{
  "maven":{
    "antonyms":[
      "amateur",
      "inexpert",
      "nonexpert"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "an investment maven , he was doing well even when the market was doing poorly",
      "a science-fiction maven who could talk for hours about fictional technology",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Our social media maven went for a super natural beauty moment, wearing her hair in a carefree wavy style and dabbing on a bit of blush across her nose and cheeks. \u2014 Seventeen , 15 June 2022",
      "The royal style maven paired the elegant number with black pumps and a matching clutch, as well as starburst drop earrings. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 19 May 2022",
      "Michael Chobanian, a Bitcoin maven who started Kuna, a cryptocurrency exchange, had already transferred much of his staff from the company office in Podil to the Balkan nation of Montenegro ahead of the hostilities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Lee is simultaneously someone who values her privacy, a socialite cultural maven and a demanding boss who is known to randomly challenge her staff on their knowledge of the latest movies. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "The guest programmer, the vintage-movie maven Farran Smith Nehme, has selected features partly for rarity. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "The most detailed interaction that Burke Magnus, a top ESPN executive, could recall was when Sankey, aghast at a television maven \u2019s note-taking habits, transformed into an apostle for Colonel Littleton legal pads. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Dec. 2021",
      "McNab, an original member of the Avalanche broadcast team in his post-playing days, was named to the 2021 class along with ex-Flyer Paul Holmgren and media maven Stan Fischler. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Nov. 2021",
      "When not producing, the Divided Souls label boss shows an interest in NFTs and cryptocurrency, and the G-house maven is slated to launch an NFT collection dubbed Bizzy Bee. \u2014 Lisa Kocay, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1950, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Yiddish meyvn , from Late Hebrew m\u0113bh\u012bn":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8m\u0101-v\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "ace",
      "adept",
      "artist",
      "authority",
      "cognoscente",
      "connoisseur",
      "crackerjack",
      "crackajack",
      "dab",
      "dab hand",
      "expert",
      "fiend",
      "geek",
      "guru",
      "hand",
      "hotshot",
      "maestro",
      "master",
      "meister",
      "past master",
      "proficient",
      "scholar",
      "shark",
      "sharp",
      "virtuoso",
      "whiz",
      "wizard"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024425",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "maverick":{
    "antonyms":[
      "dissentient",
      "dissenting",
      "dissident",
      "heretical",
      "heretic",
      "heterodox",
      "iconoclastic",
      "nonconformist",
      "nonorthodox",
      "out-there",
      "unconventional",
      "unorthodox"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party":[],
      ": characteristic of, suggestive of, or inclined to be a maverick":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "Let him refind his inner rebel, the famous irreverent maverick , let the tiger out of the cage. \u2014 Peggy Noonan , Wall Street Journal , 28\u201329 June 2008",
      "In the Senate, however, he had established himself as a bright and prickly maverick , not averse to sharp criticism of his own party, its policies, and its leaders, most especially Bill Clinton. \u2014 John Gregory Dunne , New York Review of Books , 13 June 2002",
      "This, of course, is dangerous for the rest of us. With one successfully repatriated daughter, Papi might yank us all out of college and send us back. Not to mention that it's out and out creepy that Fifi, the maverick , is so changed. \u2014 Julia Alvarez , How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents , 1991",
      "there's always one maverick who has to go his own way",
      "Adjective",
      "Occasionally nerves and veins take maverick pathways and show up in unexpected places. \u2014 Virginia Holman , Double Take , Winter 2002",
      "Later British units, deprived of the opportunity for maverick expression by a revamped chain of UN command with a different political agenda, started spouting the organization's euphemisms that sought to paint every Bosnian side the same shade of guilty grey. \u2014 Anthony Loyd , My War Gone By, I Miss It So , 1999",
      "He was maverick enough, original-minded enough, however, to realize that he could do better than simply follow Murray's orders to the letter. \u2014 Simon Winchester , The Professor and the Madman , 1998",
      "George Sand's maverick views on marriage scandalized 19th-century French society.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Jason Lee, the media maverick behind Hollywood Unlocked, has had an unique career path. \u2014 Corein Carter, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
      "On its face, the unlikely mashup of styles\u2014unconventional maverick on one side, likely complicated corporate layers (albeit family ones) on the other\u2014might seem fraught with potential for creative limitations and cross-purpose agendas. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 13 June 2022",
      "Johnson has long courted celebratory, maverick status and played to the gallery. \u2014 Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
      "Together, the brothers built a business\u2014 maverick , talent-driven, and international in focus\u2014that helped define an era in American film production. \u2014 Ken Auletta, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
      "Pepper, a Yellow Submarine, Tom Cruise\u2019s Maverick and a true maverick in Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill. \u2014 Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
      "Ryan Reynolds is a Hollywood outlier with a growing fintech reputation as a mobile operator, a digital marketing maverick , and a soccer club owner. \u2014 Stephan Rabimov, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Today, she should be considered a feminist, a maverick , ahead of her time. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 17 May 2022",
      "Back in March, the coffee maverick announced its latest sustainable plans: to prioritize reusable cups by the end of next year in stores throughout the United States and Canada. \u2014 Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "That makes Nothing really look like the inheritors of a lot of pre-Oppo-merger OnePlus staff, and potentially of the company's maverick attitude, as well. \u2014 Sascha Segan, PCMAG , 8 June 2022",
      "Build Back Better, Biden\u2019s plan for transforming America in a Johnsonian manner, has been stalled by maverick Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. \u2014 Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "His show No Sleep will return this summer, switching to a biannual format so the maverick producer can devote himself to club life full-time. \u2014 Lee Keeler, SPIN , 10 May 2022",
      "She was aided by the maverick campaign of ultranationalist gadfly Eric Zemmour, whose snarling anti-immigrant, anti-establishment rhetoric has made Le Pen \u2014 a far-right mainstay for years \u2014 look comparatively moderate. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Clear regulations leave little room for maverick decisions. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "Meanwhile, a maverick police detective vows to stop him. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Musk is, of course, the maverick financier-entrepreneur behind the electric Tesla cars and is the force behind SpaceX, which promotes civilian space flights and colonization of Mars. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Indeed, the general ethos was more maverick and aggressive than measured and deliberative. \u2014 Matthew Rees, WSJ , 11 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1867, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1886, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Samuel A. Maverick \u20201870 American pioneer who did not brand his calves":"Noun and Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8mav-rik",
      "\u02c8ma-v\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bohemian",
      "boho",
      "counterculturist",
      "deviant",
      "enfant terrible",
      "free spirit",
      "heretic",
      "iconoclast",
      "individualist",
      "lone ranger",
      "lone wolf",
      "loner",
      "nonconformer",
      "nonconformist"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054437",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "mavin":{
    "antonyms":[
      "amateur",
      "inexpert",
      "nonexpert"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "an investment maven , he was doing well even when the market was doing poorly",
      "a science-fiction maven who could talk for hours about fictional technology",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Our social media maven went for a super natural beauty moment, wearing her hair in a carefree wavy style and dabbing on a bit of blush across her nose and cheeks. \u2014 Seventeen , 15 June 2022",
      "The royal style maven paired the elegant number with black pumps and a matching clutch, as well as starburst drop earrings. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 19 May 2022",
      "Michael Chobanian, a Bitcoin maven who started Kuna, a cryptocurrency exchange, had already transferred much of his staff from the company office in Podil to the Balkan nation of Montenegro ahead of the hostilities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Lee is simultaneously someone who values her privacy, a socialite cultural maven and a demanding boss who is known to randomly challenge her staff on their knowledge of the latest movies. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "The guest programmer, the vintage-movie maven Farran Smith Nehme, has selected features partly for rarity. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "The most detailed interaction that Burke Magnus, a top ESPN executive, could recall was when Sankey, aghast at a television maven \u2019s note-taking habits, transformed into an apostle for Colonel Littleton legal pads. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Dec. 2021",
      "McNab, an original member of the Avalanche broadcast team in his post-playing days, was named to the 2021 class along with ex-Flyer Paul Holmgren and media maven Stan Fischler. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Nov. 2021",
      "When not producing, the Divided Souls label boss shows an interest in NFTs and cryptocurrency, and the G-house maven is slated to launch an NFT collection dubbed Bizzy Bee. \u2014 Lisa Kocay, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1950, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Yiddish meyvn , from Late Hebrew m\u0113bh\u012bn":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8m\u0101-v\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "ace",
      "adept",
      "artist",
      "authority",
      "cognoscente",
      "connoisseur",
      "crackerjack",
      "crackajack",
      "dab",
      "dab hand",
      "expert",
      "fiend",
      "geek",
      "guru",
      "hand",
      "hotshot",
      "maestro",
      "master",
      "meister",
      "past master",
      "proficient",
      "scholar",
      "shark",
      "sharp",
      "virtuoso",
      "whiz",
      "wizard"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063234",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}