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"\u02ccb\u014d-m\u0259nz-"
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"arch",
"bend",
"crook",
"curvature",
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"inflection",
"turn",
"wind"
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"bowed her head in shame"
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"1626, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"Middle English bowe, bowgh , probably from Middle Dutch boech bow, shoulder; akin to Old English b\u014dg bough":"Noun",
"Middle English, from Old English b\u016bgan ; akin to Old High German biogan to bend, Sanskrit bhujati he bends":"Verb and Noun"
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"\u02c8b\u014d",
"\u02c8bau\u0307"
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"budge",
"capitulate",
"concede",
"give in",
"knuckle under",
"quit",
"relent",
"submit",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield"
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"The government is refusing to bow down to pressure to lift the sanctions."
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": a drill worked by a bow and string to bore holes or make fire":[]
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": bowdlerization , expurgation":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"T. Bowdler + English -ism":""
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"\u02c8b\u014ddl\u0259\u02c8riz\u0259m",
"\u02c8bau\u0307d-"
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"bowdlerize the text"
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": to modify by abridging , simplifying, or distorting in style or content":[]
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"bowdlerize a classic novel by removing offensive language",
"a bowdlerized version of \u201cGulliver's Travels\u201d that purportedly makes it unobjectionable for children",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event. \u2014 James Reston Jr., Star Tribune , 29 Mar. 2021",
"The mobs of students \u2014 and their enabling professors and administrators \u2014 renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization. \u2014 Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News , 28 Aug. 2017",
"The Bard gets bowdlerized to musical and comic effect in this touring production of the Broadway hit, in which the Bottom Brothers try to outdo that dude from Stratford-upon-Avon. \u2014 Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com , 25 May 2017",
"Prince the raunchy sylph eventually became a Jehovah\u2019s Witness who would bowdlerize his more explicit material in concert. \u2014 John Williams, New York Times , 11 Apr. 2017",
"Maybe there\u2019s a kind of metaphor in there, about how young and spiky verve gets softened and bowdlerized by time spent in the world. \u2014 Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com , 17 Apr. 2017"
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"Thomas Bowdler \u20201825 English editor":""
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"\u02c8b\u014dd-l\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz",
"\u02c8bau\u0307d-"
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"clean (up)",
"expurgate",
"launder",
"red-pencil"
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": to modify by abridging , simplifying, or distorting in style or content":[]
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"examples":[
"bowdlerize a classic novel by removing offensive language",
"a bowdlerized version of \u201cGulliver's Travels\u201d that purportedly makes it unobjectionable for children",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event. \u2014 James Reston Jr., Star Tribune , 29 Mar. 2021",
"The mobs of students \u2014 and their enabling professors and administrators \u2014 renaming buildings and bowdlerizing the language are still products of Western civilization. \u2014 Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News , 28 Aug. 2017",
"The Bard gets bowdlerized to musical and comic effect in this touring production of the Broadway hit, in which the Bottom Brothers try to outdo that dude from Stratford-upon-Avon. \u2014 Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com , 25 May 2017",
"Prince the raunchy sylph eventually became a Jehovah\u2019s Witness who would bowdlerize his more explicit material in concert. \u2014 John Williams, New York Times , 11 Apr. 2017",
"Maybe there\u2019s a kind of metaphor in there, about how young and spiky verve gets softened and bowdlerized by time spent in the world. \u2014 Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com , 17 Apr. 2017"
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"1826, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Thomas Bowdler \u20201825 English editor":""
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"\u02c8b\u014dd-l\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz",
"\u02c8bau\u0307d-"
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"red-pencil"
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"verb"
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"In February PBS advised member stations to air a bowdlerized version of a Frontline documentary about the war in Iraq because the uncut version also had soldiers swearing.",
"\u2014 James Poniewozik",
"\u2026 like all unexpurgated books it is an improvement on the bowdlerized version, if only because it has more sex.",
"\u2014 Katha Pollitt"
]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet Brice, knowing all that, still adored him, which makes a far more interesting tale than the bowdlerized one the show offers, of a duped woman finally and regretfully seeing the light. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"How did a bowdlerized rendering of a marginal psychological pathology come to hold such sway in the humanities\u2014and increasingly in popular discourse as well"
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"1879, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8b\u014dd-l\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bzd",
"\u02c8bau\u0307d-"
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"type":[]
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"upright"
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"listened with bowed heads"
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},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
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"past participle of bow entry 1":"Adjective"
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"\u02c8bau\u0307d"
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"declining",
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"descendent",
"descending",
"drooping",
"droopy",
"hanging",
"hung",
"inclining",
"nodding",
"pendulous",
"sagging",
"stooping",
"weeping"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100155",
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]
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": a shelter (as in a garden) made with tree boughs or vines twined together : arbor":[],
": an anchor carried at the bow of a ship":[],
": an attractive dwelling or retreat":[],
": embower , enclose":[
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]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"bowered by a canopy of grapevines, we enjoyed a serene and very private picnic"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1599, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1652, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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"Middle English bour dwelling, from Old English b\u016br ; akin to Old English & Old High German b\u016ban to dwell, Old English b\u0113on to be \u2014 more at be":"Noun and Verb"
},
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"\u02c8bau\u0307(-\u0259)r",
"\u02c8bau\u0307-\u0259r"
],
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"bosom",
"circumfuse",
"cocoon",
"embosom",
"embower",
"embrace",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"enfold",
"enshroud",
"enswathe",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"invest",
"involve",
"lap",
"mantle",
"muffle",
"shroud",
"swathe",
"veil",
"wrap"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023200",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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": the technique or manner of managing the bow in playing a stringed musical instrument":[]
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"1791, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8b\u014d-i\u014b"
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"noun"
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"breeze",
"brush",
"coast",
"cruise",
"drift",
"flow",
"glide",
"roll",
"sail",
"skim",
"slide",
"slip",
"stream",
"sweep",
"whisk"
],
"definitions":{
": a ball (as of lignum vitae ) weighted or shaped to give it a bias (see bias entry 1 sense 3a ) when rolled":[],
": a bowl-shaped or concave part: such as":[],
": a cylindrical roller or drum (as for a machine)":[],
": a delivery of the ball in bowling":[],
": a natural formation or geographical region shaped like a bowl":[],
": a postseason game between specially invited teams":[
"college bowl games"
],
": lawn bowling":[
"playing bowls"
],
": the contents of a bowl":[
"ate a bowl of rice"
],
": the hollow of a spoon or tobacco pipe":[],
": the receptacle of a toilet":[
"cleaning toilet bowls"
],
": to complete by bowling":[
"bowl a spare"
],
": to participate in a game of bowling":[
"bowls every Thursday night"
],
": to roll (a ball) in bowling":[],
": to roll a ball in bowling":[
"your turn to bowl"
],
": to score by bowling":[
"bowls 150"
],
": to strike with a swiftly moving object":[
"being bowled over by a base runner"
],
": to travel smoothly and rapidly (as in a wheeled vehicle)":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"I don't think I can bowl a 12-pound ball.",
"We bowl every Thursday night.",
"Do you like to bowl ",
"I haven't bowled since I was a kid.",
"She usually bowls around 150."
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English bolle , from Old English bolla ; akin to Old High German bolla blister":"Noun",
"Middle English boule , from Middle French, from Latin bulla bubble":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u014dl"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"circus",
"coliseum",
"colosseum",
"stadium"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040812",
"type":[
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall the exuberant dog bowled over several children"
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"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall the exuberant dog bowled over several children"
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"definitions":{
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": to take unawares":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1867, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"synonyms":[
"amaze",
"astonish",
"astound",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"floor",
"rock",
"shock",
"startle",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"thunderstrike"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224708",
"type":[
"verb"
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},
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": impress entry 1 sense 1":[],
": to take unawares":[]
},
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"1867, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"amaze",
"astonish",
"astound",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"floor",
"rock",
"shock",
"startle",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"thunderstrike"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062409",
"type":[
"verb"
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},
"bowling alley":{
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": a room or building in which people play the game of bowling":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192905",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bowling crease":{
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": one of two lines with wickets pitched in the center of each from or behind which the cricket ball must be bowled":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124601",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bowling on the green":{
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": lawn bowling":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071217",
"type":[]
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": a stump marking the cricket bowler's position when a single wicket is used":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231251",
"type":[
"noun"
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},
"bowly":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a large usually rectangular sunken pool or well in India that serves as a public water supply and a resting place and is usually provided with terraces and shaded recesses":[],
": crooked , bent":[
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Hindi b\u0101wl\u012b , from Sanskrit v\u0101p\u012b pond":"Noun",
"perhaps from bool + -y":"Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00fcl\u0113",
"\u02c8b\u014dl\u0113"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055329",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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": a boatman, oarsman, or paddler stationed in the front of a boat":[],
": archer sense 1":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1829, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u014d-m\u0259n",
"\u02c8bau\u0307-m\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-180117",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bowwow":{
"antonyms":[
"quiet",
"silence",
"silentness",
"still",
"stillness"
],
"definitions":{
": arrogant dogmatic manner":[],
": noisy clamor":[]
},
"examples":[
"the bowwow coming from the store's returns desk on the day after Christmas"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1785, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"imitative":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"bau\u0307-\u02c8wau",
"\u02c8bau\u0307-\u02ccwau\u0307"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"brawl",
"bruit",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"decibel(s)",
"din",
"discordance",
"katzenjammer",
"noise",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061052",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bowwow theory":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a theory that language originated in imitations of natural sounds (such as those of birds, dogs, or thunder) \u2014 compare dingdong theory , pooh-pooh theory":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112140",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bowyang":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a cord or strap tied around a worker's trousers just below the knee":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of English dialect bowy-yanks (plural) leather leggings":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u014d\u02ccya\u014b"
],
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"Zeljko Ilicic, bowyer , a maker of wooden bows and arrows, moulds a piece of wood to make a bow, in his workshop in the town of Lapovo, in central Serbia, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Dec. 2017",
"Bow makers, known as bowyers , layer the wood with fiberglass, resin and occasionally some carbon (similar to what\u2019s done in ski construction). \u2014 Brigid Mander, WSJ , 6 July 2017",
"Bowyer won at Sonoma in 2012 and is piloting the car that Tony Stewart drove to victory \u2014 the last of Stewart\u2019s NASCAR career \u2014 last year. \u2014 Jenna Fryer, The Seattle Times , 23 June 2017"
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"The views from the Park Hotel are breathtaking and for this reason, the bow window in the drawing room became a real focus during the renovation. \u2014 Bridget Arsenault, Forbes , 15 May 2022",
"The setting, next to Hampton Court bridge with a bow window over the water is superb, a proper nod to post-Puritan life that resonates today. \u2014 Sarah Turner, Forbes , 28 Feb. 2021",
"The living room to the right of the entrance includes a south-facing bow window shaped by the house\u2019s tower, and one of several (nonworking) fireplaces. \u2014 Julie Lasky, New York Times , 13 May 2020",
"Set behind gates, the Georgian traditional-style home features a wide, symmetrical front lined with creeping ivy and a pair of bow windows . \u2014 Neal J. Leitereg, Los Angeles Times , 19 Sep. 2019",
"In addition to the spacious living room with fireplace, built-in shelving, bow window , and a Dutch door overlooking the river, there\u2019s a formal dining room, updated kitchen, and three lovely bedrooms, including a huge master suite. \u2014 Lauren Ro, Curbed , 25 May 2018",
"The reception hall on the ground floor connects three rooms: the drawing room straight ahead, with views of the lake from twin bow windows ; a dining room on the left, which fits a table that can seat up to 14; and a family room, also on the left. \u2014 Roxana Popescu, New York Times , 14 Feb. 2018"
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"The reasons older children need formula ranges beyond genetic diseases to structural problems such as short bowel syndrome. \u2014 Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
"The reasons older children need formula ranges beyond genetic diseases to structural problems such as short bowel syndrome. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
"Movement helps increase muscle activity in your intestines, stimulating bowel movements. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 24 May 2022",
"Both of the children hospitalized in Memphis have short bowel syndrome and can\u2019t absorb full-size proteins. \u2014 Brenda Goodman, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"Children who have preexisting complications like short bowel syndrome require them to be formula fed vary in age. \u2014 Corinne S Kennedy, USA TODAY , 18 May 2022",
"Having just moved back to San Antonio, the 30-something searched for a doctor to manage her Crohn\u2019s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition that is successfully managed with medications and lifelong monitoring\u2014including regular colonoscopies. \u2014 Emmarie Huetteman, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"The CT scan showed sections of the large intestine protruding through the hernia, which posed a high risk for bowel twisting, which can lead to perforation and sepsis or tissue deoxygenation and necrosis. \u2014 Ashley Andreou, Scientific American , 26 May 2022",
"Over the last year, research has shown the presence of these particles in human blood, healthy lung tissue and meconium \u2014 the first bowel movement of a newborn. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 May 2022"
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": a waxed or sized cord joining the ends of a shooting bow":[]
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"This morning, Case has been shooting practice arrows, pulling the bowstring back little by little, limbering up for the big shot that will occur in the cooler evening. \u2014 Patrick Cooke, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Nov. 2021",
"The adaptation that makes archery possible for Rispoli is essentially a piece of nylon material with a bite piece that wraps around a bowstring . \u2014 Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com , 28 Mar. 2021",
"Sinew could make a powerful bowstring for dry weather hunting, but that string would soon come undone after being rained upon or dropped in water. \u2014 Tim Macwelch, Outdoor Life , 12 Oct. 2020",
"\u00d6tzi\u2019s bowstring was made of three strands of animal sinew twisted into a cord, according to the new analysis. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Jan. 2020",
"In most world competitions, archers use compound bows, where the bowstring is engineered with a system of pulleys and levers to create a uniform process that reduces the strain. \u2014 Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com , 16 Feb. 2020",
"Per a from the museum, prehistoric bowstrings are among the rarest archaeological finds. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Jan. 2020",
"Previously, research had been done on plant fibers that would not have proven successful as a bowstring . \u2014 Fox News , 24 Dec. 2019",
"The new theater, which sits inside a 7,500-square-foot bowstring truss structure, represents the final piece of the puzzle of DuVernay\u2019s Array campus, which opened early last year. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Oct. 2019"
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