{
  "FROF":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "fire risk on freight":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121002",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
    ]
  },
  "Froude":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "James Anthony 1818\u20131894 English historian":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u00fcd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190322",
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ]
  },
  "fro":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": back , away":[
        "\u2014 used in the phrase to and fro"
      ],
      ": from":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adverb",
      "ferries carrying passengers to and fro",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "What is Rassi on the lookout when shopping for new pieces to rock while working fro home"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Preposition",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Old Norse fr\u0101 ; akin to Old English fram from":"Preposition"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "fr\u0259",
      "\u02c8fr\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "away",
      "down",
      "hence",
      "off",
      "out"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013339",
    "type":[
      "adverb",
      "preposition"
    ]
  },
  "frock":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a long loose mantle":[],
      ": a woman's dress":[],
      ": a woolen jersey worn especially by sailors":[],
      ": an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit":[],
      ": an outer garment worn chiefly by men:":[],
      ": to clothe in a frock":[],
      ": to make a cleric of":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "please get into your nicest frock and join us at the party",
      "the man clutched his heavy frock as he made his way through the driving rain",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The incredible wardrobe was and still is the talk of town \u2014 from her Jean Louis Abaji ceremony gown, her unexpected black Chanel reception number, to her vibrant orange Lanvin brunch frock , there was no attention to detail missed. \u2014 Essence Editors, Essence , 13 June 2022",
      "MUmaid Waves, Bright Purple, Neon Coral Vibrant and whimsical, make a bold statement with this colorful patchwork frock . \u2014 Karla Pope, Woman's Day , 24 May 2022",
      "There are a few key points to remember when looking for your own perfect frock . \u2014 Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue , 16 May 2022",
      "The reserved blue state dinner frock worn in great contrast to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 3 June 2022",
      "Canadian model Coco Rocha also chose an archival piece for the red carpet -- a black and white John Galliano for Christian Dior tulle frock from 2012. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 27 May 2022",
      "Thanks to the billowy, easy-to-wear style, this frock works for a variety of occasions. \u2014 Karla Pope, Woman's Day , 24 May 2022",
      "The battle centers on who can fairly claim ownership of the frock , and whether Catholic University and Bonhams should be allowed to auction it off. \u2014 Melissa Korn, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
      "The little prince, who weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces, made his world debut on the steps of St. Mary's Hospital in the arms of his mother, who looked lovely in a blue polka-dot short-sleeve frock by Jenny Packham. \u2014 Nicole Briese, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English frok , from Anglo-French froc , of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German hroch mantle, coat":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u00e4k"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "dress",
      "gown"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090707",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "frog":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a condition in the throat that produces hoarseness":[
        "had a frog in his throat"
      ],
      ": a device permitting the wheels on one rail of a track to cross an intersecting rail":[],
      ": a loop attached to a belt to hold a weapon or tool":[],
      ": a small holder (as of metal, glass, or plastic) with perforations or spikes for holding flowers in place in a bowl or vase":[],
      ": an ornamental braiding for fastening the front of a garment that consists of a button and a loop through which it passes":[],
      ": any of various largely aquatic leaping anuran amphibians (such as ranids) that have slender bodies with smooth moist skin and strong long hind legs with webbed feet \u2014 compare toad":[],
      ": frenchman":[],
      ": the nut of a violin bow":[],
      ": the triangular elastic horny pad in the middle of the sole of the foot of a horse \u2014 see hoof illustration":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English frogge , from Old English frogga ; akin to Old High German frosk frog; senses 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 unclearly derived & perhaps of distinct origin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u022fg",
      "\u02c8fr\u022fg, \u02c8fr\u00e4g",
      "\u02c8fr\u00e4g"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103451",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "frog kick":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a breaststroke kick executed with the knees primarily turned outward and the legs alternately separated and closed":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Other collisions are hard to avoid\u2014like when anyone tries to swim around a breaststroker, with their wide sweeping frog kick . \u2014 Laine Higgins, WSJ , 18 June 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1896, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104018",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "frog lily":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a plant of the genus Potamogeton":[],
      ": spatterdock":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115808",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "froglet":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Depending on the need and location, the future offspring of the six frogs currently at the center could be released into the wild at a variety of life stages: egg mass, tadpole, froglet or full-grown frog. \u2014 Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic , 9 Nov. 2020",
      "On Tuesday, the Houston Zoo shared photos of eleven green mantella froglets that made their debut just after the first of the New Year. \u2014 Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle , 9 Jan. 2018",
      "All other live-birthing frogs bear froglets \u2014some with bizarre methods. \u2014 National Geographic , 16 Jan. 2016"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1824, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u022fg-l\u0259t",
      "\u02c8fr\u00e4g-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105025",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "frolic":{
    "antonyms":[
      "caper",
      "cavort",
      "disport",
      "frisk",
      "gambol",
      "lark",
      "rollick",
      "romp",
      "sport"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a playful or mischievous action":[],
      ": an occasion or scene of fun : party":[],
      ": full of fun : merry":[
        "Contrasting the stern anxiety of his present mood with the frolic spirit of the preceding year \u2026",
        "\u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne"
      ],
      ": fun , merriment":[],
      ": to amuse oneself : make merry":[
        "I didn't choose the school so I could frolic in the quad",
        "\u2014 Hugh Gallagher"
      ],
      ": to play and run about happily : romp":[
        "children frolicking in the park"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "the frolic atmosphere that envelops New Orleans during Mardi Gras",
      "Verb",
      "We watched the seals as they frolicked in the harbor.",
      "children frolicking in the yard",
      "Noun",
      "We went out for a frolic in the sun.",
      "an evening of fun and frolic",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Tours of the lighthouse, as well as seal tours highlighting the playful marine mammals who frolic in the waters off Chatham Light Beach, are available each summer. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022",
      "To the north of town, Playa Hermosa is a beautiful beach where dolphins frolic in the waves and the sunsets are spectacular. \u2014 Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
      "Last weekend was very much for the locals, but that won\u2019t be the case much longer as Homer prepares for a flood of visitors looking to fish and frolic in the iconic seaside town of boardwalks and beaches. \u2014 Matt Tunseth For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2022",
      "Inside the castle Villiam and Marek frolic away the days with sausage-eating contests; outside, drought has driven the commoners to cannibalism. \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
      "At Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Florida, manatees frolic near the main spring, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. \u2014 Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News , 10 May 2022",
      "We\u2019re told to frolic in a pool and\u2014tap!\u2014we\u2019re captured sheepishly frolicking. \u2014 Lisa Chase, Outside Online , 6 July 2020",
      "That Black people frolic , double Dutch, swim and roller-skate \u2013 and that\u2019s all a revolutionary act too. \u2014 Osahon Akpata, Essence , 26 May 2022",
      "In another film, this one in dreamy color, Marisol and several artist friends, including Robert Indiana and John Giorno, frolic around a summer home in Connecticut, a rare, tender glimpse into their otherwise city-slick lives. \u2014 Grace Edquist, Vogue , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "This was the first frolic down the slippery slope to a divisive, distracting ... \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 14 May 2022",
      "These are some of many different faces and aspects of the festival, beyond the frolic and fun that the Utah version has modified and packaged to cater to a less diverse audience. \u2014 Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "After the show, children can make their own puppets and enjoy a Holi frolic . \u2014 New York Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Monsters in those games bathe, eat, sleep, hunt and frolic in their habitats. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2020",
      "Few things are sweeter than a trip on which Black history and culture intertwine with fun and frolic . \u2014 Essence , 20 July 2021",
      "Johnson\u2019s unctuous frolic , demeaning a woman with more artistic talent in her pinky than in his whole body, has everything to do with misogyny. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2021",
      "But those who come to body surf, float on inner tubes and frolic in the water as 3-foot waves toss them to and fro probably won't need the extra warmth this weekend. \u2014 Tim Harlow, Star Tribune , 1 June 2021",
      "Bunny exclaims, like a murderous Mrs. Bennet) and also from telenovelas, and Get Out, and Clue, and Wedding Crashers, and just about any pun-happy holiday frolic that is aired on basic cable at this time of year. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 14 Dec. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1589, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
      "1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "circa 1548, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Dutch vroolijk , from Middle Dutch vrolijc , from vro happy; akin to Old High German fr\u014d happy":"Adjective, Verb, and Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u00e4-lik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bouncy",
      "bubbly",
      "buoyant",
      "crank",
      "effervescent",
      "exuberant",
      "frolicsome",
      "gamesome",
      "gay",
      "high-spirited",
      "vivacious"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074844",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "frolicking":{
    "antonyms":[
      "caper",
      "cavort",
      "disport",
      "frisk",
      "gambol",
      "lark",
      "rollick",
      "romp",
      "sport"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a playful or mischievous action":[],
      ": an occasion or scene of fun : party":[],
      ": full of fun : merry":[
        "Contrasting the stern anxiety of his present mood with the frolic spirit of the preceding year \u2026",
        "\u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne"
      ],
      ": fun , merriment":[],
      ": to amuse oneself : make merry":[
        "I didn't choose the school so I could frolic in the quad",
        "\u2014 Hugh Gallagher"
      ],
      ": to play and run about happily : romp":[
        "children frolicking in the park"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "the frolic atmosphere that envelops New Orleans during Mardi Gras",
      "Verb",
      "We watched the seals as they frolicked in the harbor.",
      "children frolicking in the yard",
      "Noun",
      "We went out for a frolic in the sun.",
      "an evening of fun and frolic",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Tours of the lighthouse, as well as seal tours highlighting the playful marine mammals who frolic in the waters off Chatham Light Beach, are available each summer. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022",
      "To the north of town, Playa Hermosa is a beautiful beach where dolphins frolic in the waves and the sunsets are spectacular. \u2014 Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
      "Last weekend was very much for the locals, but that won\u2019t be the case much longer as Homer prepares for a flood of visitors looking to fish and frolic in the iconic seaside town of boardwalks and beaches. \u2014 Matt Tunseth For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2022",
      "Inside the castle Villiam and Marek frolic away the days with sausage-eating contests; outside, drought has driven the commoners to cannibalism. \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
      "At Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Florida, manatees frolic near the main spring, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. \u2014 Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News , 10 May 2022",
      "We\u2019re told to frolic in a pool and\u2014tap!\u2014we\u2019re captured sheepishly frolicking. \u2014 Lisa Chase, Outside Online , 6 July 2020",
      "That Black people frolic , double Dutch, swim and roller-skate \u2013 and that\u2019s all a revolutionary act too. \u2014 Osahon Akpata, Essence , 26 May 2022",
      "In another film, this one in dreamy color, Marisol and several artist friends, including Robert Indiana and John Giorno, frolic around a summer home in Connecticut, a rare, tender glimpse into their otherwise city-slick lives. \u2014 Grace Edquist, Vogue , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "This was the first frolic down the slippery slope to a divisive, distracting ... \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 14 May 2022",
      "These are some of many different faces and aspects of the festival, beyond the frolic and fun that the Utah version has modified and packaged to cater to a less diverse audience. \u2014 Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "After the show, children can make their own puppets and enjoy a Holi frolic . \u2014 New York Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Monsters in those games bathe, eat, sleep, hunt and frolic in their habitats. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2020",
      "Few things are sweeter than a trip on which Black history and culture intertwine with fun and frolic . \u2014 Essence , 20 July 2021",
      "Johnson\u2019s unctuous frolic , demeaning a woman with more artistic talent in her pinky than in his whole body, has everything to do with misogyny. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2021",
      "But those who come to body surf, float on inner tubes and frolic in the water as 3-foot waves toss them to and fro probably won't need the extra warmth this weekend. \u2014 Tim Harlow, Star Tribune , 1 June 2021",
      "Bunny exclaims, like a murderous Mrs. Bennet) and also from telenovelas, and Get Out, and Clue, and Wedding Crashers, and just about any pun-happy holiday frolic that is aired on basic cable at this time of year. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 14 Dec. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1589, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
      "1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "circa 1548, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Dutch vroolijk , from Middle Dutch vrolijc , from vro happy; akin to Old High German fr\u014d happy":"Adjective, Verb, and Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u00e4-lik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bouncy",
      "bubbly",
      "buoyant",
      "crank",
      "effervescent",
      "exuberant",
      "frolicsome",
      "gamesome",
      "gay",
      "high-spirited",
      "vivacious"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061434",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "frolicsome":{
    "antonyms":[
      "earnest",
      "serious-minded",
      "sober",
      "sobersided"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": full of gaiety : playful , sportive":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a frolicsome uncle who was a favorite among his relatives",
      "teachers smiling at the frolicsome students leaving school for summer vacation",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Freezing winter in a place designed for frolicsome summer can be a doleful time. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "The hues of the production create a theatrical world unto itself, allowing the frolicsome choreography of Kelly Devine to move with unflashy freedom. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "This, Heynen's latest book, focuses as its title suggests on the youngest of his archetypal figures of rural boyhood, a shapeshifting and mercurial personage who is by turns frolicsome and introspective, mischievous and vulnerable. \u2014 Jim Heynen, Star Tribune , 9 Apr. 2021",
      "The outside is festooned with frolicsome animal stickers (many subjects from other studies are children), but these do nothing to allay the discomfort of lying perfectly still with my head in a vise for an hour and a half. \u2014 Amber Dance, Scientific American , 20 Jan. 2020",
      "Singing in the remains of Roman baths, the trio exhibit a fraternal, frolicsome energy \u2014 opera with the looseness of rock. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 4 June 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1699, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u00e4-lik-s\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "antic",
      "coltish",
      "elfish",
      "fay",
      "frisky",
      "larky",
      "playful",
      "rollicking",
      "sportful",
      "sportive"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072534",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "from one day to the next":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": every day":[
        "She changes her mind from one day to the next .",
        "You never know from one day to the next what's going to happen to you."
      ],
      ": on any given day":[
        "She changes her mind from one day to the next .",
        "You never know from one day to the next what's going to happen to you."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191322",
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ]
  },
  "from one moment to the next":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": very quickly as time passes":[
        "The weather kept changing from one moment to the next ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181834",
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ]
  },
  "from the four corners of the earth":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": from everywhere : from all over":[
        "People came from the four corners of the earth to see the sight."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202840",
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ]
  },
  "front":{
    "antonyms":[
      "face",
      "look (toward)",
      "point (toward)"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a beach promenade at a seaside resort":[],
      ": a line of battle":[],
      ": a person who serves as the nominal head or spokesman of an enterprise or group to lend it prestige":[],
      ": a person, group, or thing used to mask the identity or true character or activity of the actual controlling agent":[],
      ": a position ahead of a person or of the foremost part of a thing":[],
      ": a position of leadership or superiority":[],
      ": a stand on an issue : policy":[],
      ": a zone of conflict between armies":[],
      ": acting as a front":[
        "front company"
      ],
      ": an area of activity or interest":[
        "progress on the educational front"
      ],
      ": articulated at or toward the front of the oral passage":[
        "front vowels"
      ],
      ": beginning":[],
      ": confront":[
        "went to the woods because I wished \u2026 to front only the essential facts of life",
        "\u2014 H. D. Thoreau"
      ],
      ": constituting the first nine holes of an 18-hole golf course":[],
      ": dickey sense 1a":[],
      ": directly before or ahead of":[],
      ": external and often feigned appearance especially in the face of danger or adversity":[],
      ": frontage":[],
      ": in the audience":[],
      ": of, relating to, or situated at the front":[],
      ": the boundary between two dissimilar air masses":[],
      ": the forward part or surface":[],
      ": to act or serve as a cover or front (see front entry 1 sense 7a ) for something or someone":[
        "\u2026 a new initiative targeting brothels and massage parlors fronting for sex trafficking rings.",
        "\u2014 St. John Barned-Smith"
      ],
      ": to appear before":[
        "daily fronted him in some fresh splendor",
        "\u2014 Alfred Tennyson"
      ],
      ": to articulate (a sound) with the tongue farther forward":[],
      ": to assume a fake or false personality to conceal one's true identity and character":[
        "Don't front , don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are.",
        "\u2014 Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz",
        "Look, we all know you got your heart broken. Stop fronting and write a love song.",
        "\u2014 Allison Keyes"
      ],
      ": to be in front of":[
        "a lawn fronting the house"
      ],
      ": to be the leader of (a musical group)":[
        "appeared as a soloist and fronted bands"
      ],
      ": to face toward or have frontage on":[
        "the house fronts the street"
      ],
      ": to give (someone) the money, material, etc. needed to do something : advance sense 7":[
        "She fronted them a loan to get the start-up going."
      ],
      ": to move (a word or phrase) to the beginning of a sentence":[],
      ": to play in front of (an opposing player) rather than between the player and the basket":[],
      ": to supply a front to":[
        "fronted the building with bricks"
      ],
      ": vanguard":[],
      "frontispiece":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the front of the church features a magnificent stained-glass window",
      "that smile is just a front \u2014I don't think she actually likes me at all",
      "Verb",
      "The house fronts Main Street.",
      "The house fronts on Main Street.",
      "He is now fronting a different band.",
      "He fronts a talk show.",
      "Adjective",
      "There's a small statue on the front lawn.",
      "He keeps his wallet in his front pocket.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "On the front of the shirt was the beaming face of Jose Ramirez. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 22 June 2022",
      "The box is also simpler, covered mostly in a dark blue with just one spoonful of the brand's macaroni and cheese on the front . \u2014 Wyatte Grantham-philips, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
      "Handles on the front are more likely to match the other appliances in your kitchen like the refrigerator or range. \u2014 Carolyn Fort\u00e9, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
      "One person wore an oversized shirt with the face of former president Barack Obama placed on the front . \u2014 Cassandra Pintro, Vogue , 20 June 2022",
      "Both city and military police officers confirmed to The New York Times that some Ukrainian troops had looted garages in Lysychansk and were commandeering private vehicles to use as personal transport on the front . \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
      "The entry-level iPad is the only one to feature a traditional design, with a home button still present on the front . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 15 June 2022",
      "Finally, postage should be placed in the top righthand corner on the front of the envelope. \u2014 Maggie Horton, Country Living , 14 June 2022",
      "Fans arriving at the TD Garden for what could have been the final time this season found a T-shirt draped over their seats with the 17 NBA championship banners lined up on the front . \u2014 Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Skydance Media helped front the bill, co-producing and co-financing the film. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 25 May 2022",
      "And last year Jimmy Nicholson, of New Zealand and Fijian heritage, was chosen to front the show. \u2014 Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com , 24 May 2022",
      "The civic and corporate titans who launched planning for the \u201892 fair back in 1978 never did volunteer to front the money to build it. \u2014 Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune , 13 May 2022",
      "Eventually, a board member offered to front the necessary five hundred dollars. \u2014 Susan Orlean, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022",
      "Selected to front the brand\u2019s holiday ads in 2021, Sweeney immediately clicked with the designer and her team. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "It\u2019s about how certain leaders need to front as macho. \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "The Duchess isn't the first famous face to front the children's television segment. \u2014 Sana Noor Haq, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "Brown and Target also tapped 10 trailblazing women to front the campaign, including a Marine veteran and actress, pediatric neurosurgeon, leaders in the nonprofit world, a vegan chef, a baker, social workers, a DJ and a production assistant. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Attackers smashed windows and a front door of the building in Jackson, Michigan, early Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg\u2019s campaign said. \u2014 Fox News , 24 June 2022",
      "For a slate blue front door, buyers might pay an average of $1,537 more. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
      "But the court left unanswered whether the same right exists beyond a home's front door. \u2014 John Fritze, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
      "Officer Alesha Salyers, who was let into the apartment by a maintenance worker, found Neal behind the front door and unresponsive. \u2014 Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
      "Curb appeal upgrades Improving first impressions from the street view can start with upgrading a front door. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
      "Wafer opened his front door and shot McBride, 19, through a screen door before dawn. \u2014 Ed White, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022",
      "The community base of Chicano art is acknowledged by a gallery located right inside the front door. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
      "The paint is chipped; the passenger-side front door sticks a little and sometimes needs a special shove. \u2014 Bill Donahue, Washington Post , 20 June 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The ask is for the President, as well as all levels of government, to make more explicitly clear that food and agriculture workers are front line workers fighting the pandemic. \u2014 Michael Grabell, ProPublica , 13 May 2022",
      "Few people are more burned out right now than front line workers, from the grocery store to hospitals\u2014people who had no option to work from home or remotely during the pandemic lockdown. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 11 May 2022",
      "Onypko\u2019s brother and his family are in Poland; her parents are in Zaporizhzhia, a city that\u2019s worryingly close to the front line . \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
      "Those Western supplies that have made it through to the front line are neither as plentiful or as sophisticated as Ukraine would like. \u2014 New York Times , 12 June 2022",
      "After taking part in the demonstrations, Molchanova volunteered to go to the front line , going first to a military hospital in Dnipro for training. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Russian bombardment regularly targets this corner of eastern Ukraine, close to the front line . \u2014 Washington Post , 7 May 2022",
      "In 1982, aged just 20, he was conscripted into the army by Argentina's then military government and sent to the front line . \u2014 Richard Quest And Joe Minihane, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Clearly there is a strong demand for loitering munitions in Ukraine, and U.S. planners will be scanning through every available program to see what can be rushed out to the front line . \u2014 David Hambling, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The company, which has long prided itself on secrecy, has seen its employees push back and speak out over issues ranging from alleged pay disparities, remote work policies and mistreatment of its frontline retail workers. \u2014 Chris Isidore And Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Many turned homes into offices and some frontline workers began risking their lives for a paycheck. \u2014 David Miller, ABC News , 3 May 2022",
      "Bowser said the portal might open to residents with chronic medical conditions and other non- frontline essential workers in the first week of February. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Jan. 2021",
      "Under Connecticut\u2019s original vaccination plan, frontline essential workers such as grocery store workers and people with underlying conditions such as Zabarsky\u2019s were slated to be next in line for vaccination. \u2014 Emily Brindley, courant.com , 7 Mar. 2021",
      "The college scholarship aims to support children of frontline medical workers and first responders who have been directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. \u2014 Darlene Aderoju, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "Afterward, the couple will visit the Spanish Town Hospital to hear how frontline staff have responded to the pandemic. \u2014 Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Most likely, the targeting is done to inflict terror among the population, create massive refugee displacements, and draw frontline Ukrainian solders off the battlefield to assist civilians. \u2014 Mark Kimmitt, WSJ , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "However, true flexibility for many women \u2014 and especially frontline workers who may not have the same option to work from home \u2014 extends beyond just remote work. \u2014 Karin Kimbrough For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 18 Mar. 2022"
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      "We have 200 feet of frontage on Main Street.",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Outside the Mediterranean mansion is a pool, spa, summer kitchen, dock, boat lift and 100 linear feet of frontage on Sunset Lake, just off Biscayne Bay. \u2014 Robyn A. Friedman, Sun Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
      "The Malibu home comes with 42 feet of frontage on Las Flores Beach and enjoys the coastal setting from a pair of wooden decks. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
      "Austin can\u2019t stop the state\u2019s I-35 expansion, which will mean 20 lanes of highway, turnways and frontage roads in some places. \u2014 Julie Bykowicz, WSJ , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "The home sits on 130 feet of lake frontage , very rare for Tahoe, and has a private, deep-water pier with a boat lift and two buoys. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 1 June 2022",
      "The home, with about 160 feet of lake frontage , sits directly across the water from the Wrigley estate, a string of grand homes and baronial boathouses. \u2014 Amy Gamerman, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
      "The eastbound lanes of U.S. were temporarily blocked, and traffic was diverted to the frontage roads, Graves said. \u2014 Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic , 6 May 2022",
      "One, a vacant lot with 145 feet of water frontage , is listed at $5.595 million. \u2014 Amy Gamerman, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
      "And so, the Bottiglieris decided to buy the 45-acre property last year, along with its lush forests, wide open fields and over 3,500 feet of frontage along Broad Creek. \u2014 Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun , 6 May 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "State crash data shows that 73.3 percent of all deadly pedestrian collisions on highways within Harris County between 2017 and 2021 occurred on the main lanes, while nearly 22 percent were on the frontage road . \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 10 May 2022",
      "Drivers will be detoured to the frontage road , according to Emily Black, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Transportation, which is heading up the roadwork through a contractor. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 10 June 2022",
      "The factory will be served by a new four-lane frontage road and a four-lane entrance road. \u2014 J. Scott Trubey, ajc , 27 May 2022",
      "The man \u2014 in his 30s, who has not been identified \u2014 was driving a Dodge Ram west on the frontage road of Southeast Loop 410 near Villamain Road at about 5:30 a.m., San Antonio police said. \u2014 Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "The victim was with a group of people in a driveway on College Avenue, just west of College Grove Drive, about 10:15 p.m. when a dark-colored El Camino drove by and parked near a frontage road , police said. \u2014 Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "The first phase of the 30 Crossing project has been expanded to include a ramp giving downtown motorists access to westbound Interstate 630 via the southbound Interstate 30 frontage road . \u2014 Noel Oman, Arkansas Online , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The crash happened at around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday at the intersection of North Pine Street and the Interstate 35 frontage road , records show. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 15 Dec. 2021",
      "Traffic flows south on Interstate 45 behind a one way sign for the frontage road Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in Houston. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 30 Jan. 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Higher levels of stress are found in the hypothalamus; lower stress are found in the dorsal lateral frontal cortex. \u2014 Fox News , 29 May 2020",
      "At the same time, the brain dampens the ability of our mid- and frontal cortex to use logic, criticize or think clearly. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 14 Feb. 2020",
      "The workout takes your body through all planes of motion: sagittal (forward/backward), frontal (side to side) and transverse (rotating), as well as fundamental movements like squat, hinge, push and pull. \u2014 Dana Santas, CNN , 24 Apr. 2020",
      "From here, pending approval by Union Pacific, the bridge will cross over the river and the final 1,800-foot leg completed to provide a full frontal of Mossbrae Falls. \u2014 Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com , 15 Mar. 2020",
      "Following the frontal passage early Thursday, high pressure will build in from the Tennessee Valley with clearing skies and much lower humidity. \u2014 courant.com , 28 Aug. 2019",
      "The good news is that this frontal system is moving into the Plains today and will bring some showers to the area which should help ease the fire conditions in the region. \u2014 Daniel Manzo, ABC News , 8 Mar. 2020",
      "Before Euphoria premiered, the world knew one thing about the brand new HBO show: there is a locker room scene with about 30 full- frontal penises flopping about. \u2014 Ariana Romero, refinery29.com , 24 June 2019",
      "Since the frontal cortex of an adolescent brain is still developing, teenagers aren\u2019t fully able to reason or control impulses. \u2014 Joelle Renstrom, The Conversation , 22 Jan. 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "By 2019, proponents of the incremental strategy for undoing Roe were losing to those who wanted the frontal attack. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
      "Daydreaming ignites neural synapse activity in deeper regions of the brain and gives the frontal neo-cortex a break. \u2014 Natalie Nixon, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
      "Drivers should be ready for a really wet evening commute Thursday as a narrow cold frontal rain band is likely to develop during that time and bring a burst of heavier rain to the area. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 May 2022",
      "Every slight is a personal offensive of the highest order, every snub a full- frontal attack on his standing. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 13 Oct. 2021",
      "Saturday features a lot of sunshine but there is a frontal system that will quietly move through. \u2014 Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
      "Most people are losing their ability to move on the frontal plane. \u2014 Roger Lockridge, Men's Health , 30 May 2022",
      "Your hip abductor muscles (the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus) work primarily in exercises in the frontal plane of motion\u2014think side-to-side movement, like with a lateral shuffle. \u2014 Christa Sgobba, SELF , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Limited mobility in your frontal plane, which allows your foot to move from side to side, can cause pain in your knees on the hill. \u2014 Anna Fiorentino, Outside Online , 8 Feb. 2022"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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      "the frontier between Canada and the U.S.",
      "They were sent on an expedition to explore the western frontier .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The studio argues that it\u2019s a zero-sum game: only one side should be allowed to profit off of the new frontier of TV and film exploitation. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 June 2022",
      "Anyone dreaming of warm weather has had their thoughts drift towards the Ionian Sea and the cluster of islands along its frontier . \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Former Soviet countries Over recent days, NATO countries have sent to their eastern frontier thousands of troops, armored vehicles, artillery units, ships and aircraft. \u2014 Evan Gershkovich, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Gulpilil was born on tribal land in the sparsely populated wilds of the Australian northern frontier in the early 1950s, his friend and caregiver Mary Hood said. \u2014 Rod Mcguirk, Los Angeles Times , 29 Nov. 2021",
      "The film, which competes in the Contrechamps strand, is a captivating out West fever dream that takes place across a surreal frontier . \u2014 Holly Jones, Variety , 9 June 2022",
      "At the time, the upsurge of religious enthusiasm called the Second Great Awakening was sweeping across the frontier like a crowd doing the wave at a baseball game. \u2014 The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "His associates are Charlie Utter, who\u2019s like a combination valet and manager to Bill, and Calamity Jane, an angry drunk who blasted her way across the frontier in Wild West shows but goes pie-eyed in Bill\u2019s orbit. \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "This is the innovative spirit that drove prairie schooners across the frontier . \u2014 Dave Shiflett, WSJ , 26 May 2021"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "He was nominated for best actor for all of them, winning for his turn as a frontiersman that survives a bear mauling in the 2015 feature. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 30 Dec. 2021",
      "His performance as frontiersman Hugh Glass in The Revenant also earned him his 2016 Oscar for Best Actor. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 9 Nov. 2021",
      "It was originally named after real-life frontiersman David or Davy Crockett, who became known in popular culture as the king of the wild frontier. \u2014 Naomi Kaskela, Dallas News , 18 Aug. 2021",
      "The sheriff\u2019s uniform shirt is a frontiersman -khaki color. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Aug. 2021",
      "Boone, named for frontiersman Daniel Boone, is the region\u2019s largest town, anchored by Appalachian State University, where my brother attended college. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 July 2021",
      "John Filson, one of the founders of Cincinnati who died before it was settled in 1788, wrote the first biography of what frontiersman ",
      "Idaho was named, in the eighteen-sixties, by a frontiersman huckster who claimed to speak Shoshone. \u2014 Joshua Jelly-schapiro, The New Yorker , 13 Apr. 2021",
      "Your frontiersman now has the ability to saddle up on the back of a tamed beast, considerably reducing the downtime between fights. \u2014 Luke Winkie, Vulture , 9 Apr. 2021"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At some point, the copy lost its frontispiece page, which bore Shakespeare\u2019s image. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
      "The cover and frontispiece , seen here for the first time, was designed by Grace Han, who used a font that was initially developed for movie credits and posters. \u2014 EW.com , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "Reuwich contributed multiple illustrations to Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam: among others, a figurative frontispiece , six panoramic views of Mediterranean towns, and drawings of animals both real and imagined. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian , 9 Oct. 2019",
      "An ornate frontispiece creates visual interest above the front door. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Oct. 2019",
      "In addition to reviews and blurbs, Whitman commissioned a steel engraving of himself as a frontispiece to convey an image of the muscular, rough American poet. \u2014 Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2019",
      "Each chapter begins with a handsome frontispiece and a full-page illustration in a style reminiscent of the Arts & Crafts Movement, and each has its own floral motif. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 12 July 2018",
      "The facade features four thick pillars support a covered porch, a balcony and an ornate frontispiece . \u2014 Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com , 25 Jan. 2018",
      "Sarah Weinman and Joe Lansdale both contribute pressing stories that pivot smartly against the expectation their frontispieces create. \u2014 Charles Finch, USA TODAY , 19 Dec. 2017"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The ask is for the President, as well as all levels of government, to make more explicitly clear that food and agriculture workers are front line workers fighting the pandemic. \u2014 Michael Grabell, ProPublica , 13 May 2022",
      "Few people are more burned out right now than front line workers, from the grocery store to hospitals\u2014people who had no option to work from home or remotely during the pandemic lockdown. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 11 May 2022",
      "Onypko\u2019s brother and his family are in Poland; her parents are in Zaporizhzhia, a city that\u2019s worryingly close to the front line . \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
      "Those Western supplies that have made it through to the front line are neither as plentiful or as sophisticated as Ukraine would like. \u2014 New York Times , 12 June 2022",
      "After taking part in the demonstrations, Molchanova volunteered to go to the front line , going first to a military hospital in Dnipro for training. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Russian bombardment regularly targets this corner of eastern Ukraine, close to the front line . \u2014 Washington Post , 7 May 2022",
      "In 1982, aged just 20, he was conscripted into the army by Argentina's then military government and sent to the front line . \u2014 Richard Quest And Joe Minihane, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Clearly there is a strong demand for loitering munitions in Ukraine, and U.S. planners will be scanning through every available program to see what can be rushed out to the front line . \u2014 David Hambling, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The company, which has long prided itself on secrecy, has seen its employees push back and speak out over issues ranging from alleged pay disparities, remote work policies and mistreatment of its frontline retail workers. \u2014 Chris Isidore And Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Many turned homes into offices and some frontline workers began risking their lives for a paycheck. \u2014 David Miller, ABC News , 3 May 2022",
      "Bowser said the portal might open to residents with chronic medical conditions and other non- frontline essential workers in the first week of February. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Jan. 2021",
      "Under Connecticut\u2019s original vaccination plan, frontline essential workers such as grocery store workers and people with underlying conditions such as Zabarsky\u2019s were slated to be next in line for vaccination. \u2014 Emily Brindley, courant.com , 7 Mar. 2021",
      "The college scholarship aims to support children of frontline medical workers and first responders who have been directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. \u2014 Darlene Aderoju, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "Afterward, the couple will visit the Spanish Town Hospital to hear how frontline staff have responded to the pandemic. \u2014 Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Most likely, the targeting is done to inflict terror among the population, create massive refugee displacements, and draw frontline Ukrainian solders off the battlefield to assist civilians. \u2014 Mark Kimmitt, WSJ , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "However, true flexibility for many women \u2014 and especially frontline workers who may not have the same option to work from home \u2014 extends beyond just remote work. \u2014 Karin Kimbrough For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 18 Mar. 2022"
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      "1915, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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      "The cold had frosted the windows.",
      "I have to frost the birthday cake.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The National Weather Service issued an overnight frost advisory Sunday for much of northern Wisconsin but said the cold spell will be brief. \u2014 Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 May 2022",
      "Thursday night will again be chilly with overnight lows around freezing and more frost expected. \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "The frost advisory is in place from 2 to 9 a.m. Wednesday. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "As the temperature dipped well below freezing and frost spread over car windows, about 150 men and women shuffled Sunday morning into the First Baptist Church on the corner of South and First streets. \u2014 Austyn Gaffney, Antonio Olivo And Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "As the temperature dipped well below freezing and frost spread over car windows, about 150 men and women shuffled Sunday morning into the First Baptist Church on the corner of South and First streets. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "Fruit production slows as the days become shorter and colder in fall before a frost . \u2014 Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune , 11 June 2022",
      "Tips for Growing Hot Peppers Start hot peppers from seed indoors in late winter or buy transplants and plant them directly in the ground after the last frost in the spring. \u2014 Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens , 8 June 2022",
      "Beyond that, the trees spread across 377 acres of land stopped producing almonds after the region was hit by frost in February. \u2014 Louis Sahag\u00fanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Using the remaining buttercream, frost the cake with a smooth finish. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "The car also has a TV that rolls up and down, and a partition that can frost over. \u2014 Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "To make ahead, let cake cool completely before wrapping tightly and leave on the kitchen counter until ready to frost or up to two days. \u2014 Kim Sun\u00e9e, Anchorage Daily News , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "Between April 2020 and December 2021, the price of soybeans soared 52 percent, and corn and wheat both grew 80 percent, the fund\u2019s data showed, while the price of coffee rose 70 percent, due largely to droughts and frost in Brazil. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "Exuberance becomes introspection as the strings slow, soften, and frost over in falling patterns and the percussionists switch from heavy forces to bells, rain sticks and slide whistles. \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 14 Jan. 2022",
      "The flakes, illuminated by the electric light of a pole, cascaded from the black sky to frost the surface of the vehicle. \u2014 Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "To turn this the cake into a buche, do not frost the ends of the cake. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "Brazil was hit by both dry weather and frost this past season. \u2014 Katherine Dunn, Fortune , 8 Dec. 2021"
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      "1635, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
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      "The Brazilian president has had a frosty relationship with Washington, and the summit promised to be the first time Mr. Bolsonaro and President Biden would speak as presidents. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
      "Coming off a frosty start, some places jumped 35 degrees or so! \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
      "The Russian official received a frosty reception, deliberately coordinated between Western allies. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "The frosty reception Saudis have received from the US since Biden came into office has deeply irritated the Persian Gulf country, leading to a lack of willingness on its part to be helpful by pumping more oil into the market, US officials have said. \u2014 Kevin Liptak, CNN , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "In an interview last year with Oprah Winfrey, Harry described his father and brother as being trapped in their roles, and relations have appeared frosty since. \u2014 Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
      "Iced drinks may seem like a modern phenomenon, but the demand for a frosty beverage actually dates back to the days of the Roman Empire. \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
      "And here\u2019s this beautiful piece of frosty seafoam glass just laying there. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 27 May 2022",
      "Vladimir Putin celebrated a warming climate as good for frosty Russia. \u2014 Kate Brown, Washington Post , 27 May 2022"
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      "The water frothed as the waves broke along the shore.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In the meantime, corrections can even be beneficial for the tech sector, both by ensuring more financially viable companies end up going public and by eliminating some of the froth and excess in the market. \u2014 Catherine Thorbecke, CNN , 9 June 2022",
      "Writ large, part of the froth is because South Florida in general has been on a bull market run since even before the pandemic. \u2014 Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The new episodes double down on the romance, froth , and scandal that made season one so popular, but the Sharmas bring a distinctly new flavor in the shape of a throughline of Indian culture in the plot. \u2014 Meha Razdan, Town & Country , 27 Mar. 2022",
      "In a hype economy built on froth , virality, misinformation, and celebrity endorsements, crypto has no apparent utility besides being a source of risky speculation. \u2014 Ben Mckenzie, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Today\u2019s housing market does not resemble the speculative froth that helped drag us into the Financial Crisis. \u2014 Michael Joseph, Fortune , 23 May 2022",
      "Equipped with 20 years of insights about investing in the alt protein space, Kerr said Unovis Asset Management can see through the froth and hype, and target companies that will improve society\u2019s wellbeing while performing financially. \u2014 Douglas Yu, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "Camilla then discreetly told her husband about the spot of froth on his nose, which made the prince burst out laughing. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Bank of America and Citigroup bucked the mainstream by warning of froth and predicting a minimal rise, but none of the Street's stalwarts foresaw an outright decline. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The shop also has a coffee traveler serving 12 people ($17), gift baskets ($25-$35), and DIY barista kits ($65) that include equipment to make espresso and froth milk, coffee and syrups. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
      "Add the butter, which should froth and sizzle immediately\u2014if not, return the spoon to the coals. \u2014 Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online , 22 June 2020",
      "But Gil-Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez worked hard to froth the ensemble up around Taylor\u2019s unruly column of sound. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Men who don\u2019t like their face washes to foam and froth all over the place will appreciate this product\u2019s more subdued lather. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "But life has adapted to survive in this hostile environment, where boiling temperatures can cause the water to froth . \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 5 Feb. 2022",
      "That simply will not be the case next year, when Trump\u2014barring some kind of health emergency\u2014will be crisscrossing the country to froth up his base. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 8 Nov. 2021",
      "This option approved by Hickey brews double or single espressos using coffee grounds and features a steam wand to froth milk and make specialty drinks. \u2014 Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens , 4 Nov. 2021",
      "For each serving, steam and froth 1/4 cup coconut milk mixture. \u2014 Brittany Pankey, Country Living , 12 Oct. 2021"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
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      "Middle English, from Old Norse frotha ; akin to Old English \u0101 fr\u0113othan to froth":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055401",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a minute depression in the surface of a coated paper caused by froth in the coating mixture used":[]
    },
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183213",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an agent (as pine oil or cresol) that is active in froth flotation through its ability to change the surface tension of a liquid and consequently decrease the wettability of the particles to be recovered":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "froth entry 2 + -er":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-t\u035fh-",
      "-th\u0259(r)"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112911",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": full of or consisting of froth":[],
      ": gaily frivolous or light in content or treatment : insubstantial":[
        "a frothy comedy"
      ],
      ": made of light thin material":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a frothy dessert made of whipped egg whites and fruit puree",
      "a frothy comedy that wouldn't exert the brain of a gnat",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "After a year of work, Portland State researchers have developed a cup that will allow astronauts to successfully sip espresso (and other warm, frothy drinks) in low-gravity environments, according to the university. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 27 Jan. 2015",
      "This season brings the usual crop of escapist fun, with frothy game shows and silly reality fare. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 May 2022",
      "Startups have fewer options to find backing, and investors don\u2019t have to pay the frothy valuations seen in 2020 and 2021. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
      "The combined impact of regulation and Covid-19 measures has turned a once- frothy market\u2014a year ago, central bankers were still warning of a housing bubble\u2014into a drag on the broader economy. \u2014 Jonathan Cheng, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
      "Las Vegas is next, natch \u2014 and, in a town with a frothy cryptocurrency obsession, its main sponsor is Crypto.com. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2022",
      "She shape-shifts in videos set in a far-off galaxy, bending physical form, space, and musical genres\u2014from hip-hop, Afrobeats, and frothy , high-femme pop to heartstring-pulling ballads. \u2014 Marjon Carlos, ELLE , 25 May 2022",
      "Foamflower, also called tiarella, is a cold-hardy perennial that blooms with masses of frothy flowers in early spring. \u2014 Lauren Smith Mcdonough, House Beautiful , 25 May 2022",
      "Its frothy bubbles and off-dry qualities are hard to resist. \u2014 Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 23 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u022f-th\u0113",
      "-t\u035fh\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "foamy",
      "lathery",
      "sudsy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094531",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": full of or consisting of froth":[],
      ": gaily frivolous or light in content or treatment : insubstantial":[
        "a frothy comedy"
      ],
      ": made of light thin material":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a frothy dessert made of whipped egg whites and fruit puree",
      "a frothy comedy that wouldn't exert the brain of a gnat",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "After a year of work, Portland State researchers have developed a cup that will allow astronauts to successfully sip espresso (and other warm, frothy drinks) in low-gravity environments, according to the university. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 27 Jan. 2015",
      "This season brings the usual crop of escapist fun, with frothy game shows and silly reality fare. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 May 2022",
      "Startups have fewer options to find backing, and investors don\u2019t have to pay the frothy valuations seen in 2020 and 2021. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
      "The combined impact of regulation and Covid-19 measures has turned a once- frothy market\u2014a year ago, central bankers were still warning of a housing bubble\u2014into a drag on the broader economy. \u2014 Jonathan Cheng, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
      "Las Vegas is next, natch \u2014 and, in a town with a frothy cryptocurrency obsession, its main sponsor is Crypto.com. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2022",
      "She shape-shifts in videos set in a far-off galaxy, bending physical form, space, and musical genres\u2014from hip-hop, Afrobeats, and frothy , high-femme pop to heartstring-pulling ballads. \u2014 Marjon Carlos, ELLE , 25 May 2022",
      "Foamflower, also called tiarella, is a cold-hardy perennial that blooms with masses of frothy flowers in early spring. \u2014 Lauren Smith Mcdonough, House Beautiful , 25 May 2022",
      "Its frothy bubbles and off-dry qualities are hard to resist. \u2014 Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 23 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-t\u035fh\u0113",
      "\u02c8fr\u022f-th\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "foamy",
      "lathery",
      "sudsy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235843",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "frottage":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act of obtaining sexual stimulation by rubbing against a person or object":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The adolescent romance is, to be sure, very French\u2014the two are young enough to play children\u2019s games in the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es each afternoon, yet old enough to engage in a memorable moment of frottage . \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 3 May 2021",
      "The results are eerie and surprisingly crisp, like frottage . \u2014 Jon Caramanica, New York Times , 8 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1935, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from frotter to rub":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "fr\u022f-\u02c8t\u00e4zh"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030316",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a secular part-song of Italy of the 15th and 16th centuries that is largely homophonic and has the music repeated with each verse":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian, from Old Italian, from frotta crowd, multitude, from Middle French flote , from Old French, from (assumed) Old Italian flotta , alteration of (assumed) flotto , from Latin fluctus action of flowing, flood, wave":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u00e4t-",
      "It \u02c8fr\u022ftt\u014dl\u00e4",
      "\u02c8fr\u022ft\u1d4al\u0259"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210726",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "frotton":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a burnisher for rubbing the back of paper in block printing":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from frotter to rub":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02c8)fr\u022f\u00a6t\u014d\u207f"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082208",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a rustling especially of a woman's skirts":[],
      ": showy or frilly ornamentation":[],
      ": very showy or fancy":[
        "\u2026 fussy, fragile, froufrou clothes won't make it through the winter.",
        "\u2014 Elle",
        "Some people dismiss the bright yellow garnish as froufrou decoration, but they're missing the point \u2026",
        "\u2014 Jane Daniels Lear",
        "\u2026 when she had put on her make-up, he set her on his bed in her frou-frou dressing-gown \u2026",
        "\u2014 John le Carr\u00e9"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "To keep the planter from skewing fusty, Mr. London recommends filling it with leafy plants, or even cactuses, in lieu of froufrou florals. \u2014 Allison Duncan, WSJ , 22 Sep. 2021",
      "This froufrou fantasy surged as a status symbol in the 1950s, said New York designer Laurence Carr, but is far too resource-sucking today. \u2014 Kathryn O'shea-evans, WSJ , 13 Aug. 2021",
      "Here\u2019s a look at some properties that are light on froufrou but big on fun. \u2014 Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com , 20 Jan. 2021",
      "Lindsey Wixson also starred in the show, wearing a punchy blue froufrou dress over a coral knit (complete with a supersized bow). \u2014 Georgia Murray, refinery29.com , 18 Feb. 2020",
      "Oh\u2019s shoulders courtesy of Elie Saab, the decorative froufrou had been streamlined. \u2014 Vanessa Friedman, New York Times , 10 Feb. 2020",
      "For a $2 fee, nonmembers can use a portion of the club\u2019s private beach cove, and, from 5 to 7 p.m., sip half-price froufrou tropical drinks at the beachside bar. \u2014 Rico Gagliano, WSJ , 1 Aug. 2018",
      "Like the Seattle flagship, the Reserve coffee bars will brew drinks on machines including a siphon, and a Black Eagle espresso maker \u2014 the similar equipment staples at froufrou shops like Intelligensia. \u2014 Jacqueline Colette Prosper, ELLE Decor , 21 Oct. 2016",
      "Potential buyers are put off by small rooms, steep stairs and froufrou adornments in a culture where the fewest interior walls, level floors and clean lines are popular. \u2014 Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com , 19 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1870, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1885, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, of imitative origin":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u00fc-(\u02cc)fr\u00fc"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-141030",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[
      "behaved",
      "behaving",
      "nice",
      "orderly"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": adverse":[],
      ": habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "their froward pranks are not appropriate in the workplace",
      "froward students sent to the office for chronic disciplinary problems"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, turned away, froward, from fro from + -ward -ward":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u014d-(w)\u0259rd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bad",
      "contrary",
      "errant",
      "misbehaving",
      "mischievous",
      "naughty"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200351",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[
      "behaved",
      "behaving",
      "nice",
      "orderly"
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    "definitions":{
      ": adverse":[],
      ": habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "their froward pranks are not appropriate in the workplace",
      "froward students sent to the office for chronic disciplinary problems"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, turned away, froward, from fro from + -ward -ward":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u014d-(w)\u0259rd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bad",
      "contrary",
      "errant",
      "misbehaving",
      "mischievous",
      "naughty"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003536",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "frown":{
    "antonyms":[
      "face",
      "grimace",
      "lower",
      "lour",
      "moue",
      "mouth",
      "mow",
      "mug",
      "pout",
      "scowl",
      "snoot"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a wrinkling of the brow in displeasure or concentration":[],
      ": an expression of displeasure":[],
      ": to contract the brow in displeasure or concentration":[
        "frowned in anger"
      ],
      ": to give evidence of displeasure or disapproval by or as if by facial expression":[
        "critics frown on the idea"
      ],
      ": to show displeasure with or disapproval of especially by facial expression":[
        "I will be neither frowned nor ridiculed into error",
        "\u2014 Noah Webster"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "She was frowning when she entered the room, so I knew that she was annoyed about something.",
      "the boss just stood there and frowned at his assistant who, once again, was in trouble",
      "Noun",
      "it was clear from the frown on the CEO's face that sales were headed in the wrong direction",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Our city recently elected a Fun Mayor, Eric Adams, whose most urgent appeal is for New Yorkers to loosen up, get outside, and turn that frown upside down. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "In my experience, activating the PayPal app overseas can be tricky because of the company\u2019s security measures, which frown upon foreign IP addresses. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Unlike other organizations which might frown upon the idea of a sub offering pointers, hearing those opinions is part of Orpheus\u2019s vetting process. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "Another shortcoming some people will frown at is the fact that the s9+ doesn\u2019t have a mop feature. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "The Taliban generally frown on smoking, and the unit has at times physically punished smokers. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "Perhaps plentiful opportunities in the U.S. job market are causing talented millennials to frown upon the mob life and seek legitimate fortunes. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 4 Oct. 2021",
      "Indoors, designers frown upon buying an entire bedroom suite in the same style, color and material. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 July 2021",
      "Some of the more successful retailers frown on the percentage-rent model, preferring to keep any profits from booming sales to themselves. \u2014 Esther Fung, WSJ , 15 June 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Michelle Williams plays Lizzy in a wavy mop of brown hair, with a slight frown , so that her whole demeanor seems repressed and a bit frumpy. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 27 May 2022",
      "Michelle Williams plays Lizzy in a wavy mop of brown hair, with a slight frown , so that her whole demeanor seems repressed and a bit frumpy. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 May 2022",
      "His response was an unsympathetic frown and shrug, drawing ire from the Rising fanbase. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 17 May 2022",
      "The actor found the green-screen experience grueling and was openly dismissive about a job that mostly entailed perfecting the Jedi frown and waving a saber. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2021",
      "To lump these movies together under a giant frown emoji, in other words, would be as reductive as trying to consign them to a single style or subject. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "The best onscreen Batmen have always understood the value of a good frown . \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 2 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",
      "This is not about taking that frown and turning it upside-down. \u2014 Terry Pluto, cleveland , 15 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
      "1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English frounen , from Middle French frogner to snort, frown, of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh ffroen nostril, Old Irish sr\u00f3n nose":"Verb and Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8frau\u0307n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "glare",
      "gloom",
      "glower",
      "lower",
      "lour",
      "scowl"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004641",
    "type":[
      "adjective,",
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      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "frown (on":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to disapprove of (something)":[
        "The company frowns on dating among employees.",
        "Public expressions of affection are frowned upon in many cultures."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083355",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": to disapprove of (something)"
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    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220628-092002",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
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  "frown on/upon":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to disapprove of (something)":[
        "The company frowns on dating among employees.",
        "Public expressions of affection are frowned upon in many cultures."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235250",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
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  },
  "frowst":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": stale stuffy atmosphere : offensive or musty odor":[
        "the frowst that rose \u2026 from my bedding",
        "\u2014 Monica Baldwin",
        "the frowst of a third-class carriage full of sleepy travelers",
        "\u2014 John Buchan"
      ],
      ": to loll or lounge especially indoors":[
        "why should one frowst within four walls on such a night",
        "\u2014 J. C. Snaith"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "back-formation from frowsty":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"",
      "\u02c8frau\u0307st"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033700",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "frowsty":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ambrosial",
      "aromatic",
      "fragrant",
      "perfumed",
      "redolent",
      "savory",
      "savoury",
      "scented",
      "sweet"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": frowsy sense 2":[],
      ": musty":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a frowsty , mold-ridden flat in London's East End"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1865, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of frowsy":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8frau\u0307-st\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "fetid",
      "foul",
      "frowsy",
      "frowzy",
      "funky",
      "fusty",
      "malodorous",
      "musty",
      "noisome",
      "rank",
      "reeking",
      "reeky",
      "ripe",
      "smelly",
      "stenchy",
      "stinking",
      "stinky",
      "strong"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203532",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "frowsy":{
    "antonyms":[
      "dapper",
      "dashing",
      "dolled up",
      "sharp",
      "smart",
      "spruce"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having a slovenly or uncared-for appearance":[
        "a couple of frowsy stuffed chairs",
        "\u2014 R. M. Williams"
      ],
      ": musty , stale":[
        "a frowsy smell of stale beer and stale smoke",
        "\u2014 W. S. Maugham"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a frowsy family living in wretched poverty",
      "the abandoned house was dank and frowsy and barely fit for human habitation",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Before the current renovation of the franchised hotels, the rooms looked as if they were stuck in a fussy, frowsy 1980s floral rut. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1681, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8frau\u0307-z\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blowsy",
      "blowzy",
      "dowdy",
      "slobbish",
      "slobby",
      "sloppy",
      "sloven",
      "slovenly",
      "unkempt",
      "untidy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025411",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "frowzy":{
    "antonyms":[
      "dapper",
      "dashing",
      "dolled up",
      "sharp",
      "smart",
      "spruce"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having a slovenly or uncared-for appearance":[
        "a couple of frowsy stuffed chairs",
        "\u2014 R. M. Williams"
      ],
      ": musty , stale":[
        "a frowsy smell of stale beer and stale smoke",
        "\u2014 W. S. Maugham"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a frowsy family living in wretched poverty",
      "the abandoned house was dank and frowsy and barely fit for human habitation",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Before the current renovation of the franchised hotels, the rooms looked as if they were stuck in a fussy, frowsy 1980s floral rut. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1681, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8frau\u0307-z\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blowsy",
      "blowzy",
      "dowdy",
      "slobbish",
      "slobby",
      "sloppy",
      "sloven",
      "slovenly",
      "unkempt",
      "untidy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021101",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "frozen":{
    "antonyms":[
      "insecure",
      "loose"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": drained or incapable of emotion":[],
      ": expressing or characterized by cold unfriendliness":[],
      ": not available for present use":[
        "frozen capital"
      ],
      ": subject to long and severe cold":[
        "the frozen north"
      ],
      ": treated, affected, or crusted over by freezing":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the car door was frozen ever since an accident had damaged the hinge",
      "pay rates will remain frozen until the company does better financially",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "On the point about the president, the current president is dealing with a very bad hand, there\u2019s no question, in terms of how frozen things are in D.C. \u2014 ABC News , 5 June 2022",
      "The smart vending machine makes sense for all kinds of products: soda, coffee, electronics, and frozen foods. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "Many started grocery shopping online, another boon for frozen foods. \u2014 Liz Webber, Quartz , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Bakery workers at a Rich Products frozen foods facility in Southern California have been on strike since November. \u2014 Errol Schweizer, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "Carrs Safeway grocery stores have also been short or devoid of a variety of basic items, including milk, frozen foods and some meats. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Jan. 2022",
      "Jollof rice will appear on menus and in the frozen -foods section. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "Whether sweet or sour, fresh or frozen , these cherry desserts put the crimson stone fruit to great use. \u2014 Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post , 16 May 2022",
      "Ok, so not so convenient for groceries that include fresh or frozen foods. \u2014 Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY , 14 May 2022"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Two large touchscreen displays\u2014one front and center and another for the digital instrument cluster\u2014anchor almost all of the car\u2019s controls. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 18 May 2022",
      "The international financial crisis will be front and center as President Joe Biden meets with leaders of some of the world\u2019s most advanced economies this weekend in the Bavarian Alps. \u2014 Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
      "As EVs disrupt the entire automotive industry, new market entrants like ElectraMeccanica are front and center creating a historic opportunity to reinvent mobility. \u2014 Susan Galer, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Arizona was front and center during Monday morning testimony in the House Select Committee hearings investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 13 June 2022",
      "And the question of how Facebook might affect democracy was not front and center . \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Rather than release another still or teaser, the show dropped a full-length trailer -- one that put new narrator Kim Cattrall front and center . \u2014 Amber Dowling, Variety , 20 Dec. 2021",
      "When the papers came, he was stunned to see his photo front and center . \u2014 Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer , 23 May 2022",
      "Now Booker back in protocols puts situation front and center again for the Suns and the league. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 3 Mar. 2022"
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      "1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "He challenged the views of his party's front bench .",
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      "Brook Park Branch, 6155 Engle Road, and Brook Park Botanical and Garden Club, will team up to create an attractive garden area along the south side of the library building, and to place a planter beside the library\u2019s front bench . \u2014 Rich Heileman, cleveland , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "The Ram's wide front bench makes sitting three across easier than it's been since the '70s. \u2014 K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "But hey\u2014cars and romance have a rich and storied intertwined history, from the days when most vehicles came with front bench seats and voluminous back seat playgrounds. \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Sohel took a grim satisfaction in watching the manager clamber up onto the front bench seat, his dignity ruffled. \u2014 Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker , 31 Aug. 2021",
      "She was first elected to Parliament in 1964\u2014an annus mirabilis for all things progressive\u2014and spent much of the next 15 years on the front bench . \u2014 The Economist , 15 Apr. 2021",
      "The problem affects vehicles with the 40/20/40 split-folding front bench seats, not those with front bucket seats, according to the NHTSA defect report. \u2014 Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver , 29 Dec. 2020",
      "The option of what is effectively a fold-up jumpseat in the front means the 90 can carry six passengers\u2014all hail the return of the front bench seat\u2014although anyone in the middle up front will have to bend their knees around the dashboard console. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 29 Oct. 2020",
      "The issue even prompted a shake-up of the Liberal front bench this summer. \u2014 Kait Bolongaro, Bloomberg.com , 17 Oct. 2020"
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      "circa 1889, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Carbon Fiber Package #1 includes front dive planes, underwing strakes, extra-arrow front splitter, front-wheel deflectors, and an extra-aero rear spoiler. \u2014 Michael Harley, Forbes , 13 May 2022"
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      "circa 1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ultrasound, a technology developed to monitor wanted pregnancies, is already used to block women from terminating unwanted ones. \u2014 Catherine M. Klapperich, STAT , 3 July 2022",
      "New York will also bar people from bringing guns into any business or workplace unless the owners put up signs saying guns are welcome. \u2014 Marina Villeneuve, Anchorage Daily News , 2 July 2022",
      "Migrants were stopped nearly 240,000 times in May, up by one-third from a year ago. \u2014 Paul J. Weber, Chron , 2 July 2022",
      "Fortune's new series, In This Economy",
      "But a decades-old NCAA rule bars programs making such a jump from competing in the college spectacle for four years. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
      "Clark said this may provide one of the strongest limits on states\u2019 attempts to prevent women from seeking abortions outside their own borders. \u2014 Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News , 2 July 2022",
      "The escalating numbers show leisure travelers aren\u2019t being deterred from flying by rising fares, the ongoing spread of COVID-19 or worries about recurring flight delays and cancellations. \u2014 Michael Liedtke, ajc , 2 July 2022",
      "And on June 24, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland put out a statement noting that states cannot prevent residents from traveling to another state for care. \u2014 New York Times , 2 July 2022"
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      ": a sweet, frozen dessert that is like ice cream but made from yogurt":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Use the bowl to create a wide range of treats, including hard ice cream, soft serve, frozen yogurt , gelato and even granitas in 10 to 20 minutes. \u2014 Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
      "Main Street Creamery and Cafe, at 271 Main St., is a popular destination in charming Old Wethersfield, offering 50-plus traditional hard ice cream flavors, frozen yogurt , nonfat and sugar-free options, and several dairy-free choices. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022",
      "Scratch Ice Cream will take over the space now occupied by frozen yogurt shop Yo Mama, which is closing in Brookfield but plans to keep its Wauwatosa location. \u2014 Brooke Eberle, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
      "The small shop with a walk-up window is seasonal, and offers ice cream, frozen yogurt , milkshakes, sundaes and hot dogs throughout the summer. \u2014 Samira Jallow, courant.com , 26 July 2021",
      "Use it to whip up a batch of frozen yogurt instead of ice cream or bake scones and then sweeten with confectioners\u2019 sugar to dollop on top. \u2014 Christopher Michel, Country Living , 25 May 2022",
      "These single servings of frozen yogurt come encased in an edible protective film made from natural food particles. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 18 Aug. 2014",
      "The pre-dessert palate cleanser was a gin frozen yogurt served with bright green pearls of tarragon tapioca. \u2014 Ella Riley-adams, Vogue , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "In 2011, the company opened a 35,000-square-foot factory with a warehouse that can hold 36 million scoops of ice cream, frozen yogurt , sherbet and sorbet. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 9 Mar. 2022"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1958, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-200730"
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      ": to seize from behind roughly and forcefully propel forward":[
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1884, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202539"
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      "noun"
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      ": the condition of being in active consideration or development : a position of priority":[
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The summer camps and the Pollinator Palooza are just two of the programs currently on the front burner . \u2014 Linda Gandee, cleveland , 7 June 2022",
      "With these factors simmering on the front burner , pressure on the Biden administration to cancel sizable balances of student debt has intensified. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
      "Perhaps paradoxically, one of the largest issues that continues to permeate the blockchain and cryptoasset landscape is the lack of transparency, which was brought to the front burner after the disclosure of just how USDT is reserved. \u2014 Sean Stein Smith, Forbes , 26 May 2021",
      "Still, Biden's advisers have strategically mapped out ways to keep the issue on the front burner . \u2014 Phil Mattingly, CNN , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "The setback for Biden\u2019s social spending bill, his administration\u2019s focus in the final months of 2021, explains at least in part why the White House is shifting voting rights to the front burner . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
      "In this heated environment, the film's suggestions to foster more consensus, put voting rights on the front burner and increase civics education in schools seem like the equivalent of raising a hand to speak during a shouting match. \u2014 Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press , 6 Jan. 2022",
      "Later this morning, Luna moves into playful Leo and makes a supportive angle to Mercury, urging us to put fun on the front burner . \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
      "Since then, his dispute with the Lions over money has become front burner . \u2014 Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press , 8 Aug. 2021"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1973, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205834"
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        "the war would then be brought directly to the front door of the Americas",
        "\u2014 Emil Lengyel"
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      ": an open direct forthright approach or a legal approach toward gaining some object":[
        "should do it directly and openly, through the front door",
        "\u2014 Yale Review"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210204"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": matter preceding the main text of a book":[]
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    "examples":[
      "The conventions of the book are explained in the front matter .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Paging through this front matter feels like waiting for a haunted carnival ride to start, only to be wrong-footed. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 31 Oct. 2019",
      "Some of Richard McGuire\u2019s sequences are taxonomies: bird cages, hats, ice, or the collection of wire shapes that decorates the front matter of this book. \u2014 The New York Review of Books , 13 Oct. 2016"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1909, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210636"
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      "idiom"
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      ": having appearance, behavior, or nature that seems to be typical for one's job or position":[
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210751"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a platelike prolongation of the base of the upper mandible over the forehead that is a characteristic feature of the coots and gallinules":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211022"
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      ": including everything":[
        "The book is titled \"Home Repairs From A to Z .\""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211317"
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      ": river entry 2":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220228"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "French authorities accused Kerimov of purchasing the multimillion-dollar villa and three others through a front man . \u2014 Yasmine Salam, NBC News , 5 May 2022",
      "Matthew is the front man , taking care of customers, while his father stays in the kitchen and cooks. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "Paltrow shares two kids with Coldplay's front man Chris Martin, Apple Martin and Moses Martin, 16. \u2014 Rasha Ali, USA TODAY , 14 May 2022",
      "But for Wilco\u2019s twelfth studio album the band is returning to its roots (roots music), and the fifty-four-year-old front man is feeling ready to reinstate the image repertoire. \u2014 Hannah Seidlitz, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
      "Another Ukrainian rocker, Andriy Khlyvnyuk, the front man of BoomBox, inspired Pink Floyd to perform and record a new song for the first time in over 20 years. \u2014 Kateryna Choursina, Fortune , 8 May 2022",
      "Their departures render Montas, 29, the clear front man of a raw unit. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Sad news that Chris Bailey, front man of seminal Brisbane band The Saints, has passed away. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Mac McCaughan, Superchunk\u2019s front man and songwriter, lets the questions about what happened and why hang in the air. \u2014 Craig Morgan Teicher, The New Yorker , 30 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1932, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220528"
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      "idiom"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220932"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221723"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
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    "first_known_use":{
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For the first three landings, no sooner had the crewmen opened their hatch after splashdown than frogmen handed them biohazard suits to wear for their trip back to the Naval recovery ship. \u2014 Time , 2 Mar. 2020",
      "The frogman resurfaced in 2016, more than 40 years after the last sighting. \u2014 Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com , 11 Feb. 2020",
      "Hatleberg was one of four frogmen on the recovery team who jumped into the ocean from a helicopter. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 July 2019",
      "The rumored perpetrators included agents of the K.G.B. or M.I.6, or a team of frogmen from the Mossad. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2019",
      "Helicopters from the Hornet, the lead recovery ship, brought frogmen to the scene. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 July 2019",
      "In one leg of the escape, the cocoons were placed on floating stretchers, and Thai frogmen pushed them along. \u2014 Hannah Beech, Richard C. Paddock And Muktita Suhartono, New York Times , 12 July 2018",
      "But the Thai frogmen were accustomed to tropical open water, not the gloomy, cold currents racing through the cave. \u2014 Hannah Beech, Richard C. Paddock And Muktita Suhartono, New York Times , 12 July 2018",
      "The determination and dedication of Saman will always be in all of our frogmen hearts. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 July 2018"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1945, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114319"
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
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      "noun"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1737, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-120918"
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    "first_known_use":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-125001"
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      "idiom"
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      ": from that time onward":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-125845"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "While the material is more flexible, extreme heat can cause a bump similar to a frost heave , Meyer said. \u2014 Tim Harlow, Star Tribune , 10 June 2021",
      "One big project \u2014 addressing what appear as fierce frost heaves on Chief Eddie Hoffman Highway, one of the main roads through town \u2014 is still short on answers. \u2014 Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News , 7 July 2017",
      "In the Northeast, earth resettles after freezing and thawing, a phenomenon known as frost heave . \u2014 Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics , 3 June 2019",
      "There are crews on both sides of the border continuously filling in potholes and regrading stretches of road damaged by frost heaves . \u2014 Scott Mcmurren, Anchorage Daily News , 19 May 2018",
      "As Kooser reports, frost heave is capable of moving even roads and buildings. \u2014 Julissa Trevi\u00f1o, Smithsonian , 9 Mar. 2018",
      "The agency is also trying to understand what's causing fierce frost heaving on the Chief Eddie Hoffman Highway in Bethel in Southwest. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Mar. 2018",
      "Of 141 sites along the road already analyzed, 24 percent are considered to be in poor condition, at risk for landslides or debris flow problems, rock falls, frost heaves or severe erosion, the plan says. \u2014 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News , 1 Sep. 2017"
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    "first_known_use":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162854"
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      "Max H. Frohberg , born 1901 Canadian geologist born in Germany + English -ite":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164627"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171225"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171853"
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      ": any of various fungal leaf diseases characterized by concentric rings about the diseased spots":[]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1906, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172621"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172917"
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    "definitions":{
      ": money that is paid in advance for a promised service or product":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The athletic department would pay for the construction of the boards, with the up- front money coming from a bond. \u2014 David Jesse, Detroit Free Press , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "Under that system, community groups such as D\u00eda de la Mujer Latina and the Latino Cancer Institute front money for their NIH projects and get paid back later. \u2014 Elizabeth Cohen, CNN , 6 Mar. 2022",
      "West Allis Economic Development Executive Director Patrick Schloss said the limited guaranty agreement is not a loan, and the city isn't providing any up- front money . \u2014 Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 July 2021",
      "The circus\u2019s investors, who were supposed to front money for room and board, stopped answering their phones. \u2014 Nina Strochlic, National Geographic , 27 July 2020",
      "If there is no season, they won\u2019t be paid with the exception of up- front money . \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2020",
      "Whales typically have a budget ( front money or a credit line) ranging anywhere from $1M to $20M and in a weekend could easily be up or down millions. \u2014 Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
      "The app, a Silicon Valley startup, fronts money requested to its users before payday. \u2014 Lily Jackson | Ljackson@al.com, al , 29 Sep. 2019",
      "This includes: negotiating with Barcelona only, accepting a salary reduction and even the possibility of Neymar fronting money himself to pay off PSG to move (something which was also mooted as deadline day approached on Monday). \u2014 SI.com , 4 Sep. 2019"
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    "first_known_use":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173116"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182258"
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      "idiom"
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      ": very quickly as time passes":[
        "The weather kept changing from moment to moment ."
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182426"
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      "noun"
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      ": a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This hatchet/machete lovechild is a beast for processing wood at camp (Buck's Froe is confusingly not shaped like a traditional froe , which is L-shaped, but they're used for the same purpose). \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 17 Oct. 2019",
      "Children will enjoy cutting a log with a two-man saw, cleaving shingles with a mallet and froe , competing in a seed spitting contest, making dolls and other activities. \u2014 Daily News Staff, The Mercury News , 5 May 2017",
      "Named for a New York industrial arts teacher who collected early American craft and industry tools, the trove includes everything from bark spuds and froes to twibills and wool wheel fingers. \u2014 Suzanne Carmick, New York Times , 6 June 2017"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps alteration of obsolete froward turned away, from Middle English; from the position of the handle":""
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      "1574, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184552"
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      "noun"
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      ": relating to, occurring in, or required at the beginning of an undertaking or business transaction":[
        "no front-end charge at the time of investment",
        "He pays close attention to financial matters and can speak the language of \" front-end money,\" \"back-end money\" and the rest of it.",
        "\u2014 Erik Hedegaard"
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      "\u2014 compare back-end sense 1":[
        "no front-end charge at the time of investment",
        "He pays close attention to financial matters and can speak the language of \" front-end money,\" \"back-end money\" and the rest of it.",
        "\u2014 Erik Hedegaard"
      ],
      ": visible to the user of a device or service":[
        "a front-end application/interface"
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      "\u2014 compare back-end sense 2":[
        "a front-end application/interface"
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      ": the front part or section of something":[
        "Soon the front end of the ship began to go down and down, faster and faster\u2014till the boat looked almost as though it were standing on its head.",
        "\u2014 Hugh Lofting"
      ],
      ": a unit in a computer system devoted to controlling the data communications link between terminals and the main computer and often to the preliminary processing of data":[],
      ": a software interface (such as a graphical user interface) designed to enable user-friendly interaction with a computer":[
        "\u2026 you'll want to use this well-designed, easy-to-use front end for Windows' obscure command-line tools.",
        "\u2014 Edward Mendelson"
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      "\u2014 compare back end sense 3":[
        "\u2026 you'll want to use this well-designed, easy-to-use front end for Windows' obscure command-line tools.",
        "\u2014 Edward Mendelson"
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      ": the initial part or period of a business arrangement or financial undertaking":[
        "Once a record company has sunk a lot of money on the front end of a project, with big-name producers and an expensive video, she says, \"They're afraid of spending money on anything else.\"",
        "\u2014 Mimi Vald\u00e9s",
        "In sum, the initiative aims to force \u2026 residents to pay more of their own fire protection expenses, and to pay those expenses on the front end .",
        "\u2014 David Sirota"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare back end sense 2":[
        "Once a record company has sunk a lot of money on the front end of a project, with big-name producers and an expensive video, she says, \"They're afraid of spending money on anything else.\"",
        "\u2014 Mimi Vald\u00e9s",
        "In sum, the initiative aims to force \u2026 residents to pay more of their own fire protection expenses, and to pay those expenses on the front end .",
        "\u2014 David Sirota"
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      "\u02c8fr\u0259nt-\u02ccend"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "But the gaping nostrils dominating the front end are distinctly BMW, and the two LED strips in the chunky headlight housings attempt to mimic the twin lights on production BMWs. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 6 June 2022",
      "Carmen Kincheloe, 20, of Independence, Missouri, has been building the front end of F-150 pickup trucks at the Kansas City Assembly Plant since mid-July. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 3 June 2022",
      "Audi designers closed off the grille for better aerodynamics without eliminating the company's trademark front end . \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "The racer, which shares its body with the road car, is heavier than the competition and has a larger front end that increases drag and hinders performance. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "At least one hit the front end , and the back window near where her child was sitting was shattered. \u2014 Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "Jaime Jaquez missed the front end of a one-and-one with two seconds left to end any hope UCLA had. \u2014 Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic , 6 Feb. 2022",
      "Bumping the rear shocks a bit with a solo rider aboard may even speed up the front end a bit more, which is wearing a 130/90 tire most people would put on the back wheel of their bikes. \u2014 Bill Roberson, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "If Louisville struggles on the front end of its schedule things could get rough on the back end. \u2014 Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal , 2 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1962, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1675, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-185711"
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      "noun"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193025"
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  "frontal lobe":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": the anterior division of each cerebral hemisphere":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The disease quite literally shrinks the frontal lobe of the brain. \u2014 Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press , 10 June 2022",
      "Doctors removed the baseball-sized growth from her frontal lobe . \u2014 al , 22 May 2022",
      "As evening approaches, the brain\u2019s frontal lobe activity decreases affecting focus, attention to detail and working memory, and emotional wellbeing tends to be less stable. \u2014 Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 May 2022",
      "Interesting studies by VU University Amsterdam found exercise, even in short bouts, can boost blood flow to the frontal lobe which controls this executive function and higher-level cognitive processing. \u2014 Tracy Brower, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
      "An autopsy revealed unusually severe brain disease in the frontal lobe of the former NFL player accused of fatally shooting six people in Rock Hill, South Carolina, before killing himself in April, authorities announced Tuesday. \u2014 Michelle Liu, ajc , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "In its frontal lobe predominance, Adams' CTE pathology was similar to that of Hernandez, 27. \u2014 Tina Burnside, CNN , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "Theoretically, a combination of the abnormalities caused by frontal lobe damage could lower someone's threshold for homicidal acts, McKee said. \u2014 Michelle Liu, ajc , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "Broca, a French contemporary of Darwin, observed that the human brain\u2019s smell structures were quite small relative to its frontal lobe . \u2014 Scott Sayare, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1879, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193320"
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  "from above":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
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      ": from a higher place or position":[
        "It looks like a cross when viewed from above ."
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      ": from someone with greater power or authority":[
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-201156"
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  "frosty mildew":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a leaf spot of various plants caused by fungi of the genus Cercosporella and characterized by pale to white usually circumscribed lesions on affected foliage":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-202610"
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      ": a man's knee-length usually double-breasted coat":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In one scene, Disney donned a top hat and frock coat and served as an extra. \u2014 Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
      "Lavoisier wears a plain black frock coat and sits at a table with a quill pen in his hand, and with papers and glass instruments (a gasometer, a barometer) before him. \u2014 Cynthia Saltzman, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Rather, the turquoise frock coat takes the leopard\u2019s spots and abstracts them into a fascinating pattern that remains at an aesthetic distance from the creature that inspired it. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "The collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, includes a French men\u2019s frock coat from the seventeen-eighties, the silk-velvet pile of which is woven with black-and-white spots. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "This collection channels that energy, but\u2014thankfully\u2014without a frock coat or breeches in sight. \u2014 Kareem Rashed, Robb Report , 12 Oct. 2021",
      "Standing nearby was Ross Hetrick, dressed as Thaddeus Stevens in a black frock coat , cravat and ill-fitting wig. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 June 2021",
      "Ghesqui\u00e8re\u2019s spring 2018 frock coat for example, is shown side-by-side with a riding jacket created for Princess Alexandra in 1902. \u2014 Nicole Phelps, Vogue , 17 Nov. 2020",
      "Lincoln was wearing an embroidered Brooks Brothers frock coat when he was assassinated. \u2014 NBC News , 8 July 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1823, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210110"
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  "from the word go":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": from the beginning":[
        "We were in trouble (right) from the word go ."
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211143"
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  "frogging":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": frog sense 3a(2) : an ornamentation with frogs":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-gi\u014b"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "frog entry 1 + -ing":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1822, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211900"
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  "frost gull":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": bonaparte's gull":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220634"
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  "frogeater":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that eats frogs":[],
      ": frenchman":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1766, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223320"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a schematic composition of the front view that is complete without lateral movement":[],
      ": the depiction of an object, figure, or scene in a plane parallel to the plane of the picture surface":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccfr\u0259n-\u02c8ta-l\u0259-t\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But with their stiff frontality , artifice, high-key colors and stylization, his figures had a strong element of abstraction. \u2014 Roberta Smith, New York Times , 20 June 2021",
      "But his figures, with exquisite contours akin to Botticelli\u2019s, have a blunt frontality that recalls American folk art. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
      "Napoleon\u2019s stature here is magnified by the hieratic frontality of his pose and the fact that the image fills almost the entire canvas. \u2014 Benjamin Shull, WSJ , 17 Aug. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1905, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223527"
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    "type":[
      "idiom"
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      ": without reading or looking at notes":[
        "She delivered the speech (entirely) from memory .",
        "She can recite from memory the capitals of all the states of the U.S."
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    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225802"
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  "front-page":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to print or report on the front page":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fr\u0259nt-\u02c8p\u0101j"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1917, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1929, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225858"
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  "frontal index":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the ratio of the least breadth of the forehead to its greatest breadth multiplied by 100":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001556"
  },
  "frontopontine tract":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a neural tract beginning in the frontal cortex and ending in the pons":[]
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001928"
  },
  "from dawn to/until dusk":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": from early morning until early evening":[
        "She drove from dawn to/until dusk ."
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004420"
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  "front desk":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the desk in a building where visitors are greeted":[
        "We checked into the hotel at the front desk ."
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004853"
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  "frozen pudding":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a rich frozen custard containing nuts and candied fruit and sometimes flavored with rum or sherry":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005712"
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