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"He always exercises prudence with his finances.",
"advised to use some old-fashioned prudence when agreeing to meet face-to-face with an online acquaintance",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The treacherous economic moment calls for financial prudence , Harvey said. \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 14 June 2022",
"These include the classiccardinal virtues of fortitude (courage), temperance (moderation), prudence (wisdom) and justice, as well as those named in more recent research: honesty, care, respect and fairness. \u2014 Jonathan H. Westover, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"The Assembly is also responsible for making sure our schools operate with prudence and serve our communities well. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 17 Mar. 2022",
"And prudence calls for skepticism about any soothing words from the Fed, the Biden administration or Wall Street bulls about a hoped-for soft landing. \u2014 CNN , 26 May 2022",
"Kalabrya Haskins calls for patience and prudence USA TODAY, Associated Press and Pasithea Therapeutics contributed to this story. \u2014 Chris Pugh, USA TODAY , 24 May 2022",
"That kind of impact demanded a big payday, but the health history demanded prudence . \u2014 New York Times , 8 May 2022",
"His father, Kay Mineta, had based his own livelihood on the prudence of his customers. \u2014 Wire Reports, oregonlive , 3 May 2022",
"Even with the restrictions increasingly going by the wayside, public health officials urged prudence and stressed that the pandemic was still not over. \u2014 Fox News , 1 May 2022"
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"\u02c8pr\u00fc-d\u1d4ans",
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"An endless war is not always the most moral or the most prudent course of action. \u2014 Richard A. Posner , New Republic , 2 Sept. 2002",
"We missed the Mass for St. Rose of Lima, who, though prudent , had failed to be martyred and was therefore only second-string. \u2014 Darryl Pinckney , High Cotton , 1992",
"Prudent burners take several precautions. Burning one of two bordering fields, they wet the edge of one or the other, usually the one being burned, to prevent the flames from jumping. \u2014 Alec Wilkinson , Big Sugar , 1989",
"Since the inexplicable power of a magnetized needle to \"find\" the north smacked of black magic \u2026 . For many decades the prudent sea captain consulted his compass secretly. \u2014 Daniel J. Boorstin , The Discoverers , 1983",
"He always listened to her prudent advice.",
"You made a prudent choice.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Also, given Tamiflu\u2019s history, a demand for data transparency and independent review would be prudent . \u2014 Paul Fenyves, STAT , 19 May 2022",
"The American response has been flexible and adaptive, while being prudent in working to not provoke a wider war. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"But the application of material ESG information doesn\u2019t have to be solely for prudent risk management. \u2014 Martin Jarzebowski, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"At least one surprising consignment, a marvelous 1930 Picasso painting unseen in public for six decades, is a fine example of prudent collection management that stands to substantially strengthen its owner\u2019s educational mission. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Oct. 2021",
"In the meantime, prudent management requires that the government plan for the possibility of a lapse in funding. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Temporary reduction in activity until the pain gets under control is prudent . \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 5 May 2022",
"On the one hand, the urgency to prepare for the fall may be prudent . \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 4 May 2022",
"If foundational elements are in place and diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies are in place, addressing concerns about poor manager behaviors is prudent . \u2014 Simone E. Morris, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin prudent-, prudens , contraction of provident-, providens \u2014 more at provident":""
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"\u02c8pr\u00fc-d\u1d4ant",
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for prudent wise , sage , sapient , judicious , prudent , sensible , sane mean having or showing sound judgment. wise suggests great understanding of people and of situations and unusual discernment and judgment in dealing with them. wise beyond his tender years sage suggests wide experience, great learning, and wisdom. the sage advice of my father sapient suggests great sagacity and discernment. the sapient musings of an old philosopher judicious stresses a capacity for reaching wise decisions or just conclusions. judicious parents using kindness and discipline in equal measure prudent suggests the exercise of restraint guided by sound practical wisdom and discretion. a prudent decision to wait out the storm sensible applies to action guided and restrained by good sense and rationality. a sensible woman who was not fooled by flattery sane stresses mental soundness, rationality, and levelheadedness. remained sane even in times of crises",
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"Verb",
"She carefully pruned the hedge.",
"Those trees need to be pruned every year.",
"The students were asked to prune their essays.",
"The budget needs to be pruned .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In particular, raisin, date, fig and prune , along with milk chocolate, marzipan, coffee, honey, orange marmalade. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"The 30-year-old includes mint, earth and prune aromas and tastes wispy light and balanced, with flavors of caramel, figs and prunes. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
"In the Willamette Valley, prune from mid-February to early March, when the weather is conducive for the plants to start growing. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The Bing cherry, of the species Prunus avium, has the medicinal implications of a prune . \u2014 John Mcphee, The New Yorker , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Rey Gordo is a big, but lovely, balanced dance of a beer; Rey Cuv\u00e9e is a punch \u2014 a massive, smoky, prune -meets-black-licorice aromatic punch. \u2014 Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com , 19 Nov. 2021",
"On the palate, there are notes of fig, date and prune , along with golden raisin, stone fruit notes of apricot and some peach and tropical fruit notes of melon, mango and a touch of pineapple. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 6 Nov. 2021",
"The addition of a little water brings out some more pronounced prune and licorice notes on the nose. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 8 Sep. 2021",
"On the nose, there are intense black fruit aromas of plum, black fruit and blackberry, along with some prune . \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 2 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Anyone with a magnifying mirror and tweezers can recklessly prune their brows, but patiently growing them back",
"The best thing to do would be to prune the dead branches off. \u2014 oregonlive , 29 May 2022",
"To allow drying breezes to flow through an overgrown shrub, prune out one-third of the stems, choosing the oldest, thickest ones to remove. \u2014 Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"If the canker pathogen is a fungus, prune off the cankers in early summer. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Jan. 2022",
"The Oregon Department of Forestry and the National Arbor Day Foundation hope homeowners dealing with tree damage don\u2019t overly prune or pull out trees that could have been saved. \u2014 oregonlive , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Instructor Diana Donnellan will explain how to correctly prune plumeria trees and then give participants a chance to learn by working on the Arboretum\u2019s plumeria. \u2014 Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Find advice on when and how to prune many species of deciduous shrubs at mortonarb.org/pruning-deciduous-shrubs. \u2014 Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Also prune judiciously to create a compact, attractive specimen, which can also apply to spouses. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Jan. 2022"
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"Middle English prouynen , probably ultimately from Old French prooignier , alteration of *porrooignier , from por - completely (from Latin pro -) + rooignier to cut, prune, from Vulgar Latin *rotundiare to cut around, from Latin rotundus round \u2014 more at pro- , rotund":"Verb",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, plum, from Latin prunum \u2014 more at plum":"Noun"
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"first_known_use":{
"1611, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": the quality or state of being prurient":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Richard Greene, despite his objections to biographical prurience , does give us some piquant details. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 15 Mar. 2021",
"But perhaps to avoid any charges of prurience , Richard Greene lets a stream of prostitutes and lovers flow through the book as one-dimensional as shapes in a shooting gallery. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Jan. 2021",
"This is a recurring problem for artists, from Vladimir Nabokov to Bernardo Bertolucci: How to explore the legitimate issue of prurience without being positively prurient, or at least unnecessarily prurient",
"Grevenitis hopes that the photography, which has allowed her control over the prurience of outsiders, will perhaps provide her daughter with something similar. \u2014 Eren Orbey, The New Yorker , 18 Aug. 2020",
"Misogyny, not prurience The Japanese press, by and large, is respectful of the boundaries set by the Imperial Household Agency. \u2014 The Economist , 17 Oct. 2019",
"But there is more than prurience in their gaze, and in the movie\u2019s. \u2014 Justin Chang, chicagotribune.com , 5 Dec. 2019",
"Gawkers jostle for a viewing, journalists angle for takes; in the crowd, expressions of reverent fascination vie with cynical dismissals and racist prurience . \u2014 The New York Review of Books , 21 Feb. 2019",
"Stories about those who arrive on a therapist\u2019s couch to complain about their love woes may appeal to our instincts for voyeurism, but Mr. Tallis never veers into prurience . \u2014 Emily Bobrow, WSJ , 5 Oct. 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
"1781, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110942"
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"noun"
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": any of a genus ( Prunus ) of drupaceous trees or shrubs of the rose family that have showy clusters of usually white or pink flowers first appearing in the spring often before the leaves and including many grown for ornament or for their fruit (such as the plum, cherry, or apricot)":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gentry started on the oaks and hickories, Witsell on the prunus and viburnums, and Ogle wrote the technical descriptions and the family group sections. \u2014 Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online , 15 May 2021",
"The choices include forsythia, various willows and Japanese flowering quince, as well as a range of prunus , specifically Japanese flowering apricot, flowering plum, flowering cherry and fruiting peach. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2021"
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"New Latin, from Latin, plum tree, from Greek proumn\u0113":""
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"circa 1706, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-132428"
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"adjective"
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": ornamented with prunts":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-144218"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a crystalline glucoside C 22 H 24 O 11 found in the bitter cherry of western and in the chokecherry of eastern North America that on hydrolysis yields glucose and prunetin":[]
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"examples":[
"He is too much of a prude to enjoy movies containing sex and violence.",
"the racy sitcom frequently satirizes exactly the sort of prude who would like to see the show taken off the air",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In life, there is little evidence that Dickens was, in the context of his time and place, a sexist or a prude . \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Meanwhile in Manhattan, resident prude Charlotte York Goldenblatt was interrupted one morning with her husband. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 26 Jan. 2022",
"From the goofy humor of X-rated spoofs to the beloved crassness of edgy comics who live to shock the prude out of us, both styles of entertainment require a certain level of fearlessness. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Jan. 2022",
"But her warnings go ignored by Ellie, who accuses her sister of being an overprotective prude . \u2014 Jessica Goldstein, Vulture , 13 Oct. 2021",
"Not to be a prude , but don\u2019t you guys have a newborn to take care of",
"Call me a prude , but operating heavy machinery is dangerous enough without the aftereffects of a bender coursing through one\u2019s system. \u2014 Luther Ray Abel, National Review , 21 July 2021",
"And call me a prude , but risking 160 lives in a plane crash that was avoided by seconds still seems pretty bad to me. \u2014 Jodi Walker, EW.com , 20 Feb. 2021",
"The collection of essays on major figures in the British 19th century challenged the prevailing view of the Victorians as incurious moral prudes . ... \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 1 Jan. 2020"
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"French, good woman, prudish woman, short for prudefemme good woman, from Old French prode femme":""
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"bluenosed",
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"examples":[
"by the prudish standards of the 19th century, any depiction of the nude was scandalous",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Though the subject matter and jokes may be a bit chafing for more prudish orr demure sensibilities, Talton invites viewers to challenge their thought processes while laughing along with the characters. \u2014 Rivea Ruff, Essence , 7 June 2022",
"Isaak presumably did the vocals for actor David Wenham, who plays Snow as a somewhat prudish character who is upset by Presley\u2019s gyrations. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"The prudish Thunberg looked upon the Japanese\u2019s obedience to superiors with envy. \u2014 Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 May 2022",
"Because maybe people were still being prudish back then... \u2014 refinery29.com , 1 May 2022",
"The location is a farm in the middle of nowhere, a place far from prying and prudish eyes. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 18 Mar. 2022",
"To the prudish disapproval of Robert\u2019s parents (briefly seen Patricia Hodge and Julian Glover), this flamboyant flapper moves in as writing collaborator and ostensible child tutor. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 19 Jan. 2022",
"And this is not to say Single's Inferno was prudish or overly chaste. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 11 Jan. 2022"
"by the prudish standards of the 19th century, any depiction of the nude was scandalous",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Though the subject matter and jokes may be a bit chafing for more prudish orr demure sensibilities, Talton invites viewers to challenge their thought processes while laughing along with the characters. \u2014 Rivea Ruff, Essence , 7 June 2022",
"Isaak presumably did the vocals for actor David Wenham, who plays Snow as a somewhat prudish character who is upset by Presley\u2019s gyrations. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"The prudish Thunberg looked upon the Japanese\u2019s obedience to superiors with envy. \u2014 Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 May 2022",
"Because maybe people were still being prudish back then... \u2014 refinery29.com , 1 May 2022",
"The location is a farm in the middle of nowhere, a place far from prying and prudish eyes. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 18 Mar. 2022",
"To the prudish disapproval of Robert\u2019s parents (briefly seen Patricia Hodge and Julian Glover), this flamboyant flapper moves in as writing collaborator and ostensible child tutor. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 19 Jan. 2022",
"And this is not to say Single's Inferno was prudish or overly chaste. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 11 Jan. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
"1717, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin pruinosus covered with hoarfrost, from pruina hoarfrost \u2014 more at freeze":""
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"circa 1826, in the meaning defined above":""
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"adverb"
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"He took a prurient interest in her personal life.",
"a book that appealed to the prurient curiosity of its readers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the story about the undersecretary and the African American train porters was simply too prurient to print. \u2014 James Kirchick, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Watching this trial has felt alternatingly prurient and surreal, the kind of trial in which Marilyn Manson is casually listed as a Thanksgiving dinner guest at one of Johnny Depp\u2019s penthouses. \u2014 Monica Hesse, Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
"The scene resembled the summoning of a cult leader, and the Dominican firebrand Tokischa, a rapper known for her prurient lyrics and high-profile collaborations, emerged onstage. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The Kardashian family journey from prurient notoriety to in-control role models has long since happened. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 11 Apr. 2022",
"But this year the interest is also a little more prurient . \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 6 Apr. 2022",
"There are parts of that scrolling that feel prurient . \u2014 Clare Malone, The New Yorker , 2 Mar. 2022",
"But part of the prurient thrill of reality TV is being invited to stay and see the squirmy interior lives of others. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 5 Mar. 2022",
"But the main quibble has to do with Ivory\u2019s memories of the prurient kind. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022"
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"Latin prurient-, pruriens , present participle of prurire to itch, crave; akin to Latin pruna glowing coal, Sanskrit plo\u1e63ati he singes, and probably to Latin pruina hoarfrost \u2014 more at freeze":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gentry started on the oaks and hickories, Witsell on the prunus and viburnums, and Ogle wrote the technical descriptions and the family group sections. \u2014 Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online , 15 May 2021",
"The choices include forsythia, various willows and Japanese flowering quince, as well as a range of prunus , specifically Japanese flowering apricot, flowering plum, flowering cherry and fruiting peach. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2021"
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"such prudery regarding artistic depictions of the nude has no place on a college campus",
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"In her frank exploration of animal vaginas, Brennan is beginning to challenge some the traces of prudery , male bias and lack of curiosity about female genitals that Darwin left behind. \u2014 Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Populating the novel is the usual cast of characters, foremost among them the cop shop\u2019s inimitable secretary, Agatino Catarella, who blends obsequiousness, prudery and verbal ineptitude into a patois all his own. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Instead, in their misguided attempt to protect children, Jim Exon and company would export a vision of America based on fear, prudery , ignorance and oppression. \u2014 Steven Levy, Wired , 29 May 2020",
"Even if the past has a rich erotic literature, contemporary literature is less prudish than in the past, with the exception of Russia, which has never been freed from prudery . \u2014 Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine , 28 Oct. 2019",
"The Academy was eager to give him the Oscar both to showcase its view that he had been victimized by prudery and to dunk on conservatives. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 9 July 2019",
"Pleasure and its unfettered indulgence drove the latter, who refused to put up with the prudery of polite society. \u2014 David Pagel, latimes.com , 17 Apr. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some antibiotics, such as minocycline and doxycycline, can treat prurigo pigmentosa. \u2014 Samantha Lauriello, Health.com , 29 July 2019"
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"New Latin, from Latin, itch, from prurire":""
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"1795, in the meaning defined above":""
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"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-214319"
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": a prudential philosophy or doctrine":[]
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"a prudential approach to managing money",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The report added that the President\u2019s Working Group on Financial Markets, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have all made recommendations to address prudential risks posed by stablecoins. \u2014 Amitoj Singh, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Christian duty may not necessarily mean a no-fly zone \u2014 that\u2019s a matter of prudential debate. \u2014 Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Typically, critics of the Jim Crow relic invoke various historical facts (some of which have apparently been lost on, or willfully ignored by, certain critical members of the Senate), as well as an array of practical and prudential bases. \u2014 Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Low-level retail and food service employees have likewise been given enormous responsibility and very little leeway for prudential judgment in dealing with COVID-19. \u2014 Addison Del Mastro, The Week , 7 Oct. 2021",
"The bubble issue can\u2019t be fobbed off to macro- prudential policy, either. \u2014 Douglas Carr, National Review , 21 July 2021",
"As any observer can see, a pattern is developing: What Biden thinks is prudential diplomacy, Putin reads as weakness. \u2014 Tim Morrison, National Review , 14 June 2021",
"The LSE Grantham Institute identified recommendations to make net-zero a reality across Central Bank and prudential practice. \u2014 Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes , 17 Apr. 2021",
"The dynamic with prudential regulators, which periodically examine financial institutions on their anti-money-laundering policies and procedures, is another unknown. \u2014 Dylan Tokar, WSJ , 1 Apr. 2021"
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"noun"
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": a crystalline phenolic isoflavone C 15 H 7 O 2 (OH) 2 OCH 3 obtained by hydrolysis of prunitrin":[]
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"International Scientific Vocabulary prunet- (from New Latin Prunus emarginata ) + -in":""
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"plural noun"
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": affected, primly precise, or priggish speech or behavior":[
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"\u2014 C. G. D. Roberts",
"their prunes and prisms young daughters",
"\u2014 Bruce Marshall"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a dark purple that is stronger and slightly bluer than average prune, redder and deeper than mulberry or plum, and redder and duller than mulberry purple":[]
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"prunello":{
"type":[
"noun"
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": prunelle sense 1":[]
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"pr\u00fc\u02c8ne(\u02cc)l\u014d"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"modification of Italian prunella small plum, diminutive of pruna plum, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-155410"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a twilled woolen dress fabric":[],
": a heavy woolen fabric used for the uppers of shoes":[]
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"French prunelle , literally, sloe, from diminutive of prune plum":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-004811"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": itch sense 1a":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"pr\u00fc-\u02c8r\u012bt-\u0259s",
"pr\u00fc-\u02c8r\u012b-t\u0259s",
"-\u02c8r\u0113-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Up to 30 percent of patients with H.L. report having pruritus for months or occasionally years before a diagnosis is made. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Apr. 2021",
"Mosquito bites are the most common source of acute itch \u2014 or pruritus , in doctor-speak. \u2014 John Kelly, Washington Post , 12 July 2020",
"When opioid receptors in the brain are activated, these receptors then activate fibers that transmit itch information (or pruritus ) to the brain, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens. \u2014 Samantha Lauriello, Health.com , 12 Nov. 2019",
"Scientists have been investigating cannabinoids for the treatment of skin conditions such as pruritus , inflammatory skin disease, and skin cancer. \u2014 Jon Cooper, STAT , 26 June 2018",
"Sometimes, internal hemorrhoids can prolapse outside the anus, collecting minute particles of feces or other materials and leading to intense itching known as pruritus ani. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 4 July 2017"
"Mexican Spanish, from Spanish, Prussian, from Prusia Prussia + -ano -an":""
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": a knot that is used in mountaineering for tying a small sling to a climbing rope as an aid to one who has fallen into a crevasse and that holds fast when weighted but is movable when unweighted":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from the name Prusik":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-032842"
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"inlet of the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska, the site of oil-drilling activities since 1968":[]
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"\u02c8pr\u00fc-(\u02cc)d\u014d",
"\u02c8pr\u0259d-",
"\u02c8pr\u0259-",
"\u02c8pr\u00fcd-(\u02cc)h\u014d"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": frosty , pruinose":[]
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"Latin pruinosus covered with frost":""
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"Stanley Ben 1942\u2013 American neurologist":[]
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"\u02c8pr\u00fc-s\u0259-n\u0259r"
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"noun"
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": a dark blue crystalline hydrated ferric ferrocyanide Fe 4 [Fe(CN) 6 ] 3 \u00b7 x H 2 O used as a test for ferric iron":[],
": a greenish blue":[]
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"Prussia , Germany":""
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