": the type genus of Percidae formerly including numerous perches and related fishes but now restricted to the typical perches \u2014 see yellow perch":[]
": a suborder of Percomorphi or sometimes a separate order including the gray mullets (Mugilidae), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes":[]
": a suborder of Percomorphi of uncertain limits that includes Percidae , Centrarchidae, Serranidae, Sparidae, and numerous other families and constitutes even in its least extensive application one of the largest natural groups of fishes":[]
"river 60 miles (96 kilometers) long rising in southeastern Alabama and flowing south into the Gulf of Mexico forming part of the Alabama\u2013Florida boundary":[]
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"a per se conflict of interest"
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": by, of, or in itself or oneself or themselves : as such : intrinsically":[],
": of a dark grayish blue resembling indigo":[],
"St. John \u2014 see Al\u00e9xis Saint-L\u00e9ger l\u00e9ger":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There isn\u2019t usually a need per se to do traditional AI coding or programming in this alternative approach. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Sure, that\u2019s nowhere near Buckhead but MTV marketers clearly did not care about the fact Buckhead doesn\u2019t really have a shore per se . \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 20 June 2022",
"Wasserman said that stock picking isn\u2019t dead per se . \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 31 May 2022",
"There's no one reason, per se , behind why the original crypto is now trading at its lowest level since December 2020, as Fortune's Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez recently reported. \u2014 Declan Harty, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
"Perhaps beta-alanine [Ed: an amino acid that supposedly aids in the production of carnosine, a compound that plays a role in muscle endurance in high-intensity exercise] might help as well, but it\u2019s not a muscle-building supplement per se . \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"Regrettably, some of those people are not versed in AI per se , and neither are they versed in cybersecurity. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The next death doesn\u2019t happen in Multiverse of Madness per se . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 9 May 2022",
"Even that time evolves forward is not an axiom per se , but a theory that astrophysicist Arthur Eddington coined and popularized in 1927. \u2014 Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"1574, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"circa 1655, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin":"Adverb",
"Middle English pers , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin persus":"Adjective"
"you can have them at 50 cents per or three for $1.25",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
"Focus on target cost per acquisition, return on ad spend or return on investment. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 5 July 2022",
"Seventeen patients die per day waiting for an organ transplant, the Health Resources & Services Administration estimates. \u2014 Eryn Mathewson, CNN , 4 July 2022",
"California has recorded a 12% increase in coronavirus cases compared with mid-June, tallying an average of more than 16,900 per day over the last week, according to data compiled by The Times. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 July 2022",
"From June 22 through Wednesday at least 600 flights were canceled, and between 4,000 and 7,000 were delayed per day, the tracking service said. \u2014 David Koenig, Anchorage Daily News , 2 July 2022",
"The participants were separated between moderate and heavy drinkers, with moderate drinking defined as having an average of one drink per day over the course of a week. \u2014 Jacob Fulton, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
"The outlet reported that Wardian's average time running per day was between 11 and 15 hours. \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 1 July 2022",
"This week\u2019s case total averages to about 2,460 new cases per day over seven days, reports Julie Washington. \u2014 cleveland , 1 July 2022",
"The palace said that the royal finances cost \u00a31.29 ($1.57) per person in the U.K. and that the bulk of its spending went toward major renovation works at Buckingham Palace. \u2014 Karla Adam, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Senior libero/setter Cassidy Donalson represented Spring Woods on the watch list after averaging a team-high 4.3 digs per set as a junior. \u2014 Jack Marrion, Houston Chronicle , 1 July 2019",
"That\u2019s helped bring per -pound retail prices for beef patties down 16% from their September 2015 high of $5.12 to about $4.31 in June, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. \u2014 Jacob Bunge, WSJ , 30 June 2018",
"Anderton, the Collierville, Tennessee, native averaged 11.78 assists per set and 2.00 digs per set as Samford improved to 6-6 in SoCon play. \u2014 Samford Athletics, AL.com , 2 Nov. 2017"
"While China\u2019s still a very poor country in a per capita sense, the country defined by starvation in the 1970s represents McDonald\u2019s largest non-U.S. market in the 2020s. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 3 July 2022",
"Growth bounced back last year with a 6.9% rise, but the International Monetary Fund estimates that per capita incomes in the region by 2025 will be the same as in 2015. \u2014 Juan Forero, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Those are princely sums in a nation where the yearly per capita income is $4,000. \u2014 Soudi Jim\u00e9nez, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"In Manitoba, Indigenous children comprise about 90% of children in state care, one of the highest per capita rates in the country. \u2014 Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 June 2022",
"Black Americans in 2019 had one-sixth the wealth of white Americans on a per capita basis, according to analysis in a paper this month from economists Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn and Moritz Schularick. \u2014 Catarina Saraiva, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"Black Americans in 2019 had one-sixth the wealth of White Americans on a per capita basis, according to analysis in a paper this month from economists Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn and Moritz Schularick. \u2014 Catarina Saraiva, Fortune , 7 June 2022",
"According to a ProPublica analysis, the biggest municipalities in Wisconsin received the most money and had higher per capita grants than smaller places like Waukesha, Brookfield and Fond Du Lac, which all had a history of voting for Trump. \u2014 Megan O\u2019matz, ProPublica , 25 May 2022",
"Indeed, much of Forsyth\u2019s per capita wealth was generated by the vast run-up in value of properties that had sat in the possession of Forsyth\u2019s old families for a century \u2014 much of that property taken from someone else. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022"
"Among staff nurses, are they paid per diem or hourly",
"Oregon\u2019s part-time lawmakers receive a per diem of $151 a day during interim meetings, in addition to their $32,839 salaries. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 May 2022",
"That per diem jumped from up to $120 a day to up to $185 a day this year while the salary is scheduled to increase to $57,876 on July 1. \u2014 Susan Haigh, Hartford Courant , 16 Apr. 2022",
"That per diem jumped from up to $120 a day to up to $185 a day this year while the salary is scheduled to increase to $57,876 on July 1. \u2014 Susan Haigh, chicagotribune.com , 16 Apr. 2022",
"But the same proposal would have capped their daily $307 per diem for expenses like food and lodging at $100 and required receipts for claims. \u2014 Susan Haigh, Hartford Courant , 16 Apr. 2022",
"But the same proposal would have capped their daily $307 per diem for expenses like food and lodging at $100 and required receipts for claims. \u2014 Susan Haigh, chicagotribune.com , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Spending on per diem workers in the state fiscal year that ended June 30, 2020, was $632,400, and was on track to outpace that total in fiscal 2021, when spending was $321,300 for July to December 2020. \u2014 Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Last year, Dunleavy vetoed funding for the Legislature\u2019s 2022 per diem payments; the governor\u2019s supplemental budget proposes to restore that funding. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Feb. 2022"
"Conversely, fast-growing and wealthy Baldwin County the same year earned $171.6 million in state money, but the state sent only $131.6 million because 10 mills of property tax there is worth $40 million, or $4 million per mill . \u2014 al , 5 Aug. 2019"
"So, an acceleration of 0 meters per second per second means that the velocity won't change. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 11 Feb. 2022",
"However, with a downward-pulling gravitational force, Drake should have a vertical acceleration of -9.8 meters per second per second (due to the gravitational field). \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 26 Nov. 2021",
"But still, there is just one more thing to consider: Guy's acceleration is calculated in units of meters per second per second . \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 27 Aug. 2021",
"Just as speed tells you how fast your position changes, acceleration describes how your speed changes in meters per second per second (m/s2). \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 15 Sep. 2019",
"In the vertical direction, the ball starts with zero vertical velocity and then accelerates downward at 9.8 meters per second per second (due to the gravitational force). \u2014 Adam Rogers, WIRED , 10 July 2019",
"And, though the acceleration produced is small (1mm per second per second ), there is little in the vacuum of space to slow the craft down. \u2014 The Economist , 21 Sep. 2017"
"Conveniently, Grey\u2019s brother, Lord Melton, happens to be perambulating with Geneva and Isobel while Grey and Jamie are talking. \u2014 Roxane Gay, Glamour , 1 Oct. 2017"
"Conveniently, Grey\u2019s brother, Lord Melton, happens to be perambulating with Geneva and Isobel while Grey and Jamie are talking. \u2014 Roxane Gay, Glamour , 1 Oct. 2017"
"Scilla caught up to this unlikely perambulator in a few strides. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 7 June 2021",
"The buskers have been banished; the perambulators have perished. \u2014 Rachel Schallom, Fortune , 21 Mar. 2020",
"Maple leaves like dinner plates have blown up against the high tread of the sidewalks, and bicycles and perambulators are too tall to climb onto or into. \u2014 Hamish Bowles, Vogue , 19 Dec. 2019",
"The carousel\u2019s maker, the Charles W.F. Dare Company, of Brooklyn, N.Y., also manufactured children\u2019s perambulators and toys, such as rocking horses. \u2014 Michael Tortorello, WSJ , 1 Sep. 2017",
"But, happily, the American perambulators enjoying their walk beside the wall would need only peek through it to see drug dealers loading up a medieval siege weapon, allowing them to hastily run for cover. \u2014 Philip Bump, Washington Post , 14 July 2017"
"Conveniently, Grey\u2019s brother, Lord Melton, happens to be perambulating with Geneva and Isobel while Grey and Jamie are talking. \u2014 Roxane Gay, Glamour , 1 Oct. 2017"
"Amazon carries some of the best sheets on the market for competitive prices, and includes a variety of different types, from percale to satin to microfiber and everything in between. \u2014 Hannah Jones, Country Living , 28 June 2022",
"Plus, percale often looks wrinkled, but this one had a smoother appearance compared to others. \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 4 May 2022",
"The Good Housekeeping Institute Textiles Lab has tested over 250 flannel, percale , sateen and jersey sheets in the past few years both in the Lab and with consumer testers, collecting more than 10,000 data points to gauge performance and durability. \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 2 June 2022",
"Molecule's percale sheets will leave you sleeping in a set that has the luxury hotel feel while also keeping you cool and dry. \u2014 Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health , 25 May 2022",
"Parachute\u2019s 100% Egyptian cotton percale sheets are consistently top performers (even when compared to other top brands). \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2022",
"Throughout its 115 years in the business, Pratesi has excelled at making cotton percale both cool and cozy. \u2014 Janice O'leary, Robb Report , 6 Mar. 2022",
"And the 100% cotton percale cover is breathable for sweat-free nights. \u2014 Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Perfect for hot sleepers, Brooklinen\u2019s classic duvet cover made of breathable percale will keep you cool all night long with a hotel-luxury feel. \u2014 Samantha Rees, Vogue , 24 Dec. 2021"
"We perceive by means of the kaleidoscopic mirror of this life. This means that our ability to perceive is at once tyrannized by our expectations, and at war with them. \u2014 James Baldwin , The Evidence of Things Not Seen , 1985",
"Standing in the hallway just out of sight during this interview was Sarah. She held her baby on her hip and she listened. She perceived as no one in the family could the enormity of the misfortune. \u2014 E. L. Doctorow , Ragtime , 1974",
"\u2026 and when they perceived her to be little struck with the duet they were so good as to play, they could do no more than make her a generous present of some of their least valued toys, and leave her to herself, while they adjourned to whatever might be the favourite holiday sport of the moment, making artificial flowers or wasting gold paper. \u2014 Jane Austen , Mansfield Park , 1814",
"I thought I perceived a problem, but I wasn't sure.",
"perceived that it was going to be a nice day",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. \u2014 Monica Hesse, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"But decline is not what many people perceive , even in places like Houston. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"As many tools have put us face to face with new digital experiences in the past several months, the world is starting to perceive reality in a completely new way. \u2014 Yanie Durocher, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"And most, leave it up to the public to decide what and how to perceive their art in connection to both countries. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Apr. 2022",
"To perceive life in the belief that, in some way, it must be controlled is hardly convenient or logical. \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Biden is no exception, experiencing a slight dip in his approval rating, as questions bubble up over how Americans will perceive his handling of these issues in the coming months. \u2014 Betsy Klein, CNN , 14 Aug. 2021",
"There is no reason to exclude the meanings that the Christian wedding vendors perceive in their business activity. \u2014 Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books , 1 July 2021",
"Two people observing the same tamamushi from different perspectives will each perceive the creature in their own way. \u2014 Fortune , 15 Apr. 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perceptible perceptible , sensible , palpable , tangible , appreciable , ponderable mean apprehensible as real or existent. perceptible applies to what can be discerned by the senses often to a minimal extent. a perceptible difference in sound to a careful listener sensible applies to whatever is clearly apprehended through the senses or impresses itself strongly on the mind. an abrupt, sensible drop in temperature palpable applies either to what has physical substance or to what is obvious and unmistakable. the tension in the air was almost palpable tangible suggests what is capable of being handled or grasped both physically and mentally. no tangible evidence of UFOs appreciable applies to what is distinctly discernible by the senses or definitely measurable. an appreciable increase in income ponderable suggests having definitely measurable weight or importance. exerted a ponderable influence on world events",
"examples":[
"The sound was barely perceptible .",
"There was a perceptible change in the audience's mood.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the road, the only perceptible tradeoff is the noise those sticky optional Pirellis generate. \u2014 James Tate, Car and Driver , 1 June 2022",
"Biyela is serene and measured, but there's an unmistakable sparkle in her eyes \u2014 mischief even \u2014 perceptible despite the partial pixelation. \u2014 Melanie Van Zyl, Travel + Leisure , 5 Mar. 2022",
"But the unexpected invasion of Ukraine saw a sharp correction to a barely perceptible gain of 0.4% in 2022 to 10.63 million, and now this minus 6% forecast. \u2014 Neil Winton, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"In a wordless moment that conveys the screenplay\u2019s driving notion with a subtlety quickly abandoned, Kath studies herself in the rearview mirror, tugging at her hairline to erase her barely perceptible forehead lines. \u2014 Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"There will be photos, too, offering a snapshot of a scarcely perceptible flaw in a player\u2019s positioning or an expanse of the field left exposed or a darting run left unconsummated. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Attenberg has published seven novels and her writing \u2014 both fiction and non \u2014 shimmers with keen pragmatic observations as well as deeply perceptible humane empathy. \u2014 Daneet Steffens, BostonGlobe.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
"It\u2019s one of the perks of working from home, where CNN stays on most of the day, if at the lowest perceptible volume. \u2014 Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"But the probe zooming through space captured the electric and magnetic emissions that scientists later converted into perceptible sound. \u2014 Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Dec. 2021"
"It is ironic that the impact of smoking on nonsmokers, rather than on smokers themselves, is what finally transformed the regulation and cultural perception of the cigarette. \u2014 Allan M. Brandt , The Cigarette Century , 2007",
"Some drugs cause blurred vision and changes in color perception , or increased tears. \u2014 Sallie Tisdale , Harper's , June 2007",
"The urge of these acolytes is not dramatic but mercantile\u2014to traduce all personal history, to subvert all perception or insight, into gain, or the hope of gain. \u2014 David Mamet , Jafsie and John Henry Essays , 1999",
"Everything is research for the sake of erudition. No one is taught to value himself for nice perception and cultivated taste. \u2014 Robert Frost , letter , 2 Jan. 1915",
"a writer of considerable perception , she remembers how it feels to be confused and insecure",
"a growing perception of the enormity of the problem",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That rush lasted more than a year and fueled a perception that there was no upper limit on prices. \u2014 Eric Fuller, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"What the series wants to talk about is not so much the lockdown effect as the contemporary trend towards a virtual world, and how the new media shapes perception of threat and fear. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 27 June 2022",
"The alternative sites, like Trump's Truth Social platform, which launched in February, market themselves as bastions of free speech, capitalizing on the perception among some Republicans that they have been unfairly censored by Silicon Valley. \u2014 Donie O'sullivan And Whitney Wild, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Color perception is highly subjective, and photography turned out to involve all sorts of human choices and interventions. \u2014 Hari Kunzru, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"There\u2019s perception that selecting a player other than Jones would allow the Orioles to deploy a similar strategy in 2022. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 18 June 2022",
"The growing perception in Israel is that the Iranian nuclear program can\u2019t be seen in isolation from Tehran\u2019s broader strategy for regional domination. \u2014 Jonathan Spyer, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"The exhibition, created by British Nigerian curator Aindrea Emelife, draws upon references from the past that have influenced toxic Western perception of the Black female body, such as colonial-era fetishizations and exoticisation. \u2014 Sagal Mohammed, Harper's BAZAAR , 8 June 2022",
"Wearing the right shoes sends a clear message that the person is trendy or cool, and pop culture has only deepened this perception . \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 16 June 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perception discernment , discrimination , perception , penetration , insight , acumen mean a power to see what is not evident to the average mind. discernment stresses accuracy (as in reading character or motives or appreciating art). the discernment to know true friends discrimination stresses the power to distinguish and select what is true or appropriate or excellent. the discrimination that develops through listening to a lot of great music perception implies quick and often sympathetic discernment (as of shades of feeling). a novelist of keen perception into human motives penetration implies a searching mind that goes beyond what is obvious or superficial. lacks the penetration to see the scorn beneath their friendly smiles insight suggests depth of discernment coupled with understanding sympathy. a documentary providing insight into the plight of the homeless acumen implies characteristic penetration combined with keen practical judgment. a director of reliable box-office acumen",
"due to their ability to rotate their ears, cats are very perceptive when it comes to pinpointing the source of a sound",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Currently just 10 years old, Leia is repeatedly shown to be incredibly perceptive and able to read people. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 29 May 2022",
"Introverts tend to be more perceptive and see other points of view, which can lead to out-of-the-box thinking and innovation. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 9 May 2022",
"Conversations With Friends charts Frances\u2019 halting journey toward bridging the disconnect between theory and practice, head and heart, with patience and a perceptive eye for detail. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 May 2022",
"Empathy is not reserved for those who are born perceptive . \u2014 Ciara Ungar, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"Each artist earned his authority, according to this perceptive study, by claiming the freedom to do things his own way. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The best sections of this perceptive and balanced study track how algorithms mimic our natural allogrooming tendencies. \u2014 Sam Lipsyte, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Adam Weinberg, the Whitney\u2019s director, wrote an unusually perceptive and wise preface to the catalogue. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Meet some of the most perceptive , spellbinding authors and thinkers of today and celebrate putting our inner lives in conversation with the outer world. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Apr. 2022"
"due to their ability to rotate their ears, cats are very perceptive when it comes to pinpointing the source of a sound",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Currently just 10 years old, Leia is repeatedly shown to be incredibly perceptive and able to read people. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 29 May 2022",
"Introverts tend to be more perceptive and see other points of view, which can lead to out-of-the-box thinking and innovation. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 9 May 2022",
"Conversations With Friends charts Frances\u2019 halting journey toward bridging the disconnect between theory and practice, head and heart, with patience and a perceptive eye for detail. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 May 2022",
"Empathy is not reserved for those who are born perceptive . \u2014 Ciara Ungar, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"Each artist earned his authority, according to this perceptive study, by claiming the freedom to do things his own way. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The best sections of this perceptive and balanced study track how algorithms mimic our natural allogrooming tendencies. \u2014 Sam Lipsyte, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Adam Weinberg, the Whitney\u2019s director, wrote an unusually perceptive and wise preface to the catalogue. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Meet some of the most perceptive , spellbinding authors and thinkers of today and celebrate putting our inner lives in conversation with the outer world. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Apr. 2022"
"due to their ability to rotate their ears, cats are very perceptive when it comes to pinpointing the source of a sound",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Currently just 10 years old, Leia is repeatedly shown to be incredibly perceptive and able to read people. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 29 May 2022",
"Introverts tend to be more perceptive and see other points of view, which can lead to out-of-the-box thinking and innovation. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 9 May 2022",
"Conversations With Friends charts Frances\u2019 halting journey toward bridging the disconnect between theory and practice, head and heart, with patience and a perceptive eye for detail. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 May 2022",
"Empathy is not reserved for those who are born perceptive . \u2014 Ciara Ungar, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"Each artist earned his authority, according to this perceptive study, by claiming the freedom to do things his own way. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The best sections of this perceptive and balanced study track how algorithms mimic our natural allogrooming tendencies. \u2014 Sam Lipsyte, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Adam Weinberg, the Whitney\u2019s director, wrote an unusually perceptive and wise preface to the catalogue. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Meet some of the most perceptive , spellbinding authors and thinkers of today and celebrate putting our inner lives in conversation with the outer world. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Apr. 2022"
"According to jury consultant Jill Huntley Taylor, Balwani likely faces different perceptual hurdles than Holmes did in the eyes of the jurors who deliberated over her case. \u2014 Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Umwelt is a term coined by the zoologist Jakob von Uexk\u00fcll in 1909 to describe the sensory bubble that surrounds an animal\u2014its perceptual world. \u2014 Julie Zickefoose, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Instead, an Umwelt is specifically the part of those surroundings that an animal can sense and experience\u2014its perceptual world. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
"The idea of using technology to augment these processes to enhance our perceptual capabilities is no longer science fiction. \u2014 Achin Bhowmik, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Tech-minded, they were attuned to the plastic material\u2019s abstract capacities for luminous translucency and perceptual insight. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"Wedged between perceptual inputs and outputs resides a hypothetical central processor\u2014which takes in sensory representations from the environment and makes decisions about what to do with them to perform the correct action. \u2014 Gy\u00f6rgy Buzs\u00e1ki, Scientific American , 14 May 2022",
"Each of Rose\u2019s films has explored how the perceptual experiences of human beings are shaped by the physical, social, economic, and technological structures that are particular to a certain time. \u2014 The New Yorker , 4 Mar. 2022",
"My office has a perceptual thinness to it\u2014the surfaces seem empty. \u2014 Michael W. Clune, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022"
"Middle English perche , from Anglo-French, from Latin perca , from Greek perk\u0113 ; akin to Old High German faro colored, Latin porcus , a spiny fish":"Noun",
"Middle English perche , from Anglo-French, from Latin pertica pole":"Noun"
"perchance he is playing the devil's advocate, and the opinions he has expressed are not actually his own",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Because any driver worth their salt would figure this out and likely after perchance one time falling into this bit of a roadway trap, would avoid going that way entirely. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Ah, to sleep, perchance \u2026 to shrink your neural connections",
"To sleep, perchance to heal A report in the journal Nature Communications adds to the list of sleep\u2019s benefits. \u2014 Magnus Wennman, National Geographic , 17 June 2019",
"To sleep, perchance to dream of a giant plate of nachos. \u2014 Gray Chapman, SELF , 27 Mar. 2019",
"Its members liked to call themselves kleagles, goblins and other names of darkling potency, to meet in solemn 'konklaves,' burn a fiery cross upon a distant hill and, perchance , frighten a Negro child outnumbered 100 to 1. \u2014 The Washington Post, AL.com , 10 Apr. 2018"
"More recent events sent me back to the novel itself, and to a new respect for Lewis\u2019 percipience about Americans\u2019 vulnerability to the blandishments of political charlatans, and about his oracular vision of how a fascist takeover would unfold. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Readers knew to expect in a Flanigan column percipience and foresight, expressed in graceful, unaffected prose. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Aug. 2021",
"Jones has experience with a wide array of run-pass option plays as well, and his football percipience is highly regarded. \u2014 Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com , 3 Apr. 2021"
"Youngkin hasn't endorsed in either race, nor has Trump, whose false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election have continued to percolate through both primaries. \u2014 Sarah Rankin, ajc , 19 June 2022",
"Maximize Let that percolate in your mind for a moment or two. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"In 2020, a new spinoff began to percolate : A casting call for a senior citizens series was promoted on-air. \u2014 Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Suppliers raised prices sharply last month, a sign inflation continues to percolate through the U.S. economy. \u2014 Gwynn Guilford, WSJ , 13 Apr. 2022",
"These are beginning to percolate through the press and social media. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 14 Sep. 2021",
"This may change as other issues\u2014inflation and the war in Ukraine\u2014 percolate in the news and force Trump to think about something other than his monomaniacal devotion to the Big Lie. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The impact of those increases will take months to percolate through the economy. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Many sustainability initiatives are new and complex; some need to percolate for an extended time before any tangible benefits to both the environment and the business can be measured and realized. \u2014 Rouzbeh Amini, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022"
"And not the fire and brimstone Old Testament perdition . \u2014 Damon Young, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
"Jeff, Bobby\u2019s lone sibling, had to force his way through the perdition of survivor\u2019s guilt. \u2014 Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Morels even more blatantly favor drama, thriving on tree death, soil disturbance, fire and perdition . \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 13 Feb. 2020",
"But simply waiting for their arrival puts us on the road to perdition . \u2014 Marin Gjaja, Fortune , 8 Dec. 2020",
"Robinson\u2019s fiction investigates, again and again, the connection between loneliness and perdition , between the soul\u2019s isolation and its torment. \u2014 Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic , 11 Sep. 2020",
"Hence, the nation to them is not all holy, a thing inviolate and inviolable, a thing that a man dare not sell or dishonour on pain of eternal perdition . \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 7 Sep. 2020",
"Like these earlier explorers of perdition , Peterson found wisdom through his harrowing trek. \u2014 Jeet Heer, The New Republic , 21 May 2018",
"As the symbolism abounds on this dusty road to perdition , the excesses of the piece invite the actors to indulgent performances. \u2014 Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com , 31 July 2017"
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English perdicion , from Anglo-French perdiciun , Late Latin perdition-, perditio , from Latin perdere to destroy, from per- through + dare to give \u2014 more at per- , date":""
"Paul Hoynes and Joe Noga kick off their month-long podcast series breaking down the 2022 Guardians 40-man roster with a look at the club\u2019s perdurable MVP candidate. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 1 Nov. 2021",
"On our turf, sharia principles contradict our culture \u2014 as evidenced by the Islamists\u2019 perdurable resistance to assimilation (see, e.g., Europe\u2019s parallel societies). \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 12 Aug. 2017"
"Middle English, long-lasting, eternal, from Anglo-French pardurable , from Late Latin perdurabilis , from Latin perdurare to endure, from per- throughout + durare to last \u2014 more at during":""
"a loyal cadre of peregrine workers who follow the presidential candidate from primary to primary",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Since then, several peregrine falcons have nested, but no pair had successfully hatched chicks until last year, officials said. \u2014 Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"In 2016, a pair of peregrine falcons, the cliff-dwelling birds of medieval romance, settled into a new home. \u2014 Alison Gopnik, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"For example, by studying the eggs of peregrine falcons and other birds, scientists were able to prove that a pesticide called DDT was causing egg thinning, leading to nesting failures. \u2014 Gina Rich, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"For three years, Mari Sasano, a writer and editor in Edmonton, Alberta, has kept up with a family of peregrine falcons via a Facebook live feed. \u2014 Allie Volpe, Outside Online , 24 Mar. 2020",
"In recent weeks, fans of the peregrine falcons have watched death, lust and birth play out from the comfort of their homes. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 May 2022",
"In Berkeley, Annie and Alden, a pair of peregrine falcons, are incubating three eggs atop UC Berkeley\u2019s Campanile bell tower. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Today, the only tenants are the peregrine falcons atop the building, circling nearby in close formation. \u2014 Matthew Healey, BostonGlobe.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The partial closure is meant to protect a nest of peregrine falcons by limiting rock climbing, and other activities, in the area which may disturb the nest. \u2014 Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic , 15 Mar. 2022"
"She was stunned to see a peregrine falcon , its talons gripping the black railing of their west-facing terrace, staring at her. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 20 June 2022",
"This program will include a trio of screech owls, a barn owl and a peregrine falcon . \u2014 Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"As UC Berkeley\u2019s peregrine falcon Annie makes headlines for quickly finding a new mate, a couple of raptors farther north are showing the world what can happen with just a little bit of romantic stability. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Annie is a female peregrine falcon who, since 2016, has been sheltering and laying eggs atop the university\u2019s 307-foot-tall Sather Tower with her mate, Grinnell. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"A few hours before he was struck by a car, Grinnell was seen defending the nest against an aggressive juvenile peregrine falcon . \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Apr. 2022",
"By the mid-1960s, the peregrine falcon population dropped by more than 70 percent in the western United States. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The resort\u2019s roster includes six Harris\u2019s hawks, one peregrine falcon , one Eurasian eagle owl, one barn owl and an Eastern screech owl. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The one-and-a-half-pound quadrocopter, which has feet and legs modeled after a peregrine falcon , can catch and carry objects ten times its own weight. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Dec. 2021"
"Middle English faukon peregryn , from Medieval Latin falco peregrinus , literally, pilgrim falcon; from the young being captured wandering from their nests, which were too inaccessible to reach easily":""
"the governor's peremptory personal assistant began telling the crowd of reporters and photographers exactly where they had to stand",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Wednesday, the defense and the prosecution are also expected to express peremptory challenges, which could alter the final jury. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 29 June 2022",
"The defense wound up using all 10 of its peremptory challenges, eliminating candidates for any reason other than race or gender, while the prosecution used four. \u2014 Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Both sides in each case will be able to use 10 peremptory challenges to excuse a potential juror without reason. \u2014 Richard Wintonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Each side will also get at least 10 peremptory strikes, where either can eliminate a candidate for any reason except race or gender. \u2014 Terry Spencer, ajc , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Each side will also get at least 10 peremptory strikes, where either can eliminate a candidate for any reason except race or gender. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In other words, bombs are blunter, more peremptory instruments. \u2014 The New Yorker , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Miss Manners suggests that vendors \u2014 and people in the above categories who use peremptory tones or set unreasonable conditions \u2014 not wait by the phone, as such requests need not be honored. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"In September, the Arizona high court abolished peremptory challenges altogether. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021"
"Middle English peremptorie , from Anglo-French, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin peremptorius , from Latin, destructive, from perimere to take entirely, destroy, from per- thoroughly + emere to take \u2014 more at redeem":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for peremptory masterful , domineering , imperious , peremptory , imperative mean tending to impose one's will on others. masterful implies a strong personality and ability to act authoritatively. her masterful personality soon dominated the movement domineering suggests an overbearing or arbitrary manner and an obstinate determination to enforce one's will. children controlled by domineering parents imperious implies a commanding nature or manner and often suggests arrogant assurance. an imperious executive used to getting his own way peremptory implies an abrupt dictatorial manner coupled with an unwillingness to brook disobedience or dissent. given a peremptory dismissal imperative implies peremptoriness arising more from the urgency of the situation than from an inherent will to dominate. an imperative appeal for assistance",
"On Wednesday, the defense and the prosecution are also expected to express peremptory challenges, which could alter the final jury. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 29 June 2022",
"The defense wound up using all 10 of its peremptory challenges, eliminating candidates for any reason other than race or gender, while the prosecution used four. \u2014 Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"Both sides in each case will be able to use 10 peremptory challenges to excuse a potential juror without reason. \u2014 Richard Wintonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Each side will also get at least 10 peremptory strikes, where either can eliminate a candidate for any reason except race or gender. \u2014 Terry Spencer, ajc , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Each side will also get at least 10 peremptory strikes, where either can eliminate a candidate for any reason except race or gender. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In other words, bombs are blunter, more peremptory instruments. \u2014 The New Yorker , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Miss Manners suggests that vendors \u2014 and people in the above categories who use peremptory tones or set unreasonable conditions \u2014 not wait by the phone, as such requests need not be honored. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"In September, the Arizona high court abolished peremptory challenges altogether. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021"
"Middle English peremptorie , from Anglo-French, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin peremptorius , from Latin, destructive, from perimere to take entirely, destroy, from per- thoroughly + emere to take \u2014 more at redeem":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for peremptory masterful , domineering , imperious , peremptory , imperative mean tending to impose one's will on others. masterful implies a strong personality and ability to act authoritatively. her masterful personality soon dominated the movement domineering suggests an overbearing or arbitrary manner and an obstinate determination to enforce one's will. children controlled by domineering parents imperious implies a commanding nature or manner and often suggests arrogant assurance. an imperious executive used to getting his own way peremptory implies an abrupt dictatorial manner coupled with an unwillingness to brook disobedience or dissent. given a peremptory dismissal imperative implies peremptoriness arising more from the urgency of the situation than from an inherent will to dominate. an imperative appeal for assistance",
"The Real Blac Chyna star already filed a peremptory challenge against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory W. Alarcon, alleging unfair treatment in court. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"Most often the practice occurs through a legal tactic called a peremptory challenge , which allows an attorney to strike a potential juror without having to state a reason. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021",
"The prosecutor used a peremptory challenge to dismiss Byng. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2021",
"The defense used a peremptory challenge against him. \u2014 Crystal D. Carter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Aug. 2021",
"The defense used a peremptory challenge against him. \u2014 Crystal D. Carter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Aug. 2021",
"The defense used a peremptory challenge against him. \u2014 Crystal D. Carter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Aug. 2021",
"The defense used a peremptory challenge against him. \u2014 Crystal D. Carter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Georges wrote in Monday\u2019s ruling that the trial judge erred in jury selection during the third trial by allowing prosecutors to issue what\u2019s known as a peremptory challenge of at least one Black juror. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 Aug. 2021"
"The problem \u2026 is inherent and perennial in any democracy, but it has been more severe in ours during the past quarter-century because of the near universal denigration of government, politics and politicians. \u2014 Michael Kinsley , Time , 29 Oct. 2001",
"The issue between science and art is of perennial interest to me, since I started off in science in college, in medicine, was headed for psychiatry, and ended up writing novels \u2026 \u2014 Walker Percy , \"The State Of The Novel,\" 1977 , in Signposts in a Strange Land , 1991",
"\u2026 scientists are warning that a perennial viral threat, the upcoming flu season, could be far more dangerous than usual\u2014more evidence that these tiny foes are responsible for a large share of human suffering. \u2014 Claudia Wallis , Time , 3 Nov. 1986",
"This variety of oregano is perennial .",
"Flooding is a perennial problem for people living by the river.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Los Angeles City Council is taking steps to combat this perennial problem, passing two measures that would increase the number of sanitation workers and rely on other preventive measures. \u2014 Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"For flood risk, a perennial concern in the Willamette Valley, engineers built the building several feet above the level at which there is a one-in-500 chance of flooding each year. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Hartwick promised to fix the stadium's field, which has become a perennial problem as sinkholes develop when the Arkansas River rises. \u2014 Neal Earley, Arkansas Online , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Add to that Israel's perennial concern about the well-being and security of the 150,000 Jews in Russia, and the argument in favor of maintaining good relations with Putin is a strong one. \u2014 Aaron David Miller, CNN , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Amid this increase, and the perennial concern over a new \u2018migrant crisis,\u2019 the meeting of EU interior ministers in Lithuania emphasised stronger borders above other concerns. \u2014 Frey Lindsay, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
"Arranging furniture is a perennial concern among homeowners, and how to properly position furniture depends on the shape, size, and function of your room. \u2014 Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens , 1 Dec. 2021",
"But the workforce deficit remains a perennial concern. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Whether intermarried couples are raising their kids Jewish has been a perennial concern of Jewish communal planners and institutions worried about the vitality of the Jewish future. \u2014 Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com , 11 May 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perennial continual , continuous , constant , incessant , perpetual , perennial mean characterized by continued occurrence or recurrence. continual often implies a close prolonged succession or recurrence. continual showers the whole weekend continuous usually implies an uninterrupted flow or spatial extension. football's oldest continuous rivalry constant implies uniform or persistent occurrence or recurrence. lived in constant pain incessant implies ceaseless or uninterrupted activity. annoyed by the incessant quarreling perpetual suggests unfailing repetition or lasting duration. a land of perpetual snowfall perennial implies enduring existence often through constant renewal. a perennial source of controversy",
": any of various garden phlox derived chiefly from a North American species ( Phlox paniculata ) and having erect stems 2 to 4 feet high, leaves 3 to 5 inches long and all opposite, and flowers that are distinctly stalked \u2014 compare annual phlox":[]
": being entirely without fault or defect : flawless":[
"a perfect diamond"
],
": belonging to the consonances unison, fourth, fifth, and octave which become augmented or diminished when raised or lowered by a half step":[],
": certain , sure":[],
": contented , satisfied":[],
": corresponding to an ideal standard or abstract concept":[
"a perfect gentleman"
],
": expert , proficient":[
"practice makes perfect"
],
": having both stamens and pistils in the same flower":[
"a perfect flower"
],
": lacking in no essential detail : complete":[],
": legally valid":[],
": mature":[],
": of an extreme kind : unmitigated":[
"a perfect brat",
"an act of perfect foolishness"
],
": of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or verbal that expresses an action or state completed at the time of speaking or at a time spoken of":[],
"The chefs are challenged by Antonia Lofaso to create summer eats worthy of the Fourth of July; mentors Tiffani Faison and Brooke Williamson encourage their teams to create the perfect burger. \u2014 Olivia Mccormack, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"Two RFAs, Vegas center Nic Roy and LA right-shot defenseman Sean Durzi, would be perfect roster fits here, but the B\u2019s are likely too close to the cap to be in the offer-sheet business. \u2014 Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"Instead of perfect , aim for pretty good, recommends Johnston. \u2014 Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Miller shares her tips and tricks for making perfect pavlova every time. \u2014 Felicia Campbell, The Arizona Republic , 1 July 2022",
"These small but mighty lights are the perfect addition to any kayak. \u2014 Kylee Mcguigan, Popular Mechanics , 1 July 2022",
"The Main Characters enjoy a bright, colorful world that seems perfect on the surface, but definitely contains shadows. \u2014 Alissa Simon, Variety , 1 July 2022",
"To find the perfect poolside palate pleaser, roughly a dozen co-workers and friends dubbed the Elite Beverage Tasting Squad (EBTS) decamped for a 17-beverage test. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"For her version of southern Italian anelletti al forno, Rodriguez\u2019s pasta team braids strands of dough by hand into perfect , toothsome rings\u2014all the better looking and for catching tiny bites of escarole and braised pork cheek. \u2014 Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Fitzpatrick, the winner, was public-relations perfect , with his US Amateur championship history at The Country Club, his local story about staying with the Fulton family in Jamaica Plain. \u2014 Leigh Montville, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"As much as statisticians perfect their sampling and weighting processes to fit the American populace, there may just be a difference between the people who spend time filling out surveys (online or offline) and those who don\u2019t. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"This Solid & Striped swimsuit is the epitome of retro elegance and perfect for an excursion to the French Riviera. \u2014 Alexis Bennett, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"Simple in design, this mini backpack (intended for adults, but also perfect for littles) is both lightweight yet durable. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 16 June 2022",
"This eyelet dress is easy to throw on and perfect for a casual daytime wedding. \u2014 Raena Loper, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Putting a robot in every household, is in part, meant to help Tesla perfect its autonomous vehicle technology AI. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 16 Apr. 2022",
"His father helped perfect the process used to manufacture the modern beer can. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Today\u2019s new homeowners may even feel more of a desire to preserve and perfect their living space than previous generations. \u2014 Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Portland\u2019s best chance of the first half came on a perfect through ball from Christine Sinclair to Sophia Smith. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 May 2022",
"Harry Swartz swung a perfect through ball in behind Phoenix\u2019s back line setting striker Nico Brett up for a first-time finish past Ben Lundt. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Unfortunately, his previous owner was experiencing homelessness and recognized their inability to properly care for him any longer thus their decision to give him a chance at finding the perfect forever home. \u2014 The Republic, The Arizona Republic , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Schwartz\u2019s second suggestion is not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. \u2014 Karen Kaplan Science And Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"In other words, Norway didn\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s a tangible sweetness behind the notion of two imperfect people finding each other perfect . \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 5 Nov. 2021",
"The Flight Attendant is controlled chaos and a perfect for a binge. \u2014 Savannah Salazar, Vulture , 17 Sep. 2021",
"The quirkiness of the internet and web\u2019s design was the apotheosis of ensuring that the perfect would not be the enemy of the good. \u2014 Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic , 30 June 2021"
"Middle English parfit , from Anglo-French, from Latin perfectus , from past participle of perficere to carry out, perfect, from per- thoroughly + facere to make, do \u2014 more at do":"Adjective"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perfect Adjective perfect , whole , entire , intact mean not lacking or faulty in any particular. perfect implies the soundness and the excellence of every part, element, or quality of a thing frequently as an unattainable or theoretical state. a perfect set of teeth whole suggests a completeness or perfection that can be sought, gained, or regained. felt like a whole person again after vacation entire implies perfection deriving from integrity, soundness, or completeness of a thing. the entire Beethoven corpus intact implies retention of perfection of a thing in its natural or original state. the boat survived the storm intact",
"The RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 finale was nothing short of fashionable perfection , but behind-the-scenes chaos nearly derailed several of the impeccable looks that graced the stage. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 25 June 2022",
"Hollywood the Maltese also demonstrated what perfection looks like on a toy pooch. \u2014 Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"As Vanacker sees it, the artist\u2019s unwillingness to rush perfection ties her back to the product. \u2014 Eric Twardzik, Robb Report , 19 June 2022",
"So instead, aim for progress over perfection , tracking your smaller wins along the way. \u2014 Amy Blaschka, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Micaela Kastor pitched and hit the Lions to near perfection . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"Such lyrics aren\u2019t particularly sophisticated or polished to metaphorical perfection , but that\u2019s the point. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 4 June 2022",
"In addition, several sculptures will be on display that explore issues of dysphoria, disfigurement and the pursuit of physical perfection . \u2014 Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic , 2 June 2022",
"Porta said his hitters followed the game plan to near- perfection . \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 30 May 2022"
"Bock perfectly accessorized her rehearsal dinner look with a surprise gift from her husband-to-be: vintage earrings from the 1920s. \u2014 Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022",
"Castillo\u2019s fastball can hit 100 mph and plays perfectly off of his sinker and his changeup. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 29 June 2022",
"Airbnb isn\u2019t totally lame, though: the company plans to lift its 16-person occupancy limit, noting that some large family gatherings at massive properties can be perfectly placid. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Remember after Tom Brady departed the Patriots in 2020 when all those stories were proffered about how good an offseason Jarrett Stidham was having and how the team was perfectly content to go into the season with him as its starting quarterback",
"Real fruit is blended with nonfat yogurt for a perfectly portable high-quality snack. \u2014 Good Housekeeping , 28 June 2022",
"Looking for a foundation that blends in with your skin perfectly ",
"Based on Mazda\u2019s voluminous photos, performance claims and the CX-50\u2019s technical specifications, the CX-50 is perfectly at home on dirt roads and two-tracks through relatively level forests and fields. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 25 June 2022",
"The jeans in question are perfectly in line with Kendall\u2019s recent favorites. \u2014 Alice Cary, Vogue , 9 June 2022"
"The scant paintings on view reverse an emphasis on figurative imagery in the 2019 Biennial, tilting toward a lately prevalent revival of abstraction in perfervid styles that have yet to demonstrate staying power. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
"This latest controversy won\u2019t dent Thomas\u2019s formidable reputation as a jurist, but it\u2019s another mark against his perfervid critics who have no decency. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 1 Apr. 2022",
"So why, with all this perfervid material at her disposal, did the director, Haifaa Al-Mansour, and her co-screenwriter, Emma Jensen, opt for such cautiousness",
"Down south near San Diego, gray-faced children toil in a slave-labor camp that Dickens could not have imagined in his most perfervid dreams. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 4 Oct. 2017"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perfervid impassioned , passionate , ardent , fervent , fervid , perfervid mean showing intense feeling. impassioned implies warmth and intensity without violence and suggests fluent verbal expression. an impassioned plea for justice passionate implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful diffusion of emotion. a passionate denunciation ardent implies an intense degree of zeal, devotion, or enthusiasm. an ardent supporter of human rights fervent stresses sincerity and steadiness of emotional warmth or zeal. fervent good wishes fervid suggests warmly and spontaneously and often feverishly expressed emotion. fervid love letters perfervid implies the expression of exaggerated or overwrought feelings. perfervid expressions of patriotism",
"This latest version, originating in the Kremlin, is just a new, perfidious variant of the old virus called anti-Semitism. \u2014 Michael Brenner, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 June 2022",
"But what\u2019s truly unprecedented about this bill is the range of organizations that its supporters hope to cleanse of perfidious foreign influence. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 27 June 2022",
"The real mystery in this perfidious tale is why the FBI decided to advance the dossier hoax to the world, thus weakening America and its presidency. \u2014 WSJ , 6 June 2022",
"Millions of Russians with friends and relatives in Ukraine are heartsick, while others cling to the belief that Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing only what is necessary to protect the motherland against a perfidious West. \u2014 Katya Korobtsova, Los Angeles Times , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Countries also find ways to live with them, and they can be used as a rhetorical device\u2014unfair sanctions imposed by a perfidious West\u2014to tighten a ruler\u2019s grip on power. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Thanks to that episode, and to Winston Churchill\u2019s denunciation of the agreement, the names of Munich, Chamberlain, and appeasement have ever since been bywords for perfidious betrayal. \u2014 Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic , 21 Feb. 2022",
"It's been Agatha all along \u2014 and her very own insidious, perfidious spinoff is now in the works. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Our country surely could not countenance the injuring of more than 130 police officers (including one who subsequently died) and the perfidious calls to lynch the Republican vice president and the Democratic speaker of the House. \u2014 Phillip Halpern, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Dec. 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perfidious faithless , false , disloyal , traitorous , treacherous , perfidious mean untrue to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. faithless applies to any failure to keep a promise or pledge or any breach of allegiance or loyalty. faithless allies false stresses the fact of failing to be true in any manner ranging from fickleness to cold treachery. betrayed by false friends disloyal implies a lack of complete faithfulness to a friend, cause, leader, or country. disloyal to their country traitorous implies either actual treason or a serious betrayal of trust. traitorous acts punishable by death treacherous implies readiness to betray trust or confidence. a treacherous adviser perfidious adds to faithless the implication of an incapacity for fidelity or reliability. a perfidious double-crosser",
"This latest version, originating in the Kremlin, is just a new, perfidious variant of the old virus called anti-Semitism. \u2014 Michael Brenner, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 June 2022",
"But what\u2019s truly unprecedented about this bill is the range of organizations that its supporters hope to cleanse of perfidious foreign influence. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 27 June 2022",
"The real mystery in this perfidious tale is why the FBI decided to advance the dossier hoax to the world, thus weakening America and its presidency. \u2014 WSJ , 6 June 2022",
"Millions of Russians with friends and relatives in Ukraine are heartsick, while others cling to the belief that Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing only what is necessary to protect the motherland against a perfidious West. \u2014 Katya Korobtsova, Los Angeles Times , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Countries also find ways to live with them, and they can be used as a rhetorical device\u2014unfair sanctions imposed by a perfidious West\u2014to tighten a ruler\u2019s grip on power. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Thanks to that episode, and to Winston Churchill\u2019s denunciation of the agreement, the names of Munich, Chamberlain, and appeasement have ever since been bywords for perfidious betrayal. \u2014 Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic , 21 Feb. 2022",
"It's been Agatha all along \u2014 and her very own insidious, perfidious spinoff is now in the works. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Our country surely could not countenance the injuring of more than 130 police officers (including one who subsequently died) and the perfidious calls to lynch the Republican vice president and the Democratic speaker of the House. \u2014 Phillip Halpern, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Dec. 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perfidious faithless , false , disloyal , traitorous , treacherous , perfidious mean untrue to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. faithless applies to any failure to keep a promise or pledge or any breach of allegiance or loyalty. faithless allies false stresses the fact of failing to be true in any manner ranging from fickleness to cold treachery. betrayed by false friends disloyal implies a lack of complete faithfulness to a friend, cause, leader, or country. disloyal to their country traitorous implies either actual treason or a serious betrayal of trust. traitorous acts punishable by death treacherous implies readiness to betray trust or confidence. a treacherous adviser perfidious adds to faithless the implication of an incapacity for fidelity or reliability. a perfidious double-crosser",
"A man who built his entire administration upon demanding unctuous loyalty from his allies now finds himself wounded by their shabby betrayal. You'd have to go back to one of Spain's humpbacked Hapsburgs to find court perfidy of the variety that is currently depleting the president's power. \u2014 Jack Hitt , Mother Jones , January & February 2006",
"The petty Robespierres on the public stage appeal to \"the real America\" to rise up in fury against presidential perfidies ; yet in poll after poll the real America keeps telling Washington that it has gone bonkers. \u2014 David L. Kirp , Nation , 8 Mar. 1999",
"I lived there off and on for twenty years, through graduate studies, marriage, the end of marriage, the perfidies of middle age, all the while unaware of passion. \u2014 Susan Barron , New England Monthly , October 1989",
"They are guilty of perfidy .",
"he decided to forgive his wife's perfidy , choosing to ascribe it to a moment of uncharacteristic weakness",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Redl took his own life in 1913 after his perfidy came to light, but for Hillenkoetter the story hardly ended there. \u2014 Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
"And, besides, reminding voters of Trump\u2019s perfidy is not the same thing as resurrecting Biden\u2019s political standing. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"There are interviews online with Chinese in Ukraine who fear for their lives because of their government\u2019s perfidy , which is well acknowledged inside Ukraine and has led to Ukrainian threats of violence against them. \u2014 Therese Shaheen, National Review , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Most believe that trust involves reliance on another person, and breaching that trust provokes despondency and perfidy . \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Susan Meissner's latest novel is an absorbing, cleverly plotted historical tale of perfidy and pluck. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 28 May 2021",
"Moreover, Warren had been assiduously filling the ears of political and media dignitaries visiting from out of state to weigh the security situation on the coast with alarmist visions of Japanese perfidy . \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 29 Oct. 2021",
"After all, the perfidy of the unified German nation-state is not yet a matter entirely historical. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 17 June 2021",
"Susan Meissner's latest novel is an absorbing, cleverly plotted historical tale of perfidy and pluck. \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune , 28 May 2021"
"The branch on the pine log went far enough into my chest to perforate my pericardium\u2014that\u2019s the membrane surrounding my heart. \u2014 Outside Online , 10 June 2022",
"These stately specimens start out as small studs in the landscape, but have the capability of growing tall enough to perforate our skies. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"Being careful to keep your fingers clear of the blade, push the corner of the heel downward and perforate the lid by digging in at an angle, more or less like an old-fashioned lever-type can opener. \u2014 Christopher Michel, Country Living , 20 Apr. 2022",
"As Henri Hollis writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), experts will perforate the shell\u2019s casing with a separate charge to safely detonate it. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Pistol rounds can perforate surfaces such as drywall, but rifle rounds are bigger and travel much faster. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Scopes can cause bleeding or even perforate the bowel, something that occurs in about one of every 2,500 procedures. \u2014 Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Left for long enough, the buildup can cause the colon to perforate , allowing the contents of the bowel to spill into the abdomen. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, Health.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
"The structure ensures the tire doesn\u2019t pinch flat, the annoying disruption when the tire presses against the tube hard enough to perforate it, usually leaving two puncture wounds that look like a snakebite. \u2014 Stephanie Pearson, Wired , 19 Dec. 2020"
"Those inserts, according to the women\u2019s attorneys, said there was less than a 0.05 percent chance of infection, displacement of the device or perforation of organs. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The navy straps perforation holes now come in varying sizes, which is a nod to the early Monaco models of the\u201970s. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 30 Mar. 2022",
"But experts say those other methods are less safe than D&E, posing serious health risks such as infection, uterine perforation or death. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Aug. 2021",
"For example, a colonoscopy requires a preparation (mildly unpleasant and time-consuming), sedation (which can have side effects) and the procedure itself, which may have unexpected bad outcomes (such as a perforation ). \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Gummies are marked with a perforation so consumers can easily tear them into a smaller dose, if needed. \u2014 Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic , 3 Sep. 2021",
"Dakota was euthanized Monday after being found to have a perforation in his gastrointestinal tract, said Jared Bednar, the zoo\u2019s director of administration and creative. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 Aug. 2021",
"One of her concerns was a possible perforation requiring additional surgery and a temporary colostomy. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 18 Aug. 2021",
"The microfiber material gives for a perforation style of design to keep your hands moving well. \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 15 June 2021"
"These images are perforce in black and white because there is no color at x-ray wavelengths.",
"\u2014 Smithsonian",
"All our perceptions of China are perforce limited, partial, biased by our cultural and political perspectives.",
"\u2014 Marilyn B. Young",
"With no new novel in the offing, Harry addicts will perforce focus their anticipation during the coming year on the film version of the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone \u2026",
"\u2014 Paul Gray"
],
": by physical coercion":[
"\u2026 he rushed into my house and took perforce my ring away.",
"Harder, because both were (or still are, in Bissinger\u2019s case) received in the world as heterosexual, successful, wealthy white men\u2014an armor whose cracking is perforce traumatic, shameful, and almost always hidden. \u2014 Naomi Fry, The New Yorker , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Someone who loses his career is perforce no longer in an alliance with the employer. \u2014 Lidija Haas, The New Republic , 1 July 2019",
"Take the Best Revival of a Musical category, which this year will perforce be a showdown between Cole Porter\u2019s Kiss Me Kate and Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s Oklahoma! \u2014 Adam Green, Vogue , 30 Apr. 2019",
"The search zone is the creation of the ATSB, and is perforce somewhat arbitrary. \u2014 Bucky Mcmahon, Esquire , 14 Sep. 2015",
"What might be called the Falstaff question\u2014is this man a harmless buffoon, or a dangerous threat to the world order",
"This man is perforce a tyrant, and the people cease to owe him allegiance. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 31 July 2014"
"The clip plays, and the Foley artists perform in synch with the picture. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Health providers who perform abortions in violation of the trigger law or six-week ban may be prosecuted for a class D felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. \u2014 Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal , 27 June 2022",
"There\u2019s also the tricky business of having a teen perform in an environment where the majority of the audience is typically under the influence of alcohol or drugs. \u2014 Annabel Ross, Billboard , 27 June 2022",
"After one with the Portland Trail Blazers, Terry didn\u2019t hold back on confidence in his ability to perform in the NBA. \u2014 Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"In the entertainment segment, there are countless opportunities for music headliners, including John Legend and Ariana Grande, to perform in virtual concerts in the metaverse. \u2014 Alex Canter, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"In one scene from Elvis, Baz Luhrmann\u2019s riotous remixing of the life of the man considered the king of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, Austin Butler, assuming the role of Elvis Presley, is made to perform in a tuxedo with tails. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 23 June 2022",
"Joovy strollers have been proven to perform well in our Lab tests \u2014 the brand is known for making lightweight strollers that are easy to navigate. \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 23 June 2022",
"For theaters, there\u2019s the matter of securing the rights to perform a particular show at the optimal point in your season. \u2014 David Lyman, The Enquirer , 23 June 2022"
"Middle English, from Anglo-French parfurmer , alteration of perforner, parfurnir , from par-, per- thoroughly (from Latin per- ) + furnir to complete \u2014 more at furnish":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perform perform , execute , discharge , accomplish , achieve , effect , fulfill mean to carry out or into effect. perform implies action that follows established patterns or procedures or fulfills agreed-upon requirements and often connotes special skill. performed gymnastics execute stresses the carrying out of what exists in plan or in intent. executed the hit-and-run discharge implies execution and completion of appointed duties or tasks. discharged his duties accomplish stresses the successful completion of a process rather than the means of carrying it out. accomplished everything they set out to do achieve adds to accomplish the implication of conquered difficulties. achieve greatness effect adds to achieve an emphasis on the inherent force in the agent capable of surmounting obstacles. effected sweeping reforms fulfill implies a complete realization of ends or possibilities. fulfilled their ambitions",
"This evening's performance will start at 8 o'clock.",
"The hall is usually used for orchestra performances .",
"The critics loved her performance as the villain.",
"A supervisor will evaluate each employee's performance .",
"employees with strong job performances",
"Employees are given an annual performance assessment.",
"The gas additive improves engine performance .",
"an increased level of performance",
"We've introduced new performance levels.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But, when the matter of loss comes up, there is no sense of performance . \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Wheeler says Butler recorded every single line of each performance seen in the film, and Presley\u2019s voice was then mixed in when needed. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 25 June 2022",
"As with the other recent corporate spinoffs, the new Kellogg entities will provide a test case of financial performance . \u2014 Hamza Shaban, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"There\u2019s an extreme self-awareness on display, which becomes a kind of performance . \u2014 Oliver Munday, The Atlantic , 21 June 2022",
"As with the other recent corporate spinoffs, the new Kellogg entities will provide a test case of financial performance . \u2014 Hamza Shaban, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
"Streaming theater can\u2019t replace the visceral, exciting feeling of live performance . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 June 2022",
"Check out a snippet of the unplanned performance below, and a longer version on YouTube. \u2014 Jessica Nicholson, Billboard , 20 June 2022",
"By the end of that performance , Parker is convinced this young white rockabilly singer is his destiny. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 18 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
"She smelled the different perfumes at the store.",
"the perfume of fresh flowers filled the room",
"Verb",
"The meal included a delicate fish perfumed with butter and herbs.",
"a time when it was common for men to perfume their hair",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Blockchain could also be useful beyond fashion, says Ott: luxury sectors including art, cosmetics, perfume and furniture could benefit. \u2014 Rebecca Cairns, CNN , 26 June 2022",
"Not for her the old standards \u2014 flowers, perfume , perhaps a new television. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Acqua di Parma, the famed 106-year-old Italian luxury cologne and perfume has partnered with forte_forte, an Italian women\u2019s fashion brand found in the Italian region of Veneto, to create a special edition capsule collection. \u2014 Allyson Portee, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Make sure there\u2019s no deodorant, lotion, perfume , or makeup on the skin. \u2014 Jailynn Taylor, Essence , 3 June 2022",
"The gender-neutral coconut scent is subtle and won\u2019t override cologne or perfume . \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"Her lingerie, perfume , and jewelry were also missing. \u2014 Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Fragrance Attention fragrance fanatics: Farfetch\u2019s perfume and cologne assortment is good too. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Just like with soaps, avoid lotions that contain perfume , dye, or other potentially irritating ingredients. \u2014 Stephanie Watson, SELF , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Roses climb up old stone walls, brighten small squares and even perfume the Roland Garros stadium, where the French Open tennis tournament is held. \u2014 Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Begin by saut\u00e9eing it with your aromatics at the start of cooking, add it midway to perfume the entire stew or braise, or do both. \u2014 Rachel Gurjar, Bon App\u00e9tit , 16 May 2022",
"The sweet-smelling white blooms on the Graceful Gardenia ($39.99-$49.99) perfume a room. \u2014 cleveland , 6 May 2022",
"The stench wafting from the tree's billows of white blossoms has been compared to perfume gone wrong, rotting fish, chlorine, and a cheese sandwich left in a car for a week. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This version is lovely, with floral cardamom to perfume it. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Soon lilacs and viburnums will perfume outdoor air. \u2014 Courtney Lichterman, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Retailers like Etsy, Michaels and Overstock carry a variety of display cases for everything from shot glasses and trading cards to perfume bottles and matchbooks in materials that include wood, acrylic and glass. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Airlines, department stores, hotels, and taxicabs perfume their air. \u2014 Scott Sayare, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021"
"Middle French perfum , probably from Old Occitan, from perfumar to perfume, from per- thoroughly (from Latin) + fumar to smoke, from Latin fumare , from fumus smoke \u2014 more at fume":"Noun"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perfume Noun fragrance , perfume , scent , redolence mean a sweet or pleasant odor. fragrance suggests the odors of flowers or other growing things. the fragrance of pine perfume may suggest a stronger or heavier odor. the perfume of lilacs scent is very close to perfume but of wider application because more neutral in connotation. scent -free soaps redolence implies a mixture of fragrant or pungent odors. the redolence of a forest after a rain",
"She smelled the different perfumes at the store.",
"the perfume of fresh flowers filled the room",
"Verb",
"The meal included a delicate fish perfumed with butter and herbs.",
"a time when it was common for men to perfume their hair",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Blockchain could also be useful beyond fashion, says Ott: luxury sectors including art, cosmetics, perfume and furniture could benefit. \u2014 Rebecca Cairns, CNN , 26 June 2022",
"Not for her the old standards \u2014 flowers, perfume , perhaps a new television. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Acqua di Parma, the famed 106-year-old Italian luxury cologne and perfume has partnered with forte_forte, an Italian women\u2019s fashion brand found in the Italian region of Veneto, to create a special edition capsule collection. \u2014 Allyson Portee, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Make sure there\u2019s no deodorant, lotion, perfume , or makeup on the skin. \u2014 Jailynn Taylor, Essence , 3 June 2022",
"The gender-neutral coconut scent is subtle and won\u2019t override cologne or perfume . \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"Her lingerie, perfume , and jewelry were also missing. \u2014 Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Fragrance Attention fragrance fanatics: Farfetch\u2019s perfume and cologne assortment is good too. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Just like with soaps, avoid lotions that contain perfume , dye, or other potentially irritating ingredients. \u2014 Stephanie Watson, SELF , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Roses climb up old stone walls, brighten small squares and even perfume the Roland Garros stadium, where the French Open tennis tournament is held. \u2014 Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Begin by saut\u00e9eing it with your aromatics at the start of cooking, add it midway to perfume the entire stew or braise, or do both. \u2014 Rachel Gurjar, Bon App\u00e9tit , 16 May 2022",
"The sweet-smelling white blooms on the Graceful Gardenia ($39.99-$49.99) perfume a room. \u2014 cleveland , 6 May 2022",
"The stench wafting from the tree's billows of white blossoms has been compared to perfume gone wrong, rotting fish, chlorine, and a cheese sandwich left in a car for a week. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"This version is lovely, with floral cardamom to perfume it. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Soon lilacs and viburnums will perfume outdoor air. \u2014 Courtney Lichterman, WSJ , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Retailers like Etsy, Michaels and Overstock carry a variety of display cases for everything from shot glasses and trading cards to perfume bottles and matchbooks in materials that include wood, acrylic and glass. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Airlines, department stores, hotels, and taxicabs perfume their air. \u2014 Scott Sayare, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021"
"Middle French perfum , probably from Old Occitan, from perfumar to perfume, from per- thoroughly (from Latin) + fumar to smoke, from Latin fumare , from fumus smoke \u2014 more at fume":"Noun"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perfume Noun fragrance , perfume , scent , redolence mean a sweet or pleasant odor. fragrance suggests the odors of flowers or other growing things. the fragrance of pine perfume may suggest a stronger or heavier odor. the perfume of lilacs scent is very close to perfume but of wider application because more neutral in connotation. scent -free soaps redolence implies a mixture of fragrant or pungent odors. the redolence of a forest after a rain",
"The eight-time Pro Bowl player sometimes goes several weeks without agreeing to do even the most perfunctory postgame interviews. \u2014 Nunyo Demasio , Sports Illustrated , 8 Jan. 2007",
"Convivial and self-absorbed, he talks freely about crime and crooks, with only the most perfunctory nods toward conventional morality. \u2014 Edward Dolnick , The Rescue Artist , 2005",
"You probably don't want to know how perfunctory was the presentation of the state's evidence, how tenth-rate was the performance of the court-appointed defense or how wretched was the end. \u2014 Christopher Hitchens , Nation , 23-30 Aug. 1999",
"the violinist delivered a perfunctory performance that displayed none of the passion and warmth he was once known for",
"Another broad comedy with lazy writing and perfunctory acting, with lots of gratuitous guest spots from his friends",
"There\u2019s also a romance, perhaps the most perfunctory one this side of a children\u2019s movie. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"But here, with the exception of Monica Barbaro as one of Maverick\u2019s most gifted proteges, women are few and far between, and even the more prominent ones get mostly perfunctory treatment. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Even in good whodunits, the setup is typically way more exciting than the payoff: For example, the first two-thirds of Unfaithful, Lyne\u2019s previous film, are alluring and skillfully performed, while the final act feels more perfunctory . \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 16 Mar. 2022",
"A few minutes spent on Lilly Ledbetter, who took her fight for equal pay to the Supreme Court, makes sense, but a sound bite from Arianna Huffington feels perfunctory . \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Unlike her contemporary Megan Thee Stallion, whose fine-but-not-more-than-that set felt perfunctory , Doja\u2019s was totally ready for prime time, with guests Tyga and Rico Nasty less the highlights and more paying respect to their new queen. \u2014 Jeff Miller, Variety , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Like a pile of simple, low-level tasks that had ended up on her desk: two hundred perfunctory notices that hadn\u2019t been sent to the federal register, the daily log of official government actions. \u2014 Lydia Depillis, ProPublica , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Then, as if out of nowhere, a big double chorus, accompanied by an orchestra with timpani thumping, announces a grand Hosanna that lasts no more than 45 seconds for a dazzling but startlingly perfunctory blessing. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022"
"Late Latin perfunctorius , from Latin perfungi to accomplish, get through with, from per- through + fungi to perform \u2014 more at per- , function":""
"perhaps we will not have to take this exam, but I doubt it",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"But there was perhaps no greater frenzy for Egypt than after Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s failed military campaign in Egypt in 1798. \u2014 Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
"Because bonds are particularly sensitive to economic conditions, reflecting shifts in inflation and interest rates more directly than stocks, this is perhaps an even more worrying sign about the state of the economy. \u2014 Isabella Simonetti, BostonGlobe.com , 30 June 2022",
"But perhaps this is a song that doesn\u2019t gain with explication. \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 June 2022",
"Now the actual departure of the Pac-12's two most iconic brands could be perhaps the final dagger. \u2014 Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic , 30 June 2022",
"While a huge number of mental health apps have emerged in recent years, perhaps the most interesting area is the development of virtual therapists. \u2014 Adi Gaskell, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"There is perhaps no women\u2019s sports team in the United States as popular as U.S. soccer team, and there may only be a handful of sports teams in the country more progressive. \u2014 Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 June 2022",
"Because bonds are particularly sensitive to economic conditions, reflecting shifts in inflation and interest rates more directly than stocks, this is perhaps an even more worrying sign about the state of the economy. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"This is perhaps no better highlighted than in the case of Izabela Sajbor, a 30-year-old pregnant woman who died in September 2021. \u2014 Mary Kekatos, ABC News , 30 June 2022"
"Middle French or Greek; Middle French periapte , from Greek periapton , from periaptein to fasten around (oneself), from peri- + haptein to fasten":""
"The videos were captured during the probe\u2019s first close perihelion passages. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 20 May 2022",
"Though perihelion occurs during winter in the Northern Hemisphere and aphelion occurs during summer, Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun does not cause the seasons. \u2014 NBC News , 5 Jan. 2022",
"In short, the upcoming perihelion of Sedna is a rare opportunity to study a proper deep space object that spends much of its time in the outer reaches of our Solar System\u2014and possibly even the Oort Cloud. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"At perihelion , Earth is roughly 91.4 million miles away from the sun. \u2014 NBC News , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Earth reached its closest point to the sun Tuesday at 1:52 a.m. EST, a configuration known as perihelion . \u2014 NBC News , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The notes document the duo's effort to confirm that Mercury\u2019s perihelion , the point at which a planet is closest to the sun, changes over time due to the curvature of spacetime. \u2014 NBC News , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Hundreds or even thousands of meteors an hour occur when the comet's peak aligns with the comet's perihelion . \u2014 Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com , 6 Oct. 2021",
"These eruptions were detected by multiple instruments on the spacecraft during a close flyby of the sun, which is called a perihelion , on February 10. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 18 May 2021"
"Just last week he issued a statement encouraging all Iraqis to participate in the election scheduled for January, and he called on the Iraqi government to start registering voters. The powers that be in Iraq ignore him at their peril . \u2014 Johanna McGeary , Time , 25 Oct. 2004",
"One lesson of both the law-school and the Paulin controversies may be the peril of making free-speech judgments at Internet speed. \u2014 Jeffrey Toobin , New Yorker , 27 Jan. 2003",
"The old man rose and towered over Cameron, and then plunged down upon him, and clutched at his throat with terrible stifling hands. The harsh contact, the pain awakened Cameron to his peril before it was too late. \u2014 Zane Grey , Desert Gold , 1913",
"People are unaware of the peril these miners face each day.",
"She described global warming as \u201ca growing peril .\u201d",
"Verb",
"\u2026 she did more harm than all Frederick's diplomacy could repair, and perilled her chance of her inheritance like a giddy heedless creature as she was. \u2014 William Makepeace Thackeray , Vanity Fair , 1848",
"a tribute to the men and women who, as firefighters, peril their lives daily",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"If that\u2019s the case, clean election advocates worry the state\u2019s aggressive campaign finance reform laws are in peril . \u2014 Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"The author of a 2020 poetry collection, Tongues of Fire, and of an academic study of the Irish playwright J. M. Synge, Hewitt would not seem at first glance to be someone in peril . \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"But delay would be tragic at a time when democracy\u2014as Luttig stressed\u2014is in peril . \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 17 June 2022",
"For two working actors, the question once court is adjourned is will producers send them scripts as reliably as onlookers have been sending Tweets",
"But without the biggest race on the calendar, the state of the sport could've been in peril . \u2014 Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star , 27 May 2022",
"Even as the Dobbs draft circulates, the ability of Black and Latina women to vote\u2014and have their votes counted\u2014is in peril as a result of voter suppression laws passed in states including Georgia, Texas, and Florida. \u2014 Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022",
"Sea levels from around Norfolk, Va. to the Outer Banks have recently risen about one inch every five years, placing more homes in peril , according to William Sweet, a sea level expert at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration. \u2014 Jason Samenow And Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News , 12 May 2022",
"Yet Kahane burst onto the scene in 1968 arguing that liberalism now placed Jews in peril . \u2014 Elliot Kaufman, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But wandering in those spacious landscapes can also lead to peril . \u2014 Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Therapy empowers us to thoroughly and critically examine our habits and actions to determine what will lead to prosperity and what will lead to peril . \u2014 Brianna Carter, SPIN , 23 Mar. 2022",
"But there\u2019s another piece that should factor in to the decision: a home\u2019s vulnerability to peril . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Jan. 2022",
"November's warm gloom brought unusual blooms and peril to Twin Cities lakes and waterways. \u2014 Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune , 26 Nov. 2020",
"The bulwarks of a literary canon are usually about big ideas like love and war, crime and punishment, the nature of art, or the promise\u2014and peril \u2014of human ambition. \u2014 Danny Heitman, WSJ , 2 Oct. 2020",
"More inexperienced skiers on the trails could lead to peril . \u2014 Cara Korte, CBS News , 24 Sep. 2020",
"Communities along the coast have long dealt with crumbling cliffs for their danger to life and peril to property. \u2014 Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Aug. 2020"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin per\u012bculum \"test, trial, risk, danger,\" going back to *perei-tlom, from *perei- (of uncertain origin) + *-tlom, instrumental suffix (going back to Indo-European)":"Noun",
"In contrast, seeking admiration for its own sake is perilous . \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 30 June 2022",
"However, this may be economically perilous depending on several factors. \u2014 Ivan Illan, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Striking any deal with their leaders without securing major concessions on issues like nuclear enrichment and democratic reforms would be politically perilous for Mr. Biden. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"Attempts to time financial markets with dividend policies, however, are more perilous . \u2014 Kevin Kelleher, Fortune , 1 June 2022",
"When excess nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous fill a body of water, and algae growth is stimulated, oxygen is depleted, creating perilous conditions for marine life known as dead zones. \u2014 Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The perilous road conditions are expected to be a nightmare for commuters early Friday, and officials have urged people to avoid driving if possible. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi, CNN , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Those living on the streets have always been vulnerable to violence, but experts say the pandemic deepened the already perilous conditions many face. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 Oct. 2021",
"Trevor continued on, at his peril, not falling victim to the virus but the perilous conditions of the San Jacinto Mountains. \u2014 Krista Stevens, Longreads , 2 Feb. 2021"
"Middle English perilous, perelous, borrowed from Anglo-French perilleus, perillous, going back to Latin per\u012bcul\u014dsus, from per\u012bculum \"test, risk, peril entry 1 \" + -\u014dsus -ous":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perilous dangerous , hazardous , precarious , perilous , risky mean bringing or involving the chance of loss or injury. dangerous applies to something that may cause harm or loss unless dealt with carefully. soldiers on a dangerous mission hazardous implies great and continuous risk of harm or failure. claims that smoking is hazardous to your health precarious suggests both insecurity and uncertainty. earned a precarious living by gambling perilous strongly implies the immediacy of danger. perilous mountain roads risky often applies to a known and accepted danger. shied away from risky investments",
"Outside, as Russell stepped through a gap in the perimeter fence, a young man emerged from the adjacent woods, rapidly advancing toward her. \u2014 Alan Judd, ajc , 13 June 2022",
"Soon enough, the booms of artillery began to pepper the stadium\u2019s perimeter . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 June 2022",
"Soon enough, the booms of artillery began to pepper the stadium\u2019s perimeter . \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Anchorage Daily News , 12 June 2022",
"May 21, security cameras inside a perimeter fence at the Amarillo Zoo in Texas captured a strange image outside the zoo. \u2014 USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"The Bucks swarmed Tatum, packed the paint, and dared the Celtics\u2019 perimeter players \u2014 particularly Williams, whose looks were almost always wide open \u2014 to beat them. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
"More than a million people live within five miles of the field\u2019s perimeter . \u2014 Emily Witt, The New Yorker , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Thompson's perimeter defensive skills continue to improve, and he's always been a steady defensive force around the paint and on the glass. \u2014 Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star , 28 Jan. 2022",
"There are works on every wall and stacked along the studio\u2019s perimeter . \u2014 New York Times , 19 Jan. 2022"
"We have had two power failures in a five-month period .",
"The period between Christmas and New Year's Eve is a very busy one for us.",
"We are studying our country's colonial period .",
"Children go through many changes during the period of adolescence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Israel\u2019s parliament is expected to be dissolved on Thursday and be replaced with a caretaker government led by Bennett\u2019s coalition partner, Yair Lapid, who will run the country through what is expected to be a fraught four-month election period . \u2014 Fox News , 29 June 2022",
"Customer Appreciation Day in the days following Black Friday in the beginning of December is a huge sales period , as is Valentine\u2019s Day, which really covers three days \u2013 Feb. 12-14 \u2013 Peterson said. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"Stagflation is that period of time when employment is weakening but inflation is still high. \u2014 Bill Conerly, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"But the contract extension also keeps Chapek at the helm through what will be a pivotal period for Disney+, the company big streaming bet. \u2014 Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
"The choppy trading follows a solid rally on Tuesday in what has been a turbulent period for the broader market, with daily \u2014 and sometimes hourly \u2014 swings from sharp gains to losses. \u2014 CBS News , 22 June 2022",
"Certainly there was a period of time\u2014probably all the way along\u2014where The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress was a gateway. \u2014 Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED , 17 June 2022",
"Levis was also on the list in 2020, and was the fastest, period , in 2019. \u2014 PCMAG , 17 June 2022",
"Last year's sales spectacular, which returned to its usual summer perch, was the biggest two-day sales period for third-party sellers in the company's history. \u2014 Jordan Valinsky, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The owner decorated the interior in a period Caribbean colonial style, and most of the furniture and decor comes from St. Thomas or the US Virgin Islands; other pieces come from Barbados, as much is traded among the islands of the West Indies. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Whereas early Meshuggah could often register as an endlessly clenching first, their mid- period work started to breathe, projecting a strange kind of serenity amid the constant information overload. \u2014 Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone , 15 Mar. 2022",
"The best San Jose chance that stretch came on a mid- period power play, when undrafted rookie Alexander Barbanov had an open net from below the right circle. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 Oct. 2021",
"Drawing inspiration from the folklore of Norse seafaring, period -style oil paintings will depict tales of the deep and intricate carvings of tentacles, barnacles, compasses and more will accentuate porthole frames. \u2014 Tim Walters, USA TODAY , 29 July 2021",
"Popular television series are often period dramas that offer pleasing escapes into quaint hierarchies\u2014Downtown Abbey, Poldark, The Crown, and so on. \u2014 Samuel Earle, The New Republic , 23 Feb. 2021",
"Season 4 of Netflix's The Crown takes the multi- period historical drama about Queen Elizabeth II's reign over the United Kingdom into the 1980s, including one of the weirdest wars of a violent decade. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 4 Dec. 2020",
"Later, in the second quarter, officials talked with both coaches during the mid- period hydration timeout. \u2014 Chris Dabe, NOLA.com , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Buyers can opt for a variety of non- period modifications. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 8 Sep. 2020"
"Middle English periode , from Middle French, from Medieval Latin, Latin, & Greek; Medieval Latin periodus period of time, punctuation mark, from Latin & Greek; Latin, rhetorical period, from Greek periodos circuit, period of time, rhetorical period, from peri- + hodos way":"Noun"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for period Noun period , epoch , era , age mean a division of time. period may designate an extent of time of any length. periods of economic prosperity epoch applies to a period begun or set off by some significant or striking quality, change, or series of events. the steam engine marked a new epoch in industry era suggests a period of history marked by a new or distinct order of things. the era of global communications age is used frequently of a fairly definite period dominated by a prominent figure or feature. the age of Samuel Johnson",
"The military has also instituted periodic lockdowns around Jenin and other communities, prohibiting residents from traveling to jobs in Israel. \u2014 Shira Rubin, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"The tour still can conduct periodic testing if necessary. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Jan. 2022",
"At the same time, towns have struggled with wildfires, smoke and periodic pandemic lockdowns that drove tourists away at key times. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 June 2022",
"The same mentality plays out in the White House briefing room, with the result that prime-time viewers of Fox News get periodic glimpses at the unfiltered Biden position. \u2014 Erik Wemple, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
"Conducting periodic performance audits comprises management best practices. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Locals have long become accustomed to periodic loud quarry blasts coming from the interior of the peninsula, as well as the elevated conveyor that transports aggregate rock across Main Street to awaiting ships docked on the lake. \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"Despite his Russian roots, Sergeyich becomes friends with a Ukrainian soldier who makes periodic visits to his home. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"The periodic gathering, which hasn\u2019t been held in the U.S. since its 1994 inaugural session in Miami, has had its share of diplomatic flare-ups and political theater. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 May 2022"
"As these elements decay, uranium (No. 92 on the periodic table ) degrades to radium (No. 88), which in turn degrades into radon (No. 86). \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 May 2022",
"Eat nearby at Miracle of Science and enjoy the periodic table menu (Hb for hamburger). \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 6 May 2022",
"And Asegun Henry, now a mechanical engineer at MIT, once created unique musical signatures for every element in the periodic table , even setting them to music. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 2 May 2022",
"The first element on the periodic table , hydrogen is just a single proton and electron. \u2014 Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The heavier elements of the periodic table (things such as oxygen, carbon and iron) came along later, having been created within stars that exploded. \u2014 Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"One weakness is that DM21 trained on molecules from the first three rows of the periodic table , where data is more plentiful. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 7 Feb. 2022",
"If biology is found to be a universal process, then our tree of life here on Earth represents just one twig in what might be a multi-dimensional periodic table of life and lifeforms. \u2014 Jonathan Wai, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"More than 30 years ago nuclear scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California succeeded in producing very small amounts of gold from bismuth, a metallic element adjacent to lead on the periodic table . \u2014 John Matson, Scientific American , 31 Jan. 2014"
"a periodical town newsletter that is supported by local advertisers",
"periodical announcements from airline personnel concerning the delay",
"Noun",
"She writes for a monthly periodical .",
"The library has a large collection of scholarly periodicals .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Cicadas action figures and monsters",
"The periodical insects, also known as Brood X, spend most of their lives underground feeding on tree roots before tunneling to the surface to look for mates. \u2014 NBC News , 9 June 2021",
"People across Greater Cincinnati are seeing the periodical insects emerge from the ground after 17 years. \u2014 Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer , 20 May 2021",
"The periodical cicadas last year were also a challenge. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Did last year\u2019s periodical cicadas get all up in your face",
"But with 15 periodical broods that emerge in predictable cycles of every 13 or 17 years, a massive cicada emergence can be found in some part of the country just about every year. \u2014 Rebecca Katzman, Time , 12 May 2021",
"Two periodical broods were recorded in the state in the past: Broods II and XI, and development has affected both, Simon said. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 15 Mar. 2021",
"There are about four cicada species common to South Texas and about 12 varieties of periodical cicadas, which emerge in 13- to 17-year cycles. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 4 Oct. 2021",
"The Sydney Morning Herald\u2019s piece instantly backfired on social media, where Doak and many others admonished the periodical for forcing Wilson to go public with her relationship. \u2014 Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 June 2022",
"Whatever the confluence of events that led to the demand for CREEM, the voices behind the original periodical were paying attention. \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Nazi period was the Catholic periodical Natur und Kultur. \u2014 M. D. Aeschliman, National Review , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Between 1835 and 1837, the aspiring writer worked as an editor and contributor at the Southern Literary Messenger, an influential periodical . \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The Ebony story began when a 25-year-old Johnson borrowed $500 in 1942 using his mother\u2019s furniture as collateral to start his first publication, Negro Digest \u2014 a periodical that informed readers about Black people fighting in World War II. \u2014 Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The Saturday Evening Post, the nation\u2019s most popular magazine, began buying his fiction, as did The Smart Set, the literary periodical edited by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, the era\u2019s most influential tastemakers. \u2014 Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books , 8 Oct. 2020",
"When a Donaldist named Detlef Giesler gave a television interview on the subject, according to the group\u2019s periodical , a caller suggested that Giesler himself was Dagobert. \u2014 Jeff Maysh, The New Yorker , 18 May 2021",
"The phrase comes from an interview Neel gave to the communist periodical the Daily Worker in 1950. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2021"
"Doctors think surfer\u2019s ear happens because the thin skin of the ear canal doesn\u2019t protect the bone from cold water, which causes inflammation in the membrane on the outside of the bone, called the periosteum . \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 28 Dec. 2018"
"Scientists also found that infections, trauma, scurvy or rickets had triggered periostitis \u2014chronic swelling and pain\u2014to form in Waal\u2019s arm bones. \u2014 Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Mar. 2021"
": a chitinous layer covering the exterior of the shell in many mollusks, being usually well developed in freshwater forms, and serving to protect the shell from corrosion":[]
"She worked as a peripatetic journalist for most of her life.",
"He had a peripatetic career as a salesman.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Her professional career, however, has been peripatetic , featuring stays with five teams in two countries over the last decade. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 May 2022",
"The novel\u2019s peripatetic narrator spends a semester teaching in Washington, D.C., floating through days blurred by sadness, musing on the history of the city. \u2014 Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"The documentary depicts a peripatetic man seemingly incapable of contentment in his growing worldly success, always inventing, trying new things, and traveling the world. \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 5 May 2022",
"This peripatetic life perhaps accounts for the polyglot nature of his artistic career. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Even the peripatetic Novoselic got in on the action, with his alt-rock supertrio Eyes Adrift releasing their first (and only) album in September. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Our youngest, who is adopted from China, attended three high schools during an especially peripatetic period in our family, and then chose a college in Pamplona, Spain. \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The banking magnate\u2019s death is said to have touched off a long, peripatetic journey for the timepiece, which eventually found its way into the hands of an enigmatic antiquities dealer in New York. \u2014 Daniel Miller Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 9 Dec. 2021",
"The 52-year-old Glazer certainly leads a peripatetic schedule. \u2014 Christian Red, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
"Middle French & Latin; Middle French peripatetique , from Latin peripateticus , from Greek peripat\u0113tikos , from peripatein to walk up and down, discourse while pacing (as did Aristotle), from peri- + patein to tread; akin to Sanskrit patha path \u2014 more at find":"Adjective"
": any of a class or phylum (Onychophora) of primitive tropical wormlike invertebrates that appear intermediate between annelid worms and arthropods":[]
"Louisville's peripeteia arrived in resilience after abysmal starts in back-to-back wins over Marist and Northwestern. \u2014 Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal , 27 Mar. 2021"
"If we focus too much on peripheral issues, we will lose sight of the goal.",
"peripheral devices such as modems and scanners",
"He saw in his peripheral vision that a car was trying to pass him.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Playing those games, researchers said, could improve cognitive processing, peripheral vision, and the ability to learn tasks better. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"Levin collapsed on the green in the peripheral vision of then-20-year-old caddie Dylan Gainer. \u2014 Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Without his eyedrops, Pellegrin\u2019s optic nerve would deteriorate under pressure inside his eyes; the blackness that occludes his peripheral vision would continue to encroach. \u2014 Ben Taub, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Corporate technology leaders have long played something of a peripheral role in sustainability efforts at many businesses. \u2014 Sofia Lotto Persio, Forbes , 26 Mar. 2022",
"On the page, Sheldon is peripheral , but Cooper makes him into the soul of the production, a great deep well of knowledge, compromise, and sorrow. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Even though an electric signal directly from the electrode in the brain bypassed all the peripheral nerves between the hand and head, the signal that traveled the longer journey up the ascending sensory nerves registered first. \u2014 David Caldwell, The Conversation , 30 Mar. 2022",
"At the time of Roe, the scientific consensus held that for a fetus to feel pain, her brain cortex had to be developed and connected to peripheral nerves through the spine, and that these pathways were established around 24 weeks\u2019 gestation. \u2014 Grazie Pozo Christie, National Review , 21 Sep. 2021",
"The Alfa Bank matter was a peripheral part of the FBI\u2019s investigation and the allegations of potentially secretive contact were not even mentioned in Mueller's 2019 report. \u2014 Eric Tucker, ajc , 17 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"ConceptPix claims its horizontal mouse concept reduces the amount of squeezing required to use the peripheral . \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 26 Apr. 2022",
"According to the Kickstarter, the peripheral is 3.15 inches wide, 1.57 inches long, 1.18 inches tall, and weighs 1.36 ounces. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 26 Apr. 2022",
"All the while, excited chatter enveloped the room and camera flashes sprung in every peripheral . \u2014 Isiah Magsino, Vogue , 7 Apr. 2022",
"However, for those that really dig into customizing their battle station, RGB can be a fantastic addition to any peripheral . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 19 Dec. 2021",
"This bundle combines the Amazon Fire HD 10 with Microsoft Office 365 and a detachable keyboard peripheral . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 13 Nov. 2021",
"Some companies make small hubs that connect to the USB-C port and can provide multiple ports to connect almost any peripheral . \u2014 Jim Rossman, Dallas News , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Aquapolis came from that weird e-Card era of the Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card game, where cards could be scanned into the e-Reader peripheral for the Gameboy Advance. \u2014 Joe Parlock, Forbes , 5 Mar. 2021",
"The main downside to this is price: $299 is frankly a bonkers price for a keyboard peripheral . \u2014 Samuel Axon, Ars Technica , 30 May 2020"
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},
"examples":[
"the dogs are confined by an invisible electronic fence that runs along the periphery of the yard",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Williams is still viewed as a prospect on the periphery . \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"Indeed, some team members are laughing, joking and making references to previous events and activities while others sit on the periphery conspicuously reminded of their outsider status. \u2014 Dana Brownlee, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"The absences have been on the periphery , with Gary Payton II (elbow), Otto Porter (foot), and Andre Iguodala (neck) all sidelined. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022",
"There were going to be changes on the periphery , but no substantial change. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 6 May 2022",
"Every box store, with acres of asphalt parking that is mostly underutilized, could be developed, both by adding housing on the periphery or the addition of floors of residential on top of existing retail sites. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Adults are on the periphery ; the center of the film is occupied exclusively, and unforgettably, by children. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 21 Apr. 2022",
"But much like the Maels, the Roesches have carved out an enduring business in the entertainment industry by finding and serving niche audiences on the periphery of the mainstream. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022",
"From Minecraft to Roblox, some of the industry\u2019s most lucrative gaming platforms already exist on the periphery of the metaverse, with huge global networks, elements such as VR interfaces, digital ownership and avatars that represent actual people. \u2014 Ben Plomion, Forbes , 16 May 2022"
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"circa 1568, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
"Middle French peripherie , from Late Latin peripheria , from Greek periphereia , from peripherein to carry around, from peri- + pherein to carry \u2014 more at bear":""
"congressional hearings into the Watergate scandal were marked by an orgy of periphrasis , the expression \u201cat this point in time\u201d being a memorable example"
": to become destroyed or ruined : cease to exist":[
"recollection of a past already long since perished",
"\u2014 Philip Sherrard",
"guard against your mistakes or your attempts ( perish the thought) to cheat",
"\u2014 C. B. Davis"
],
": to cause to die : destroy":[],
": weaken , benumb":[]
},
"examples":[
"Two people perished in the fire.",
"The sailors perished at sea.",
"The civilization perished after 500 years.",
"Many ancient languages have perished over time.",
"The rubber will perish with age.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An Everest-size comet is hurtling toward Earth, and in exactly six months and 14 days, the planet will be shattered to pieces, leaving every living creature to perish in a cataclysm of fire and flood. \u2014 Maya Salam, New York Times , 23 Jan. 2022",
"Her mother, Johanna, and her younger sister, Lore, would perish later in the camp at Stutthof. \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"His uncle, renowned admiral Pliny the Elder, would perish in its wake. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 May 2022",
"Steve Bobbitt, a 13-year veteran of the DeKalb County Sheriff\u2019s Office, died earlier this month, the fourth member of the agency to perish from the virus. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 18 Feb. 2022",
"American journalist is freed Astroworld death toll rises A 9-year-old boy who was injured in the crowd crush in Houston has died, becoming the 10th person to perish in the concert tragedy. \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 15 Nov. 2021",
"There\u2019s something very publish-or- perish about that. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 27 Feb. 2022",
"All 301 passengers and crew members perish in the fire before an evacuation is initiated. \u2014 CNN , 17 Feb. 2022",
"And so long as men die, liberty will never perish \u2026 Don\u2019t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 18 Apr. 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
"Middle English perisshen , from Anglo-French periss- , stem of perir , from Latin perire , from per- detrimentally + ire to go \u2014 more at per- , issue entry 1":""
"Every Sunday Matters offers fans a chance to bring non- perishable food items for the Second Harvest Food Bank or new children\u2019s books for Akron Children\u2019s Hospital Mahoning Valley. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 1 June 2022",
"Groceries and other non- perishable items will be made available. \u2014 Jason Gonzalez, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
"But the book is more interesting than just for perishable news that will attract ogling Washington insiders. \u2014 George Packer, The Atlantic , 18 May 2022",
"In addition, non- perishable canned and boxed food donations will be accepted for the All Faiths Pantry during the shredding event. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
"Given the perishable nature of cosmetics fragrances and haircare, that business operates a lot like a subscription. \u2014 Jon Markman, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The presence of wheat germ also makes whole wheat flour far more perishable than white flour. \u2014 Carmen Collins, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Groups such as the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas say 80 percent of perishable fruits and vegetables will be lost, potentially costing millions and directly affecting what\u2019s on our plates. \u2014 Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"These are a different sort of memento mori: Plastic is cheap and perishable , yet at the molecular level nearly indestructible. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022"
"the salary's not great, but the perks make up for it",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"It\u2019s filled with enriching ingredients that work to perk up your eye area. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"Make it with granulated sugar or agave nectar, and feel free to blend in fresh herbs such as basil or mint to perk up the flavor profile. \u2014 Casey Barber, CNN , 9 May 2022",
"So when a four-time world driving champion drops a casual reference, ears perk up. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 May 2022",
"And when Oprah publicly declares her love for a brand, our ears immediately perk up. \u2014 Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE.com , 4 May 2022",
"Things seem to dip slightly in Section C, but there are several pairings of artists that perk them up again. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"But what made the world perk up and pay attention was the company\u2019s AI for writing spookily realistic English. \u2014 Clive Thompson, Wired , 15 Mar. 2022",
"If those don't perk you up, the caffeine in this month's new concealers from Laura Geller and Lawless will. \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 19 Apr. 2022",
"While the inventory picture is expected to improve in 2022, it isn't expected to perk up by much. \u2014 Anna Bahney, CNN , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Another outdoor perk that makes a world of difference is parking. \u2014 Mike Goldys, USA TODAY , 7 May 2022",
"One perk associated with Mako's new employment: a very short commute. \u2014 Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Stopping the laundry and dry cleaning service for employees at Meta\u2019s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., ends a famous \u2014 if unusual \u2014 perk . \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"How about a perk that makes your next shot Suppress after a kill",
"The low cost of starting up drove Carlberg\u2019s decision to open Planted, but another perk (for now) has been the concept\u2019s limited contact with customers. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 9 Aug. 2021",
"SpaceX employs an in-house massage therapist and offers massages as a perk to some employees. \u2014 Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"The country has billed the close proximity of its eight stadiums as a perk for fans, even teasing the possibility of attending more than one game per day. \u2014 Fortune , 15 Apr. 2022",
"He's had other girlfriends along the way, but found with his traveling for IndyCar, being single is a great perk . \u2014 Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star , 29 May 2022"
"The wine is light with perky acidity and rolling, suave tannins. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Blair\u2019s older sisters got cute, perky names: Mimi, Katie and Lizzie. \u2014 Jennifer Larue, Washington Post , 15 May 2022",
"There are little blurred blobs in place of her undoubtedly perky boobs. \u2014 Sanjena Sathian, The Atlantic , 28 Sep. 2021",
"But behind the perky pop and pearly whites, there is a compelling internal struggle that clearly resonated with this good-sized crowd of teens and college kids. \u2014 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 10 Sep. 2021",
"And the role as a whole is somewhat unusual for Chenoweth, whose perky demeanor has defined her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in projects like The West Wing, Running with Scissors, Glee, and Promises, Promises. \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Town & Country , 16 July 2021",
"Pepper was given a perky demeanor and programmed to grasp human emotions and engage in basic conversation. \u2014 Miho Inada, WSJ , 13 July 2021",
"Bryant and Taylor-Joy do a nice job with this pair of perky young journalists, who start clueless and giddy but end up mean-spirited and a tad horny. \u2014 Matthew Love, Vulture , 23 May 2021",
"Honey, a perky American Bulldog, pulled on a leash in her owner\u2019s hand. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Mar. 2021"
"Prolonged exposure to the sun can cause permanent skin damage.",
"The museum's permanent collection includes works of art from the 18th century.",
"The transcripts will serve as a permanent record of the proceedings.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Six families \u2014 with 23 members \u2014 had previously been moved out of the hotel and into permanent housing. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
"Forty-four of the units will be permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless residents. \u2014 Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press , 29 June 2022",
"The hotel is intended to provide permanent housing, and no social or transitional services will be provided there. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"Surely people proselytizing about the sanctity of life will turn their attention to protecting children beyond the womb who need safe, permanent housing. \u2014 Petula Dvorak, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"To create a program that can successfully get these people into permanent housing, Martens said, creating vehicle storage is critical. \u2014 Anna Patrick, Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022",
"Those who receive the highest scores on Houston\u2019s index \u2014 the chronically homeless \u2014 become eligible for what is known as permanent supportive housing. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"More permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness could help protect vulnerable people from heat waves and other dangerous weather, Schenkelberg said. \u2014 Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"The hope is that with the right support and environment, residents can move easily into permanent housing and free more spots. \u2014 Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"If hotness is an effort to make the ephemeral permanent , then illness is a constant reminder of how nothing is forever. \u2014 Michelle Santiago Cort\u00e9s, refinery29.com , 26 June 2021",
"The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is working on making three Slow Streets closed to through traffic during the pandemic permanent : Page, Shotwell and Sanchez streets. \u2014 Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Feb. 2021",
"The salon\u2019s services include coloring, permanents , hairstyling, highlights and shampoos. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com , 22 Mar. 2020",
"Turning loanee signings into permanents has been of top priority. \u2014 SI.com , 12 July 2018",
"The decision makes permanent an earlier injunction that had temporarily blocked the law. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2018"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"1925, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French parmanant , from Latin permanent-, permanens , present participle of perman\u0113re to endure, from per- throughout + man\u0113re to remain \u2014 more at per- , mansion":"Adjective"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for permanent Adjective lasting , permanent , durable , stable mean enduring for so long as to seem fixed or established. lasting implies a capacity to continue indefinitely. a book that left a lasting impression on me permanent adds usually the implication of being designed or planned to stand or continue indefinitely. permanent living arrangements durable implies power to resist destructive agencies. durable fabrics stable implies lastingness because of resistance to being overturned or displaced. a stable government",
"Everyone\u2019s gut is permeable to some degree, but some people\u2019s guts are leakier than others, Corwin said. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"In city street projects, that could include more tree planting or elements that reduce stormwater runoff like bioswales or sidewalks constructed with permeable materials. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 6 June 2022",
"The second element includes installing what are called permeable reactive barriers along the border of the property and rights of way south of the site. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star , 6 June 2022",
"Remember containers or pots made of terra cotta, coco fiber, or other porous materials dry out fast, while those made of plaster, metal or other less permeable materials dry out more slowly. \u2014 Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living , 26 May 2022",
"The Fast Shell Light does just that with Pertex\u2019s new, air- permeable Shield Air fabric, which has a membrane made of randomly assorted nanofibers. \u2014 Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"So make sure to select vapor- permeable footwear for your winter workouts. \u2014 Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus, CNN , 24 Jan. 2022",
"That\u2019s activated, under Brackett\u2019s guidance, by Spivey\u2019s keenly permeable portrayal. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2022",
"And yet, as Doyle\u2019s influence shows, this community\u2019s boundaries are, as ever, permeable . \u2014 Avital Chizhik-goldschmidt, The Atlantic , 25 Apr. 2022"
"Use a chemical repellent with DEET, permethrin or picaridin. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 13 June 2022",
"So can treating your clothing and other gear with products containing 0.5 percent permethrin . \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Wearing long sleeves and long pants tucked into socks can also help, as can spraying clothing and camping gear with products containing the insecticide permethrin . \u2014 Aria Bendix, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
"While very determined skeeters are capable of biting through G-1000 Air Stretch, that\u2019s easily remedied with a permethrin spray. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 4 July 2020",
"First, purchase an insect repellent containing permethrin . \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 6 May 2022",
"The clothing option contains \u200b\u200b0.5 percent permethrin , keeping bugs away from clothing, gear, and tents for up to 40 days. \u2014 Rachel Ng, Outside Online , 14 Aug. 2021",
"Different brands and stores sell permethrin that can be put on the external side of clothing and camping gear. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Until then, as Telford, Klempner, and Aucott reminded me, the best way to stave off Lyme disease is to spray your clothes with the insecticide permethrin , tuck your pants into your socks, and check for ticks after an outing to an infested area. \u2014 Sue Halpern, The New Yorker , 19 Aug. 2021"
"deployment overseas would be regarded as a permissible reason for late filing by members of the military",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That's what the court said is not permissible under the second amendment. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 24 June 2022",
"New York law says that deadly physical force is permissible only in response to an aggressor who is also using deadly physical force; Mr. Jolly was unarmed. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"The player\u2019s caddie fishes a centimeter-measurer from the golf bag, the player measures six centimeters and moves his radioactive golf ball the permissible distance. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 19 May 2022",
"The other is an ordinance that would place limits on the permissible reasons for terminating a renter\u2019s tenancy. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"That\u2019s the maximum permissible penalty under the collective bargaining agreement. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"The war crimes trial of a Russian soldier in Ukraine - which concluded on May 24, 2022 with a conviction and life sentence for the defendant - was permissible under international law. \u2014 Robert Goldman, The Conversation , 23 May 2022",
"Although that is permissible under Delaware law, where the foundation is incorporated, that governance structure gives the appearance that Cullors alone decided who to hire and how to spend donations. \u2014 Aaron Morrison, ajc , 17 May 2022",
"That said, Biden may decide that canceling student loans broadly through an executive order may not be permissible . \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 7 May 2022"
"They got permission from the city to build an apartment complex.",
"The teacher gave me her permission to go home early.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Look Out Sh^thead Episode 3, a multidisciplinary work based on \u00c9ric Rohmer\u2019s 1980 film cycle Com\u00e9dies and Proverbes, with the permission of his estate. \u2014 Risa Sarachan, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Her parents chose more subdued royal titles and, with the permission of the Queen, gave their children titles in the style of an earl rather than prince and princess, according to The Independent. \u2014 Cnn Staff, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"Adapted from Also a Poet \u00a9 2022 by Ada Calhoun; reprinted with the permission of the publisher Grove Press. \u2014 Vogue , 31 May 2022",
"Their arrival was broadcast live on TV with the permission of the families. \u2014 Jennifer Griffin, Fox News , 28 May 2022",
"Officers confirmed with Home Depot that the solicitor works for a subcontractor with the permission of the business. \u2014 cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"Printed with permission of Hachette Books, New York. \u2014 April White, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Starting in 1899, with the permission of Sherlock Holmes\u2019 creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Gillette specialized in Holmes. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 17 May 2022",
"Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Flatiron Books (Macmillan). \u2014 Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022"
"Some states have more permissive laws than others.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that other states, including those with large cities, have more permissive gun regulations without major consequences. \u2014 John Fritze, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"At the same time, the state\u2019s gun laws have become increasingly permissive . \u2014 Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"Partner exchanges are guided by a set of more permissive rules that allow gun ads to flow through Google\u2019s ad systems. \u2014 Craig Silverman, ProPublica , 14 June 2022",
"Common IaC misconfigurations include, for example, unencrypted storage buckets or overly permissive access controls. \u2014 Idan Plotnik, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Research shows that gun crimes in states with tough restrictions are often committed with firearms from more permissive states. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
"Research shows that gun crimes in states with tough restrictions are often committed with firearms from more permissive states. \u2014 Shawn Hubler, BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2022",
"But Tuesday\u2019s violence is now forcing a reckoning among some Uvalde residents over the gun laws in Texas, which are some of the most permissive in the country. \u2014 Time , 27 May 2022",
"But first: What took place in Buffalo on Saturday was the result of a toxic stew of growing right-wing racist ideology, easy access to guns and a permissive internet culture. \u2014 Mark Murray, NBC News , 16 May 2022"
": a written warrant or license granted by one having authority":[
"a gun permit"
],
": either of two pompanos ( Trachinotus falcatus and T. goodei ) that are important game fishes of temperate to tropical waters of the western Atlantic":[],
"Middle English permitten , from Latin permittere to let through, permit, from per- through + mittere to let go, send":"Verb",
"perhaps by folk etymology from Spanish palometa , a kind of pompano, from diminutive of paloma dove, from Latin palumba, palumbes \u2014 more at palomino":"Noun"
"The notion that poll data are a legitimate form of news has to be one of the most pernicious tenets of late-twentieth-century American journalism \u2026 \u2014 Barbara Ehrenreich , Nation , 20 Nov. 1995",
"The more it [the Papacy] took part in the temporal conflicts with consistently pernicious result, the more impotent among the monarchs it revealed itself \u2026 \u2014 Barbara W. Tuchman , The March of Folly , 1984",
"At its most pernicious , paper entrepreneurialism involves little more than imposing losses on others for the sake of short-term profits for the firm. \u2014 Robert B. Reich , Atlantic , March 1983",
"More pernicious still has been the acceptance of the author's controversial ideas by the general public.",
"the pernicious effects of jealousy",
"She thinks television has a pernicious influence on our children.",
"The biological warfare claims show how pernicious disinformation can be: difficult to counter and highly consequential. \u2014 Eric Smalley, The Conversation , 14 Mar. 2022",
"As long as so much of world remains unvaccinated, though, another, more pernicious variant could crop up. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2021",
"But judges\u2019 attempts to pick their own successors can be stamped out more easily, even though the practice is more naked and arguably more pernicious . \u2014 Laurie Lin And David Lat, WSJ , 8 Dec. 2021",
"All the pernicious political effects of social media \u2014 siloing, polarization, radicalization \u2014 follow from this way of doing business. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 26 Oct. 2021",
"While inflation and supply chain woes may explain part of these brands\u2019 profit shortfalls, the underlying troubles appear more pernicious . \u2014 Steve Dennis, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"There\u2019s nothing more pernicious on the collective psyche than having to pay more. \u2014 Jeff Stein And Evan Halper, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Using a barrage of increasingly outlandish falsehoods, President Vladimir V. Putin has created an alternative reality, one in which Russia is at war not with Ukraine but with a larger, more pernicious enemy in the West. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Activists have accused the government of a more pernicious application of technology: the manipulation of a mobile app that categorizes individuals\u2019 risk of COVID infection to prevent them from travelling. \u2014 Evan Osnos, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin perniciosus , from pernicies destruction, from per- + nec-, nex violent death \u2014 more at noxious":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pernicious pernicious , baneful , noxious , deleterious , detrimental mean exceedingly harmful. pernicious implies irreparable harm done through evil or insidious corrupting or undermining. the claim that pornography has a pernicious effect on society baneful implies injury through poisoning or destroying. the baneful notion that discipline destroys creativity noxious applies to what is both offensive and injurious to the health of a body or mind. noxious chemical fumes deleterious applies to what has an often unsuspected harmful effect. a diet found to have deleterious effects detrimental implies obvious harmfulness to something specified. the detrimental effects of excessive drinking",
"As a black spiritual hums on the soundtrack, Hooded Justice perorates about the legacy of being the victim\u2014not the complicit or recruited perpetrator\u2014of violence: My mama played the piano right over there. \u2014 Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books , 24 Mar. 2020"
"Latin peroratus , past participle of perorare to declaim at length, wind up an oration, from per- through + orare to speak \u2014 more at per- , oration":""
"We sat through a lengthy peroration on the evils of the government's policies.",
"gave an eloquent peroration celebrating the nation's long tradition of religious tolerance and pluralism",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the second of the two movements, Noseda kept the rhythms and tempo largely straightforward, with little Romantic push-and-pull, creating an appealing, plain-spoken rhetoric that, nevertheless, left the music wanting peroration . \u2014 Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Bezos rallies the public with passionate peroration and convincing command of detail. \u2014 Franklin Foer, The Atlantic , 10 Oct. 2019",
"The president\u2019s wintertime inconstancy was a matter of little concern to attendees in Dallas, who enthusiastically cheered Mr. Trump\u2019s perorations on subjects ranging from North Korean peace talks to his vote tally in the Electoral College. \u2014 Alexander Burns, New York Times , 4 May 2018",
"Reagan said more in his average 35-minute remarks than Bill Clinton ever did in his average 75-minute perorations . \u2014 Andrew Malcolm, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Feb. 2018",
"Pastor Goff, after joking that all the famous visitors had eaten up his preaching time, brought the theme into his peroration . \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 15 Aug. 2016"
"That may not matter for some applications if the perovskite is much cheaper to make, though. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 17 June 2022",
"In any case, the researchers create a device simply by hooking up the perovskite to electrodes in a hydrogen atmosphere. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The mineral, calcium silicate perovskite , only forms under the incredibly high pressures that occur deep in the earth. \u2014 Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American , 11 Nov. 2021",
"The most common mineral in absolute is bridgmanite, known also as silicate- perovskite , making up 38 percent of Earth's volume. \u2014 David Bressan, Forbes , 4 Mar. 2021",
"Scientists have set a new efficiency record for perovskite -silicon solar cells. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 21 Dec. 2020",
"First discovered in the Ural Mountains in western Russia, perovskite has raised eyebrows in testing\u2014from 10 percent efficiency in 2012 to 20 percent in 2014. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 28 Sep. 2020",
"First discovered in the Ural Mountains in western Russia, perovskite has raised eyebrows in testing\u2014from 10 percent efficiency in 2012 to 20 percent in 2014. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 28 Sep. 2020",
"First discovered in the Ural Mountains in western Russia, perovskite has raised eyebrows in testing\u2014from 10 percent efficiency in 2012 to 20 percent in 2014. \u2014 David Grossman, Popular Mechanics , 28 Sep. 2020"
"Antibodies to thyroid peroxidase are found in about 20% of healthy women, up to 40% of people with Type 1 diabetes, and in 90% to 100% of people with autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto\u2019s thyroiditis). \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 10 June 2022"
"She lives on the street that is perpendicular to mine.",
"river rafters staring awestruck at the canyon's nearly perpendicular cliffs",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"This work formed the basis for the popular view of rip currents as jets flowing perpendicular to the beach, shooting out past the surf. \u2014 Chloe Williams, The Atlantic , 20 June 2022",
"In that block, which runs perpendicular to the The Alameda and is near Baltimore City College, officers found a 41-year-old man in a car. \u2014 Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun , 27 May 2022",
"To avoid an accident on a hill, Quinn advises mowing perpendicular to the grade of the hill and avoiding cutting parallel to the grade. \u2014 Better Homes & Gardens , 16 May 2022",
"Here\u2019s how to work the lateral sling and complete this move: \u25cfStand perpendicular against a wall. \u2014 Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Flying perpendicular to the direction of the wind, their wings generate lift and pull even harder against the tether. \u2014 Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The Lever House is famous for its glass rectangular office tower set perpendicular to a two-floor base. \u2014 Kate King, WSJ , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Let your free arm hang perpendicular to the ground, weight in hand. \u2014 Esther Smith, Outside Online , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Later, a similar complaint was made from a residence on West Woods Road, which runs perpendicular to Kimberly Road. \u2014 Christine Dempsey, courant.com , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"How to do it: Lie on your back, with your legs straight and the same prop perpendicular under the base of your shoulder blades. \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Position the prop perpendicular to your body and under your glutes so that its upper edge aligns with your iliac crests (the top ridges of your pelvis) below your low back. \u2014 Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online , 2 Apr. 2020",
"For the first drill, called a garland drill, choose a gentle groomed run and ski perpendicular across the fall line, from one side of the run to the other. \u2014 Frederick Dreier, Outside Online , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Place the vegetables on the grill perpendicular to the grates and cook until lightly charred on all sides, about 10 minutes. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Set the other sheet in the pan perpendicular to the first, pressing it into the edges. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2021",
"At the University of Maryland, the line at Terrapin\u2019s Turf, a dance bar perpendicular to College Park's main drag, was loud and long Friday night. \u2014 USA Today , 9 Sep. 2020",
"Marquis, rail-thin and wearing a sweater despite the heat, held court Tuesday under a balcony perpendicular to where the Treme-Lafitte Brass Band played up above on the second story. \u2014 Keith Spera, NOLA.com , 6 Aug. 2020",
"Photos from the scene showed the plane perpendicular to highway lanes about 75 miles south of San Francisco. \u2014 CBS News , 18 Feb. 2018"
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
"1551, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English perpendiculer , from Middle French, from Latin perpendicularis , from perpendiculum plumb line, from per- + pend\u0113re to hang \u2014 more at pendant":"Adjective"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perpendicular Adjective vertical , perpendicular , plumb mean being at right angles to a base line. vertical suggests a line or direction rising straight upward toward a zenith. the side of the cliff is almost vertical perpendicular may stress the straightness of a line making a right angle with any other line, not necessarily a horizontal one. the parallel bars are perpendicular to the support posts plumb stresses an exact verticality determined (as with a plumb line) by earth's gravity. make sure that the wall is plumb",
"The collapse of Enron in 2001 spotlighted the role of its auditor Arthur Andersen, which had helped perpetrate accounting fraud at the energy giant. \u2014 Matthew Goldstein, New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"Under current law, unmarried partners who commit domestic violence are not barred from purchasing a firearm, though spouses who perpetrate domestic violence are. \u2014 Byallison Pecorin, ABC News , 16 June 2022",
"And with regard to that, people who perpetrate mass shootings are searching for answers, meaning in life. \u2014 CBS News , 12 June 2022",
"Experts describe multiple types of IPV that involve different characteristics and patterns regarding how often women and men perpetrate such violence. \u2014 Kellie Lynch, Chron , 23 May 2022",
"There\u2019s no record of any of these registrations being used to perpetrate fraud, such as might take place if someone claimed to be an inactive or out-of-state voter and sought to cast a ballot using their name. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 2 May 2022",
"As Putin continues to perpetrate indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects, no child in the country is safe. \u2014 Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Quite simply, face masks perpetrate real educational and emotional harm on students. \u2014 Daniel Buck, National Review , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Critics say legacy admissions perpetrate inequality by providing a powerful advantage to high-income white applicants. \u2014 Daniela Altimari, courant.com , 18 Feb. 2022"
": to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit":[],
": to produce, perform, or execute (something likened to a crime)":[
"perpetrate a pun"
]
},
"examples":[
"The men were planning to perpetrate a robbery.",
"The attack was perpetrated by a street gang.",
"He vowed revenge for the crime perpetrated on his family.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The collapse of Enron in 2001 spotlighted the role of its auditor Arthur Andersen, which had helped perpetrate accounting fraud at the energy giant. \u2014 Matthew Goldstein, New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"Under current law, unmarried partners who commit domestic violence are not barred from purchasing a firearm, though spouses who perpetrate domestic violence are. \u2014 Byallison Pecorin, ABC News , 16 June 2022",
"And with regard to that, people who perpetrate mass shootings are searching for answers, meaning in life. \u2014 CBS News , 12 June 2022",
"Experts describe multiple types of IPV that involve different characteristics and patterns regarding how often women and men perpetrate such violence. \u2014 Kellie Lynch, Chron , 23 May 2022",
"There\u2019s no record of any of these registrations being used to perpetrate fraud, such as might take place if someone claimed to be an inactive or out-of-state voter and sought to cast a ballot using their name. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 2 May 2022",
"As Putin continues to perpetrate indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian objects, no child in the country is safe. \u2014 Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Quite simply, face masks perpetrate real educational and emotional harm on students. \u2014 Daniel Buck, National Review , 5 Feb. 2022",
"Critics say legacy admissions perpetrate inequality by providing a powerful advantage to high-income white applicants. \u2014 Daniela Altimari, courant.com , 18 Feb. 2022"
"As always, I was struck by how the core values of the military\u2014service and discipline, both physical and intellectual\u2014are so different from the perpetual American Mardi Gras. \u2014 Joe Klein , Time , 29 Aug. 2005",
"Because Hunter had been a perpetual Peter Pan, accepting the bleak reality of his death came hard. \u2014 Douglas Brinkley , Rolling Stone , 22 Sept. 2005",
"He's addicted to the perpetual flux of the information networks. He craves his next data fix. He's a speed freak, an info junkie. \u2014 David Brooks , Newsweek , 30 Apr. 2001",
"Only after I had built to the emotional peroration culminating in the word \"astonishing\" was I at last sufficiently unastonished by the force of my feelings to be able to put together a couple of hours of sleep\u2014or something resembling sleep, for, even half out of it, I was a biography in perpetual motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. \u2014 Philip Roth , American Pastoral , 1997",
"The region is in a state of perpetual war.",
"He seems to have a perpetual grin on his face.",
"the perpetual demands of parenthood",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"People of any race could be enslaved, and slavery was not considered a perpetual state. \u2014 Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
"But based on its recent programming decisions, it could be argued that the cable network is currently in a perpetual state of \u201990s month. \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"Shepherd and Iliza Shlesinger used humor to deal with being the perpetual new kid at school. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Apr. 2021",
"Experts attribute this issue to a lack of trust between law enforcement and immigrant populations, linguistic barriers and anti-Asian bias, such as the perpetual foreigner stereotype and the scapegoating of Asian Americans. \u2014 Tat Bellamy-walker, NBC News , 3 June 2022",
"The insights from this year\u2019s [STAATUS] survey spotlight the long history of stereotypes (like the perpetual foreigner and model minority tropes) in the U.S. and the uncomfortable truth that more Americans question the loyalty of Asian Americans. \u2014 Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune , 6 May 2022",
"We can no longer be called the perpetual foreigner. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Nov. 2021",
"The series is set in a post-apocalyptic near future where countries no longer exist, reduced to Spartan like city-states locked in perpetual war, where children are turned into lethal soldiers and every citizen carries a gun. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Like Simard, Wohlleben is dedicated to counteracting the reductive understanding of Darwinism as a merciless, perpetual war of all against all. \u2014 Robert Moor, The New Yorker , 10 June 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perpetual continual , continuous , constant , incessant , perpetual , perennial mean characterized by continued occurrence or recurrence. continual often implies a close prolonged succession or recurrence. continual showers the whole weekend continuous usually implies an uninterrupted flow or spatial extension. football's oldest continuous rivalry constant implies uniform or persistent occurrence or recurrence. lived in constant pain incessant implies ceaseless or uninterrupted activity. annoyed by the incessant quarreling perpetual suggests unfailing repetition or lasting duration. a land of perpetual snowfall perennial implies enduring existence often through constant renewal. a perennial source of controversy",
"This bleak data has become a default narrative for the CMO position, with many of us in marketing and media serving to perpetuate it as the sorry state of affairs. \u2014 Seth Matlins, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The Oglala Lakota tribe, like other peoples impacted by colonization, face the challenge of recovering from harms while living within systems that perpetuate them. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"Nine civilians would be added to the department to staff the city\u2019s Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which aims to focus resources on people most likely to be the victims of violence or perpetuate it. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Nine civilians would be added to the department to staff the city\u2019s Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which aims to focus resources on people most likely to be the victims of violence or perpetuate it. \u2014 Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun , 14 Apr. 2022",
"And humans living in poverty make choices that perpetuate each of the first three problems. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 25 May 2022",
"After police murdered Floyd two years ago, calls grew louder for the U.S. military to reconsider the names of Army bases that celebrated Confederate leaders who fought to perpetuate slavery. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2022",
"Legislation banning the teaching of Black history, which has passed in multiple states, is designed to perpetuate racist myths about America that threaten to unravel our almost 250-year-old experiment in democracy. \u2014 Peniel E. Joseph, CNN , 16 May 2022",
"That also helps perpetuate the company goals and mission and grow the next generation of forward-thinking people who drive business success. \u2014 Kelly Kubicek, Forbes , 2 May 2022"
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": the quality or state of being perpetual":[
"bequeathed to them in perpetuity"
]
},
"examples":[
"lands that should remain in their wild state in perpetuity",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Will patients like Baker be precluded from discarding unneeded embryos and instead urged to donate them for adoption or compelled to store them in perpetuity ",
"Arizona State students might pull back the Curtain of Distraction inside Desert Financial Arena to reveal a Penn State Nittany Lion mauling a Trojan, or a Bruin frozen in perpetuity . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 July 2022",
"To compensate for their franchise shutting its doors, the owners of the Spirits struck a deal with the NBA to be paid in perpetuity one-seventh of the national television revenue of the four ABA teams that did merge into the NBA. \u2014 Andrew Marquardt, Fortune , 1 July 2022",
"But, despite the generous bailouts, not even Bankman-Fried is able, or willing, to throw good money after bad in perpetuity . \u2014 Steven Ehrlich, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"That same year, Congress passed a law allowing H-1B visa holders in the backlog to renew their visas in perpetuity . \u2014 Teresa Mathew, The New Yorker , 22 June 2022",
"Janice remained committed to Ray\u2019s vision of establishing a state-of-the-art Aquatic Center at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA where the Aquatic Director\u2019s Office was named in their honor in perpetuity through their personal philanthropy. \u2014 Michael Brunker, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Columbia Gas is seeking the $221 million annual revenues increase in perpetuity . \u2014 cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"The decision to extend the program in perpetuity wasn\u2019t without controversy. \u2014 Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
"Ancient people would travel for hundreds of miles to reach this cultural center, which has left behind archeological mysteries that continue to perplex us more than a thousand years later. \u2014 Cnn Opinion, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Ancient people would travel for hundreds of miles to reach this cultural center, which has left behind archeological mysteries that continue to perplex us more than a thousand years later. \u2014 Cnn Opinion, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Ancient people would travel for hundreds of miles to reach this cultural center, which has left behind archeological mysteries that continue to perplex us more than a thousand years later. \u2014 Cnn Opinion, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021",
"What will likely perplex the selection committee, though, are six Quadrant 1 victories. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Ancient people would travel for hundreds of miles to reach this cultural center, which has left behind archeological mysteries that continue to perplex us more than a thousand years later. \u2014 Cnn Opinion, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021",
"The first time that Lamar Jackson saw the Dolphins defense that would perplex and punish him, ruining his Thursday night, the Ravens quarterback almost solved it. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Ancient people would travel for hundreds of miles to reach this cultural center, which has left behind archeological mysteries that continue to perplex us more than a thousand years later. \u2014 Cnn Opinion, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Ancient people would travel for hundreds of miles to reach this cultural center, which has left behind archeological mysteries that continue to perplex us more than a thousand years later. \u2014 Cnn Opinion, CNN , 16 Dec. 2021"
"obsolete perplex , adjective, involved, perplexed, from Latin perplexus , from per- thoroughly + plexus involved, from past participle of plectere to braid, twine \u2014 more at per- , ply":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259r-\u02c8pleks"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perplex puzzle , perplex , bewilder , distract , nonplus , confound , dumbfound mean to baffle and disturb mentally. puzzle implies existence of a problem difficult to solve. the persistent fever puzzled the doctor perplex adds a suggestion of worry and uncertainty especially about making a necessary decision. a behavior that perplexed her friends bewilder stresses a confusion of mind that hampers clear and decisive thinking. a bewildering number of possibilities distract implies agitation or uncertainty induced by conflicting preoccupations or interests. distracted by personal problems nonplus implies a bafflement that makes orderly planning or deciding impossible. the remark left us utterly nonplussed confound implies temporary mental paralysis caused by astonishment or profound abasement. the tragic news confounded us all dumbfound suggests intense but momentary confounding; often the idea of astonishment is so stressed that it becomes a near synonym of astound . was at first too dumbfounded to reply",
": the state of being perplexed : bewilderment":[]
},
"examples":[
"There was a look of perplexity on his face.",
"He stared at her in perplexity .",
"We will never solve all of the perplexities of life.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To avoid any park perplexity , plan ahead by checking exactly which parks are ineligible, then browse this interactive map that showcases the locations of the 200-plus participating state parks. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 26 Apr. 2022",
"This air of wry perplexity turned out to be a defining Willis trait, and was central to his remarkable run of performances in the mid-to-late nineties. \u2014 Adam Nayman, The New Yorker , 6 Apr. 2022",
"His subjects\u2019 expressions blended perplexity and anger, defiance and determination, weariness and fear. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
"His pale and beaky face is set, not unlike Ethan Hawke\u2019s, in a near-perpetual frown of perplexity , as if he were defeated by the basic code of existence, and by other folks\u2019 apparent ability to crack it. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Their comments revealed perplexity , anger, and frustration. \u2014 Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT , 13 Dec. 2021",
"There may be perplexity at the way some exhibits are curated and exasperation with captions that do not satisfy. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 3 Dec. 2021",
"West turns their example into his own soul-twisting solipsism that now, after WuTang Clan, exemplifies modern black male perplexity . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 3 Nov. 2021",
"That moment of intense perplexity led me to write my first book, which sought to fathom the enigma of mountain-worship. \u2014 Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books , 10 July 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
": something held or claimed as an exclusive right or possession":[]
},
"examples":[
"Use of the company's jet is a perquisite of the job.",
"give the movers a perquisite if they do a good job",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Casual swearing is a great perquisite of adulthood, and one of the first that kids attempt to seize for themselves. \u2014 Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker , 19 May 2020",
"Hunter fils was also a military bro, enjoying the hell out of his status and the perquisites inherent in his office. \u2014 Matt Farwell, The New Republic , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Both his personal attorney and Attorney General William Barr are attempting to institutionalize this kind of immunity as a perquisite of the Presidency. \u2014 Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker , 27 Oct. 2019",
"The basic perquisites of a middle-class life, including a secure old age, are no longer attainable for most Americans. \u2014 Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American , 1 Nov. 2018",
"To be sure, Mayorga\u2019s civil case would have been strengthened by Ronaldo being charged, but a charge is a not perquisite to the case. \u2014 Michael Mccann, SI.com , 22 July 2019",
"The parking perquisite has evolved into a point of pride. \u2014 Melissa Korn, WSJ , 7 Oct. 2018",
"Companies can offer it as a perquisite for employees or something an employee pays a few dollars for out of each paycheck. \u2014 Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News , 13 May 2018",
"The Courant calculates compensation as the sum of salary, bonuses, value gained on the exercise of stock options and vesting of stock awards and value of perquisites , such as a retirement plan and personal use of the company\u2019s plane. \u2014 Stephen Singer, courant.com , 7 Apr. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
"Middle English, property acquired by means other than inheritance, from Anglo-French perquisit , Medieval Latin perquisitum , from neuter of perquisitus , past participle of perquirere to purchase, acquire, from Latin, to search for thoroughly, from per- thoroughly + quaerere to seek":""
": a large genus of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs (family Lauraceae) having thick alternate leaves, small panicled flowers with nine stamens, and a fleshy one-seeded fruit and in some kinds yielding superior cabinet woods \u2014 see avocado":[],
"According to the resolution, the video accuses Ho, Manzo and Do of conspiring to persecute Venerable Vien Ly, the abbot of Chua Dieu Ngu Buddhist temple in Westminster. \u2014 Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But over the years the government continued to persecute religious minorities and political dissenters and isolate itself internationally, and opportunities withered for many Iranians regardless of religion. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"All three countries use a patchwork of laws\u2014often involving vague definitions of morality or debauchery\u2014to persecute LGBTQ people. \u2014 Matt Burgess, Wired , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Their departure accelerates a long-running process of shutting down Russia\u2019s civil society, without the state having to persecute and imprison people individually. \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 20 Mar. 2022",
"China also employs diplomatic pressure and financial incentives to secure foreign assistance in its efforts to persecute Uighurs abroad. \u2014 John Beck, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"While offering design inspiration, the papacy\u2019s alliance with France to persecute the Templars also presented an allegory. \u2014 Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Increasingly, countries that persecute LGBTQ communities are altering their legal approaches to cases. \u2014 Matt Burgess, Wired , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Worst of all, the bill would make the Federal Trade Commission a superagency by expanding its budget by $300 million along with the almost unlimited power to persecute American business with its vast menu of potential offenses. \u2014 Robert H. Bork Jr., WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
"Middle English, from Middle French persecuter , back-formation from persecuteur persecutor, from Late Latin persecutor , from persequi to persecute, from Latin, to pursue, from per- through + sequi to follow \u2014 more at sue":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for persecute wrong , oppress , persecute , aggrieve mean to injure unjustly or outrageously. wrong implies inflicting injury either unmerited or out of proportion to what one deserves. a penal system that had wronged him oppress suggests inhumane imposing of burdens one cannot endure or exacting more than one can perform. a people oppressed by a warmongering tyrant persecute implies a relentless and unremitting subjection to annoyance or suffering. a child persecuted by constant criticism aggrieve implies suffering caused by an infringement or denial of rights. a legal aid society representing aggrieved minority groups",
"According to the resolution, the video accuses Ho, Manzo and Do of conspiring to persecute Venerable Vien Ly, the abbot of Chua Dieu Ngu Buddhist temple in Westminster. \u2014 Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But over the years the government continued to persecute religious minorities and political dissenters and isolate itself internationally, and opportunities withered for many Iranians regardless of religion. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"All three countries use a patchwork of laws\u2014often involving vague definitions of morality or debauchery\u2014to persecute LGBTQ people. \u2014 Matt Burgess, Wired , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Their departure accelerates a long-running process of shutting down Russia\u2019s civil society, without the state having to persecute and imprison people individually. \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 20 Mar. 2022",
"China also employs diplomatic pressure and financial incentives to secure foreign assistance in its efforts to persecute Uighurs abroad. \u2014 John Beck, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"While offering design inspiration, the papacy\u2019s alliance with France to persecute the Templars also presented an allegory. \u2014 Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Increasingly, countries that persecute LGBTQ communities are altering their legal approaches to cases. \u2014 Matt Burgess, Wired , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Worst of all, the bill would make the Federal Trade Commission a superagency by expanding its budget by $300 million along with the almost unlimited power to persecute American business with its vast menu of potential offenses. \u2014 Robert H. Bork Jr., WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
"Middle English, from Middle French persecuter , back-formation from persecuteur persecutor, from Late Latin persecutor , from persequi to persecute, from Latin, to pursue, from per- through + sequi to follow \u2014 more at sue":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for persecute wrong , oppress , persecute , aggrieve mean to injure unjustly or outrageously. wrong implies inflicting injury either unmerited or out of proportion to what one deserves. a penal system that had wronged him oppress suggests inhumane imposing of burdens one cannot endure or exacting more than one can perform. a people oppressed by a warmongering tyrant persecute implies a relentless and unremitting subjection to annoyance or suffering. a child persecuted by constant criticism aggrieve implies suffering caused by an infringement or denial of rights. a legal aid society representing aggrieved minority groups",
": to have or display an involuntary repetitive behavior or thought : to exhibit perseveration":[
"Any person \u2026 whose social skills have been severely deficient since very early childhood, who started to talk late or whose communicative use of language is inadequate, and who perseverates and lacks cognitive and behavioral flexibility meets the diagnostic criteria for an autistic-spectrum disorder.",
"\u2014 Isabelle Rapin"
],
": to intently focus one's attention on a thought or thoughts : fixate":[
"Lest she be misinterpreted, Hard is not an old-timer perseverating on the good old days and bitter about not getting some of that big money.",
"\u2014 Bill Dwyre",
"According to a variety of medical Web sites and publications, people who never smoke, \u2026 who exercise and don't perseverate about past wrongs and future ills are happier and healthier and live longer.",
"\u2014 Brian McKenzie"
],
": to recur or repeat continually":[
"We call such tunes 'catchy'\u2014and they are sometimes referred to as 'earworms,' for they may burrow into us, entrench themselves and then perseverate internally hundreds of times a day, only to evaporate, fade away, in a day or two \u2026",
"borrowed from German Perseveration (in Perseverationstendenz \"tendency toward perseveration\"), borrowed from Latin persev\u0113r\u0101ti\u014dn-, persev\u0113r\u0101ti\u014d \"persistence in a course of action,\" from persev\u0113r\u0101re \"to persist in a course of action or an attitude in spite of opposition, keep on\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d, suffix of verbal action \u2014 more at persevere":""
": to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement":[]
},
"examples":[
"She persevered in her studies and graduated near the top of her class.",
"Even though he was tired, he persevered and finished the race.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Though there may be resistance at first, leaders should persevere . \u2014 Santhi Ramesh, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The beautiful and bold North women persevere through an inheritance of brutality and injustice, and the lasting impact of generational trauma, on the road to actualizing their independence. \u2014 Leah Tyler, ajc , 21 Mar. 2022",
"The people here, her books affirm, will always persevere . \u2014 Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"And any barbecue restaurant in Tuscaloosa must persevere in the shadow of giants like Archibald\u2019s and Dreamland. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The first lady also talked about mental health impacts of the pandemic in addition to physical impacts, stating that her resiliency initiative, launched in February 2021, is aimed at empowering kids to be able to persevere through life's challenges. \u2014 Kelly Laco, Fox News , 12 Feb. 2022",
"There are also a number of women who continue to persevere and work within churches. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"The ability to persevere is one of the most essential traits in life and it must be developed from your freshman year. \u2014 Helena Oliviero, ajc , 20 May 2022",
"The goal then was to shape a postwar international financial architecture that would inspire struggling nations to persevere in hope of a more stable and prosperous economic future. \u2014 Judy Shelton, WSJ , 17 May 2022"
"Middle English perseveren, borrowed from Anglo-French parseverer, perseverer \"to last, endure, persist in spite of opposition,\" borrowed from Latin persev\u0113r\u0101re \"to persist in a course of action or an attitude in spite of opposition, keep on, (of a condition) continue, last,\" from per- per- + -sev\u0113r\u0101re, verbal derivative of sev\u0113rus \"stern, austere, severe \"":""
"Though there may be resistance at first, leaders should persevere . \u2014 Santhi Ramesh, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The beautiful and bold North women persevere through an inheritance of brutality and injustice, and the lasting impact of generational trauma, on the road to actualizing their independence. \u2014 Leah Tyler, ajc , 21 Mar. 2022",
"The people here, her books affirm, will always persevere . \u2014 Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"And any barbecue restaurant in Tuscaloosa must persevere in the shadow of giants like Archibald\u2019s and Dreamland. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The first lady also talked about mental health impacts of the pandemic in addition to physical impacts, stating that her resiliency initiative, launched in February 2021, is aimed at empowering kids to be able to persevere through life's challenges. \u2014 Kelly Laco, Fox News , 12 Feb. 2022",
"There are also a number of women who continue to persevere and work within churches. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"The ability to persevere is one of the most essential traits in life and it must be developed from your freshman year. \u2014 Helena Oliviero, ajc , 20 May 2022",
"The goal then was to shape a postwar international financial architecture that would inspire struggling nations to persevere in hope of a more stable and prosperous economic future. \u2014 Judy Shelton, WSJ , 17 May 2022"
"Middle English perseveren, borrowed from Anglo-French parseverer, perseverer \"to last, endure, persist in spite of opposition,\" borrowed from Latin persev\u0113r\u0101re \"to persist in a course of action or an attitude in spite of opposition, keep on, (of a condition) continue, last,\" from per- per- + -sev\u0113r\u0101re, verbal derivative of sev\u0113rus \"stern, austere, severe \"":""
"Excessive heat does not appear to be a threat across the Northeast sections of the country however very hot and dry conditions will persist over most of the Western states, with temperatures as much as 15-20 degrees above normal. \u2014 Jim Foerster, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"The study of subsistence foods at St. Lawrence Island shows how contaminants carried to the far north by atmospheric and ocean currents persist for years and sometimes decades, burdening the region\u2019s Indigenous people. \u2014 Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
"What is the chemistry and physics behind life that essentially is always able to keep it out of equilibrium and persist over time to maintain that state, that highly ordered, sort of thermodynamically unfavorable state, over time",
"As global temperatures continue to rise, causing the drought conditions in the West to persist , ensuring an ample supply of water to sustain communities will continue to be a challenge, experts say. \u2014 Julia Jacobo, ABC News , 13 June 2022",
"Stagflation occurs when economic growth goes through a significant slowdown, but inflation and high prices persist . \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 7 June 2022",
"But significant changes have not materialized, and many of the same problems persist . \u2014 Amanda Coletta, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"When such symptoms persist over time and start affecting how a person functions, that\u2019s when professional help may be needed. \u2014 Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"But both cases have shown how that kind of reasoning, once embedded not just within court judgments but also in social norms and practices that have their own collective momentum and power, can persist , even in the face of apparent progress. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022"
"Middle French persister , from Latin persistere , from per- + sistere to take a stand, stand firm; akin to Latin stare to stand \u2014 more at stand":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for persist continue , last , endure , abide , persist mean to exist over a period of time or indefinitely. continue applies to a process going on without ending. the search for peace will continue last , especially when unqualified, may stress existing beyond what is normal or expected. buy shoes that will last endure adds an implication of resisting destructive forces or agencies. in spite of everything, her faith endured abide implies stable and constant existing especially as opposed to mutability. a love that abides through 40 years of marriage persist suggests outlasting the normal or appointed time and often connotes obstinacy or doggedness. the sense of guilt persisted",
"Indeed, a value system that prizes persistence and durability over flash in the pan brilliance feels especially appropriate for a pursuit like distance running. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 11 June 2022",
"Note that the simple correlations between college education and career success do not control for intelligence, persistence and conformity. \u2014 Bill Conerly, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"To the best of our knowledge there has been no loss of player persistence data, and your Roblox experience should now be fully back to normal. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 31 Oct. 2021",
"The next generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, artists, and business leaders will need skills like creativity, persistence , critical thinking, and problem-solving to succeed. \u2014 Lori Magilton, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022",
"Overcoming these barriers requires mentorship to better understand and engage the dynamics at play, the encouragement and sponsorship of senior leaders, and above all else, persistence . \u2014 Duane Cranston, Fortune , 9 May 2022",
"Stocks worldwide were rattled Thursday by growing concern over economic trends, notably the persistence of inflation coming at time when economic growth is slowing in the U.S., China and other major economies. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 6 May 2022",
"The right leadership, persistence , and investment can foster a sustained appreciation for the environment on the African continent that serves as a model for others. \u2014 Meron Demisse, Quartz , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The Berkeley Protocol makes clear that legally viable evidence must also be preserved in an unaltered form, with its authenticity, availability, persistence , renderability, and chain of custody maintained. \u2014 Linda Kinstler, Wired , 3 Mar. 2022"
": continuing without change in function or structure":[
"persistent gills"
],
": degraded only slowly by the environment":[
"persistent pesticides"
],
": effective in the open for an appreciable time usually through slow volatilizing":[
"mustard gas is persistent"
],
": existing for a long or longer than usual time or continuously: such as":[],
": remaining infectious for a relatively long time in a vector after an initial period of incubation":[
"persistent viruses"
],
": retained beyond the usual period":[
"a persistent leaf"
]
},
"examples":[
"Contrary to persistent myth, Hoover was an activist. \u2014 Steve Forbes , Forbes , 30 June 2008",
"The high-water mark of such truckling might be the publication of the Cato Institute report \"America's Record Trade Deficit: A Symbol of Strength.\" Freedom had become slavery; persistent deficits had become economic power. \u2014 Eric Janszen , Harper's , February 2008",
"The silence started from your end just about the time you said good-bye to dear St. Elizabeth and it has been constant and persistent ever since. \u2014 Archibald Macleish , letter , 11 July 1959",
"We were nagged by a persistent salesman.",
"He is one of the government's most persistent critics.",
"She has been persistent in pursuing the job.",
"He has been fighting a persistent cold.",
"Flooding has been a persistent problem in the area this year.",
"Persistent rumors that the business is for sale have alarmed the staff.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While the hottest months see the most deaths, hot car deaths in children are a persistent problem across all months, and almost every state has reported an incident since 1998, according to the data. \u2014 Amanda Musa, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"Locals say last month\u2019s shooting has worsened another persistent problem: With its main grocery store closed, the East Side is running out of food. \u2014 Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
"The Bank of Mexico cut its economic growth estimates for this year and 2023, citing persistent supply-chain disruptions and higher inflation leading to a lower global growth outlook. \u2014 Anthony Harrup, WSJ , 1 June 2022",
"Theme park experts blamed the persistent crowding problem at the Disneyland Resort primarily on annual pass holders, especially local fans, who visited several times a week, often to ride one or two attractions or to have a meal in the parks. \u2014 Hugo Mart\u00ednstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"Ellington officials have boosted overnight police patrols to curb car and catalytic converter thieves, a persistent problem in town and throughout the state. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant , 20 May 2022",
"Overcounts of white people and undercounts of other racial and ethnic groups have been a persistent problem in past censuses. \u2014 Michael Wines, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
"Overcounts of white people and undercounts of other racial and ethnic groups have been a persistent problem in past censuses. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"It could be completed this fall and is expected to help alleviate flooding that has been a persistent problem for homeowners on those streets, Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson said Thursday. \u2014 Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune , 5 May 2022"
"Okonedo leans gleefully into her purring diva, a cat on a hot tin riverboat, and Branagh's Poirot has the persnickety calm of a man who has never been proved wrong. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Her favorite food is figs, although the 90-year-old is a bit persnickety , The AP mentioned. \u2014 Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure , 1 Feb. 2022",
"There also was a persnickety season ticket holder who didn\u2019t like the commotion when a T-shirt came his way, so Derk wasn\u2019t allowed to fire anywhere near his section. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Hidetoshi Nishijima stars as a widowed stage actor and director who's very persnickety about his beloved red Saab. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Few debates over Latin American literatures devolve into persnickety hair-splitting more quickly than quarrels over the question of what constitutes magical realism. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 May 2021",
"The show, which ended 17 years ago, starred Grammer in the persnickety titular character and was a ratings success during its 11-year run. \u2014 Rob Picheta, CNN , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Take those persnickety precision police, who keep hounding us to unmask our meaning. \u2014 Gary Gilson, Star Tribune , 26 Dec. 2020",
"This summer offers all the variety even the most persnickety TV fan could want, with returning favorites and new series. \u2014 oregonlive.com , 4 June 2019"
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": bodily appearance":[],
": human , individual":[
"\u2014 sometimes used in combination especially by those who prefer to avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes chair person spokes person"
],
": in one's bodily presence":[
"the movie star appeared in person"
],
": one (such as a human being, a partnership, or a corporation) that is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties":[],
": one of the three modes of being in the Trinitarian Godhead as understood by Christians":[],
": reference of a segment of discourse to the speaker, to one spoken to, or to one spoken of as indicated by means of certain pronouns or in many languages by verb inflection":[],
": the personality of a human being : self":[],
": the unitary personality of Christ that unites the divine and human natures":[]
},
"examples":[
"She is a very nice person .",
"I saw a person standing on the dock.",
"Any person who wants a refund must have a receipt.",
"Most people here are quite friendly.",
"The tickets are $25 per person .",
"The person at the front desk will be able to help you.",
"The tax break is only applicable to persons in a high income bracket.",
"I like her as a person , but she is not a very good writer.",
"The disease is easily transmitted from person to person .",
"The dogs discovered that the men were hiding drugs about their persons .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When her problematic father figure gets shot down by a sniper, so does El\u2019s guilt and shame over being the most powerful person on the planet. \u2014 Helena Andrews-dyer, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"Making matters even more complicated is when Sim\u00f3n begins bonding with a woman named Camila (Ana Luc\u00eda Dom\u00ednguez) who happens to be the person who received Valeria's heart. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 1 July 2022",
"Johnson said Cobb also is a high-quality person off the field. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 1 July 2022",
"Mary Jane Edwards was the only person listed on the purchase contract. \u2014 Stephanie Gosk, NBC News , 1 July 2022",
"Lee was the only person in the running, in contrast to previous years that saw run-offs between multiple candidates. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"They can also be misinformed or confused about the issue of being a trans person . \u2014 Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
"General L\u00f3pez-Calleja was a circumspect person who had become gradually more visible in official events as the armed forces businesses came to play a growing role in Cuba\u2019s economy. \u2014 Andrea Rodr\u00cdguez, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh and other key UW officials are confident Greg Gard is the right person to lead the UW men\u2019s basketball program for years to come. \u2014 Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
"Middle English, from Anglo-French persone , from Latin persona actor's mask, character in a play, person, probably from Etruscan phersu mask, from Greek pros\u014dpa , plural of pros\u014dpon face, mask \u2014 more at prosopopoeia":""
"The social relevance was underlined by the introductory remarks that evening by no less a personage than the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu. \u2014 Peter Marks, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Hopper and Hayward collide herein with just about every major cultural personage of the American mid-century\u2014including Miles Davis, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr., David O. Selznick. \u2014 Matthew Specktor, The Atlantic , 30 May 2022",
"In it, our heroic Time Lord encounters a famous personage from the past\u2014in this case, a notorious pirate queen in 19th-century China named Zheng Yi Sao, aka Madame Ching. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 3 Apr. 2022",
"What was the key to cracking Chamberlain as a character and not just a remote historical personage ",
"From there, the extravagance of the fashion only increased, with a shoe length hierarchy emerging\u2014the longer the toe, the more important the personage . \u2014 Ray Mcclanahan, Outside Online , 29 Apr. 2019",
"This was constant with nearly every personage introduced by Brownstein. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 20 Oct. 2021",
"The statue of what Confederate personage was removed from its place of prominence in Charlottesville, Virginia",
"In 2013, the school retired the cheerleading personage , which, since Mr. Luce\u2019s time, had acquired a cartoonish Native American bobblehead. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2021"
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u0259rs-nij",
"\u02c8p\u0259r-s\u0259-nij"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
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"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
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"man",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102333",
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"noun"
]
},
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"general",
"generic",
"popular",
"public",
"shared",
"universal"
],
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": a short newspaper paragraph relating to the activities of a person or a group or to personal matters":[],
": a short personal communication in a special column of the classified ads section of a newspaper or periodical":[],
": being rational and self-conscious":[
"personal , responsive government is still possible",
"\u2014 John Fischer"
],
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"a personal interview"
],
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": having the qualities of a person rather than a thing or abstraction":[
"a personal devil"
],
": intended for private use or use by one person":[
"a personal stereo"
],
": of, relating to, or affecting a particular person : private , individual":[
"personal ambition",
"personal financial gain"
],
": of, relating to, or constituting personal property":[
"a personal estate"
],
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": relating to an individual or an individual's character, conduct, motives, or private affairs often in an offensive manner":[
"a personal insult"
],
": relating to the person or body":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"This is just my personal opinion.",
"I can only tell you what I know from personal experience.",
"He added his own personal touches to the recipe.",
"We don't accept personal checks.",
"He is a personal friend of mine.",
"She is always concerned about her personal appearance.",
"We provide each of our customers with personal service.",
"Golf is a personal interest of mine.",
"May I ask you a personal question",
"That information is very personal , and you have no business asking about it.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Only carrier and location information \u2013 no personal information \u2013 will be collected, according to the city\u2019s website. \u2014 cleveland , 22 June 2022",
"The press release states that the bill is the first Congressional action to strengthen digital privacy and protect personal reproductive health information specifically. \u2014 Essence , 22 June 2022",
"Lake has made education a main focus of her campaign, including backing parents who were incensed that the Scottsdale Unified School District board maintained lists with personal information on parents. \u2014 Brandon Gillespie, Fox News , 22 June 2022",
"Like many other companies, Strava has seemed to prefer to leave the responsibility for safeguarding personal information to the users: presenting the options for securing an account but making the process uninviting. \u2014 Abram Brown, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Public policies that ensure transparency in how applications work and how personal information is used, and that promote understanding of digital security standards, are critical to helping users feel confident and safe when accessing virtual care. \u2014 Ann Aerts, STAT , 18 June 2022",
"Employees face somewhat greater risk, because a good deal of their personal information appears to be readily accessible. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 June 2022",
"White said the department had also received threats to dox police officers, or maliciously publish their personal information on the internet. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Officers have also received threats of doxxing, a practice in which someone publishes personal information such as phone numbers or addresses online, White said. \u2014 Doha Madani, NBC News , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Toward the end, Salka and Arnaldur get into an argument that explores whether the political and the personal can coexist. \u2014 Jane Smiley, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
"As a result, their connection to the issue goes beyond the legal arguments into the realm of the personal . \u2014 Gina Glantz, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"The arrest of this world-renowned champion of religious freedom, human rights, and democracy goes beyond the personal . \u2014 Nina Shea, National Review , 12 May 2022",
"Two years into his career, Taylor has 76 catches \u2014 36 as a rookie, 40 last season \u2014 for 659 yards, an impressive average of 8.7 yards per reception that is actually higher than pass-catching back Nyheim Hines\u2019 personal -best for a single season, 7.8. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 11 May 2022",
"In today\u2019s interconnected world, employees\u2019 personal and work lives intertwine. \u2014 Lucia Milic\u0103, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Enrique Campbell beat his previous personal -best of 11.12 in the 100 by running 10.59 for a school record that ranks eighth all-time in GNAC history. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Apr. 2022",
"O\u2019Toole\u2019s is a wildly ambitious project, one that accounts for inevitable partiality precisely through this invocation of the personal . \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"For Gunn, the personal is constituted by conflict, and by self-division as a response to outside pressures. \u2014 Matthew Bevis, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
": an action under a civil law system for the enforcement of an obligation which therefore must be brought against the person obligated":[],
": an action under the common law not brought for the recovery of or involving rights in lands, tenements, or hereditaments : an action brought to enforce or recover a debt or personal duty or damages in lieu of it or damages for an injury to person or property or for the specific recovery of or enforcement of a lien upon goods or chattels \u2014 compare real action":[]
": a short message in a special section of a newspaper, magazine, etc., that is written by someone who is interested in forming a friendly or romantic relationship with someone else":[]
": a legal covenant that does not run with the property but is binding upon the covenantor and his personal representatives \u2014 compare real covenant":[]
"One example on display at the museum was the Newton, a personal digital assistant released by Apple in 1993. \u2014 Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker , 10 May 2021",
"The panel marked Apple's unofficial return to the show for the first time since former CEO John Sculley debuted the Newton personal digital assistant in 1992. \u2014 Kaya Yurieff, CNN , 7 Jan. 2020",
"From payment apps to smart thermostats to personal digital assistants , software and devices are collecting more data about consumers than ever. \u2014 Fortune , 14 June 2018",
"In the late 1990s, people said TomTom would be replaced by personal digital assistants . \u2014 Grace Donnelly, Fortune , 12 June 2018",
"The event showcased some impressive technical breakthroughs, including the addition of augmented reality to the popular Google Maps service and a robust new capability for the company\u2019s personal digital assistant . \u2014 Dan Gallagher, WSJ , 9 May 2018",
"Gene Munster of Loup Ventures expects the company to focus in particular on its Siri personal digital assistant , which is often compared unfavorably to Google\u2019s own digital assistant. \u2014 Dan Gallagher, WSJ , 2 June 2018",
"In the 1990s, Apple overextended itself with a number of projects, one of which was the infamous Newton personal digital assistant . \u2014 Brendan Nystedt, WIRED , 27 Mar. 2018",
"Analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies says the last time Apple had an event in Chicago was for the introduction of the Newton in 1992, an early personal digital assistant . \u2014 Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY , 16 Mar. 2018"
": the freedom of the individual to do as he pleases limited only by the authority of politically organized society to regulate his action to secure the public health, safety, or morals or of other recognized social interests":[]
": a name (as the praenomen or the forename) by which an individual is intimately known or designated and which may be displaced or supplemented by a surname, a cognomen, or a royal name":[]
"The company has also created personal pronoun pins that employees can choose to wear with their uniforms. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Do any of your teachers ever ask students for their personal pronouns ",
"For example, people exhibiting symptoms of depression tend to use personal pronouns , like I, much more than do non-depressed people. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work , 3 Mar. 2020",
"The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based on a 313% increase in look-ups on the company's search site, Merriam-Webster.com, this year when compared with 2018. \u2014 CBS News , 10 Dec. 2019",
"Use numbers and personal pronouns to engage your reader Email marketing is engagement marketing. \u2014 Maria Semple, NBC News , 18 Oct. 2017"
"any personal property that is left in the lockers overnight will be impounded",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The agency plans to use a combination of handwork, bulldozers, masticators, and, when weather, terrain and the location of personal property are right, prescribed burns. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"However, the minute personal property is used for business purposes and destroyed, there are limits in that situation on how much a homeowners policy will pay to replace the property. \u2014 Chip Merlin, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"Verin awarded the Stewart Family $250,000 in damages for pain and suffering, which covered the loss of personal property , self-esteem and suicide attempts. \u2014 al , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Resources include pretty much anything a household could easily turn into cash, such as bank balances, retirement savings, or personal property . \u2014 Andrew Biggs, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Earlier this year, Hanzman had approved an $83 million settlement to compensate people who suffered economic losses such as condominium units and personal property . \u2014 Curt Anderson, Orlando Sentinel , 11 May 2022",
"Earlier this year, Hanzman had approved an $83 million settlement to compensate people who suffered economic losses such as condominium units and personal property . \u2014 Curt Anderson, USA TODAY , 11 May 2022",
"The Courant\u2019s review focused on real estate and does not include business equipment, other personal property and eligible motor vehicles. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant , 8 May 2022",
"Officers were able to locate Perotti\u2019s vehicle and personal property near where her body was found, police said. \u2014 Olivia Mitchell, cleveland , 6 May 2022"
": a person of importance, prominence, renown, or notoriety":[
"a TV personality"
],
": a set of distinctive traits and characteristics":[
"the energetic personality of the city"
],
": an offensively personal remark":[
"angrily resorted to personalities"
],
": personal existence":[],
": the quality or state of being a person":[]
},
"examples":[
"He has a very pleasant personality .",
"We all have different personalities .",
"The psychiatrist considered behavior as well as personality before prescribing a treatment.",
"He has lots of personality .",
"He wants to buy a car that has personality .",
"She has met many television personalities .",
"He was an influential personality in genetic engineering.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"RyQueze McElderry, an Anniston three-star offensive lineman and Georgia-commit, had the chance to see the personality of Tigers\u2019 coaches, too, dining on some good food in the process. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 25 June 2022",
"One sure way to provide constructive criticism is to separate the behavior from the personality . \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"The resources and the personality of the group in Worcester have helped ensure that players are ready when called upon. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"When initially announcing her pregnancy in an Instagram post back in February, the TV personality said she was done having babies after this one. \u2014 Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence , 23 June 2022",
"Of all products incorporated into your beauty regimen, the product that really shows off the most personality is your fragrance. \u2014 Kristin Corpuz, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"In 2020, the TV personality wrote on her blog about her excitement over the Chow Chow's involvement in the 2020 Westminster Dog Show. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"Everything began to be questioned, including character, including the personality . \u2014 Lesley Stahl, CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"What happened Tuesday was perfectly suited to the 28-year-old right-hander\u2019s personality . \u2014 Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for personality disposition , temperament , temper , character , personality mean the dominant quality or qualities distinguishing a person or group. disposition implies customary moods and attitude toward the life around one. a cheerful disposition temperament implies a pattern of innate characteristics associated with one's specific physical and nervous organization. an artistic temperament temper implies the qualities acquired through experience that determine how a person or group meets difficulties or handles situations. a resilient temper character applies to the aggregate of moral qualities by which a person is judged apart from intelligence, competence, or special talents. strength of character personality applies to an aggregate of qualities that distinguish one as a person. a somber personality",
"in the character of the good-hearted, virtuous seaman, the author has personalized the concept of perfect innocence",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Roam offers way more than simple monogramming and stickers to personalize your suitcase. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
"Stich Fix is an online personal styling service in the United States and United Kingdom that uses data science to personalize clothing items based on shape, budget and style preferences. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 21 June 2022",
"Called Story Portrait, the function allows people to personalize their headline searches. \u2014 Marianne Garvey, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"Apple\u2019s latest iPhone software, iOS 16, will include the new lock screen, letting users personalize the feature and view widgets \u2014 bits of software that handle simple tasks. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"Now, the tool does even more, allowing owners to personalize to suit their styling preferences, personalized for their hair type. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 June 2022",
"The district is also allocating $450,000 for learning space materials so teachers can personalize their classrooms, Torres-Rodriguez said. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 1 June 2022",
"Pick up a trend and personalize it for your audience. \u2014 Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone , 18 May 2022",
"Insurers can also improve the bottom line by using AI to price their policies more competitively and personalize them. \u2014 Kannan Amaresh, Forbes , 17 May 2022"
],
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"circa 1741, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
"Roam offers way more than simple monogramming and stickers to personalize your suitcase. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
"Stich Fix is an online personal styling service in the United States and United Kingdom that uses data science to personalize clothing items based on shape, budget and style preferences. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 21 June 2022",
"Called Story Portrait, the function allows people to personalize their headline searches. \u2014 Marianne Garvey, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"Apple\u2019s latest iPhone software, iOS 16, will include the new lock screen, letting users personalize the feature and view widgets \u2014 bits of software that handle simple tasks. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"Now, the tool does even more, allowing owners to personalize to suit their styling preferences, personalized for their hair type. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 June 2022",
"The district is also allocating $450,000 for learning space materials so teachers can personalize their classrooms, Torres-Rodriguez said. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 1 June 2022",
"Pick up a trend and personalize it for your audience. \u2014 Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone , 18 May 2022",
"Insurers can also improve the bottom line by using AI to price their policies more competitively and personalize them. \u2014 Kannan Amaresh, Forbes , 17 May 2022"
": a branch of medicine concerned with developing therapies targeted to individuals or particular groups based on their unique genetic, molecular, or phenotypic characteristics : precision medicine":[
"In precision medicine (sometimes called personalized medicine ), researchers work to identify the genetic factors that drive or contribute to a disease and build medicines that target the downstream effects of those miscreant genes.",
"\u2014 Melissa Healy",
"The president referred not to personalized medicine but to \"precision medicine,\" a term given profile by a recent publication from the National Research Council, in which the authors explain that their use of \"precision\" was intended to avoid the implication that medications would be synthesized personally for single patients.",
"Most Texans are feeling the pinch personally \u2014 seven out of 10 are cutting back on entertainment or other activities and cutting back on trips and travel. \u2014 Anthony Salvanto, CBS News , 30 June 2022",
"Opponents said the same thing of the $18.8 billion Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge that Xi personally opened in 2018, providing a 34-mile road route connecting the three cities. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"Those that personally knew the prolific designer couldn\u2019t help but notice the soiree\u2019s attention to detail and thoughtful incorporation of all of Virgil\u2014like his favorite flowers, music, and cocktails. \u2014 Concetta Ciarlo, Vogue , 29 June 2022",
"Zack claims to have personally delivered information on the theory to Trump on Christmas Eve 2020, and this spring brought those claims to a Kansas Senate committee hearing. \u2014 Chris Joyner, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"The Elvis legend casts Parker as the villain who squandered Elvis\u2019 talent, and ruined his life personally and professionally, all to the Colonel\u2019s own financial gain. \u2014 Tom Teicholz, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The move came amid growing concern that probation officers have been lackadaisical in personally checking on their clientele since the COVID-19 pandemic. \u2014 Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
"Zinbarg personally uses Insight Timer to time his own meditations and to guide his patients as well. \u2014 Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 June 2022",
"My favorite podcasts are ones with a host who\u2019s obsessed, or personally invested in the story. \u2014 Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022"
"likes to personate the man of the world, but he's still the small-town hick that he always was",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Till\u2019s motifs swept though the ensemble, as horns, clarinets, bassoons, violin all had a chance to personate the character. \u2014 By Libby Hanssen, kansascity.com , 3 June 2017"
"likes to personate the man of the world, but he's still the small-town hick that he always was",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Till\u2019s motifs swept though the ensemble, as horns, clarinets, bassoons, violin all had a chance to personate the character. \u2014 By Libby Hanssen, kansascity.com , 3 June 2017"
"a personification of justice as a woman with her eyes covered",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a result, the brand is no longer an entity seeking personification but a thing to build and own collectively, with intent and purpose. \u2014 Cynthia Johnson, Rolling Stone , 6 May 2022",
"There\u2019s good stuff here: Alongside Moss, Moura as the journalist aiding her, and Jamie Bell as the personification of human venality pursuing her, do fine work. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Want to see a riveting 16th century engraving of a personification of divine retribution by Albrecht D\u00fcrer, the incomparable German Renaissance genius",
"Derrell Acon\u2019s powerfully sung and revelatory Roc, a corruptible enabler of Pizarro, proved a particularly disturbing personification of the banality of evil. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In this issue, the team also meets the personification of the Fourth Cosmos \u2014 the only such being who was absent from The Ultimates' epic final issue. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 8 Jan. 2022",
"Novak is the personification of freedom, everything human that one man contains in himself. \u2014 Dusan Stojanovic, ajc , 9 Jan. 2022",
"The personification of power and intensity, Sheffield\u2019s beauty as a ball player was in his complexity. \u2014 Wayne G. Mcdonnell, Jr., Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021",
"If anything, Sebastian seemed to be the personification of anxiety \u2014 an obsessive thought circling the mind on a loop. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 July 2021"
"The ancient Greeks personified the forces of nature as gods and goddesses.",
"Justice is personified as a woman with her eyes covered.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From Clermont-Ferrand, Paloma was never afraid to personify female characters even at a young age. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 2 June 2022",
"Users are applying filters to their faces to personify Depp, combining clips of testimonies with past footage from Depp's film archives. \u2014 Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 15 May 2022",
"While some reviews imagine the ideal driver for a car, others personify the vehicle itself. \u2014 Colin Marshall, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Were the people propelling those 897 Chinese boxes \u2014 which started out as typography fonts and wound up forming an homage to China\u2019s Great Wall \u2014 meant to personify the beauty of cooperation",
"The artists seem to personify the tiny town \u2014 at once both traditional and modern. \u2014 Eric Dusenbery, ajc , 3 Jan. 2022",
"The teen, who had come to personify Second Amendment freedoms to some conservative Republicans, received a public congratulations from Trump. \u2014 Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY , 10 Dec. 2021",
"His two advisers seemed almost to personify the voices arguing in his head: the results-minded Israeli pol and the Palestinian ideologue. \u2014 Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. 2021",
"The lineup will feature local artists, producers, venue owners, and more \u2014 all coming together to represent their favorite cities and personify their musical spirits. \u2014 Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone , 24 Sep. 2021"
": to be the embodiment or personification of : incarnate":[
"a teacher who personified patience"
],
": to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers":[]
},
"examples":[
"The ancient Greeks personified the forces of nature as gods and goddesses.",
"Justice is personified as a woman with her eyes covered.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"From Clermont-Ferrand, Paloma was never afraid to personify female characters even at a young age. \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 2 June 2022",
"Users are applying filters to their faces to personify Depp, combining clips of testimonies with past footage from Depp's film archives. \u2014 Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 15 May 2022",
"While some reviews imagine the ideal driver for a car, others personify the vehicle itself. \u2014 Colin Marshall, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Were the people propelling those 897 Chinese boxes \u2014 which started out as typography fonts and wound up forming an homage to China\u2019s Great Wall \u2014 meant to personify the beauty of cooperation",
"The artists seem to personify the tiny town \u2014 at once both traditional and modern. \u2014 Eric Dusenbery, ajc , 3 Jan. 2022",
"The teen, who had come to personify Second Amendment freedoms to some conservative Republicans, received a public congratulations from Trump. \u2014 Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY , 10 Dec. 2021",
"His two advisers seemed almost to personify the voices arguing in his head: the results-minded Israeli pol and the Palestinian ideologue. \u2014 Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. 2021",
"The lineup will feature local artists, producers, venue owners, and more \u2014 all coming together to represent their favorite cities and personify their musical spirits. \u2014 Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone , 24 Sep. 2021"
"Women are also underrepresented as police force members, composing less than 13 percent of sworn personnel , despite the proven benefits of having more women in blue, such as less use of excessive force and improved response to domestic violence. \u2014 Cortney Rock , Ms. , Winter 2007",
"When the staff returned to the Oval Office, Bush's mood was upbeat, according to a White House aide who was present (and who, like all White House personnel quoted in this story, follows a policy of not being quoted by name). \u2014 Richard Wolffe et al. , Newsweek , 19 June 2006",
"The doorway that sheltered them from the rain leads to government offices now, but in Franco's time the building was a political prison. Its personnel and their diligent labours earned the place a charming nom de guerre\u2014the House of Screams. \u2014 A. L. Kennedy , On Bullfighting , 1999",
"The only firm rule is: Armored personnel carriers have the right of way. \u2014 P. J. O'Rourke , Holidays in Hell , 1988",
"Over 10,000 military personnel were stationed in the country.",
"They've reduced the number of personnel working on the project.",
"Talk to personnel if you have any questions about your health insurance.",
"The views and opinions expressed by podcast speakers and guests are solely their own and do not reflect the opinions of Deloitte or its personnel . \u2014 Fortune Editors, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"There will be long periods of an absence of communication from the company and its personnel . \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"There were reportedly several instances of enemy planes machine gunning our aviation personnel who bailed out in parachutes or were adrift in rubber boats. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The data also excludes doses administered by the State Department and the Defense Department to their personnel overseas. \u2014 Joshua Eaton, NBC News , 6 June 2022",
"The marijuana authority\u2019s independence from its current place in the state Health Department won\u2019t happen until Nov. 1, but work is already happening to hire its own personnel to handle administrative positions, human resources and payroll. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"Some of it was their back-end personnel and scoring approach. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
"The Ukrainian military ordered remaining troops who had been sheltering beneath the Azovstal steel factory to focus on efforts to save the lives of their personnel . \u2014 Bynadine El-bawab, ABC News , 17 May 2022",
"Also unknown is how many fighters remain inside the Azovstal plant, with commanders now under orders from the army\u2019s high command to save the lives of their personnel instead of pressing on with their defense. \u2014 Patrick J. Mcdonnell, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022"
"The elegant economy of the drawing and the wild inventiveness of such pictorial devices as the towering pitcher's mound and the impossible perspective of Snoopy's doghouse keep the repetitiveness, talkiness, and melancholy of the strip a few buoyant inches off the ground, and save it from being fey. \u2014 John Updike , New Yorker , 22 Oct. 2007",
"Courses offer an international perspective , so even a lesson on the American Revolution will interweave sources from Britain and France with views from the Founding Fathers. \u2014 Claudia Wallis et al. , Time , 18 Dec. 2006",
"Tipper and I still marvel at everything we saw and the perspective it offered. At a moment when the country was still in the throes of the conflict over Vietnam, it was refreshing to see the best of America. \u2014 Al Gore , An Inconvenient Truth , 2006"
"Middle English perspectyf , from Medieval Latin perspectivum , from neuter of perspectivus of sight, optical, from Latin perspectus , past participle of perspicere to look through, see clearly, from per- through + specere to look \u2014 more at per- , spy":"Noun",
"Middle English, optical, from Medieval Latin perspectivus":"Adjective",
"Middle French, probably modification of Old Italian prospettiva , from prospetto view, prospect, from Latin prospectus \u2014 more at prospect":"Noun"
"But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers\u2019s writing is perspicuous and teacherly \u2014 an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Conditions in the state the planes left behind them were far less perspicuous . \u2014 The Economist , 8 Feb. 2020",
"The president began his Monday by scrutinizing his national security briefing, filling its margins with perspicuous questions and observations. \u2014 Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer , 10 July 2017",
"Unspoken but perspicuous is the wish to (at worst) score points off Democrats and (at best) free up a seat on the nation\u2019s most important appeals court for a nominee from the Federalist Society weapons locker. \u2014 Garrett Epps, The Atlantic , 12 May 2017"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perspicuous clear , perspicuous , lucid mean quickly and easily understood. clear implies freedom from obscurity, ambiguity, or undue complexity. clear instructions perspicuous applies to a style that is simple and elegant as well as clear. a perspicuous style lucid suggests a clear logical coherence and evident order of arrangement. a lucid explanation",
"But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers\u2019s writing is perspicuous and teacherly \u2014 an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Conditions in the state the planes left behind them were far less perspicuous . \u2014 The Economist , 8 Feb. 2020",
"The president began his Monday by scrutinizing his national security briefing, filling its margins with perspicuous questions and observations. \u2014 Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer , 10 July 2017",
"Unspoken but perspicuous is the wish to (at worst) score points off Democrats and (at best) free up a seat on the nation\u2019s most important appeals court for a nominee from the Federalist Society weapons locker. \u2014 Garrett Epps, The Atlantic , 12 May 2017"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perspicuous clear , perspicuous , lucid mean quickly and easily understood. clear implies freedom from obscurity, ambiguity, or undue complexity. clear instructions perspicuous applies to a style that is simple and elegant as well as clear. a perspicuous style lucid suggests a clear logical coherence and evident order of arrangement. a lucid explanation",
"But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers\u2019s writing is perspicuous and teacherly \u2014 an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Conditions in the state the planes left behind them were far less perspicuous . \u2014 The Economist , 8 Feb. 2020",
"The president began his Monday by scrutinizing his national security briefing, filling its margins with perspicuous questions and observations. \u2014 Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer , 10 July 2017",
"Unspoken but perspicuous is the wish to (at worst) score points off Democrats and (at best) free up a seat on the nation\u2019s most important appeals court for a nominee from the Federalist Society weapons locker. \u2014 Garrett Epps, The Atlantic , 12 May 2017"
"Latin perspicuus transparent, perspicuous, from perspicere":""
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perspicuous clear , perspicuous , lucid mean quickly and easily understood. clear implies freedom from obscurity, ambiguity, or undue complexity. clear instructions perspicuous applies to a style that is simple and elegant as well as clear. a perspicuous style lucid suggests a clear logical coherence and evident order of arrangement. a lucid explanation",
"However, with anticipation came perspiration as the two-day event held in the middle of summer was sold out, which meant long lines for everything, including water. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"However, with anticipation came perspiration as the two-day event held in the middle of summer was sold out, which meant long lines for everything, including water. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 18 May 2022",
"The Extra Fresh Deodorant contains aluminum to reduce perspiration . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Textile conservators and fashion curators were outraged over the incident, seeing as exposure to light and oxygen, not to mention perspiration and body movement, stand to permanently damage the gown. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
"Dear Readers: Sneakers get smelly from all the perspiration , heat and running outside. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Aug. 2021",
"When perspiration on the surface of the skin evaporates, heat is lost and the blood is cooled, thus cooling our core body temperature. \u2014 Cassie Shortsleeve, Outside Online , 2 June 2015",
"That\u2019s quite a shame since a face wash works to remove dirt, perspiration , sebum, germs, dead skin cells, and any other pollutants from the skin. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"An irritant, that's perspiration getting trapped under there, rubbing, and creating a rash. \u2014 Dana Rose Falcone, Allure , 16 Mar. 2022"
"He would not let himself be persuaded into buying the more expensive stereo.",
"I am not easily persuaded .",
"They persuaded us that we were wrong.",
"He persuaded himself that he had made the right choice.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Alternate slates of electors, or trying to persuade Georgia to change the outcome in that one state. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
"Trying to persuade the people in the mid 1990s was tricky, Bodiford said. \u2014 Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Members of the select committee sought testimony from Navarro about his public efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, including a call trying to persuade state legislators to join their efforts. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
"Members of the select committee sought testimony from Navarro about his public efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, including a call trying to persuade state legislators to join their efforts. \u2014 Michael Balsamo And Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
"Similarly, South Shore Health is also trying to persuade people to use primary care and urgent care locations for less-serious illnesses. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"But trying to persuade reporters to write about such suspicions is not a crime. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"De Le\u00f3n, who represents downtown, accused Street Watch L.A. members this year of trying to persuade unhoused people to remain on the sidewalk and offering them $20 to remain, rather than take offers of shelter. \u2014 Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times , 30 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Singh and Truss are trying to persuade India to take a more active\u2014and pro-Ukraine\u2014role in the war. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 31 Mar. 2022"
"Alternate slates of electors, or trying to persuade Georgia to change the outcome in that one state. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
"Trying to persuade the people in the mid 1990s was tricky, Bodiford said. \u2014 Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Members of the select committee sought testimony from Navarro about his public efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, including a call trying to persuade state legislators to join their efforts. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
"Members of the select committee sought testimony from Navarro about his public efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, including a call trying to persuade state legislators to join their efforts. \u2014 Michael Balsamo And Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
"Similarly, South Shore Health is also trying to persuade people to use primary care and urgent care locations for less-serious illnesses. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"But trying to persuade reporters to write about such suspicions is not a crime. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"De Le\u00f3n, who represents downtown, accused Street Watch L.A. members this year of trying to persuade unhoused people to remain on the sidewalk and offering them $20 to remain, rather than take offers of shelter. \u2014 Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times , 30 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Singh and Truss are trying to persuade India to take a more active\u2014and pro-Ukraine\u2014role in the war. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 31 Mar. 2022"
"The Sea Lions may have head coach Justin James\u2019 powers of persuasion to thank for it. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022",
"In the early 20th century, as improvements in sanitation blunted the spread of many diseases, public-health authorities moved away from outright mandates to policies of persuasion . \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"Biden comes across as a decent man in the wrong era and out of his depth, barely visible to the public, too trusting of both his colleagues\u2019 good faith and his own powers of persuasion . \u2014 George Packer, The Atlantic , 18 May 2022",
"This week's Riverdale saw Percival \u2014 and his powers of persuasion \u2014 start his takeover of Riverdale in a major way. \u2014 Samantha Highfill, EW.com , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Be sure to check out my earlier articles on empathy, persuasion , connecting with others, listening, communication, creativity, collaboration, adaptability, and time management. \u2014 Amy Blaschka, Forbes , 13 Nov. 2021",
"Military bases are also a form of potent persuasion for smaller nations skeptical of Chinese intentions. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
"This formula keeps them coming back for critical moments in their lives without any persuasion . \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Stay alert to persuasion tactics \u2014 like good deals that reel you in and tempt you to act on other, not-so-good deals. \u2014 cleveland , 6 Nov. 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for persuasion opinion , view , belief , conviction , persuasion , sentiment mean a judgment one holds as true. opinion implies a conclusion thought out yet open to dispute. each expert seemed to have a different opinion view suggests a subjective opinion. very assertive in stating his views belief implies often deliberate acceptance and intellectual assent. a firm belief in her party's platform conviction applies to a firmly and seriously held belief. the conviction that animal life is as sacred as human persuasion suggests a belief grounded on assurance (as by evidence) of its truth. was of the persuasion that everything changes sentiment suggests a settled opinion reflective of one's feelings. her feminist sentiments are well-known",
"More persuasive to the average person might be the price. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Chun eventually enlisted three women in filing a joint appeal, feeling that showing a unified front would be more persuasive . \u2014 Cathy Alter, Washington Post , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The presentations done by men were more persuasive than the ones by women, and were 60% more likely to achieve pitch competition success. \u2014 Silvia Mah, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Some say respectful dialogue might be more persuasive . \u2014 Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Because a new study shows that robots are more persuasive when they\u2019re presented as a peer, as opposed to an authority figure. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Moreover, a good customer service staff needs to be persuasive in their manner of speaking and use positive words while addressing a client's concern. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Their arguments aren\u2019t persuasive and suggest a growing isolationism in the GOP. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"The judge said Alabama's evidence was not persuasive . \u2014 Kim Chandler, USA TODAY , 14 May 2022"
"More persuasive to the average person might be the price. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Chun eventually enlisted three women in filing a joint appeal, feeling that showing a unified front would be more persuasive . \u2014 Cathy Alter, Washington Post , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The presentations done by men were more persuasive than the ones by women, and were 60% more likely to achieve pitch competition success. \u2014 Silvia Mah, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Some say respectful dialogue might be more persuasive . \u2014 Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Because a new study shows that robots are more persuasive when they\u2019re presented as a peer, as opposed to an authority figure. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Moreover, a good customer service staff needs to be persuasive in their manner of speaking and use positive words while addressing a client's concern. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Their arguments aren\u2019t persuasive and suggest a growing isolationism in the GOP. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"The judge said Alabama's evidence was not persuasive . \u2014 Kim Chandler, USA TODAY , 14 May 2022"
"The airport is three miles away, and the central shopping and dining district is contained within a pert five-block grid. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 16 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t Look Up in a pale blue Gucci suit, standing alongside a beaming, pregnant Jennifer Lawrence, a clean-cut Leonardo Dicaprio, and a pert Meryl Streep. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Ohlsson\u2019s left hand alone exposed any number of passages glossed over by most interpretations, and the orchestra under Blomstedt was a pert , colorful, and utterly cohesive body. \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 2 Aug. 2021",
"In this recipe, on the other hand, alliums are front and center, with leeks standing upright, pert and proud, and calling unapologetic attention to themselves. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Apr. 2021",
"If The Odyssey had been the story of a glamour girl, Doris Lilly would be its pert heroine in a fur chubby endlessly stranded on a sleek banquette. \u2014 Callahan Tormey, Town & Country , 28 Dec. 2020",
"On the \u2019gram, Lipa opted for a sleek white shirt with a tie and jeans, while FKA Twigs wore a pert lime green jacket with a fur trim. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 21 Nov. 2020",
"Banana splits, with their tall scoops of ice cream and drizzles of sauce and pert cherries, made frequent appearances in my childhood. \u2014 Daniela Galarza, Washington Post , 30 Aug. 2019",
"Banana splits, with their tall scoops of ice cream and drizzles of sauce and pert cherries, made frequent appearances in my childhood. \u2014 Daniela Galarza, Washington Post , 30 Aug. 2019"
"Middle English, evident, attractive, saucy, short for apert evident, from Anglo-French, from Latin apertus open, from past participle of aperire to open":""
"Notably, the bill doesn't pertain to medical devices, home appliances, agricultural and off-road equipment, or public safety communications equipment. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 3 June 2022",
"This, in turn, means there is no affair that does not pertain to the businessman. \u2014 Jonathan Dee, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"My mother, who was an English teacher, told me to read things that don\u2019t pertain to me. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022",
"In this new paper, though, scientists posit that this symmetry doesn\u2019t just pertain to the actions that take place in the universe. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Therefore, these leaders are reluctant to discuss societal issues, not wanting to open themselves up for criticism or get involved in issues that don\u2019t directly pertain to business. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Poon notes that his team studied the BA.1 strain of Omicron, and his findings don't necessarily pertain to the newer BA.2. \u2014 Brenda Goodman, CNN , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Environmental stewardship can pertain to the perspective business leaders hold and the practices their organizations follow. \u2014 Luke Jacobs, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Most of the inaccuracies pertain to descriptions of the first trimester. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Feb. 2022"
"Middle English perteinen , from Anglo-French partenir, purteiner , from Latin pertin\u0113re to reach to, belong, from per- through + ten\u0113re to hold \u2014 more at thin":""
"Barletta\u2019s pertinacious reputation on immigration, from his time as mayor of Hazleton to his four terms in the U.S. House, is at center stage this year in his campaign to defeat Sen. Bob Casey\u2019s bid for a third term. \u2014 Chris Brennan, Philly.com , 25 June 2018"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pertinacious obstinate , dogged , stubborn , pertinacious , mulish mean fixed and unyielding in course or purpose. obstinate implies usually an unreasonable persistence. an obstinate proponent of conspiracy theories dogged suggests an admirable often tenacious and unwavering persistence. pursued the story with dogged perseverance stubborn implies sturdiness in resisting change which may or may not be admirable. a person too stubborn to admit error pertinacious suggests an annoying or irksome persistence. a pertinacious salesclerk refusing to take no for an answer mulish implies a thoroughly unreasonable obstinacy. a mulish determination to have his own way",
"Barletta\u2019s pertinacious reputation on immigration, from his time as mayor of Hazleton to his four terms in the U.S. House, is at center stage this year in his campaign to defeat Sen. Bob Casey\u2019s bid for a third term. \u2014 Chris Brennan, Philly.com , 25 June 2018"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pertinacious obstinate , dogged , stubborn , pertinacious , mulish mean fixed and unyielding in course or purpose. obstinate implies usually an unreasonable persistence. an obstinate proponent of conspiracy theories dogged suggests an admirable often tenacious and unwavering persistence. pursued the story with dogged perseverance stubborn implies sturdiness in resisting change which may or may not be admirable. a person too stubborn to admit error pertinacious suggests an annoying or irksome persistence. a pertinacious salesclerk refusing to take no for an answer mulish implies a thoroughly unreasonable obstinacy. a mulish determination to have his own way",
"a pertinacious little boy who was determined to catch and collect reptiles",
"a pertinacious salesman who would simply not take \u201cNo!\u201d for an answer",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Barletta\u2019s pertinacious reputation on immigration, from his time as mayor of Hazleton to his four terms in the U.S. House, is at center stage this year in his campaign to defeat Sen. Bob Casey\u2019s bid for a third term. \u2014 Chris Brennan, Philly.com , 25 June 2018"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pertinacious obstinate , dogged , stubborn , pertinacious , mulish mean fixed and unyielding in course or purpose. obstinate implies usually an unreasonable persistence. an obstinate proponent of conspiracy theories dogged suggests an admirable often tenacious and unwavering persistence. pursued the story with dogged perseverance stubborn implies sturdiness in resisting change which may or may not be admirable. a person too stubborn to admit error pertinacious suggests an annoying or irksome persistence. a pertinacious salesclerk refusing to take no for an answer mulish implies a thoroughly unreasonable obstinacy. a mulish determination to have his own way",
"job applicants should question the pertinence of any questions about their personal lives",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His stature in world history is arguably comparable too\u2014and there is a special pertinence to his heritage. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 7 Jan. 2022",
"In selecting signature causes, business pertinence beats democracy. \u2014 David Hessekiel, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Normally, the byzantine workings of academic-tenure review are of little pertinence to anyone beyond the individuals involved. \u2014 Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker , 29 May 2021",
"During these episodes players are given a small range of questions to choose from and are graded at the end of the interrogation on the pertinence of their choices. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 May 2021",
"More meetings with less institutional pertinence , more managing up. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 20 May 2021",
"Considerations such as possible poetry pertinence are made based on responses to an intake questionnaire emailed after booking. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Mar. 2021",
"Paro, a robotic baby seal designed by Japan\u2019s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, was introduced in 2003 but is finding new pertinence in the era of social distancing. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 23 June 2020",
"And, despite his order, Highberger wrote that the legal landscape would benefit from an appeals court weighing in on the pertinence of AB5 and the Dynamex decision to the trucking industry. \u2014 Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com , 9 Jan. 2020"
"Patients' digital experience must encompass the same concerns of empathy, sensitivity, perceptivity, pertinency and spontaneity that are typically experienced in human-to-human interactions. \u2014 Murali Kashaboina, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"But the experiences of CAHOOTS and its spinoffs have gained a new instructive pertinency as municipalities nationwide look to divest parts of their public safety apparatus from police departments. \u2014 Krithika Varagur, The New York Review of Books , 18 Sep. 2020"
": having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand":[]
},
"examples":[
"At the dawn of the common-law court system, jurors took their places as residents of the neighborhood where the pertinent events had occurred, who were assumed to possess special knowledge of the facts and, more important, of every witness's credibility. \u2014 Hiller B. Zobel , American Heritage , July/August 1995",
"A more pertinent question than \"What am I",
"But as my moment of fame ticks by, a more pertinent issue persists: What hath CNN wrought in the worlds of communications, of diplomacy, of politics",
"No recurrent symbolism in the Odyssey is more pertinent than the long and deliberate stripping its hero undergoes: of his ships, of his men, of his hopes, of his clothes, even of his very skin on the cliffs of Corfu. \u2014 John Fowles , Island , 1978",
"he impressed the jury with his concise, pertinent answers to the attorney's questions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The preponderance of Civil War and Robert E. Lee memorabilia in the Richmond time capsule suggests not just items pertinent to a statue of Lee, but at least a little special pleading. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"In 1979, while singing Zerbinetta at the Met, she was briefly interviewed for the afternoon radio broadcast and made comments about the role that seemed pertinent to her own character. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Those with information pertinent to either case should contact Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477). \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
"But the film\u2019s actual story \u2014 which problematizes any more obviously pertinent narrative of unblemished Ukrainian heroism \u2014 presents a far more complex picture. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"To meet this demand, healthcare providers need to offer online portals that allow patients to access medical records and imaging files, test results and other pertinent health data. \u2014 Morris Panner, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Ripa responded after seemingly getting some pertinent intel from off-camera. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 24 May 2022",
"But dealing with a smaller screen and finding the proper use is a pertinent obstacle for professionals. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 18 May 2022",
"Terry Goddard, a Democrat and former Arizona attorney general from 2003 to 2011, noted the attorney general's pertinent role in elections, such as certifying results and approving language on things like ballot propositions. \u2014 Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pertinent relevant , germane , material , pertinent , apposite , applicable , apropos mean relating to or bearing upon the matter in hand. relevant implies a traceable, significant, logical connection. found material relevant to her case germane may additionally imply a fitness for or appropriateness to the situation or occasion. a point not germane to the discussion material implies so close a relationship that it cannot be dispensed with without serious alteration of the case. facts material to the investigation pertinent stresses a clear and decisive relevance. a pertinent observation apposite suggests a felicitous relevance. add an apposite quotation to the definition applicable suggests the fitness of bringing a general rule or principle to bear upon a particular case. the rule is not applicable in this case apropos suggests being both relevant and opportune. the quip was apropos",
"a pert girl who is a member of the cheerleading squad",
"a pert retort that irritated the teacher",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The airport is three miles away, and the central shopping and dining district is contained within a pert five-block grid. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 16 June 2022",
"Don\u2019t Look Up in a pale blue Gucci suit, standing alongside a beaming, pregnant Jennifer Lawrence, a clean-cut Leonardo Dicaprio, and a pert Meryl Streep. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Ohlsson\u2019s left hand alone exposed any number of passages glossed over by most interpretations, and the orchestra under Blomstedt was a pert , colorful, and utterly cohesive body. \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 2 Aug. 2021",
"In this recipe, on the other hand, alliums are front and center, with leeks standing upright, pert and proud, and calling unapologetic attention to themselves. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Apr. 2021",
"If The Odyssey had been the story of a glamour girl, Doris Lilly would be its pert heroine in a fur chubby endlessly stranded on a sleek banquette. \u2014 Callahan Tormey, Town & Country , 28 Dec. 2020",
"On the \u2019gram, Lipa opted for a sleek white shirt with a tie and jeans, while FKA Twigs wore a pert lime green jacket with a fur trim. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 21 Nov. 2020",
"Banana splits, with their tall scoops of ice cream and drizzles of sauce and pert cherries, made frequent appearances in my childhood. \u2014 Daniela Galarza, Washington Post , 30 Aug. 2019",
"Banana splits, with their tall scoops of ice cream and drizzles of sauce and pert cherries, made frequent appearances in my childhood. \u2014 Daniela Galarza, Washington Post , 30 Aug. 2019"
"Middle English, evident, attractive, saucy, short for apert evident, from Anglo-French, from Latin apertus open, from past participle of aperire to open":""
": to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet , unsettle":[
"Half way down the next flight, she smiled to think that a char-woman's stare should so perturb her.",
"\u2014 Edith Wharton",
"The crowd didn't seem to perturb them in the slightest \u2026",
"\u2014 Nick Hornby"
],
": to cause to experience a perturbation \u2014 see perturbation sense 2":[
"Newton finally realized that the planetary orbits would be only approximate ellipses, for the mutual attractions of the planets would perturb their paths.",
"It perturbed him that his son was thinking about leaving school.",
"the caller's strange remark perturbed me enough to keep me awake that night",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"None of this seemed to perturb the protesters, who\u2019ve also targeted border crossings in Manitoba and Alberta, as well as Sarnia in Ontario. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Andrillon: These slow waves are thought to be associated with pauses in the activity of the individual neurons, which could perturb neural processes and lead to lapses of attention. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 15 Sep. 2021",
"The one-minute teaser opens on Sissy St. Claire holding forth on stage against a glittery fuchsia backdrop as increasingly sinister images flash and perturb the 1980s vibe. \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 19 Jan. 2022",
"For example, manipulations that knock out a microRNA gene in MSCs might also disrupt the function of those stem cells and perturb their exosome output to an extent that far surpasses just the loss of that single microRNA as a cargo molecule. \u2014 Michael Eisenstein, Scientific American , 17 June 2020",
"Upper-level winds are weak enough so as to not perturb Pamela\u2019s growth, but there is no upper-level high-pressure ridge to enhance Pamela\u2019s outflow. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Richard Frye, a pediatric neurologist and autism researcher at the Phoenix Children\u2019s Hospital in Arizona, and his colleagues have found that such factors may also perturb the health of mitochondria in people with autism. \u2014 Diana Kwon, Scientific American , 18 June 2021",
"The more opportunities there are to perturb the parameters of a design, the more potential there is to generate valuable perspective. \u2014 James Scapa, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"That\u2019s especially true for people with autoimmune diseases and syndromes that perturb the body\u2019s autonomic nervous system, which governs everything from temperature and heartbeat to balance and digestion. \u2014 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2021"
"Middle English, from Middle French perturber , from Latin perturbare to throw into confusion, from per- + turbare to disturb \u2014 more at turbid":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perturb discompose , disquiet , disturb , perturb , agitate , upset , fluster mean to destroy capacity for collected thought or decisive action. discompose implies some degree of loss of self-control or self-confidence especially through emotional stress. discomposed by the loss of his beloved wife disquiet suggests loss of sense of security or peace of mind. the disquieting news of factories closing disturb implies interference with one's mental processes caused by worry, perplexity, or interruption. the discrepancy in accounts disturbed me perturb implies deep disturbance of mind and emotions. perturbed by her husband's strange behavior agitate suggests obvious external signs of nervous or emotional excitement. in his agitated state we could see he was unable to work upset implies the disturbance of normal or habitual functioning by disappointment, distress, or grief. the family's constant bickering upsets the youngest child fluster suggests bewildered agitation. his declaration of love completely flustered her",
": to cause to experience a perturbation \u2014 see perturbation sense 2":[
"Newton finally realized that the planetary orbits would be only approximate ellipses, for the mutual attractions of the planets would perturb their paths.",
"It perturbed him that his son was thinking about leaving school.",
"the caller's strange remark perturbed me enough to keep me awake that night",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"None of this seemed to perturb the protesters, who\u2019ve also targeted border crossings in Manitoba and Alberta, as well as Sarnia in Ontario. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Andrillon: These slow waves are thought to be associated with pauses in the activity of the individual neurons, which could perturb neural processes and lead to lapses of attention. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 15 Sep. 2021",
"The one-minute teaser opens on Sissy St. Claire holding forth on stage against a glittery fuchsia backdrop as increasingly sinister images flash and perturb the 1980s vibe. \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 19 Jan. 2022",
"For example, manipulations that knock out a microRNA gene in MSCs might also disrupt the function of those stem cells and perturb their exosome output to an extent that far surpasses just the loss of that single microRNA as a cargo molecule. \u2014 Michael Eisenstein, Scientific American , 17 June 2020",
"Upper-level winds are weak enough so as to not perturb Pamela\u2019s growth, but there is no upper-level high-pressure ridge to enhance Pamela\u2019s outflow. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Richard Frye, a pediatric neurologist and autism researcher at the Phoenix Children\u2019s Hospital in Arizona, and his colleagues have found that such factors may also perturb the health of mitochondria in people with autism. \u2014 Diana Kwon, Scientific American , 18 June 2021",
"The more opportunities there are to perturb the parameters of a design, the more potential there is to generate valuable perspective. \u2014 James Scapa, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"That\u2019s especially true for people with autoimmune diseases and syndromes that perturb the body\u2019s autonomic nervous system, which governs everything from temperature and heartbeat to balance and digestion. \u2014 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2021"
"Middle English, from Middle French perturber , from Latin perturbare to throw into confusion, from per- + turbare to disturb \u2014 more at turbid":""
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perturb discompose , disquiet , disturb , perturb , agitate , upset , fluster mean to destroy capacity for collected thought or decisive action. discompose implies some degree of loss of self-control or self-confidence especially through emotional stress. discomposed by the loss of his beloved wife disquiet suggests loss of sense of security or peace of mind. the disquieting news of factories closing disturb implies interference with one's mental processes caused by worry, perplexity, or interruption. the discrepancy in accounts disturbed me perturb implies deep disturbance of mind and emotions. perturbed by her husband's strange behavior agitate suggests obvious external signs of nervous or emotional excitement. in his agitated state we could see he was unable to work upset implies the disturbance of normal or habitual functioning by disappointment, distress, or grief. the family's constant bickering upsets the youngest child fluster suggests bewildered agitation. his declaration of love completely flustered her",
"in her perturbation she kept calling her son, a freshman, to see if everything was all right at college",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Next came Martin Borch Jensen of Gordian Biotechnology with a talk on using pooled in vivo perturbation screens to understand how aging mechanisms manifest across tissues and cell types. \u2014 Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The mechanisms of this polar perturbation are not yet fully understood. \u2014 Robin Andrews, Wired , 22 Feb. 2022",
"In Florida, for instance, it could be detected as a perturbation in air pressures shortly after 9 a.m. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Jan. 2022",
"What O\u2019Hara gets so right, regardless of the apparent setting, is the relentless rhythm of placation and perturbation . \u2014 New York Times , 25 Jan. 2022",
"One prominent candidate for a brain signature of consciousness is its response to a perturbation . \u2014 Anil Seth, Wired , 20 Dec. 2021",
"For capable athletes, imagination is the only factor that limits perturbation training. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 July 2021",
"This procedure, known as perturbation theory, gets them correlation functions for most of the fields in the standard model, because nature\u2019s forces happen to be quite feeble. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Wired , 4 July 2021",
"The merger produces bursts of energy like gravitational waves that move through space and time \u2014 a perturbation that has been measured by detectors on Earth from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, known as LIGO. \u2014 Wilson Wong, NBC News , 29 June 2021"
": troubled in mind : feeling or showing agitation : bothered , upset":[
"Never in his life had he been so perturbed , so horribly anxious.",
"\u2014 Frank Norris",
"The next 40 minutes were spent in a slow, long-distance waltz with the bear. He had spotted us, of course, and he climbed another 10 feet up the hill. He turned and chuffed once but didn't seem perturbed .",
"To refresh my memory of the old days, I asked for some Dailies of the thirties from the morgue, sat down at the large round oak table at the end of the editorial room on the second floor, and began riffling through the musty pages. Soon a burly middle-aged man appeared and seated himself at the table to peruse some recent issues of the paper and take notes. \u2014 Arthur Miller , Timebends , 1987",
"I've even found myself idly perusing the Yellow Pages, not frantic for a plumber, just browsing. \u2014 Lesley Conger , Writer , October 1968",
"Bessie asked if I would have a book \u2026 , and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight. \u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb , Jane Eyre , 1847",
"He perused the newspaper over breakfast.",
"perused the manuscript, checking for grammatical errors",
"There are many reasons for this return to brick-and-mortar stores including the ability to peruse and select products in person and taking advantage of sales staff\u2019s expertise. \u2014 Jia Wertz, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
"Gourmet food vendors serve up their classic dishes while guests peruse museum exhibits and test out virtual reality flight simulators. \u2014 Holly Baumbach, chicagotribune.com , 26 Aug. 2021",
"Amazon\u2019s policy for content productions and database of businesses, vendors and talent from underrepresented backgrounds is an open-source document posted online for all to peruse . \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"In Marfa, art fanatics can also visit the Chinati Foundation or Ballroom Marfa, both nearby contemporary art museums, and the Ayn Foundation, which focuses on large-scale pieces that are all on display for visitors to peruse . \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 14 Apr. 2022",
"There is a handful of new-to-the-market brands to peruse ahead of the official start of the season. \u2014 Madeline Fass, Vogue , 26 May 2022",
"If your schedule allows, take time to meander the historical property and peruse the Treasures and Trash Gift Shop, once used as a bunkhouse for stagecoach drivers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"On the way to the register, a sales associate entreated Tweedy to peruse the aisles of cattle prods and thousand-dollar piteado belts, but Tweedy demurred. \u2014 Hannah Seidlitz, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"There\u2019s some excellent information and several CBD products to peruse on their (excessively bright) website. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 May 2022"
"an undercover officer visiting chat rooms in search of pervs preying on naive teens",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lej's mystical oracle, the Spirit Tree, has turned into a potty-mouthed perv , and the squad must jam a stick in its hole to stave off intergalactic ruin. \u2014 Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader , 12 July 2018",
"If people have these internal pervs and act upon them, there will be consequences, rather than promotions. \u2014 A.d. Amorosi, Philly.com , 1 Nov. 2017",
"Scientists who dream of transplanting organs from pigs into people have long faced a nagging question: What about PERVs ",
"Back home, where the couples have been hosting dinner parties to keep in touch, this perv is already haunting special-ed schools trolling for another victim. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, New York Times , 17 Feb. 2017"
"He seems to take perverse pleasure in making things as difficult as possible.",
"His friends all enjoy his perverse sense of humor.",
"Is this some kind of perverse joke",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hiking corporate taxes would discourage investment in new productive capacity, a perverse move at a time of mismatched supply and demand. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 13 June 2022",
"The Upside Down isn\u2019t just an inversion of the Right-side Up, but rather a kind of magnification of everything perverse and destructive in the Right-side Up. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 29 May 2022",
"In the Realm of the Senses has long been considered one of the most perverse and erotic films to have ever slinked across the screen. \u2014 Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 May 2022",
"Indeed, sanctions can have the perverse effect of increasing the lethality of a conflict. \u2014 Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The insurance industry, broadly, is built on relatively perverse incentives. \u2014 Bob Herman, STAT , 14 May 2022",
"The short answer comes straight from the authoritarian playbook: a perverse reading of history. \u2014 Katherine Stewart, The New Republic , 10 May 2022",
"Court records also show that over time, the demands in the hoax calls grew more perverse . \u2014 Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal , 5 May 2022",
"The most likely buyer is actually Mr. Povlsen, on behalf of Bestseller or one of his other holdings \u2014 which may strike some as perverse . \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perverse contrary , perverse , restive , balky , wayward mean inclined to resist authority or control. contrary implies a temperamental unwillingness to accept orders or advice. a contrary child perverse may imply wrongheaded, determined, or cranky opposition to what is reasonable or normal. a perverse , intractable critic restive suggests unwillingness or inability to submit to discipline or follow orders. tired soldiers growing restive balky suggests a refusing to proceed in a desired direction or course of action. a balky witness wayward suggests strong-willed capriciousness and irregularity in behavior. a school for wayward youths",
"Watergate ended with an overwhelming majority\u2014including most congressional Republicans\u2014rejecting Nixon\u2019s lies and his perversion of justice. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 23 June 2022",
"In the world of Diablo, anything and everyone is susceptible to perversion . \u2014 Gene Park, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"LaGanga\u2019s son has been covertly harassing a fellow student and, with weird sadism, LaGanga manages to blame Gordon for the kid\u2019s perversion . \u2014 John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"Those Russians who are speaking out against the perversion of their country and their rights by the tyrant who calls himself their president are deserving of the same respect. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s a satisfying catharsis in The Boys\u2019 perversion of classic comic superheroes. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 3 June 2022",
"All terrorism poses a threat, no matter what political agenda, ideological perversion , or mental instability inspires the consequent violence. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 19 May 2022",
"To use a history of discrimination to deny people their constitutional rights is a perversion of logic and a betrayal of justice. \u2014 Jill Lepore, The New Yorker , 4 May 2022",
"Ukraine appealed to the International Court of Justice (also seated in The Hague) to reject Russia\u2019s perversion of the Genocide Convention as its pretext for war and appealed to the European Court of Human Rights. \u2014 Dahlia Scheindlin, The New Republic , 18 Apr. 2022"
"people who pervert their religion to support violence",
"They perverted the truth to help further their careers.",
"movies that pervert the minds of young people by glorifying violence",
"Noun",
"longtime residents warned us not to go near the neighborhood pervert",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The major social-media and tech companies have already done their share to pervert civil discourse and shatter consensus and squelch reason, all to make a buck. \u2014 Sam Lipsyte, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Yet Cry Macho, though minor, confronts the craven politics that pervert parenthood and international responsibility \u2014 whether volatile, unresolved concerns at the U.S.\u2014Mexico border or the hasty, humiliating Afghanistan evacuation. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Its crowded stadium shots present us with the contemporary mystery of how masses of friendly people later convert into the opposition \u2014 the spirit of brotherhood that politics currently pervert . \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Money can really inform and pervert our most intimate relationships, beyond just the employee-guest relationship at the hotel. \u2014 Carrie Battan, The New Yorker , 18 July 2021",
"Most presidents won't pervert the conduct of their office the way Trump did. \u2014 Star Tribune , 23 Jan. 2021",
"The Gettysburg gambit is just his latest attempt to appropriate American history and symbology and pervert it to suit his ends. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 12 Aug. 2020",
"But then Kaepernick\u2019s message, as messages often do, became perverted into a debate that had nothing to do with his point. \u2014 Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com , 6 June 2020",
"McNeil isn\u2019t oblivious to the dark side of lurking, the way certain corners of the internet study discourses to mimic, troll, or pervert them. \u2014 Adrian Daub, The New Republic , 13 Apr. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Fighting with one another is weakening our pervert brand. \u2014 David Marchese, New York Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Brandon is spiraling down the pervert drain to be eventually flushed out into the ocean of depravity. \u2014 Mike Postalakis, SPIN , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The article begins, A serial pervert has been terrorizing a Brooklyn neighborhood by repeatedly exposing himself to kids \u2014 but keeps getting cut loose thanks to New York\u2019s lax bail reform laws . . . Swell. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Infectious Diseases was a liar and pervert , the newspaper reported. \u2014 Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com , 7 Sep. 2021",
"The story of the shifting, creative ways that shame and denial pervert our social arrangements cannot be told too many times. \u2014 Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books , 6 July 2021",
"Faxe the Foreteller centers an amazing scene, in a high hall, surrounded by eight other proleptic figures, two of them being quite insane and one a curious male pervert . \u2014 Harold Bloom, The New Yorker , 20 Nov. 2020",
"The chief barged into the police interrogation room where the man, handcuffed to the floor, called him a pervert . \u2014 New York Times , 17 Dec. 2019",
"Joe also totally kills the pervert (Chris D'Elia) who abused Delilah and who came this close to abusing Ellie. \u2014 Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire , 26 Dec. 2019"
"Middle English, from Anglo-French purvertir, pervertir , from Latin pervertere to overturn, corrupt, pervert, from per- thoroughly + vertere to turn \u2014 more at per- , worth":"Verb"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for pervert Verb debase , vitiate , deprave , corrupt , debauch , pervert mean to cause deterioration or lowering in quality or character. debase implies a loss of position, worth, value, or dignity. commercialism has debased the holiday vitiate implies a destruction of purity, validity, or effectiveness by allowing entrance of a fault or defect. a foreign policy vitiated by partisanship deprave implies moral deterioration by evil thoughts or influences. the claim that society is depraved by pornography corrupt implies loss of soundness, purity, or integrity. the belief that bureaucratese corrupts the language debauch implies a debasing through sensual indulgence. the long stay on a tropical isle had debauched the ship's crew pervert implies a twisting or distorting from what is natural or normal. perverted the original goals of the institute",
"He took a perverted pleasure in watching them suffer.",
"the perverted values of a society that had taken permissiveness to the extreme",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The tension is further spiked by the return of Gallo\u2019s Sammy, who tempts her with drugs and lays bare his perverted designs on her young daughter. \u2014 John Semley, The New Republic , 17 Feb. 2022",
"People often looked at Black women's beauty as perverted or dirty. \u2014 Jihan Forbes, Allure , 21 Jan. 2022",
"This perverted idea of paradise worms its way in to each person\u2019s psyche as this space soon becomes claustrophobic. \u2014 Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"The perverted globetrotting millionaire had paid the underage teen thousands of dollars. \u2014 Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Activists who would tear down the freedoms and institutions that make our country great \u2014 and capable of becoming greater \u2014 by empowering the central government at their expense, all in the name of a perverted view of equity and justice. \u2014 Charles Hilu, National Review , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Trans people have often been portrayed as exotic, perverted and monstrous, Simpson said. \u2014 CNN , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Just what the world needs \u2014 a perverted version of etiquette that spreads unpleasantness. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Any attempts to make their show more palatable and less online/ perverted are (1) rude and (2) unwelcome. \u2014 Bethy Squires, Vulture , 23 July 2021"
"He took a perverted pleasure in watching them suffer.",
"the perverted values of a society that had taken permissiveness to the extreme",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The tension is further spiked by the return of Gallo\u2019s Sammy, who tempts her with drugs and lays bare his perverted designs on her young daughter. \u2014 John Semley, The New Republic , 17 Feb. 2022",
"People often looked at Black women's beauty as perverted or dirty. \u2014 Jihan Forbes, Allure , 21 Jan. 2022",
"This perverted idea of paradise worms its way in to each person\u2019s psyche as this space soon becomes claustrophobic. \u2014 Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"The perverted globetrotting millionaire had paid the underage teen thousands of dollars. \u2014 Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Activists who would tear down the freedoms and institutions that make our country great \u2014 and capable of becoming greater \u2014 by empowering the central government at their expense, all in the name of a perverted view of equity and justice. \u2014 Charles Hilu, National Review , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Trans people have often been portrayed as exotic, perverted and monstrous, Simpson said. \u2014 CNN , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Just what the world needs \u2014 a perverted version of etiquette that spreads unpleasantness. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Any attempts to make their show more palatable and less online/ perverted are (1) rude and (2) unwelcome. \u2014 Bethy Squires, Vulture , 23 July 2021"
"the new road has a pervious surface that will cut down on the amount of water that collects on it during heavy rains",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The finale unites some of the plot themes, characters and situations from the five pervious plays, Zeitler said. \u2014 Kathy Cichon, chicagotribune.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
"Some Phoenix parking lots, however, have been covered with pale, pervious pavement that has the texture of a Rice Krispies treat. \u2014 Keridwen Cornelius, Scientific American , 13 Feb. 2019",
"China\u2019s sponge city program aims to use pervious pavements, rain gardens, green roofs, urban wetlands, and other innovations to absorb water during storms. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Aug. 2021",
"China\u2019s sponge city program aims to use pervious pavements, rain gardens, green roofs, urban wetlands, and other innovations to absorb water during storms. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Aug. 2021",
"This seems to contradict a pervious report from OPEC+ that Russia and the OPEC members agreed to maintain current production levels. \u2014 Jj Kinahan, Forbes , 7 Oct. 2021",
"China\u2019s sponge city program aims to use pervious pavements, rain gardens, green roofs, urban wetlands, and other innovations to absorb water during storms. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Aug. 2021",
"China\u2019s sponge city program aims to use pervious pavements, rain gardens, green roofs, urban wetlands, and other innovations to absorb water during storms. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Aug. 2021",
"China\u2019s sponge city program aims to use pervious pavements, rain gardens, green roofs, urban wetlands, and other innovations to absorb water during storms. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Aug. 2021"
"Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s administration (2014-2021) produced 202,834 units, of which close to 70 percent were preserved and a little more than 30 percent were new construction. \u2014 Shimon Shkury, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The company wouldn\u2019t tell me what percent of patients say no. \u2014 Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"As a result of environmental stressors including habitat loss, climate change, pests, parasites, pesticide exposure and diseases, up to 40 percent of pollinator species are at risk of extinction in the coming years. \u2014 Leah Taylor, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"According to the hall, just .02 percent of players in college football history have merited induction. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, cleveland , 6 June 2022",
"In 2017, 2018 and 2019, 57% or 58% percent of third graders passed the FSA language arts exam that is a key reading test for those students. \u2014 Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel , 27 May 2022",
"If New York profits meet projections of $1.1 billion by 2025, as set by VIXIO Gambling Compliance, that year would see only about half a percent of state dollars allocated to support services. \u2014 Kelly Powers, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
"One version of monkeypox is quite deadly and kills up to 10 percent of people infected. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 20 May 2022",
"Six months later, in February 2022, that proportional percent of deaths had increased to more than 40%. \u2014 Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There is a 20 or so percent chance of isolated showers but nothing that will be a washout. \u2014 Doug Phillips, Sun-Sentinel.com , 27 Apr. 2017"
"Benzoyl peroxide actively fights acne by reducing the bacteria that cause breakouts while dissolving the dirt and oil that build up to form blackheads. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"While Benzoyl peroxide is a very effective antibacterial agent, very often these products can be drying. \u2014 Allure , 16 May 2022",
"Using a formula packed with hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide will polish off stains and boost the overall appearance of your teeth. \u2014 ELLE , 14 May 2022",
"Use products with carbamide peroxide (instead of hydrogen peroxide). \u2014 Adam Hurly, Robb Report , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Benzoyl peroxide products should be used with caution as it is known to be a skin irritant when exposed to the skin for long periods of time and can bleach the hairline and clothes. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Dua Lipa's gold nails and face-framing baby braids made for a playfully chic look, a vibe echoed by Gigi Hadid's peroxide lengths, white wings, and peachy pink pout. \u2014 Calin Van Paris, Vogue , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Hydrogen peroxide unfortunately does not discriminate between bacteria cells and our own cells. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Hydrogen peroxide has been used as an antiseptic since the 1920s. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Freshly peroxided , Mock headed to the skatepark later that day. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 4 Feb. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The peroxide blonde model, who hails from upstate New York and is one of six siblings, has fronted numerous campaigns for the storied Italian brand. \u2014 Eni Subair, Vogue , 25 Jan. 2022"
": a fleshy cup or tube that surrounds the archegonium of various bryophytes (as of the liverwort group) and that is formed either from the stem apex or from the thallus":[],
": the saclike bract that subtends the pistillate flower of sedges of the genus Carex and that in fruit becomes a flask-shaped envelope investing the achene":[]
": in equal shares to each member of a specified class with the share of a deceased member divided proportionately among his or her beneficiaries (such as children)":[
"The power of appointment provides that, if Mom does not exercise the power, then upon Mom's death, Dad\u2019s descendants are entitled to the remainder interest, per stirpes . \u2014 Alan Gassman, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022"
": any of various psychological disorders that are characterized by persistent inflexible or impaired patterns of thought and behavior that usually cause difficulties in forming and maintaining interpersonal relationships and in meeting the daily demands of one's personal and work life and that typically become apparent during adolescence or early adulthood":[
"As a diagnosable personality disorder , narcissism occurs more often in males than females, often developing in the teenage years or early adulthood and becoming more extreme with age.",
"\u2014 Jane E. Brody",
"Recent studies have shown that personality disorders , especially the one seen most frequently in clinical settings\u2014borderline personality disorder\u2014are common \u2026, are associated with high levels of self-injury and suicide, and have a considerable, stressful effect on families.",
"As a diagnosable personality disorder , narcissism occurs more often in males than females, often developing in the teenage years or early adulthood and becoming more extreme with age.",
"\u2014 Jane E. Brody",
"Recent studies have shown that personality disorders , especially the one seen most frequently in clinical settings\u2014borderline personality disorder\u2014are common \u2026, are associated with high levels of self-injury and suicide, and have a considerable, stressful effect on families.",
": the smooth transparent serous membrane that lines the cavity of the abdomen of a mammal and is folded inward over the abdominal and pelvic viscera":[]
"Using the peritoneum in gender confirmation surgery was popularized by Dr. Lee Zhao at New York University in recent years, and Dr. Kamol is one of the few surgeons in the world performing PPT. \u2014 Mailee Osten-tan, Longreads , 8 June 2022",
"There are potential complications of peritoneal dialysis, including infection of the peritoneum . \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 9 Feb. 2022",
"This then would result in the inflammation of your peritoneum , the lining of the insides of your abdomen, called peritonitis, which can be a life-threatening condition and is a surgical emergency. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Think of the parietal peritoneum as a membrane corset that wraps around the center of your body and abdomen, says Gregg. \u2014 Kelly O'mara, Outside Online , 8 May 2020",
"The current operating theory, though, is that these stitches are caused by irritation of the parietal peritoneum . \u2014 Kelly O'mara, Outside Online , 8 May 2020",
"Your abdominal lining, called the peritoneum , has two layers. \u2014 Ali Nolan, SELF , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Ovarian cancer may also be in the fallopian tubes, the structures that move your egg from the ovary to your uterus each month, or the peritoneum , the tissue lining that covers organs in your abdomen, the CDC says. \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 15 June 2021",
"This is the first category because endometriosis often involves the peritoneum as a baseline characteristic. \u2014 Cassie Shortsleeve, SELF , 25 Sep. 2019"
"Middle English, from Late Latin, from Greek peritonaion , neuter of peritonaios stretched around, from peri- + teinein to stretch \u2014 more at thin":""
"The eight-time Pro Bowl player sometimes goes several weeks without agreeing to do even the most perfunctory postgame interviews. \u2014 Nunyo Demasio , Sports Illustrated , 8 Jan. 2007",
"Convivial and self-absorbed, he talks freely about crime and crooks, with only the most perfunctory nods toward conventional morality. \u2014 Edward Dolnick , The Rescue Artist , 2005",
"You probably don't want to know how perfunctory was the presentation of the state's evidence, how tenth-rate was the performance of the court-appointed defense or how wretched was the end. \u2014 Christopher Hitchens , Nation , 23-30 Aug. 1999",
"the violinist delivered a perfunctory performance that displayed none of the passion and warmth he was once known for",
"Another broad comedy with lazy writing and perfunctory acting, with lots of gratuitous guest spots from his friends",
"There\u2019s also a romance, perhaps the most perfunctory one this side of a children\u2019s movie. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"But here, with the exception of Monica Barbaro as one of Maverick\u2019s most gifted proteges, women are few and far between, and even the more prominent ones get mostly perfunctory treatment. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Even in good whodunits, the setup is typically way more exciting than the payoff: For example, the first two-thirds of Unfaithful, Lyne\u2019s previous film, are alluring and skillfully performed, while the final act feels more perfunctory . \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 16 Mar. 2022",
"A few minutes spent on Lilly Ledbetter, who took her fight for equal pay to the Supreme Court, makes sense, but a sound bite from Arianna Huffington feels perfunctory . \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Unlike her contemporary Megan Thee Stallion, whose fine-but-not-more-than-that set felt perfunctory , Doja\u2019s was totally ready for prime time, with guests Tyga and Rico Nasty less the highlights and more paying respect to their new queen. \u2014 Jeff Miller, Variety , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Like a pile of simple, low-level tasks that had ended up on her desk: two hundred perfunctory notices that hadn\u2019t been sent to the federal register, the daily log of official government actions. \u2014 Lydia Depillis, ProPublica , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Then, as if out of nowhere, a big double chorus, accompanied by an orchestra with timpani thumping, announces a grand Hosanna that lasts no more than 45 seconds for a dazzling but startlingly perfunctory blessing. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022"
"Late Latin perfunctorius , from Latin perfungi to accomplish, get through with, from per- through + fungi to perform \u2014 more at per- , function":""
": any of several tests that attempt to characterize the personality of an individual by objective scoring of replies to a large number of questions concerning his or her own behavior \u2014 compare minnesota multiphasic personality inventory":[]
": a small genus (the type of the family Percopsidae) of trout-perches much resembling young walleyed pikes and in many respects intermediate between typical isospondyls and the percoids \u2014 compare pirate perch":[]
": the philosophical tradition of the world's great thinkers from Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas to their modern successors dealing with problems of ultimate reality (as the nature of being) and sometimes emphasizing mysticism":[
"There isn\u2019t usually a need per se to do traditional AI coding or programming in this alternative approach. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Sure, that\u2019s nowhere near Buckhead but MTV marketers clearly did not care about the fact Buckhead doesn\u2019t really have a shore per se . \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 20 June 2022",
"Wasserman said that stock picking isn\u2019t dead per se . \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 31 May 2022",
"There's no one reason, per se , behind why the original crypto is now trading at its lowest level since December 2020, as Fortune's Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez recently reported. \u2014 Declan Harty, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
"Perhaps beta-alanine [Ed: an amino acid that supposedly aids in the production of carnosine, a compound that plays a role in muscle endurance in high-intensity exercise] might help as well, but it\u2019s not a muscle-building supplement per se . \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"Regrettably, some of those people are not versed in AI per se , and neither are they versed in cybersecurity. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The next death doesn\u2019t happen in Multiverse of Madness per se . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 9 May 2022",
"Even that time evolves forward is not an axiom per se , but a theory that astrophysicist Arthur Eddington coined and popularized in 1927. \u2014 Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics , 22 Apr. 2022"
"\u2014 sometimes used in combination especially by those who prefer to avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes chair person spokes person"
],
": a character or part in or as if in a play : guise":[],
": one of the three modes of being in the Trinitarian Godhead as understood by Christians":[],
": the unitary personality of Christ that unites the divine and human natures":[],
": bodily appearance":[],
": the personality of a human being : self":[],
": one (such as a human being, a partnership, or a corporation) that is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties":[],
": reference of a segment of discourse to the speaker, to one spoken to, or to one spoken of as indicated by means of certain pronouns or in many languages by verb inflection":[],
"Any person who wants a refund must have a receipt.",
"Most people here are quite friendly.",
"The tickets are $25 per person .",
"The person at the front desk will be able to help you.",
"The tax break is only applicable to persons in a high income bracket.",
"I like her as a person , but she is not a very good writer.",
"The disease is easily transmitted from person to person .",
"The dogs discovered that the men were hiding drugs about their persons .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"When her problematic father figure gets shot down by a sniper, so does El\u2019s guilt and shame over being the most powerful person on the planet. \u2014 Helena Andrews-dyer, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"Making matters even more complicated is when Sim\u00f3n begins bonding with a woman named Camila (Ana Luc\u00eda Dom\u00ednguez) who happens to be the person who received Valeria's heart. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 1 July 2022",
"Johnson said Cobb also is a high-quality person off the field. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 1 July 2022",
"Mary Jane Edwards was the only person listed on the purchase contract. \u2014 Stephanie Gosk, NBC News , 1 July 2022",
"Lee was the only person in the running, in contrast to previous years that saw run-offs between multiple candidates. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 1 July 2022",
"They can also be misinformed or confused about the issue of being a trans person . \u2014 Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
"General L\u00f3pez-Calleja was a circumspect person who had become gradually more visible in official events as the armed forces businesses came to play a growing role in Cuba\u2019s economy. \u2014 Andrea Rodr\u00cdguez, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh and other key UW officials are confident Greg Gard is the right person to lead the UW men\u2019s basketball program for years to come. \u2014 Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022"
"Middle English, from Anglo-French persone , from Latin persona actor's mask, character in a play, person, probably from Etruscan phersu mask, from Greek pros\u014dpa , plural of pros\u014dpon face, mask \u2014 more at prosopopoeia":""
"Student loan interest rates will increase by 1.26 percentage points. \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 5 July 2022",
"The company said its share of the overall pickup-truck market in June increased by about 7 percentage points from last year to 29%. \u2014 Nora Eckert, WSJ , 5 July 2022",
"President Joe Biden won the 2020 vote in New Mexico by about 11 percentage points, or nearly 100,000 ballots. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 4 July 2022",
"Over just four months, Zillow has slashed its price growth outlook by 8.1 percentage points. \u2014 Lance Lambert, Fortune , 4 July 2022",
"Trump, who lost Connecticut to Biden in 2020 by 20 percentage points, is likely more unpopular in the state than the president. \u2014 Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant , 3 July 2022",
"Only 2 percentage points separated Franchot, who received 16 percent, and Perez and Moore, who each had 14 percent. \u2014 Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"But among adult Gen Z\u2019ers the figure is up more than 10 percentage points since just 2017. \u2014 Dante Chinni, NBC News , 3 July 2022",
"That year, the fourth consecutive in which Milwaukee saw a declining number of homicides, the department had a 77% clearance rate, about 16 percentage points higher than the national average, according to the FBI. \u2014 Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022"
"To perfuse an organ is to supply it with fluid, usually blood or a blood substitute, by circulating it through blood vessels or other channels. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"Recent research suggests that mycorrhizal networks also perfuse prairies, grasslands, chaparral and Arctic tundra \u2014 essentially everywhere there is life on land. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Dec. 2020",
"That description includes massive amounts of invisible mass, known as dark matter, along with a peculiar repulsive force, called dark energy, perfusing all of space. \u2014 Tom Siegfried, Scientific American , 21 Jan. 2020",
"The doctors procured other organs that had been identified for donation while the heart was perfused with a cold solution and removed. \u2014 Allen Kim, CNN , 3 Dec. 2019",
"Yet after being perfused with the experimental solution for six hours, many of those deteriorating and seemingly lifeless brain cells regained \u2014 at least temporarily \u2014 some of their normal structure and metabolic activity. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 July 2019",
"In patients with longstanding diabetes, the blood vessels in the eye are already damaged and are preventing blood from perfusing the retina. \u2014 Jewish Journal , 12 Mar. 2018",
"At this point, the whole body was perfused with oxygenated blood. \u2014 Lily Rothman, Time , 11 Dec. 2017",
"Genes were being expressed, proteins were being made, and the tissue was being perfused with oxygen-rich blood. \u2014 Jeffrey Marlow, WIRED , 20 Nov. 2012"
"With the score 0-0, an error put the Braves\u2019 leadoff man on base, ending the perfecto , and Hank Aaron was intentionally walked with one out. \u2014 Jack Thompson, ajc , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Most look like oversize, thuggish dolphins: They\u2019re often described as cigar shaped, but if so, the cigar is a perfecto , thick through the middle and tapering to the tip and tail. \u2014 J. B. Mackinnon, The Atlantic , 30 Mar. 2021",
"Brady is 5-1 against the Raiders and his team comes off pitching a near- perfecto : The Bucs had no penalties, sacks allowed or turnovers last week in routing previously unbeaten Green Bay. \u2014 Barry Wilner, Star Tribune , 22 Oct. 2020",
"Among seasonal offerings, Slimane built a core collection available year round: perfecto jackets, skinny black jeans, simple blazers, Chelsea boots. \u2014 Alexandra Marshall, WSJ , 15 Feb. 2019",
"Dominique Babineaux wears a Versace perfecto jacket with studs, $4975 at select Versace stores. \u2014 Sarah Spellings And Diana Tsui, The Cut , 26 Jan. 2018",
"Un d\u00eda perfecto para reiniciar el enfoque mental y comenzar de nuevo. \u2014 Ashley Oerman, Cosmopolitan , 8 Jan. 2018",
"Drew Kaser is punting superbly, including a perfecto to the Denver 1 (can\u2019t do better). \u2014 Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com , 22 Oct. 2017",
"Hill \u2014 who was pulled from a perfecto after seven innings in 2016 and lost a no-hitter on a walk-off homer in the 10th this season \u2014 accepts condolences by phone from Dave Stieb. \u2014 Tyler Kepner, New York Times , 5 Oct. 2017"
": any of several tests that consist of standardized tasks designed to determine various aspects of the personality or the emotional status of the individual examined":[]
"The first two games of the NBA Finals provided a personality test for Celtics fans. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
"One way to add interactivity to your site is to include a fun personality test or quiz. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The Myers-Briggs personality test is an introspective questionnaire that is designed to measure psychological responses to get an idea of how said person perceives the world, reacts around others and makes decisions. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 6 May 2022",
"Betting who will be the next NBA champion is akin to taking a personality test . \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The server comes around with a box of steak knives of various sizes, shapes, weights and colors and ceremoniously presents them in what seems like a bit of a personality test . \u2014 Kim Westerman, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Dr Kalanit Ben-Ari, a psychologist, author and relationship therapist, cautions against relying on a personality test to determine whether someone will make a good partner. \u2014 Jessica Morgan, refinery29.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Damian, the University of Houston psychologist, gave hundreds of students at the university a personality test a few months after Hurricane Harvey hit, in November 2017, and repeated the test a year later. \u2014 Olga Khazan, The Atlantic , 10 Feb. 2022",
"In one 2009 study, researchers examining negative cynical attitudes found that people who scored high in this characteristic on a personality test were roughly five times more likely to suffer from depression later in life. \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 20 Jan. 2022"
"There is nothing like percolating coffee over an open campfire.",
"Coffee was percolating on the stove.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Youngkin hasn't endorsed in either race, nor has Trump, whose false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election have continued to percolate through both primaries. \u2014 Sarah Rankin, ajc , 19 June 2022",
"Maximize Let that percolate in your mind for a moment or two. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"In 2020, a new spinoff began to percolate : A casting call for a senior citizens series was promoted on-air. \u2014 Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Suppliers raised prices sharply last month, a sign inflation continues to percolate through the U.S. economy. \u2014 Gwynn Guilford, WSJ , 13 Apr. 2022",
"These are beginning to percolate through the press and social media. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 14 Sep. 2021",
"This may change as other issues\u2014inflation and the war in Ukraine\u2014 percolate in the news and force Trump to think about something other than his monomaniacal devotion to the Big Lie. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The impact of those increases will take months to percolate through the economy. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Many sustainability initiatives are new and complex; some need to percolate for an extended time before any tangible benefits to both the environment and the business can be measured and realized. \u2014 Rouzbeh Amini, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin percolatus , past participle of percolare , from per- through + colare to sieve \u2014 more at per- , colander":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1626, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
": a variation of bridge played with a pack of 60 cards comprising 5 suits in which tricks taken with cards of the 5th suit count an additional 10 percent of trick value":[]
": successive waves of involuntary contraction passing along the walls of a hollow muscular structure (such as the esophagus or intestine) and forcing the contents onward":[]
"In fact, while your stomach will typically make writhing motions called peristalsis to move food along to the stomach, the competitive eater\u2019s stomach remained more still. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 5 July 2021",
"In other mammals, the wavelike peristalsis of the intestinal muscles are consistent in all directions. \u2014 Tess Joosse, Science | AAAS , 27 Jan. 2021",
"The top squeezes, then the middle, then the bottom (this process is technically known as peristalsis ), and this helps propel food through the organ. \u2014 Maggie O'neill, Health.com , 29 Apr. 2020",
"The nervous-immune connection is intriguing in light of recent research suggesting that chemical cross talk between gut macrophages and nerve fibers can control peristalsis , the process that moves food through the digestive tract. \u2014 Esther Landhuis, Scientific American , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Fat innkeepers then use peristalsis to fill their burrows with water so that the mucous can trap the critters, like plankton, and bacteria that the water brings with it. \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 13 Dec. 2019",
"This routine trains a competitive eater\u2019s body to stop gastric peristalsis when gorging on food. \u2014 Currie Engel, Time , 4 July 2019",
"This motion mimics how our intestines and esophagus move food around our body \u2014 a process known as peristalsis . \u2014 James Vincent, The Verge , 30 Mar. 2018",
"But peristalsis instead of these rotational forces is gentler, and would allow fuel to be manufactured in one slow, continuous process, rather than in batches. \u2014 James Vincent, The Verge , 30 Mar. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek peristaltikos peristaltic":""
"McKenna told jurors to disregard the death certificate, which blamed the death on sepsis and peritonitis due to a colon perforated by a feeding tube, which his client had inserted. \u2014 Christopher Goffardstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"But some coronaviruses, like the feline infectious peritonitis virus, take evasion to the next level: exploitation. \u2014 Donald S. Burke, STAT , 18 Feb. 2022",
"This then would result in the inflammation of your peritoneum, the lining of the insides of your abdomen, called peritonitis , which can be a life-threatening condition and is a surgical emergency. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"In 1926, magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Cause of death: rupture of the bladder, owing in part to acute peritonitis . \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Suffered from serious illnesses throughout childhood, spending one year in the hospital due to peritonitis and two years in a sanitarium for pleurisy. \u2014 Cnn Editorial Research, CNN , 23 June 2021",
"The famous magician, illusionist, and entertainer died from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix, but multiple contradicting reports caused quite the mystery around his death. \u2014 Lauren Smith Mcdonough And Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 14 Aug. 2020",
"What starts out as a relatively mild gastrointestinal infection eventually causes serious peritonitis (inflammation of the membrane lining the abdominal wall) in some animals. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 29 Apr. 2020"
"The 32-team lineup is the perfect number for a knockout bracket. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The 32-team lineup is the perfect number for a knockout bracket. \u2014 Graham Dunbar, ajc , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The 32-team lineup is the perfect number for a knockout bracket. \u2014 Graham Dunbar, Chron , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Traversing the landscape of contemporary electronic music (with the perfect number of moments to dance), the album is the perfect introduction to Lee\u2019s talents. \u2014 Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com , 6 Sep. 2021",
"In every conceivable way, Van Basten was the perfect number nine. \u2014 SI.com , 15 Aug. 2019",
"There was always the perfect number of raisins per slice, mostly scattered across and sometimes in greedy clumps. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Sessums, Bon Appetit , 6 Apr. 2018",
"Roma legend Francesco Totti has described what would make his ' perfect number 10', choosing attributes from various legends of the game, past and present, to do so. \u2014 SI.com , 5 Sep. 2017"
"From its very first moments\u2014a game of Red Light, Green Light for survival\u2014the watch-between-your-fingers drama achieved full cultural permeation . \u2014 Michelle Ruiz, Vogue , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Social media\u2019s permeation of politics in Europe has occurred alongside epochal events that cleaved fresh divisions. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Oct. 2021",
"The distinction between the singularity and the tipping point, in my view, is that the tipping point focuses on permeation , not intelligence. \u2014 Nisha Talagala, Forbes , 21 June 2021",
"The permeation of the acts of procreation throughout the group would never withstand the harsh light of reality. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 27 May 2021",
"The breathability of waterproof jackets can vary by brand and style, but many options provide some degree of water permeation , preventing sweat and moisture from building up inside. \u2014 Matthew Young, chicagotribune.com , 20 Mar. 2021",
"Where to draw the line and how to divorce the human from the artificial may become increasingly difficult to determine, as technological permeation accelerates into the human mind. \u2014 Lucas Bento, Quartz , 19 Nov. 2019",
"As much as politics permeated TV, this permeation did not entirely preclude fun. \u2014 Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine , 18 Dec. 2017",
"Indeed, few commercial mascots can claim to outpace McGruff in endurance and permeation . \u2014 Zach Schonbrun, New York Times , 8 Oct. 2017"
": of or belonging to a Paleolithic culture epoch of western Europe including the Ch\u00e2terperronian and Gravettian phases and characterized by narrow pointed flint knife blades and the art of Lascaux Cave":[]
": the part of the nervous system that is outside the central nervous system and comprises the cranial nerves excepting the optic nerve, the spinal nerves, and the autonomic nervous system":[]
"The result of something called peripheral neuropathy, this happens when the nerves of your peripheral nervous system (think the nerves outside your brain and spinal cord) become damaged. \u2014 Eleesha Lockett, SELF , 3 May 2022",
"Another portal may be situated in the peripheral nervous system , which conveys sensory and motor impulses from muscles, organs and skin to the brain and spinal cord. \u2014 Gary Stix, Scientific American , 10 Nov. 2021",
"According to Zak, as part of a multi-million dollar government effort, his lab measured central and peripheral nervous system activity simultaneously. \u2014 Roger Dooley, Forbes , 25 May 2021",
"In the neuromuscular area, the company is looking into multiple diseases driven by genetic defects in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and the peripheral nervous system . \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 Mar. 2021",
"Guillain-Barre syndrome occurs when the body\u2019s own immune system attacks and injures the nerves outside of the spinal cord or brain \u2013 the peripheral nervous system . \u2014 Aarti Sarwal, The Conversation , 7 July 2020",
"And the peripheral nervous system , which carries pain signals from the source, can be involved in chronic pain \u2014 along with, or instead of, the spinal cord and brain. \u2014 Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post , 23 Sep. 2019",
"Last month, Ashley, 34, revealed that her husband was diagnosed with Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which the body\u2019s immune system mistakenly attacks the peripheral nervous system . \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 14 Jan. 2020",
"The peripheral nervous system , which relays information from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body \u2014 from vital organs to skin \u2014 has gotten relatively short shrift. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 Oct. 2019"
"Most baby teeth are discarded, as are permanent teeth that are pulled during orthodontic or other dental procedures. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Dec. 2019",
"By then, enough permanent teeth have come in for an orthodontist to evaluate the bite. \u2014 Anna Nguyen, Philly.com , 6 Apr. 2018",
"The nail penetrates the skin and goes into a pocket between the baby teeth and permanent teeth . \u2014 Miranda Siwak, Good Housekeeping , 22 May 2017",
"Once all the permanent teeth have erupted, a second set of braces is used to align the teeth. \u2014 Anna Nguyen, Philly.com , 6 Apr. 2018",
"Untreated cavities in baby teeth can spread and cause decay in other teeth, including permanent teeth . \u2014 Anna Nguyen, Philly.com , 17 Oct. 2017",
"Earlier studies found that Neandertal permanent teeth grew significantly faster and erupted earlier than those of our own species. \u2014 Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS , 21 Sep. 2017"
"The service will cost \u00a36.99 ($8.55) per month/\u00a369.90 ($85.55) per annum after a free seven-day trial. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"Such a thought process is ironic given the already \u2018water stressed\u2019 situation in India wherein the current water availability is about 1500 m\u00b3 per capita per annum . \u2014 Niyati Seth, Quartz , 8 June 2022",
"Ukraine should repay the loan in 30 years with an interest rate of 1% per annum . \u2014 Katya Soldak, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Garena is growing at 30% to 40% per annum and has cash margins of 60% and free cash flow of over $2 billion per year. \u2014 Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes , 31 May 2021",
"Users will be able to sign up to the service for \u00a36.99 ($8.77) per month/\u00a369.90 per annum in the U.K., after a free seven-day trial. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 3 May 2022",
"The average stock in each respective list had also grown their payouts by a rate of 7.9% and 9.1% per annum over the past 5 years. \u2014 Moneyshow, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The penalty for reneging on an ESG promise is tiny in financial terms for BlackRock\u2019s sustainability bond at $220,000 per annum (0.05%*$4.4 billion). \u2014 Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
"The rate of world plastics production exceeds 400 million metric tons per annum \u2014more plastics have been produced in the past 20 years than in the five decades following World War II. \u2014 Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic , 15 Mar. 2022"
"During the rehearsal, as coffee bubbled in a percolator , everyone tried to inhabit the characters, old and new, even when the characters voiced opinions that diverged from the actors\u2019 own. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Daydreams and long-term visions, yes, but also the dreams that your night-self drips like a percolator . \u2014 Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com , 21 Sep. 2021",
"That matches the price of a brand-new one at Walmart.com and is a mere $.04 cheaper than the same new percolator on Macy\u2019s website. \u2014 Lauren Goode, Wired , 23 June 2021",
"Instead of lugging a French press or percolator into the woods, bring cold brew concentrate or, for a crowd, La Colombe\u2019s cold brew box. \u2014 Alex Beggs, Bon App\u00e9tit , 28 May 2021",
"And of course, an old-fashioned coffee percolator doesn\u2019t require electricity. \u2014 Outdoor Life Commerce Team, Outdoor Life , 9 Mar. 2021",
"There are still plenty of folks for whom coffee isn\u2019t coffee unless it\u2019s made in a percolator . \u2014 Outdoor Life Commerce Team, Outdoor Life , 9 Mar. 2021",
"The bear box outside is stocked with cooking supplies, including pots, pans, a coffee percolator and utensils. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 6 Feb. 2020",
"The percolator is going, the old man said, materializing suddenly in the doorway. \u2014 David Means, The New Yorker , 14 Oct. 2019"
"Latin percontation-, percontatio , from percontatus (past participle of percontari to inquire, literally, to sound with a punting pole, from per through, by means of, + contus pole, punting pole, from Greek kontos ) + -ion-, -io -ion; akin to Greek kentein to prick":""
"And then there\u2019s perimenopause , or the years leading up to menopause, which might start anywhere between your mid-30s to mid-50s. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 22 June 2022",
"About 25% of women did not know when perimenopause (the transitional time around menopause) typically starts, and 31% were unfamiliar with their treatment options. \u2014 Alexa Mikhail, Fortune , 15 June 2022",
"And that means women in perimenopause need to consume more protein and lift heavier weights for calories to turn into muscle rather than flab. \u2014 NBC News , 8 Mar. 2022",
"As individuals with periods approach perimenopause , their ability to regulate their blood sugar diminishes. \u2014 Jennifer Kuhns, Outside Online , 26 Mar. 2021",
"As people who menstruate enter perimenopause , menopause, and post menopause, there is a big downshift in their ability to build and maintain bone. \u2014 Jennifer Kuhns, Outside Online , 26 Mar. 2021",
"At its core, Elektra supports and cares for women navigating the perimenopause and menopause journey. \u2014 Marija Butkovic, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Research has found that approximately 38 percent of women in perimenopause report symptoms of depression. \u2014 Jessica Zucker, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 18 Nov. 2021",
"As a woman on the precipice of navigating perimenopause myself, I was inspired to build a platform to ensure no woman felt alone or unsupported during her menopause journey. \u2014 Marija Butkovic, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021"
": the property of a magnetizable substance that determines the degree in which it modifies the magnetic flux in the region occupied by it in a magnetic field":[]
"Insulation\u2019s air permeability is measured in cubic feet per minute. \u2014 Kelly Bastone, Outside Online , 18 June 2021",
"Its wind permeability is slightly behind that of NeoShell, but given its ability to genuinely withstand heavy rainfall, that\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 18 Sep. 2021",
"This permeability helps with exfoliation, but experts recommend keeping your face-steaming sessions short to avoid accidentally making your skin drier. \u2014 Mara Santilli, SELF , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Indeed, the vitality of Sherlock probably owes a lot to the permeability of Conan Doyle\u2019s reality, lived on both sides of the page. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"There is evidence that locking tailings up in cement decreases their permeability and stabilizes any heavy metals within them. \u2014 Becki Robins, The Atlantic , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Then, too, there\u2019s the permeability of the home kitchen \u2014 in which chef and diner are often the same person, and guests may come and go, and even help with the stirring and the tasting. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Nov. 2021",
"But at the same time, identity\u2019s fluidity and permeability allow for the possibility of growth. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Conventional gas comes from vertical wells drilled into sandstone or limestone reservoirs where the permeability is high enough for gas to flow easily to a well. \u2014 Ian Palmer, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021"
": a group whose elements are permutations and in which the product of two permutations is a permutation whose effect is the same as the successive application of the first two":[]
"\u2014 used to say how something or someone is seen or thought of a perceived threat [=something that is thought of as being a threat] In one widely held view, the dismaying distortions of so-called attack ads\u2014negative advertising aimed at a political opponent's perceived weaknesses\u2014have contributed to a spreading cynicism and apathy among American voters. \u2014 John Algeo and Adele Algeo"
],
": recognized through the senses":[
"Pitch is a perceived quality of sound ordered on a scale from low to high.",
"The social model of disability, contrary to the traditional medical model, dictates that disability is not simply due to the physical manifestation of impairments in the body but rather environmental and attitudinal barriers that permeate society. \u2014 Gus Alexiou, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Over the past twelve months, our country has seen the consequences of bad ideas \u2014 from defund-the-police efforts that continue to wreak havoc on our cities, to radical identity politics that now permeate our schools and major institutions. \u2014 Lindsay Craig, National Review , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Working within an industry at the forefront of innovation is not enough\u2014a culture of innovation starts at the top of the organization and must permeate all levels. \u2014 Matthew Kushner, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Still, deep partisan divides permeate Congress as the nation faces the coronavirus pandemic, high consumer prices and fallout from last year's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. \u2014 Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Calmness and quietness permeate the crisp air surrounding Vermont's Smugglers' Notch ski resort in the winter. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Finally, to drive real impact, a sustainability ethos must also permeate corporate culture. \u2014 Brian Stafford, Fortune , 16 Feb. 2022",
"But fair food culture also seems to permeate the very soul of Salem-area food carts and restaurants. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 May 2021",
"In the decades since his death, Cole\u2019s voice and spirit have continued to permeate culture. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022"
": a family of vigorous active percoid fishes that is now usually restricted to freshwater forms of the northern hemisphere including the true perches, pike perches, and a few related forms (as the zingel) but that formerly also included the sand darters or was sometimes made nearly coextensive with Percoidea \u2014 see perca":[]
": a European peppergrass ( Lepidium latifolium ) introduced into North America and especially troublesome as a weed in the southwestern U.S. having extensive rhizomes and leaves distinctly tapered to the base":[]
"The company\u2019s gross margin declined by 1 percentage point to 21.6% in the latest quarter. \u2014 Jinjoo Lee, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"Oz, the celebrity doctor, leads former hedge fund executive David McCormick by fewer than 1,000 votes \u2014 or one-tenth of 1 percentage point \u2014 well within the 0.5% margin that triggers an automatic recount. \u2014 Tribune News Service, Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022",
"Oz and businessman David McCormick were separated by less than 1 percentage point , with conservative commentator Kathy Barnette in third, for the Pennsylvania GOP Senate nomination. \u2014 Julius Lasin, USA TODAY , 18 May 2022",
"It is currently held by Ms. McBain, for the opposition Labor Party, who won a by-election in July 2020 with a margin of less than 1 percentage point . \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"More women than men report working remotely for pandemic reasons, though the difference between the two groups has narrowed from 10 percentage points in May 2020 to 1 percentage point . \u2014 Joe Murphy, NBC News , 12 May 2022",
"Under a 2005 agreement, the Nationals\u2019 stake in MASN \u2014 and the team\u2019s share in its profits \u2014 started at 10% and increases by 1 percentage point a year, topping out at 33% in 2032. \u2014 Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which has been climbing in anticipation of more Fed rate increases, has eased back in the past couple of weeks by one-third of a percentage point to 3.14 percent. \u2014 Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"The Fed could consider another mega-hike at its next meeting in July, but Powell has said increases of three-quarters of a percentage point would not be common. \u2014 CBS News , 22 June 2022"
": a character assumed by an author in a written work":[],
": an individual's social facade or front that especially in the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung reflects the role in life the individual is playing \u2014 compare anima":[],
": the personality that a person (such as an actor or politician) projects in public : image":[],
": a character in a fictional presentation (such as a novel or play)":[
"His public persona is that of a strong, determined leader, but in private life he's very insecure.",
"The band takes on a whole new persona when they perform live.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yes, the pop superstar's signature updo is synonymous with her persona . \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 26 June 2022",
"But while Trump, with his lazy, Barnumesque persona , projects a fundamental lack of seriousness, DeSantis has an intense work ethic, a formidable intelligence, and a granular understanding of policy. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
"Narcissus falls in love not with the self, but with an image or reflection of the self with the persona , the mask. \u2014 Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day , 14 June 2022",
"Cauthen referring to his music, or even himself, in the third person is right in line with the Big Velvet persona . \u2014 Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone , 9 June 2022",
"Her mother was part of a 1956 forced adoption program and was raised in Texas, but Edenshaw returned to Alaska for college and eventually took the Yup\u2019ik name Keneggnarkayaaggaq, meaning a person with a beautiful persona , spirit, aura and friend. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Weird is the joy of Auburn basketball fans with their new peacocking persona , and weird is the essence of what makes March Madness the best sporting event in the country. \u2014 Joseph Goodman, al , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Burrow and his Bengals seem imbued with that same persona . \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 13 Feb. 2022",
"But outside of his ambitious projects, Musk is almost as known for his polarizing online persona . \u2014 Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY , 25 Apr. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perverse contrary , perverse , restive , balky , wayward mean inclined to resist authority or control. contrary implies a temperamental unwillingness to accept orders or advice. a contrary child perverse may imply wrongheaded, determined, or cranky opposition to what is reasonable or normal. a perverse , intractable critic restive suggests unwillingness or inability to submit to discipline or follow orders. tired soldiers growing restive balky suggests a refusing to proceed in a desired direction or course of action. a balky witness wayward suggests strong-willed capriciousness and irregularity in behavior. a school for wayward youths",
"examples":[
"their perverse cruelty to animals",
"She has a perverse fascination with death.",
"He seems to take perverse pleasure in making things as difficult as possible.",
"His friends all enjoy his perverse sense of humor.",
"Is this some kind of perverse joke",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hiking corporate taxes would discourage investment in new productive capacity, a perverse move at a time of mismatched supply and demand. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 13 June 2022",
"The Upside Down isn\u2019t just an inversion of the Right-side Up, but rather a kind of magnification of everything perverse and destructive in the Right-side Up. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 29 May 2022",
"In the Realm of the Senses has long been considered one of the most perverse and erotic films to have ever slinked across the screen. \u2014 Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 May 2022",
"Indeed, sanctions can have the perverse effect of increasing the lethality of a conflict. \u2014 Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The insurance industry, broadly, is built on relatively perverse incentives. \u2014 Bob Herman, STAT , 14 May 2022",
"The short answer comes straight from the authoritarian playbook: a perverse reading of history. \u2014 Katherine Stewart, The New Republic , 10 May 2022",
"Court records also show that over time, the demands in the hoax calls grew more perverse . \u2014 Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal , 5 May 2022",
"The most likely buyer is actually Mr. Povlsen, on behalf of Bestseller or one of his other holdings \u2014 which may strike some as perverse . \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French purvers, pervers , from Latin perversus , from past participle of pervertere":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
"The performance/price ratio of the Tesla Model 3 and its permanent magnet synchronous reluctance motor contributed to its high unit sales \u2013 about three times that of the second bestselling EV in 2019. \u2014 Peter Cohan, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"First, more costly raw rare earth materials upstream in the supply chain can weed out inefficient downstream firms, like permanent magnet producers that are unable to absorb the higher prices. \u2014 Mary Hui, Quartz , 7 Mar. 2022",
"The first is with a permanent magnet , like those things that stick to your refrigerator door. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 31 Dec. 2021",
"In a sample of pure iron, the atoms would all align magnetically in the same direction and make a permanent magnet . \u2014 Melanie Fine, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Today, the NdFeB magnet accounts for the majority of global rare earth permanent magnet production. \u2014 Mary Hui, Quartz , 14 May 2021",
"One high-stakes arena that could shape the trajectory of the global climate economy is the rare earth permanent magnet industry. \u2014 Mary Hui, Quartz , 14 May 2021",
"Each axle is driven by an identical 150kW (201hp), 330Nm (243lb-ft) permanent magnet AC motor-generator unit, and the battery pack is able to supply both of them with enough juice to give the car all 300kW (402hp) at once. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 6 Nov. 2020",
"There is a total of three permanent magnet electric motors\u2014one powering the front axle and a pair at the rear, each driving its own wheel. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 21 Oct. 2020"
": an inclined table suspended on springs and used as an apparatus for sorting particles of ore according to specific gravity by running the ore in a thin sheet of water over the table and jarring it to effect separation":[]
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perverse contrary , perverse , restive , balky , wayward mean inclined to resist authority or control. contrary implies a temperamental unwillingness to accept orders or advice. a contrary child perverse may imply wrongheaded, determined, or cranky opposition to what is reasonable or normal. a perverse , intractable critic restive suggests unwillingness or inability to submit to discipline or follow orders. tired soldiers growing restive balky suggests a refusing to proceed in a desired direction or course of action. a balky witness wayward suggests strong-willed capriciousness and irregularity in behavior. a school for wayward youths",
"Hiking corporate taxes would discourage investment in new productive capacity, a perverse move at a time of mismatched supply and demand. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 13 June 2022",
"The Upside Down isn\u2019t just an inversion of the Right-side Up, but rather a kind of magnification of everything perverse and destructive in the Right-side Up. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 29 May 2022",
"In the Realm of the Senses has long been considered one of the most perverse and erotic films to have ever slinked across the screen. \u2014 Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 May 2022",
"Indeed, sanctions can have the perverse effect of increasing the lethality of a conflict. \u2014 Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The insurance industry, broadly, is built on relatively perverse incentives. \u2014 Bob Herman, STAT , 14 May 2022",
"The short answer comes straight from the authoritarian playbook: a perverse reading of history. \u2014 Katherine Stewart, The New Republic , 10 May 2022",
"Court records also show that over time, the demands in the hoax calls grew more perverse . \u2014 Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal , 5 May 2022",
"The most likely buyer is actually Mr. Povlsen, on behalf of Bestseller or one of his other holdings \u2014 which may strike some as perverse . \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perform perform , execute , discharge , accomplish , achieve , effect , fulfill mean to carry out or into effect. perform implies action that follows established patterns or procedures or fulfills agreed-upon requirements and often connotes special skill. performed gymnastics execute stresses the carrying out of what exists in plan or in intent. executed the hit-and-run discharge implies execution and completion of appointed duties or tasks. discharged his duties accomplish stresses the successful completion of a process rather than the means of carrying it out. accomplished everything they set out to do achieve adds to accomplish the implication of conquered difficulties. achieve greatness effect adds to achieve an emphasis on the inherent force in the agent capable of surmounting obstacles. effected sweeping reforms fulfill implies a complete realization of ends or possibilities. fulfilled their ambitions",
"The clip plays, and the Foley artists perform in synch with the picture. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"Health providers who perform abortions in violation of the trigger law or six-week ban may be prosecuted for a class D felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. \u2014 Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal , 27 June 2022",
"There\u2019s also the tricky business of having a teen perform in an environment where the majority of the audience is typically under the influence of alcohol or drugs. \u2014 Annabel Ross, Billboard , 27 June 2022",
"After one with the Portland Trail Blazers, Terry didn\u2019t hold back on confidence in his ability to perform in the NBA. \u2014 Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"In the entertainment segment, there are countless opportunities for music headliners, including John Legend and Ariana Grande, to perform in virtual concerts in the metaverse. \u2014 Alex Canter, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"In one scene from Elvis, Baz Luhrmann\u2019s riotous remixing of the life of the man considered the king of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, Austin Butler, assuming the role of Elvis Presley, is made to perform in a tuxedo with tails. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 23 June 2022",
"Joovy strollers have been proven to perform well in our Lab tests \u2014 the brand is known for making lightweight strollers that are easy to navigate. \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 23 June 2022",
"For theaters, there\u2019s the matter of securing the rights to perform a particular show at the optimal point in your season. \u2014 David Lyman, The Enquirer , 23 June 2022"
"Middle English, from Anglo-French parfurmer , alteration of perforner, parfurnir , from par-, per- thoroughly (from Latin per- ) + furnir to complete \u2014 more at furnish":""
"So its possible to create an artificial peristaltic contraction wave that travels in one direction along the length of the soft robotic organ. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 29 Dec. 2021",
"For instance, a good candidate for an artificial esophagus is a soft robotic peristaltic pumping system (known by its acronym SBPP), developed by Tauber (then Esser) and several colleagues in 2017. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Rauch sometimes speaks of his art as a peristaltic filtration system that pulls in everything around him, and lately there had been so much political dirt in circulation that caution seemed advisable. \u2014 Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker , 27 Sep. 2021",
"This greater expandability and lack of peristaltic motion may have meant that the competitive eater was less likely to feel full and uncomfortable. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 5 July 2021",
"Dr Woods suspected that, in an evolutionary two-for-one, this peristaltic action is also moving oxygen. \u2014 The Economist , 13 July 2017"
"Made with Bakuchiol as its star ingredient, a natural-active known as being a safe alternative to retinol, Ignae\u2019s decadent serum boosts collagen and protects the skin\u2019s lipid layer from peroxidation with antioxidants. \u2014 Margaux Lushing, Forbes , 2 May 2022"
"But the current permutation wouldn\u2019t involve Duncan Robinson or any salary going out. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
"The consequences of this permutation are anything but trivial. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Capitalism, the scholar Cedric Robinson argues, was not a revolutionary departure from feudalism but an extension of it, a new permutation . \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"What\u2019s more, because the interview snippets are shuffled consistently, each visitor will get a wholly unique permutation of the exhibition. \u2014 Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Conceding that the picker probably could not afford his McMansion, and that the loans that put him in it were untenable, Kelman nevertheless liked this gaudy permutation of the American Dream. \u2014 Joshua Hunt, Curbed , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Once again, the common opponent record would determine seeding priority and the Red Sox hold the advantage in almost any permutation . \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 1 Oct. 2021",
"In every permutation , from generals and liberators to late capitalist celebrity-politicians like Barack Obama or Justin Trudeau, charisma is an unbalanced emotional exchange. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021",
"In every permutation , from generals and liberators to late capitalist celebrity-politicians like Barack Obama or Justin Trudeau, charisma is an unbalanced emotional exchange. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 5 Aug. 2021"
": a general-purpose computer equipped with a microprocessor and designed to run especially commercial software (such as a word processor or Internet browser) for an individual user":[]
"Along a seemingly endless hallway in the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, where IBM developed its personal computer several decades ago, artworks displayed on a half dozen 65-inch commercial monitors rotate every 20 minutes. \u2014 David Lyons, Sun Sentinel , 12 June 2022",
"Conceived in August 1981, on the heels of IBM announcing its first personal computer , the original magazine was founded by the late David Bunnell with friends. \u2014 Eric Griffith, PCMAG , 8 June 2022",
"This first personal microcomputer was featured in Popular Electronics in 1975 and prompted Steve Wozniak, who could not afford the Altair 8800, to create his own personal computer . \u2014 Tim Bajarin, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"But by 1992, the state\u2019s minicomputer makers were on the wrong side of the personal computer revolution. \u2014 Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"The personal computer revolution took off in the 1980s. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"They have been urged to get burner phones and leave personal computer equipment behind because of cybersecurity issues in China. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Like many personal computer makers including HP and Dell, Seagate\u2019s business of making computer hard drives for PCs has shrunk over the years as smartphones grew in popularity with consumers. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Xerox PARC introduces the Alto, the first modern personal computer , supporting a graphical user interface. \u2014 Gil Press, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022"
"Cecil also noted that painting Republicans as extremist is a key strategy for not only mobilizing Democratic voters, but convincing persuadable voters to support Democrats. \u2014 Bridget Bowman, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
"Numbers back up the idea that there are many persuadable voters still out there, according to Portman. \u2014 Tyler Olson, Fox News , 1 May 2022",
"Some of these folks, the Biden people have concluded, are persuadable . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In other words: Some unvaxxed adults are still persuadable . \u2014 Brian Stelter, CNN , 19 Dec. 2021",
"Left is a small and shrinking number of persuadable people, said Liz Hamel, KFF\u2019s director of public opinion and survey research. \u2014 Jennifer Levitz, WSJ , 16 Jan. 2022",
"Experts in vaccine behavior fear that the country is bumping up against the ceiling of persuadable people, one that is significantly lower than the threshold needed for broad immunity from Delta and, possibly, future variants. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Public-health campaigns and employee vaccine mandates have made progress since the summer at reducing the ranks of unvaccinated fence-sitters, people without easy access to health care and those who were hesitant but persuadable . \u2014 New York Times , 25 Dec. 2021",
"Conservative and liberal legal activists alike saw him as persuadable and tailored their strategies accordingly. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 15 Nov. 2021"
"Benzoyl peroxide actively fights acne by reducing the bacteria that cause breakouts while dissolving the dirt and oil that build up to form blackheads. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"While Benzoyl peroxide is a very effective antibacterial agent, very often these products can be drying. \u2014 Allure , 16 May 2022",
"Using a formula packed with hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide will polish off stains and boost the overall appearance of your teeth. \u2014 ELLE , 14 May 2022",
"Use products with carbamide peroxide (instead of hydrogen peroxide). \u2014 Adam Hurly, Robb Report , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Benzoyl peroxide products should be used with caution as it is known to be a skin irritant when exposed to the skin for long periods of time and can bleach the hairline and clothes. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Dua Lipa's gold nails and face-framing baby braids made for a playfully chic look, a vibe echoed by Gigi Hadid's peroxide lengths, white wings, and peachy pink pout. \u2014 Calin Van Paris, Vogue , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Hydrogen peroxide unfortunately does not discriminate between bacteria cells and our own cells. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Hydrogen peroxide has been used as an antiseptic since the 1920s. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Freshly peroxided , Mock headed to the skatepark later that day. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 4 Feb. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The peroxide blonde model, who hails from upstate New York and is one of six siblings, has fronted numerous campaigns for the storied Italian brand. \u2014 Eni Subair, Vogue , 25 Jan. 2022"
"First the adventure, in the form of a rare complication, a perpetual calendar in the Luminor collection, the Goldtech Calendario Perpetuo PAM1269, which comes with a trip to Florence, where Panerai was founded. \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Hamilton\u2019s watch doubles down on the complications, featuring both a perpetual calendar and moon phase indicator. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 11 May 2022",
"One of those designs includes the Endeavour Centre Seconds Concept X seconde/seconde/, which is similar in design to the new perpetual calendar models featuring a brightly colored fume dial with a cartoonish rubber eraser at its center. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 15 Feb. 2022",
"But a perpetual calendar was still missing from the collection \u2014 until now. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 30 Mar. 2022",
"THE WATCH Dive into the deep-blue hues of a timepiece with a new perpetual calendar . \u2014 WSJ , 10 Mar. 2022",
"One in particular is a Patek Philippe perpetual calendar with a chronograph Ref. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 6 Nov. 2021",
"The top lot was a moonless perpetual calendar customized for former Patek Philippe executive Alan Banbery. \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 24 May 2021",
"Designed by Louis-Elis\u00e9e Piguet, who is said to have made the first perpetual calendar module for a pocket watch, the raw caliber number 5802 was made sometime between 1898 and 1903. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 2 Dec. 2021"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perspicacious shrewd , sagacious , perspicacious , astute mean acute in perception and sound in judgment. shrewd stresses practical, hardheaded cleverness and judgment. a shrewd judge of character sagacious suggests wisdom, penetration, and farsightedness. sagacious investors got in on the ground floor perspicacious implies unusual power to see through and understand what is puzzling or hidden. a perspicacious counselor saw through the child's facade astute suggests shrewdness, perspicacity, and diplomatic skill. an astute player of party politics",
"Photographs show Pym looking jolly and perspicacious , with charmingly crooked English teeth. \u2014 Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"This particular Ferrari F50 was delivered new, in 1996, to \u00c9tienne L\u00e9andri, a defense lawyer and perspicacious Ferrari collector from Monaco. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 7 Mar. 2022",
"As some of the nation\u2019s most perspicacious observers have noted, self-regulation is a crucial component of fixing what\u2019s wrong with social media. \u2014 Gilad Edelman, Wired , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Parker also knits in a perspicacious take on the toxicity of the royal family, most particularly the poisonous effect of the institution and the vulturous press. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Some of the film\u2019s performances are merely peculiar and others merely apt, but Cheadle is thrilling, with coiled strength and a perspicacious gaze that seems to realize ideas in motion. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 1 July 2021",
"National Review Institute enables the perspicacious endeavors of twelve NRI fellows and three young journalism fellows. \u2014 Peter J. Travers, National Review , 29 June 2021",
"Corey is freed and making his way to Paris, Vogel escapes, and the perspicacious Corey\u2014while being pursued by his gangland enemies\u2014brings Vogel in on the jewelry-store scheme. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 25 June 2021",
"Chude-Sokei chronicles his further missteps, advances and inner conflicts to create a moving, perspicacious account of disguising his origins, of adopting pose after pose, of seeking acceptance. \u2014 Star Tribune , 12 Feb. 2021"
": a certified medical technician responsible for extracorporeal oxygenation of the blood during open-heart surgery and for the operation and maintenance of equipment (such as a heart-lung machine) controlling it":[]
"Angela Sakal, the chief perfusionist at Saint Francis Hospital in Connecticut, told CNN. \u2014 Holly Yan, CNN , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Daniel FitzGerald, a longtime perfusionist who operated heart-lung machines at the Brigham, said staff morale had plummeted in recent years after knowing its president worked so much on corporate boards. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Daniel FitzGerald, a longtime perfusionist who operated heart-lung machines at the Brigham, said staff morale had plummeted in recent years after knowing its president worked so much on corporate boards. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Daniel FitzGerald, a longtime perfusionist who operated heart-lung machines at the Brigham, said staff morale had plummeted in recent years after knowing its president worked so much on corporate boards. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Daniel FitzGerald, a longtime perfusionist who operated heart-lung machines at the Brigham, said staff morale had plummeted in recent years after knowing its president worked so much on corporate boards. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Czekajlo is a perfusionist , operating heart-lung machines during surgery, and worked in a COVID-19 unit. \u2014 Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com , 30 Apr. 2021",
"Daniel FitzGerald, a longtime perfusionist who operated heart-lung machines at the Brigham, said staff morale had plummeted in recent years after knowing its president worked so much on corporate boards. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Daniel FitzGerald, a longtime perfusionist who operated heart-lung machines at the Brigham, said staff morale had plummeted in recent years after knowing its president worked so much on corporate boards. \u2014 Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, STAT , 9 Apr. 2021"
"The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions, orders and submissions, can be found on the Internet at arcourts.gov. \u2014 The Arkansas Democrat-gazette, Arkansas Online , 25 June 2021",
"However, in November 2020, a per curiam ruling of the Supreme Court in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo changed the analysis specifically as to church closings. \u2014 Star Tribune , 11 Apr. 2021",
"The announcement, made in a per curiam opinion from the seven-member court, will allow jury trials already underway to continue for the time being. \u2014 Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online , 21 Nov. 2020",
"In an unsigned per curiam opinion, the Chief joined the four liberals and a (conflicted) Justice Brett Kavanaugh in declaring moot a challenge to New York City\u2019s onerous gun regulation (New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York). \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Ephrat Livni The US Supreme Court today issued a per curiam opinion\u2014an unsigned decision, often signaling unanimity\u2014dismissing a supremely controversial New York gun law case that had Americans up in arms. \u2014 Ephrat Livni, Quartz , 27 Apr. 2020",
"The justices issued a unanimous per curiam , or unsigned, opinion on Tuesday announcing the suspension. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 19 Nov. 2019",
"Several justices issued dissenting statements, though the order was entered per curiam . \u2014 Jonathan Lai, Philly.com , 22 Jan. 2018",
"In his opinion, Thomas recognizes this fact, calling out the per curiam majority for injecting squishy standards into an already complex case. \u2014 Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine , 26 June 2017"
": being entirely without fault or defect : flawless":[
"a perfect diamond"
],
": satisfying all requirements : accurate":[],
": corresponding to an ideal standard or abstract concept":[
"a perfect gentleman"
],
": legally valid":[],
": expert , proficient":[
"practice makes perfect"
],
": pure , total":[],
": lacking in no essential detail : complete":[],
": sane":[],
": absolute , unequivocal":[
"enjoys perfect happiness"
],
": of an extreme kind : unmitigated":[
"a perfect brat",
"an act of perfect foolishness"
],
": mature":[],
": of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or verbal that expresses an action or state completed at the time of speaking or at a time spoken of":[],
": certain , sure":[],
": contented , satisfied":[],
": belonging to the consonances unison, fourth, fifth, and octave which become augmented or diminished when raised or lowered by a half step":[],
": sexually mature and fully differentiated":[
"a perfect insect"
],
": having both stamens and pistils in the same flower":[
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perfect Adjective perfect , whole , entire , intact mean not lacking or faulty in any particular. perfect implies the soundness and the excellence of every part, element, or quality of a thing frequently as an unattainable or theoretical state. a perfect set of teeth whole suggests a completeness or perfection that can be sought, gained, or regained. felt like a whole person again after vacation entire implies perfection deriving from integrity, soundness, or completeness of a thing. the entire Beethoven corpus intact implies retention of perfection of a thing in its natural or original state. the boat survived the storm intact",
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"He drew a perfect circle.",
"She's a perfect baby. She hardly cries and she sleeps through the night.",
"His behavior is a perfect example of what not to do.",
"This is a perfect time to have a wedding.",
"Going to the museum was a perfect way to spend a rainy day.",
"\u201cIs that a big enough piece of pie",
"Verb",
"perfected the arrangements for their long-awaited European vacation",
"an art teacher who seems to believe that you can always perfect a painting with some additional brush strokes",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The chefs are challenged by Antonia Lofaso to create summer eats worthy of the Fourth of July; mentors Tiffani Faison and Brooke Williamson encourage their teams to create the perfect burger. \u2014 Olivia Mccormack, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"Two RFAs, Vegas center Nic Roy and LA right-shot defenseman Sean Durzi, would be perfect roster fits here, but the B\u2019s are likely too close to the cap to be in the offer-sheet business. \u2014 Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"Instead of perfect , aim for pretty good, recommends Johnston. \u2014 Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Miller shares her tips and tricks for making perfect pavlova every time. \u2014 Felicia Campbell, The Arizona Republic , 1 July 2022",
"These small but mighty lights are the perfect addition to any kayak. \u2014 Kylee Mcguigan, Popular Mechanics , 1 July 2022",
"The Main Characters enjoy a bright, colorful world that seems perfect on the surface, but definitely contains shadows. \u2014 Alissa Simon, Variety , 1 July 2022",
"To find the perfect poolside palate pleaser, roughly a dozen co-workers and friends dubbed the Elite Beverage Tasting Squad (EBTS) decamped for a 17-beverage test. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"For her version of southern Italian anelletti al forno, Rodriguez\u2019s pasta team braids strands of dough by hand into perfect , toothsome rings\u2014all the better looking and for catching tiny bites of escarole and braised pork cheek. \u2014 Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Fitzpatrick, the winner, was public-relations perfect , with his US Amateur championship history at The Country Club, his local story about staying with the Fulton family in Jamaica Plain. \u2014 Leigh Montville, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"As much as statisticians perfect their sampling and weighting processes to fit the American populace, there may just be a difference between the people who spend time filling out surveys (online or offline) and those who don\u2019t. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"This Solid & Striped swimsuit is the epitome of retro elegance and perfect for an excursion to the French Riviera. \u2014 Alexis Bennett, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"Simple in design, this mini backpack (intended for adults, but also perfect for littles) is both lightweight yet durable. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 16 June 2022",
"This eyelet dress is easy to throw on and perfect for a casual daytime wedding. \u2014 Raena Loper, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Putting a robot in every household, is in part, meant to help Tesla perfect its autonomous vehicle technology AI. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 16 Apr. 2022",
"His father helped perfect the process used to manufacture the modern beer can. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Today\u2019s new homeowners may even feel more of a desire to preserve and perfect their living space than previous generations. \u2014 Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"After a number of fizzled chances, Portland finally broke through in the 38th minute on a perfect through ball from left to right by Blanco to a streaking Chara, who finished strong after a soft touch. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"Portland\u2019s best chance of the first half came on a perfect through ball from Christine Sinclair to Sophia Smith. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 May 2022",
"Harry Swartz swung a perfect through ball in behind Phoenix\u2019s back line setting striker Nico Brett up for a first-time finish past Ben Lundt. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Unfortunately, his previous owner was experiencing homelessness and recognized their inability to properly care for him any longer thus their decision to give him a chance at finding the perfect forever home. \u2014 The Republic, The Arizona Republic , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Schwartz\u2019s second suggestion is not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. \u2014 Karen Kaplan Science And Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"In other words, Norway didn\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s a tangible sweetness behind the notion of two imperfect people finding each other perfect . \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 5 Nov. 2021",
"The Flight Attendant is controlled chaos and a perfect for a binge. \u2014 Savannah Salazar, Vulture , 17 Sep. 2021"
"Middle English parfit , from Anglo-French, from Latin perfectus , from past participle of perficere to carry out, perfect, from per- thoroughly + facere to make, do \u2014 more at do":"Adjective"
": a person whose skin pigmentation is other than and especially darker than what is considered characteristic of people typically defined as white (see white entry 1 sense 2a ) : a person who is of a race (see race entry 1 sense 1a ) other than white or who is of mixed race":[
"People of color account for 43 percent of the active-duty military, but the top ranks are largely white and male.",
"\u2014 Helene Cooper",
"Because we are so accustomed to talking about race in terms of black and white, we often fail to recognize and contest expressions of racism that target people of color who are not black.",
"This backward line of thought can pervade the CRM implementation at any and all phases. \u2014 Tal Frankfurt, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Racist and sexist pressures pervade intimate spaces and private lives and shape identities and self-images, and the characters forge a sense of style as a way of coping and as a mode of protest, defiance, and self-assertion. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 13 May 2022",
"Her more extreme opponents have taken direct aim at her with racist tropes, and criticize her class and political legitimacy, expressing sentiments that continue to pervade and sway portions of Colombian society. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"Indeed, some degree of befuddlement seems to pervade many of the early reviews from viewers who\u2019ve seen this one. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Alexa was the only one at the time that could stream music throughout the house; the Conrads loved the idea of having a surround sound system pervade their entire home. \u2014 Steven Aquino, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"And pessimism continued to pervade among Western leaders the talks could yield significant progress. \u2014 Kevin Liptak, CNN , 30 Mar. 2022",
"At this fall's inaugural Eradicate Hate conference, held just 10 months after the Jan. 6 insurrection showed how deeply hateful ideologies pervade U.S. society, experts in violent domestic extremism discovered something surprising: hope. \u2014 Will Carless, USA TODAY , 27 Dec. 2021",
"This slow theme will pervade throughout the day, but there's a chance for an unexpected surprise when the Moon sextiles rebel Uranus at 10:54 pm EDT, reminding us that coloring outside of the lines can sometimes create surprisingly gorgeous artwork. \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 29 Mar. 2022"
"Physical therapist and Men\u2019s Health advisor Daniel Giordano recommends percussive therapy massagers and guns, and massagers that wrap around your neck. \u2014 Milan Polk And Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health , 8 June 2022",
"Therabody\u2019s latest project with brand ambassador and investor, Karlie Kloss, Theraface Pro, brings percussive therapy to the face that allows for restorative facial treatments. \u2014 Valentina Di Donato, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Kraft\u2019s percussive revolution has been astonishingly widespread. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The palm fronds danced in the wind, rubbing and clapping a symphony of percussive music. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022",
"The tap adventure explores the art form of percussive dance as music, with inventive movement creating intricate rhythms that pound and percolate. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"July 1: Jim Green plays acoustic guitar using a percussive style that includes finger tapping and unusual guitar tunings. \u2014 Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"Over a tiresome hour and 45 minutes, NBCUniversal enlisted a percussive barrage of talent to pass the proverbial offering bucket. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 May 2022",
"Predominantly Joe is holding it down, and Jeremiah is showing a different side and doing the more percussive stuff. \u2014 Ryan Reed, SPIN , 21 Mar. 2022"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for persecute wrong , oppress , persecute , aggrieve mean to injure unjustly or outrageously. wrong implies inflicting injury either unmerited or out of proportion to what one deserves. a penal system that had wronged him oppress suggests inhumane imposing of burdens one cannot endure or exacting more than one can perform. a people oppressed by a warmongering tyrant persecute implies a relentless and unremitting subjection to annoyance or suffering. a child persecuted by constant criticism aggrieve implies suffering caused by an infringement or denial of rights. a legal aid society representing aggrieved minority groups",
"According to the resolution, the video accuses Ho, Manzo and Do of conspiring to persecute Venerable Vien Ly, the abbot of Chua Dieu Ngu Buddhist temple in Westminster. \u2014 Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But over the years the government continued to persecute religious minorities and political dissenters and isolate itself internationally, and opportunities withered for many Iranians regardless of religion. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"All three countries use a patchwork of laws\u2014often involving vague definitions of morality or debauchery\u2014to persecute LGBTQ people. \u2014 Matt Burgess, Wired , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Their departure accelerates a long-running process of shutting down Russia\u2019s civil society, without the state having to persecute and imprison people individually. \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 20 Mar. 2022",
"China also employs diplomatic pressure and financial incentives to secure foreign assistance in its efforts to persecute Uighurs abroad. \u2014 John Beck, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"While offering design inspiration, the papacy\u2019s alliance with France to persecute the Templars also presented an allegory. \u2014 Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Increasingly, countries that persecute LGBTQ communities are altering their legal approaches to cases. \u2014 Matt Burgess, Wired , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Worst of all, the bill would make the Federal Trade Commission a superagency by expanding its budget by $300 million along with the almost unlimited power to persecute American business with its vast menu of potential offenses. \u2014 Robert H. Bork Jr., WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
"Middle English, from Middle French persecuter , back-formation from persecuteur persecutor, from Late Latin persecutor , from persequi to persecute, from Latin, to pursue, from per- through + sequi to follow \u2014 more at sue":""
"There isn\u2019t usually a need per se to do traditional AI coding or programming in this alternative approach. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Sure, that\u2019s nowhere near Buckhead but MTV marketers clearly did not care about the fact Buckhead doesn\u2019t really have a shore per se . \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 20 June 2022",
"Wasserman said that stock picking isn\u2019t dead per se . \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 31 May 2022",
"There's no one reason, per se , behind why the original crypto is now trading at its lowest level since December 2020, as Fortune's Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez recently reported. \u2014 Declan Harty, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
"Perhaps beta-alanine [Ed: an amino acid that supposedly aids in the production of carnosine, a compound that plays a role in muscle endurance in high-intensity exercise] might help as well, but it\u2019s not a muscle-building supplement per se . \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"Regrettably, some of those people are not versed in AI per se , and neither are they versed in cybersecurity. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The next death doesn\u2019t happen in Multiverse of Madness per se . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 9 May 2022",
"Even that time evolves forward is not an axiom per se , but a theory that astrophysicist Arthur Eddington coined and popularized in 1927. \u2014 Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics , 22 Apr. 2022"
"He would not let himself be persuaded into buying the more expensive stereo.",
"I am not easily persuaded .",
"They persuaded us that we were wrong.",
"He persuaded himself that he had made the right choice.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Alternate slates of electors, or trying to persuade Georgia to change the outcome in that one state. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
"Trying to persuade the people in the mid 1990s was tricky, Bodiford said. \u2014 Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Members of the select committee sought testimony from Navarro about his public efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, including a call trying to persuade state legislators to join their efforts. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
"Members of the select committee sought testimony from Navarro about his public efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, including a call trying to persuade state legislators to join their efforts. \u2014 Michael Balsamo And Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
"Similarly, South Shore Health is also trying to persuade people to use primary care and urgent care locations for less-serious illnesses. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
"But trying to persuade reporters to write about such suspicions is not a crime. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"De Le\u00f3n, who represents downtown, accused Street Watch L.A. members this year of trying to persuade unhoused people to remain on the sidewalk and offering them $20 to remain, rather than take offers of shelter. \u2014 Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times , 30 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Singh and Truss are trying to persuade India to take a more active\u2014and pro-Ukraine\u2014role in the war. \u2014 Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz , 31 Mar. 2022"
"Detroit could be without three starting offensive lineman against Minnesota, which means Jared Goff will be in perpetual check -down mode. \u2014 Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Oct. 2021",
"Necessary was a dash to a perpetual check and a draw with Rd6 and then Rxg6+. \u2014 Chris Chase, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2018"
": being entirely without fault or defect : flawless":[
"a perfect diamond"
],
": satisfying all requirements : accurate":[],
": corresponding to an ideal standard or abstract concept":[
"a perfect gentleman"
],
": legally valid":[],
": expert , proficient":[
"practice makes perfect"
],
": pure , total":[],
": lacking in no essential detail : complete":[],
": sane":[],
": absolute , unequivocal":[
"enjoys perfect happiness"
],
": of an extreme kind : unmitigated":[
"a perfect brat",
"an act of perfect foolishness"
],
": mature":[],
": of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or verbal that expresses an action or state completed at the time of speaking or at a time spoken of":[],
": certain , sure":[],
": contented , satisfied":[],
": belonging to the consonances unison, fourth, fifth, and octave which become augmented or diminished when raised or lowered by a half step":[],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for perfect Adjective perfect , whole , entire , intact mean not lacking or faulty in any particular. perfect implies the soundness and the excellence of every part, element, or quality of a thing frequently as an unattainable or theoretical state. a perfect set of teeth whole suggests a completeness or perfection that can be sought, gained, or regained. felt like a whole person again after vacation entire implies perfection deriving from integrity, soundness, or completeness of a thing. the entire Beethoven corpus intact implies retention of perfection of a thing in its natural or original state. the boat survived the storm intact",
"perfected the arrangements for their long-awaited European vacation",
"an art teacher who seems to believe that you can always perfect a painting with some additional brush strokes",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The chefs are challenged by Antonia Lofaso to create summer eats worthy of the Fourth of July; mentors Tiffani Faison and Brooke Williamson encourage their teams to create the perfect burger. \u2014 Olivia Mccormack, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
"Two RFAs, Vegas center Nic Roy and LA right-shot defenseman Sean Durzi, would be perfect roster fits here, but the B\u2019s are likely too close to the cap to be in the offer-sheet business. \u2014 Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
"Instead of perfect , aim for pretty good, recommends Johnston. \u2014 Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
"Miller shares her tips and tricks for making perfect pavlova every time. \u2014 Felicia Campbell, The Arizona Republic , 1 July 2022",
"These small but mighty lights are the perfect addition to any kayak. \u2014 Kylee Mcguigan, Popular Mechanics , 1 July 2022",
"The Main Characters enjoy a bright, colorful world that seems perfect on the surface, but definitely contains shadows. \u2014 Alissa Simon, Variety , 1 July 2022",
"To find the perfect poolside palate pleaser, roughly a dozen co-workers and friends dubbed the Elite Beverage Tasting Squad (EBTS) decamped for a 17-beverage test. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
"For her version of southern Italian anelletti al forno, Rodriguez\u2019s pasta team braids strands of dough by hand into perfect , toothsome rings\u2014all the better looking and for catching tiny bites of escarole and braised pork cheek. \u2014 Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report , 1 July 2022",
"Fitzpatrick, the winner, was public-relations perfect , with his US Amateur championship history at The Country Club, his local story about staying with the Fulton family in Jamaica Plain. \u2014 Leigh Montville, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"As much as statisticians perfect their sampling and weighting processes to fit the American populace, there may just be a difference between the people who spend time filling out surveys (online or offline) and those who don\u2019t. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"This Solid & Striped swimsuit is the epitome of retro elegance and perfect for an excursion to the French Riviera. \u2014 Alexis Bennett, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"Simple in design, this mini backpack (intended for adults, but also perfect for littles) is both lightweight yet durable. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 16 June 2022",
"This eyelet dress is easy to throw on and perfect for a casual daytime wedding. \u2014 Raena Loper, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Putting a robot in every household, is in part, meant to help Tesla perfect its autonomous vehicle technology AI. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 16 Apr. 2022",
"His father helped perfect the process used to manufacture the modern beer can. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Today\u2019s new homeowners may even feel more of a desire to preserve and perfect their living space than previous generations. \u2014 Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"After a number of fizzled chances, Portland finally broke through in the 38th minute on a perfect through ball from left to right by Blanco to a streaking Chara, who finished strong after a soft touch. \u2014 oregonlive , 18 June 2022",
"Portland\u2019s best chance of the first half came on a perfect through ball from Christine Sinclair to Sophia Smith. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 May 2022",
"Harry Swartz swung a perfect through ball in behind Phoenix\u2019s back line setting striker Nico Brett up for a first-time finish past Ben Lundt. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Unfortunately, his previous owner was experiencing homelessness and recognized their inability to properly care for him any longer thus their decision to give him a chance at finding the perfect forever home. \u2014 The Republic, The Arizona Republic , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Schwartz\u2019s second suggestion is not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. \u2014 Karen Kaplan Science And Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"In other words, Norway didn\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s a tangible sweetness behind the notion of two imperfect people finding each other perfect . \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 5 Nov. 2021",
"The Flight Attendant is controlled chaos and a perfect for a binge. \u2014 Savannah Salazar, Vulture , 17 Sep. 2021"
"Middle English parfit , from Anglo-French, from Latin perfectus , from past participle of perficere to carry out, perfect, from per- thoroughly + facere to make, do \u2014 more at do":"Adjective"
": a disease or degenerative state of the peripheral nerves in which motor, sensory, or vasomotor nerve fibers may be affected and which is marked by muscle weakness and atrophy, pain, and numbness":[]
"There are hundreds of possible causes of peripheral neuropathy . \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"In addition, peripheral neuropathy can occur when high blood sugar damages nerves in the body. \u2014 Mathew Devine, SELF , 23 May 2022",
"Maassen, who has peripheral neuropathy , is riding to raise awareness for the condition as well as funding for the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy. \u2014 Bill Jones, Chicago Tribune , 9 May 2022",
"The result of something called peripheral neuropathy , this happens when the nerves of your peripheral nervous system (think the nerves outside your brain and spinal cord) become damaged. \u2014 Eleesha Lockett, SELF , 3 May 2022",
"Diabetes that's not kept in check can lead to a condition called peripheral neuropathy , which damages the nerves in your hands and feet. \u2014 Esther Crain, Health.com , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Restless leg syndrome can accompany other more serious medical conditions such as peripheral neuropathy , iron deficiency, and spinal cord problems. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Treatment is geared at addressing the root cause of peripheral neuropathy . \u2014 Sarah Fielding, Health.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Doctors treat peripheral neuropathy by addressing the underlying cause, such as recommending a balanced diet, correcting a vitamin deficiency or prescribing drug treatment. \u2014 Felicia Schwartz, WSJ , 13 July 2021"
"Both Smithsonian Magazine and Science Magazine brought discussed the emergence of the 17-year periodical cicada Brood X as a potential link. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 8 July 2021",
"The Magicicada septendecim, a type of periodical cicada , makes a totally different type of sound. \u2014 Christina Zdanowicz, CNN , 27 July 2021",
"This year may be an anomaly due to a cold spell delaying the periodical cicada arrival in Ohio and Indiana. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star , 27 May 2021",
"Ann thought of Allard recently because of one of his favorite subjects: the periodical cicada . \u2014 Washington Post , 22 June 2021",
"The resulting three lineages are the basis of the modern periodical cicada species groups, Decim, Cassini and Decula. \u2014 The Conversation, oregonlive , 13 Mar. 2021",
"Kritsky wants to remind people about Smith and how his long and careful study of the periodical cicada set the foundation for future researchers. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 May 2021",
"Citizen science has been part of periodical cicada emergences since the very beginning, said John Cooley, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at University of Connecticut who studies cicadas. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2021",
"This was the case with Smith\u2019s biggest achievement: meticulously tracking the emergence around the country of various periodical cicada broods. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 May 2021"
"Phillips, who reported regularly for the Guardian, was a lanky, personable man, married to a Brazilian woman, Alessandra Sampaio. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 28 June 2022",
"However, writing and sending a letter requires more effort and is considered more personable and formal. \u2014 Maggie Horton, Country Living , 14 June 2022",
"Petzing, promoted this year from tight ends coach, has found Watson to be as coachable and personable as folks described him. \u2014 cleveland , 8 June 2022",
"Plan 75\u2018s young recruitment agent is played by the handsome and personable young Japanese actor Hayato Isomura. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 May 2022",
"Talking to her feels like talking to your best friend\u2014if your best friend was a cool, personable multihyphenate taking Hollywood by storm. \u2014 Kimberly Truong, Glamour , 23 June 2022",
"Set largely among kids, and also in the home of Paul\u2019s scruffy and combative Jewish family, the movie is bustling, personable , anecdotal \u2014 and also something that Gray hardly ever is, which is funny. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 19 May 2022",
"Mayden is personable with an ever-present smile and easy-going personality. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The legendarily popular athlete is known for being personable and authentic. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 4 June 2022"
"Instead, the focus is on monster grooves livened up with a barrage of syncopated percussion played on cowbells, congas, bongos, and more. \u2014 Jay Quan, Rolling Stone , 16 June 2022",
"Bong on keys, Kevin Offitzer on drums, Tommy Suliman on bass, Johnny Cosmic on guitar and keys, and Will Phillips on percussion . \u2014 Dave Brooks, Billboard , 10 June 2022",
"The talent-rich lineup also includes Tucker, Holly Hofmann on flute, Melonie Grinnell on keyboards, Lexi Pulido on vocals and guitar, Monette Marino on percussion , Evona Wascinski on bass and Samantha Lincoln on drums. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The group currently has Alex Harding on baritone sax, Corey Wilkes on trumpet, the leader on drums and all three on percussion . \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The song has a light-handed percussion , allowing her voice\u2019s serene quality to have its moment. \u2014 Chris Kelly, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"John Cage, who had graduated and spoken on the Bowl stage that spring, later attributed this revelatory performance as his first step instigating a legendary percussion revolution that altered the course of 20th century music. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"Part of it, too, is from smudged instrumental tones and percussion that patters like drizzle. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 20 May 2022",
"Steven Schick \u2014 the award-winning conductor and percussion soloist \u2014 looks back fondly on his tenure, while eagerly starting his next chapter. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 May 2022"
"Middle English, from Anglo-French percussioun , from Latin percussion-, percussio , from percutere to beat, from per- thoroughly + quatere to shake":""
"In December, a state ban on the toxic cleaning agent perchloroethylene went into effect. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 July 2021",
"The operation was shut down in May 2002, and hazardous substances were found at the site, including perchloroethylene , trichloroethylene, 1,2-dichloroethylene and vinyl chloride, chemicals which can cause cancer in humans. \u2014 Paul Wedding, Houston Chronicle , 25 Nov. 2019",
"His task had been to create a new product out of hydrocarbon and chlorine, two by-products of manufacturing the dry-cleaning agent perchloroethylene . \u2014 Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic , 12 July 2019",
"Eco-Dry-Clean About 85 percent of dry cleaners use a chemical called perchloroethylene (perc for short) that\u2019s linked to respiratory issues, birth defects, and air pollution. \u2014 Lindsay Talbot, Marie Claire , 19 July 2018"
": a very brief usually unanimous opinion or decision of a court rendered without elaborate discussion of the principles or reasons therefor \u2014 compare memorandum decision":[]
": a substance (such as an anabolic steroid , human growth hormone , or erythropoietin ) that is used illicitly to improve athletic performance":[
"In the United States, more than 1 million elite and recreational athletes use performance-enhancing drugs for muscle building purposes.",
"\u2014 Josiah D. Rich et al.",
"\u202633 of the 48 major and minor league players suspended by baseball for using performance-enhancing drugs since the start of 2006 were pitchers.",
"\u2014 Sean Gregory",
"Roger Bannister, the first person to run a subpar four-minute mile, said today he thought that increased use of blood testing could help curb the use of performance-enhancing drugs by track and field athletes.",
"Luis Villoro is hardly a persona non grata . As he approaches the age of eighty, his position in the intelligentsia is secure.",
"\u2014 Scott Sherman",
"\u2014 typically used without a or the \u2026 English scientist James Lovelock, co-author of the Gaia hypothesis and once an environmental demigod. Lovelock has become persona non grata by saying that the ecosphere is so resilient no amount of human malfeasance, including nuclear war, could end life. \u2014 Gregg Easterbrook \"We'd been very good friends for millions of years and I thought it was a bit much for them suddenly to be personae non gratae and out of my life.\" \u2014 Paul McCartney"
"Fedorov, currently coaching CSKA Moskva in the KHL, has been persona non grata in Detroit since signing a front-loaded offer sheet with Carolina in 1998, and spurning the Wings for Anaheim in 2003. \u2014 Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Anyone with a red code -- usually assigned to people infected with Covid or deemed by authorities to be at high risk of infection -- immediately becomes persona non grata . \u2014 Nectar Gan, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"Sure to be an attention-getter is the special award for Wallen, who not that very long ago was persona non grata at awards shows in and out of country music. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Many of the activist cartoonists of 1941 fell victim to Hollywood\u2019s notorious blacklist era, when hundreds of workers on both sides of the screen were rendered persona non grata at the studios for their political affinities. \u2014 Thomas Doherty, Chron , 10 May 2022",
"And so, transportation is number one, persona non grata . \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 31 May 2022",
"Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is persona non grata in the Republican primary for governor after spending years successfully pushing legislative efforts that accomplished many of the goals sought by each of the candidates. \u2014 Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel , 13 May 2022",
"Then-commissioner David Stern became persona non grata in Phoenix for the rest of his life. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 15 May 2022",
"Many of the activist cartoonists of 1941 fell victim to Hollywood\u2019s notorious blacklist era, when hundreds of workers on both sides of the screen were rendered persona non grata at the studios for their political affinities. \u2014 Thomas Doherty, Chron , 10 May 2022"
": being or relating to an expression that serves to effect a transaction or that constitutes the performance of the specified act by virtue of its utterance":[
"a performative verb such as promise"
],
"\u2014 compare constative":[
"a performative verb such as promise"
],
": relating to or marked by public, often artistic performance":[
"\u2026 comes across as funny, sharp and unfiltered, with a broad performative streak.",
"\u2014 Meredith Blake",
"The secret \u2026 behind a magic trick is normally quite simple, but it's the magician's performative flair and masterly execution that makes it come to life.",
"\u2014 Ian Frisch",
"For me, this changed the atmosphere of the night from performative to meditative, from a concert to a private memorial service.",
"\u2014 Catherine Womack"
],
": made or done for show (as to bolster one's own image or make a positive impression on others)":[
"But when expressing outrage is as easy as posting a hashtag, a meme, or an empty black square, there's a question of whether that outrage is genuine or performative .",
"\u2014 Alia E. Dastigir",
"\u2026 a large part of the discussion surrounding the movement's focus is on actually doing the work, rather than just keeping it a performative symbol of allyship .",
"\u2014 Kara Nesvig",
"Without black executives, anti-racism signaling is merely performative .",
"And Neenan\u2019s choreography, based in ballet, contemporary, and modern, is an uncannily seamless mix of performative and pedestrian movements: a smart correspondent with the lyrics, rather than a rote follower. \u2014 Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"And while most shows fumbled clumsily through conversations about race or queerness, or both, this show managed to pull off the seemingly impossible: Their stories were nuanced and real; progressive without being performative . \u2014 Kathleen Newman-bremang, refinery29.com , 25 May 2022",
"But as Linda Akutagawa, the president and CEO of the Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) non-profit notes, some of these corporate actions were performative and some were more meaningful. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 13 May 2022",
"Consumers and employees won\u2019t hesitate to call brands out for performative activism. \u2014 Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
"And then of course there\u2019s the fact that pledges usually don\u2019t require any actual commitment; anyone can join in for the sake of performative activism. \u2014 Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone , 31 Mar. 2022",
"To watch Conversations is to watch her acerbic words detailing the agony of the Millennial experience\u2014so performative ! \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 19 May 2022",
"Those accusations and rumors were untrue, unfair, and ugly, and just another piece of performative politics. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Eddo Lodge, however, warned that the progress was still performative across much of media, in that diverse casting and front facing representation isn\u2019t yet denting the power structures affecting decision making and resource allocation. \u2014 Nancy Doyle, Forbes , 19 May 2022"
"On Saturday, Jack Dougherty carried a perfect game into the sixth inning in his first start in nearly three months, and the Rebels broke things open with three home runs in a row in the eighth to beat Oklahoma 10-3. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 26 June 2022",
"The 31-year-old right-hander took a perfect game into the seventh against Detroit on June 3 before Jonathan Schoop\u2019s two-out single. \u2014 Ronald Blum, Chron , 25 June 2022",
"The left-hander threw a perfect game with 17 strikeouts in Mason's 1-0 sectional tournament win over Western Brown and later twirled a complete game against Moeller to lead Mason to a regional title. \u2014 Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer , 23 June 2022",
"Yankees ace Gerrit Cole took a perfect game into the seventh inning and his offense blasted four home runs. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
"Ramsey, who threw a perfect game April 29 against Northwestern, allowed no runs on four hits while striking out 11 to improve to 11-1 on the season. \u2014 Ryan Mcfadden, Baltimore Sun , 3 June 2022",
"The Purdue Fort Wayne commit took a perfect game into the fifth inning, and wound up throwing 158 pitches (131 for strikes). \u2014 Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star , 30 May 2022",
"During an April loss at Utah, Hjerpe took a perfect game into the seventh inning and finished with nine strikeouts. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 May 2022",
"Medfield 5, Bellingham 1 \u2014 Senior Thomas Shurtleff took a perfect game into the seventh inning before settling for a 14-strikeout no-hitter for the Warriors (10-1) in the Tri-Valley League win. \u2014 Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com , 6 May 2022"
"Iniye Tokyo James was a mathematician turned stylist before adding his label Tokyo James to that personal equation . \u2014 Luke Leitch, Vogue , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Survival and success reside on one side of your personal equation \u2014 healing is on the other. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Survival and success reside on one side of your personal equation -- healing is on the other. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Survival and success reside on one side of your personal equation \u2014 healing is on the other. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Survival and success reside on one side of your personal equation -- healing is on the other. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Survival and success reside on one side of your personal equation \u2013 healing is on the other. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 12 Dec. 2019"
": a branch of dentistry that deals with diseases of the supporting and investing structures of the teeth including the gums, cementum, periodontal membranes, and alveolar bone":[]
"Of 568 Covid patients studied, those with periodontitis , the most severe form of gum disease, were at significantly higher risk of complications including death, admission to an intensive-care unit and need for a ventilator. \u2014 Laura Landro, WSJ , 11 Apr. 2021",
"But given preliminary findings that these devices create gum disease-like conditions, Kumar is concerned for the long-term public health impact of periodontitis and other chronic diseases. \u2014 Jackie Rocheleau, Forbes , 4 Mar. 2021",
"Perhaps most concerning for long-term health consequences, the study revealed that healthy e-cigarette users had pathogen representation and inflammation on par with people with severe periodontitis or gum disease. \u2014 Jackie Rocheleau, Forbes , 4 Mar. 2021",
"In periodontitis , plaque and tartar build up in the pocket between the tooth and the gum. \u2014 Jackie Rocheleau, Forbes , 4 Mar. 2021",
"If no intervention is done, the disease develops into advanced periodontitis , which can cause complete destruction of the tooth's bony support structure and eventual tooth loss. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 29 July 2020",
"Researchers are trying to learn more about the ways microbes are implicated in periodontitis (gum disease) and caries (cavities). \u2014 Eryn Brown, Smithsonian , 8 Nov. 2019",
"Preliminary research has shown that Porphyromonas gingivalis, a type of bacteria that causes periodontitis , is more commonly found in the brains of people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 31 July 2019",
"All 21 showed some signs of gum disease, or periodontitis , along with at least minor cavities. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 25 Nov. 2018"
"The baseball stadium, built in 2013, has artificial turf, permanent stands and permanent press box and lights. \u2014 Lori Riley, courant.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Formaldehyde, which is found in laminate flooring, permanent press curtains, some carpeting and pieces of furniture, releases gases for two years. \u2014 Jordan Guinn, SFChronicle.com , 21 Feb. 2020"
"you can have them at 50 cents per or three for $1.25",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
"Focus on target cost per acquisition, return on ad spend or return on investment. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 5 July 2022",
"Seventeen patients die per day waiting for an organ transplant, the Health Resources & Services Administration estimates. \u2014 Eryn Mathewson, CNN , 4 July 2022",
"California has recorded a 12% increase in coronavirus cases compared with mid-June, tallying an average of more than 16,900 per day over the last week, according to data compiled by The Times. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 July 2022",
"From June 22 through Wednesday at least 600 flights were canceled, and between 4,000 and 7,000 were delayed per day, the tracking service said. \u2014 David Koenig, Anchorage Daily News , 2 July 2022",
"The participants were separated between moderate and heavy drinkers, with moderate drinking defined as having an average of one drink per day over the course of a week. \u2014 Jacob Fulton, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
"The outlet reported that Wardian's average time running per day was between 11 and 15 hours. \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 1 July 2022",
"This week\u2019s case total averages to about 2,460 new cases per day over seven days, reports Julie Washington. \u2014 cleveland , 1 July 2022",
"The palace said that the royal finances cost \u00a31.29 ($1.57) per person in the U.K. and that the bulk of its spending went toward major renovation works at Buckingham Palace. \u2014 Karla Adam, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Senior libero/setter Cassidy Donalson represented Spring Woods on the watch list after averaging a team-high 4.3 digs per set as a junior. \u2014 Jack Marrion, Houston Chronicle , 1 July 2019",
"That\u2019s helped bring per -pound retail prices for beef patties down 16% from their September 2015 high of $5.12 to about $4.31 in June, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. \u2014 Jacob Bunge, WSJ , 30 June 2018",
"Anderton, the Collierville, Tennessee, native averaged 11.78 assists per set and 2.00 digs per set as Samford improved to 6-6 in SoCon play. \u2014 Samford Athletics, AL.com , 2 Nov. 2017"
"Longtime percussionist John Lacques leads the event, which doubles as a fundraiser for the 2,100-acre preserve that opened a year ago. \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Electronic auras seem to swirl around the audience, aided by the two antiphonal groups in the balcony boxes on either side of the proscenium \u2014 each with a percussionist , clarinetist and trumpeter. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2022",
"At the time of their exile, the Stones were joined in France by saxophonist Bobby Keys, keyboardist Nicky Hopkins and producer- percussionist Jimmy Miller. \u2014 Marc Myers, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
"Authorities in Alabama are investigating the killing of an accomplished percussionist , who was found dead behind the wheel of a car that crashed right outside police headquarters. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Winston plays guitar, is an amazing singer, and a wonderful percussionist . \u2014 Amanda Peukert, SPIN , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Lewis will replace Ross Karre, a percussionist who after five years as artistic director is stepping down to take a teaching position at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The percussionist was found dead in a hotel room in Bogota, Colombia, as the band was expected to play at a festival that evening. \u2014 Elise Brisco, USA TODAY , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The late percussionist joined the Foo Fighters in 1997, replacing the group's first drummer William Goldsmith. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 27 Mar. 2022"
": a grayish purplish blue that is duller than average delft, bluer, lighter, and stronger than regimental, and lighter and stronger than average navy blue":[]
": a spherical, cylindrical, or flask-shaped hollow fruiting body in various ascomycetous fungi that contains the asci and usually opens by a terminal pore":[]
"Texas persimmon in my neighborhood grows to about 20 feet tall. \u2014 Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News , 6 May 2022",
"For drier sites, consider Eastern redcedar, hackberry, pignut hickory, American persimmon , sumacs and hophornbeam. \u2014 Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun , 20 Apr. 2022",
"This Hachiya persimmon tree was planted last year February and seemed to do well in its first year. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The climax of the meal is the galbi, or Korean barbecued short rib, served with a poetic arrangement of Brussels sprouts, crispy lotus root, wood-ear mushroom, and persimmon . \u2014 The New Yorker , 4 Feb. 2022",
"This trait is shared by several other garden plants, including holly, bayberry , asparagus, ginkgo, juniper, yew, and persimmon . \u2014 Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com , 20 Jan. 2022",
"And so the persimmon became the symbol of her newest album \u2014 and the centerpiece of the cocktail kit (which also features artwork from Japanese Breakfast collaborators Ryuta Endo and Hwang Rowoo). \u2014 Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure , 1 Mar. 2022",
"The animal rights group has recommended replacing groundhogs with an animatronic rodent powered by artificial intelligence or with persimmon seeds \u2014 which are perhaps worse at predicting the weather than a marmot. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022",
"As a special, Pasion sous vides a rack of ribs and lays it over coconut Filipino adobo with \u2018ulu tater tots, Maui sweet onion soubise, and Upcountry persimmon . \u2014 Danielle Bernabe, Bon App\u00e9tit , 17 Dec. 2021"
"There is a also vintage Boivin design in the sale, a pair of earrings made in 1945 of 18-karat yellow gold set with aquamarine, chrysoberyl, peridot and citrine. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 19 May 2021",
"Today, white or black stone cuffs, like the black jade design with pearls and diamonds as well as designs like the gold cuff with peridot , blue topaz, and diamonds, are highly coveted among women of style. \u2014 The Editors, Town & Country , 19 Oct. 2020",
"Olivine is the term for a family of volcanic rocks that includes the gemstone form known as peridot or chrysolite. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 11 June 2020",
"The gemstone, commonly known as peridot , the August birthstone, is also extremely abundant. \u2014 Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com , 16 Dec. 2019",
"Brocade bracelet with peridot , coral, and turquoise beads, cabochon coral, diamonds, 18-karat gold, and platinum, $93,000. \u2014 Parker Bowie Larson, ELLE Decor , 1 Sep. 2019",
"The ring features an emerald, sapphire, and peridot stone\u2014the birthstones of Harry, Meghan, and Archie. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 July 2019",
"Each birthstone is said to have its own meaning and significance, with sapphires believed to protect those close to you from harm, peridots said to instill power in the wearer, and emeralds considered a symbol of rebirth and love. \u2014 Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR , 29 June 2019",
"Rare peridot from Pakistan suspended from a conical sphere of tsavorites. \u2014 Stellene Volandes, Town & Country , 14 Mar. 2019"
"However, exercising in the heat is the perfect storm for excessive sweating that can cause heat rash, Dr. Shah says. \u2014 \u200bjessica Migala, SELF , 31 May 2022",
"Any word that starts with a vowel is usually bad news for a lot of Wordle players, but ALBUM is a bit of a perfect storm of problems. \u2014 Matt Gardner, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"On other counts, as well, producers were facing something of a perfect storm . \u2014 David Lyman, The Enquirer , 2 May 2022",
"There seems to be a kind of perfect storm in some of those less populous places, greater suspicion of government recommendations dovetailing with the dynamics of where a variant happens to reach at what point. \u2014 Eric Boodman, STAT , 10 Nov. 2021",
"The absence of health care for a majority of Afghans -- especially outside the cities -- is part of a perfect storm of crises descending on the country. \u2014 Tim Lister, CNN , 8 Oct. 2021",
"While every day seems to bring a new record for futures prices\u2014and new stories of factories and plants that have to limit production, or of failing energy providers\u2014the surge is the result of a perfect storm of both short and long-term factors. \u2014 Katherine Dunn, Fortune , 5 Oct. 2021",
"Marte\u2019s broad spread of baseball abilities, indeed, presents opposing teams with a kind of perfect storm . \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 Sep. 2021",
"On top of the same perfect storm of problems afflicting North America, Italy\u2019s rental car industry has additional challenges. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Aug. 2021"
"Winnicott pushed back strongly against the idea that children require perfection from their parents, or that children should be perfectible . \u2014 Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic , 10 May 2022",
"Philosophers such as Rousseau, whose worldview inspired many progressives, believed that human nature is highly malleable, even perfectible , so long as the right corrections are made to the social structure. \u2014 Nate Hochman, National Review , 16 July 2019",
"Young people appear to have internalized irrational social ideals of the perfectible self that, while unrealistic, are to them eminently desirable and obtainable. \u2014 Lizzie Plaugic, The Verge , 6 Apr. 2018",
"Jefferson instead embraced an Enlightenment creed that regarded humanity as potentially perfectible if freed from too much government. \u2014 Alan Taylor, WSJ , 20 Oct. 2017",
"Cigarette rolling is a mini-craft project unto itself, repeatable and perfectible . \u2014 John Sherman, Longreads , 15 Sep. 2017",
"Since real people are far from perfectible , they must be forced to assume their places in Utopia. \u2014 Kevin Passmore, Slate Magazine , 20 Jan. 2017"
"The aggregate compensation levels were above the 90th percentile among companies of a similar size. \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Echoing this, the stock\u2019s Schaeffer\u2019s put/call volume ratio of 0.26 stands in the bottom percentile of its 12-month range. \u2014 Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes , 31 Aug. 2021",
"Some of those include the following: Conduct periodic physical fitness standard assessments to gauge cadets\u2019 progress and ability to pass the final physical assessment at the 50th percentile or better. \u2014 Rich Heileman, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"One firm requirement, however, is a flexible design that will accommodate astronauts of all sizes: The new suits must fit a woman at the fifth percentile to a man at the 95th percentile. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 1 June 2022",
"Bloomberg analyzed flips in census tracts where the median home value was between the 40th and 60th percentile \u2014 neighborhoods where properties should be affordable for regular families. \u2014 Patrick Clark, Fortune , 7 Jan. 2022",
"By contrast, more than half of those in the 90th to 95th percentile (those making between about $254,000 and $366,000) would get a tax cut. \u2014 Howard Gleckman, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Mark Canha, playing center field with Ram\u00f3n Laureano sidelined by groin tightness, ranks in the 73rd percentile of major-league players in sprint speed, per Statcast. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 29 May 2021",
"Consider lists of the most selective colleges or the colleges with the highest 75th percentile SAT or ACT test scores. \u2014 Mark Kantrowitz, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022"
"With its emphasis on repetition, simple materials and transparent structures, its ideas now permeate the worlds of art, film and music. \u2014 Stuart Isacoff, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Microplastics permeate the globe from the oceans' depths to the highest mountaintop \u2014 and our bodies. \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 14 May 2022",
"But Aman's Eastern design roots permeate the interior, thanks to designer Jean-Michel Gathy. \u2014 Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure , 12 May 2022",
"People argue that to allow facets of your work-self to permeate your family-self is to pollute precious family time. \u2014 Bob Bennett, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"The social model of disability, contrary to the traditional medical model, dictates that disability is not simply due to the physical manifestation of impairments in the body but rather environmental and attitudinal barriers that permeate society. \u2014 Gus Alexiou, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Over the past twelve months, our country has seen the consequences of bad ideas \u2014 from defund-the-police efforts that continue to wreak havoc on our cities, to radical identity politics that now permeate our schools and major institutions. \u2014 Lindsay Craig, National Review , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Working within an industry at the forefront of innovation is not enough\u2014a culture of innovation starts at the top of the organization and must permeate all levels. \u2014 Matthew Kushner, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Still, deep partisan divides permeate Congress as the nation faces the coronavirus pandemic, high consumer prices and fallout from last year's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. \u2014 Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online , 2 Mar. 2022"
"In Oman, vast ridges of a mineral called peridotite mineralize CO2 from the air, forming white veins resembling marbling in steak. \u2014 Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS , 3 Sep. 2020"
"Using a water flosser is like hosing down a deck while traditional flossing is like sweeping it, Vera Tang, D.D.S., clinical assistant professor of periodontology and implant dentistry at the NYU College of Dentistry, tells SELF. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 26 Feb. 2019"
"To perfuse an organ is to supply it with fluid, usually blood or a blood substitute, by circulating it through blood vessels or other channels. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"Recent research suggests that mycorrhizal networks also perfuse prairies, grasslands, chaparral and Arctic tundra \u2014 essentially everywhere there is life on land. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Dec. 2020",
"That description includes massive amounts of invisible mass, known as dark matter, along with a peculiar repulsive force, called dark energy, perfusing all of space. \u2014 Tom Siegfried, Scientific American , 21 Jan. 2020",
"The doctors procured other organs that had been identified for donation while the heart was perfused with a cold solution and removed. \u2014 Allen Kim, CNN , 3 Dec. 2019",
"Yet after being perfused with the experimental solution for six hours, many of those deteriorating and seemingly lifeless brain cells regained \u2014 at least temporarily \u2014 some of their normal structure and metabolic activity. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 July 2019",
"In patients with longstanding diabetes, the blood vessels in the eye are already damaged and are preventing blood from perfusing the retina. \u2014 Jewish Journal , 12 Mar. 2018",
"At this point, the whole body was perfused with oxygenated blood. \u2014 Lily Rothman, Time , 11 Dec. 2017",
"Genes were being expressed, proteins were being made, and the tissue was being perfused with oxygen-rich blood. \u2014 Jeffrey Marlow, WIRED , 20 Nov. 2012"
"Floating above the top deck, this multi-purpose area is sheltered by sliding, perforated screens and could be used as a sky observatory, panoramic lounge, fitness studio or yoga space. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 27 June 2022",
"This extra-firm perforated rubber yoga mat was designed for larger guys in mind. \u2014 Emily Shiffer, Men's Health , 6 June 2022",
"The perforated upper keeps your feet cool on humid days. \u2014 Owen Clarke, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Several grotesquely twisted and perforated cars sat on the ground, tires long burned. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"Additional features include a perforated tray that spans the length of the cooler to keep some goods separated as well as several pockets on the outside and bungees on the top to help control loose items like napkins. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 11 May 2022",
"Store them in a perforated container, where air can circulate, or with a paper towel to absorb extra moisture. \u2014 Beth Branch, Country Living , 11 May 2022",
"The extra- perforated soleplate (which the brand claims expels 30% more steam than a model without a pump) is also especially handy for ironing shirts. \u2014 Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"This aerobic insulator is the mullet of puffy jackets, combining baffles of ultralight synthetic insulation up front and laser-cut perforated ventilation in the back. \u2014 Frederick Reimers, Outside Online , 29 Mar. 2022"
"The beat of djembe drums, a traditional African percussion instrument , along with a DJ, had visitors dancing to the music. \u2014 John Kuntz, cleveland , 19 June 2022",
"But for an artist who is as comfortable leading a symphony orchestra as he is seated bare-chested on a concert stage and using his body as a percussion instrument , anything seems within reach for Steven Schick. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"Like few others, Schick can inject an air of mystery and drama by expertly striking a drum, cymbal, gong, cowbell, tambourine, or any other percussion instrument of any size that is at hand. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"Also represented is a display on Sones de Mexico, a folk music ensemble from Chicago\u2019s Pilsen neighborhood, that includes a donkey\u2019s jawbone, a percussion instrument known as a quijada that creates a strong, rattle-like buzzing sound. \u2014 Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com , 26 Nov. 2021",
"Each line corresponds to a percussion instrument , chosen by the performer. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Nov. 2021",
"The actual origin story of the melodic percussion instrument , however, is debated. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 June 2021",
"Kourtney, 42, shared a photo and clips of her boyfriend, 45, teaching her daughter how to play the percussion instrument as part of her birthday tribute to the now-9-year-old. \u2014 Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com , 9 July 2021",
"The berimbau is a single-string 5-foot tall percussion instrument that originated in sub-Saharan Africa, and is now commonly used in Brazil. \u2014 Kathy Cichon, chicagotribune.com , 8 July 2021"
"Youngkin hasn't endorsed in either race, nor has Trump, whose false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election have continued to percolate through both primaries. \u2014 Sarah Rankin, ajc , 19 June 2022",
"Maximize Let that percolate in your mind for a moment or two. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"In 2020, a new spinoff began to percolate : A casting call for a senior citizens series was promoted on-air. \u2014 Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Suppliers raised prices sharply last month, a sign inflation continues to percolate through the U.S. economy. \u2014 Gwynn Guilford, WSJ , 13 Apr. 2022",
"These are beginning to percolate through the press and social media. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 14 Sep. 2021",
"This may change as other issues\u2014inflation and the war in Ukraine\u2014 percolate in the news and force Trump to think about something other than his monomaniacal devotion to the Big Lie. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The impact of those increases will take months to percolate through the economy. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Many sustainability initiatives are new and complex; some need to percolate for an extended time before any tangible benefits to both the environment and the business can be measured and realized. \u2014 Rouzbeh Amini, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022"
"There is nothing like percolating coffee over an open campfire.",
"Coffee was percolating on the stove.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Youngkin hasn't endorsed in either race, nor has Trump, whose false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election have continued to percolate through both primaries. \u2014 Sarah Rankin, ajc , 19 June 2022",
"Maximize Let that percolate in your mind for a moment or two. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"In 2020, a new spinoff began to percolate : A casting call for a senior citizens series was promoted on-air. \u2014 Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Suppliers raised prices sharply last month, a sign inflation continues to percolate through the U.S. economy. \u2014 Gwynn Guilford, WSJ , 13 Apr. 2022",
"These are beginning to percolate through the press and social media. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 14 Sep. 2021",
"This may change as other issues\u2014inflation and the war in Ukraine\u2014 percolate in the news and force Trump to think about something other than his monomaniacal devotion to the Big Lie. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The impact of those increases will take months to percolate through the economy. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Many sustainability initiatives are new and complex; some need to percolate for an extended time before any tangible benefits to both the environment and the business can be measured and realized. \u2014 Rouzbeh Amini, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022"
"Late Latin, from Greek peri\u0113g\u0113sis act of leading or showing around, geographical description, from peri\u0113geisthai to show around, describe, from peri- + h\u0113geisthai to lead":""
": a large widely distributed genus (the type of the family Pertusariaceae) of crustose lichens that have the fruiting bodies in structures resembling knobs and that are one of the sources of litmus and archil \u2014 compare roccella":[]
": a pelt that is obtained from a newborn karakul lamb slightly older than those yielding broadtail and that is characterized by very silky tightly curled glossy fur":[],
": the young of the karakul sheep that furnishes skins used in furriery":[]
": the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary composed of an outer exocarp , middle mesocarp , and inner endocarp layer \u2014 see endocarp illustration":[]
"And of the proteins in the sample, 13 are found only in einkorn\u2019s genus, mostly in the inner contents and the outer layer, or pericarp , of the seeds. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 13 July 2018"
"For five hours Jaiden Griffith was looking for that perfect pitch . \u2014 Steve Gorches, Orlando Sentinel , 28 May 2022",
"The young musician, who Allen said had perfect pitch , was among the 20 children dead in the Sandy Hook school shooting in December 2012. \u2014 Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant , 26 May 2022",
"The presentation will cover an introduction to booking NYC venues, crafting the perfect pitch email and how to put together an electronic press kit. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 23 May 2022",
"Earlier on Friday, Lizzo teased her appearance at the festival on TikTok by putting her own twist on the app\u2019s latest meme of a girl hitting her hip on the side of a bed and screaming in pain (and perfect pitch ). \u2014 Ellise Shafer, Variety , 23 Apr. 2022",
"In a perfect pitch , the audience gets carried along, almost sensing the next thought. \u2014 Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The crowd did not care about perfect pitch either: fans roared and shrieked during the two hour performance, singing out loud every single word of the repertoire that centered mostly on 2021\u2019s critical and commercial success El Madrile\u00f1o. \u2014 Nuria Net, Rolling Stone , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Apply each of these concepts for the perfect pitch . . . \u2014 William Arruda, Forbes , 7 Nov. 2021",
"That was the quandary facing The Masked Singer trifecta of perfect pitch known as Russian Dolls on Wednesday night. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 12 May 2021"
": the shaping of a stone implement by striking or chipping off flakes with another stone or a piece of wood, bone, or antler \u2014 compare pressure flaking":[]
"I was nervous and could feel myself start to perspire .",
"She ran two miles and wasn't even perspiring .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Humans, Bethea writes, are tailor-made for this pursuit because of legs built from slow-twitch fibers and the ability to perspire . \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 28 Jan. 2015",
"In muggy South Florida, the Spartans expect to perspire until the very end. \u2014 Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Symptoms include fatigue, dizziness, fainting, headache and either profuse sweating or the inability to perspire , system officials said. \u2014 Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News , 16 June 2021",
"If your feet perspire a lot on the slopes, get a pair of ski socks that will wick moisture away from your skin. \u2014 Outdoor Life , 24 Feb. 2021",
"Has there ever been another athlete who did not perspire ",
"By the end of the debate, Kennedy, tanned and relaxed, appeared to have triumphed over a sickly looking Nixon, who had been noticeably perspiring under Mr. Hymes\u2019s lights. \u2014 Richard Sandomir, New York Times , 2 Aug. 2019",
"Basically, a dormant woody tree or shrub sitting out in the cold of winter doesn\u2019t perspire . \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Melted into a blanket of perspiring nuttiness, splashed with a sea of dressing that spills out the sandwich\u2019s sides. \u2014 Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com , 13 Aug. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French perspirer , from Middle French, from Latin per- through + spirare to blow, breathe \u2014 more at per-":""
": the ability of a material to store electrical potential energy under the influence of an electric field measured by the ratio of the capacitance of a capacitor with the material as dielectric to its capacitance with vacuum as dielectric":[]
"The fine structure constant is a combination of four other fundamental constants: the speed of light, the charge on the electron, Planck\u2019s constant, and the permittivity of free space. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 28 Apr. 2020"
": a form genus of rust fungi having only the pycnial and aecial stages, characterized by the irregularly split or torn peridium, and formerly including many fungi that have since the discovery of their telial stages been placed in various other genera (as Cronartium and Coleosporium )":[]
"The baby mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. \u2014 Denise Chow, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
"As permafrost melts, walls built on it fracture, buildings sink, railways warp, roads buckle, and pipelines break. \u2014 Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books , 8 June 2022",
"Last Easter, the church was under construction to modify pilings that had moved in the shifting permafrost . \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"All of that plant growth may be building new peat, potentially offsetting at least some of the losses of carbon from peat fires and permafrost thaw. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 18 May 2022",
"Increasing temperatures and rainfall are thought to cause permafrost thaw, which is speeding up several landslides in the park. \u2014 Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
"As the permafrost melts, DNA trapped in the frozen earth breaks down and stored carbon is released into the atmosphere, which further warms the planet. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Roadways collapsing under convoys as permafrost melts. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 9 Oct. 2021",
"The colorless, odorless gas can come from a variety of sources: slash-and-burn agriculture, dairy farming, coal and ore mining, wetlands, melting permafrost , and drilling and fracking for oil and natural gas. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 May 2022"
": a nontraditional art form often with political or topical themes that typically features a live presentation to an audience or onlookers (as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, dance, or painting":[]
"Creators feel the burden of performance art while consumers struggle to follow along at their own pace. \u2014 Frederick Daso, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Initially entering Central Saint Martins to study performance art , Petsa is unafraid to approach subjects that others designers might consider taboo. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 22 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s an instant gratification to performance art . \u2014 Matt Donnelly, Variety , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The museum is also encouraging potential applicants to submit large-format work, installations, new media and work that includes performance art . \u2014 Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al , 9 Jan. 2022",
"The character performs in an underground performance art show with his eyes and mouth sewn shut and his entire body covered in ears. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 7 June 2022",
"Mortensen\u2019s Saul Tenzer is a big deal in what\u2019s now an extremely popular past time: performance art mutilation. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 2 June 2022",
"Scheinert: Then the whole movie would be this weird performance art piece about a woman being in a movie on accident. \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Saul takes this talent, if that\u2019s the right word, and uses it for a kind of performance art . \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022"
": to annoy with persistent or urgent approaches (such as attacks, pleas, or importunities) : pester":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u0259r-si-\u02ccky\u00fct"
],
"synonyms":[
"afflict",
"agonize",
"anguish",
"bedevil",
"beset",
"besiege",
"curse",
"excruciate",
"harrow",
"plague",
"rack",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for persecute wrong , oppress , persecute , aggrieve mean to injure unjustly or outrageously. wrong implies inflicting injury either unmerited or out of proportion to what one deserves. a penal system that had wronged him oppress suggests inhumane imposing of burdens one cannot endure or exacting more than one can perform. a people oppressed by a warmongering tyrant persecute implies a relentless and unremitting subjection to annoyance or suffering. a child persecuted by constant criticism aggrieve implies suffering caused by an infringement or denial of rights. a legal aid society representing aggrieved minority groups",
"examples":[
"The country's leaders relentlessly persecuted those who fought against the regime.",
"They were persecuted for their beliefs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"According to the resolution, the video accuses Ho, Manzo and Do of conspiring to persecute Venerable Vien Ly, the abbot of Chua Dieu Ngu Buddhist temple in Westminster. \u2014 Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But over the years the government continued to persecute religious minorities and political dissenters and isolate itself internationally, and opportunities withered for many Iranians regardless of religion. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"All three countries use a patchwork of laws\u2014often involving vague definitions of morality or debauchery\u2014to persecute LGBTQ people. \u2014 Matt Burgess, Wired , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Their departure accelerates a long-running process of shutting down Russia\u2019s civil society, without the state having to persecute and imprison people individually. \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 20 Mar. 2022",
"China also employs diplomatic pressure and financial incentives to secure foreign assistance in its efforts to persecute Uighurs abroad. \u2014 John Beck, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"While offering design inspiration, the papacy\u2019s alliance with France to persecute the Templars also presented an allegory. \u2014 Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Increasingly, countries that persecute LGBTQ communities are altering their legal approaches to cases. \u2014 Matt Burgess, Wired , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Worst of all, the bill would make the Federal Trade Commission a superagency by expanding its budget by $300 million along with the almost unlimited power to persecute American business with its vast menu of potential offenses. \u2014 Robert H. Bork Jr., WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Middle French persecuter , back-formation from persecuteur persecutor, from Late Latin persecutor , from persequi to persecute, from Latin, to pursue, from per- through + sequi to follow \u2014 more at sue":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
": the largest order of teleost fishes comprising typically small or moderate-sized more or less streamlined or fusiform fishes with the ventral fin possessing not more than one spine and five rays and the first dorsal fin always spinose, being divided into a number of suborders, and including the perches, basses, gobies, mackerels, blennies, and numerous related forms":[]
": any of an order (Perissodactyla) of nonruminant ungulate mammals (such as a horse, a tapir, or a rhinoceros) that usually have an odd number of toes, molar teeth with transverse ridges on the grinding surface, and the posterior premolars resembling true molars":[]
"Covered by a black pergola with a lantern pendant light hanging from it, the kitchen is unobtrusive and surrounded by greenery. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 27 June 2022",
"A July 23, 2021, Mansion photo of a pergola at a home in Asharoken, N.Y., was taken by Brian Berkowitz. \u2014 WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"Gardens include a new pergola , award-winning roses; handcrafted garden art, and perennial and annual garden beds. \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 May 2022",
"Or, go with a sturdy pop-up tent, a more permanent pergola , or a retractable sunshade that will offer protection for seasons to come. \u2014 Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping , 23 May 2022",
"For an even more festive atmosphere, tack up some outdoor string lights or tuck the table and chairs underneath a garden pergola . \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The garden also has a reading pergola called Miss Sealie\u2019s Corner, named after Scott's grandmother. \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"The slatted table, made by Belgian furniture company Ethnicraft, mimics the lines of the redwood pergola . \u2014 Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine , 13 May 2022",
"Above our heads, the pillars and struts of the pergola looked like the masts of a gigantic ship\u2014their edges rounded, like huge pencils, to diminish the force of winds that can pummel the tower. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022"
": either of two acids formed by the oxidation of rhenium or rhenium compounds of lower valence states and known only in solution or in the form of salts:":[],
": the monobasic acid HReO 4 analogous to permanganic acid that forms colorless stable salts":[],
": the tribasic acid H 3 ReO 5 that forms yellow salts turning red when heated and hydrolyzed in water to salts of metaperrhenic acid":[]
"Ahead of the season premiere, creator Ronald Moore opened up to T&C about how the show rewrites history\u2014and the ways in which For All Mankind is similar to his other extremely popular period piece , Outlander. \u2014 Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"This was not about making a costume-y period piece . \u2014 Nicole Phelps, Vogue , 14 Mar. 2022",
"His film is a period piece about working class miners who discover gold in the 19th century. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 27 May 2022",
"There are also all the delicious trappings of a period piece \u2014the sets, the costumes! \u2014 Adam Rathe, Town & Country , 24 Apr. 2022",
"And that goes for everything in this period piece : the suits, the suspenders, the old cigarettes, chain smoking. \u2014 Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 Mar. 2022",
"C\u00e9line Sciamma creates a gorgeous tableau of lesbian love in this French period piece . \u2014 cleveland , 28 Mar. 2022",
"It is accompanied by Mothering Sunday, a romantic period piece about a maid living in post-World War England, directed by Eva Husson and featuring Olivia Coleman and Colin Firth. \u2014 Risa Sarachan, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021",
"But Linklater, who was born in 1960 (less than a year later than Bryan Adams), can only make this aspiration plausible within a deeply nostalgic period piece . \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 15 Apr. 2022"
": an aspectual category of tenses in Latin that includes all which indicate that action or state is completed in contrast with those tenses which indicate that action or state is in progress \u2014 compare infectum":[]
": a severe megaloblastic anemia that is marked by a progressive decrease in the number of red blood cells and by pallor, weakness, and gastrointestinal and nervous disturbances and is caused by malabsorption of vitamin B 12 due to the absence of intrinsic factor":[]
"The branch on the pine log went far enough into my chest to perforate my pericardium \u2014that\u2019s the membrane surrounding my heart. \u2014 Outside Online , 10 June 2022",
"Pericarditis is inflammation of the sac or pericardium around the heart. \u2014 Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press , 2 July 2021",
"They are attached at the lower chest and abdomen and share their chest wall, diaphragm, pericardium and liver. \u2014 Cnn Editorial Research, CNN , 26 May 2021",
"The goods news is that their hearts were separate as well, sharing only the lining around the heart \u2013 the pericardium . \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 22 Apr. 2021",
"Bleakley talked about an older dog that was referred to him by an oncologist for an abnormality with excess fluid in the pericardium around the dog\u2019s heart. \u2014 Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic , 30 Oct. 2020",
"Gore-Tex fabric was used to place a patch over the holes in the pericardium around each of their hearts. \u2014 Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press , 18 Sep. 2020",
"There\u2019s a spot between the tendons\u2014about two or three finger widths above the center of your inner wrist\u2014called the pericardium 6 (PC6). \u2014 Taylyn Washington-harmon, Health.com , 1 July 2020",
"As a pediatric emergency medicine physician, Smith said he's seen pellets pierce the skull and enter the brain and lodge near the pericardium , the sac that protects the heart. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 25 Nov. 2019"
"Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Greek perikardion , neuter of perikardios around the heart, from peri- + kardia heart \u2014 more at heart":""
": a showy Asiatic shrub ( Syringa persica ) cultivated for its terminal panicles of fragrant lilac-colored flowers":[],
": a dark purplish pink that is redder than clover pink and bluer and stronger than rhodonite pink":[]
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"combining form"
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": Permian and":[
"\u2014 especially in the names of geologic strata Permo carboniferous Permo pennsylvanian Permo triassic"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": an agricultural system or method that seeks to integrate human activity with natural surroundings so as to create highly efficient self-sustaining ecosystems":[]
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"\u02c8p\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02cck\u0259l-ch\u0259r"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There is a school of agriculture, permaculture , one of the gurus Mark Shepard is from Wisconsin. \u2014 Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"The course will cover multiple topics, including elements of design, permaculture techniques and green waste reduction as well as how to capture rainwater, build living soil, design with native and climate-appropriate plants and repurpose materials. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"This biodynamic, permaculture -focused New York farm is all about natural, sustainable food systems. \u2014 Heather Adams, Outside Online , 9 June 2022",
"Get the lowdown on permaculture during a tour of the owners\u2019 organic farm, or use this modern tiny house as home base for exploring Ponca State Park, located on the banks of the Missouri River, a ten-minute drive away. \u2014 Alison Van Houten, Outside Online , 1 Oct. 2020",
"Trinklein\u2019s approach is patience and perseverance to build permaculture . \u2014 Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"Seaweed permaculture which produces ocean forests of kelp which capture very large amounts of CO2. \u2014 Hersh Shefrin, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Native trees and permaculture can increase local biodiversity. \u2014 Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Leaders are increasingly learning about circular supply chains, permaculture principles, and how to design regenerative organizations. \u2014 Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021"
"Mason has been diagnosed with ADHD, explosive disorder, pervasive developmental disorder and autism, among other conditions. \u2014 Sydney Czyzon, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 June 2019",
"Brayson had been diagnosed with fragile X syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, impulse control disorder and dysphasia, according to records obtained by IndyStar. \u2014 Marisa Kwiatkowski, Indianapolis Star , 31 May 2018",
"After three months and several tests, Ameera was eventually diagnosed with a form of autism called PDD ( pervasive developmental disorders ). \u2014 Redbook , 6 June 2016"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Gill says that ice is even thicker in Utah, which was settled by LDS pioneers fleeing religious persecution back east, mainly for the practice of polygamy. \u2014 Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone , 28 June 2022",
"Biden administration officials have said the rule will allow the U.S. to more quickly grant asylum to immigrants fleeing persecution , while quickly deporting those who don't qualify for refuge. \u2014 Camilo Montoya-galvez, CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"Some of those turned away are fleeing persecution , while others pushed out by turmoil in their home countries seek jobs and security. \u2014 Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
"My own great-great-great grandparents found refuge in Utah after fleeing religious persecution more than 150 years ago. \u2014 Spencer J. Cox, Fortune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Those arguing for Israel to show more compassion include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has compared Ukrainian refugees to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution during World War II. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Advocates and many Democrats contend Trump invoked Title 42 not so much for public health reasons but to sharply limit asylum for people fleeing persecution in other nations. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The use of public health powers had been widely criticized by Democrats and immigration advocates as an excuse for the United States to shirk its obligations to provide haven to people fleeing persecution . \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The use of public health powers had been widely criticized by Democrats and immigration advocates as an excuse for the United States to shirk its obligations to provide haven to people fleeing persecution . \u2014 Time , 1 Apr. 2022"
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