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Jack uncovers the truth about his childhood. \u2014 Hau Chu, Washington Post , 12 May 2022", "Another man barges in, a tussle ensues, and the action spills over into a labyrinth of corridors and passages that are seemingly offstage. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Virtually all modern hoofed mammals use their heads to tussle , including modern giraffes. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022", "Instead, lawmakers are likely to tussle over the details of various amendments that Youngkin has suggested, many of them technical in nature. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Apr. 2022", "On the contrary, Putin's reckless invasion and barbaric siege of major Ukrainian cities have created a global sense of indignity, forcing even governments that are very reluctant to tussle with Moscow to get off the fence. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 3 Mar. 2022", "As part of the Casino Royale four-episode tournament saw two local chefs tussle it out in the finale. \u2014 Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com , 18 Feb. 2022", "Rizvi testified Davis and Thornton began to argue and tussle . \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Jan. 2022", "Originally, Peter and Toomes weren\u2019t supposed to battle until the third act, but the screenwriters felt the characters needed to tussle much sooner. \u2014 Adam B. Vary, Variety , 15 Dec. 2021", "Every day, when Reddy got home from work, Kush would run toward the door and the two would tussle like kids. \u2014 Topher Sanders, ProPublica , 9 Dec. 2021", "One that only people in a working democracy have the opportunity to tussle over" ], "first_known_use":{ "1629, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "1638, in the meaning defined above":"Verb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English (Scots) tussillen , frequentative of Middle English -tusen, -tousen to tousle \u2014 more at touse":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8t\u0259-s\u0259l" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "battle", "clash", "combat", "conflict", "contest", "dustup", "fight", "fracas", "fray", "hassle", "scrap", "scrimmage", "scrum", "scuffle", "skirmish", "struggle" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054701", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "tussock":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{}, "examples":[ "There were grassy tussocks throughout the marsh.", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Yet the swamp traveller goes not in a straight line but slouches from quaking island to thick tussock to slippery, half-submerged log. \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022", "The Mackenzie area\u2019s dry tussock is home to moths and other insects found nowhere else on Earth. \u2014 Petrina Darrah, Wired , 2 Oct. 2021", "Indigenous flora are abundant, including rimu, tawa, matai, rata, and tussock . \u2014 Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker , 14 June 2021", "Then explore the surrounding sparkling rivers, cool forests, swaying valleys of tussock , and soaring mountaintops. \u2014 Alexandra Stewart, Travel + Leisure , 14 June 2020", "The females scrape out a depression on the ground to lay their eggs, typically on a mound or tussock . \u2014 Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com , 30 Dec. 2019", "Now imagine tussocks or talus (rock fields) covered by six inches of snow with water underneath. \u2014 Holly Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2018", "Karl Lagerfeld\u2019s Fall 2018 show for Chanel re-created an autumnal wonderland inside the Grand Palais, down to icebox-crisped fall leaves, tussocks of moss, and Bront\u00eb-esque fog. \u2014 Chloe Malle, Vogue , 24 Apr. 2018", "Here, the wilderness swallows you, from the sweeping tussock grasslands, to the never-ending ridges that flow across the open landscape. \u2014 Alaska Dispatch News , 29 Aug. 2017" ], "first_known_use":{ "1607, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "origin unknown":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8t\u0259-s\u0259k" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032532", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "tussock bellflower":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a perennial bellflower ( Campanula carpatica ) that grows in clumps with stems decumbent and spreading and has solitary flowers with an open bell-shaped corolla":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223400", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "tussock caterpillar":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a caterpillar that is the larva of a tussock moth, is covered with long tufts or bushes of hair, and includes several which eat the leaves of various shade and fruit trees and often become destructive pests":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071319", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "tussocked":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{}, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "-kt" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092238", "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "tussocker":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": tramp":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "-k\u0259(r)" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115509", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "tusker":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8t\u0259-sk\u0259r" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "From the spirit of the smallest hummingbird to the largest super- tusker , the divine in you recognizes the divine and them \u2014 differently powerful, but equally important. \u2014 Shayna Conde, Allure , 28 Feb. 2022", "The carcass evidence suggests that poachers in Botswana have concentrated on tuskers , the older bulls most likely to have the largest tusks. \u2014 National Geographic , 13 June 2019", "No major temple festival or procession\u2014Kerala has over 10,000 of them annually\u2014 is complete without a tusker . \u2014 Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India , 13 June 2019", "This year, though, the 55-year-old tusker was also the centre of a major political controversy. \u2014 Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India , 13 June 2019", "On the far bank a bull elephant appeared, a big male tusker , a famous figure in these parts. \u2014 Stanley Stewart, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 21 Dec. 2018", "According to the group\u2019s estimates, there are only around 50 great tuskers left in whole Africa. \u2014 Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News , 18 Sep. 2018", "Sato II was named after another giant tusker , Sato, who was killed in 2014. \u2014 Caroline Alkire, Good Housekeeping , 7 Mar. 2017", "Sato's death leaves only about 25 giant tuskers left \u2014 15 of which reside in Kenya \u2014 and adds to over 30,000 elephants slaughtered yearly for tusk ivory. \u2014 Caroline Alkire, Good Housekeeping , 7 Mar. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1846, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082705" }, "tuskless":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": devoid of a tusk":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "-kl\u0259\u0307s" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110432" }, "tusks":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": one of the small projections on a tusk tenon":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8t\u0259sk" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Hidden in the tusk of a 34-year-old mastodon was a record of time and space that cracked the mystery of his life. \u2014 Peter Brannen, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022", "Tuskless mothers, on the other hand, had about an equal proportion of daughters with or without tusks (or, in some cases, with a single tusk ). \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American , 21 Oct. 2021", "Fisher cut a long, thin section from the center of the 9.5-foot-long (3-meter-long) right tusk . \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 13 June 2022", "For example, the sudden inclusion of an uncommon walrus tusk carved in the three-dimensional Nunivak Island style would have otherwise been unlikely, according to Demma. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022", "Sampling along the entire tusk like this provides a record of the mammoth\u2019s entire life. \u2014 Sara Harrison, Wired , 12 Aug. 2021", "Warmer summers \u2013 the Arctic is warming two times faster than the global average \u2013 have weakened the permafrost layer and lengthened the tusk -hunting season. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 7 Aug. 2021", "It has now been confirmed that the tusk , which measures more than three feet in length, is from a Columbian mammoth. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 23 Nov. 2021", "Fedorov brought me to a large walk-in freezer, where lumps of flesh and fur were piled on metal shelves; the crescent bend of a tusk was unmistakable. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, alteration of tux , from Old English t\u016bx ; akin to Old English t\u016bsc tush":"Noun" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "1629, in the meaning defined above":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143051" }, "tusk":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": one of the small projections on a tusk tenon":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8t\u0259sk" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Hidden in the tusk of a 34-year-old mastodon was a record of time and space that cracked the mystery of his life. \u2014 Peter Brannen, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022", "Tuskless mothers, on the other hand, had about an equal proportion of daughters with or without tusks (or, in some cases, with a single tusk ). \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American , 21 Oct. 2021", "Fisher cut a long, thin section from the center of the 9.5-foot-long (3-meter-long) right tusk . \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 13 June 2022", "For example, the sudden inclusion of an uncommon walrus tusk carved in the three-dimensional Nunivak Island style would have otherwise been unlikely, according to Demma. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022", "Sampling along the entire tusk like this provides a record of the mammoth\u2019s entire life. \u2014 Sara Harrison, Wired , 12 Aug. 2021", "Warmer summers \u2013 the Arctic is warming two times faster than the global average \u2013 have weakened the permafrost layer and lengthened the tusk -hunting season. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 7 Aug. 2021", "It has now been confirmed that the tusk , which measures more than three feet in length, is from a Columbian mammoth. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 23 Nov. 2021", "Fedorov brought me to a large walk-in freezer, where lumps of flesh and fur were piled on metal shelves; the crescent bend of a tusk was unmistakable. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019", "Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate. \u2014 Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Nov. 2019" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, alteration of tux , from Old English t\u016bx ; akin to Old English t\u016bsc tush":"Noun" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "1629, in the meaning defined above":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162404" }, "Tusi":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the ruling and cattle-owning class of the Rundi in Urundi in East Africa who 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