nuts as an alternative protein source, in products like butters and ice creams. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Williams said help is especially necessary when Antetokounmpo bodies up to him and attempts to muscle him down in a one-on-one. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"With the end of the slavery of the long-term contract, the stars achieved free agency and began to muscle the studios that had kept them on board wages. \u2014 David Mamet, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But after the war, Europe was in no position to economically muscle others. \u2014 Amanda Shendruk, Quartz , 11 Mar. 2022",
"With a weak-kneed European Union and a Trump administration focused more on trying to steal its own election, the West watched a moment of potential transformational change in Belarus fizzle out, unwilling to muscle Lukashenko from office. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 1 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its munitions included mustard gas , which burns the eyes and lungs, as well as a variety of nerve agents. \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2022",
"Iraqi soldiers dropped sarin and mustard gas on villages by plane in advance of infantry raids. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Some of those chemical agents, such as lewisite and mustard gas , were specifically designed to injure people; others, including sarin, soman, and VX, were designed to kill. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 23 Mar. 2022",
"In 1984 and 1986, Iraq is accused of using mustard gas and other chemical weapons against Iran. \u2014 CNN , 7 Mar. 2022",
"After saving Allen and losing his steel powers because of mustard gas , Nate decides to finally join Zari 1.0 in the totem. \u2014 Chancellor Agard, EW.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Johnny was the first brain-tumor patient in the United States to be treated with mustard gas , an early form of chemotherapy; Gunther himself delivered the canisters full of the toxic stuff to the hospital. \u2014 Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In the World War I-set closer, Nate charged into a haze of mustard gas to save the love of Gwyn's (Matt Ryan) life, Alun (Tom Forbes), and lost all of his steel powers as a result. \u2014 Chancellor Agard, EW.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"In addition to chlorine, both sides used phosgene and mustard gas , which blistered the skin. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Aug. 2014"
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"first_known_use":{
"1917, in the meaning defined above":""
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"modification & shortening of Spanish mestizo":""
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"adjective"
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"\u2014 usually + on His competitors have tried to muscle in on his business."
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"\u02c8m\u0259z-l\u0259m",
"\u02c8mu\u0307z-"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a European orchid ( Herminium monorchis ) having a musky scent":[]
": the study of music as a branch of knowledge or field of research as distinct from composition or performance":[]
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"\u02ccmy\u00fc-zi-\u02c8k\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the 1970s, musicology was still largely focused on reviving obscure motets and analyzing Central European masterworks. \u2014 William Robin, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"Chris graduated from Kenmore West High School in Buffalo and went on to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in musicology from SUNY Buffalo in 1973. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Like other music podcasts, 60 Songs explores its genre of choice (nineties pop hits) through the dual lenses of rock criticism and musicology . \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 16 Apr. 2022",
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"Rather than come across like a cultural appropriator, Jay-Z the writer sounds right at home with roaming Jamaican musicology . \u2014 A.d. Amorosi, Variety , 29 Oct. 2021",
"Beginning in 1971 \u2014 the year of his birth \u2014 Questlove selects and examines one or more pivotal songs from each of the 50 years that followed, creating a sort of hybrid of American history, musicology and memoir. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Oct. 2021",
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"Gonzalez had also started a PhD in musicology and had been examining the ways in which women\u2019s voices have served as vehicles for lament throughout history \u2014 an idea that appears repeatedly in her tender songwriting and aching vocal performances. \u2014 Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone , 21 Sep. 2021"
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"In the world of edible mushrooms, the morel mushroom is one of the most coveted and tasty species. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022",
"Mycelium, the buzzy mushroom alternative to leather, was on Burton's mind as a theme, and sewn or woven into some of her autumn-winter looks. \u2014 Leanne Italie, ajc , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The mustard allows the mushroom coating to adhere, lends a layer of tangy flavor, and helps keep the meat moist with cooking. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"And yet, the mushroom is also a symbol of hope; fungi have the power to break down most hydrocarbon materials, including oil spills, and can be used to produce sustainable alternatives to plastic. \u2014 Charlotte Kent, Wired , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Flip the mushroom caps over and spread about 1 tablespoon of the shrimp paste on the underside of each c ap. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The Maitake mushroom has even been found to reduce tumor growth in mice. \u2014 Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The child remains unidentified more than a month and a half after his body was discovered by a mushroom hunter in Washington County. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Not to mention, many beloved ingredients like snow mushroom , rice, ginseng, and silk have been deeply embedded in Asian cultures for centuries upon centuries. \u2014 Allure , 29 May 2022",
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"Many weeks would see more than one event featuring the big-name pros, so the number of yearly tournaments would mushroom from today's roster. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"But by Fortune's estimates, the Twitter numbers imply that net earnings will mushroom to approximately $3.2 billion in 2027. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 21 May 2022",
"At the moment of full vehicle autonomy, the amount of connectivity within a vehicle should mushroom out, considering the driver is now free to be connected. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Tesla\u2019s revenues would need to mushroom from $47 billion over the past four quarters, to $783 billion in 2030. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The cost of business subscriptions and data services can quickly and easily mushroom unless carefully managed. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Workhuman\u2019s artificial intelligence work around of language in an employee recognition system show that unintentional bias, which is human nature, can create problems that mushroom over time. \u2014 Eric Mosley, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Bakkt projects that by 2025, the total pool of rewards will mushroom from today\u2019s $1.6 trillion to $5.0 trillion, for an annual growth rate of 25%. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Public shaming and individual harassment would mushroom . \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021"
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"This musk ox of the northern forest near Wiseman is probably related to those pioneer creatures. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 2 Apr. 2022",
"One month featured a man curled up next to musk ox named Guacamole. \u2014 Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Sep. 2021",
"Each bomb is about the length of two refrigerators laid down end to end and as heavy as the average adult male musk ox . \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Part of the farm\u2019s animal husbandry involves collecting the hair that\u2019s shed from musk ox undercoats each spring. \u2014 Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2021",
"This nonprofit complex provides large-enclosure spaces for orphaned and rehabilitating Alaska animals such as bears, moose, musk ox and caribou, and is open year-round. \u2014 Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2021",
"That musk ox was perhaps the last of the Alaska population. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 3 July 2021",
"The episode was about a musk ox Carabajal presented through a partnership with the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 20 June 2021",
"The oil \u2014 ever-present in households dotting Alaska coastlines \u2014 is used mainly as a dipping sauce for fish, caribou and musk ox . \u2014 Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News , 17 Feb. 2021"
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"Stiller also praised the way Turturro performed how Innie Irv, determined to find his workplace crush Burt (Christopher Walken), applies his Outie\u2019s muscle memory to the unfamiliar task of driving. \u2014 Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
"Behavioral science and psychology have taught us that our brain has the same muscle memory as our physiology. \u2014 Matt Mallory, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Obviously, the slightest adjustment to a rim can throw off a shot \u2014 especially given the muscle memory involved with shooting a basketball. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"All those ground balls, all those years ago, transformed critical big-league-level mechanics into muscle memory . \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"The company\u2019s launch products include a one-axis tee and two-axis adapter that are both programmed with thousands of randomized positions\u2014closing the curtains on any possible muscle memory actions. \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Just as mindlessly repeating scales can improve a beginning pianist\u2019s muscle memory , searching for loot or killing one or two NPCs for minor gains improves my coordination and trains my eye to look for moving or twitching pixels. \u2014 Adrienne So, Wired , 6 Dec. 2021",
"It\u2019s all muscle memory at this point, and you\u2019ll be tempted to lift the finger after the second tap. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Woods rode his legendary determination, muscle memory and a golf cart to play with 12-year-old son, Charlie, during last month\u2019s PNC Championship. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com , 6 Jan. 2022"
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"Would you like some mustard on your hot dog?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The cheeseburger omelet takes ground beef, onions, tomatoes, pickles, hash browns, ketchup and mustard plus American, Jack and Cheddar cheeses. \u2014 Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Around the corner, at a station for Plinko Burger, gamers squeezed bottles of ketchup and mustard with ferocious concentration. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Put down the ketchup and mustard in favor of more fun toppings, such as lemon aioli and quail eggs. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 Feb. 2022",
"No matter what the beer tastes like, Rockets fans will be interested because the cans feature the Rockets' old-school ketchup-and- mustard color scheme as well as the logo the team used during their back-to-back championship seasons in the 1990s. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Enjoy fried taters, biscuits 'n' gravy, country ham, mustard greens and plenty more good ol' down-home cooking. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 6 May 2022",
"Testing found the highest level of multiple pesticides -- 103 -- on samples of the heart-healthy trio of kale, collards and mustard greens, followed by 101 different pesticides on hot and bell peppers. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Following strawberries, spinach, kale, collards and mustard greens, nectarines, apples, grapes, bell and hot peppers, cherries, peaches, pears, celery and tomato also made the list for their high volume of pesticides. \u2014 Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Prioritize your time to pull out flowering garlic mustard to save work in the future. \u2014 Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune , 4 June 2022"
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"so called from its habit of digging in the mud":""
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": a class of Bryophyta comprising the mosses and being characterized by a well-developed leafy gametophyte that arises by budding from a protonema and bears sex organs among the leaves at its tip and by a sporophyte that develops from the fertilized egg, remains attached to the tip of the gametophyte, and is a naked usually stalked and operculate capsule in which asexual spores are borne \u2014 see andreaealis , bryales , sphagnales \u2014 compare eubryales , hepaticae":[],
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"noun"
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": a white to yellow crystalline synthetic musk C 14 H 18 N 2 O 5 ; tert -butyl-dinitro-xylyl methyl ketone":[]
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"musclemen and bodybuilders working out in the gym",
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"Pumping Iron, the semifictional documentary that set a young muscleman from Thal, Austria, on course to become the institution known as Arnold Schwarzenegger. \u2014 Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health , 8 Feb. 2022",
"In the comics, the Eternals are often led by Ikaris, usually portrayed as a blond-haired, blue-eyed muscleman reminiscent of He-Man but with laser eyes. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 3 Nov. 2021",
"The posturing took some focus away from Ngannou, the likable, soft-spoken muscleman with unbelievable punching power. \u2014 Greg Beacham, Star Tribune , 28 Mar. 2021",
"The posturing took some focus away from Ngannou, the likable, soft-spoken muscleman with unbelievable punching power. \u2014 Greg Beacham, ajc , 28 Mar. 2021",
"Comedians like Melissa McCarthy and Adam Sandler, and musclemen like Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, can still pack \u2019em in. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Feb. 2020",
"In this new episode of the documentary series, Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall, Robert Oberst and Nick Best interrupt their global survey of famous musclemen with a stop in Cody, Wyo. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 July 2019",
"The juxtaposition \u2014 robust muscleman and gawky fowl \u2014 is a wonderfully sarcastic rebuke to Plato\u2019s description of humans as featherless bipeds. \u2014 Christopher Knight, latimes.com , 5 July 2018",
"Don\u2019t miss: The view from the balconies of the musclemen exiting the gym on Market Street. \u2014 Emma Silvers, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2018"
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"noun"
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": a small kangaroo ( Hypsiprymnodon moschatus ) of northeastern Australia characterized by a musky odor and closely related to the rat kangaroos":[]
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": a 19th century Jewish religioethical movement stressing strict moral discipline and piety":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00fc\u02ccs\u00e4r",
"\u02c8my\u00fc\u02ccz\u00e4r"
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"1777, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a fragrant California annual herb ( Monardella lanceolata ) with rose-purple flowers in bracted clusters":[]
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"Hindi mash\u02bdalc\u012b , from Persian, from Arabic mash\u02bdal toch + Turkish -ci (suffix denoting an agent)":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-171031"
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"noun"
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": a counterirritant and rubefacient plaster containing powdered mustard":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Treatments included bloodletting, blistering, leeches and the use of mustard plaster , which could cause first-degree burns. \u2014 Ann Levin, USA TODAY , 18 Jan. 2021",
"For colds, her parents applied mustard plasters , and her Norwegian father made her and her brother hot water, sugar and whiskey at bedtime, to keep coughs in check. \u2014 Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Jan. 2018",
"Everyone in Russia knows about treatment by mustard plaster , an old-fashioned remedy. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 11 Oct. 2017"
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"noun"
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": a small black European leaf beetle ( Phaedon cochleariae ) destructive to mustard and other cruciferous plants":[]
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"foul",
"frowsty",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"funky",
"fusty",
"malodorous",
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"rank",
"reeking",
"reeky",
"ripe",
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"stinking",
"stinky",
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"savory",
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"examples":[
"a dark and musty basement",
"the musty prose of writers who use the same expressions over and over",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Inspect the wood for dry rot by looking for spore dust, fruiting bodies of fungus, or a lingering damp or musty smell. \u2014 Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 July 2022",
"Those quick moments of serendipity mix with long stretches of relentless work, with the pair reading legal and medical canon side by side, then pursuing the sources of those musty papers and reports in the flesh. \u2014 Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 July 2022",
"Water rot can cause stained or discolored baseboards, and musty odors mean water is hiding somewhere. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 7 June 2022",
"This history lesson wasn\u2019t musty or in black-and-white. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"On a recent visit to the exhibit, a couple of passersby could be heard muttering about the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples next door, a dark, musty exhibit that opened in 1982 and has remained mostly the same since. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"Now the spaces were full of the stuff of ruptured lives: cots and bedrolls and chipped mugs and folding chairs and spare end tables and plastic bags stretched taut with musty clothing. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"One of the biggest consumer complaints about front loading washing machines is the musty smell that develops when water puddles inside. \u2014 Carolyn Fort\u00e9, Good Housekeeping , 5 May 2022",
"The Electoral Count Act of 1887 was a musty piece of legislation only discussed in academic circles. \u2014 Edward-isaac Dovere, CNN , 5 Apr. 2022"
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"\u02c8m\u0259z-l\u0259-\u02ccm\u012bz",
"\u02c8mu\u0307z-"
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"first_known_use":{
"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
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"French, literally, musk-scented lozenge":""
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],
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": a light brown that is stronger and slightly yellower than blush and redder, lighter, and stronger than cork":[]
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"French, nutmeg, from Middle French ( nois ) muscade , from Old French":""
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": a plain-woven sheer to coarse cotton fabric":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In these drawings on hide, paper or muslin , important tribal events are recorded with small pictographs. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Our pattern maker Kenny is writing notes directly on the muslin and staying late to finish the pattern so it can be sewn tomorrow just in time for the casting on Wednesday. \u2014 Steff Yotka, Vogue , 8 Nov. 2021",
"The package also comes with planting instructions and a 6 X 8-inch muslin bag to hold all of your supplies. \u2014 Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Reluctantly removing several muslin scarves from our Captain Jack Sparrow costume. \u2014 Scott Jacobson, The New Yorker , 3 July 2021",
"To construct Flyer I, the Wright brothers used unbleached muslin fabric, reports Nicoletta Lanese for Live Science. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Apr. 2021",
"During the Apollo Missions, Apollo 11 also carried a piece of the muslin , and a splinter of wood from the Wright Flyer, reports Live Science. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Apr. 2021",
"These are 100% cotton muslin bags with drawstring tops for a bouquet garnish. \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 9 Mar. 2021",
"These are 100% cotton muslin bags with drawstring tops for a bourquet garnish. \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 2 Mar. 2021"
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"French mousseline , from Italian mussolina , from Arabic maw\u1e63il\u012b of Mosul, from al- Maw\u1e63il Mosul, Iraq":""
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"New Latin, from Arabic mawzah banana":"Noun"
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": an East Indian palm civet ( Paradoxurus hermaphroditus ) with long shaggy fur obscurely patterned with spots and stripes":[]
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"New Latin, from Muscicapa , type genus + -idae":""
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"For dinner, two more whites: a muscadet from the Loire Valley that cries out for seafood and an outstanding expression of mountain terroir from Argentina with a surprising grape. \u2014 Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"In addition to albari\u00f1o and vermentino, also keep an eye out for assyrtiko (a grape typically associated with Greece) and muscadet (typically associated with the Loire Valley of France). \u2014 Cathy Huyghe, Forbes , 31 May 2021",
"Melon is the grape of muscadet in the Loire Valley. \u2014 Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post , 19 July 2019",
"Made from the grape variety melon de Bourgogne, this muscadet displays notes of under-ripe orchard fruit (apple/pear/quince) and, due to the proximity to the ocean, carries a touch of salinity as well. \u2014 Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com , 24 May 2017"
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"Furthermore, the glutes tend to be weak in this posture, and the low back musculature tends to be overly tight. \u2014 Jon-erik Kawamoto, Outside Online , 12 Feb. 2020",
"Adams\u2019 artistry was also influential to a generation of comic book artists, from the realism of his characters\u2019 musculature to the vivaciousness with which Adams filled every frame. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"Animals that make only innate sounds control the musculature that creates those sounds through a circuit in the brain stem, an area near the spinal cord that regulates automatic functions like breathing and heartbeat. \u2014 Betsy Mason, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Feb. 2022",
"At the end, another will be taken, so researchers can assess how the massive effort has changed his musculature . \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Macron tried to cajole former US President Donald Trump before, first with niceties, then with a show of musculature . \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 9 Feb. 2022",
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"The new travel benefit will cover services including abortions and maternity and reproductive health services, among other services such as transgender services, including gender affirmation treatment and musculoskeletal procedures. \u2014 Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press , 30 June 2022",
"But poor balance and musculoskeletal fitness can be linked with frailty in older adults, Ara\u00fajo wrote in an email. \u2014 Linda Carroll, NBC News , 21 June 2022",
"Patients with new musculoskeletal complaints and neuropsychiatric problems. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"What this caregiver unlocks, beyond musculoskeletal misalignments, is something prior to the Trump administration \u2014 and to memory itself. \u2014 Srikanth Reddy, New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"There are now more than 350,000 apps, ranging from behavioral health to reproductive health, sleep medicine, addiction medicine, musculoskeletal medicine, and beyond. \u2014 Charlotte Grinberg, STAT , 30 Mar. 2022",
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"Hoffman had been off the PGA Tour for three years after being diagnosed with a form of muscular dystrophy , a condition that sent him on a long and winding medical journey from the US to Costa Rica. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Yet, has a form of muscular dystrophy and uses her ventilator roughly 22 hours each day. \u2014 Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"On their third date, Hunter told her that heart failure was common for patients with his type of muscular dystrophy . \u2014 Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022",
"This disease is the most common form of muscular dystrophy that begins in adulthood. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Lynn also regularly helped out at their church and participated in charity events for muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Gottfried's publicist said his death was due to complications from muscular dystrophy , according to The Washington Post. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Three had previously been in good health, and the 9-year-old had muscular dystrophy . \u2014 Brenda Goodman, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Morgan Hoffmann, making a long-shot bid to keep his tour card after two years away from golf because of muscular dystrophy , missed the cut with rounds of 73 and 80. \u2014 Ben Nuckols, Baltimore Sun , 6 May 2022"
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"The 11-piece Chicago tribute band captures the spirit, musicality , and fire of American supergroup Chicago. \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
"The musicality of McElroy\u2019s language begs for out-loud readings. \u2014 Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Then, combining that unique musicality with a really good hook, something that people latch onto instantly and love. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, Variety , 17 May 2022",
"The pair, who have performed together for years, are an always reliable source of humor and impressive musicality . \u2014 Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel , 16 May 2022",
"It\u2019s one that began with his youth as a precocious Chicago teenage jazz pianist and ended, in 1965, with his death from lung cancer at age 45, an icon whose crossover success and remarkable musicality changed 20th century American culture. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"In 2017, Koffee, who was unknown at the time, recorded an acoustic tribute to the sprinter Usain Bolt that showed off her musicality and her reverence for Jamaican culture. \u2014 Carrie Battan, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"His visceral musicality , fresh interpretations, and idiosyncratic yet somehow effective gestures are the envy of the conducting world. \u2014 David Thomas, National Review , 15 Mar. 2022",
"And above all else her sheer musicality , her artistry, shines throughout. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 15 Feb. 2022"
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