dict_dl/en_merriam_webster/su_mw.json
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{
"Sunday":{
"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"the first day of the week the Christian analogue of the Jewish Sabbath",
"of, relating to, or associated with Sunday",
"best",
"amateur",
"the first day of the week",
"William Ashley 1862\u20131935 Billy Sunday American evangelist"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8s\u0259n-(\u02cc)d\u0101",
"synonyms":[
"amateur",
"avocational",
"backyard",
"jackleg",
"nonprofessional"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"She visited me last Sunday .",
"My birthday falls on a Sunday this year.",
"Next week I'll arrive on Monday and leave on Sunday .",
"I will leave on Sunday morning.",
"Adjective",
"a charity auction of works by some of the town's more socially prominent Sunday painters"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"Supreme Being":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": god sense 1",
": god sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"God",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"anthropologists have found that most cultures around the world believe in a Supreme Being"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1668, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173550"
},
"suasion":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of influencing or persuading"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sw\u0101-zh\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"conversion",
"convincing",
"inducement",
"inducing",
"persuading",
"persuasion"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a defense lawyer uses not only legal arguments but also moral suasion to appeal to a jury's sense of right and wrong",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Neither reason nor moral suasion can deter Wanda from her dastardly mission; thus Strange, his longtime ally Wong (Benedict Wong), Christine, and America herself have no choice but to challenge the all-powerful sorceress in cataclysmic combat. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022",
"English missionaries, seeing the practice as heathen, tried moral suasion . \u2014 Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure , 30 Jan. 2022",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin suasion-, suasio , from suad\u0113re to urge, persuade \u2014 more at sweet ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201303"
},
"suave":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated",
": smooth in texture, performance, or style"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sw\u00e4v"
],
"synonyms":[
"debonair",
"smooth",
"sophisticated",
"svelte",
"urbane"
],
"antonyms":[
"boorish",
"churlish",
"classless",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"uncouth"
],
"examples":[
"I am pleased, also, to think I pulled it off. I didn't do anything too stupid or gauche, and even though it was my first time at a spa, I managed to bluff my way through in a suitably suave , urbane fashion without any embarrassing social gaffes. \u2014 Will Ferguson , Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw , 2004",
"When she had been Miss Tampa, a suave major leaguer had courted her till she found out he was married, with children. \u2014 Frank Deford , Sports Illustrated , 19 Mar. 2001",
"Bobby gets a lot of tough love at home. As suave and polite as he seems to outsiders, he has \"two personalities,\" says his stepmother Wille. \"He's a con artist.\" His parents kicked him out of the house in August, trying to scare him after he came home drunk at 5 a. m. \u2014 Stacy Perman , Time , 25 Oct. 1999",
"a suave and sophisticated businessman",
"the suave gentleman was a great favorite of the elegant ladies who attended parties at the embassy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Just how suave and cool is Saint Joe Burrow?Our patron saint of football found his way to Columbus this past weekend for UFC Fight Night and went viral for his appearance at the event. \u2014 James Sprague, The Enquirer , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The pairing of the ultra- suave Bond, played at the time by Sean Connery, and the elegant grand tourer was a match made in spy heaven. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Elsewhere, Fabiola\u2019s season-long crisis between her love of nerdy things and her desire to impress her super- suave girlfriend comes to a satisfying conclusion. \u2014 Abby Govindan, Vulture , 24 July 2021",
"At the end of the film, Long throws Sam a surprise quincean\u0303era and wows the guests with his shockingly suave Latin dance moves. \u2014 Carlos Greaves, The New Yorker , 27 Feb. 2021",
"Well, not that old and still quite suave and dashing. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 26 Aug. 2020",
"Meanwhile, Shiloh looked suave in a zip-up jacket with faded gold and silver stripes running horizontally, and paired the jacket with classic trousers. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 8 Oct. 2019",
"In one clip, Stamos channeled suave Uncle Jesse to fix his hair. \u2014 Charles Trepany, USA TODAY , 9 Apr. 2020",
"Thomas Rhett is known for his singalong-worthy songs, dynamic live performances, and, of course, for his suave appearance and good looks. \u2014 Natalie Schumann, Country Living , 5 Apr. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French, from Middle French, pleasant, sweet, from Latin suavis \u2014 more at sweet ",
"first_known_use":[
"1831, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200807"
},
"sub":{
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"noun",
"noun ()",
"prefix",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": substitute",
": to act as a substitute",
": to read and edit as a copy editor : subedit",
": subcontract sense 1",
": submarine",
"subaltern",
"subscription",
"subsidiary",
"suburb",
": under : beneath : below",
": subordinate : secondary : next lower than or inferior to",
": subordinate portion of : subdivision of",
": with repetition (as of a process) so as to form, stress, or deal with subordinate parts or relations",
": less than completely, perfectly, or normally : somewhat",
": almost : nearly",
": falling nearly in the category of and often adjoining : bordering on",
": substitute entry 1",
": to act as a substitute",
": submarine",
": under : beneath : below",
": lower in importance or rank : lesser",
": division or part of",
": under : beneath : below",
": subordinate : secondary : next lower than or inferior to",
": subordinate portion of : subdivision of",
": assigning to another by the same method"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b",
"\u02c8s\u0259b"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover",
"fill in",
"pinch-hit",
"stand in",
"step in",
"substitute",
"take over"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Smith subbed for Jones at halftime.",
"subbing in a Broadway play",
"Smith subbed Jones at halftime."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Prefix",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun (1)",
"1777, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1853, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
"Noun (2)",
"1913, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201855"
},
"subdue":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish",
": to bring under control especially by an exertion of the will : curb",
": to bring (land) under cultivation",
": to reduce the intensity or degree of : tone down",
": to bring under control",
": to overcome in battle"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8d\u00fc",
"-\u02c8dy\u00fc",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8d\u00fc",
"-\u02c8dy\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"dispatch",
"do down",
"get",
"get around",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"skunk",
"stop",
"surmount",
"take",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"upend",
"win (against)",
"worst"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"examples":[
"The troops were finally able to subdue the rebel forces after many days of fighting.",
"He was injured while trying to subdue a violent drunk.",
"She struggled to subdue her fears.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Details are beginning to emerge about what happened inside a Laguna Woods church Sunday after 1 p.m., when a gunman opened fire and some parishioners were able to subdue him and recover two handguns. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 May 2022",
"Debeljak was able to subdue Howard with his taser, then took him into custody, the report indicated. \u2014 cleveland , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Only when other squad cars arrived were officers able to subdue Perez. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The fact that Melisende was able to subdue Baldwin\u2019s attempts to take power for so long stands as testament to her popularity and wisdom in government. \u2014 Katherine Pangonis, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Feb. 2022",
"His actions, which allowed other parishioners to subdue and disarm the shooter, likely saved many lives, authorities said. \u2014 Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times , 21 May 2022",
"At the forefront of investors\u2019 minds is decades-high inflation in the U.S., how much policy makers are willing to tighten financial conditions to subdue it and what that means for economic growth. \u2014 Caitlin Ostroff And Orla Mccaffrey, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"The officer appears to briefly subdue Lyoya and the two stand up, however, the struggle then continues. \u2014 Jordan Freiman, CBS News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The Security Council deplored the atrocities, but its peacekeepers were unable to subdue the fighting. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sodewen, subduen , from Anglo-French soduire, subdure to lead astray, overcome, arrest (influenced in form and meaning by Latin subdere to subject), from Latin subducere to withdraw, remove stealthily",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174434"
},
"subhuman":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": less than human: such as",
": failing to attain the level (as of morality or intelligence) associated with normal human beings",
": unsuitable to or unfit for human beings",
": of or relating to a taxonomic group lower than that of humans",
": a subhuman being",
": of or relating to a taxonomic group lower than that of humans"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8hy\u00fc-m\u0259n",
"-\u02c8y\u00fc-",
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8hy\u00fc-m\u0259n, \u02c8s\u0259b-, -\u02c8y\u00fc-"
],
"synonyms":[
"animalistic",
"beastly",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"feral",
"ferine",
"swinish"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The prisoners suffered subhuman treatment.",
"years of grinding poverty that had reduced them to a subhuman existence",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"At the same time, a loop seemed to start playing in my mind, with hundreds of voices from my past telling me that transgender people were subhuman . \u2014 Lara Americo, New York Times , 15 Apr. 2020",
"Even more a part of this notion is the assumption that journalists, reporters, and editors are subhuman and expected to be on the periphery of the human experience. \u2014 Sara Li, Teen Vogue , 6 Mar. 2020",
"But did Americans really need to hear these words to know that Trump considers immigrants and brown people to be subhuman ? \u2014 Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post , 22 July 2019",
"Derogatory language \u2014 where protesters term officers dogs and gangsters, and police call demonstrators subhuman and cockroaches \u2014 has become a hallmark of Hong Kong\u2019s protests as clashes have escalated. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Nov. 2019",
"All around her, in the heart of Hollywood, people were living in subhuman conditions, sprawled beside storefronts and at bus stops. \u2014 Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 4 Oct. 2019",
"Not long after Hefzur Rahman enrolled at his new school in Michigan three years ago, his fifth-grade class studied the subhuman conditions that enslaved Africans endured in overcrowded ships bound for North America. \u2014 Miriam Jordan, New York Times , 22 Sep. 2019",
"Africans were enslaved because of their low cost, subhuman status, and agricultural skills, Williams-Forson said. \u2014 Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post , 24 Aug. 2019",
"It has been used by politicians to insult former first lady Michelle Obama, by U.S. presidents to criticize U.N. delegates and by the founders of modern political thought to term people with black skin as subhuman . \u2014 Katie Mettler, Washington Post , 27 Aug. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Initially, the oppressors declared that only Christians had a soul; everyone else was subhuman and could be treated as such. \u2014 Keith Magee, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"Only this farm belongs to Frank\u2019s brother (David Andrew Nash), who exists only to make the point that today\u2019s immigrant workers are also treated as subhuman . \u2014 Amy Nicholson, Variety , 23 Jan. 2022",
"That assessment hit the newsstands one day after New York state troopers and other authorities gunned down 39 men in the facility\u2019s main yard, terminating a five-day uprising ignited by subhuman , racist conditions. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Oct. 2021",
"In their eyes, the Eldians are a stand-in for white people in Western countries, punished for the crimes of their ancestors\u2019 empires and besieged by subhuman monsters trying to enter their land. \u2014 Shaan Amin, The New Republic , 16 Nov. 2020",
"Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have marshaled musicians, Twitter and Facebook partisans, officials and lobbyists to trumpet their cause and paint the other side as subhuman killers. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times , 10 Nov. 2020",
"These descriptions aligned with the treatment of Black people\u2019s bodies during the slave trade, where they were deemed both subhuman and at the same time having superhuman strength. \u2014 USA Today , 1 Oct. 2020",
"The voyages were planned with conditions so indelibly subhuman that deportees would never again want to return to the United States. \u2014 Julia Preston, The New York Review of Books , 22 Sep. 2020",
"Classes at school did not teach me about the internment of Japanese-Americans, nor about all of the rest of the groups deemed subhuman . \u2014 TheWeek , 6 Aug. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"1790, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"circa 1812, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192014"
},
"subject":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": one that is placed under authority or control: such as",
": vassal",
": one subject to a monarch and governed by the monarch's law",
": one who lives in the territory of, enjoys the protection of, and owes allegiance to a sovereign power or state",
": that of which a quality, attribute, or relation may be affirmed or in which it may inhere",
": substratum",
": material or essential substance",
": the mind, ego, or agent of whatever sort that sustains or assumes the form of thought or consciousness",
": a department of knowledge or learning",
": motive , cause",
": one that is acted on",
": an individual whose reactions or responses are studied",
": a dead body for anatomical study and dissection",
": a person who has engaged in activity that a federal prosecutor has identified as being within the scope of a federal grand jury investigation",
": something concerning which something is said or done",
": something represented or indicated in a work of art",
": the term of a logical proposition that denotes the entity of which something is affirmed or denied",
": the entity denoted",
": a word or word group denoting that of which something is predicated",
": the principal melodic phrase on which a musical composition or movement is based",
": owing obedience or allegiance to the power or dominion of another",
": suffering a particular liability or exposure",
": having a tendency or inclination : prone",
": contingent on or under the influence of some later action",
": to bring under control or dominion : subjugate",
": to make (someone, such as oneself) amenable to the discipline and control of a superior",
": to make liable : predispose",
": to cause or force to undergo or endure (something unpleasant, inconvenient, or trying)",
": the person or thing discussed : topic",
": an area of knowledge that is studied in school",
": a person who owes loyalty to a monarch or state",
": a person under the authority or control of another",
": the word or group of words about which the predicate makes a statement",
": a person or animal that is studied or experimented on",
": owing obedience or loyalty to another",
": possible or likely to be affected by",
": depending on",
": to bring under control or rule",
": to cause to put up with",
": an individual whose reactions or responses are studied",
": a dead body for anatomical study and dissection",
": the person upon whose life a life insurance policy is written and upon whose death the policy is payable : insured \u2014 compare beneficiary sense b , policyholder"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"-(\u02cc)jekt",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8jekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02ccjekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8jekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02ccjekt"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"matter",
"motif",
"motive",
"question",
"theme",
"topic"
],
"antonyms":[
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subjugate",
"subordinate",
"vanquish"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Deliberately blurring objects in the foreground can also serve as a great way to frame the subject in your photo so, as well as enhanced realism, this new feature will bring new creative possibilities to iPhone photography. \u2014 Paul Monckton, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The rate at which global temperatures are changing was not even the subject of the paper, Thorne, who was also an author of a 2021-2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, told USA TODAY in an email. \u2014 Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"The subsequent financial review uncovered questionable NRA expenditures, which were later detailed in a lawsuit and became the subject of an ongoing inquiry by New York Attorney General Letitia James. \u2014 Laura Strickler, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Over the past few months, several plays presented at San Diego theaters have dealt with the subject of aging, dying and adult caregiving. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"James' career is a fascinating subject upon which to hang a narrative of homosocial bonding and the complicated dance of male friendship. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"McClarnon has always been an incredible camera subject , his face all lines and angles, his eyes so big and expressive. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 9 June 2022",
"Once the subject was brought up, the two shared there mutual love for romantic comedies, and Aniston bemoaned the lack of rom-coms in modern day filmmaking. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"Over the course of the six-week defamation trial \u2014 which ended with the jury siding mostly with Depp, 58, against his ex-wife Amber Heard \u2014 Vasquez, one of Depp's lead attorneys, became the subject of social media fodder. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Submissions should be no longer than 200 words and are subject to editing for length and clarity. \u2014 Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Both locations will be open daily 12 p.m. - 7 p.m., though times are subject to change. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"Several other street-level government authorities in other districts of the city have also issued notices saying residents will be subject to two days of confinement and another 12 days of rigorous testing starting from Thursday. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
"City officials said stadium work is subject to the same equal opportunity hiring goals as other city projects. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 9 June 2022",
"Brainstorm thought-provoking subject -line questions to maintain a steady open rate. \u2014 Brittany White, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. \u2014 Josh Krockey, Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"Ultimately, any decision on the move and a new location will be subject to approval by the state Public Utilities Commission, Gabaldon said. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 May 2022",
"Those who didn't have either were subject to a mandatory 10-day quarantine. \u2014 Mary Kekatos, ABC News , 29 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Fighter jets subject their airframes to more physical stress than larger airplanes, inducing metal fatigue on the airframe. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 1 June 2022",
"In Hieronymus Bosch\u2019s visions of hell, Satan and his followers subject sinners to an endless parade of punishments. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022",
"Inside Twitter, that has confirmed some employees\u2019 fears that Musk as owner would subject them to public scorn and harassment, rather than meeting with them privately, as any worker might hope a boss would do. \u2014 Will Oremus, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Why would this 21-year-old multimillionaire \u2014 who is among TikTok\u2019s most popular creators with nearly 52 million followers \u2014 subject himself to such punishment? \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
"As in the case of Iran, the U.S. must subject Russian oil to comprehensive sanctions. \u2014 Frank Fannon, WSJ , 8 Mar. 2022",
"These larger balls subject significantly less surface area (24%, to be precise) to the drink. \u2014 Kate Dingwall, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
"The Build Back Better bill, for example, included a provision that would subject crypto to the wash-sale rule. \u2014 Jeanne Sahadi, CNN , 11 May 2022",
"At this point, with all the traumatic things both the girls and guys have experienced during this experiment, I'm genuinely shocked any parent would willingly subject their kids to this. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 7 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-193743"
},
"subjective":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as",
": of, relating to, or characteristic of one that is a subject especially in lack of freedom of action or in submissiveness",
": being or relating to a grammatical subject",
": nominative",
": of or relating to the essential being of that which has substance, qualities, attributes, or relations",
": characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind : phenomenal \u2014 compare objective sense 2a",
": relating to or being experience or knowledge as conditioned by personal mental characteristics or states",
": peculiar to a particular individual : personal",
": modified or affected by personal views, experience, or background",
": arising from conditions within the brain or sense organs and not directly caused by external stimuli",
": arising out of or identified by means of one's perception of one's own states and processes",
"\u2014 compare objective sense 2c",
": lacking in reality or substance : illusory",
": something that is subjective",
": nominative",
": based mainly on opinions or feelings rather than on facts",
": relating to or determined by the mind as the subject of experience",
": characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind",
": relating to or being experience or knowledge as conditioned by personal mental characteristics or states",
": arising from conditions within the brain or sense organs and not directly caused by external stimuli",
": arising out of or identified by means of one's perception of one's own states and processes and not observable by an examiner",
"\u2014 compare objective sense 2"
],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)s\u0259b-\u02c8jek-tiv",
"(\u02cc)s\u0259b-\u02c8jek-tiv",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8jek-tiv",
"(\u02cc)s\u0259b-\u02c8jek-tiv"
],
"synonyms":[
"idiomatic",
"individual",
"individualized",
"particular",
"patented",
"peculiar",
"personal",
"personalized",
"private",
"privy",
"separate",
"singular",
"unique"
],
"antonyms":[
"general",
"generic",
"popular",
"public",
"shared",
"universal"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The brand also made sure to use both subjective and objective analyses, so that all claims are backed up by objective and quantifiable measurements in skin improvement. \u2014 Celia Shatzman, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Helmet fit is subjective and often hard to agree on, but testers were universally comfortable in the 4Forty. \u2014 Ryan Labar, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"That means trauma is largely subjective and dependent on how an individual understood and reacted to a particular experience\u2014not just the experience itself. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 17 May 2022",
"But his approach was criticized as subjective and even defamatory. \u2014 Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American , 14 May 2022",
"Granted, it\u2019s one of the more subjective and easily disputed stats but the gap is significant. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Such requirements are especially questionable when a regulation would require a firm to make a statement about itself that is subjective and disparaging. \u2014 Richard Morrison, National Review , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The study authors said their research is the first long-term study to describe the developmental trajectories of childhood insomnia symptoms to adulthood by both subjective and objective measures. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 18 Feb. 2022",
"At the root of it, what went wrong in 2002 centered on a scoring system that had been widely decried for years as being, at best, problematically subjective and, at worst, incestuously venal. \u2014 Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Often called the Banksys of financial fudging and the van Goghs of offshoring pre-tax income to foreign countries, these middle-aged white men will nurture your flair for the subjective . \u2014 Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker , 18 Mar. 2022",
"If the subjective is no longer available as a method of entry, the critic must find alternative admission. \u2014 SPIN , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The zaniness goes beyond the subjective : There are historical data points that show just how anomalous these playoffs have been. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Though famed as a regional pictorialist, her writing seems remarkably modern in its incorporation of the subjective and eroticism into narratives. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 10 Sep. 2021",
"But Ryan Germany, the general counsel in Raffensperger's office, said if the state doesn't switch from a subjective to an objective way of verifying absentee ballots, election officials could become targets, as some were after November. \u2014 Quinn Scanlan, ABC News , 20 Feb. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1817, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194742"
},
"subjugate":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to bring under control and governance as a subject : conquer",
": to make submissive : subdue"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-ji-\u02ccg\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subject",
"subordinate",
"vanquish"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The emperor's armies subjugated the surrounding lands.",
"a people subjugated by invaders",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many Taiwanese fear China will eventually use its immense military to subjugate them and inflict the kind of repression its unleashed on Hong Kong, the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Tibet or on the Tiananmen Square protesters 33 years ago. \u2014 Michael Saul Garber, Fox News , 4 June 2022",
"You are seen by some other White, male Americans as being part of an exclusive club, the membership of which gives you the ability to subjugate other, less fortunate citizens. \u2014 Keith Magee, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"The point is to subjugate and humiliate under the guise of amusement. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. \u2014 Fox News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. \u2014 Matthew Lee, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. \u2014 Matthew Lee, ajc , 25 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin subjugatus , past participle of subjugare , from sub- + jugum yoke \u2014 more at yoke ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-212144"
},
"sublime":{
"type":"verb",
"definitions":[
"to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form",
"to elevate or exalt especially in dignity or honor",
"to render finer (as in purity or excellence)",
"to convert (something inferior) into something of higher worth",
"to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state",
"lofty, grand, or exalted in thought, expression, or manner",
"of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth",
"tending to inspire awe usually because of elevated quality (as of beauty, nobility, or grandeur) or transcendent excellence",
"high in place",
"lofty of mien haughty",
"supreme",
"complete , utter",
"grand or noble in thought, expression, or manner",
"beautiful or impressive enough to arouse a feeling of admiration and wonder",
"to cause to pass from the solid to the vapor state by heating and to condense back to solid form",
"to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state"
],
"pronounciation":"s\u0259-\u02c8bl\u012bm",
"synonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"awful",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stunning",
"stupendous",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"Each one of them was the historical equivalent of a chemical phase change\u2014when water, say, grows hot enough to sublime into steam or cold enough to harden into ice. \u2014 Jeffrey Kluger, Time , 11 July 2021",
"Imprinted in the light of these wisps of subliming vapor are the fingerprints of a comet\u2019s chemical composition. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 29 Jan. 2020",
"Next, the ice will sublime out of them\u2014that\u2019s when water goes straight from ice to gas without turning to liquid first, remember? \u2014 Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics , 8 Nov. 2018",
"While the TEB seemed like an awesome idea on paper, most of its advantages sublimed under scrutiny. \u2014 Sebastian Anthony, Ars Technica , 5 July 2017",
"This dish is sublimely simple to make and sublime to eat. \u2014 Susan Russo, sandiegouniontribune.com , 2 May 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"And of course, the Lillard-Nurkic pick-and-roll game at times can be sublime . \u2014 oregonlive , 14 May 2022",
"His aural arrangements, which only heighten the fear and tension of some of the film\u2019s most pivotal and gruesome scenes, are sublime , and the hopes are the music branch don\u2019t suffer from short-term memory loss in the next seven months. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 5 May 2022",
"The storytelling is as vivid as the vocals are sublime . \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 May 2022",
"And with spring officially in the air and summer just around the corner, right now \u2013 just ahead of the upcoming travel rush \u2013 is a sublime time to schedule a trip to the City of Roses. \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"Blanchard\u2019s graceful and evocative score and the sublime chemistry within the cast carried the opera the rest of the way. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
"Nussbaum\u2019s sensitivity to this reality, however, stirs a sense of history\u2019s sublime open-endedness rather than a vision of neatly distinct alternative paths. \u2014 Priya Satia, The New Republic , 20 May 2022",
"Simpler, but no less sublime , is whole dorade baked in a salt crust that the chef seasons with Moroccan spices to infuse the fish with flavor. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"His oeuvre is crowded with solitary characters whose compulsions take them beyond the limits of conventional, rational behavior toward a mania that can feel\u2014by turns or all at once\u2014destructive, ridiculous, and sublime . \u2014 A. O. Scott, The Atlantic , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Adjective",
"circa 1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"sublunary":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or characteristic of the terrestrial world"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8l\u00fc-n\u0259-r\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-lu\u0307-\u02ccner-\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"carnal",
"earthborn",
"earthbound",
"earthly",
"fleshly",
"material",
"mundane",
"temporal",
"terrene",
"terrestrial",
"worldly"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavenly",
"nontemporal",
"unearthly",
"unworldly"
],
"examples":[
"like all sublunary things, this misery will one day end"
],
"history_and_etymology":"modification of Late Latin sublunaris , from Latin sub- + luna moon \u2014 more at lunar ",
"first_known_use":[
"1592, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200547"
},
"submerge":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to put under water",
": to cover or overflow with water",
": to make obscure or subordinate : suppress",
": to go under water",
": to put under or plunge into water",
": to cover or become covered with or as if with water"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8m\u0259rj",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8m\u0259rj"
],
"synonyms":[
"deluge",
"drown",
"engulf",
"flood",
"gulf",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overwhelm",
"submerse",
"swamp"
],
"antonyms":[
"drain"
],
"examples":[
"After boiling the broccoli, submerge it in ice water to stop the cooking process.",
"The town was submerged by the flood.",
"We watched as the divers prepared to submerge .",
"She's a marvelous actress who submerges herself totally in her roles.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fill the basin about halfway up, and no more than \u2154 full, with hot water, leaving enough room to fully submerge the item without the water spilling over. \u2014 Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens , 15 June 2022",
"There is also a toxic cyanobacteria bloom going on in the rivers and streams of Zion\u2014do not submerge your head or filter any water from the river. \u2014 Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine , 14 June 2022",
"The earth was seven degrees hotter, ice caps at both the North and South Poles nearly completely melted and sea levels were 16 to 82 feet higher, high enough to submerge many major cities, the administration says. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 June 2022",
"In 2020, British psychologists asked 92 human subjects to submerge their hands in painfully frigid water. \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"For the Night King and other characters, Gower\u2019s team usually uses a dustbin of water to submerge the creation. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"Add more boiling water from the kettle, if needed, to submerge the fish. \u2014 Ellie Krieger, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"Fill a large bowl (or your kitchen sink) with cold water; then, submerge the bag containing the chicken in the water. \u2014 Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2022",
"With 10 seasons of New York available, and spin-offs such as Miami, Atlanta, Hollywood, and Chrissy & Mr. Jones all streaming, fans can fully submerge themselves in this franchise. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, ELLE , 30 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin submergere , from sub- + mergere to plunge \u2014 more at merge ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190133"
},
"submerse":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": submerge"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8m\u0259rs"
],
"synonyms":[
"deluge",
"drown",
"engulf",
"flood",
"gulf",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overwhelm",
"submerge",
"swamp"
],
"antonyms":[
"drain"
],
"examples":[
"a week of nonstop rain that submersed the cornfields and delayed planting for days",
"those hardy souls who daily submerse themselves in icy cold water for its invigorating effect",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pioneer Day gives families an opportunity to submerse themselves into that time period and to learn through hands on activity. \u2014 Gina Grillo, chicagotribune.com , 25 June 2019",
"Use an eyedropper to apply it or submerse the stain in the stuff for 15 minutes. \u2014 Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 15 Nov. 2018",
"The head of the plunger should be submersed in water to create a proper seal. \u2014 Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics , 26 Oct. 2016",
"With gills that flare out when submersed , the salamander looks similar to the axolotl, a relative. \u2014 National Geographic , 19 June 2018",
"Dr. Marchbein notes that water can also lead to infection in a new tattoo, so avoid fully submersing it in water (AKA, swimming or sitting in a bath) until it is fully healed. \u2014 Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue , 14 Aug. 2017",
"Using a 4.5-inch-diameter cutting or grinding wheel, the tool achieves cutting speeds of 6,500 rpm when submersed and 9,500 on dry land. \u2014 Dan Dubno, Popular Mechanics , 9 Aug. 2017",
"With rooms that open to the ocean for dining alfresco while above water, and large viewing galleries for taking in the marine life when submersed , the Migaloo creates that harmony. \u2014 Dave Banks, Fox News , 25 Apr. 2016",
"Immediately you are submersed into a culture where eating, training, resting, practicing and playing become part of your job and not just about the enjoyment of the game. \u2014 Peter Roumeliotis, SI.com , 22 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin submersus , past participle of submergere ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-202657"
},
"submissive":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": submitting to others",
": willing to give in to others",
": characterized by tendencies to yield to the will or authority of others"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-siv",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-siv",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mis-iv"
],
"synonyms":[
"amenable",
"biddable",
"compliant",
"conformable",
"docile",
"law-abiding",
"obedient",
"tractable"
],
"antonyms":[
"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"noncompliant",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"unamenable",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"examples":[
"it's not in her nature to be submissive",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Here\u2019s this fleecy white creature, submissive and prepared for the bloodbath soon to come, a pure being, elevated far above the muck. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Last fall, during Richard Quinn's London Fashion Week show, drag queen Violet Chachki wore a cinched dominatrix catsuit and mask down the runway -- complete with a submissive companion crawling in-tow. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"Almond described him as combative at times and submissive at other times. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Lovett and Vilim\u2019s reference point was the 1975 version of the The Stepford Wives, which is about a woman who moves to suburban Connecticut and comes to suspect that the submissive , samey-looking wives all around her are robots programmed to serve. \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022",
"People today place a high value on their choices, and as a result, the era of the submissive consumer has come to an end. \u2014 Ildeme Mahinay Koch, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Muse pushes back on the perception of muses as submissive , a blank canvas rather than one bursting with ideas. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022",
"The most important thing for us wasn\u2019t just the idea of a superhero, but the idea of making her completely the opposite of every trope about Arab woman as submissive or weak. \u2014 Adam B. Vary, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"Many false narratives paint the Ukrainians as submissive and eager for reunification. \u2014 Maggie Smith, The Conversation , 7 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1572, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194615"
},
"submit":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to yield to governance or authority",
": to subject to a condition, treatment, or operation",
": to present or propose to another for review, consideration, or decision",
": to deliver formally",
": to put forward as an opinion or contention",
": to yield oneself to the authority or will of another : surrender",
": to permit oneself to be subjected to something",
": to defer to or consent to abide by the opinion or authority of another",
": to leave to the judgment or approval of someone else",
": to yield to the authority, control, or choice of another",
": to put forward as an opinion, reason, or idea",
": to yield or subject to control or authority",
": to present or propose to another for review, consideration, or decision",
": to commit to a trier of fact or law for decision after the close of trial or argument",
": to deliver formally",
": to put forward as an opinion or contention",
": to yield oneself",
": to defer to or consent to abide by the opinion of another"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mit",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mit"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"bow",
"budge",
"capitulate",
"concede",
"give in",
"knuckle under",
"quit",
"relent",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"resist"
],
"examples":[
"Candidates interested in the position should submit their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s to the Office of Human Resources.",
"Submit your application no later than January 31st.",
"Requests must be submitted in writing.",
"Photographs submitted for publication will not be returned.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"People can also download the P3tips mobile app to submit a tip, or go to www. \u2014 Hannah Brock, The Indianapolis Star , 10 June 2022",
"Just choose the plan that\u2019s right for you and submit eligible claims for reimbursement. \u2014 Elizabeth Sheldon, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"Since then, the NRA\u2019s website for School Shield grant information has remained dormant, encouraging schools that need funding to submit email addresses for future grant program updates. \u2014 Laura Strickler, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Orchard plans to submit Libmeldy to the FDA later this year or early next. \u2014 Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Additionally, Biden\u2019s Executive Order on March 9, 2022 asked various regulatory agencies to investigate and submit reports on a similar list of topics included in the bill. \u2014 Hailey Lennon, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"By presenting the film early, Universal believed cinema owners would submit to the hype and would not be able to resist playing the movie in their venues. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"Black remained at the Pulaski County jail on Thursday evening in lieu of a $15,000 bond on charges of disorderly conduct, refusal to submit to arrest and first degree battery, according to an online inmate roster. \u2014 Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online , 9 June 2022",
"Eastman proposed having seven states submit competing slates of electors to be counted on Jan. 6, 2020. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English submitten , from Latin submittere to lower, submit, from sub- + mittere to send",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201505"
},
"subnormal":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":[
": lower or smaller than normal",
": having less of something and especially of intelligence than is normal",
": lower or smaller than normal",
": having less of something and especially of intelligence than is normal"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l",
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"examples":[
"subnormal levels of vitamin C",
"people who are subnormal in insulin production",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Quite simply, normal human consciousness is optimized for normal human functioning, but is subnormal for achieving goals beyond the ordinary. \u2014 Brett Steenbarger, Forbes , 30 May 2021",
"Flow off the 50-degree waters of Lake Michigan will bring our first subnormal temperatures in 10 days. \u2014 Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com , 31 May 2018",
"Snow flurries could last into Monday, the cold staying through Tuesday with a temperature rebound of sorts into the still subnormal 50s by the middle of next week. \u2014 Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com , 15 Apr. 2018",
"An amplified jet stream pattern that has brought subnormal temperatures to eastern portions of North America and unseasonable warmth to the West is forecast to continue much of the workweek. \u2014 Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com , 11 Dec. 2017",
"Sunday marked our fifth straight day of subnormal readings. \u2014 Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com , 27 Aug. 2017",
"Resulting northwest wind flow will bring to the area temperatures more typical of mid-May, making this the only weekend this month with subnormal readings. \u2014 Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com , 23 June 2017",
"Everybody knew that comics were for children and for intellectually subnormal people, whereas graphic novel sounds like a much more sophisticated proposition. \u2014 Adam Rogers, WIRED , 23 Feb. 2009",
"Another day of subnormal temperatures is slated for Monday before winds shift to a west-to-east orientation. \u2014 Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com , 25 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"International Scientific Vocabulary",
"first_known_use":[
"1843, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205310"
},
"subordinate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior",
": submissive to or controlled by authority",
": of, relating to, or constituting a clause that functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb",
": subordinating",
": one who stands in order or rank below another : one that is subordinate",
": to make subject or subservient",
": to treat as of less value or importance",
": being in a lower class or rank : inferior",
": yielding to or controlled by authority",
": someone who has less power or authority than someone else",
": to treat as inferior in rank or importance",
": placed in or occupying a lower rank, class, or position",
": submissive to or controlled by authority",
": to assign lower priority to (as a debt or creditor) : postpone satisfaction of until after satisfaction of another"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259t",
"-\u02c8b\u022frd-n\u0259t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259t",
"-\u02c8b\u022frd-n\u0259t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022frd-\u1d4an-\u0259t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022frd-\u1d4an-\u02cc\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"inferior",
"junior",
"less",
"lesser",
"lower",
"minor",
"smaller"
],
"antonyms":[
"inferior",
"junior",
"underling"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"California law nonetheless gives employers a relatively free hand when romantically linked co-workers are supervisor and subordinate . \u2014 Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Among western lowland gorillas, Cooke writes, females will sometimes harass silverback males and interrupt their copulations with subordinate females. \u2014 Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic , 6 May 2022",
"Under the terms of the agreement, Shopify will acquire all of Deliverr\u2019s shares outstanding, with 80% of the $2.1 billion in cash and the remainder through the issue of Shopify Class A subordinate voting shares. \u2014 Adriano Marchese, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"But blowing up a command post can confuse the subordinate units, temporarily leaving them vulnerable to a swift attack. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
"And even when Brown and Black characters do appear in period pieces, they\u2019re often shown in subordinate roles to the starring white characters. \u2014 Samantha Powell, Harper's BAZAAR , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Roddy said the Caisson Platoon is his costliest subordinate unit. \u2014 Drew F. Lawrence And Katie Bo Lillis, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Fragments only, though with subordinate clauses and prepositional phrases. \u2014 Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Piper\u2019s Roy, eloquent when silent, registers the effect of being the subordinate brother who\u2019s responsible to the outside world. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This February, two months before the merger closed, CNN boss Jeff Zucker\u2014a close friend of Zaslav\u2019s\u2014abruptly resigned over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a subordinate . \u2014 Scott Decarlo, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"Next came Jim McNerney, a Welch lieutenant who was named C.E.O. of Boeing after Mr. Stonecipher was fired for having an affair with a subordinate . \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"Coleman retook the reins in January 2022 after former President Mark Schlissel was ousted by the Board of Regents because of a relationship with a subordinate . \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 27 Apr. 2022",
"For this reason, the IDB spokesman told me, the subordinate had to decline my request for comment. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 8 May 2022",
"Others are easy fixes, like no longer having the NCAA\u2019s head of women\u2019s basketball a subordinate to the head of men\u2019s basketball. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Rodriguez was demoted after refusing to punish a subordinate who filed a statement in opposition to the re-sentencing of a violent inmate, the lawsuit states. \u2014 Fox News , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Dalio\u2019s ability to deliver radical truth bombs will not be met by his subordinate \u2019s equal ability to do the same. \u2014 Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Wyoming\u2019s first Black sheriff last year fired a white deputy who is accused of tormenting a Black subordinate for years with racist name-calling that led him to quit, a new federal lawsuit revealed. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Unlike consequences, which for all practical purposes are applied in one direction (boss to team member), ownership can be reinforced in a 360-degree process (peer to peer, team member to boss, and boss to subordinate ). \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"The desire to punish belligerence\u2014and to subordinate other geopolitical goals to that cause\u2014is once again in the air. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"In many places, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Implicitly, the message was that America gauges the value of that sacred alliance in terms of European willingness to form a common front against China, and to subordinate their interests to American interests in that contest. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 14 June 2021",
"Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld tried to subordinate CIA officers to U.S. military command. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Feminists can be depicted as jealous man haters who want to subordinate men. \u2014 Joy Burnford, Forbes , 26 May 2021",
"In searching for the next artistic director, the board needs to subordinate MBA logic. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2021",
"More important, this coalition would likely pass a law\u2014which most rightists want, in any case\u2014that would subordinate the Supreme Court\u2019s right to review the constitutionality of laws to a simple majority vote in the Knesset. \u2014 Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker , 20 Apr. 2021"
],
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"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1640, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-171654"
},
"subordination":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": placement in a lower class, rank, or position : the act or process of subordinating someone or something or the state of being subordinated",
": an act or instance of subordinating",
": the remedy of subordinating a claim \u2014 see also equitable subordination"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02ccb\u022fr-d\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"s\u0259-\u02ccb\u022frd-\u1d4an-\u02c8\u0101-sh\u0259n"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1595, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-224821"
},
"subpar":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": below par : such as",
": below a usual or normal level or standard",
": having a score lower than par"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02ccp\u00e4r"
],
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"bad",
"bastard",
"bush",
"bush-league",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"deficient",
"dissatisfactory",
"ill",
"inferior",
"lame",
"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"poor",
"punk",
"sour",
"suboptimal",
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wack",
"wanting",
"wretched",
"wrong"
],
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"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"standard",
"tolerable"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1922, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173754"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to write (one's name) underneath : sign",
": to sign (something, such as a document) with one's own hand in token of consent or obligation",
": to attest by signing",
": to pledge (a gift or contribution) by writing one's name with the amount",
": to assent to : support",
": to sign one's name to a document",
": to give consent or approval to something written by signing",
": to set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give something (such as a sum of money)",
": to give something in accordance with such a promise",
": to enter one's name for a publication or service",
": to receive or have access to something (such as a periodical or service) as part of an arrangement to receive a certain number of regular deliveries or a certain period of continuous access especially by prepayment",
": to agree to purchase and pay for securities especially of a new offering",
": to feel favorably disposed",
": to place an order for a publication or service which is delivered over a stated period",
": to agree with or support",
": to write (one's name) underneath or at the end of a document",
": to sign (as a document) with one's own hand in token of consent, obligation, or attestation",
": to pledge (a gift or contribution) by writing one's name with the amount",
": to sell (stock) by subscription",
": to sign one's name to a document",
": to give consent or approval by signing one's name",
": to agree to purchase and pay for securities especially of a new offering"
],
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"s\u0259b-\u02c8skr\u012bb",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8skr\u012bb",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8skr\u012bb"
],
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"accede",
"acquiesce",
"agree",
"assent",
"come round",
"consent"
],
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"dissent"
],
"examples":[
"Subscribe today and get your first issue free!",
"You'll receive a user name and password when you subscribe .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Also, make sure to subscribe to my newsletterand follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. \u2014 Bernard Marr, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The Slowdown from American Public Media and the National Endowment for the Arts, or subscribe to its newsletter. \u2014 David Allan, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"Viewers will need to subscribe to a new MLS streaming service, available exclusively through the Apple TV app. \u2014 Sara Tidwell, The Enquirer , 14 June 2022",
"That's merely because the easiest way to follow your hometown team\u2014outside of the NFL, which has all of its games free to air in local markets\u2014is to subscribe to your local cable company or a satellite provider. \u2014 Samuel Axon And Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica , 14 June 2022",
"For more on Mary Bailey's journey to forgive her mother, subscribe now to PEOPLE or pick up this week's issue, on newsstands now. \u2014 Elaine Aradillas, PEOPLE.com , 13 June 2022",
"Click here to subscribe to Men\u2019s Health MVP and get the best in exclusive features, workout tips, and nutrition information. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 9 June 2022",
"Make sure to subscribe to our channels via Apple, Spotify or most other podcast stores. \u2014 Matt Jones, Arkansas Online , 9 June 2022",
"This episode is a bonus episode is available to those who subscribe on Apple Podcasts for $2.99 per month. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, al , 6 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin subscribere , literally, to write beneath, from sub- + scribere to write \u2014 more at scribe ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182827"
},
"subsequent":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": following in time, order, or place",
": following in time, order, or place",
": following in time, order, or space \u2014 see also condition subsequent at condition \u2014 compare precedent"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-si-kw\u0259nt",
"-s\u0259-\u02cckwent",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-si-kw\u0259nt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-si-kw\u0259nt, -\u02cckwent"
],
"synonyms":[
"after",
"ensuing",
"later",
"posterior"
],
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"antecedent",
"anterior",
"fore",
"foregoing",
"former",
"precedent",
"preceding",
"previous",
"prior"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After a series premiere that smashed Hulu records\u2014and nine subsequent episodes of family drama\u2014the first season of The Kardashians is coming to a close. \u2014 Mj Corey, Vogue , 14 June 2022",
"In subsequent episodes, the teams cook their way down the Southern California coast while competing for the $50,000 grand prize. \u2014 cleveland , 5 June 2022",
"The streaming platform also ordered three subsequent episodes, which launched in 2018. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 4 June 2022",
"After the first episode premieres on June 2 at 9 p.m. PT, subsequent episodes of the series will roll out on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 p.m. PT from the @Jercho1 and @pearpopofficial TikTok accounts. \u2014 J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"The first two episodes air on Friday, July 8, and the four subsequent episodes will air weekly on Fridays through August 5 on Discovery+. \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 2 June 2022",
"For the next three days, Dibee would claim in a subsequent court filing, he was imprisoned without explanation and, in effect, tortured. \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
"The first four episodes of The Circle season 4 aired Wednesday on Netflix, and subsequent episodes will follow each Wednesday through May 25. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 4 May 2022",
"In Japan, Wowow will debut the first episode in Japan via its streaming service on Apr. 7, with subsequent single episodes recurring every Sunday evening on the Wowow channel starting on Apr. 24 through June. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin subsequent-, subsequens , present participle of subsequi to follow close, from sub- near + sequi to follow \u2014 more at sub- , sue ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213545"
},
"subside":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to sink or fall to the bottom : settle",
": to tend downward : descend",
": to flatten out so as to form a depression",
": to let oneself settle down : sink",
": to become quiet or less",
": to become less strong or intense",
": to become lower : sink",
": to lessen in severity : become diminished"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8s\u012bd",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8s\u012bd",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8s\u012bd"
],
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"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away ",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"examples":[
"The pain will subside in a couple of hours.",
"After his anger had subsided , he was able to look at things rationally.",
"We'll have to wait until the wind subsides .",
"The road will remain closed until the water subsides .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But as soon as the work lessens and the nerves subside your body surrenders to illness. \u2014 Andr\u00e9 Alexis, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Sometimes, mild anaphylactic symptoms subside without treatment. \u2014 Julie Marks, SELF , 11 June 2022",
"The shortage of skilled workers won\u2019t subside soon. \u2014 Josh Weiss, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"The heat should subside the rest of the week, with a forecast high of 80 degrees on Wednesday and 70 on Thursday. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 31 May 2022",
"While any redness will subside after the first two days, expect to experience some scabbing by day three. \u2014 Fiona Embleton, Allure , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Among those surveyed, only 5% believe it and supply chain challenges will subside within the next six months. \u2014 Sarah Ewall-wice, CBS News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Winds subside by evening as well, with overnight lows dropping to the mid-30s to low 40s. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Eventually, the strong high pressure system will edge eastward and the heat will subside . \u2014 Tom Sater, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin subsidere , from sub- + sidere to sit down, sink; akin to Latin sed\u0113re to sit \u2014 more at sit ",
"first_known_use":[
"1607, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192058"
},
"subsidy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a grant or gift of money: such as",
": a sum of money formerly granted by the British Parliament to the crown and raised by special taxation",
": money granted by one state to another",
": a grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-s\u0259-d\u0113",
"-z\u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[
"allocation",
"allotment",
"annuity",
"appropriation",
"entitlement",
"grant",
"subvention"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The city is increasing subsidies for public transit.",
"government subsidies for farmers in case of crop failure",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One such research is a joint study by the Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW) and the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) which notes that since 2017 the subsidy for the renewable energy sector has dipped by 59%. \u2014 Manish Kumar, Quartz , 15 June 2022",
"Last June, India\u2019s federal government increased its subsidy for manufacturers ofelectric two-wheelers to 15,000 rupees or $196 per kilowatt-hour of battery capacity, up 50% from the previous amount. \u2014 Biman Mukherji, Fortune , 15 May 2022",
"And in 2016, the company won support for a consumer subsidy for some of its nuclear power plants and the thousands of jobs that went with them. \u2014 Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The activists are urging regulators to leave themselves flexibility to adjust as needed, and not get locked into a subsidy system that later undermines advancement of greener forms of energy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Pittsburg, with an average subsidy of $2,184 per year, Antioch at $2,597 and Richmond at $2,605. \u2014 Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 May 2022",
"There is one additional $10-a-month federal subsidy , called Lifeline, that companies in most states can combine with the Affordable Connectivity Program to fund services for eligible low-income households. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"But the massive subsidy , which will surge past $1 billion as lease terms play out, has brought a sharp backlash from dispassionate observers. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Apr. 2022",
"In reality, the subsidy \u2014 which is reflected in each consumer\u2019s energy bills \u2014 has grown to around 300\u2013400 euros per year per person. \u2014 Philip Plickert, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English subsidie , from Anglo-French, from Latin subsidium reserve troops, support, assistance, from sub- near + sed\u0113re to sit \u2014 more at sub- , sit ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210224"
},
"subsistence":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": real being : existence",
": the condition of remaining in existence : continuation , persistence",
": an essential characteristic quality of something that exists",
": the character possessed by whatever is logically conceivable",
": means of subsisting : such as",
": the minimum (as of food and shelter) necessary to support life",
": a source or means of obtaining the necessities of life",
": the smallest amount (as of food and clothing) necessary to support life"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8si-st\u0259n(t)s",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8sis-t\u0259ns"
],
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"actuality",
"corporality",
"corporeality",
"existence",
"reality",
"thingness"
],
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"inexistence",
"nonbeing",
"nonexistence",
"nothingness",
"unreality"
],
"examples":[
"They depended on hunting and fishing for subsistence .",
"Farming is their means of subsistence .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Zachariah Hughes covers the military, politics, drugs, dog mushing, subsistence issues and general assignments for the Anchorage Daily News. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
"Some areas are prone to a natural amount of subsistence , but in many cities, human activities like groundwater pumping, oil and gas drilling, and rapid construction are accelerating it. \u2014 Camille Squires, Quartz , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The board is meeting through Tuesday in Anchorage to address nearly 160 management proposals for Southeast and Yakutat subsistence , commercial, sport and personal use fisheries. \u2014 Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Court records and interviews illustrate the untethered and precarious existence shared by MS-13 members, one defined by crude, subsistence -level crimes and punctuated by flashes of extreme violence. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Feb. 2022",
"Our subsistence resources are being threatened or moving farther away. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The early population consisted mostly of Black subsistence farmers. \u2014 Jill Abramson, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Many are subsistence farmers who are drowning in the volatility caused by the Green Revolution which began in the 1960s as a way of industrializing the agriculture sector with high yielding seeds, mechanized tools and pesticides. \u2014 Gunisha Kaur, CNN , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Those who live in the forests endure hardscrabble lives as wildcat miners, loggers and subsistence farmers. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Late Latin subsistentia , from subsistent-, subsistens , present participle of subsistere ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190045"
},
"substance":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": essential nature : essence",
": a fundamental or characteristic part or quality",
": god sense 1b",
": ultimate reality that underlies all outward manifestations and change",
": practical importance : meaning , usefulness",
": physical material from which something is made or which has discrete existence",
": matter of particular or definite chemical constitution",
": something (such as drugs or alcoholic beverages) deemed harmful and usually subject to legal restriction",
": material possessions : property",
": in respect to essentials : fundamentally",
": material of a certain kind",
": the most basic or important part or quality",
": material belongings : wealth",
": physical material from which something is made or which has discrete existence",
": matter of particular or definite chemical constitution",
": something (as alcohol, methamphetamine, or marijuana) deemed harmful and usually subject to legal restriction",
": substantive law",
"\u2014 compare procedure",
": something (as language) essential especially to establishing a valid right, claim, or charge"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-st\u0259n(t)s",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-st\u0259ns",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-st\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonyms":[
"making",
"material",
"raw material",
"stuff",
"timber"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its sticky-sweetness becomes part of its very substance . \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"Another female patient, also in her 30s, had her children taken away from her because of her substance use problems. \u2014 Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun , 16 June 2022",
"Similar to gelatin or carrageenan, which are derived from animals and seaweed, respectively, pectin is the substance in the cell walls of many fruits that gives them rigidity; in other words, their bones. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Removing such residues from produce requires extra scrubbing because bifenthrin is an oily substance . \u2014 Meg Wilcox, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"And like that plan, critics fear its Latin American equivalent lacks substance and teeth. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"Some of the album\u2019s best moments do initially play like trolling\u2014but quickly reveal their substance . \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 18 May 2022",
"The internet\u2019s governing code protocols (TCP/IP) allow data to be shared across networks without identifying the source of the data or any of its substance . \u2014 John Quinn, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"The what versus the how How a person or idea is presented can be more important than its substance . \u2014 Rich Cohen, WSJ , 14 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin substantia , from substant-, substans , present participle of substare to stand under, from sub- + stare to stand \u2014 more at stand ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-170840"
},
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"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"deviating from or falling short of a standard or norm such as",
"of a quality lower than that prescribed by law",
"conforming to a pattern of linguistic usage existing within a speech community but not that of the prestige group in that community",
"constituting a greater than normal risk to an insurer",
"lower in quality than expected",
"deviating from or falling short of a standard or norm as",
"of a quality lower than that prescribed by law",
"constituting a greater than normal risk to an insurer"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8stan-d\u0259rd",
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"bad",
"bastard",
"bush",
"bush-league",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"deficient",
"dissatisfactory",
"ill",
"inferior",
"lame",
"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"poor",
"punk",
"sour",
"suboptimal",
"subpar",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wack",
"wanting",
"wretched",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fine",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"respectable",
"satisfactory",
"standard",
"tolerable"
],
"examples":[
"a teacher who rejects substandard work without hesitation",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The department began investigating Parchman in February 2020 after the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica reported on increases in grisly violence, gang control and substandard living conditions. \u2014 Jerry Mitchell, ProPublica , 21 Apr. 2022",
"In low- and middle-income countries, about 10% are substandard and falsified (SF) \u2013 amounting to an economic toll of up to $200 billion a year, contributing to antimicrobial resistance, and causing unnecessary suffering and death. \u2014 Christine Ro, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Contending that the conditions in Camp 7 were substandard and exceedingly disturbing, lawyers for the men who were held there from 2006 to 2021 are inspecting the site. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Other cities, like Houston, also tout reductions in homelessness while piling low-income residents into substandard apartments subsidized by rapid rehousing vouchers. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Less well known is how segregationist policies pushed Latino students into substandard schools throughout the Southwest. \u2014 Paloma Esquivelstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"That limit was imposed because of substandard prison health care. \u2014 Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle , 5 Oct. 2021",
"And policymakers are pursuing medallion reforms, lessening the need for drivers to accept substandard pay just to make minimum loan payments. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 29 Mar. 2022",
"While drinking substandard alcohol is a long-standing Russian tradition, drug use is a relatively new trend. \u2014 Jim Geraghty, National Review , 27 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":null,
"first_known_use":[
"1850, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"substantial":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"consisting of or relating to substance",
"not imaginary or illusory real , true",
"important , essential",
"ample to satisfy and nourish full",
"possessed of means well-to-do",
"considerable in quantity significantly great",
"firmly constructed sturdy",
"being largely but not wholly that which is specified",
"large in amount",
"important sense 1",
"firmly constructed",
"abundant",
"prosperous sense 1",
"made up of or relating to substance material",
"of or relating to substance",
"not illusory having merit",
"having importance or significance material",
"considerable in quantity significantly great",
"\u2014 compare de minimis"
],
"pronounciation":"s\u0259b-\u02c8stan(t)-sh\u0259l",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Brett Kappel, a campaign finance expert at Washington, D.C.-based Harmon Curran, said Braun likely will be fined a substantial amount. \u2014 Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022",
"Chrysler parent Stellantis plans to get a substantial amount of the lithium needed for its electric vehicle batteries from a former tourist mecca in California. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 2 June 2022",
"Iran has managed to keep a substantial number of aircraft flying, but at the price of slowly cannibalizing its fleet of planes. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 1 June 2022",
"The tallying was delayed in part because a printing error made the bar codes unreadable on some ballots in Clackamas County, home to a substantial number of Democrats in the district. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"Influencers with sizable active followership can make a substantial full-time income from their social media activities and marketing partnerships with luxury brands. \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Tindell said a substantial number of autopsy reports that are pending are LeVaughn's. \u2014 Leah Willingham, ajc , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Russia has always had a substantial number of ICBMs that could strike the United States and Europe, said John Erath, senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Researchers in Denmark and the U.S., however, have recently found that a substantial number of men are nevertheless obtaining overlapping prescriptions for both classes of drugs. \u2014 Benjamin Ryan, NBC News , 18 Apr. 2022"
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"substantiated his claim to local mountaineering fame with a photo of himself on the summit of Mount McKinley",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As part of its defense, the tabloid newspaper was forced to substantiate its claims under the country\u2019s stringent libel laws, unlike in the U.S. trial, where the burden of proof was on Depp. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 June 2022",
"Heard, who divorced Depp in 2016 after obtaining a domestic violence restraining order, has been dragged through two trials across two continents to substantiate allegations that Depp abused her. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"Quarterly tests of reserve coverage are limited to attestations that, unlike audits, neither substantiate the data presented nor seek to identify gaps in systems or controls. \u2014 Matt Sekerke, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"However, the current evidence and the CDC\u2019s changing policies do not substantiate the need for vaccine mandates for schoolchildren to achieve these public-health goals. \u2014 Heidi Overton, National Review , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Emotional control could prove even harder to substantiate , especially in a country where open discussion of mental health can still carry a stigma. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Jan. 2022",
"De Oreo's lawsuit also claims the diocese investigated the allegations in each letter and found no evidence to substantiate them. \u2014 Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Frito-Lay denied the rumor, and USA TODAY could find no other evidence to substantiate it. \u2014 Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2020",
"In recent months, as platforms like Gettr and Truth Social have come online and expanded, the universe of users has grown \u2014 though that growth has been uneven and difficult to substantiate independently, experts said. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"substantiated his claim to local mountaineering fame with a photo of himself on the summit of Mount McKinley",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As part of its defense, the tabloid newspaper was forced to substantiate its claims under the country\u2019s stringent libel laws, unlike in the U.S. trial, where the burden of proof was on Depp. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 June 2022",
"Heard, who divorced Depp in 2016 after obtaining a domestic violence restraining order, has been dragged through two trials across two continents to substantiate allegations that Depp abused her. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"Quarterly tests of reserve coverage are limited to attestations that, unlike audits, neither substantiate the data presented nor seek to identify gaps in systems or controls. \u2014 Matt Sekerke, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"However, the current evidence and the CDC\u2019s changing policies do not substantiate the need for vaccine mandates for schoolchildren to achieve these public-health goals. \u2014 Heidi Overton, National Review , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Emotional control could prove even harder to substantiate , especially in a country where open discussion of mental health can still carry a stigma. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Jan. 2022",
"De Oreo's lawsuit also claims the diocese investigated the allegations in each letter and found no evidence to substantiate them. \u2014 Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Frito-Lay denied the rumor, and USA TODAY could find no other evidence to substantiate it. \u2014 Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2020",
"In recent months, as platforms like Gettr and Truth Social have come online and expanded, the universe of users has grown \u2014 though that growth has been uneven and difficult to substantiate independently, experts said. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"His debating skill involved wit, substantive knowledge, a suspicion of elites and a bedrock faith that everyday Americans were possessed of good judgment. \u2014 Paul Begala, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"To the point of being cosmetic rather than substantive . \u2014 Joseph Thorndike, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"At the minimum, Congress should require universal, substantive background checks for all gun sales \u2014 whether the weapon is sold by a licensed dealer or a private peddler. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"The more that President Biden defers to the left-most elements of his party, the better the opportunity for Republicans to make substantive gains. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"The substantive policy wasn't at issue in the case: The question for the high court was whether the Biden administration circumvented the usual requirements necessary to roll back another administration's policy. \u2014 USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"Arredondo made his first substantive , public comments about the incident to the Texas Tribune in an article published Thursday, casting himself more as a responding police officer than incident commander. \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Back then, Commissioner Ken Kennedy allegedly heard from another commissioner that meetings had taken place between Mayor Luke Bronin\u2019s office and several other commissioners to ensure no substantive changes were made to the charter. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022",
"Apple will assuredly introduce a brand new iteration of macOS at WWDC 2022, but there really haven\u2019t been any substantive rumors about what new features this update is going to introduce. \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 4 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But handling the situation at the southern border has already become a major substantive and communications problem for Biden\u2019s team. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner , 22 Apr. 2021",
"Obstruction of justice is a crime that is independent of any underlying or substantives crime that may have been committed. \u2014 Joyce White Vance, Time , 25 July 2019"
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"Verb",
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"They substituted real candles with electric ones.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Manufacturers are replicating the nutritional equivalent of human breast milk, a complete substitute \u2014 this is no easy task. \u2014 Rita Numerof, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"To perfuse an organ is to supply it with fluid, usually blood or a blood substitute , by circulating it through blood vessels or other channels. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"In the world\u2019s richest nations, food prices are jumping, forcing some consumers to skimp on food items once considered everyday staples and substitute cheaper products. \u2014 Yusuf Khan, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Massagers are only for temporary relief, and shouldn\u2019t increase your discomfort in any way or substitute for a doctor\u2019s visit. \u2014 Milan Polk And Dale Arden Chong, Men's Health , 8 June 2022",
"There's also April Llano, who's studying to be a teacher and has worked as an assistant teacher and substitute for the North Carolina Leadership Academy in Kernersville, North Carolina. \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
"Trailing in resources and votes were parent and community activist Erica Vilardi-Espinoza, who had support from law-enforcement unions, and substitute teacher Miguel Angel Segura. \u2014 Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Drug back orders caused patients to receive substitute therapies that added expense to patient care. \u2014 Peter J. Pitts, STAT , 3 June 2022",
"Their fears of contracting a deadly virus, combatting a nationwide staffing and substitute shortage and increasing demands on their time have made a tough profession -- even harder. \u2014 Jessie Dimartino, ABC News , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Consider the tofu a blank canvas, and feel free to substitute your favorite nuts, seeds and herbs for the ones listed here. \u2014 Joe Yonan, Washington Post , 12 June 2022",
"Americans used to be able to substitute lower-cost protein when beef prices rose. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"Houston capped the scoring when Shea Groom fed the ball to substitute Michelle Alozie, who was making a run toward the goal before striking in the ball in the 87th minute. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
"It is not recommended to substitute toddler formula for infant formula. \u2014 Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 May 2022",
"Consequently, some people prefer to substitute mechanization for elbow grease. \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 11 May 2022",
"Students are now allowed to substitute their caps with a traditional headdress, which some principals made exceptions for last year. \u2014 Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News , 2 May 2022",
"By framing the debate as all-or-nothing, the chemical industry was able to substitute iteration for innovation and lock farmers into a dependent relationship grounded in ever-greater applications of an ever-growing cocktail of chemicals. \u2014 Shely Aronov, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"As such, food producers will need to reformulate to substitute sunflower oils, used in certain foods, with other oils. \u2014 Dana Peterson For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 9 Apr. 2022"
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"They conspired to subvert the government.",
"trying to subvert the electoral process",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Top leaders and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers have been charged with seditious conspiracy in what authorities have described as an organized effort to subvert the election results and keep former President Donald Trump in office. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The violence was all part of an effort to subvert democracy by stopping Congress from counting electoral votes that would verify Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election, and Trump as the loser. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"The committee has also been looking at how Trump\u2019s effort to subvert the results of the election led to pressure on officials around the country. \u2014 Aaron C. Davis, Carol D. Leonnig And Tom Hamburger, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Going so far as to subvert players\u2019 expectations of identity in Greek myth, the game smartly conjectures beyond contemporary scholarship on race in antiquity. \u2014 Autumn Wright, Wired , 16 Jan. 2021",
"Trump\u2019s efforts to subvert the election results \u2014 Georgia Atty. \u2014 Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"Unions are reasserting their traditional role as the organizers of the working class to counter the GOP\u2019s faux-populist appeals and its efforts to subvert elections. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 14 May 2022",
"Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson, a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, says Lee\u2019s efforts to subvert the election might alienate independent voters and even some Republicans. \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Apr. 2022",
"This January, Clarence Thomas was the sole dissenter in a proceeding in which Trump asked the Court to stop the House investigative committee from obtaining records of his communications relating to efforts to subvert the 2020 election results. \u2014 Jane Mayer, The New Yorker , 25 Mar. 2022"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most people understand that networking is important to career success , but many fail to harness the full power of LinkedIn. \u2014 Nancy Marshall, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Proponents hailed it as a way forward for women who wanted a seat at the executive table, but critics said the concept conveniently pushed aside systemic barriers to success . \u2014 Nicole Goodkind, CNN , 9 June 2022",
"Jerry Brown imposed statewide cuts to relative success . \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"Since so much audience attention is funnelled through social media, the most direct path to success is to cultivate a large digital following. \u2014 The New Yorker , 4 June 2022",
"Mobley specifically addressed parents and guardians in the audience, asking them to stand and be acknowledged for their contributions to the students\u2019 success . \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 2 June 2022",
"In arguing against remote work, Musk said his constant physical presence at the company has been integral to Tesla's success . \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 2 June 2022",
"Deeply caramelizing the meats is the secret to success with this spicy, one-pot Cajun jambalaya. \u2014 Southern Kitchen, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"The road to awards success begins in the artisan branches, where more than 60% of the Academy\u2019s membership resides. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 1 June 2022"
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"the play had a successful run on Broadway",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cohen blocked the attorney general's effort to shut down the NRA in March, but allowed the lawsuit against the group's executives to continue, with the potential for fines or other penalties if the lawsuit is successful . \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 11 June 2022",
"The new study found, however, that a successful summer breeding season can help make up for losses over the winter. \u2014 Denise Chow, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Penn State signee Jimmy Nugent would single in his final Badin at-bat, but the next three Rams flew out ending their successful season at 26-7. \u2014 Scott Springer, The Enquirer , 10 June 2022",
"At least that\u2019s what happened to University of Arizona men\u2019s basketball head coach Tommy Lloyd, whose pay increased to $3.6 million after a successful first season with the Wildcats. \u2014 Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2022",
"Watching the painful end to their otherwise successful season, the Bruins (51-10) remained true to their fun-loving nature. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"British actress Millie Bobby Brown instantly became a household name after the hugely successful first season of Stranger Things. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 6 June 2022",
"On a recent episode of the Upside Swingspodcast, Chicago Bulls' guru Steph Noh cited the team's inability to get meaningful contributions from their minimum signings as one of the organization's few lapses in an otherwise successful season. \u2014 Mat Issa, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The former Houston transfer had a successful 2020 season with Miami before suffering an anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus tear in UM\u2019s bowl game. \u2014 Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel , 28 May 2022"
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"Other experts are in the business of selling their research. Alan Greenspan made his reputation and career as a partner of Townsend-Greenspan, whose clients were a who's who of old Wall Street. Successful research firms can command substantial fees, and buyers demand clear, succinct and unequivocal analysis and predictions. \u2014 Zachary Karabell , Newsweek , 9 Mar. 2009",
"As Esther Benbassa recounts in her dry but impressively succinct and informative history, they arrived in the Roman province of Gaul in the first centuries of the common era, and soon found themselves trod underfoot by the ascendant Christian church. \u2014 David A. Bell , New Republic , 28 Feb. 2000",
"In his first work of popular science, English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proves himself to be a master of vivid clarity. His title, \" A Brief History of Time,\" is understated even by British standards; in 198 pages Hawking manages no less than a succinct history of cosmology, a concise explanation of general relativity and its intersection with quantum mechanics \u2026 \u2014 Richard Rhodes , Chicago Tribune , 27 Mar. 1988",
"He gave a succinct overview of the expansion project.",
"a pocket guide that provides succinct explanations for rules of grammar and punctuation",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In a succinct email, clearly articulate the reason for getting in contact with the potential partner, and end by asking for the best time to continue the conversation to discuss what was briefly presented at length. \u2014 Pauleanna Reid, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Clocking in at 2\u00bd hours, the Olivier Award-winning production is not a particularly succinct bit of storytelling. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"Her zingers\u2014 succinct , often biting, always revealing\u2014leapt out amid the show\u2019s famously sparse dialogue. \u2014 Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country , 29 May 2022",
"This remarkably succinct format was called a probabilistically checkable proof (PCP). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"Shell\u2019s succinct comments about Peacock\u2019s advertiser-friendly status were downright sedate compared what came from deputy Linda Yaccarino. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 May 2022",
"Kings coach Todd McLellan was angry and succinct at his postgame news conference. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
"That\u2019s what Orioles ace John Means posted Saturday afternoon, confirming the worst-case scenario with a succinct update on his impending elbow reconstruction surgery. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But her announcement post felt more succinct \u2014meandering from food baby to baby baby. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 13 Apr. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
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": full of juice : juicy",
": moist and tasty : toothsome",
": having fleshy tissues that conserve moisture",
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": a succulent plant (such as a cactus or an aloe)",
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"\u02c8s\u0259-ky\u0259-l\u0259nt",
"\u02c8s\u0259-ky\u0259-l\u0259nt"
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"Adjective",
"vines weighted down with plump, succulent grapes",
"a buffet table set with an array of succulent roasts",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Now the technique for succulent ribs is as important as the seasoning and mop sauce. \u2014 Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer , 18 June 2022",
"Cornish game hens are an excellent substitute for the smaller, younger birds often used in South Korea for this succulent poultry dish. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Aloe barbadensis leaf, sourced from a succulent plant, hydrates the hair and nourishes it with vital antioxidants and vitamins. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022",
"Extricating the succulent meat from Maryland\u2019s famous blues requires nimble handpicking. \u2014 Adam Erace, Fortune , 28 May 2022",
"Above all is Picanha (Prime Coulotte aka rump roast), which is tender and succulent . \u2014 David Hochman, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"In addition to cacti and aloes, sells rare and critically endangered succulent plants from Madagascar and Socotra. \u2014 Dennis Peck | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 19 May 2022",
"To succeed with these succulent berries, find a spot in your yard that gets at least eight hours of sun a day. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2022",
"This succulent rice dish was born on the border between Lombardy and Piedmont. \u2014 Silvia Marchetti, CNN , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Potential customers outside the Southwest would likely be hard-pressed to name this giant green succulent . \u2014 Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic , 11 June 2022",
"Even a no-care dry plant or low-maintenance succulent can make a difference. \u2014 Laura Jennings, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"This succulent boasts glossy green leaves and bright red, yellow, pink, or orange flower clusters that last for weeks. \u2014 Jada Jackson, House Beautiful , 29 May 2022",
"UrbanStems offers a selection of houseplants in artistic containers, such as this succulent in a charming ceramic unicorn and a low-maintenance air plant in a golden elephant. \u2014 Kaitlin Marks, Better Homes & Gardens , 6 May 2022",
"This low-growing succulent provides interesting texture and beautiful color to any sunny space. \u2014 Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine , 4 May 2022",
"The aloe plant is a low-key succulent that's perfect for a first houseplant owner or anyone with a busy lifestyle. \u2014 Brittney Morgan And Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Growing in the bark is a welcome but unidentified succulent and ah unwelcome, annoying grass (the reason for weeding). \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Mar. 2022",
"The video features her wandering through a succulent , but haunting, garden. \u2014 Izzy Col\u00f3n, SPIN , 4 Feb. 2022"
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"Adjective",
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"type":[
"verb"
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": to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire",
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"s\u0259-\u02c8k\u0259m",
"s\u0259-\u02c8k\u0259m"
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"blink",
"bow",
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"capitulate",
"concede",
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"knuckle under",
"quit",
"relent",
"submit",
"surrender",
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"resist"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But just like his son, Big Dwight refuses to succumb to his limitations. \u2014 Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun , 17 June 2022",
"But it\u2019s the difference between recognizing infections as somewhat typical and dismissing them as normal\u2014between recognizing that this virus is a part of our lives going forward, and inviting ourselves to succumb entirely to it. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 4 May 2022",
"Don\u2019t assume imposter syndrome has a demographic profile, or that anyone is too established or too famous to succumb . \u2014 Jason Randall, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Wagstaff, 30, became one of the first San Antonio residents to succumb to the virus. \u2014 Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Chesney\u2019s new song, an ode to freethinking, free-wheeling women who chase their dreams and refuse to succumb to societal pressures, gets a visual companion in this clip, directed by Chesney\u2019s longtime collaborator Shaun Silva of Tacklebox Films. \u2014 Jessica Nicholson, Billboard , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The trick is to not succumb to the temptation of the immediate. \u2014 SPIN , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Who will impress the judges, and whose dishes will succumb to the ridiculous disasters du jour? \u2014 Marc Berman, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Her National Rally party has joined the mainstream, even if at the last minute many French people clearly voted for Mr. Macron to ensure that France not succumb to the xenophobic vitriol of the darker passages of its history. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French & Latin; French succomber , from Latin succumbere , from sub- + -cumbere to lie down; akin to Latin cubare to lie",
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"1604, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185344"
},
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"adjective",
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": of a kind or character to be indicated or suggested",
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": of the same class, type, or sort",
": not specified",
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": intrinsically considered : in itself",
": to such a degree : so",
": very , especially",
": in such a way",
": of a kind just specified or to be specified",
": of the same class, type, or sort : similar",
": so great : so remarkable",
": that sort of person, thing, or group"
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"\u02c8s\u0259ch",
"\u02c8sich",
"\u02c8s\u0259ch"
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"really",
"right",
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"sorely",
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"stinking",
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"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
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"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The Ohio Department of Health recommends checking in with your elderly or at-risk neighbors, such as those with chronic medical conditions. \u2014 Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer , 22 June 2022",
"The American Century did not achieve the lofty goals that oligarchs such as Henry Luce set out for it. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Besides character experiences, there are also performances and live entertainment such as Gen. Okoye and the Dora Milaje from Wakanda at the Avengers Campus. \u2014 Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic , 21 June 2022",
"Because of Spinraza, children newly diagnosed with SMA are starting out able to keep functions such as walking, talking and movement, because they are treated early, Lombardo Kelly said. \u2014 Pam Mcloughlin, Hartford Courant , 21 June 2022",
"In addition, lifestyle factors such as diet may be playing a role in recent breakouts. \u2014 Stacey Colino, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"The disease is also spread by contact with or consumption of infected animals or using products made such as creams made from infected animals. \u2014 Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"First things first, look for lightweight fabrics, such as cotton, linen, and silk blends, that breathe well and will keep you cool and comfortable on the warmest days of the year. \u2014 Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue , 21 June 2022",
"Grab-and-go coolers will be stocked with sandwiches and salads, and a freezer will have items such as pizzas and ice cream, with building tenants in mind. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"These irresponsible journalists should try such worthwhile exercises rather than squander their talents on Trump hatred and national division. \u2014 Deroy Murdock, National Review , 20 Mar. 2020",
"To support such resource-intensive work, in 2003 Banerjee, Duflo, and a colleague founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a network of nearly 200 researchers performing such randomized controlled experiments in economics. \u2014 Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS , 14 Oct. 2019",
"Thankful to work around such talented & caring people. \u2014 CBS News , 15 May 2017",
"Thankful to work around such talented & caring people, \u2014 Janie Mccauley, The Seattle Times , 14 May 2017"
],
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"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185233"
},
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"adjective",
"pronoun"
],
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": of like kind : similar",
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"\u02c8s\u0259ch-\u02ccl\u012bk"
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"different",
"dissimilar",
"diverse",
"unakin",
"unlike"
],
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"Adjective",
"rakes, shovels, and suchlike things",
"kept asking me how long I'd lived here, and how I liked it, and suchlike questions"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185148"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": dupe , hoodwink",
": to contract, flatten, and tighten (the abdomen) especially by inhaling deeply"
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"bamboozle",
"beguile",
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"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
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"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
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"fake out",
"fool",
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"gammon",
"gull",
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"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
],
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"undeceive"
],
"examples":[
"she was sucked in by a scam that was run by a shady outfit selling time-shares"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182039"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": one that sucks especially a breast or udder : suckling",
": a device for creating or regulating suction (such as a piston or valve in a pump)",
": a pipe or tube through which something is drawn by suction",
": an organ in various animals for adhering or holding",
": a mouth (as of a leech) adapted for sucking or adhering",
": a shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant",
": any of numerous chiefly North American freshwater bony fishes (family Catostomidae) closely related to the carps but distinguished from them especially by the structure of the mouth which usually has thick soft lips \u2014 compare hog sucker , white sucker",
": lollipop sense 1",
": a person easily cheated or deceived",
": a person irresistibly attracted by something specified",
": to remove suckers from",
": hoodwink sense 1",
": to send out suckers",
": a person easily fooled or cheated",
": a part of an animal's body used for sucking or for clinging by suction",
": lollipop",
": a freshwater fish related to the carp that has thick soft lips for sucking in food",
": a new stem from the roots or lower part of a plant",
": suckling",
": an organ in various animals (as a trematode or tapeworm) used for adhering or holding",
": a mouth (as of a leech) adapted for sucking or adhering"
],
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"\u02c8s\u0259-k\u0259r",
"\u02c8s\u0259-k\u0259r",
"\u02c8s\u0259k-\u0259r"
],
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"chump",
"dupe",
"gull",
"mug",
"patsy",
"pigeon",
"pushover",
"sap",
"soft touch",
"tool"
],
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"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He's just a con artist looking for another sucker .",
"That kid is a mean little sucker .",
"Verb",
"a notorious imposter who at one time suckered a lot of people into believing that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia",
"suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"If an art-house film gets credit for what commercial movies have already done much better, then Katherine\u2019s victims aren\u2019t the only suckers here. \u2014 Charles Taylor, MSNBC Newsweek , 17 July 2017",
"As Wallace, his daughter and others were sucker -punched, stomped and beaten, the pavilion\u2019s security team stood by and watched, the complaint says. \u2014 Michael Gordon And Maria David, charlotteobserver , 30 June 2017",
"But we\u2019re suckers for a pretty face (and 495 horsepower), so the orange roadster left Eisenhower Place after 40,000 miles with a letter of recommendation and an invitation for Jaguar to send us its next creation. \u2014 Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver , 29 June 2017",
"These nomadic vamps got a scent for Bella, and threw life into chaos for both the Cullens and the wolves destined to protect humans from their blood- sucker nemeses. \u2014 Maria Tallarico, Cosmopolitan , 28 June 2017",
"The Battle of the Bands sequence takes it one step further, manifesting the dueling band-joes\u2019 songs as a pair of battling kaiju who proceed to very nearly (and literally) tear the roof off the sucker . \u2014 Keith Staskiewicz, Billboard , 28 June 2017",
"The Kiwis took a 6-1 lead into Monday's fifth day of racing in the 2017 event and landed the sucker punch with a win in race nine to clinch the oldest trophy in sport for the first time since the successful defence of 2000. \u2014 CNN , 26 June 2017",
"Grainy video of a sucker -punching president neatly captures a shift that has transpired slowly and then mind-bogglingly quickly in recent years: Hatred has come into the mainstream. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 3 July 2017",
"What Bovada might be looking for is sucker money from MLS dreamers longing for the league to get a world superstar at least at the end of his prime instead of clearly past his prime. \u2014 David J. Neal, miamiherald , 20 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Not every Nicolas Cage fan would sucker the iconoclastic star into going to a desert island under false pretenses, however, which is the premise behind The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the meta-comedy that hits theaters on April 22nd. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Maybe promising deets on Travis -- and then killing him -- was a way to sucker Nat in and then untether her from one of the few living people who loved her. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 16 Jan. 2022",
"In November 2020, malefactors in charge of the Egregor ransomware used an extremely offbeat trick to sucker -punch their victim, a Chilean retail giant called Cencosud. \u2014 David Balaban, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Poplars are fast-growing, unhealthy trees that often sucker profusely in lawns. \u2014 Howard Garrett, Dallas News , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Melt that sucker down in a saucepan and enjoy a nice soup. \u2014 Colin Stokes, The New Yorker , 11 Dec. 2020",
"In his plays, naturalism is a red herring, designed to sucker you. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Sep. 2019",
"The roots will continue to sucker until dead, so regular (as in possibly weekly) removal of suckers will be needed, probably for a few years. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Oct. 2019",
"These trees have strong and spreading root systems that sucker readily. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Oct. 2019"
],
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"Noun",
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"Verb",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182510"
},
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"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to give milk to from the breast or udder",
": to nurture as if by giving milk from the breast",
": to draw milk from the breast or udder of",
": to draw milk from the breast or udder",
": to feed from the breast or udder",
": to give milk to from the breast or udder",
": to draw milk from the breast or udder of"
],
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"\u02c8s\u0259-k\u0259l",
"\u02c8s\u0259-k\u0259l",
"\u02c8s\u0259k-\u0259l"
],
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"breast-feed",
"nurse",
"wet-nurse"
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"examples":[
"a cat suckling her kittens",
"the image of a mother suckling her babe is a standard artistic symbol of maternal love and nurturing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite what may be an initial reluctance to suckle their babies with milk made in a test tube, Stefani Bardin, who teaches food technology and design at New York University and Parsons School of Design, says there will be takers. \u2014 Alexandra Sternlicht, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"The adult sits down on the brownish sand, immediately sullying her pristine white coat, then, in a moment of uncanny tenderness, lets the youngsters in to suckle . \u2014 Travel , 29 Dec. 2021",
"What\u2019s also not visible in this photograph is that only one gorilla survives the massacre, a baby found next to her slain mother, one of Senkwekwe\u2019s mates, trying to suckle her breast. \u2014 Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times , 25 Dec. 2021",
"The researchers said that the mongoose moms suckle all the pups in their underground dens for a month, without any discrimination, and pups feed from many different moms. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 23 June 2021",
"And Elephant Aware, a nonprofit conservation group, sent in a similarly uncommon video of a calf trying to suckle from her dead mother. \u2014 Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American , 9 June 2021",
"Suction feeding is also a staple among certain marine mammals, such as whales and and seals, and, arguably, all animals that suckle from their mother after birth. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 1 June 2021",
"Observed off the coast of a Russian island, walrus moms tend to keep their babies on the left while bobbing along the waves, and their calves swam over to their mother\u2019s left side before diving to suckle . \u2014 Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 May 2021",
"The last straw happened when Hera agreed to suckle the baby Heracles, a nice, forgiving gesture. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 30 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English suklen , probably back-formation from suklyng ",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-221111"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": happening or coming unexpectedly",
": changing angle or character all at once",
": marked by or manifesting abruptness or haste",
": made or brought about in a short time : prompt",
": an unexpected occurrence : emergency",
": sooner than was expected : at once",
": happening or coming quickly and unexpectedly",
": met with unexpectedly",
": hasty sense 2",
": sooner than was expected : suddenly"
],
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"\u02c8s\u0259-d\u1d4an",
"\u02c8s\u0259-d\u1d4an"
],
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"abrupt",
"unanticipated",
"unexpected",
"unforeseen",
"unlooked-for"
],
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"anticipated",
"expected",
"foreseen"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"On Tuesday, Yellowstone National Park officials ordered over 10,000 visitors to evacuate as heavy snowmelt and sudden rainfall caused the Yellowstone river to burst its banks, unleashing a torrent of floodwater throughout the nature reserve. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 15 June 2022",
"The sudden price relief for one party and financial strain for the other increases the risk that policy, not just prices, end up diverging, too. \u2014 Jinjoo Lee, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
"The chub is resilient but hasn't evolved to withstand sudden introduction of predatory sport fish. \u2014 Brittany Peterson And John Flesher, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"Then, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging oligarchs began to look west for safe places to invest and enjoy their sudden riches. \u2014 Simon Usborne, Town & Country , 15 June 2022",
"Older adults are more at risk for heat stroke because their bodies don\u2019t adjust as well to sudden changes in temperature. \u2014 Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"He was appointed to his current seat in 2010 following the sudden resignation of former Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack after being arrested on a DUI charge. \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"Some country-radio stations grappled with the disconnect between the Chicks\u2019 recent mega-popularity and the sudden flood of listener comments \u2014 and a few programmers wondered if right-wing, pro-war operatives were behind the backlash. \u2014 Steve Knopper, Billboard , 14 June 2022",
"With only Fugate and Hamilton running it, Eso Won struggled to keep up with the sudden torrent of customers and online orders. \u2014 Dorany Pinedastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1558, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205226"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": to submit to or be forced to endure",
": to feel keenly : labor under",
": undergo , experience",
": to put up with especially as inevitable or unavoidable",
": to allow especially by reason of indifference",
": to endure death, pain, or distress",
": to sustain loss or damage",
": to be subject to disability or handicap",
": to feel or endure pain, illness, or injury",
": to experience something unpleasant",
": to bear loss or damage",
": to become worse",
": permit entry 1 sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-f\u0259r",
"\u02c8s\u0259-f\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"feel",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"see",
"sustain",
"taste",
"undergo",
"witness"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Patients who now suffer from gastrointestinal issues, including abdominal pain. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"The Lifeable Probiotic Gummy is ideal for those who suffer from food sensitivities, intolerances, and other dietary restrictions. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 June 2022",
"Veterans who may suffer from anxiety and PTSD can see entrances, exits and who is coming in and out of the clear-view environment. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 30 May 2022",
"Balloons were launched by an organization devoted to helping servicemen who suffer from the effects of Agent Orange in Southeast Asia. \u2014 David Lyons, Sun Sentinel , 30 May 2022",
"People who do not suffer from tree nuts allergies can still consume the Red Button Canadian Vanilla ice cream. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 27 May 2022",
"After every mass shooting, turn on the brightest lights, power up the microphones, and let no political leader who makes the symbolic pilgrimage escape speaking actual truth on a site sacred to those who suffer . \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"One of the main issues with the American kettlebell swing is that the additional overhead extension of the arms and shoulder following a ballistic, hip driving start, could become problematic for those who suffer from range of motion issues. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 20 May 2022",
"In the meantime, parents and early childhood teachers can support language development for children who may suffer from delays by providing rich, responsive interactions and conversations. \u2014 Abigail A. Allen, The Conversation , 19 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sufferen, suffren, borrowed from Anglo-French suffrir, going back to Vulgar Latin *suffer\u012bre, re-formation of Latin sufferre \"to submit to, endure,\" from suf-, assimilated form of sub- sub- + ferre \"to carry, bear\" \u2014 more at bear entry 2 ",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185923"
},
"sufficiency":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": sufficient means to meet one's needs : competency",
": a modest but adequate scale of living",
": the quality or state of being sufficient : adequacy",
": the quality or state of being sufficient"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8fi-sh\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"acceptability",
"adequacy",
"satisfactoriness"
],
"antonyms":[
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"unsatisfactoriness"
],
"examples":[
"the sufficiency of the portions is such that you will leave the restaurant with a full stomach but without doggie bags",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Autonomy requires a large measure of self- sufficiency , to which end the Apiwtxa have enhanced their food sovereignty and implemented economic and trading practices that minimally impact the environment. \u2014 Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The other is grounded in neighborhoods of sufficiency . \u2014 Steve West, Sun Sentinel , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Irreversible decisions can also help create self- sufficiency . \u2014 Kayvan Kian, Forbes , 1 June 2021",
"Ultimately, the farming association's goal is to create self- sufficiency for Hmong families through agriculture. \u2014 Erin Adler, Star Tribune , 10 Nov. 2020",
"High effective marginal tax rates mean that some workers have a financial disincentive to invest in their own human capital and advance from lower-wage work to jobs that lead to economic self- sufficiency . \u2014 Erik Sherman, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"The Sustainable Materials Management coalition is trying to reach self- sufficiency by significantly reducing the amount of material going into the waste stream. \u2014 Tom Condon, Hartford Courant , 4 May 2022",
"The goal is for these families to reach self- sufficiency within 12 months. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 20 July 2021",
"Allowing residents to go to the shops and hairdressers on their own restores their sense of independence and self- sufficiency . \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 8 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"earlier sufficience in same sense (going back to Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Late Latin sufficientia, from Latin sufficient-, sufficiens sufficient + -ia -ia entry 1 ) + -ency ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211717"
},
"sufficient":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": enough to meet the needs of a situation or a proposed end",
": being a sufficient condition",
": qualified , competent",
": enough to achieve a goal or fill a need",
": enough to meet the needs under the law of a situation or a proposed end"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8fi-sh\u0259nt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8fi-sh\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Anatoliy, who, citing military policy, sent responses through WhatsApp on the condition that his full name not be disclosed, said his abridged Javelin training course \u2014 lasting a day and a half \u2014 and subsequent refreshers have been sufficient . \u2014 Alex Horton, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Previous routes weren't sufficient , giving the rising volume of trade between Russia and China, according to Artyom Lukin, an associate professor of international relations at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok. \u2014 Simone Mccarthy, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"Previously routine issues like assuring staffing levels were sufficient could no longer be taken for granted. \u2014 Nate Bennett, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Criticizing the assumptions, methodology, and data put out by advocates for more money is necessary but not sufficient to shift the conversation. \u2014 Roger Valdez, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Immediate relief for borrowers is necessary but not sufficient . \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"The Pentagon said three weeks of training will be sufficient for Ukrainian forces to handle advanced rockets. \u2014 WSJ , 2 June 2022",
"In the course of a heavy training regimen, three to five minutes between sets for powerlifters is sufficient . \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"Your Kentucky driver's license is sufficient , and so are military, college and Kentucky government IDs. \u2014 Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal , 16 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sufficiant, sufficient, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French suffisant, sufficient, in part from present participle of suffire \"to suffice ,\" in part borrowed from Latin sufficient-, sufficiens, from present participle of sufficere \"to have enough strength or capacity, be adequate\" \u2014 more at suffice ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191429"
},
"sufficiently":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": enough to meet the needs of a situation or a proposed end",
": being a sufficient condition",
": qualified , competent",
": enough to achieve a goal or fill a need",
": enough to meet the needs under the law of a situation or a proposed end"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8fi-sh\u0259nt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8fi-sh\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Anatoliy, who, citing military policy, sent responses through WhatsApp on the condition that his full name not be disclosed, said his abridged Javelin training course \u2014 lasting a day and a half \u2014 and subsequent refreshers have been sufficient . \u2014 Alex Horton, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Previous routes weren't sufficient , giving the rising volume of trade between Russia and China, according to Artyom Lukin, an associate professor of international relations at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok. \u2014 Simone Mccarthy, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"Previously routine issues like assuring staffing levels were sufficient could no longer be taken for granted. \u2014 Nate Bennett, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Criticizing the assumptions, methodology, and data put out by advocates for more money is necessary but not sufficient to shift the conversation. \u2014 Roger Valdez, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Immediate relief for borrowers is necessary but not sufficient . \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"The Pentagon said three weeks of training will be sufficient for Ukrainian forces to handle advanced rockets. \u2014 WSJ , 2 June 2022",
"In the course of a heavy training regimen, three to five minutes between sets for powerlifters is sufficient . \u2014 Oliver Lee Bateman, Men's Health , 19 May 2022",
"Your Kentucky driver's license is sufficient , and so are military, college and Kentucky government IDs. \u2014 Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal , 16 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sufficiant, sufficient, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French suffisant, sufficient, in part from present participle of suffire \"to suffice ,\" in part borrowed from Latin sufficient-, sufficiens, from present participle of sufficere \"to have enough strength or capacity, be adequate\" \u2014 more at suffice ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182235"
},
"suffocate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation)",
": to deprive of oxygen",
": to make uncomfortable by want of fresh air",
": to impede or stop the development of",
": to become suffocated :",
": to die from being unable to breathe",
": to die from lack of oxygen",
": to be uncomfortable through lack of fresh air",
": to become checked in development",
": to kill by stopping the breathing of or by depriving of oxygen to breathe",
": to die from being unable to breathe",
": to be or become choked or smothered",
": to suffer from lack of fresh air",
": to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation)",
": to deprive of oxygen",
": to die from being unable to breathe"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-f\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t",
"\u02c8s\u0259-f\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t",
"\u02c8s\u0259f-\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"choke",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The poor dog could suffocate in the car on a hot day like this.",
"Don't put your head in a plastic bag\u2014you could suffocate .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The film is named after a coffee-house for passionate chess players in the heart of Athens, which has become a refuge for those who suffocate in modern life. \u2014 Lise Pedersen, Variety , 25 May 2022",
"Palm trees are particularly dangerous because of their large and heavy fronds, which can collapse and suffocate trimmers, Humphrey said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
"To stop them releasing Vinicius Jr and Karim Benzema on dangerous counter attacks, Barca must contain the golden triangle and suffocate their passing game. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Russian forces have been targeting missiles at infrastructure in Ukrainian ports\u2014part of a plan to seize Ukraine\u2019s southern coast to cut it off from the sea and suffocate its economy. \u2014 Benoit Faucon And Joe Parkinson, WSJ , 8 Mar. 2022",
"But lawyers for the family heavily disputed that conclusion and argued, successfully, that the conduct of the deputies caused Phounsy to suffocate to death. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"When coiled around a lizard or throttling a bird, a boa constrictor doesn't actually suffocate its prey. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Don\u2019t suffocate solutions by focusing relentlessly on problems. \u2014 Henry Devries, Forbes , 29 May 2021",
"But the greatest fear is getting stuck in a traffic jam in one of the highway\u2019s long, pitch-black tunnels, where the buildup of carbon monoxide can suffocate those trapped within. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"borrowed from Latin suff\u014dc\u0101tus, past participle of suff\u014dc\u0101re \"to stifle, choke, deprive of air, squeeze together,\" from suf-, assimilated form of sub- sub- + -f\u014dc\u0101re, verbal derivative of fauc-, faux (ordinarily in plural fauc\u0113s ) \"upper part of the throat, pharynx, windpipe,\" of obscure origin",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a(1)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192713"
},
"suffocating":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": tending or serving to suffocate or overpower : overwhelming"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-f\u0259-\u02cck\u0101-ti\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[
"breathless",
"close",
"stifling",
"stuffy"
],
"antonyms":[
"airy",
"breezy",
"unstuffy"
],
"examples":[
"inside the bunker it was suffocating , and some of the men had already passed out",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Netflix had a premonition: In the year 2020, with beaches closed and spring breaks canceled, the people would need a steamy island mystery to make quarantine a little less suffocating . \u2014 Lauren Puckett, Harper's BAZAAR , 4 May 2020",
"USA TODAY Appropriate pre-storm preparations gave way to a chaotic response in a Florida nursing home where suffocating heat resulted in 12 patients dying after Hurricane Irma struck in September 2017. \u2014 Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY , 29 Aug. 2019",
"The suffocating heat and humidity, which prompted the U.S. Tennis Association to create and apply rules on the fly. \u2014 Howard Fendrich, The Seattle Times , 10 Sep. 2018",
"The Haskell hospital is one of many Oklahoma rural medical centers trying to remain open under financial conditions that can feel insurmountable and suffocating for the communities trying to save them. \u2014 Brianna Bailey, ProPublica , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Millions of people are forced to occupy cramped, notoriously expensive, suffocating housing \u2014 fertile territory for a virus that clearly likes to spread among people in close contact. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Apr. 2020",
"Resplendent details, like the neon lights that bathe a hotel room in a suffocating hot-pink and the luminous LEDs that make both the gangsters\u2019 bikes and the police\u2019s sneakers glow, add a lush visual theatricality to Diao\u2019s film. \u2014 Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Somehow point guard Marcus Johnson and his teammates found a way to break Edison\u2019s suffocating press for a 60-57 victory despite committing 15 turnovers. \u2014 Mick Mccabe, Detroit Free Press , 13 Mar. 2020",
"Baldwin Wallace\u2019s suffocating effort squeezed the offensive life out of Haverford and led to a 67-42 victory for the Yellow Jackets. \u2014 Branson Wright, cleveland , 7 Mar. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1604, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-223345"
},
"suffuse":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
"to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light flush , fill",
"to flush or spread over or through in the manner of a fluid and especially blood"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8fy\u00fcz",
"s\u0259-\u02c8fy\u00fcz"
],
"synonyms":[
"endue",
"indue",
"imbue",
"inculcate",
"infuse",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"inoculate",
"invest",
"steep"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Morning light suffused the room.",
"she was suffused with an overwhelming feeling of liberation as her horse broke into a gallop",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There\u2019s melancholy, regret, grief, and disappointment in Julie\u2019s life; for that matter, the inconclusive vagueness and inchoate longings that suffuse the film, that constitute her very character, come off as the nature of life itself. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The patterns of flowers, vines, leaves, birds, and other animals suffuse his designs with joy. \u2014 April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Each morning the bakers make marvelous sourdough bread whose aromas suffuse the air outside of the little store, which has never seen fit to expand its offerings much beyond a few different loaves of bread and cakes. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Branagh's genuine affection and nostalgia for his subject suffuse the movie; if only the misty romanticism of his story could match it. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 4 Sep. 2021",
"Chelsea had lost N\u2019Golo Kant\u00e9 to an injury at the break, a third cause of regret, and yet his spirit seemed to suffuse his team. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Aug. 2021",
"His keen observations about human nature, made in evocative prose, suffuse each page, and his characters prove endearing and memorable. \u2014 Stefanie Milligan, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 July 2021",
"Holl\u2019s luminous facades suffuse the building with light, but the absence of windows in the gallery spaces leaves them glare-free. \u2014 Mark Lamster, Dallas News , 24 June 2021",
"The private automobiles, symbolic referents to which also suffuse the work, are led by guides in funereal procession through different stations in varying sections of the garage. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 27 Apr. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"borrowed from Latin suff\u016bsus, past participle of suffundere \"to pour on or in (as an addition), cause (a liquid, color, light) to well up or rise to the surface, fill with a liquid, color or light that wells up from below,\" from suf-, assimilated form of sub- sub- + fundere \"to pour, shed, cast, send forth, disperse\" \u2014 more at found entry 5 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1590, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-164418"
},
"sugarcoated":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to coat with sugar",
": to make superficially attractive or palatable"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8shu\u0307-g\u0259r-\u02cck\u014dt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She has very strong opinions, and she doesn't try to sugarcoat them.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Bruins love that their coach is demanding and doesn\u2019t sugarcoat their flaws. \u2014 Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times , 13 Feb. 2022",
"There is no way to sugarcoat the reality that the Mexican government, led by Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador, is practicing extortion. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
"Twenty-year-old TikToker Erin Novakowski does not sugarcoat her disability for the comfort of others. \u2014 Christine Jean-baptiste, refinery29.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
"No reason to sugarcoat it: The Padres are not paying Fernando Tatis Jr. $340 million with the unprecedented security of a 14-year contract for partial seasons. \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Sutton does not sugarcoat the intolerable emptiness of Cole\u2019s existence. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Feb. 2022",
"Wladyka doesn\u2019t sugarcoat anything, assuming audiences are tough enough to take it all in. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Saban didn\u2019t sugarcoat the impact of his drop on Alabama\u2019s final drive in College Station that forced a punt. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Grasso didn\u2019t sugarcoat his feelings about the building. \u2014 Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com , 11 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"back-formation from sugarcoated ",
"first_known_use":[
"1858, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174558"
},
"sugary":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"exaggeratedly sweet honeyed",
"cloyingly sweet sentimental",
"containing, resembling, or tasting of sugar",
"containing a lot of sugar",
"too sweetly sentimental"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8shu\u0307-g(\u0259-)r\u0113",
"synonyms":[
"chocolate-box",
"cloying",
"corny",
"drippy",
"fruity",
"gooey",
"lovey-dovey",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"novelettish",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"slushy",
"soppy",
"soupy",
"spoony",
"spooney",
"sticky",
"sugarcoated",
"wet"
],
"antonyms":[
"unsentimental"
],
"examples":[
"writes sugary lyrics for singers of country music",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Capsules or tablets used to flavor water are an easy way to add a little bit a salt, as opposed to buying sugary sports drinks. \u2014 Claire Thornton, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"But yeast in a warm, sugary liquid will trigger fermentation. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 May 2022",
"For me, though, eating at the end of the meal for a quick, sugary boost is an underrated method. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 24 May 2022",
"The petite slabs are lacquered in a salty-sweet glaze that caramelizes while the ribs cook through, creating crusty, sugary edges that taste like meat candy. \u2014 Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 23 May 2022",
"In particular, the hints of acacia and elderberry deceive the taster who expects a wine with a sugary residue which is instead a dry wine. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Keep your kitchen and dining room clean of crumbs and wipe up sugary liquids immediately. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 13 May 2022",
"Four popular flavor profiles include Kansas City style requires a sweet seasoning and finishing with a thick, sugary sauce. \u2014 cleveland , 13 May 2022",
"Recreating a healthier version of our favorite sugary products is never easy, and can take a lot of trial and error to get just right, especially for mass production. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 8 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":null,
"first_known_use":[
"1591, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"suggestion":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or process of suggesting",
": something suggested",
": the process by which a physical or mental state is influenced by a thought or idea",
": the process by which one thought leads to another especially through association of ideas",
": a slight indication : trace",
": a thought or plan that is offered or proposed",
": the act or process of putting a thought in someone's mind",
": hint entry 1 sense 2",
": the act or process of impressing something (as an idea, attitude, or desired action) upon the mind of another",
": the process by which a physical or mental state is influenced by a thought or idea",
": something impressed upon the mind by suggestion",
": the act or process of suggesting",
": something suggested",
": an entry on the record of a fact or circumstance (as the death or insolvency of a party) material to a case and essential for the court in making its determination"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259g-\u02c8jes-ch\u0259n",
"s\u0259-\u02c8jes-",
"-\u02c8jesh-",
"s\u0259g-\u02c8jes-ch\u0259n",
"s\u0259-\u02c8jes-",
"s\u0259(g)-\u02c8jes-ch\u0259n, -\u02c8jesh-"
],
"synonyms":[
"clue",
"cue",
"hint",
"indication",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"lead"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The policy suggestion wasn\u2019t necessarily in response to mass shootings but could help Utah\u2019s high suicide and domestic violence murder rates. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"The suggestion that employers are becoming more conservative in their salary offers also might be hopeful thinking for those trying to control rising inflation. \u2014 Paul Mcdonald, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Gableman's attorney, Michael Dean, said Remington's suggestion terrified the staff member, Zakory Niemierowicz, and prompted Dean to advise Niemierowicz and Gableman to obtain their own counsel if jail time is possible. \u2014 Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"There was never an insinuation or suggestion that there was any shade to one another. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 13 June 2022",
"Vasquez decried the suggestion during her daytime interviews Wednesday. \u2014 Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY , 13 June 2022",
"As recommendations go, the suggestion from San Diego County\u2019s Citizens Law Enforcement Review Board to the Sheriff\u2019s Department was pretty minor. \u2014 Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"Without naming her colleague, Chutkan slammed McFadden's suggestion days later. \u2014 Michael Kunzelman, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"And yes, the suggestion seems clearly tongue-in-cheek and ludicrous. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 12 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184520"
},
"suit":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a set of garments: such as",
": an ensemble of two or more usually matching outer garments (such as a jacket, vest, and trousers)",
": a costume to be worn for a special purpose or under particular conditions",
": an action or process in a court for the recovery of a right or claim",
": recourse or appeal to a feudal superior for justice or redress",
": all the playing cards in a pack bearing the same symbol",
": all the dominoes bearing the same number",
": all the cards or counters in a particular suit held by one player",
": the suit led",
": a business executive",
": a group of things forming a unit : suite",
": an act or instance of suing or seeking by entreaty : appeal",
": courtship",
": suite sense 1",
": to meet the needs or desires of : please",
": to be proper for : befit",
": to be becoming to",
": to outfit with clothes : dress",
": accommodate , adapt",
": to put on specially required clothing (such as a uniform or protective garb)",
": to be in accordance : agree",
": to be appropriate or satisfactory",
": a set of clothing having matching top and bottom pieces",
": a set of clothes or protective coverings worn for a special purpose or under particular conditions",
": an action in court to settle a disagreement or enforce a right or claim",
": all the playing cards of one kind (as spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs) in a pack",
": to be suitable or satisfactory",
": to make suitable : adapt",
": to be proper for or pleasing with",
": to meet the needs or desires of",
"\u2014 see g suit , pressure suit",
": a proceeding to enforce a right or claim",
": an action brought in a court seeking a remedy for injuries suffered or a determination of rights : lawsuit"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fct",
"\u02c8s\u00fct"
],
"synonyms":[
"action",
"lawsuit",
"proceeding"
],
"antonyms":[
"befit",
"beseem",
"do",
"fit",
"go",
"serve"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Amanda Carley, a onetime Mendocino County deputy probation officer, filed suit against the county and Chief Noble Waidelich in 2017 after years of alleged domestic abuse. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Since the trade, two more women have filed suit against the quarterback. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 10 June 2022",
"Wu said the release of the massive file was to demonstrate a commitment to transparency \u2014 though it should be noted that the Globe had filed suit seeking those same records in 2021, prior to Wu taking office. \u2014 Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Legal Aid filed suit on Feb. 18, 2021 after the state agency failed to provide a timeline for the production of documents. \u2014 Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online , 10 June 2022",
"How many massage therapists have now filed suit against new Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson? \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 7 June 2022",
"The companies announced the surprising partnership five years after Waymo filed a suit against Uber, alleging a plot to steal trade secrets and intellectual property. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 7 June 2022",
"Henry\u2019s Louisiana Grill had filed suit against Allied Insurance Co. of America after its affiliate, Nationwide, denied coverage. \u2014 Bill Rankin, ajc , 3 June 2022",
"In response, attorneys for the Southern Environmental Law Center have filed suit in US District Court to throw out the license, saying the FAA failed to correctly assess the risks of launching small rockets from the location, AP reports. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But some Chrome critics have noted that the Manifest V3 changes rather suit Google\u2019s browser, since the tech giant's business model is based around advertising. \u2014 Kate O'flaherty, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"But management may not suit their skills, Race says. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 9 June 2022",
"But part of the case remains, thanks to pre- suit assurances by Twitter. \u2014 Jack Greiner, The Enquirer , 11 May 2022",
"The majority of grill gazebos are roughly 8 feet wide by 5 feet deep, so first decide whether those dimensions suit your space. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 9 May 2022",
"One, inertia rules the day and local counties are stuck with a big tax bill; two, Disney files suit to stop the dissolution; or three, Disney and Florida renegotiate a new special district. \u2014 Eric Levenson And Steve Contorno, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Prior to its appearance at the Get Back sessions, worn the day the band recorded the song of the same name, Harrison wore the ultra-'60s suit to the premiere of the film Wonderwall at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 1968. \u2014 Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The pace and narrative arcs of the two shows suit the individual artists, Ouzounian adds. \u2014 Deborah Vankinstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Not only is the lack of noise pollution (and regular pollution), lower maintenance costs and usability attractive to big ski resorts, Bruneau says the performance and battery characteristics suit ski patrol duties perfectly. \u2014 Bryan Campbell, Robb Report , 25 Mar. 2022"
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": adapted to a use or purpose",
": satisfying propriety : proper",
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"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
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"capable",
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"unfitted",
"unqualified"
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"examples":[
"The dress was a suitable choice.",
"We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bicycles, ride-hailing companies, and car rentals are additional options if public transportation is not suitable for a trip. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"Lift settings range from 16 to 23.5 inches, which is suitable for taller ride heights. \u2014 Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"An important mindset to have, as experts note, pilates is suitable for everyone regardless of gender, age, or body type. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"But even though the meals were suitable for beginner cooks, they were still given top marks for flavor and fresh ingredients. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Warning, the language is not suitable for all ages. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"In the meantime, parents eager to finally get their young children protected against the devastating pandemic virus will have to carefully determine which of the two vaccine options is suitable for their kids. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
"For others, lighter fragrances, mists, or perfume oils are suitable for their needs. \u2014 Lenora E. Houseworth, Allure , 14 June 2022",
"The shampoo is free of all harsh chemicals and is suitable for all hair types. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 June 2022"
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": sulking or given to spells of sulking",
": relating to or indicating a sulk",
": having wheels and usually a seat for the driver",
": a light 2-wheeled vehicle (as for harness racing) having a seat for the driver only and usually no body",
": angry or upset by something but refusing to discuss it",
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": a light vehicle with two wheels, a seat for the driver only, and usually no body"
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"\u02c8s\u0259l-k\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259l-k\u0113"
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"She is very sulky today.",
"She's in a sulky mood.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Both wrote famously about the Santa Anas \u2014 the former describing them as a driver of bar fights and murder, the latter as a cause of sulky maids and screaming peacocks. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Director Pablo Larra\u00edn, the Chilean cynic whose niche is sentimentalizing Western icons (Tony Manero, Jackie) uses Stewart\u2019s sulky manner with precision. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Slater also oversaw a marketing campaign that presented his new artist as a sulky siren, transforming her into a global star and a media target. \u2014 Mick Stevens, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2021",
"What comes through now is the vehemence and sulky confusion of a generation\u2019s anti-American snit. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 2 June 2021",
"There's no reason for the Countryman to look so sulky . \u2014 Elana Scherr, Car and Driver , 21 Jan. 2020",
"Cue a sulky gesture from Xhaka to the fed-up Gooners. \u2014 SI.com , 28 Oct. 2019",
"The number can only be called from within the U.S. TRUMP AT THE G-7 The president returned to Washington from the G-7 summit in France in a sulky mood. \u2014 David Lauter, Los Angeles Times , 30 Aug. 2019",
"There are invariably some boldface names in the throng, a few adorably sulky teenage hipsters, a clutch of serious New York theater impresarios, and a number of confused millennials. \u2014 Sally Singer, Vogue , 8 Jan. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The first floor of the barn once housed farm equipment, grain bins and feeding troughs, as well as the remnants of an old sulky . \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
"Occasionally there would be an eruption of cheering, or sulky booing would break out. \u2014 Doug Maccash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com , 3 Nov. 2020",
"The conversion from pulling a buggy to pulling a sulky resulted in the run of victories, all at Northfield, stretching from early June until late September. \u2014 Bob Roberts, cleveland , 10 Oct. 2019",
"But when Hawthorne resumed racing June 13, Curtin wasn\u2019t back in the sulky . \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 20 June 2019",
"Proven harness racing royalty will sit in the sulky behind Bully Pulpit. \u2014 Bob Roberts, cleveland.com , 5 June 2019",
"Original race cars, vintage cycling gear, harness-racing sulkies , and other racing items will also be on display. \u2014 Philly.com , 9 May 2018",
"Uruguay famously got sulky over the shortage of European teams at the first World Cup and refused to travel over for the 1934 tournament, and Argentina joined them four years later when FIFA decided to stage a second consecutive World Cup in Europe. \u2014 SI.com , 22 Mar. 2018",
"The term dates to 1945, when it was used by the military psychiatrist William Menninger to define the attitude of sulky , balky soldiers. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 22 Jan. 2018"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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": sulking or given to spells of sulking",
": relating to or indicating a sulk",
": having wheels and usually a seat for the driver",
": a light 2-wheeled vehicle (as for harness racing) having a seat for the driver only and usually no body",
": angry or upset by something but refusing to discuss it",
": often angry or upset",
": a light vehicle with two wheels, a seat for the driver only, and usually no body"
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"\u02c8s\u0259l-k\u0113",
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"She is very sulky today.",
"She's in a sulky mood.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Both wrote famously about the Santa Anas \u2014 the former describing them as a driver of bar fights and murder, the latter as a cause of sulky maids and screaming peacocks. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Director Pablo Larra\u00edn, the Chilean cynic whose niche is sentimentalizing Western icons (Tony Manero, Jackie) uses Stewart\u2019s sulky manner with precision. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Slater also oversaw a marketing campaign that presented his new artist as a sulky siren, transforming her into a global star and a media target. \u2014 Mick Stevens, The New Yorker , 12 Aug. 2021",
"What comes through now is the vehemence and sulky confusion of a generation\u2019s anti-American snit. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 2 June 2021",
"There's no reason for the Countryman to look so sulky . \u2014 Elana Scherr, Car and Driver , 21 Jan. 2020",
"Cue a sulky gesture from Xhaka to the fed-up Gooners. \u2014 SI.com , 28 Oct. 2019",
"The number can only be called from within the U.S. TRUMP AT THE G-7 The president returned to Washington from the G-7 summit in France in a sulky mood. \u2014 David Lauter, Los Angeles Times , 30 Aug. 2019",
"There are invariably some boldface names in the throng, a few adorably sulky teenage hipsters, a clutch of serious New York theater impresarios, and a number of confused millennials. \u2014 Sally Singer, Vogue , 8 Jan. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The first floor of the barn once housed farm equipment, grain bins and feeding troughs, as well as the remnants of an old sulky . \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
"Occasionally there would be an eruption of cheering, or sulky booing would break out. \u2014 Doug Maccash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com , 3 Nov. 2020",
"The conversion from pulling a buggy to pulling a sulky resulted in the run of victories, all at Northfield, stretching from early June until late September. \u2014 Bob Roberts, cleveland , 10 Oct. 2019",
"But when Hawthorne resumed racing June 13, Curtin wasn\u2019t back in the sulky . \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 20 June 2019",
"Proven harness racing royalty will sit in the sulky behind Bully Pulpit. \u2014 Bob Roberts, cleveland.com , 5 June 2019",
"Original race cars, vintage cycling gear, harness-racing sulkies , and other racing items will also be on display. \u2014 Philly.com , 9 May 2018",
"Uruguay famously got sulky over the shortage of European teams at the first World Cup and refused to travel over for the 1934 tournament, and Argentina joined them four years later when FIFA decided to stage a second consecutive World Cup in Europe. \u2014 SI.com , 22 Mar. 2018",
"The term dates to 1945, when it was used by the military psychiatrist William Menninger to define the attitude of sulky , balky soldiers. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 22 Jan. 2018"
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": gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed",
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": dull or somber in sound or color",
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": moving sluggishly",
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"elegiacal",
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"funereal",
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"glum",
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"gray",
"grey",
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"morbid",
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"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
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"tenebrific",
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"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
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"examples":[
"Economy got you down? Provocateur Ehrenreich \u2026 says: Don't try cheering yourself up. \u2026 Her sharp, funny critique finds that sunny types don't necessarily live longer or better than grumps. Besides, can you really get rid of all negativity in your life? \"It is not so easy,\" she notes, \"to abandon the whiny toddler or the sullen teenager.\" \u2014 Richard Eisenberg , People , 26 Oct. 2009",
"The skies grew sullen and the air chillier, but it wasn't until the third day that the snow came. \u2014 Bill Bryson , A Walk In The Woods , 1999",
"Despite angry alumni calls and sullen students protests\u2014including the cancellation of all fraternity parties at the school's annual Winter Carnival\u2014the faculty unanimously voted in favor of the college's goal to make fraternities and sororities substantially coed, along with developing new social alternatives for its 4,300 undergraduates. \u2014 Anita Hamilton , Time , 1 Mar. 1999",
"sullen skies that matched our mood on the day of the funeral",
"sullen and bored at his in-laws' house, he couldn't wait for the holidays to end",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Although Barry never took murder lightly, per se, the show mined plenty of comedy from the ensemble surrounding its sullen protagonist, as Barry strained to pantomime the sunniness around him. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"McIlroy on Tuesday was everything the sullen and snippy Phil Mickelson was not on Monday at the U.S. Open. \u2014 Christine Brennan, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"Perfetti, who plays well-intended but exhaustingly woke Jacob on ABC hit Abbott Elementary, walks a tightrope of sullen selfishness that masks a deeper loneliness and hunger for relationships. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"Shawna Oertley stepped into the stark white room, silent but for the muffled sounds of sullen voices. \u2014 Katie Mettler, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
"In the maternity ward, Nucchi (Sarwat Gilani) \u2014 sullen and sweaty \u2014 stares off into the distance as Saleem gently strokes her face. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"Her character, Erin, is damaged, leaving her quiet, sullen , bitter. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 20 May 2022",
"Every sullen goth teen who ever wore black in the Eighties has a soft spot in their heart for this man, which is why fans all over the world are blasting Black Celebration in his honor right now. \u2014 Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone , 27 May 2022",
"Fertility clinic waiting rooms with sullen faces consumed my mornings for nearly two years. \u2014 Chloe Melas, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022"
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": to make soiled or tarnished : defile",
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"French statesman",
"Thomas 1783\u20131872 American (English-born) painter"
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"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0113",
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"muck",
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"smudge",
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"clean",
"cleanse"
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"people that sully our state parks with their trash",
"a once-gleaming marble interior sullied by decades of exposure to cigarette smoke",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Overcoming a concerted effort by Republicans to sully her record and derail her nomination, Judge Jackson was confirmed on a 53-to-47 vote, with three Republicans joining all 50 members of the Democratic caucus in backing her. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Palin, in her testimony, accused The Times of deliberately fabricating lies to sully her reputation. \u2014 Aaron Katersky, ABC News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Palin, in her testimony, accused The Times of deliberately fabricating information to sully her reputation. \u2014 Bill Hutchinson, ABC News , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Seriously, if King wants to sully the reputation of New York with his ridiculous antics, fine. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Anyway, what would be the point of selling people on a safe space just to sully it with dangers? \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 8 Nov. 2021",
"On March 16th, Josh Vlasto, a longtime adviser to Cuomo, wrote in a group text that Cohen had approached him about the effort to sully Kim. \u2014 Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Unplanned bathroom breaks can sully a pleasant hike. \u2014 Siena Giljum, Los Angeles Times , 12 July 2021",
"Plus, if Susie allows even a speck of her outrage to sully her son\u2019s relationship with his dad, then her offense would be worse than your hitting on Debbie. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 June 2020"
],
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": very hot and humid : sweltering",
": burning hot : torrid",
": hot with passion or anger",
": exciting or capable of exciting strong sexual desire",
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"\u02c8s\u0259l-tr\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259l-tr\u0113"
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"sticky"
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"examples":[
"In the one Manet Stephen owned, Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume (1862\u20131863), the plump young model provokes us with her sultry gaze, her awkward semi-recumbent position, her casually defiant cross-dressing in a male torero's shiny trousers, and the come-hither implication of her highlighted hands \u2026 \u2014 John Updike , New York Review of Books , 5 Oct. 2006",
"As the fireflies entertain humans all summer long with a magical light show, they are actually cruising the sultry nights in search of love. \"Male fireflies fly around flashing their advertisement,\" says evolutionary ecologist Sara Lewis of Tufts, one of the authors of the study, which appeared in the journal Science recently. \u2014 Betsy Mason , Orlando Sentinel , 22 July 2001",
"In an age when the gangsta rapper is king and pubescent boy and girl groups rule the charts with a tough \u2026 version of adolescent bubble-gum pop, Toni Braxton is an anomaly. Her sultry good looks, rich, husky contralto and ability to deliver a line with such mature conviction make her seem older, more experienced than her 26 years. \u2014 Gordon Chambers , Essence , April 1994",
"She looked at him with a sultry glance.",
"an actress with a sultry voice",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Clocking in at three-minutes, Bridge and Mayer deliver sultry guitarwork over a very different sonic environment. \u2014 Kevin L. Clark, Essence , 10 Apr. 2020",
"This is the darkest, moodiest, sultry shade of brunette she's ever been before. \u2014 Maya Allen, Marie Claire , 8 Oct. 2019",
"Watch Blondie's sultry rendition of the tune below. \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 24 July 2019",
"The showtime line-up featured the Mighty Diamonds, Everton Blender and the sultry superstar singer, Tarrus Riley. \u2014 Dasun Imanuel, Essence , 8 Jan. 2020",
"Meanwhile, the main arena shook with the sounds of the group Fortag, led by a sultry lead singer resplendent in a sparkly, Carolina-blue sequined dress that hugged every dazzling curve. \u2014 The Masked Observer, AL.com , 26 Jan. 2018",
"View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Appleton (@chrisappleton1) on Feb 2, 2020 at 5:53pm PST To frame J.Lo's sultry makeup look, celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton created a bouncy, waist-length blowout worthy of her final hair flip. \u2014 Thatiana Diaz, refinery29.com , 3 Feb. 2020",
"The annual vigil at Hong Kong\u2019s Victoria Park near the bustling Causeway Bay shopping district appeared to draw tens of thousands of participants who filled several football fields and held candles in the sultry night air. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 June 2019",
"The cover art features a white backdrop with Swae on the left holding three teddy bears and a rose in his mouth which radiates with sultry vibes. \u2014 Michael Saponara, Billboard , 30 Apr. 2018"
],
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"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204519"
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"noun ()",
"verb"
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": an indefinite or specified amount of money",
": the whole amount : aggregate",
": the utmost degree : summit",
": a summary of the chief points or thoughts : summation",
": gist",
": the result of adding numbers",
": the limit of the sum of the first n terms of an infinite series as n increases indefinitely",
": numbers to be added",
": a problem in arithmetic",
": disjunction sense 2",
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": summarize",
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"the basic monetary unit of Uzbekistan \u2014 see Money Table",
": the result obtained by adding numbers",
": a problem in arithmetic",
": a quantity of money",
": the whole amount",
": to find the total number of by adding or counting",
": to tell again in a few words : summarize"
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"\u02c8s\u0259m",
"\u02c8s\u0259m",
"\u02c8s\u0259m"
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"add",
"cast (up)",
"foot (up)",
"summate",
"tot (up)",
"total",
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"Verb",
"can sum figures in his head faster than I can punch them into a calculator"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
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"examples":[
"in this case the sum total of physical evidence that a crime has been committed wouldn't fill a thimble",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In fact, the sum total of his training consisted of attending lectures by Frank Lloyd Wright, then working as a carpenter. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"All money is, really, is the sum total of a person\u2019s choices. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The answer lies in the fact that there are many stressors on race day, and success in an ultramarathon has far more to do with your ability to cope with the sum total of those stressors than with just the capacity of your cardiovascular system. \u2014 Jason Koop, Outside Online , 19 July 2017",
"The sum total of the impact of chronic stress can add up to a shorter life. \u2014 Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The sum total of the new legislative efforts could come in addition to the punishing sanctions that the Biden administration has already imposed on the Kremlin and its wealthy, supportive elite. \u2014 Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Official data from the report noted that the 10 richest men, which includes kingpins Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, increased in sum total their salaries from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion from March of 2020 to November of 2021. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Who better than Larry to belittle the sum total of human achievement and be wrong. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Feb. 2022",
"The plays resulted in a short completion and a sack, the sum total being a loss of one yard. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Oct. 2021"
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"The adage may sum up India\u2019s recent decision to buy discounted Russian oil. \u2014 Megha Mandavia, WSJ , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Following a nearly three-week trial, lawyers sum up their evidence in long-running legal battle. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Mar. 2022",
"More in Indiana music:A new album asks 20 musicians to sum up Indiana in 2 minutes. \u2014 Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The Miami Heat already have had their one-game wonders, Briante Weber, Emanuel Terry, DeAndre Liggins and Matt Fish each able to sum up their careers with the franchise in a single appearance. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 5 Jan. 2022",
"If one week could somehow sum up Boris Johnson\u2019s chaotic premiership, this was it. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Sturdy and steady sum up the BEAUTURAL iron, which is about the same size as the Rowenta \u2014 at a third of the price. \u2014 Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"In the first paragraph, attempt to sum up the person\u2019s life in a way that tells a story. \u2014 Jeff Bradford, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021"
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"The effort to enact these kinds of laws can be seen as the sum and summa of how Republican\u2019s view democracy, which essentially holds that Democratic party electoral victories are inherently illegitimate. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 22 June 2021",
"The Inevitability of Tragedy, Gewen\u2019s first book, is a manifesto or summa of his efforts to convert Kissinger\u2019s critics and would-be prosecutors into his students. \u2014 Jim Sleeper, The New Republic , 13 Aug. 2020",
"Baldwin Wallace's newest employee is Jeannie Vassanelli, catering and events manager and a 1998 BW summa cum laude graduate. \u2014 Plain Dealer Business Staff, cleveland.com , 18 June 2017",
"This year, Prinicipal Jessie Marion addressed the crowd along with student speakers Callie Brennan and Catthi Ly, summa cum laude. \u2014 Greg Mellen, Orange County Register , 15 June 2017",
"Pena-Sultanay graduated summa cum laude from MCC's Honors College at the 53rd Commencement Exercises on May 27. \u2014 Courant Community , 27 June 2017",
"The Niles resident is a communications and media studies major and recently graduated summa cum laude from the De Pere, Wisconsin school. \u2014 Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com , 9 June 2017",
"Meyer graduated from the University with the academic designation of summa cum laude; Forrest Miller, Bachelor of Science in Biology; Erin Stacho, Bachelor of Science in Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Management. \u2014 'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com , 9 June 2017",
"Tracy M. Gates of Escondido graduated summa cum laude from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. \u2014 Laura Groch, sandiegouniontribune.com , 8 June 2017"
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"Code summarization : generate the summary of a function in natural language description 4. \u2014 Janakiram Msv, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Its product vision includes a horizontal layout, an emphasis on content summarization , and above all, a commitment to user data privacy. \u2014 Rob Toews, Forbes , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Ultra-large language models are A.I. systems that can learn to manipulate language and perform a wide variety of language tasks\u2014translation, answering questions, composing novel passages of text, summarization \u2014with little additional training. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 5 Apr. 2022",
"This means thinking beyond standard best practices like sticking to an agenda and ensuring proper summarization of the next steps. \u2014 Robert Harbols, Forbes , 7 Oct. 2021",
"The broadening of the trilogy\u2019s themes, occasioned by its desire to encompass French current events, brings about qualities of haste and summarization . \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 7 May 2021",
"Just like on a motherboard, individual functional units (such as CPUs, TPUs, video transcoding, encryption, compression, remote communication, secure data summarization , and more) come from different sources. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 22 Mar. 2021",
"Automated summarization , of both text and other data, is becoming a hot topic in business analytics, so the research may wind up having commercial impact. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 15 Dec. 2020",
"And the company says T-NLG can do better abstraction and summarization than previous language models. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 11 Feb. 2020"
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"The campaign's summary notes how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director, Robert Redfield, contacted his counterpart in China and offered to send U.S. experts to aid its investigation on Jan. 3. \u2014 Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Local health departments also can access summary disease reports. \u2014 Rachel Dissell, cleveland , 6 Apr. 2020",
"Like Alcohol Amendment turned in the petition summary language and an initial 1,000 signatures to the Ohio attorney general on Monday. \u2014 Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati.com , 2 Mar. 2020",
"The finding followed two separate internal affairs inquiries, according to the board\u2019s summary report. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 Jan. 2020",
"Their activities range from retailing smuggled cigarettes to providing cable TV, electricity or transport service, and are also known to extort businesses and carry out summary executions. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Jan. 2020",
"State finance officials said anyone can read those summary documents and raise questions themselves. \u2014 Jason Pohl, ProPublica , 28 Dec. 2019",
"The State Department also barred entry to two Paraguayan officials for corruption and a Russian official US officials have accused of presiding over the summary execution of 27 men in Chechnya. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Dec. 2019",
"Think about these questions and formulate your responses into a solid qualifications summary to open your resume. \u2014 Dear Sam | Expert Resume, al , 22 Nov. 2019",
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"The new agency would develop and enforce rules that regulate company conduct, mimicking the role played by oversight bodies that police pharmaceutical drugs or media standards, according to a summary of the bill provided by Bennet\u2019s office. \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 12 May 2022",
"In an April 2019 meeting with U.S. prosecutors in Europe, the two sides discussed having Saab surrender on May 30 of that year, according to a summary of events contained in court records. \u2014 Joshua Goodman, ajc , 2 May 2022",
"Councilman Kevin de Le\u00f3n has raised about $580,000 since the year began and spent a little more than $500,000 during the same period, according to a summary of the filing shown to The Times. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Put simply, metadata refers to the summary of the actual data or document. \u2014 Manan Shah, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Here's how it will be paid for: The $10 billion legislation would be fully offset by Covid-19 relief funds that were previously authorized by Congress but have not yet been spent, according to a summary provided by Romney's office. \u2014 Katie Lobosco And Tami Luhby, CNN , 4 Apr. 2022",
"According to a summary of the conversation from China, however, Xi reportedly told Biden both the U.S. and China have an obligation to promote peace between Russia and Ukraine. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 19 Mar. 2022",
"The responses included 143 comments, more than three-quarters of which were negative, according to someone privy to a summary of the report who was granted anonymity to describe this sensitive personnel matter. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"According to a summary Albritton gave at a press conference today, the plan calls for creation of the Alabama Education and Lottery Gambling Commission to supervise the state lottery and issue licenses for casinos. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 3 Mar. 2022"
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"The National Library of Medicine defines health inequity as the summation of social, economic, environmental, and structural disparities that have contributed to intergroup differences in health outcomes both within and between societies. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 4 June 2022",
"By the end of the file, the vaguely patronizing top-line recommendation against simple summation begins to make more sense. \u2014 The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"That\u2019s a better summation of my Southern Egg Cafe experience than any Yelp review. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 22 May 2022",
"Only in the moving final scenes does real pathos intrude, but even that\u2019s slathered in corny summation dialogue that borders on sweet self-parody. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Decadent, spurious and yet well executed \u2014 a concise summation of the weaknesses and strengths of Neo-Romanticism. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The convention rules allot McEntee just one minute to argue for his change, followed by 4 minutes of debate and another 60 seconds for summation . \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Apr. 2022",
"That was Bam Adebayo\u2019s one-word summation when asked Monday about being snubbed for selection as one of three finalists for 2022 NBA Defensive Player of the Year. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 18 Apr. 2022",
"In a rebuttal summation , Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon criticized the defense for saying that multiple victims lied on the witness stand about their experiences. \u2014 CBS News , 6 Apr. 2022"
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"Organic safflower seed, borage seed, and organic sesame seed oils make for a sumptuous \u2014but not overly heavy\u2014blend of skin-loving ingredients that your skin will sap right up. \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 5 May 2022",
"Her poems are sumptuous and rigorous, probing and vehemently lyrical. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Together at Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, the pair dreamed up the world of Fortuny, creating sumptuous fabrics and clothing that appealed to the bohemian tastes of the time. \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 20 May 2022",
"The film has become infamous for its ludicrous language, sumptuous furnishings, and over the top acting with a capital A. \u2014 Callahan Tormey, Town & Country , 8 May 2022",
"Inspired by a Belle \u00c9poque boudoir, the room is replete with exquisite art nouveau features, rich velvet curtains and sumptuous furnishings that together evoke the glitz and glamor of the late 19th century. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 6 May 2022",
"Sotheby\u2019s reports that this tiara is widely seen as one of the most elegant and sumptuous colored gemstone tiaras created anywhere in the world. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"And Price\u2019s sumptuous but strong-boned orchestration spotlighted every section in the orchestra. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 6 May 2022",
"While Gilded Age fashion was known for sumptuous and luxe fabrics, ornate details and heavily structured, relatively modest silhouettes, many a celebrity treated the occasion as simply a night to dress in their most flamboyant finery. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As the bright day goes around the sun , why do our days grow more aggressive and difficult? \u2014 Henri Cole, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"The couple looks sun -kissed and relaxed in the casual selfie. \u2014 Katie Bowlby, Country Living , 12 June 2022",
"Kendall Jenner spent some time in the sun -soaked outdoors this past week for a major self-care moment. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 11 June 2022",
"The reason the planets will all appear at once is because all of the planet's orbits around the sun are near aligned. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
"But in recent years, biologists have shown that iridescence\u2014lustrous shifts in color, depending on the angle of view\u2014can actually camouflage green jewel beetles among sun -dappled leaves. \u2014 Kate Golembiewski, Scientific American , 3 June 2022",
"Normani marked her latest lap around the sun with a luxury beach getaway. \u2014 Jack Irvin, PEOPLE.com , 1 June 2022",
"The reason has to do with the relative positions of Mercury and Earth around the sun . \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 28 May 2022",
"First discovered in 1989, Asteroid 7335 does laps around the sun every 861 days while overlapping with Earth\u2019s orbit. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2022",
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"On May 24, 2007, a few weeks after his first confirmed sighting in more than a year, Reggie crawled out of the water to sun himself on a bank just inside the chain-link fence. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"This white sand beach is a great place to swim and sun on repeat. \u2014 Olivia Hosken, Town & Country , 16 May 2022",
"The National Weather Service says afternoon skies will be a mix of clouds and sun with a high of 65 by late afternoon, cooling a bit from Sunday\u2019s 70 degree high. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 May 2022",
"With the blistering Alabama sun beaming down on them, the crowd at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge was growing restless. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"After cleansing, make sure to apply the proper sunscreen since BHAs make your skin more prone to sun damage and irritation. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Dowell knows where there is an eagles nest across the river, or the call of the sandhill cranes that have been flying overhead the last couple days, or the spots where the turtles like to sun on the banks. \u2014 Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star , 2 Mar. 2022",
"On Tuesday there will be a mixture of clouds and sun with high temperatures in the mid 60s. \u2014 Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Erasing this protective shield would subject animals and plants to sun damage, potentially altering the food web for thousands of years. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 31 Dec. 2021"
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"According to the WeChat users group, Trump\u2019s Aug. 6 order would sunder the primary and often exclusive channel many U.S. residents use to communicate with family and friends in both China and the U.S. \u2014 Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg.com , 16 Sep. 2020",
"Cherry told other stories from that time: affairs, gruesome deaths, hearts sundered by grief. \u2014 D. T. Max, The New Yorker , 10 Sep. 2019",
"During that time friendships have been sundered , garments rended, pearls clutched and block buttons exhausted. \u2014 Eamon Lynch, Golfweek , 4 Feb. 2020",
"The glow faded when the Iraq war sundered Mr Blair from the French and the Germans. \u2014 The Economist , 15 Aug. 2019",
"The unprotected noticed, and began to sunder their relationship with establishments and elites. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 14 Feb. 2019",
"These practices were sundered with the ascension of Donald J. Trump to the presidency. \u2014 New York Times , 3 July 2018",
"Bob Corker and Lindsey Graham are working on an alternative that would send a message to the Saudis without sundering the relationship. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 3 Dec. 2018",
"Unfortunately, the idyllic mood is sundered every so often with tinny canned music blared over loudspeakers attached to lampposts throughout. \u2014 Julie V. Iovine, WSJ , 25 July 2018"
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"According to the WeChat users group, Trump\u2019s Aug. 6 order would sunder the primary and often exclusive channel many U.S. residents use to communicate with family and friends in both China and the U.S. \u2014 Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg.com , 16 Sep. 2020",
"Cherry told other stories from that time: affairs, gruesome deaths, hearts sundered by grief. \u2014 D. T. Max, The New Yorker , 10 Sep. 2019",
"During that time friendships have been sundered , garments rended, pearls clutched and block buttons exhausted. \u2014 Eamon Lynch, Golfweek , 4 Feb. 2020",
"The glow faded when the Iraq war sundered Mr Blair from the French and the Germans. \u2014 The Economist , 15 Aug. 2019",
"The unprotected noticed, and began to sunder their relationship with establishments and elites. \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 14 Feb. 2019",
"These practices were sundered with the ascension of Donald J. Trump to the presidency. \u2014 New York Times , 3 July 2018",
"Bob Corker and Lindsey Graham are working on an alternative that would send a message to the Saudis without sundering the relationship. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 3 Dec. 2018",
"Unfortunately, the idyllic mood is sundered every so often with tinny canned music blared over loudspeakers attached to lampposts throughout. \u2014 Julie V. Iovine, WSJ , 25 July 2018"
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"Passover begins at sundown on Friday, April 15, and ends at nightfall April 23. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Ramadan this year coincides with Passover, a major weeklong Jewish holiday beginning Friday at sundown , and Christian holy week, which culminates on Easter Sunday. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Ramadan this year coincides with Passover, a major weeklong Jewish holiday beginning Friday at sundown , and Christian holy week, which culminates on Easter Sunday. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Ramadan this year coincides with Passover, a major weeklong Jewish holiday beginning Friday at sundown , and Christian holy week, which culminates on Easter Sunday. \u2014 NBC News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Ramadan this year coincides with Passover, a major weeklong Jewish holiday beginning Friday at sundown , and Christian holy week, which culminates on Easter Sunday. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, ajc , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Ramadan this year coincides with Passover, a major weeklong Jewish holiday beginning Friday at sundown , and Christian holy week, which culminates on Easter Sunday. \u2014 Fox News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"In correspondence with the first appearance of the crescent moon, Ramadan starts at sundown on April 2 and lasts through May 1 in the United States this year, per The Old Farmer's Almanac. \u2014 Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Commonly recognized as the festival of freedom, Passover begins at sundown on April 15 and ends on the evening of April 23. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 4 Mar. 2022"
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"Twenty six scuba-diving volunteers removed around 45 kilograms (100 pounds) of garbage from between the sunken pillars and submerged ruins of the historic site of Caesarea Maritima as part of a United Nations World Oceans Day initiative. \u2014 Ilan Ben Zion, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"Second-story terraces overlook the backyard, which adds a sunken fire pit and 65-foot-long swimming pool. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"These include pieces of the sunken schooner, which was found in 2019, thanks in part to the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022",
"The removal of the sunken grove's 36 horse chestnut trees was controversial. \u2014 Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a richness, like an undiscovered treasure found on a sunken pirate ship. \u2014 Rima Suqi, ELLE Decor , 18 May 2022",
"OceanGate Expeditions is carrying out a series of dives to the sunken RMS Titanic this year and has invited qualified explorers along for the ride. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 13 May 2022",
"Several scientific groups have raised the alarm over growing pollution in the Black Sea caused by sabotaged infrastructure, oil spills from sunken warships and chemical runoff from ammunition. \u2014 Naomi Cohen, NBC News , 13 May 2022",
"Members of the team assessing the sunken wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, are shown looking at timbers from the schooner near Mobile, Ala., on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. \u2014 CBS News , 12 May 2022"
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"mental patients who were once condemned to spend their lives in the sunless confines of a state asylum",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Unlike the splotchy, bright orange fake tans of the early to mid 2000s, today\u2019s sunless tanning products are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, SELF , 27 May 2022",
"The camera lights illuminate the sunless landscape in a way that suggests a sci-fi movie. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 12 Oct. 2021",
"Soon, however, a revolutionary new telescope launching in 2025 may be able unlock the secrets of the darkness of space, where sunless worlds may even outnumber the stars. \u2014 Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Sep. 2020",
"Olson connected in the bottom half on another smoky, sunless day that had the strange sight of ballpark lights on in the afternoon. \u2014 Janie Mccauley, Houston Chronicle , 10 Sep. 2020",
"To the villagers along the Iditarod\u2019s remote, often sunless trails, Mountain is just another musher on a sled helmed by 14 dogs. \u2014 NBC News , 9 Mar. 2020",
"The giant plastic spheres and, in at least one case, a hemisphere, are opening eyes to the sunless depths of the ocean and leading to discoveries. \u2014 William J. Broad, New York Times , 18 Nov. 2019",
"On land, there were several years of freezing temperatures and sunless skies, not to mention the tsunamis and worldwide wildfires. \u2014 Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica , 24 Oct. 2019",
"Services include sunless spray tanning, European bronzing beds, stand-up sun booths, and spa services such as photo facials and FIT (far infrared technology) bodywrap. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Aug. 2019"
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"the sunniest parts of the country",
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"If it's sunny later, we can go to the park.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Temps again will reach the 90s on Thursday with mostly sunny skies, but there will be chances of showers and thunderstorms. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
"The weekend looks phenomenal with mostly sunny skies, low humidity, a refreshing breeze from the northwest, and highs near 80. \u2014 Dan Stillman, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"High pressure over the mid-Atlantic will bring mostly sunny skies on Friday with highs in the 70s to near 80 degrees. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022",
"The design firm transformed a Folk Victorian farmhouse into a sunny oasis that's fit for entertaining. \u2014 Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping , 7 June 2022",
"There will be mostly sunny skies with temperatures in the 80s Sunday, according to Zachary Yack, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. \u2014 Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022",
"Saturday should be even warmer with mostly sunny skies. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 May 2022",
"After the front moves through, Houston has mostly sunny skies and warm temperatures in the forecast for the rest of the week. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Change is forecast to come Tuesday, with a mostly sunny day and highs in the upper 70s. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 June 2022"
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": to cause or allow (something, such as a law) to lapse, end, or be terminated",
": to lapse or come to an end : expire",
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"Noun",
"We worked from sunrise to sunset .",
"the golden light of sunset",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"For long-haul flights there will also be mood lighting depending on the stage of flight (boarding, take off, mid-flight, and meal times) as well as for sunrise, sunset and night time. \u2014 Julia Buckley, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"That activity totally ends with sunset , if not before. \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
"The quiet planes offer on-board mood lighting that mimics sunrise and sunset , using LED lighting to improve sleep quality and reduce jet lag. \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"Most of the cast, particularly Messing, who delivers an awkward caricature of a teen and then the exaggerated hand-wringing and dithering warble of an old woman, struggle in the sunrise and sunset years. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
"But the Islamic holy month is not only about giving up food and water between sunrise and sunset . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"This is especially true when observing planets in the sky at sunrise and sunset . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Jake also posted a different photo of them with the sunset to his stories. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 22 Feb. 2022",
"The course will be open from 11 a.m. to sunset , Wednesday through Sunday, May 25 through Sept. 25. \u2014 Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Then, the post- sunset meal, iftar, is eaten together with family or the broader Muslim community. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The two brightest nighttime objects appear separated by just 4\u00b0 in Earth\u2019s post- sunset skies. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 6 Sep. 2021",
"Jupiter is now the only bright planet left in the post- sunset sky. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022",
"So, why not hang out at the barn office post- sunset ? \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Nov. 2021",
"Look high in the southwest before dawn for these jewels of the night sky that are soon to be post- sunset objects\u2014and with us all winter! \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 19 Sep. 2021",
"Rosenthal lived in Unit 705 \u2014 a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment that had a sunset view of Collins Avenue and Biscayne Bay \u2014 for 20 years, still paying off the mortgage. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 July 2021",
"Here are 7 things to see in the post- sunset night sky this weekend and all through summer: 1. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 25 June 2021",
"The instant mood setter for every post- sunset gathering. \u2014 Marisa Spyker, Southern Living , 11 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To commemorate the six-year remembrance of Orlando\u2019s Pulse nightclub massacre, Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a proclamation ordering flags at all local and state buildings to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday. \u2014 Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"Travis Campbell, a longtime industry executive, bought the decades-old travel brand Eagle Creek after its current owner, VF Corporation\u2014parent company of The North Face, Smartwool, and others\u2014made the decision to sunset it earlier this year. \u2014 Andrew Weaver, Outside Online , 10 Oct. 2021",
"The grounds around the castle are open daily year-round from 8 a.m. to sunset . \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 17 May 2022",
"The course will be open 11 a.m. to sunset Wednesday through Sunday from May 25 through Sept. 25. \u2014 Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press , 12 May 2022",
"But that relief is temporary, and it is set to sunset in December 2025. \u2014 Adam S. Minsky, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Muslims fast from dawn to sunset every day during Ramadan, and break their fasts with an evening meal called Iftar. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Apr. 2022",
"During Ramadan, observant individuals, like Hamadani and Alaboudi, must abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset for a total of 30 days. \u2014 Jason Gonzalez, The Courier-Journal , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Customs call for flags to be shown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset unless the flag can be illuminated overnight. \u2014 Chris Pugh, The Indianapolis Star , 25 Mar. 2022"
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"Noun",
"Today's forecast calls for sunshine .",
"Let's go out and enjoy the sunshine !",
"She was the kind of person who brought sunshine into people's lives.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pear liqueur, vodka and chamomile simple syrup combine for a soothing cocktail meant for sitting in the spring sunshine . \u2014 Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
"With the sunshine darkening and hard times still ahead of him, Curry is ready to don his armor. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 3 June 2022",
"Just pick a sunny spot to place the solar collector and allow the daytime sunshine to do its work. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 31 May 2022",
"Spuck, 94, and his wife Dolly, sat in their lawn chairs in the warm sunshine as the city of Portage marked Memorial Day with a traditional service at Founders Square Park. \u2014 Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"Overall the mood and the spirits of the crowd were just as bright as the sunshine itself. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 29 May 2022",
"High temperatures readily warm with the strong May sunshine , heading up into the low to mid-80s with humidity under control. \u2014 A. Camden Walker, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"Bring the sunshine to your hair with Aveeno Sunflower Oil Blend Shampoo. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022",
"These foam dice are safe enough for indoor play on a rainy day, and perfect for outdoors under the sunshine . \u2014 Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day , 16 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"About 80 degrees if clouds dominate, but above 90 is possible if sunshine dominates and rain chances evaporate. \u2014 A. Camden Walker, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"High pressure will bring sunshine and mild temperatures on Wednesday with highs in the 50s and lower 60s. \u2014 courant.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Our vacation goals were sunshine , beaches, poolside cabanas, great food, cocktails, and tropical atmosphere. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 12 Jan. 2022",
"But there\u2019s a flip side to this (can\u2019t always be sunshine , especially with this team), and that has to do with WHY Reaves has looked so good. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
"The Aztecs practice in the afternoon, where the sun can be intense during fall practice and into the season, so sunshine during games is nothing new to them. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Other trendy colors were snubbed by homebuyers, including Pantone's Color of the Year \u2014 a sunshine yellow tint. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 22 July 2021",
"Fronting a sunshine pop band wasn't really his scene. \u2014 Sarah Rodman, EW.com , 9 Nov. 2020",
"But states like Hawaii and parts of Arizona, as well as U.S. territories like Puerto Rico and Guam, have opted not to observe daylight saving time since those areas get sunshine year-round. \u2014 Jennifer Calfas, Time , 24 Mar. 2018"
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"Noun",
"Today's forecast calls for sunshine .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Pear liqueur, vodka and chamomile simple syrup combine for a soothing cocktail meant for sitting in the spring sunshine . \u2014 Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY , 4 June 2022",
"With the sunshine darkening and hard times still ahead of him, Curry is ready to don his armor. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 3 June 2022",
"Just pick a sunny spot to place the solar collector and allow the daytime sunshine to do its work. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 31 May 2022",
"Spuck, 94, and his wife Dolly, sat in their lawn chairs in the warm sunshine as the city of Portage marked Memorial Day with a traditional service at Founders Square Park. \u2014 Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"Overall the mood and the spirits of the crowd were just as bright as the sunshine itself. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 29 May 2022",
"High temperatures readily warm with the strong May sunshine , heading up into the low to mid-80s with humidity under control. \u2014 A. Camden Walker, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"Bring the sunshine to your hair with Aveeno Sunflower Oil Blend Shampoo. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 May 2022",
"These foam dice are safe enough for indoor play on a rainy day, and perfect for outdoors under the sunshine . \u2014 Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day , 16 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"About 80 degrees if clouds dominate, but above 90 is possible if sunshine dominates and rain chances evaporate. \u2014 A. Camden Walker, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"High pressure will bring sunshine and mild temperatures on Wednesday with highs in the 50s and lower 60s. \u2014 courant.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Our vacation goals were sunshine , beaches, poolside cabanas, great food, cocktails, and tropical atmosphere. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 12 Jan. 2022",
"But there\u2019s a flip side to this (can\u2019t always be sunshine , especially with this team), and that has to do with WHY Reaves has looked so good. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
"The Aztecs practice in the afternoon, where the sun can be intense during fall practice and into the season, so sunshine during games is nothing new to them. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Other trendy colors were snubbed by homebuyers, including Pantone's Color of the Year \u2014 a sunshine yellow tint. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 22 July 2021",
"Fronting a sunshine pop band wasn't really his scene. \u2014 Sarah Rodman, EW.com , 9 Nov. 2020",
"But states like Hawaii and parts of Arizona, as well as U.S. territories like Puerto Rico and Guam, have opted not to observe daylight saving time since those areas get sunshine year-round. \u2014 Jennifer Calfas, Time , 24 Mar. 2018"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
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"1972, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174746"
},
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"type":[
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"interjection",
"noun",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
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": to take or drink in swallows or gulps",
": to take food and especially liquid food into the mouth a little at a time",
": a mouthful especially of liquor or broth : sip",
": a small quantity of liquid",
": to eat the evening meal",
": to make one's supper",
"superior",
"supra",
": to eat the evening meal"
],
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"\u02c8s\u0259p",
"\u02c8s\u0259p"
],
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"belt",
"draft",
"drag",
"drink",
"gulp",
"nip",
"quaff",
"shot",
"sip",
"slug",
"snort",
"swallow",
"swig",
"swill"
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"Noun",
"the old mariner took a sup of grog and began his tale"
],
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"Verb (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
"Noun",
"1551, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Interjection",
"circa 1981, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-193953"
},
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"type":"adjective",
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"of high grade or quality",
"very large or powerful",
"exhibiting the characteristics of its type to an extreme or excessive degree",
"supernumerary",
"a supernumerary actor",
"superintendent , supervisor",
"the superintendent of an apartment building",
"a removable upper story of a beehive",
"a superfine grade or extra large size",
"a thin loosely woven open-meshed starched cotton fabric used especially for reinforcing books",
"very , extremely",
"to an excessive degree",
"over and above higher in quantity, quality, or degree than more than",
"in addition extra",
"exceeding or so as to exceed a norm",
"in or to an extreme or excessive degree or intensity",
"surpassing all or most others of its kind",
"situated or placed above, on, or at the top of",
"situated on the dorsal side of",
"next above or higher",
"having the (specified) ingredient present in a large or unusually large proportion",
"constituting a more inclusive category than that specified",
"superior in status, title, or position",
"very great",
"very good",
"more than",
"extremely very"
],
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"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"antonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"We had a super time.",
"\u201cYes, I'd love to come.\u201d \u201c Super ! I'll see you later.\u201d",
"Adverb",
"my computer is super slow this morning",
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"What channel will air Game 2 of Louisville baseball's super regional series vs. Texas A&M? \u2014 Brooks Holton, The Courier-Journal , 11 June 2022",
"Arkansas would win the super regional with a victory in Sunday\u2019s game at noon Central, or in an if-necessary game Monday. \u2014 Matt Jones, Arkansas Online , 11 June 2022",
"On the Spring 2022 runways, crochet made a statement in the form of super special statement dresses. \u2014 Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"Kimiko is a literal silent assassin who gained superhuman strength and regenerative powers after being forcibly injected with Compound V by Vought to create super terrorists for their superheroes to fight. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 10 June 2022",
"That was the presidential debate in Cleveland, which was also a super spreader event for the coronavirus if anybody remembers. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 10 June 2022",
"The eight winners of the best-of-three super regionals advance to the College Baseball World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 10 June 2022",
"This super chic, tasseled hammock chair comes with all of the hardware needed for installation. \u2014 Abigail Bailey, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"College baseball has long been ruled by blue-blood programs in the Southeast, Southwest and, in the case of UConn\u2019s super regional opponent, the West Coast. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Never mind that global government agencies with satellite capabilities and major investments in the agricultural sector would probably notice emergent super -locusts eating only certain farms' crops at an incredibly rapid rate. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 8 June 2022",
"Today, Billboard announced the program, which sees Grammy-winning super -producer James Blake spearheading the project. \u2014 James Dinh, Billboard , 31 May 2022",
"Holstein\u2019s commitment is major offseason news has to do with the pursuit of Manning, the quarterback super -recruit. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 25 May 2022",
"Although the super -charger will only work on Teslas, state data shows that of the 98 EVs registered in Shaker, 68 of those are Tesla models, City Sustainability Coordinator Michael Peters noted in his May 23 memo to council. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 24 May 2022",
"But multi-instrumentalist Moracchioli\u2019s aggressive take, complete with a brand-new super -chugging, screamo middle-eight, makes the masked metallers sound like Kidz Bop. \u2014 Jon O'brien, Billboard , 23 May 2022",
"Trouble in Mind may appeal mainly to roots-rock diehards and Coen Brothers super -completists. \u2014 John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"Another super -bantamweight, Mexico\u2019s Kevin Gonzalez (25-0-1) opened the Showtime broadcast by defeating Puerto Rico\u2019s Emanuel Rivera by unanimous-decision scores of 96-94, 97-93, 98-92. \u2014 Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY , 15 May 2022",
"The researchers say that super -eruptions shook eastern Australia between 256 and 252 million years ago. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Adverb",
"This clean beauty brand is also super affordable, ringing in at $9 for 30 wipes per pack. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry And Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day , 13 June 2022",
"Slavens spoke calmly after the game, as if the Razorbacks had just won a midweek non-conference game instead of a super regional. \u2014 Bob Holt, Arkansas Online , 13 June 2022",
"Made from eco-friendly materials, the neck fan is comfortable to wear and super durable, according to shoppers. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 12 June 2022",
"Texas A&M rallied from a 4-2 deficit and defeated Louisville 5-4 in Game 1 of an NCAA Tournament super regional behind a walk-off single to right field from Troy Claunch. \u2014 Brooks Holton, The Courier-Journal , 11 June 2022",
"These bets are known as exacta, trifecta, superfecta, and super high five bets. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 11 June 2022",
"This is super important, because even just holding a kettlebell can be intimidating for people just getting started. \u2014 Christa Sgobba, SELF , 1 June 2022",
"So leadership without authority is a super important skill for any executive, but maybe even more so for CMOs. \u2014 John Ellett, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The prep and application steps are super important to making sure your mani stays looking fresh. \u2014 ELLE , 26 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1838, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adverb",
"1946, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
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"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"of the greatest excellence, size, effectiveness, or impressiveness"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8s\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8d\u00fc-p\u0259r",
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"reduplication of super entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1938, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"superabundance":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": excessive"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259n-d\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Late Latin superabundant-, superabundans , from present participle of superabundare ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185135"
},
"superb":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": marked to the highest degree by grandeur, excellence, brilliance, or competence",
": outstandingly excellent, impressive, or beautiful"
],
"pronounciation":[
"su\u0307-\u02c8p\u0259rb",
"su\u0307-\u02c8p\u0259rb"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"They've done a superb job.",
"The performance was absolutely superb .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The programming and the playing has been reliably superb , but the Masterworks season has had its share of unsteadiness. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022",
"The sound produced by the Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 58X Jubilee is superb with a tone that sounds far more expensive than the very reasonable price tag would suggest. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"In addition to the removable clipping collector, there are four height adjustments on this mower, which is superb for the price point. \u2014 Will Briskin, Popular Mechanics , 22 May 2022",
"Poupaud is also superb in a performance that underlines the sincere ardor beneath his character\u2019s vacillations. \u2014 Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"Still, the 120-minute romp is a fun night out with high production values and a superb ensemble theater troupe. \u2014 Michelle F. Solomon, Sun Sentinel , 25 May 2022",
"The constant telegraphing, whether through Poupard\u2019s otherwise superb camerawork or the screenplay, signals, at least to this critic, a curious lack of trust in the viewer\u2019s ability to keep up with the narrative. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"The comfort-height design offers superb ergonomics for older homeowners, and the toilet is extremely water-efficient, using just 1.28 gallons per flush. \u2014 Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"Because of his superb control, Richan was in line for a promotion to Erie this season. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 19 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin superbus excellent, proud, from super above + -bus (akin to Old English b\u0113on to be) \u2014 more at over , be ",
"first_known_use":[
"1549, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211156"
},
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"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"marked to the highest degree by grandeur, excellence, brilliance, or competence",
"outstandingly excellent, impressive, or beautiful"
],
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"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
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"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
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"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"They've done a superb job.",
"The performance was absolutely superb .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The programming and the playing has been reliably superb , but the Masterworks season has had its share of unsteadiness. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022",
"The sound produced by the Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 58X Jubilee is superb with a tone that sounds far more expensive than the very reasonable price tag would suggest. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"In addition to the removable clipping collector, there are four height adjustments on this mower, which is superb for the price point. \u2014 Will Briskin, Popular Mechanics , 22 May 2022",
"Poupaud is also superb in a performance that underlines the sincere ardor beneath his character\u2019s vacillations. \u2014 Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"Still, the 120-minute romp is a fun night out with high production values and a superb ensemble theater troupe. \u2014 Michelle F. Solomon, Sun Sentinel , 25 May 2022",
"The constant telegraphing, whether through Poupard\u2019s otherwise superb camerawork or the screenplay, signals, at least to this critic, a curious lack of trust in the viewer\u2019s ability to keep up with the narrative. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"The comfort-height design offers superb ergonomics for older homeowners, and the toilet is extremely water-efficient, using just 1.28 gallons per flush. \u2014 Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"Because of his superb control, Richan was in line for a promotion to Erie this season. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 19 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin superbus excellent, proud, from super above + -bus (akin to Old English b\u0113on to be) \u2014 more at over , be ",
"first_known_use":[
"1549, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-162553"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
],
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": to cool below the freezing point without solidification or crystallization",
": to become supercooled",
": extremely cool: such as",
": showing extraordinary reserve and self-control",
": being the latest style or fashion"
],
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8k\u00fcl"
],
"synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the teen picked out some supercool , superexpensive sneakers",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Gizmodo reports that some whimsical scientists have supercooled their Lego bricks in order to test for heat tolerance. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 26 Dec. 2019",
"Any potential solution, like one proposed in 2018 that uses cesium gas, must combine extremely high-level knowledge of multiple disciplines and cutting-edge tools like supercooling and antimatter beams. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Like many hibernating insects, overwintering mosquitoes depend on supercooling , a process by which an animal has the ability to rid its body fluids of impurities that would trigger the formation of ice. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 7 July 2018",
"The key is supercooling magnetized molecules to minus 351 degrees Fahrenheit. \u2014 Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine , 10 Nov. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"His work isn\u2019t on view in the supercool galleries of New York\u2019s Chelsea or at Art Basel Miami Beach. \u2014 Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ , 25 Feb. 2022",
"One supercool thing about Gaggia is that in 1936 the Italian espresso machine manufacturer developed the modern process of using water pressure, not steam, to extract espresso shots and patented it in 1938. \u2014 Jenna Adrian-diaz, Bon App\u00e9tit , 22 Feb. 2022",
"As people drool over the supercool trailer for Jim Jarmusch\u2019s upcoming zombie film, The Dead Don\u2019t Die, take the chance to acquaint yourself with his early work, starting with this 1984 breakthrough, starring John Lurie and Richard Edson. \u2014 Brian Tallerico, Vulture , 2 Nov. 2021",
"So, ahead, scroll through our gift guide for 32 wedding anniversary gifts, from pretty jewelry to stylish homeware and, yes, supercool appliances. \u2014 Laura Lajiness, Glamour , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Aziz: The supercool design of Tarform is one that turns a lot of heads. \u2014 Afdhel Aziz, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
"The secret is using liquid hydrogen to supercool engine parts to a superconducting state. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Infinited Fiber Company is a supercool Finnish fashion and textile technology start-up which literally turns textile waste into up-cycled fibres that are being used by some of the world\u2019s leading fashion brands like Patagonia, H&M and Wrangler. \u2014 Afdhel Aziz, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2021",
"Like Pfizer's Covid-19 candidate, one of the Ebola vaccines requires supercool temperatures in transit. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Nov. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1904, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
"Adjective",
"1962, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204723"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required",
": superfluous"
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"now that the dress code has been e-mailed to everyone and posted on our intranet site, a paper memo about it seems supererogatory"
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"1549, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"adverb"
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": square",
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8fi-sh\u0259l",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8fi-sh\u0259l",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8fish-\u0259l"
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"skin-deep",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Of course, the superficial similarities are obvious. \u2014 Madison Feller, ELLE , 27 May 2022",
"Mary: Forgive me if this is superficial , but Matt\u2019s Mount Rushmore is looking cool. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Focusing so much on the women\u2019s superficial similarities hampers the show\u2019s ability to fully examine any single character. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The ease of hopping from Singapore to Sweden offered the illusion of a small world, smoothing a veneer of familiarity over differences of culture, landscape and environment \u2014 but walking exposes that familiarity as superficial . \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
"But this September, the doubts are less existential and more superficial when contrasted with 2015. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 29 Sep. 2021",
"This is a Pygmalion adaptation about Gen Z \u2014 that's both a story and a generation fixated on the tension of living authentically in a superficial world. \u2014 Mary Sollosi, EW.com , 27 Aug. 2021",
"S\u2019More is not alone in its effort to create a more anti- superficial dating experience; other dating apps are tuning into the trend. \u2014 Mark Travers, Forbes , 25 May 2021",
"Your first date should be devoted to covering more superficial basics and doing a lot of listening. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 4 May 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
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": overly refined or nice",
": of extremely fine size or texture",
": of high quality or grade"
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8f\u012bn"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The superfine particles of volcanic ash will quickly absorb excess oil and other grime that can cause congestion on the skin\u2019s surface. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 May 2022",
"Note: To make superfine sugar, place granulated sugar in blender and blend on medium-high speed for 10 to 15 seconds. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 20 Dec. 2021",
"By combining a standard BBQ lighter with superfine microneedles that are common in medical and cosmetic procedures, researchers have developed a $1 device that uses electricity to inject certain vaccines more efficiently\u2014and less painfully. \u2014 Sam Jones, Scientific American , 16 Nov. 2021",
"Ramos\u2019s original recipe called for superfine sugar, but making a syrup is much easier and more precise. \u2014 Jason O'bryan, Robb Report , 4 Nov. 2021",
"In a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, combine the egg whites, cream of tartar and superfine sugar. \u2014 Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Babylights are superfine highlights made to mimic the way a little kid's hair gets lighter in the sun, and look more natural than regular highlights or balayage. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 21 July 2021",
"But using this technique, the scientists could sample over 2,000 spots along the 2.5 miles of cable\u2014one every six and a half feet\u2014giving them a superfine resolution of activity above ground. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 28 June 2021",
"The Core performance collection is known for its superfine Merino knitwear, designed with minimal seams and an innovative second skin fabrication exclusively developed by Nagnata, in collaboration with The Woolmark Company. \u2014 Karin Eldor, Forbes , 1 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1575, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205319"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": subjected to superheating",
": very hot",
": exceedingly emotional or intense"
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"\u02c8s\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02cch\u0113-t\u0259d",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8h\u0113-"
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"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
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"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
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"examples":[
"certain superheated liquids change to gas with almost explosive violence",
"a superheated , rancorous argument on how the child should be raised",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 May 2022",
"The image of a hazy golden ring of superheated gas and bending light was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, a network of eight radio observatories scattered across the globe. \u2014 Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 12 May 2022",
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News , 12 May 2022",
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, ajc , 12 May 2022",
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune , 12 May 2022",
"The superheated material can be used to produce steam that can generate electricity by spinning a turbine or powering an engine. \u2014 Jackie Snow, WSJ , 24 Apr. 2022",
"And with that, Musk waded deeper into a superheated , bitterly divisive political debate over social media moderation. \u2014 Jessica Guynn And Terry Collins, USA TODAY , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": being above the human : divine",
": exceeding normal human power, size, or capability : herculean",
": having such power, size, or capability",
": going beyond normal human power, size, or ability"
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8hy\u00fc-m\u0259n",
"-\u02c8y\u00fc-",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8hy\u00fc-m\u0259n",
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"examples":[
"The character in the film acquires superhuman powers.",
"It will take a superhuman effort for them to win the championship.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The nominee\u2019s intelligence, poise, and almost superhuman forbearance shone through as one Republican culture warrior after another insulted and abused her. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Clinton finished in a strong second place, earning him the nickname the Comeback Kid because of his seemingly superhuman political resilience. \u2014 Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The entire Fire department is on the ground; making almost superhuman efforts to stay the flames. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Oct. 2021",
"AppleTV+ had its first word-of-mouth hit with Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis as an unqualified English Premier League coach surprising everyone with an almost superhuman level of kindness. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 8 May 2021",
"Scientists are studying his almost superhuman ability to eliminate fear and control his immune response. \u2014 Betsy Morris, WSJ , 22 Mar. 2021",
"From Arkansas and Amsterdam to San Francisco and Singapore, small business owners and entrepreneurs possess seemingly superhuman amounts of courage, tenacity, curiosity, and independence. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 15 Nov. 2020",
"The 20-point comeback featured some near- superhuman efforts. \u2014 Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Obviously this creates major challenges for an adolescent girl, but one of the most moving things in the movie is how Rocks makes a superhuman effort to shoulder the responsibility forced on her. \u2014 Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Oct. 2019"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1599, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220949"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": to have or exercise the charge and oversight of : direct",
": to have or exercise the charge of"
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p(\u0259-)rin-\u02c8tend",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259rn-",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-in-\u02c8tend"
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"boss",
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"handle",
"head",
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"oversee",
"quarterback",
"supervise"
],
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"examples":[
"superintends the construction of all scenery at the summer theater",
"homeschooling parents who superintend their children's education",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Congress, aware of this, has declined to accord the CDC the power to superintend this area. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 4 Aug. 2021",
"It\u2019s not the Supreme Court\u2019s job to superintend the administrative state. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 2 Aug. 2021",
"Braun will also superintend work on an ambitious orbital mission to the Jupiter system focused on its icy moon Europa as well as the Psyche mission to a metallic asteroid. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 30 Sep. 2019",
"Regardless, one of the Comstockers Clemens had become acquainted with was the quiet, industrious, up-and-coming, and largely abstemious Irishman who superintended the Milton mine \u2014 John Mackay. \u2014 Gregory Crouch, Time , 19 June 2018",
"As for the rest, Edgar Scott III, an heir, has superintended development of select custom housing lots on the property. \u2014 John Timpane, Philly.com , 16 Feb. 2018",
"Currently, grades 2 and 3 at all elementary schools are full, the superintended reported, but LCUSD is continuing to maintain a 22:1 student-to-teacher ratio in transitional kindergarten through third grade and a 30:1 ratio in grades 4 through 6. \u2014 Matt Sanderson, La Ca\u00f1ada Valley Sun , 9 Aug. 2017",
"Annie Shi, who superintends the dining room and is a third business partner with the chefs, can offer guidance with the wine list. \u2014 Pete Wells, New York Times , 6 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Late Latin superintendere , from Latin super- + intendere to stretch out, direct \u2014 more at intend ",
"first_known_use":[
"1564, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213540"
},
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"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"the act or function of superintending or directing supervision"
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"examples":[
"under her lax superintendence the company eventually went bankrupt",
"the superintendence of the local music festival is handled jointly by the city and the county",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That, and not reflexive support, knee-jerk opposition, or arrogant superintendence of the debate, is patriotism. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 23 Feb. 2022",
"In May, the superintendence actually discovered another Roman vessel near the Sicilian island of Ustica. \u2014 Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 July 2021",
"Absent a compelling interest for such superintendence , the smart move is to get the state out of the game completely, and, thereby, to remove completely the temptations its involvement invariably yields. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 5 May 2021",
"So this appears to be a new trend in concert superintendence , which, much like Communism, would be best nipped in the bud. \u2014 Daniel Gelernter, National Review , 2 Nov. 2019",
"Michael will oversee the administration, docket and calendar, observance of the rules of superintendence and timely reporting and termination of all cases in the court, according to a news release. \u2014 Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com , 2 Jan. 2018",
"Nor did countless Americans expend their time, blood, and energy to allow unpopular people to speak without the vigorous superintendence of whoever temporarily commands the public\u2019s support. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 19 Aug. 2017"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1559, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"superintendency":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the office, post, or jurisdiction of a superintendent",
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"examples":[
"superintendency of the polling places is largely carried out by retired citizens",
"currently a faculty member is needed for superintendency of the program",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"During his superintendency , Dr. Feeney presided over such thorny issues as school closings and budget cuts. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Ziegler officially assumes the superintendency at a fraught moment for Loudoun, which is one of the wealthiest districts in the nation and is also rapidly diversifying. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 June 2021",
"The superintendency group is not represented by a union, leaving many of the elements of its agreements to mirror those negotiated by the district's bargaining units. \u2014 Anthony Lonetree, Star Tribune , 25 Mar. 2021",
"In addition, Burns said, the superintendency group's wages and benefits went unchanged in the 2017 to 2019 contract cycle. \u2014 Anthony Lonetree, Star Tribune , 20 Jan. 2021",
"Both times, the divers notified authorities of their find\u2014as stipulated by local law\u2014and worked with the superintendency and Italy\u2019s Underwater Carabinieri to conduct additional surveys of the site. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 July 2020",
"But like her predecessors, her superintendency was also short lived. \u2014 Bart Barnes, Washington Post , 21 Feb. 2020",
"The agenda calls for the formal introduction of Darryl L. Williams, who will take over the superintendency July 1 under a four-year contract. \u2014 Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com , 18 June 2019",
"Efforts toward racial equity were a hallmark of Valeria Silva\u2019s superintendency , which ended with a buyout agreement in 2016. \u2014 Josh Verges, Twin Cities , 20 Aug. 2019"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1562, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-175316"
},
"superiority":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being superior",
": a superior characteristic",
": the state or fact of being better, more important, or higher in rank than others"
],
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"su\u0307-\u02ccpir-\u0113-\u02c8\u022fr-\u0259-t\u0113",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-",
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"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"toploftiness"
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"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness"
],
"examples":[
"His success has given him a false sense of superiority .",
"the superiority of some of the customers at the exclusive beauty salon is enough to curl your hair",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Not surprisingly, many of these efforts focused on the bodies of women, employing theories closely tied to the pseudoscience of white racial superiority . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"The widespread belief in the superiority and sanctity of Whiteness did more than just inflame violence. \u2014 Brandon Tensley, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"Beaverbrook\u2019s rationale for appeasing Hitler was that by doing so Britain could focus on maintaining its empire; Hearst and McCormick believed that American racial superiority meant that the United States should dominate Latin America. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"The more than 100,000 troops Russia has massed on Ukraine's border would enjoy a number of advantages over Ukrainian forces, including air superiority and more modern weapons. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
"White people have stories about their heritage in newspapers and in textbooks that support white superiority and ideology. \u2014 NBC News , 1 Feb. 2022",
"In Ukraine, Russia has clear military superiority yet has been unable to seize Kyiv or capture and hold major cities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Yet to some observers who\u2019ve closely tracked the conflict in Ukraine, Russian forces, despite their military superiority , have exhibited a breathtaking degree of amateurism. \u2014 Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Yet to some observers who\u2019ve closely tracked the conflict in Ukraine, Russian forces, despite their military superiority , have exhibited a breathtaking degree of amateurism. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Mar. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195013"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or constituting the degree of grammatical comparison that denotes an extreme or unsurpassed level or extent",
": surpassing all others : supreme",
": of very high quality : excellent",
": excessive , exaggerated",
": the superlative degree of comparison in a language",
": a superlative form of an adjective or adverb",
": the superlative or utmost degree of something : acme",
": a superlative person or thing",
": an admiring sometimes exaggerated expression especially of praise",
": being the form of an adjective or adverb that shows the greatest degree of comparison",
": better than all others : supreme",
": the superlative degree or a superlative form in a language"
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"su\u0307-\u02c8p\u0259r-l\u0259-tiv",
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"gangbusters",
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"grand",
"great",
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"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
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"lovely",
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"marvellous",
"mean",
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"nifty",
"noble",
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"No. 1",
"numero uno",
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"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
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"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"The superlative form of \u201cnice\u201d is \u201cnicest\u201d; the superlative form of \u201cbad\u201d is \u201cworst\u201d; the superlative form of \u201cinteresting\u201d is \u201cmost interesting.\u201d",
"the New England town meeting is a superlative example of grassroots democracy",
"Noun",
"\u201cSimplest\u201d is the superlative of \u201csimple.\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Cronenberg switched out body horror for torments of a more psychological bent in this superlative adaptation of Stephen King's 1979 novel with a screenplay by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade writer Jeffrey Boam. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"Which brings us to our superlative list: the best Original Netflix movies. \u2014 Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 May 2022",
"Even with solid-but-not- superlative reviews (75% fresh and 6.5/10 on Rotten Tomatoes) and a (frustratingly indecisive) B+ from Cinemascore, this isn\u2019t a #CanThisFranchiseBeSaved? \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"After a superlative 14-2 record in Tuesday\u2019s quarterfinals, SOS came back to earth a bit with a 6-2 mark in the semifinals, thanks to a pair of correct picks in the late Division 2 semifinals. \u2014 Mick Mccabe, Detroit Free Press , 19 Mar. 2022",
"There were still superlative performances against Wisconsin and Rutgers. \u2014 Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Of course, this is just a sampling and not meant to be superlative . \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 13 May 2022",
"Foam quality is also superlative , and the machine is quick to steam and demonstrates a quick recovery time between drinks. \u2014 PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"From highlights of Wisconsin's physical landscape to the foods cultivated and consumed, here are 20 mostly superlative and sometimes surprising facts gleaned from their book: 1. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Using the German superlative , employees referred to him as the u\u0308ber product manager. \u2014 Brad Stone, Wired , 11 May 2021",
"There are plenty of familiar names, of course, including the previous Tony winners Mary-Louise Parker, LaChanze, Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Phylicia Rashad and Patti LuPone \u2014 the last two superlative in supporting rather than leading roles. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
"That question can only be answered in the context of another superlative : the U.S. claims the highest reported number of COVID cases\u2014as well as COVID deaths\u2014in the world. \u2014 Jen Schwartz, Scientific American , 15 Feb. 2022",
"This is one of the country\u2019s smallest national parks\u2014a superlative that promises seamless car-free navigation. \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online , 2 Nov. 2021",
"If the cast and crew were to give you a superlative on set, what would that be? \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Its protagonists \u2014 a morose corporate also-ran (Orlando Bloom) and the peppy flight attendant (Dunst) who cheers him up \u2014 work overtime to win that superlative . \u2014 Matthew Jacobs, Vulture , 2 Dec. 2021",
"The mission also adds another superlative to Russia\u2019s spaceflight record over the United States: beating Hollywood to orbit. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Oct. 2021",
"That\u2019s about as fast as a Bugatti Chiron, holder of every automotive superlative except sales volume. \u2014 Alexander George, Popular Mechanics , 9 Aug. 2021"
],
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"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211836"
},
"supernal":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": being or coming from on high",
": heavenly , ethereal",
": superlatively good",
": located in or belonging to the sky"
],
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"su\u0307-\u02c8p\u0259r-n\u1d4al"
],
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"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
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"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
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"bonnie",
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"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
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"crackerjack",
"cracking",
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"divine",
"dope",
"down",
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"fabulous",
"famous",
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"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
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"five-star",
"four-star",
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"gangbuster",
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"gilt-edge",
"gone",
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"heavenly",
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"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
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"primo",
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"prizewinning",
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"sensational",
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"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
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"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"an absolutely supernal performance of the concerto by a 16-year old prodigy",
"a couple enjoying the supernal joys of parenthood for the first time",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The product is to be called Elixirent, a supernal energy drink. \u2014 Dwight Garner, New York Times , 1 Feb. 2021",
"De Havilland was capable as few other actors have ever been of expressing a kind of supernal grace and guilelessness. \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 Aug. 2020",
"But Thomas' supernal ability to craft trauma into narrative doesn't come without cost. \u2014 Author: Britt Peterson, Anchorage Daily News , 31 July 2019",
"The idea of watching supernal figures battle it out is both fun and endlessly attractive, because everyone likes a spectacle, and the biggest spectacle of all comes from watching one irresistible alien force slam into another unmovable alien object. \u2014 Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica , 20 Nov. 2018",
"Great versus supernal Almost all buyers will be stepping up to the TPR from something less-good\u2014less precise, less moddable, less solid, less well-built. \u2014 Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica , 23 Sep. 2018",
"The parallel with changing attitudes toward death and the afterlife is provocative: the point of greatest uncertainty suddenly transformed into supernal glory. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 May 2018"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-214015"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe",
": of or relating to God or a god, demigod, spirit, or devil",
": departing from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature",
": attributed to an invisible agent (such as a ghost or spirit)",
": of or relating to something beyond or outside of nature or the visible universe"
],
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8na-ch\u0259-r\u0259l",
"-\u02c8nach-r\u0259l",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8na-ch\u0259-r\u0259l",
"-\u02c8nach-r\u0259l"
],
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"metaphysical",
"otherworldly",
"paranormal",
"preternatural",
"transcendent",
"transcendental",
"unearthly"
],
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"natural"
],
"examples":[
"believes in ghosts, guardian angels, and other supernatural beings",
"he seems to read books with supernatural speed",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Belanger said that this, combined with religious infighting, political upheaval, and unexplained tragedy, created the perfect environment for supernatural finger-pointing. \u2014 Alison Cross, Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"Their job is to assess if there's a logical explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work, examining the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion. \u2014 Travis Bean, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Tribal police and the FBI are on the case, following leads both human and supernatural . \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 June 2022",
"Leaphorn as a longtime city dweller with deep skepticism, if not contempt, regarding the more supernatural parts of Navajo culture, and Chee as a believer training to be a traditional Navajo healer. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 9 June 2022",
"In addition to the supernatural festivities, Samhain also marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. \u2014 Kara Thompson, Good Housekeeping , 9 June 2022",
"Jenna Coleman, best known for playing Clara in Doctor Who, will play supernatural detective Johanna Constantine. \u2014 Philip Ellis And Milan Polk, Men's Health , 7 June 2022",
"How does the supernatural retain its hold on the theater world? \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"Her beloved grandmother has a supernatural ability to predict the date members of their family will find their match, and those predictions have been bulletproof. \u2014 Mary Cadden, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Medieval Latin supernaturalis , from Latin super- + natura nature",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181910"
},
"supernumerary":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number",
": not enumerated among the regular components of a group and especially of a military organization",
": exceeding what is necessary, required, or desired",
": more numerous",
": a supernumerary person or thing",
": an actor employed to play a walk-on",
": exceeding the usual or normal number"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8n\u00fc-m\u0259-\u02ccrer-\u0113",
"-\u02c8ny\u00fc-",
"-m\u0259-r\u0113",
"-\u02c8n(y)\u00fcm-r\u0113",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8n(y)\u00fc-m\u0259-\u02ccrer-\u0113, -\u02c8n(y)\u00fcm-(\u0259-)r\u0113"
],
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"excess",
"extra",
"redundant",
"spare",
"supererogatory",
"superfluous",
"surplus"
],
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"examples":[
"Adjective",
"a third, supernumerary witness to the signing of the will",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The number of companions is limited to 24, although supernumerary members do not count towards this total. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"The number of companions is limited to 24, although supernumerary members do not count towards this total. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"The number of companions is limited to 24, although supernumerary members do not count towards this total. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"The number of companions is limited to 24, although supernumerary members do not count towards this total. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"The number of companions is limited to 24, although supernumerary members do not count towards this total. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"The number of companions is limited to 24, although supernumerary members do not count towards this total. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"The number of companions is limited to 24, although supernumerary members do not count towards this total. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"The number of companions is limited to 24, although supernumerary members do not count towards this total. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One of West Hartford\u2019s earlier patrol officers, Martin McCue, started as a part-time supernumerary in 1929 and became a full-time officer a year later. \u2014 Don Stacom, courant.com , 12 Nov. 2020",
"As reported by ITV News, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and King Felipe VI of Spain are being invested as supernumerary , or Stranger Knights of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth in this year's ceremony. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 17 June 2019",
"Aside from work and travel, Mrs. Gradet was an extra \u2014 or supernumerary \u2014 in several productions of the Baltimore Opera, along with her husband and children. \u2014 Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com , 20 May 2018",
"Broken into six-hour installments spaced out over two weeks, the hallucinatory concert extravaganza is being custom tailored, with local musicians, guest artists and glittery supernumeraries brought in for the occasion. \u2014 Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com , 14 Mar. 2018",
"History will be merciless to them, but how much fun to watch them reduced to thunderstruck supernumeraries in real time. \u2014 Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer , 13 Sep. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
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"Adjective",
"1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1639, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210043"
},
"superordinate":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": superior in rank, class, or status"
],
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8\u022frd-n\u0259t",
"-\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259t",
"-\u02c8\u022fr-d\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
],
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"history_and_etymology":" super- + sub ordinate ",
"first_known_use":[
"1615, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-193602"
},
"supersede":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to cause to be set aside",
": to force out of use as inferior",
": to take the place or position of",
": to displace in favor of another",
": to take the place or position of",
": to subject to postponement or suspension",
": to suspend the operation of (a judgment or order) by means of a supersedeas",
": to take the place of in authority : preempt , override",
": to take the place of and render null or ineffective"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0113d",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0113d",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0113d"
],
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"cut out",
"displace",
"displant",
"relieve",
"replace",
"substitute",
"supplant"
],
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"examples":[
"Fortunately, the scientific enterprise has its own self-correcting mechanisms that eventually sort things out. Studies that are wrong will be superseded by better studies with different results. Studies that are right will be corroborated by other good studies. \u2014 Harriet Hall , Skeptic , 2007",
"The ancient human carriers of information and understanding\u2014elders, priests, bards, teachers, and community members\u2014are superseded by a more durable and efficient medium, the printed word. \u2014 M. Rex Miller , The Millennium Matrix , 2004",
"Upgrading America's too-old, too-slow telephone network, which took about a century to build, is a massive task. But if you believe predictions that the Internet will one day supersede the telephone as the world's primary means of communications, these companies will be road kill if they simply sit by the wayside. \u2014 Bethany McLean , Fortune , 6 Dec. 1999",
"This edition supersedes the previous one.",
"Former stars were being superseded by younger actors.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Every trend and market commentator seemed to indicate that crypto was destined to dominate and supersede fiat currencies in virtually every marketplace. \u2014 Sean Stein Smith, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"As Black stands in as proxy for the eternal art-versus-artist debate, Lamar\u2019s cousin, the rapper Baby Keem, represents the familial connections that can supersede notoriety. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Mikal Watts, a high profile plaintiffs\u2019 attorney, was appointed by the Commissioners Court on Feb. 23 to supersede Phipps as lead counsel for Bexar County in the lawsuit. \u2014 Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News , 2 June 2021",
"The Legislature could create new laws that supersede the pre-statehood ban. \u2014 Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic , 3 May 2022",
"The school boards say the governor's executive order cannot supersede a March 2021 commonwealth law that says local school boards should follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. \u2014 Kathryn Watson, CBS News , 24 Jan. 2022",
"National laws supersede a Red Notice\u2014which could be a big break for Ghosn. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 10 Jan. 2020",
"That federal rule covers many hospitals in the state, including the Alaska Native Medical Center and Providence, and would supersede any conflicting state legislation. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 17 Mar. 2022",
"McCarthy says his commitment to winning must supersede it. \u2014 Jori Epstein, USA TODAY , 12 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English (Scots) superceden to defer, from Middle French superceder , from Latin supersed\u0113re to sit on top, refrain from, from super- + sed\u0113re to sit \u2014 more at sit ",
"first_known_use":[
"1654, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-202157"
},
"supersize":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to greatly increase the size of (something or someone) : to make (something or someone) supersized",
": extremely large in size"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02ccs\u012bz"
],
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"accelerate",
"add (to)",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"build up",
"compound",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"hype",
"increase",
"multiply",
"pump up",
"raise",
"stoke",
"swell",
"up"
],
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"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"minify",
"reduce",
"subtract (from)"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"\u201cI'll have the combo meal.\u201d \u201cWould you like to supersize it?\u201d",
"we'll have to supersize our contributions to our retirement fund",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To accommodate all these people, places, and concepts, the show\u2019s creators, the Duffer Brothers, have opted to supersize all of this season\u2019s episodes. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 24 May 2022",
"The picture-book pup who grew from scrawny to supersize because of a little girl's love is the big star of this family film. \u2014 Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Nov. 2021",
"Unlike the competition that offers the ability to supersize their SUVs, the Wagoneer, for now, comes in only one length. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 21 Oct. 2021",
"The other change would, in essence, supersize the marina that was part of the original plan. \u2014 John King, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In its place, Kuo says Apple will supersize the range replacing the Mini with a 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max \u2014 a more budget friendly version of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Other financiers also found ways to supersize their retirement accounts. \u2014 Justin Elliott, ProPublica , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Other financiers also found ways to supersize their retirement accounts. \u2014 Justin Elliott, ProPublica , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Nearer term, Cerebras is hoping that enough companies will see a need for hardware designed to supersize all sorts of AI models. \u2014 Will Knight, Wired , 24 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1977, in the meaning defined above",
"Adjective",
"1876, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195947"
},
"supersized":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"greatly increased in size beyond what is usual extremely large in size or amount"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1870, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-162735"
},
"supersmart":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"extremely smart"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8sm\u00e4rt",
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":null,
"first_known_use":[
"1870, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"superstar":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a star (as in sports or the movies) who is considered extremely talented, has great public appeal, and can usually command a high salary",
": one that is very prominent or is a prime attraction"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02ccst\u00e4r"
],
"synonyms":[
"cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre",
"cause celebre",
"celeb",
"celebrity",
"figure",
"icon",
"ikon",
"light",
"luminary",
"megastar",
"name",
"notability",
"notable",
"notoriety",
"personage",
"personality",
"somebody",
"standout",
"star",
"VIP"
],
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"nobody",
"noncelebrity"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rosemary oil is a superstar for strengthening follicles and minimizing hair breakage. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 June 2022",
"Tracy McGrady has been a superstar on and off the court for years, with successful business ventures in real estate, tech and other industries. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 4 June 2022",
"Hybrid Electric Trimmer and Shaver to get that superstar -like super-close shave. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 24 May 2022",
"Shyne still wanted to be a rap superstar , and performed with Matisyahu and others in Israel. \u2014 Sean Williams, Rolling Stone , 22 May 2022",
"Performance-wise, the S3 was a superstar , earning perfect scores in our dry debris pickup and tank capacity evaluations. \u2014 Jodhaira Rodriguez, Good Housekeeping , 12 May 2022",
"The now-former prime minister is a superstar with a massive ego and a loyal base of support. \u2014 Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The 23-year-old right fielder is already a superstar because of his rare combination of power and discipline. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The story features the return of telenovela superstar Aracely Ar\u00e1mbula in this remake. \u2014 Veronica Villafa\u00f1e, Forbes , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200254"
},
"supervene":{
"type":"verb",
"definitions":[
"to follow or result as an additional, adventitious, or unforeseen development",
"to follow or result as an additional, adventitious, or unlooked-for development (as in the course of a disease)",
"to take place after or later in the course of something else as an additional and usually unforeseeable development with intervening or countering effect"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0113n",
"synonyms":[
"follow",
"postdate",
"succeed"
],
"antonyms":[
"antedate",
"precede",
"predate"
],
"examples":[
"They had a quiet, happy life until the war supervened .",
"it was not the slow-spreading cancer that caused his death but a supervening heart attack"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin supervenire , from super- + venire to come \u2014 more at come ",
"first_known_use":[
"1636, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"supervenient":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": coming or occurring as something additional, extraneous, or unexpected"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0113-ny\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[
"accidental",
"adventitious",
"alien",
"external",
"extraneous",
"extrinsic",
"foreign"
],
"antonyms":[
"inherent",
"innate",
"intrinsic"
],
"examples":[
"he painted his landscapes for self-fulfillment, regarding financial rewards as supervenient to his reason for doing them"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin supervenient-, superveniens , present participle of supervenire ",
"first_known_use":[
"1565, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213000"
},
"supervise":{
"type":"verb",
"definitions":[
"to be in charge of superintend , oversee",
"to coordinate and direct the activities of"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8s\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02ccv\u012bz",
"synonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"handle",
"head",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"quarterback",
"superintend"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The builder supervised the construction of the house.",
"She supervises a staff of 30 workers.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bateshansky and Kurtz, the two Navy captains, were censured for failing to mitigate risks and properly supervise AAV operations, respectively. \u2014 Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 June 2022",
"In contact with department heads, Mahoney will supervise curriculum that ideally will change with the times and evolving education standards. \u2014 George Castle, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"In this talent operating model, functional managers usually supervise employees. \u2014 Edie Goldberg, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Suarez expects to supervise the opening of the West Hartford store, too. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 8 June 2022",
"Call centers, for example, which are notorious for high turnover rates, experience difficulty functioning effectively without the manager's ability to physically walk around and supervise employees, as staff now work remotely. \u2014 Steve Taplin, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"According to the California Department of Social Services, when a child joins a resource family, a social worker must supervise the family for six or more months before the court approves adoption. \u2014 Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"To look at these workers is to supervise , to surveil. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The suit accuses Cross and two supervisors of failing to train and supervise Skaggs and other officers, and says Skaggs was never punished. \u2014 Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Medieval Latin supervisus , past participle of supervid\u0113re , from Latin super- + vid\u0113re to see \u2014 more at wit ",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1645, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"supervision":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the action, process, or occupation of supervising",
": a critical watching and directing (as of activities or a course of action)",
": the act of overseeing : management"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8vi-zh\u0259n",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8vi-zh\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"care",
"charge",
"guidance",
"headship",
"oversight",
"regulation",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"surveillance"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Young children need constant supervision .",
"She's responsible for the supervision of a large staff.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These guards are typically assigned to schools with 100 students or more and operate under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and the police. \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 13 June 2022",
"One possible solution is a project being developed on the space station Rubikon under the supervision of the idiosyncratic geneticist Dimitri. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"Rich, who is charged with impersonating a federal officer and conspiracy to impersonate a federal officer, was released under the supervision of U.S. Pretrial Services. \u2014 Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News , 24 May 2022",
"The prevailing wisdom was that Beijing wouldn't worry about Didi's data leaks as long as the company's shares traded over a Chinese exchange under the supervision of local regulators. \u2014 Yvonne Lau, Fortune , 23 May 2022",
"Shkreli left the Allenwood, Pa., minimum security prison Wednesday and is being transferred to a halfway house under the supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, according to statements from his lawyer and a prison bureau spokesman. \u2014 Aaron Gregg, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
"Anthony had been under the supervision of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services sporadically over a four-year period beginning in 2013 and ending in 2017. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"Previous guidelines required that the use of critical incident teams be done under the supervision of an OPR commander. \u2014 Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic , 8 May 2022",
"New York\u2019s congressional and state senate primary has been pushed back to Aug. 23 to allow time for an independent scholar at Carnegie Mellon University to draw replacement maps under the supervision of a state judge. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 5 May 2022"
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"Eventually, said Vavreck, some new set of issues will come along to supplant the current political divide, but that will likely require a major jolt to the system. \u2014 David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
"At the same time, these efforts are also a continuation of Trump\u2019s larger political project: to supplant the existing structures of the Republican Party and replace them with entities controlled by Trump himself. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 9 May 2022",
"The University of Pittsburgh\u2019s Kenny Pickett, chosen 20th overall by the Pittsburgh Steelers to supplant the free-agent journeyman Mitchell Trubisky, was the only quarterback drafted in the first two rounds. \u2014 Mike Tanier, New York Times , 1 May 2022",
"Over the longer term, geopolitical winds are clearly favoring U.S. natural-gas exports to supplant Russia. \u2014 Jinjoo Lee, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Right-wing media aimed at children today is something different: an effort to develop a fully separate and comprehensive entertainment industry to supplant everything from Dr. Seuss (with a few exceptions) to the Disney Channel. \u2014 Nicole Hemmer, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The change led to a 6-under performance Friday and Saturday\u2019s 5-under, putting him in position to supplant a third-place showing in February at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am as his best career PGA finish. \u2014 Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News , 2 Apr. 2022",
"To dethrone the Giants and supplant the Dodgers, staying healthy and avoiding clubhouse drama that engulfed the team last summer will be paramount. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Those who think the popular will can supplant the high court forget their history: The Supreme Court's traditional role has been to block political and social change, not validate it, scholars like Rosenberg say. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 27 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"In addition to hydrating, the oil actually works to repair and rebuild, giving you softer, more supple skin with each use. \u2014 Eva Thomas, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The seats and doors are upholstered in supple leather, with coordinating ultra-suede covering the rest of the cabin. \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 24 May 2022",
"Soft, supple skin with a light lingering coconut scent is what\u2019s on offer with Kopari\u2019s Coconut Body Milk. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"The best body oils maximize all the great benefits of your favorite hydrating lotion, sealing in the moisture that lotions provide to give you the supple , soft skin of your dry skin dreams. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, SELF , 21 Apr. 2022",
"For smooth, supple skin, exfoliate head-to-toe with Frank Body's Original Coffee Scrub \u2014 an exfoliator that, as the name suggests, uses coffee granules to polish skin. \u2014 Sarah Han, Allure , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Additionally, lactic acid is included in the formulation, which increases cell turnover to make skin appear supple , youthful and bright while working to break down dry and dead skin cells. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 May 2022",
"For a more luxe option, treat your skin to MUTHA's oil, which is packed with fatty acids, vitamins, and antioxidants that will leaving your skin feeling plump and supple . \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 5 May 2022",
"Coconut oil contains fatty acids to naturally eliminate bacteria in the moist environment of your armpits, while shea butter is renowned for its ability to foster softened and supple skin. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022"
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": to add or serve as a supplement to",
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"\u02c8s\u0259-pl\u0259-m\u0259nt",
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"Noun",
"the supplement to the encyclopedia",
"First-class accommodation is available for a supplement .",
"Verb",
"She began supplementing her diet with vitamins.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Bjorn Chay, who runs a natural supplement company in Greenville, South Carolina, has built a large network in Asia from his decades working in international trade. \u2014 J. David Mcswane, ProPublica , 3 June 2022",
"The decision to play nice is a notable shift from the man who made waves with his public campaign against nutritional supplement company Herbalife. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In one embarrassing incident in the early days of the pandemic, Djokovic did an Instagram live that helped promote an herbal supplement company whose founder claimed that emotions can change the molecular structure of water. \u2014 Dan Wolken, USA TODAY , 5 Jan. 2022",
"About half of all states chose not to continue the $300 supplement , according to an Aug. 22 report from the Congressional Research Service. \u2014 Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic , 7 Sep. 2021",
"Monday\u2019s expiration means that 7.5 million people will lose their benefits entirely and another 3 million will lose the weekly $300 supplement . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 Sep. 2021",
"Nearly three million additional people will lose a $300 weekly federal supplement to other unemployment benefits. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Sep. 2021",
"The anti-aging supplement company Elysium has one as well, called Index. \u2014 Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics , 15 July 2021",
"Amara has also partnered with a supplement company that has 189 complaints on the Better Business Bureau website. \u2014 Ariana Romero, refinery29.com , 22 Sep. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Vintage video clips supplement Dean\u2019s story in the CNN series, showing the news divisions of the three major broadcast networks \u2014 ABC, NBC and CBS \u2014 at the peak of their powerful hegemony in the 1970s. \u2014 Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Theatrical and streaming can supplement and complement each other rather than acting as zero-sum enemies. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Officers recovering from injuries or illness will also supplement the team. \u2014 Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"The electric motors also supplement the four-cylinder engine\u2019s power for acceleration, which Jeep says is about a second faster than a gasoline Grand Cherokee powered by the 5.7L Hemi V8. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Any ordinance approved by Madeira would supplement Ohio laws. \u2014 Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Patients\u2019 meals consist of an egg, two apples, a milk packet, rice and juice, so many families supplement them with outside food. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Researchers also supplement their findings with satellite data or, in some cases, social media comments. \u2014 Chris Looft, ABC News , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Regardless of the powerplant, all body styles supplement their classy interiors with a cushy and composed ride. \u2014 Car and Driver , 4 Feb. 2022"
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"the new program will provide supplemental health insurance to thousands of workers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"About half of all states chose not to continue the $300 supplemental payment, according to an Aug. 22 report from the Congressional Research Service. \u2014 Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic , 20 Nov. 2021",
"In this week\u2019s final rush, some noncontroversial items also are expected to pass, including a one-time supplemental payment for retired teachers, modest amounts of property tax relief and restoration of the Legislature\u2019s budget. \u2014 Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News , 30 Aug. 2021",
"The supplemental payment frees up $110 million Connecticut now can spend annually on something other than its oppressive pension obligations, according to a new analysis. \u2014 Keith M. Phaneuf, courant.com , 16 July 2021",
"As the economy improves, analysts say that the large proportion of people receiving benefits, along with the $300-a-week supplemental payment, may contribute to labor shortages. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 28 May 2021",
"The working paper\u2019s conclusions provide strong evidence rebutting Republican claims that the supplemental unemployment payment is stifling economic recovery. \u2014 Shahar Ziv, Forbes , 24 May 2021",
"The two lawmakers said the supplemental payment should be terminated. \u2014 Bruce Schreiner, The Courier-Journal , 18 May 2021",
"The bill ending the $300 supplemental payment could be taken up by the Legislature as soon as next month, Vos said. \u2014 Scott Bauer, Star Tribune , 18 May 2021",
"President Joe Biden, who included the extra money in his $1.9 trillion rescue package approved in March, disputed on Monday that the $300 supplemental payment is to blame. \u2014 CBS News , 11 May 2021"
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"a list of supplementary material for the class",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This tower unit from Lasko does double duty, serving as a fan in the summer and a supplementary heater during the cold winter months. \u2014 Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics , 3 June 2022",
"Those with sole Medicare Part A plans and no supplementary coverage cannot pay for at-home test kits through the American Rescue Plan's provisions. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 29 May 2022",
"And just like any of the other diets, some of the animals get supplementary nutrition with their food. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"More than half of infants receive supplementary nutrition in addition to breastfeeding over their first three months, the report said. \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 24 May 2022",
"These can be supplementary services unique to your business or the mental health services covered through your health insurance benefits. \u2014 Allison Walsh, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Nominations must come with references attesting to the nominee\u2019s efforts along with supplementary materials to showcase the nominee\u2019s awards, photos, articles or documents that showcase their work. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 18 May 2022",
"Forecasters have exhausted their annual list of names for the past two years and had to use supplementary lists. \u2014 Leigh Morgan, al , 15 May 2022",
"One boy wrote about how, as a third grader, he had been enrolled in a supplementary math program that had six hundred applicants. \u2014 Peter Hessler, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022"
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"noun",
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"verb"
],
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": the quantity or amount (as of a commodity) needed or available",
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": to provide for : satisfy",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Large country governments may try to become more involved in resolving supply chain blockages (German supermarkets have started rationing purchases) and countries like Venezuela might find that it is drawn back onto friendly terms with the US. \u2014 Mike O'sullivan, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"Production slowed at the start of the pandemic as driving levels plummeted, but now supply is struggling to keep up. \u2014 Gaya Gupta, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"In addition to the labor issues, small businesses are also being hit by supply chain snags, which have created seemingly endless waits for manufacturing, production, and distribution. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 11 June 2022",
"And retailers that ordered too much inventory to cope with the supply snarls are heavily discounting some items. \u2014 Paul Davidson, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"The war in Ukraine has further crimped supply because Russia and Ukraine are both major exporters of fertilizer, which is used to grow cotton. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"There is also a risk that higher mortgage rates will prevent people from buying homes, keeping a squeeze on apartment supply . \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"For months now, officials have pointed to high consumer demand, pandemic supply chain disruptions, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the reasons for the all-around increases. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Oil prices, which reached $120 a barrel, could go higher as the energy supply crisis drag on, according to Bank of America Corp. \u2014 Rachel Butt, Bloomberg.com , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To perfuse an organ is to supply it with fluid, usually blood or a blood substitute, by circulating it through blood vessels or other channels. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"On Wednesday, New York City Council passed legislation to ban the sale of foie gras in the city, a move that will affect about 1,000 restaurants that have the delicacy on their menu, as well as the farms that supply them. \u2014 Sam Dangremond, Town & Country , 7 June 2022",
"Between house hunting with fianc\u00e9 Ben Affleck and preparing for the premiere of her Netflix documentary Halftime, she's still managed to supply us with an endless stream of summer outfit ideas. \u2014 Sam Reed, Glamour , 1 June 2022",
"Hungary \u2014 which gets around 65% of its oil and 85% of its gas from Russia \u2014 was alone among Ukraine's EU neighbors to refuse to supply it with military aid. \u2014 Justin Spike, ajc , 31 May 2022",
"Mytheresa is ready to supply you with more than just stylish outfits. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 18 May 2022",
"The great miracle of our modern food system has been to supply us with the freshness of spring all year round\u2014or at least with an approximation of it. \u2014 Bee Wilson, WSJ , 14 May 2022",
"Desalination is energy-intensive; replacing Delta water entirely with desalinated ocean water would require the construction of many dozens of Carlsbad-size plants, plus enough new power generation to supply them. \u2014 David Owen, The New Yorker , 11 May 2022",
"The panels are costly, and only Samsung could supply them. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 26 Apr. 2022"
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"verb"
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": to provide with substantiation : corroborate",
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": to provide a basis for the existence or subsistence of",
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": to maintain (a price) at a desired level by purchases or loans",
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": to keep (something) going",
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": to take sides with : favor",
": to provide evidence for : verify",
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": to keep going : sustain",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The new product will be launched first in Germany, and will support people undergoing Lilly\u2019s oncology treatment programs for breast cancer. \u2014 Mario Aguilar, STAT , 18 June 2022",
"Some, as indicated by the specifications of my PC mentioned above, may support multiple lengths. \u2014 Joseph Moran, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"Loved ones have found great help and support there, so special shout-out AFSP North Texas. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 17 June 2022",
"Their results, published in Nature Astronomy, support the twofold hypothesis while also raising the exciting possibility that data from other meteorological satellites may be repurposed for a broad range of astronomical observations. \u2014 Allison Gasparini, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
"Lichen species grow on the granite and can wear away depressions, allowing for soil to gather and support moss, then plants and finally, trees. \u2014 AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
"The pads would support structures associated with the next phase, like a man camp and fuel storage, according to the plan of operations. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"The Society of Italian American Businessmen is a fellowship of Italian American businessmen who live, work or worship in Harford County that support other nonprofits in Maryland with similar beliefs. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 16 June 2022",
"Now, with Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, most Germans are firmly on board with the idea of the need for a strong military: Sixty-seven percent support the \u20ac100 billion infusion. \u2014 Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That prediction raised troubling questions: would the Voyagers\u2014or the support of Congress\u2014last that long? \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022",
"The effort to stop the wall was led by board member Colleen Root who also had support from David Seaman and Cynthia Rapp. \u2014 Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"Kyiv needs the unanimous support of all the leaders in the 27-nation economic bloc to set in motion the painstaking process for becoming a member. \u2014 James Marson, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Even though Guyton was in the Music Row system, which is a feat of its own, she wasn\u2019t given the support and tools an artist needs to have any chance at success. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate PITTSBURGH \u2014 Carlos Rod\u00f3n gets the most meager run support in the San Francisco Giants\u2019 rotation, and the team is on a recent run of hitting solo homers. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 June 2022",
"The support Petro has garnered can be partially attributed to Colombia's worsening socioeconomic situation, including deteriorating living conditions, made worse by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine. \u2014 Stefano Pozzebon, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"This film had the support of Catapult Film Fund in the very beginning, so that is a fund that supports you to make a fundraising sample, so that money basically paid for the initial shoot. \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"The support of France, Germany and Italy for E.U. membership was widely celebrated as a breakthrough for Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The new product will be launched first in Germany, and will support people undergoing Lilly\u2019s oncology treatment programs for breast cancer. \u2014 Mario Aguilar, STAT , 18 June 2022",
"Some, as indicated by the specifications of my PC mentioned above, may support multiple lengths. \u2014 Joseph Moran, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"Loved ones have found great help and support there, so special shout-out AFSP North Texas. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 17 June 2022",
"Their results, published in Nature Astronomy, support the twofold hypothesis while also raising the exciting possibility that data from other meteorological satellites may be repurposed for a broad range of astronomical observations. \u2014 Allison Gasparini, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
"Lichen species grow on the granite and can wear away depressions, allowing for soil to gather and support moss, then plants and finally, trees. \u2014 AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
"The pads would support structures associated with the next phase, like a man camp and fuel storage, according to the plan of operations. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"The Society of Italian American Businessmen is a fellowship of Italian American businessmen who live, work or worship in Harford County that support other nonprofits in Maryland with similar beliefs. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 16 June 2022",
"Now, with Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, most Germans are firmly on board with the idea of the need for a strong military: Sixty-seven percent support the \u20ac100 billion infusion. \u2014 Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That prediction raised troubling questions: would the Voyagers\u2014or the support of Congress\u2014last that long? \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022",
"The effort to stop the wall was led by board member Colleen Root who also had support from David Seaman and Cynthia Rapp. \u2014 Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"Kyiv needs the unanimous support of all the leaders in the 27-nation economic bloc to set in motion the painstaking process for becoming a member. \u2014 James Marson, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Even though Guyton was in the Music Row system, which is a feat of its own, she wasn\u2019t given the support and tools an artist needs to have any chance at success. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate PITTSBURGH \u2014 Carlos Rod\u00f3n gets the most meager run support in the San Francisco Giants\u2019 rotation, and the team is on a recent run of hitting solo homers. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 June 2022",
"The support Petro has garnered can be partially attributed to Colombia's worsening socioeconomic situation, including deteriorating living conditions, made worse by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine. \u2014 Stefano Pozzebon, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"This film had the support of Catapult Film Fund in the very beginning, so that is a fund that supports you to make a fundraising sample, so that money basically paid for the initial shoot. \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"The support of France, Germany and Italy for E.U. membership was widely celebrated as a breakthrough for Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022"
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"a supporter of the Independent party",
"President Lyndon B. Johnson was a strong supporter of civil rights.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even Blackrock, a supporter of corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives, has acknowledged the potentially negative impact from outside interest groups on investor returns. \u2014 Wayne Winegarden, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Macron was a key supporter of E.U. sanctions against Russia after the country\u2019s invasion in February. \u2014 Chico Harlan, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Among many other public-service roles, Mr. Lubin was a longtime supporter of the Ravinia music festival in Highland Park, Ill., and a former chairman of its board of trustees. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"India has been a key supporter during the financial crisis, having poured in about $3 billion in assistance, including a $1 billion credit line for essential imports and a $400 million swap. \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"The leading candidate in the Nevada GOP Senate primary is the state's former Attorney General Adam Laxalt, a fervent supporter of Trump. \u2014 Hannah Demissie, ABC News , 14 June 2022",
"Lithuania and Latvia also border Belarus, a supporter of Russia\u2019s invasion. \u2014 Enrique Anarte Lazo, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
"The move represents another destructive act by Rogozin, who has been a prominent supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 6 June 2022",
"In March, Guy Reffitt, a supporter of the far-right militia group the Texas Three Percenters, became the first person convicted at trial for playing a role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. \u2014 Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The new product will be launched first in Germany, and will support people undergoing Lilly\u2019s oncology treatment programs for breast cancer. \u2014 Mario Aguilar, STAT , 18 June 2022",
"Some, as indicated by the specifications of my PC mentioned above, may support multiple lengths. \u2014 Joseph Moran, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"Loved ones have found great help and support there, so special shout-out AFSP North Texas. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 17 June 2022",
"Their results, published in Nature Astronomy, support the twofold hypothesis while also raising the exciting possibility that data from other meteorological satellites may be repurposed for a broad range of astronomical observations. \u2014 Allison Gasparini, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
"Lichen species grow on the granite and can wear away depressions, allowing for soil to gather and support moss, then plants and finally, trees. \u2014 AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
"The pads would support structures associated with the next phase, like a man camp and fuel storage, according to the plan of operations. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"The Society of Italian American Businessmen is a fellowship of Italian American businessmen who live, work or worship in Harford County that support other nonprofits in Maryland with similar beliefs. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 16 June 2022",
"Now, with Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, most Germans are firmly on board with the idea of the need for a strong military: Sixty-seven percent support the \u20ac100 billion infusion. \u2014 Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That prediction raised troubling questions: would the Voyagers\u2014or the support of Congress\u2014last that long? \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022",
"The effort to stop the wall was led by board member Colleen Root who also had support from David Seaman and Cynthia Rapp. \u2014 Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"Kyiv needs the unanimous support of all the leaders in the 27-nation economic bloc to set in motion the painstaking process for becoming a member. \u2014 James Marson, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Even though Guyton was in the Music Row system, which is a feat of its own, she wasn\u2019t given the support and tools an artist needs to have any chance at success. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate PITTSBURGH \u2014 Carlos Rod\u00f3n gets the most meager run support in the San Francisco Giants\u2019 rotation, and the team is on a recent run of hitting solo homers. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 June 2022",
"The support Petro has garnered can be partially attributed to Colombia's worsening socioeconomic situation, including deteriorating living conditions, made worse by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine. \u2014 Stefano Pozzebon, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"This film had the support of Catapult Film Fund in the very beginning, so that is a fund that supports you to make a fundraising sample, so that money basically paid for the initial shoot. \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"The support of France, Germany and Italy for E.U. membership was widely celebrated as a breakthrough for Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022"
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"Suppose a fire broke out. How would we escape?",
"Just suppose for a moment that you agreed with me.",
"Supposing he refuses to help, what do we do then?",
"The renovations will cost much more than we originally supposed .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"First, suppose there aren\u2019t any V2V equipped vehicles up ahead. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"But suppose it\u2019s December, Russian gas has just been cut, and Europe is facing three long, cold months ahead. \u2014 Steve Cicala, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"But anyone who can see beyond his own nose will find no comforting reason to suppose that the potential for surveillance and social control will be limited to authoritarian contexts. \u2014 Justin E. H. Smith, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"The taxpayers dearly and man, suppose Shondra does when verdicts against municipalities doesn\u2019t eat well. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 13 May 2022",
"But suppose a pretty lady is praying next to me shoulder to shoulder. \u2014 Yadira Sanchez Olson, Chicago Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"There is every reason, especially in the light of his latest comments, to suppose a second Trump term would turn into an even greater quest for personal power and enrichment than the first. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But suppose for a moment that Cuomo\u2019s arbitration demand is a work of factual perfection. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Mar. 2022",
"For instance, suppose a physician wants to know how many people in their clinic have diabetes. \u2014 Nami Sumida, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Mar. 2022"
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"this new computer program is a supposed improvement over the old one",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the backdrop of conversations about his protest, about its meaning, about its supposed disrespect, Kaepernick is undergoing a political education. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 June 2022",
"For both before and after, the supposed hypotenuse (the longest side) of the right triangle is not a straight line. \u2014 Mark Wolfmeyer, Popular Mechanics , 25 May 2022",
"As the stereotype goes, many Asian immigrant kids are expected to have a career in STEM, due to its supposed financial stability, and my family did not always support or understand my choice of entering a career in art and design. \u2014 Melissah Yang, refinery29.com , 16 May 2022",
"The supposed stablecoin was trading at 40 cents as of Thursday and had still not recovered its dollar peg, even as the company that created it, Terraform Labs, and its CEO South Korean crypto developer Do Kwon announced a plan to right the ship. \u2014 Fortune , 12 May 2022",
"The Delaware State women\u2019s lacrosse team was traveling home on I-95 when they were stopped for a supposed traffic violation. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 11 May 2022",
"In the supposed three-team race for the nation\u2019s No. 1 overall prospect, the math isn\u2019t adding up for the eventual losers. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Reviews were mostly complimentary, but Jet played up the supposed hypocrisy that a novelist who espoused racial pride married a white man\u2014a sidelong critique of Walker\u2019s political fitness that followed her throughout her career. \u2014 The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Since our work patterns are often to blame for poor sleep quality and quantity, a constant emphasis on productivity and performance doesn't exactly seem to make for a good solution to our supposed sleep crisis. \u2014 Diletta De Cristofaro, The Week , 29 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There had been some supposition that the rear camera was different this time, based on the fact that so many new features like Deep Fusion and Photographic Styles are available on the iPhone SE. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But every new media format is said to be more immediate, more immersive, and more moving than the one that came before\u2014a fact, or supposition , that commonly intersects with the labeling of wars according to their preeminent broadcast channels. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Latter-day Saints agreed with the supposition of devilish pedophiles running the world. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The results from the study support Furst\u2019s supposition . \u2014 Steve Tengler, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"In a way, the Egbert situation was a magical event for TSR, something that transmuted supposition into gold. \u2014 Jon Peterson, Wired , 12 Oct. 2021",
"As an aside, some are worried that the individual owners will only be the elite and highly wealthy personages, thus leaving out of the equation the rest of society (for my analysis of this supposition , see the link here). \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 10 Oct. 2021",
"There\u2019s a supposition that all art, in its many forms, is an act of rebellion. \u2014 Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Oct. 2021",
"Deeply rooted in the Talmud, the primary source of Jewish law and tradition, those interpretations, Dr. Sarna said, were based largely on the supposition that the sight of a woman, and even her voice, is arousing for men. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Aug. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There had been some supposition that the rear camera was different this time, based on the fact that so many new features like Deep Fusion and Photographic Styles are available on the iPhone SE. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But every new media format is said to be more immediate, more immersive, and more moving than the one that came before\u2014a fact, or supposition , that commonly intersects with the labeling of wars according to their preeminent broadcast channels. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Latter-day Saints agreed with the supposition of devilish pedophiles running the world. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The results from the study support Furst\u2019s supposition . \u2014 Steve Tengler, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"In a way, the Egbert situation was a magical event for TSR, something that transmuted supposition into gold. \u2014 Jon Peterson, Wired , 12 Oct. 2021",
"As an aside, some are worried that the individual owners will only be the elite and highly wealthy personages, thus leaving out of the equation the rest of society (for my analysis of this supposition , see the link here). \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 10 Oct. 2021",
"There\u2019s a supposition that all art, in its many forms, is an act of rebellion. \u2014 Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Oct. 2021",
"Deeply rooted in the Talmud, the primary source of Jewish law and tradition, those interpretations, Dr. Sarna said, were based largely on the supposition that the sight of a woman, and even her voice, is arousing for men. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Aug. 2021"
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": to hold back : repress",
": to exclude from consciousness",
": to restrain from a usual course or action",
": inhibit sense 2",
": to inhibit the genetic expression of",
": to put down by authority or force",
": to keep secret",
": to stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of",
": to exclude (illegally obtained evidence) from use at trial",
": to fail to disclose (material evidence favorable to a defendant) in violation of due process",
"\u2014 compare brady material",
": to suppress evidence"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8pres",
"s\u0259-\u02c8pres",
"s\u0259-\u02c8pres",
"s\u0259-\u02c8pres"
],
"synonyms":[
"burke",
"cover (up)",
"hush (up)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Political dissent was brutally suppressed .",
"The governor tried to suppress the news.",
"He struggled to suppress his feelings of jealousy.",
"She could not suppress her anger.",
"I had to suppress an urge to tell him what I really thought.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To suppress the noise, Osborne breathed in between hiccups. \u2014 Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 June 2022",
"Edward Burke and his co-defendants in a slew of pretrial motions seeking to suppress evidence and toss certain charges in his racketeering indictment, putting the case on track for a trial next year. \u2014 Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune , 6 June 2022",
"Last August, Cole\u2019s lawyers filed a bombshell motion to suppress evidence from the search of the Atomwaffen house in Conroe on the basis that Sutter was a snitch for the FBI \u2014 and had been since 2004. \u2014 Ali Winston, Rolling Stone , 5 June 2022",
"But on the second day of that client\u2019s incarceration, Looney filed a motion to suppress the evidence, and the U.S. attorney\u2019s office concurred, and the client went free. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Attorneys for Bryant allege in the document that sheriff's deputies and firefighters tried to suppress evidence of the photographs. \u2014 Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Court records show that Peden\u2019s attorneys filed a motion Sept. 6 to suppress evidence in the murder trial, including texts between Taylor and Reed as well as Peden\u2019s initial interview with Silverton police detectives after the shooting. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Sep. 2021",
"The motions ask for the dismissal of the two charges and to suppress evidence in the case, including all statements Duggar made to investigators, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 Aug. 2021",
"There is another defense motion pending in the case, to suppress evidence recovered from Rapkin's home without a search warrant. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 21 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin suppressus , past participle of supprimere , from sub- + premere to press \u2014 more at press ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-221939"
},
"supremacy":{
"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"the quality or state of being supreme",
"supreme authority or power",
"the highest rank, power, or authority"
],
"pronounciation":"s\u0259-\u02c8pre-m\u0259-s\u0113",
"synonyms":[
"ascendance",
"ascendence",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"dominance",
"domination",
"dominion",
"hegemony",
"imperium",
"predominance",
"predominancy",
"preeminence",
"reign",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the Roman empire had supremacy over the entire Mediterranean world",
"the supremacy of cashmere among wools accounts for its high price",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"White supremacy is a central feature of this story. \u2014 Maya Wiley, The New Republic , 9 June 2022",
"White supremacy is, essentially, an ecosystem built around the idea of never having to fight fair. \u2014 Damon Young, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"The messaging has changed a lot that some of these White supremacy groups are using. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"White supremacy is a poison' Joined by first lady Jill Biden, an emotional President Joe Biden met with families of shooting victims during a trip Tuesday to Buffalo, New York. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"White supremacy is a potent public political force right out in the open. \u2014 Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online , 14 May 2022",
"If the Constitution nationalized slavery, did the supremacy clause preclude New York from passing an abolition statute in 1797? \u2014 James Oakes, The New York Review of Books , 12 May 2022",
"Indeed, as historian William Carrigan has shown, white supremacy and racial violence served as core elements of the state\u2019s identity. \u2014 Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Chron , 30 May 2022",
"Christian nationalism is emerging alongside and in some cases overlapping with other right-wing movements, such as the conspiratorial QAnon, white supremacy , and denialism over COVID-19 and the 2020 election. \u2014 Peter Smith And Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":" supreme + -acy (as in primacy )",
"first_known_use":[
"1537, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"supreme":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": highest in rank or authority",
": highest in degree or quality",
": ultimate , final",
": highest in rank, power, or authority",
": highest in degree or quality",
": most extreme or great"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8pr\u0113m",
"s\u00fc-",
"su\u0307-\u02c8pr\u0113m"
],
"synonyms":[
"chief",
"commanding",
"first",
"foremost",
"head",
"high",
"lead",
"leading",
"preeminent",
"premier",
"presiding",
"primary",
"prime",
"principal",
"supereminent",
"top"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The board has supreme authority over such issues.",
"She has an air of supreme confidence about her.",
"the supreme example of what not to do",
"a problem of supreme importance",
"It's a matter of supreme indifference to her.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Iran and Venezuela on Saturday signed a 20-year cooperation plan in Tehran, with the Islamic Republic's supreme leader saying the two allies will continue to resist pressure from Washington. \u2014 Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"The decree, ordered by the Taliban\u2019s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, mandated a series of escalating punishments, including jail time, for male relatives of women who repeatedly refused to cover themselves. \u2014 David Zucchino, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
"Such a censure would be an extraordinary measure against a religious leader, its closest antecedent perhaps being the sanctions the United States leveled against Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"Both the cosmos and human beings are far too complex to have been fashioned by anything other than a supreme being. \u2014 Andrew Stark, WSJ , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic\u2019s future should not be tied to the fate of the nuclear talks, Iranian state media reported. \u2014 Abeer Salman, CNN , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Narrowly divided state supreme courts in Ohio and Wisconsin that are controlled by conservatives have sided with Democratic maps \u2014 though in each case the court has a swing justice who often sides with liberal members. \u2014 Nick Corasaniti, BostonGlobe.com , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The supreme sorceress of intertwining acoustic and electric guitars into dragon-slayer rock. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 27 Mar. 2022",
"These are the newest macBook designs available, and offer supreme levels of performance. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 26 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin supremus , superlative of superus upper \u2014 more at superior ",
"first_known_use":[
"1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182503"
},
"supremely":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"highest in rank or authority",
"highest in degree or quality",
"ultimate , final",
"highest in rank, power, or authority",
"highest in degree or quality",
"most extreme or great"
],
"pronounciation":"s\u0259-\u02c8pr\u0113m",
"synonyms":[
"chief",
"commanding",
"first",
"foremost",
"head",
"high",
"lead",
"leading",
"preeminent",
"premier",
"presiding",
"primary",
"prime",
"principal",
"supereminent",
"top"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The board has supreme authority over such issues.",
"She has an air of supreme confidence about her.",
"the supreme example of what not to do",
"a problem of supreme importance",
"It's a matter of supreme indifference to her.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Iran and Venezuela on Saturday signed a 20-year cooperation plan in Tehran, with the Islamic Republic's supreme leader saying the two allies will continue to resist pressure from Washington. \u2014 Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"The decree, ordered by the Taliban\u2019s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, mandated a series of escalating punishments, including jail time, for male relatives of women who repeatedly refused to cover themselves. \u2014 David Zucchino, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
"Such a censure would be an extraordinary measure against a religious leader, its closest antecedent perhaps being the sanctions the United States leveled against Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"Both the cosmos and human beings are far too complex to have been fashioned by anything other than a supreme being. \u2014 Andrew Stark, WSJ , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic\u2019s future should not be tied to the fate of the nuclear talks, Iranian state media reported. \u2014 Abeer Salman, CNN , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Narrowly divided state supreme courts in Ohio and Wisconsin that are controlled by conservatives have sided with Democratic maps \u2014 though in each case the court has a swing justice who often sides with liberal members. \u2014 Nick Corasaniti, BostonGlobe.com , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The supreme sorceress of intertwining acoustic and electric guitars into dragon-slayer rock. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 27 Mar. 2022",
"These are the newest macBook designs available, and offer supreme levels of performance. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 26 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin supremus , superlative of superus upper \u2014 more at superior ",
"first_known_use":[
"1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"surcease":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to desist from action",
": to come to an end : cease",
": to put an end to : discontinue",
": cessation",
": a temporary respite or end"
],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)s\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0113s",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccs\u0113s",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccs\u0113s",
"(\u02cc)s\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0113s"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"arrestment",
"cease",
"cessation",
"check",
"close",
"closedown",
"closure",
"conclusion",
"cutoff",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuation",
"end",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"offset",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stay",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"hoping the new medicine would bring surcease to his pain"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
"Noun",
"1586, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-225030"
},
"surcharge":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": overcharge",
": to charge an extra fee",
": to show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given",
": overstock",
": to fill or load to excess",
": to mark a surcharge on (a stamp)",
": overprint",
": an additional tax, cost, or impost",
": an extra fare",
": an instance of surcharging an account",
": an excessive load or burden",
": the action of surcharging : the state of being surcharged",
": an overprint on a stamp",
": one that alters the denomination",
": a stamp bearing such an overprint",
": an overprint on a currency note",
": to impose a surcharge on",
": to show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given",
": an additional or excessive charge",
": a penalty imposed on a fiduciary for failing to exercise due care in the management of assets"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccch\u00e4rj",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccch\u00e4rj"
],
"synonyms":[
"gouge",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"sting"
],
"antonyms":[
"undercharge"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"contends that with the present tax structure, the state's lower-income residents are being surcharged and the wealthiest residents are getting off too lightly",
"Noun",
"The airline has added a $20 fuel surcharge on all international flights.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Josephson\u2019s bill would increase that surcharge slightly. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 12 Mar. 2022",
"In addition to sales tax, the governor\u2019s budget language would let New York City collect a $1.50-per-room nightly surcharge on hotel stays. \u2014 Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ , 25 Jan. 2021",
"The Osceola County Clerk of Court will be waiving a 40% collections surcharge during its Operation Green Light from Monday through Nov. 20. \u2014 Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com , 6 Nov. 2020",
"The county had a fund balance of $6.6 million in school facilities surcharge revenues at the end of fiscal 2018. \u2014 Erin B. Logan, baltimoresun.com , 23 Aug. 2019",
"The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010 without a single Republican vote, protects Americans from being refused or surcharged for insurance because of their medical history. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 29 July 2019",
"Soil surcharging work done ... Over the last two years, the SpaceX site was essentially leveled, loaded with hundreds of tons of soil, plumbed with drainage pipes, and then left alone to have gravity do the rest of the work. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 28 Sep. 2018",
"Cracks and joint separations are allowing stormwater to infiltrate and surcharge the lines, causing them to overflow from manholes. \u2014 Lawrence Specker, AL.com , 23 June 2017",
"The House bill allows states to obtain waivers allowing insurers to reject applicants with medical conditions or surcharge them heavily under certain circumstances. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, chicagotribune.com , 9 June 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"While violators would face a surcharge for water consumed above the limit, there\u2019s an element of shame to consider. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 Apr. 2022",
"For its part, Uber, which has both ride-hailing and food-delivery businesses, is charging consumers a smaller surcharge for food delivery than for a ride. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"For the tests in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru, for example, there\u2019s no plan currently to automatically tack on a surcharge for subscribers who continue to flout the password-sharing rules. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Customers have their hair cut swathed in an American flag cape and a price list offering haircuts for $20, rising to $100 for Liberals with a $5 surcharge for the vaccinated, is on the wall, a joke gift from a client, Clendenen said. \u2014 Kyung Lah, Anna-maja Rappard And Rachel Clarke, CNN , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The surcharge adds at least 50 cents to each trip and increases by 50 cents with each 50-cent interval over $3. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 17 May 2022",
"The sizable surcharge also includes a larger 9.0-inch touchscreen, a Bose audio system with more speakers, and a leather and faux suede interior with heated seats. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 16 May 2022",
"The chain recently dropped the surcharge at its United Kingdom stores. \u2014 Jordan Valinsky, CNN , 11 May 2022",
"The authority to levy the surcharge expires at the end of 2043. \u2014 Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel , 1 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181202"
},
"sure":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": marked by or given to feelings of confident certainty",
": characterized by a lack of wavering or hesitation",
": admitting of no doubt : indisputable",
": bound , destined",
": bound to happen : inevitable",
": careful to remember, attend to, or find out something",
": firmly established : steadfast",
": reliable , trustworthy",
": safe from danger or harm",
": without doubt or question : certainly",
": it must be acknowledged : admittedly",
": surely",
": having no doubt : certain",
": true without question",
": firmly established",
": reliable , trustworthy",
": bound to happen",
": bound as if by fate",
": surely sense 1",
": surely sense 2"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8shu\u0307r",
"\u02c8sh\u0259r",
"especially Southern",
"\u02c8shu\u0307r"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"certain",
"clear",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"doubtless",
"implicit",
"positive",
"sanguine"
],
"antonyms":[
"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"hands down",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"plainly",
"really",
"so",
"surely",
"truly",
"unarguably",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The recently renovated Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa made sure to include the open-air pool area in its multi-million-dollar updates this year. \u2014 Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure , 18 June 2022",
"Montano found ways to make sure everyone felt included, especially the classes that were having more difficulties with attendance. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 17 June 2022",
"Making sure that our employees see clear opportunities for professional growth whether that be at the firm or, with the firm\u2019s assistance, elsewhere, is the key. \u2014 Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Guill\u00e9n and Montgomery worked together to make sure his costume was grounded in the story and arc of his character. \u2014 Karen Idelson, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"As bills continue to pass around the country aimed specifically at limiting the rights of transgender people, Ryan Cassata is making sure that his voice is heard, loud and clear. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 17 June 2022",
"Given all the innuendo swirling about Justice Thomas, the Jan. 6 investigators should do it transparently and make sure the public sees every question and answer in full. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"So, make sure that person, book and/or documentary produces an uplifting end. \u2014 Darick Spears, Rolling Stone , 17 June 2022",
"Funny, sure , but they, too, were now barefaced in a crowd. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"D\u2019Amelio is making sure the collective is NCAA compliant throughout the entire process. \u2014 Shreyas Laddha, Hartford Courant , 13 May 2022",
"For all the antagonism the recordings have stirred up, no one is sure the eight brittle reel-to-reels will survive an effort to convert them into digital recordings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"O'Donnell wanted to be absolutely sure Antetokounmpo didn't get nicked up against the Kings and would, presumably, be active when the four of them sat near the Bucks bench at the Target Center. \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Project Equity, which focuses specifically on converting existing businesses, spends three months making sure a business is the right fit for employee ownership before even beginning the transition process. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The crowd noise \u2014 and this sure sounded like one of the most raucous Gillette Stadium crowds in years \u2014 was clear and loud. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Well, Echevarria sure can hit, and the Wisconsin recruit singled and scored three runs in Antioch\u2019s 6-0 win against Northern Lake County Conference rival Wauconda in the Class 3A Lakes Sectional championship game on Friday. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Murray Bartlett never expected to find fame at 50, but the Australian actor sure is enjoying it now. \u2014 Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
"The adults that coach the Oak Creek softball team don\u2019t screw anything up for their bunch, but the kids sure do like to have fun; almost too much fun, according to head coach Jeff Trask. \u2014 Michael Whitlow, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 1 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 7",
"Adverb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195246"
},
"sure-handed":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": proficient and confident in performance especially using the hands"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8shu\u0307r-\u02c8han-d\u0259d",
"\u02c8sh\u0259r-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1930, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203525"
},
"surely":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": in a sure manner:",
": without danger or risk of injury or loss : safely",
": with assurance : confidently",
": without doubt : certainly",
": indeed , really",
": without doubt",
": beyond question : really",
": with confidence : confidently"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8shu\u0307r-l\u0113",
"\u02c8sh\u0259r-",
"especially Southern",
"\u02c8shu\u0307r-l\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"hands down",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"plainly",
"really",
"so",
"sure",
"truly",
"unarguably",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She answered quickly and surely .",
"He will surely be missed.",
"This is surely the best dessert you have ever made.",
"Surely you must admit that it was a good decision.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Two drivers who must surely be looking forward to the road-course foray are Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick \u2014 two former Cup Series champions who are still seeking their first victories of the season. \u2014 Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY , 12 June 2022",
"That surely would not have happened with the temporary stage the symphony had previously erected each summer, from 2004 to 2019 \u2014 at the same bayside location \u2014 on a grassy, 3.4-acre site at downtown\u2019s Embarcadero Marina Park South. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"As anyone who subscribes to this newsletter surely knows, real estate developer Rick Caruso will face Rep. Karen Bass in the runoff to succeed Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u2014 David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2022",
"However, M\u00e9lenchon\u2019s plans to raise the minimum wage to 1,400 euros a month will surely curry favor among blue-collar voters. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 11 June 2022",
"The latest edition of Day of the Devs took place today, showcasing some weird, wild and surely wonderful indie games that are on the horizon. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Amid the judges' table chaos, there is one familiar face: host Cat Deeley, who will surely continue to guide fans through the season with that iconic accent and fabulous outfits. \u2014 Ashley Boucher, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"This is embarrassing for me, and surely frustrating for the other person. \u2014 Jacobina Martin, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Kleem related a story about a boy who found a lot of starfish washed up on a beach, and it was not returned to the water, would surely die. \u2014 Rich Heileman, cleveland , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192246"
},
"surface":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": the exterior or upper boundary of an object or body",
": a plane or curved two-dimensional locus of points (such as the boundary of a three-dimensional region)",
": the external or superficial aspect of something",
": an external part or layer",
": to all outward appearances",
": of, located on, or designed for use at the surface of something",
": situated, transported, or employed on the surface of the earth",
": appearing to be such on the surface only : superficial",
": to give a surface to: such as",
": to plane or make smooth",
": to apply the surface layer to",
": to bring to the surface",
": to work on or at the surface",
": to come to the surface",
": to come into public view : show up",
": the outside or any one side of an object",
": the outside appearance",
": not deep or real",
": to come to the surface",
": to become obvious",
": to give a new top layer to : make smooth (as by sanding or paving)",
": the exterior or upper boundary of an object or body"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259r-f\u0259s",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-f\u0259s",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-f\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"exterior",
"face",
"outside",
"shell",
"skin",
"veneer"
],
"antonyms":[
"skin-deep",
"superficial"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Free parking is available in the Eli Lilly & Co surface parking lot. \u2014 Serena Puang, The Indianapolis Star , 10 June 2022",
"Officers located the Mercedes, but Cruz and Ross refused to stop, leading officers on a chase that topped 110 mph on surface streets, including South Fairground Street and South Marietta Parkway. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"These days, memory foam mattresses have largely overtaken innerspring mattresses as the sleep surface of choice. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 10 June 2022",
"Or the aforementioned callaloo, whose surface of red oil hints at the cayenne punch to come and whose body is deeper for a splash of oxtail juice. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"Other causes, however, may be that the soil under the dry area is compacted, or the soil can be more shallow in that spot, or there might even be rocks under the surface . \u2014 Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News , 10 June 2022",
"When researchers used a robot with wet surface material, polystyrene foam beads stuck to it, according to the study. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"However, as befits a man of mystery, multiple contradicting reports did surface at the time. \u2014 Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 9 June 2022",
"While prior research has identified the tiny particles in Antarctic sea sediments and surface water, the New Zealand study marks the first time they have been reported in fresh snow, according to the scientists. \u2014 Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Using a multi- surface cleaning solution, which is sold separately, the FloorMate washes floors and simultaneously sucks up extra water. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE.com , 12 Jan. 2022",
"After 15 years, only the anti- surface module is fully deployable, with the anti-submarine and mine-hunting modules still not ready for prime time. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 13 May 2022",
"The upright device is designed with a multi- surface brush roll that deep cleans carpets and gently rolls over hard floors without damaging the wood, picking up everything from crumbs to dust. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 10 Apr. 2022",
"This shoe is pegged to be a rugged neutral runner that also includes gel cushioning and multi- surface traction \u2014 for runners who change their trails frequently. \u2014 Ni'kesia Pannell, Woman's Day , 6 May 2022",
"The beloved device is designed with a three-stage cleaning system, where two multi- surface brushes work in tandem to lift and grab dirt and debris from both carpets and hard floors. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"James McCawley, for example, argued that major simplifications result from having verbs in the initial position in the pre- surface layers. \u2014 Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Weighing just five pounds, the cordless vacuum mop hybrid has a 12-ounce fill tank, features LED headlights, and comes with two disposable pads and a multi- surface hard floor cleaner. \u2014 Christina Butan, PEOPLE.com , 13 Nov. 2021",
"But what sets it apart is its three-stage cleaning system and dual multi- surface brushes, which lift dirt from both carpet and hard floors, and its edge-sweeping brush that captures everything lingering around the edges and hiding in corners. \u2014 Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Leveraging a platform like Arize, teams can automatically surface the cohorts where performance impact or drift impact are highest and adjust accordingly. \u2014 Aparna Dhinakaran, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"To stay hidden, the submarine will surface very rarely -- if at all -- during what could be a months-long patrol underwater. \u2014 Luis Martinez, ABC News , 19 May 2022",
"Lamar idealizes family as a sanctuary from a judgmental outside world, but his memories also surface the strife that festered in his childhood home. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Such outpourings over social issues still surface even as the space for debate in China has shrunk. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"Hanks only really seems to surface in the public eye after doing something, well, offensive, however. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 9 May 2022",
"Those divisions would surface a year later with the naming of Reagan\u2019s first Supreme Court nominee, Sandra Day O\u2019Connor. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
"Some odors and sweat may surface after a workout or during that time of the month, but thankfully, there\u2019s a variety of moisture-rich, soothing wipes on the market to get you back to feeling confident and fresh all day. \u2014 Aley Arion, Essence , 8 Apr. 2022",
"In time, exact figures and contract terms will surface . \u2014 Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com , 8 Mar. 2022"
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"Verb",
"having surfeited ourselves on raw oysters, we had to decline the rest of the restaurant's offerings",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The big question hanging over this auction season is whether \u2014 with a surfeit of blue-chip art coming up for sale and a limited pool of very rich buyers \u2014 the current market can absorb so much big-ticket material. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
"Some of the biggest causes of today\u2019s inflation do not seem related to the sudden surfeit of dollars. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 2 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s a surfeit of acting talent in them, and a dearth of uplift. \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Economy Candy's Skye Greenfield Cohen points out the surfeit of sweets to correspondent Martha Teichner. \u2014 CBS News , 13 Feb. 2022",
"Their vehicular exegeses tend to unfurl against drearily anonymous exurban backdrops textured with McDonalds and McMansions, a surfeit of big-box stores and a dearth of sidewalks. \u2014 Colin Marshall, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The lack of sun and cloudy weather throughout 2021 meant the farming beds, mostly on the west coast, had struggled to produce the normal surfeit of shuckable molluscs. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 9 Feb. 2022",
"With allusions to the AIDS epidemic, Yanagihara illustrates the way, given a surfeit of fear, acceptance of others gradually reverts to deadly prejudice. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2022",
"But there there\u2019s been a preponderance, a surfeit , of podcasts of late, and God bless all of them. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 4 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The show chronicles the life of Beth Harmon, who loses her mother at a young age and is sent to live in an orphanage, where learning to play chess from the surly janitor in the basement is the only bright spot in her life. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 7 Dec. 2020",
"For 24-year-old Daniele \u2014 a surly , taciturn wastrel who serves as the film\u2019s human focal point \u2014 life is only worth living on the water, ideally at great speed. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 10 Apr. 2022",
"However, Eve soon learns that her ragtag staffers each have their strengths, most notably the surly and skittish Fred. \u2014 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"There were also Hall of Famers on the coaching staff, including pitching coach Red Ruffing and hitting coach Rogers Hornsby, one of the greatest hitters and notoriously surly players of the century. \u2014 Dom Amore, courant.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Merrick was a residential assistant at the Grateful Life Center in Erlanger when Pfefferman was a surly client there. \u2014 Terry Demio, The Enquirer , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Journalists are known to be a surly lot, with high-pressure jobs and, sometimes, quick-trigger tempers that accompany them. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 3 Feb. 2022",
"De Casta\u2019s surly but subtle performance is made all the more intensely poignant by the fact that the actor was murdered in an act of gun violence just months before the film\u2019s release. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Trixie\u2019s bold move backfires thanks to Seth, who (in a moment of petty, surly retribution over being kicked out of his own store by the lovebirds) tells Al that his concubine has been visiting Sol. \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 23 Dec. 2021"
],
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"Noun",
"my surmise is that the couple's \u201cgood news\u201d is the announcement that they are going to have a baby",
"Verb",
"We can only surmise what happened.",
"He must have surmised that I was not interested.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"More plausible, Bierson and his team surmise , is a scenario in which Pluto formed over a mere 30,000 years as rocks, just a few inches wide and drawn in towards the planet by its own gravity, pelted the nascent world\u2019s surface. \u2014 Popular Science , 29 June 2020",
"Scientists cite several layers of evidence to support their surmises . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2020",
"To make sense of a correspondence, however complete or incomplete, is to constellate fragmentary evidence, and make surmises about what is missing (including what may not have been apparent to the letter-writers themselves). \u2014 Langdon Hammer, The New York Review of Books , 25 Feb. 2020",
"Entertaining those that remained into Monday morning, of course, with enough crazy choreography to make any festival-goer surmise that those hand-out sandwiches may well have been dosed. \u2014 Gary Graff, Billboard , 14 Aug. 2019",
"The wild surmise of his design sketches beguiled virtually all who saw them. \u2014 Bill Wyman, New York Times , 6 Mar. 2020",
"His surmise that official Washington is less enamored of his border wall than are the participants at his campaign rallies is correct. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 29 Jan. 2020",
"Though there\u2019s no micro-level evidence on savings rates to check this against, cautions Schmelzing, this surmise is consistent with narrative accounts and research on longer-term wealth evolution. \u2014 Gwynn Guilford, Quartz , 19 Jan. 2020",
"My surmise is that the statement is not logical but political: its officials harbor the fear that the Holocaust will become little more than a polemical weapon in ideological contests between left and right. \u2014 Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books , 7 Jan. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But recent downturns in the crypto markets have mimicked those in the traditional financial markets, leading many analysts to surmise that corporate and institutional investment in crypto has linked the two markets. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 31 May 2022",
"The researchers surmise that U.S. incineration capacity hasn\u2019t increased and its recycling capacity has ticked up only marginally in the last three years. \u2014 Emily Barone, Time , 19 May 2022",
"The environment in which these variants are forming, researchers surmise , is likely one that allows the virus to live longer and thereby make more copies of itself, increasing the prospect of new mutations. \u2014 Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"The play still has much to offer a 21st century audience that has just lived through a staggering pandemic, but Flockhart won\u2019t attempt to surmise what messages today\u2019s viewers might uncover. \u2014 Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Here\u2019s what some Beltway Republicans surmise : Ted Cruz is angling to be Trump\u2019s VP selection. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The authors surmise that the user could have sat directly on the pot, or the pot could have been placed under a wickerwork or timber chair. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Although experts surmise that the fire was started by a white supremacist group, the culprits remain unknown. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Quite the contrary: Anybody in the audience would surmise that her character is far more grounded and giving than Anna. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 29 Dec. 2021"
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"Noun",
"judging from your surname , I'd guess that your family is Italian",
"\u201cda Vinci\u201d was Leonardo's surname but not his family name, Vinci being the town near Florence where the great artist was born",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"An earlier version of this article misspelled Ren\u00e9e Onque\u2019s surname as Onoque. \u2014 Denise Roland, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Myles was born to Shaunie in 1997 \u2014 and later took on O'Neal's surname . \u2014 Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Behr Manischewitz was born with the surname Abramson around 1857 in Lithuania, then part of the Russian empire. \u2014 Jeff Suess, The Enquirer , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Yem won by 69 votes, defeating David Ouellette, whose French Canadian surname is known by everyone crossing the Ouellette Bridge. \u2014 Don Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
"Another man, who gave just his surname , Ding, said his sister-in-law had been on the plane. \u2014 Ng Han Guan And Ken Moritsugu, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Another man, who gave just his surname , Ding, said his sister-in-law had been on the plane. \u2014 NBC News , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Despite his current estrangement from Alibaba, reports that Chinese police had this month arrested a man with the same surname wiped $25 billion form Alibaba\u2019s market valuation. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 19 May 2022",
"Authorities think Hall knows she's wanted for murder, and may be using the surname Semaboye. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2022"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-223150"
},
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"verb"
],
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": to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed",
": to go beyond : overstep",
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"s\u0259r-\u02c8pas",
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"top",
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],
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"examples":[
"Attendance is expected to surpass last year's record.",
"Last quarter, sales surpassed two million.",
"His work regularly surpasses all expectations.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The revenue from Apple could grow beyond $250 million per season if subscriptions to Apple TV\u2019s MLS service surpass a certain threshold. \u2014 Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"On Twitter, De Hann said a number of states, including Ohio and Kentucky, are likely to see prices continue to jump within the next few days and potentially surpass the $5 threshold. \u2014 Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer , 6 June 2022",
"China is deadly serious about its intention to surpass the U.S. and other democratic countries. \u2014 Ram Charan, Fortune , 31 May 2022",
"Peterson, who has won 43% of Clackamas votes tallied so far, will need no more than 23% of the remaining votes to surpass the 50% threshold of total votes cast across the three counties, The Oregonian/OregonLive determined. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 May 2022",
"This will likely be the final IPCC report on mitigating climate change before we are effectively locked into an emissions trajectory that would surpass that threshold. \u2014 Andrea Thompson, Scientific American , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Teams that surpass the threshold by at least $60 million will be subject to a new 80% tax-level penalty (previously, the highest possibility tax penalty was 45%). \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"But with few exceptions, none of these efforts has been able to surpass the 3.5 percent threshold. \u2014 Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic , 8 Nov. 2021",
"The only teams higher are Alabama (1,004.04 and 94.34) and Georgia (1,001.75 and 93.50) -- the first two teams to surpass the 1,000-point threshold in the ranking\u2019s seven-year history. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 2 Sep. 2021"
],
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"1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"greatly exceeding others of a very high degree"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-162333"
},
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": the amount that remains when use or need is satisfied",
": an excess of receipts over disbursements",
": the excess of a corporation's net worth over the par or stated value of its stock",
": more than the amount that is needed : constituting a surplus",
": an amount left over : excess",
": left over : extra",
": an amount that remains when a use or need is satisfied",
": an excess of receipts over disbursements",
": the value of assets after subtracting liabilities",
": an excess of the net worth of a corporation over the par value of its capital stock \u2014 compare undivided profits",
": all surplus other than earned surplus",
": the surplus that remains after deducting losses, distributions to stockholders, and transfers to capital stock accounts",
": surplus resulting from the sale of stock at amounts above par"
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"\u02c8s\u0259r-(\u02cc)pl\u0259s",
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"If there is any surplus , it will be divided equally.",
"There is a surplus of workers and not enough jobs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The deficit decreased in April because of a large budget surplus of $308 billion during tax season. \u2014 Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online , 11 June 2022",
"Mayor London Breed wants to take advantage of some of San Francisco\u2019s projected $75 million surplus over the next two fiscal years to hire more police, give raises to experienced officers and boost the pay of new recruits to city law enforcement. \u2014 J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 June 2022",
"The budget\u2019s Special Transportation Fund is projected to be $200 million in surplus this fiscal year and has a $441 million emergency reserve. \u2014 Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant , 1 June 2022",
"During the pandemic, NYC & Co. redoubled its efforts to market Times Square in promotional videos, trying to find ways to fill the city\u2019s surplus of hotel rooms. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
"As evidenced by the surplus of job openings and difficulty with filling them, applicants are at an advantage right now. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 25 May 2022",
"This surplus of blood gives us that increase in muscle size. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a surplus of American alligators in the U.S., so the zoo is adamant that no babies will come from this pair. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"Lee raced down the lane, took off in a perfect spot, kept her body moving in the air and fell forward, generating a surplus of power and height off the board. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Government officials have said one beneficiary of surplus funds could be the powerful Public Investment Fund, which is chaired by Prince Mohammed and the owner of Neom. \u2014 Vivian Nereim, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"With many states still having surplus funds from COVID-19 federal aid packages to spend, at least a dozen, led by both Democrats and Republicans governors, have announced measures for mitigating some of the effects of inflation on their residents. \u2014 Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune , 25 Mar. 2022",
"In California, for example, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed using billions in surplus state funds to dole out $400 debit cards and free public transit for 3 months to help Californians offset the high cost of gas. \u2014 Eva Mckend, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association, a fund controlled by the insurance industry, transferred of $3 billion in surplus funds to Michigan\u2019s auto insurers earlier this month. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The proposal, to be followed by legislation, would employ $9 billion in surplus funds to reimburse drivers for gasoline taxes incurred at the pump. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The city budgeted $5 million in surplus funds to create the corps of professional responders and scale it up over four years. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Yet over recent weeks, word arrived that state officials \u2014 flush with billions of dollars in surplus tax revenue \u2014 intend to hand over $2 million to pay for a new well that could be operational later this year. \u2014 Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times , 4 Sep. 2021",
"The study found that over a 10-year period, a joint powers CCE including Escondido, Vista and San Marcos would generate surplus revenue \u2014 or a profit \u2014 of $15.5 million, or $1.6 million per year. \u2014 Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2021"
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"adjective",
"adverb"
],
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": of a nature that excites surprise",
": causing astonishment : unexpected"
],
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"s\u0259r-\u02c8pr\u012b-zi\u014b",
"s\u0259-",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8pr\u012b-zi\u014b",
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],
"examples":[
"It's not surprising that he doesn't want to go.",
"The changes to the campus were surprising .",
"He shows a surprising lack of concern for others.",
"A surprising number of people were laid off at the factory.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This investment in programmatic DOOH isn\u2019t surprising . \u2014 Chris Gadek, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"To Monica Simpson, a leading Black activist in Georgia and executive director of SisterSong, none of this should be surprising . \u2014 Anne Flaherty, ABC News , 20 June 2022",
"That companies try to avoid generic competition, particularly for the most profitable drugs, isn\u2019t surprising . \u2014 Ravi Gupta And Joseph S. Ross, STAT , 18 June 2022",
"This is not surprising given how delicate the material is. \u2014 Sonia Rao, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"This is not surprising given how delicate the material is. \u2014 Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"This is not surprising given how delicate the material is. \u2014 Leanne Italie, Chron , 17 June 2022",
"This isn\u2019t surprising , since 90% of Canadians are online(Opens in a new window), and 55% of them spend 5+ hours per day on the internet(Opens in a new window). \u2014 PCMAG , 17 June 2022",
"The tears are not surprising given how delicate its fabric is, the report said, according to Ripley's. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 17 June 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1614, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182319"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective)",
": supervision \u2014 see also immune surveillance",
": close and continuous observation or testing",
"\u2014 see immune surveillance"
],
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"s\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0101-l\u0259n(t)s",
"also",
"or",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0101-l\u0259n(t)s"
],
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"care",
"charge",
"guidance",
"headship",
"oversight",
"regulation",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision"
],
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"examples":[
"government surveillance of suspected terrorists",
"The bank robbery was recorded by surveillance video cameras.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Those wishing to register or integrate their surveillance cameras can do so at connectatlanta.org. \u2014 Shaddi Abusaid, ajc , 21 June 2022",
"This month, after the United States and European allies criticized Iran for failing to cooperate with international inspectors, officials in Tehran, Iran, doubled down by deactivating and removing some surveillance cameras in its nuclear facilities. \u2014 Lara Jakes, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"The indictment says that investigators were able to track the visits on surveillance cameras. \u2014 Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"There were no surveillance cameras inside or outside the school. \u2014 Dateline Nbc, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
"His account and video captured by surveillance cameras at the food center offer new details of the crash, including that the red truck also veered onto the sidewalk and appeared to target a bicyclist walking back to the crash scene. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"On Thursday, Iran switched off surveillance cameras used by the international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, to monitor activity at the country's key nuclear facilities. \u2014 Tamara Qiblawi, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"Further monitoring traffic in and out of school often takes place through the use of visitor ID badges and surveillance cameras. \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 11 June 2022",
"Iran had already been withholding access to data from some surveillance cameras at nuclear sites. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French, from surveiller to watch over, from sur- + veiller to watch, from Old French veillier , from Latin vigilare , from vigil watchful \u2014 more at vigil ",
"first_known_use":[
"1802, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205017"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation",
": open, subject, or unresistant to some stimulus , influence, or agency",
": impressionable , responsive",
": of such a nature as to permit",
": having little resistance (as to infection or damage)",
": easily affected or impressed by",
": having little resistance to a specific infectious disease : capable of being infected",
": predisposed to develop a noninfectious disease",
": abnormally reactive to various drugs",
": one that is susceptible (as to a disease)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8sep-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
"s\u0259-\u02c8sep-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
"s\u0259-\u02c8sep-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"endangered",
"exposed",
"liable",
"open",
"sensitive",
"subject (to)",
"vulnerable"
],
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"insusceptible",
"invulnerable",
"unexposed",
"unsusceptible"
],
"examples":[
"Researchers at the University of South Carolina say that a chemical found abundantly in red wine, apples and onions helps protect against influenza, especially after a rigorous respiratory workout, when the body is more susceptible to infection. \u2014 Kim Marcus et al. , Wine Spectator , 31 May 2009",
"Women were especially susceptible to his \u2026 charm, and he maintained dozens of relationships simultaneously. When he was finally being tried for his crimes, 20 women sat together in the courthouse's public galleries, weeping: mistresses, lovers and admirers, all convinced of Unterweger's innocence. \u2014 Robert MacFarlane , New York Times Book Review , 13 Jan. 2008",
"He grew up during the heyday of the Hegelian philosophy, which sought to explain all things in terms of historical development, but conceived this process as being ultimately not susceptible to the methods of empirical investigation. \u2014 Isaiah Berlin , The Hedgehog and the Fox , (1953) 1978",
"The virus can infect susceptible individuals.",
"some people are more susceptible to depression during the winter because of reduced exposure to sunlight",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It's caused by a shingles virus reactivation in the face, which makes people who had chicken pox of varicella-zostar virus as a child susceptible . \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"Some people never get infected, even after spending days with infectious people, while others seem ultra- susceptible . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 10 June 2022",
"But isn\u2019t that too risky, considering these coins are susceptible to pump and dump schemes? \u2014 Oluwaseun Adeyanju, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"This can happen when someone has a brain defect, cognitive delay, dementia or an illness not susceptible to treatment. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 9 June 2022",
"This means that resistant bacteria will often be outcompeted by susceptible bacteria in periods when they are not exposed to antibiotics. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 8 June 2022",
"Thereafter, the Redl affair made it into subsequent reports about the danger that gay men\u2014cliquish, conspiratorial, and susceptible to blackmail\u2014posed to national security. \u2014 Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
"Los Angeles does seem slightly more susceptible against left-handed pitching, hitting .225 against left-handed starters, .262 against right-handers. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 June 2022",
"But, a lot of guys tend to skip out on this portion of their health care routine, which leaves them susceptible to premature aging and more serious consequences like skin cancer. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Late Latin susceptibilis , from Latin susceptus , past participle of suscipere to take up, admit, from sub-, sus- up + capere to take \u2014 more at sub- , heave entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211514"
},
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"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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": to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function",
": to cause to stop temporarily",
": to set aside or make temporarily inoperative",
": to defer to a later time on specified conditions",
": to hold in an undetermined or undecided state awaiting further information",
": hang",
": to hang so as to be free on all sides except at the point of support",
": to keep from falling or sinking by some invisible support (such as buoyancy)",
": to put or hold in suspension",
": to keep fixed or lost (as in wonder or contemplation)",
": to keep waiting in suspense or indecision",
": to hold (a musical note) over into the following chord",
": to cease operation temporarily",
": to stop payment or fail to meet obligations",
": hang",
": to force to give up some right or office for a time",
": to hang especially so as to be free except at one point",
": to stop or do away with for a time",
": to stop operation or action for a time",
": to debar temporarily from a privilege, office, or function",
": to stop temporarily",
": to make temporarily ineffective",
": stay",
": to defer until a later time \u2014 see also suspended sentence at sentence"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8spend",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spend"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjourn",
"prorogate",
"prorogue",
"recess"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All will suspend operations by the end of the month. \u2014 Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"In addition, the PGA Tour will also suspend any other players who participate in LIV Golf tournaments in the future. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"The governor's administration cannot suspend the RFG mandate unilaterally. \u2014 Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal , 9 June 2022",
"In fact, normally, the civil auditors may suspend the audit without explanation. \u2014 Robert W. Wood, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Effective Wednesday, the state will suspend its gas tax for the rest of 2022. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 1 June 2022",
"Starting June 1, New York will suspend its 16 cents per gallon gas tax through the end of the year. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 1 June 2022",
"On a related note: Nebraska will suspend its tradition of releasing red balloons after the first touchdown of home games due to a global helium shortage, athletic director Trev Alberts announced on his radio show Monday. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 24 May 2022",
"Despite the 204 penalty minutes, bloodshed and stickwork in Game 4\u2019s third period, the NHL did not suspend or fine any players. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 23 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French suspendre , from Latin suspendere , from sub-, sus- up + pendere to cause to hang, weigh",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-224603"
},
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"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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": to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function",
": to cause to stop temporarily",
": to set aside or make temporarily inoperative",
": to defer to a later time on specified conditions",
": to hold in an undetermined or undecided state awaiting further information",
": hang",
": to hang so as to be free on all sides except at the point of support",
": to keep from falling or sinking by some invisible support (such as buoyancy)",
": to put or hold in suspension",
": to keep fixed or lost (as in wonder or contemplation)",
": to keep waiting in suspense or indecision",
": to hold (a musical note) over into the following chord",
": to cease operation temporarily",
": to stop payment or fail to meet obligations",
": hang",
": to force to give up some right or office for a time",
": to hang especially so as to be free except at one point",
": to stop or do away with for a time",
": to stop operation or action for a time",
": to debar temporarily from a privilege, office, or function",
": to stop temporarily",
": to make temporarily ineffective",
": stay",
": to defer until a later time \u2014 see also suspended sentence at sentence"
],
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"s\u0259-\u02c8spend",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spend"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjourn",
"prorogate",
"prorogue",
"recess"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All will suspend operations by the end of the month. \u2014 Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"In addition, the PGA Tour will also suspend any other players who participate in LIV Golf tournaments in the future. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"The governor's administration cannot suspend the RFG mandate unilaterally. \u2014 Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal , 9 June 2022",
"In fact, normally, the civil auditors may suspend the audit without explanation. \u2014 Robert W. Wood, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Effective Wednesday, the state will suspend its gas tax for the rest of 2022. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 1 June 2022",
"Starting June 1, New York will suspend its 16 cents per gallon gas tax through the end of the year. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 1 June 2022",
"On a related note: Nebraska will suspend its tradition of releasing red balloons after the first touchdown of home games due to a global helium shortage, athletic director Trev Alberts announced on his radio show Monday. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 24 May 2022",
"Despite the 204 penalty minutes, bloodshed and stickwork in Game 4\u2019s third period, the NHL did not suspend or fine any players. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 23 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French suspendre , from Latin suspendere , from sub-, sus- up + pendere to cause to hang, weigh",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-224430"
},
"suspense":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the state of being suspended : suspension",
": mental uncertainty : anxiety",
": pleasant excitement as to a decision or outcome",
": the state or character of being undecided or doubtful : indecisiveness",
": uncertainty, worry, or excitement in wondering about the result of something"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8spen(t)s",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spens"
],
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"abeyance",
"cold storage",
"deep freeze",
"doldrums",
"dormancy",
"holding pattern",
"latency",
"moratorium",
"quiescence",
"suspended animation",
"suspension"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
],
"examples":[
"I can't bear the suspense .",
"The suspense builds as the story progresses.",
"Alfred Hitchcock was a master of suspense .",
"The movie is a suspense thriller.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Those 2021 episodes set a very high bar, working as both a hilarious true-crime parody and a genuinely exciting play-along mystery, all the way through a wonderful finale that served up equal amounts of humor and suspense . \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 20 June 2022",
"It\u2019s not about suspense beyond the tension within the protagonist\u2019s conscience. \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Still, one wishes Rick had placed more emphasis on Hitchcockian suspense , rather than trusting the slow-moving tale will hold us via plot and character complexities that really aren\u2019t particularly evident. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"Crime is, after all, a reliable source of the conflict and suspense necessary for a studio executive to envision a nonfiction narrative onscreen. \u2014 Molly Fischer, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Involvement in the story is enriched at every turn by Michael Giacchino\u2019s robust orchestral score, which ranges from quiet, intimate moments through hard-charging suspense to triumphal jubilation. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"The Spielbergian Jaws trope of patiently building suspense by keeping the deadly creatures out of sight for as long as possible is anathema to this movie and its juvenile instant-gratification approach. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 June 2022",
"Sager imbues realistic suspense \u2014 and a bit of spying \u2014 into his sixth novel, also a story about loneliness and the need to connect with others. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 8 June 2022",
"If those races do not add a little suspense to the vote Tuesday, California\u2019s unusual primary system could give political obsessives a very late night. \u2014 Jonathan Weisman, BostonGlobe.com , 7 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from suspendre ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194146"
},
"suspension":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of suspending : the state or period of being suspended : such as",
": temporary removal (as from office or privileges)",
": temporary withholding (as of belief or decision)",
": temporary abrogation of a law or rule",
": the holding over of one or more musical tones of a chord into the following chord producing a momentary discord and suspending the concord which the ear expects",
": such a dissonance which resolves downward \u2014 compare anticipation , retardation",
": the tone thus held over",
": stoppage of payment of business obligations : failure",
": a rhetorical device whereby the principal idea is deferred to the end of a sentence or longer unit",
": the act of hanging : the state of being hung",
": the state of a substance when its particles are mixed with but undissolved in a fluid or solid",
": a substance in this state",
": a system consisting of a solid dispersed in a solid, liquid, or gas usually in particles of larger than colloidal size \u2014 compare emulsion",
": something suspended",
": the means by which something is suspended",
": the system of devices (such as springs) supporting the upper part of a vehicle on the axles",
": the act of stopping, removing, or making someone or something ineffective for a time",
": the state of being stopped, removed, or made ineffective for a time",
": the period during which someone or something is stopped, removed, or made ineffective",
": the act of hanging : the state of being hung",
": the system of springs that support the upper part of a vehicle on the axles",
": the state of a substance when its particles are mixed with but undissolved in a fluid or solid",
": a substance in this state \u2014 see oral suspension",
": a system consisting of a solid dispersed in a solid, liquid, or gas usually in particles of larger than colloidal size",
": the act of suspending : the state or period of being suspended"
],
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"s\u0259-\u02c8spen(t)-sh\u0259n",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spen-sh\u0259n",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spen-ch\u0259n"
],
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"abeyance",
"cold storage",
"deep freeze",
"doldrums",
"dormancy",
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"latency",
"moratorium",
"quiescence",
"suspended animation",
"suspense"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
],
"examples":[
"He was angry about his suspension from the team.",
"His record shows several suspensions from school.",
"He's under suspension for breaking the rules.",
"a suspension of the rules",
"She was punished by suspension of her driver's license.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Defending race winner Alex Palou was knocked out of contention with suspension damage caused by wheel-to-wheel contact from his teammate Ericsson on the third lap. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 12 June 2022",
"Features include puncture-proof, all-terrain wheels and smooth all-wheel suspension . \u2014 Margaux Lushing, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The university placed the fraternity on suspension pending the outcome of the police investigation, the spokeswoman said. \u2014 Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Superb suspension tuning, pleasant ride quality, potent inline-six. \u2014 Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver , 10 June 2022",
"Given the volume and seriousness of the allegations is an N.F.L. suspension enough of a punishment? \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"Betamethasone, the steroid that can help horses\u2019 joints, which 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit tested positive for and prompted Bob Baffert\u2019s suspension by Churchill Downs, is considered a therapeutic drug. \u2014 Stephen Whyno, Baltimore Sun , 9 June 2022",
"It was designed by his wife, who\u2019s a personal trainer, and uses three pieces of equipment\u2014a TRX suspension trainer, an ab wheel, and a Praep sports copilot, a pair of handlebars used to create instability during pushups. \u2014 Greg Presto, Men's Health , 9 June 2022",
"In addition to the struggles of entering the NFL during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, a season-ending injury and that suspension , Cornell is now on his third different defensive philosophy in as many years. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English suspensyon , from Anglo-French suspension , from Late Latin suspension-, suspensio , from Latin suspendere ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213949"
},
"suspicion":{
"type":"noun",
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"the act or an instance of suspecting something wrong without proof or on slight evidence mistrust",
"a state of mental uneasiness and uncertainty doubt",
"a barely detectable amount trace",
"suspect",
"an act or instance of suspecting or the state of being suspected",
"a feeling that something is wrong doubt",
"the act or an instance of suspecting something a mental state usually short of belief in which one entertains a notion that something is wrong or that a fact exists without proof or on slight evidence \u2014 see also reasonable suspicion"
],
"pronounciation":"s\u0259-\u02c8spi-sh\u0259n",
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"distrust",
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"mistrustfulness",
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"assume",
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"daresay",
"guess",
"imagine",
"presume",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise",
"suspect"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Both youths were booked into San Mateo County\u2019s juvenile hall on suspicion of murder, East Palo Alto Police Interim Chief Jeff Liu said in a statement Friday. \u2014 Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle , 19 June 2022",
"Patrick O\u2019Brien, a 37-year-old San Diego resident, was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held without bail in county jail. \u2014 Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"Tennessee\u2019s Republican Secretary of State was arrested on Friday night on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after leaving a music festival. \u2014 Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News , 18 June 2022",
"The drowning happened at the home of a babysitter, Cynthia Gaddy, 49, who was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment. \u2014 Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic , 17 June 2022",
"However, hours before that court appearance, Miller was arrested again after an altercation at a home in P\u0101hoa on the Big Island of Hawaii on suspicion of throwing a chair and injuring a woman. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"Des Champs was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of trespassing and disorderly conduct, police said. \u2014 Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News , 14 June 2022",
"The bar\u2019s managers are under criminal investigation on suspicion of hindering Covid prevention measures, a Beijing Public Security Bureau spokesman told a news conference Tuesday. \u2014 Yoko Kubota, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"The Duck was raided frequently, and one night 79 patrons were arrested on suspicion of narcotics, according to Steele. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"circa 1637, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"suspicious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": tending to arouse suspicion : questionable",
": disposed to suspect : distrustful",
": expressing or indicative of suspicion",
": likely to arouse suspicion",
": likely to distrust or be distrustful",
": showing distrust"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8spi-sh\u0259s",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spi-sh\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Employees need independent ways to verify the authenticity of suspicious -sounding requests. \u2014 James Legg, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The department provides training to encourage reporting suspicious or criminal activities in neighborhoods. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel , 10 June 2022",
"Police received a complaint from Rescue Village about the man acting in a suspicious manner outside the building at 5:14 p.m. June 1. \u2014 cleveland , 9 June 2022",
"Etowah County Sheriff Jonathan Horton said a resident called Attalla police reporting a suspicious man outside the school. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 9 June 2022",
"The vaccine\u2014marketed as free and ultra-effective\u2014also feels like a suspicious departure from many of his patients\u2019 typical experiences with health care. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"Zion, whom artist LaToya Ruby Frazier captured from age 8 to 13, appears a bit suspicious or, at least, doubtful. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Then an immune-boosting ingredient, or adjuvant, that\u2019s made from the bark of a South American tree is added that acts as a red flag to ensure those particles look suspicious enough to spark a strong immune response. \u2014 Lauran Neergaard, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"The ideas have already drawn opposition from some homeowners suspicious of potential impacts on their neighborhoods and from those who argue the income standards for future tenants are too high. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211128"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of being sustained",
": of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged",
": of or relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8st\u0101-n\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"defendable",
"defensible",
"justifiable",
"maintainable",
"supportable",
"tenable"
],
"antonyms":[
"indefensible",
"insupportable",
"unjustifiable",
"unsustainable",
"untenable"
],
"examples":[
"a line of argument that is probably not sustainable in a public forum against skilled debaters",
"has no sustainable claim to the property without a deed or some other document",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For more information on sustainable cooking practices, check out Nelson's Tik Tok. \u2014 Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer , 14 June 2022",
"How do sustainable farming practices affect the actual grapes? \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 11 June 2022",
"Lawmakers say the law is part of a broader effort to make products more sustainable and reduce electronic waste. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 8 June 2022",
"It\u2019s part of a wider effort to make products sold in the EU more sustainable and cut down on electronic waste. \u2014 Kevin Chan, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 June 2022",
"Sarah Todd, my colleague at Quartz, argues that even a week (or two) is not enough, and a better route is to make your day-to-day more sustainable with regular, ample self-care. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 17 May 2022",
"Second, tech vendors possess a huge amount of technical IP, knowledge and skillsets to design solutions and products that can help their customers make their operations more sustainable . \u2014 Cindy Jaudon, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"By taking dairy farming out of the equation, BIOMILQ says its product could make feeding babies more environmentally sustainable . \u2014 Milly Chan, CNN , 3 May 2022",
"But there are definitely reasons to make chip manufacturing more sustainable . \u2014 K.e.d. Coan, Ars Technica , 29 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1924, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191958"
},
"sustentation":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of sustaining : the state of being sustained : such as",
": maintenance , upkeep",
": preservation , conservation",
": maintenance of life, growth, or morale",
": provision with sustenance",
": something that sustains : support"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u0259-st\u0259n-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"-\u02ccsten-"
],
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"care and feeding",
"conservation",
"conserving",
"keep",
"maintenance",
"preservation",
"preserving",
"upkeep"
],
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"examples":[
"argues that a new toll is needed to pay for the long-term sustentation of the city's bridges",
"the all-important sustentation of Mount Vernon, Monticello, and other national treasures"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sustentation-, sustentatio act of holding up, from sustentare to hold up, frequentative of sustin\u0113re to sustain",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210829"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form",
": to elevate or exalt especially in dignity or honor",
": to render finer (as in purity or excellence)",
": to convert (something inferior) into something of higher worth",
": to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state",
": lofty, grand, or exalted in thought, expression, or manner",
": of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth",
": tending to inspire awe usually because of elevated quality (as of beauty, nobility, or grandeur) or transcendent excellence",
": high in place",
": lofty of mien : haughty",
": supreme",
": complete , utter",
": grand or noble in thought, expression, or manner",
": beautiful or impressive enough to arouse a feeling of admiration and wonder",
": to cause to pass from the solid to the vapor state by heating and to condense back to solid form",
": to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state",
"[French sublimer , from Latin sublimare ]"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8bl\u012bm",
"s\u0259-\u02c8bl\u012bm",
"s\u0259-\u02c8bl\u012bm",
"s\u0259-\u02c8bl\u012bm"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"awful",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stunning",
"stupendous",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Each one of them was the historical equivalent of a chemical phase change\u2014when water, say, grows hot enough to sublime into steam or cold enough to harden into ice. \u2014 Jeffrey Kluger, Time , 11 July 2021",
"Imprinted in the light of these wisps of subliming vapor are the fingerprints of a comet\u2019s chemical composition. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 29 Jan. 2020",
"Next, the ice will sublime out of them\u2014that\u2019s when water goes straight from ice to gas without turning to liquid first, remember? \u2014 Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics , 8 Nov. 2018",
"While the TEB seemed like an awesome idea on paper, most of its advantages sublimed under scrutiny. \u2014 Sebastian Anthony, Ars Technica , 5 July 2017",
"This dish is sublimely simple to make and sublime to eat. \u2014 Susan Russo, sandiegouniontribune.com , 2 May 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"And of course, the Lillard-Nurkic pick-and-roll game at times can be sublime . \u2014 oregonlive , 14 May 2022",
"His aural arrangements, which only heighten the fear and tension of some of the film\u2019s most pivotal and gruesome scenes, are sublime , and the hopes are the music branch don\u2019t suffer from short-term memory loss in the next seven months. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 5 May 2022",
"The storytelling is as vivid as the vocals are sublime . \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 May 2022",
"And with spring officially in the air and summer just around the corner, right now \u2013 just ahead of the upcoming travel rush \u2013 is a sublime time to schedule a trip to the City of Roses. \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"Blanchard\u2019s graceful and evocative score and the sublime chemistry within the cast carried the opera the rest of the way. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
"Nussbaum\u2019s sensitivity to this reality, however, stirs a sense of history\u2019s sublime open-endedness rather than a vision of neatly distinct alternative paths. \u2014 Priya Satia, The New Republic , 20 May 2022",
"Simpler, but no less sublime , is whole dorade baked in a salt crust that the chef seasons with Moroccan spices to infuse the fish with flavor. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"His oeuvre is crowded with solitary characters whose compulsions take them beyond the limits of conventional, rational behavior toward a mania that can feel\u2014by turns or all at once\u2014destructive, ridiculous, and sublime . \u2014 A. O. Scott, The Atlantic , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Adjective",
"circa 1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-110156"
},
"suck (up)":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a person who is ingratiating or fawning"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259k-\u02cc\u0259p"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polisher",
"bootlicker",
"brownnoser",
"fawner",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lickspittle",
"sycophant",
"toady"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1970, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-114501"
},
"superpatriot":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an extremely or excessively zealous or devoted patriot"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8p\u0101-tr\u0113-\u0259t",
"-\u02cc\u00e4t",
"chiefly British"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1883, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-114734"
},
"superior":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": situated higher up : upper",
": of higher rank, quality, or importance",
": courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening)",
": greater in quantity or numbers",
": excellent of its kind : better",
": being a superscript",
": situated above or anterior or dorsal to another and especially a corresponding part",
": situated above or near the top of another part: such as",
": attached to and apparently arising from the ovary",
": free from the calyx or other floral envelope",
": more comprehensive",
": affecting or assuming an air of superiority : supercilious",
": one who is above another in rank, station, or office",
": the head of a religious house or order",
": one that surpasses another in quality or merit",
": superscript",
": situated higher up : higher in rank, importance, numbers, or quality",
": excellent of its kind : better",
": showing the feeling of being better or more important than others : arrogant",
": a person who is higher than another in rank, importance, or quality",
": the head of a religious house or order",
": situated toward the head and further away from the feet than another and especially another similar part of an upright body especially of a human being",
"\u2014 compare inferior sense 1",
": situated in a more anterior or dorsal position in the body of a quadruped \u2014 compare inferior sense 2",
": of higher status, rank, or priority",
"city and port on Lake Superior in northwestern Wisconsin population 27,244"
],
"pronounciation":[
"su\u0307-\u02c8pir-\u0113-\u0259r",
"su\u0307-\u02c8pir-\u0113-\u0259r",
"su\u0307-\u02c8pir-\u0113-\u0259r",
"su\u0307-\u02c8pir-\u0113-\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"antonyms":[
"better",
"elder",
"senior"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But one place where Little O\u2019Malley may be superior to Flattop is as a jumping-off point to other areas in the Chugach front range. \u2014 Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022",
"The world recognized superior technology and left obsolete options behind. \u2014 Ev Kontsevoy, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"These failures haven\u2019t rocked Meta\u2019s foundation in the past, the result of superior ad technology and sales that generate 90% of company revenue. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"Even nurses who work 12-hour shifts rave about how their feet feel after a workday in Hokas, writing that the supportive sneakers are far superior to other popular running shoe brands. \u2014 Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"With only a single exception, the 1966-67 season, Russell\u2019s Celtics were superior to Chamberlain\u2019s teams through a run of 11 championships in 13 years. \u2014 Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 June 2022",
"The systems are superior to what Ukraine \u2014 whose troops will be trained in their use \u2014 currently owns. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"Fighting superior technology, mankind\u2019s best weapon is the will to survive. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 1 June 2022",
"But 24 hours earlier his 46.82 was superior to the all-time San Diego Section standard of 46.85 by Morse High\u2019s Lydell Burston in 1995. \u2014 Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In a report to a superior after Justice O\u2019Connor became the first female member of the court, the lawyer sketched out his advice. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Believing that Shelipov would report their location to Ukrainian forces nearby, another soldier \u2014 who was not Shishimarin\u2019s superior \u2014 told him to shoot, prosecutors said. \u2014 Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"Some Marines heard the warning from an immediate superior . \u2014 Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The Legion\u2019s new superior , the Rev. John Connor, tried unsuccessfully to engage with Barba after his February 2020 election, sending two letters that went unanswered until Barba emailed him on Jan. 5, 2021, seeking to restart negotiations. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, courant.com , 23 Feb. 2022",
"He is fired from a local taxi firm, in part for being constitutionally unable to leave his passengers in peace, and then from a bakery, for defending an Asian colleague from a racist superior . \u2014 The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2022",
"In 2015 and 2016, frustrated by the inaction on the code blue policy, Brovont took his and his colleagues\u2019 concerns to Dr. Patrick McHugh, his superior at EmCare. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Kueng, the rookie Black officer who knelt on Floyd's leg, testified that probationary officers were taught to always defer to a superior to the point of unquestioning obedience. \u2014 Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Given that many workers remain remote, DeMase recommends scheduling a call or meeting with a superior . \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-122507"
},
"supernormal":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":[
": exceeding the normal or average",
": being beyond normal human powers : paranormal",
": exceeding the normal or average",
": being beyond normal human powers : paranormal"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"magical",
"miraculous",
"phenomenal",
"preternatural",
"superhuman",
"supernatural",
"transcendent",
"transcendental",
"uncanny",
"unearthly"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the little boy pretended to be a comic book hero with supernormal powers"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1834, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-122740"
},
"surmountable":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to prevail over : overcome",
": to get to the top of : climb",
": to stand or lie at the top of",
": to surpass in quality or attainment : excel",
": overcome sense 1",
": to get to the top of",
": to be at the top of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259r-\u02c8mau\u0307nt",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8mau\u0307nt"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"dispatch",
"do down",
"get",
"get around",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"skunk",
"stop",
"subdue",
"take",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"upend",
"win (against)",
"worst"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"examples":[
"an Olympic swimmer who surmounted endless obstacles to achieve her goals",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That Republicans are overwhelmingly conservative makes their messaging challenges much easier to surmount . \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 6 June 2022",
"To pass the legislation, supporters would need 60 votes to surmount a filibuster. \u2014 Scott Macfarlane, CBS News , 4 May 2022",
"The option is designed to help surmount a fundamental hurdle for private commercial developers. \u2014 Jeffrey Steele, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Marx undermined this interiority of man that had shaped the Western mind, even the mind of the German philosopher Hegel, who is the cornerstone of Marx\u2019s philosophical endeavor but one that Marx strived to surmount . \u2014 Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The job gradually gave him stability, and enabled him to surmount the trauma of Estonian independence. \u2014 Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Although her arrival breaks one of the remaining racial barriers in American democracy, many Black Americans still struggle to surmount systemic blocks. \u2014 Aaron Morrison, ajc , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Fellowes to some degree borrows from himself in Gosford Park by mixing film folk with upper-crust locals to observe the class divide and then erase it as masters and servants pitch in together to surmount all obstacles. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The tanker bot faces a new challenge, though, one that governments enforcing sanctions will also struggle to surmount . \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 28 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French surmunter , from sur- + munter to mount",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-184036"
},
"sufferable":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to submit to or be forced to endure",
": to feel keenly : labor under",
": undergo , experience",
": to put up with especially as inevitable or unavoidable",
": to allow especially by reason of indifference",
": to endure death, pain, or distress",
": to sustain loss or damage",
": to be subject to disability or handicap",
": to feel or endure pain, illness, or injury",
": to experience something unpleasant",
": to bear loss or damage",
": to become worse",
": permit entry 1 sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-f\u0259r",
"\u02c8s\u0259-f\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"feel",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"see",
"sustain",
"taste",
"undergo",
"witness"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Patients who now suffer from gastrointestinal issues, including abdominal pain. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"The Lifeable Probiotic Gummy is ideal for those who suffer from food sensitivities, intolerances, and other dietary restrictions. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 June 2022",
"Veterans who may suffer from anxiety and PTSD can see entrances, exits and who is coming in and out of the clear-view environment. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 30 May 2022",
"Balloons were launched by an organization devoted to helping servicemen who suffer from the effects of Agent Orange in Southeast Asia. \u2014 David Lyons, Sun Sentinel , 30 May 2022",
"People who do not suffer from tree nuts allergies can still consume the Red Button Canadian Vanilla ice cream. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 27 May 2022",
"After every mass shooting, turn on the brightest lights, power up the microphones, and let no political leader who makes the symbolic pilgrimage escape speaking actual truth on a site sacred to those who suffer . \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"One of the main issues with the American kettlebell swing is that the additional overhead extension of the arms and shoulder following a ballistic, hip driving start, could become problematic for those who suffer from range of motion issues. \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 20 May 2022",
"In the meantime, parents and early childhood teachers can support language development for children who may suffer from delays by providing rich, responsive interactions and conversations. \u2014 Abigail A. Allen, The Conversation , 19 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sufferen, suffren, borrowed from Anglo-French suffrir, going back to Vulgar Latin *suffer\u012bre, re-formation of Latin sufferre \"to submit to, endure,\" from suf-, assimilated form of sub- sub- + ferre \"to carry, bear\" \u2014 more at bear entry 2 ",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-185820"
},
"subordinateness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior",
": submissive to or controlled by authority",
": of, relating to, or constituting a clause that functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb",
": subordinating",
": one who stands in order or rank below another : one that is subordinate",
": to make subject or subservient",
": to treat as of less value or importance",
": being in a lower class or rank : inferior",
": yielding to or controlled by authority",
": someone who has less power or authority than someone else",
": to treat as inferior in rank or importance",
": placed in or occupying a lower rank, class, or position",
": submissive to or controlled by authority",
": to assign lower priority to (as a debt or creditor) : postpone satisfaction of until after satisfaction of another"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259t",
"-\u02c8b\u022frd-n\u0259t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259t",
"-\u02c8b\u022frd-n\u0259t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-n\u0259t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-d\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022frd-\u1d4an-\u0259t",
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u022frd-\u1d4an-\u02cc\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"inferior",
"junior",
"less",
"lesser",
"lower",
"minor",
"smaller"
],
"antonyms":[
"inferior",
"junior",
"underling"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"California law nonetheless gives employers a relatively free hand when romantically linked co-workers are supervisor and subordinate . \u2014 Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Among western lowland gorillas, Cooke writes, females will sometimes harass silverback males and interrupt their copulations with subordinate females. \u2014 Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic , 6 May 2022",
"Under the terms of the agreement, Shopify will acquire all of Deliverr\u2019s shares outstanding, with 80% of the $2.1 billion in cash and the remainder through the issue of Shopify Class A subordinate voting shares. \u2014 Adriano Marchese, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"But blowing up a command post can confuse the subordinate units, temporarily leaving them vulnerable to a swift attack. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
"And even when Brown and Black characters do appear in period pieces, they\u2019re often shown in subordinate roles to the starring white characters. \u2014 Samantha Powell, Harper's BAZAAR , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Roddy said the Caisson Platoon is his costliest subordinate unit. \u2014 Drew F. Lawrence And Katie Bo Lillis, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Fragments only, though with subordinate clauses and prepositional phrases. \u2014 Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Piper\u2019s Roy, eloquent when silent, registers the effect of being the subordinate brother who\u2019s responsible to the outside world. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This February, two months before the merger closed, CNN boss Jeff Zucker\u2014a close friend of Zaslav\u2019s\u2014abruptly resigned over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a subordinate . \u2014 Scott Decarlo, Fortune , 27 May 2022",
"Next came Jim McNerney, a Welch lieutenant who was named C.E.O. of Boeing after Mr. Stonecipher was fired for having an affair with a subordinate . \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"Coleman retook the reins in January 2022 after former President Mark Schlissel was ousted by the Board of Regents because of a relationship with a subordinate . \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 27 Apr. 2022",
"For this reason, the IDB spokesman told me, the subordinate had to decline my request for comment. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 8 May 2022",
"Others are easy fixes, like no longer having the NCAA\u2019s head of women\u2019s basketball a subordinate to the head of men\u2019s basketball. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Rodriguez was demoted after refusing to punish a subordinate who filed a statement in opposition to the re-sentencing of a violent inmate, the lawsuit states. \u2014 Fox News , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Dalio\u2019s ability to deliver radical truth bombs will not be met by his subordinate \u2019s equal ability to do the same. \u2014 Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Wyoming\u2019s first Black sheriff last year fired a white deputy who is accused of tormenting a Black subordinate for years with racist name-calling that led him to quit, a new federal lawsuit revealed. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Unlike consequences, which for all practical purposes are applied in one direction (boss to team member), ownership can be reinforced in a 360-degree process (peer to peer, team member to boss, and boss to subordinate ). \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"The desire to punish belligerence\u2014and to subordinate other geopolitical goals to that cause\u2014is once again in the air. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"In many places, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Implicitly, the message was that America gauges the value of that sacred alliance in terms of European willingness to form a common front against China, and to subordinate their interests to American interests in that contest. \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 14 June 2021",
"Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld tried to subordinate CIA officers to U.S. military command. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Feminists can be depicted as jealous man haters who want to subordinate men. \u2014 Joy Burnford, Forbes , 26 May 2021",
"In searching for the next artistic director, the board needs to subordinate MBA logic. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2021",
"More important, this coalition would likely pass a law\u2014which most rightists want, in any case\u2014that would subordinate the Supreme Court\u2019s right to review the constitutionality of laws to a simple majority vote in the Knesset. \u2014 Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker , 20 Apr. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective and Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1640, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-195632"
},
"sureness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": marked by or given to feelings of confident certainty",
": characterized by a lack of wavering or hesitation",
": admitting of no doubt : indisputable",
": bound , destined",
": bound to happen : inevitable",
": careful to remember, attend to, or find out something",
": firmly established : steadfast",
": reliable , trustworthy",
": safe from danger or harm",
": without doubt or question : certainly",
": it must be acknowledged : admittedly",
": surely",
": having no doubt : certain",
": true without question",
": firmly established",
": reliable , trustworthy",
": bound to happen",
": bound as if by fate",
": surely sense 1",
": surely sense 2"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8shu\u0307r",
"\u02c8sh\u0259r",
"especially Southern",
"\u02c8shu\u0307r"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"certain",
"clear",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"doubtless",
"implicit",
"positive",
"sanguine"
],
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"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"hands down",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"plainly",
"really",
"so",
"surely",
"truly",
"unarguably",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The recently renovated Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa made sure to include the open-air pool area in its multi-million-dollar updates this year. \u2014 Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure , 18 June 2022",
"Montano found ways to make sure everyone felt included, especially the classes that were having more difficulties with attendance. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 17 June 2022",
"Making sure that our employees see clear opportunities for professional growth whether that be at the firm or, with the firm\u2019s assistance, elsewhere, is the key. \u2014 Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Guill\u00e9n and Montgomery worked together to make sure his costume was grounded in the story and arc of his character. \u2014 Karen Idelson, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"As bills continue to pass around the country aimed specifically at limiting the rights of transgender people, Ryan Cassata is making sure that his voice is heard, loud and clear. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 17 June 2022",
"Given all the innuendo swirling about Justice Thomas, the Jan. 6 investigators should do it transparently and make sure the public sees every question and answer in full. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"So, make sure that person, book and/or documentary produces an uplifting end. \u2014 Darick Spears, Rolling Stone , 17 June 2022",
"Funny, sure , but they, too, were now barefaced in a crowd. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"D\u2019Amelio is making sure the collective is NCAA compliant throughout the entire process. \u2014 Shreyas Laddha, Hartford Courant , 13 May 2022",
"For all the antagonism the recordings have stirred up, no one is sure the eight brittle reel-to-reels will survive an effort to convert them into digital recordings. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"O'Donnell wanted to be absolutely sure Antetokounmpo didn't get nicked up against the Kings and would, presumably, be active when the four of them sat near the Bucks bench at the Target Center. \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Project Equity, which focuses specifically on converting existing businesses, spends three months making sure a business is the right fit for employee ownership before even beginning the transition process. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The crowd noise \u2014 and this sure sounded like one of the most raucous Gillette Stadium crowds in years \u2014 was clear and loud. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Well, Echevarria sure can hit, and the Wisconsin recruit singled and scored three runs in Antioch\u2019s 6-0 win against Northern Lake County Conference rival Wauconda in the Class 3A Lakes Sectional championship game on Friday. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Murray Bartlett never expected to find fame at 50, but the Australian actor sure is enjoying it now. \u2014 Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
"The adults that coach the Oak Creek softball team don\u2019t screw anything up for their bunch, but the kids sure do like to have fun; almost too much fun, according to head coach Jeff Trask. \u2014 Michael Whitlow, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 1 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 7",
"Adverb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-200708"
},
"suitable":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": adapted to a use or purpose",
": satisfying propriety : proper",
": able , qualified",
": similar , matching",
": being fit or right for a use or group"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"equal",
"fit",
"good",
"qualified"
],
"antonyms":[
"incompetent",
"inept",
"poor",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified"
],
"examples":[
"The dress was a suitable choice.",
"We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bicycles, ride-hailing companies, and car rentals are additional options if public transportation is not suitable for a trip. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"Lift settings range from 16 to 23.5 inches, which is suitable for taller ride heights. \u2014 Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"An important mindset to have, as experts note, pilates is suitable for everyone regardless of gender, age, or body type. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"But even though the meals were suitable for beginner cooks, they were still given top marks for flavor and fresh ingredients. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Warning, the language is not suitable for all ages. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"In the meantime, parents eager to finally get their young children protected against the devastating pandemic virus will have to carefully determine which of the two vaccine options is suitable for their kids. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
"For others, lighter fragrances, mists, or perfume oils are suitable for their needs. \u2014 Lenora E. Houseworth, Allure , 14 June 2022",
"The shampoo is free of all harsh chemicals and is suitable for all hair types. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1563, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-231353"
},
"suture":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body",
": a stitch made with a suture",
": the act or process of sewing with sutures",
": a uniting of parts",
": the seam or seamlike line along which two things or parts are sewed or united",
": the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull)",
": such an articulation",
": a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts",
": a line of dehiscence (as on a fruit)",
": to unite, close, or secure with sutures",
": a stitch made with a suture",
": a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body",
": the act or process of sewing with sutures",
": the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull)",
": such an articulation",
": a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts",
": to unite, close, or secure with sutures"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-ch\u0259r",
"\u02c8s\u00fc-ch\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"darn",
"sew",
"stitch"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The surgeon sutured the incision.",
"the doctor cleaned, sutured , and bandaged the wound",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One suture on the bowl\u2019s lip was the result of its being dropped last year by a Tampa grinder named Pat Maroon. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Patients are then instructed to return to the ER at a later date \u2013 again, depending on the location of the wound \u2013 to have the suture material removed. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 12 May 2022",
"But in this case, the suture is simply threaded through the skin without a knot, which is why cones or barbs are needed to lift the skin. \u2014 Kirbie Johnson, Allure , 24 Mar. 2022",
"With low, chilly vocals that hug the beat close, Noname presses into the uneasy suture of structural injustice and individual needs. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Just now, our hospital is short on suture kits, suction cannulae, and occasionally other items. \u2014 Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Zavattieri explained that the suture acts like a jigsaw puzzle, connecting the creature's various exoskeletal blades in the abdomen, which lock to prevent themselves from pulling out. \u2014 Amy Woodyatt, CNN , 21 Oct. 2020",
"Since then, ElAttrache has increased his use of a braided suture that is flatter, wider and provides greater security. \u2014 Dylan Hern\u00e1ndez, Los Angeles Times , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Van Bonn also had to construct his own artificial froggy ligaments out of suture material to repair the knee. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That same year, a surgeon at Provident Hospital performed a medical marvel, becoming the first to successfully suture the wall surrounding the human heart. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"But behind the scenes, the team\u2019s medical staff came up with a radical idea to suture the loose ankle tendon back into the skin. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Robot Surgeons Advanced robotic surgeons could suture wounds, remove tumors and repair tissue with unparalleled precision, reducing fatalities from medical errors. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Apr. 2021",
"The backstory of the piece is a Chinese fable in which the heavens are ripped asunder, unleashing calamity, until the goddess N\u00fcwa rises to suture the tear and save humankind. \u2014 Doug Maccash, NOLA.com , 13 Oct. 2020",
"While there is much to do to suture our economy, our foremost priority has been preserving life. \u2014 Jerry Levin, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2020",
"The bird\u2019s wound was sutured and it was treated with antibiotics, Sharp said. \u2014 Taylor Hartz, chicagotribune.com , 30 Oct. 2019",
"There will be dozens of kinds of surgical robots, and many will tackle specific jobs, from suturing in the abdomen to setting a broken leg. \u2014 D. T. Max, The New Yorker , 23 Sep. 2019",
"The procedure requires a few very small incisions that sutured closed at the end. \u2014 Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR , 28 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"1777, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-231858"
},
"survey":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to examine as to condition, situation, or value : appraise",
": to query (someone) in order to collect data for the analysis of some aspect of a group or area",
": to determine and delineate the form, extent, and position of (such as a tract of land) by taking linear and angular measurements and by applying the principles of geometry and trigonometry",
": to view or consider comprehensively",
": inspect , scrutinize",
": to make a survey",
": the act or an instance of surveying : such as",
": a broad treatment of a subject",
": poll sense 5a",
": something that is surveyed",
": to look over : examine",
": to find out the size, shape, or boundaries of (as a piece of land)",
": to gather information from : ask questions of",
": the action or an instance of gathering information or examining something",
": something that is examined",
": a history or description that covers a large subject briefly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0101",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0101",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0101",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101"
],
"synonyms":[
"canvass",
"canvas",
"interview",
"poll",
"solicit"
],
"antonyms":[
"audit",
"check",
"checkup",
"examination",
"going-over",
"inspection",
"look-see",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutiny",
"view"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Take a moment to look for current solutions gaps that are hindering the best customer and employee experiences\u2014and survey your customers and employees on them. \u2014 Amrit Chaudhuri, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Creepy, nightmarish-looking dolls sometimes covered in barnacles that grow out of the eyes are washing up along Texas shores, according to researchers who survey the area for sea life. \u2014 Fox News , 7 May 2022",
"The number could go up as meteorologists go out and site survey the damage. \u2014 Jennifer Gray, CNN , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Last year, Energage, based in Pennsylvania, partnered with media in 60 markets and administered the 24-question Top Workplaces survey to more than 2 million employees at more than 8,000 organizations. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Mar. 2022",
"The Labor Department conducts its monthly jobs survey right around the 12th of every month. \u2014 David Harrison, WSJ , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Wood also uses the results of annual Top Workplaces survey to check the pulse of the company and see how opinions vary from department to department. \u2014 Michael Jackson, The Indianapolis Star , 18 May 2022",
"In addition, Grigorian said the DEC is going to survey its members to see what day is better for events. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 13 May 2022",
"\u00d6zdemir was also an amateur pilot, and as a boy Sel\u00e7uk would survey Turkey\u2019s splendid geography from the window of his father\u2019s plane. \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The restoration project began after the foundation completed a ground-penetrating radar survey of the area, which contained more than 800 unmarked graves. \u2014 Wilborn Nobles, ajc , 11 June 2022",
"Just look at President Joe Biden\u2019s plummeting approval rating and steady declines in the University of Michigan consumer confidence survey , which reflects increasing public concern. \u2014 Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune , 11 June 2022",
"The findings are from a Journal survey conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan research organization that measures social attitudes. \u2014 Janet Adamy, WSJ , 6 June 2022",
"What\u2019s more exciting is that according to one survey , women, and no doubt many moms looking to provide for their families, led the way. \u2014 Carolina Martinez, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"NBC News survey , which was conducted May 5-7, 9-10, and which have a margin of error of plus-minus 4.38 percentage points. \u2014 Mark Murray, NBC News , 6 June 2022",
"The survey , conducted by pollster James Johnson, showed Labour holding a lead of 20 percentage points over the Conservatives. \u2014 Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
"The survey , conducted by the pollster James Johnson, showed Labour holding a lead of 20 percentage points over the Conservatives. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"That\u2019s according to a new survey from Zillow, (which, of course, has a vested interest in offering to demystify the journey to home ownership). \u2014 Kira Bindrim, Quartz , 3 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-232130"
},
"submission":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a legal agreement to submit to the decision of arbitrators",
": an act of submitting something (as for consideration or inspection)",
": something submitted (such as a manuscript)",
": the condition of being submissive , humble, or compliant",
": an act of submitting to the authority or control of another",
": the act of putting forward something (as for consideration or comment)",
": the condition of being humble or obedient",
": the act of giving in to power or authority",
": the condition of being submissive",
": an agreement to submit a dispute to and abide by the decision of an arbitrator",
": an act of submitting something",
": something submitted",
": an act of submitting to the authority or control of another"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-sh\u0259n",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-sh\u0259n",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mish-\u0259n",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"compliance",
"conformity",
"obedience",
"subordination"
],
"antonyms":[
"balkiness",
"contrariness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"noncompliance",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelling",
"rebellion",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"refractoriness",
"self-will",
"unruliness",
"waywardness",
"willfulness"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Zachary Abuza, a professor at the National War College in Washington who studies Southeast Asian security issues, said the threat to execute renowned activists is part of a wider strategy the junta hopes will terrorize people into submission . \u2014 Rebecca Tan, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Texas A&M has a habit of playing long games, stretching out at-bats and wearing opponents into submission . \u2014 Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News , 14 June 2022",
"Rather than bypassing Chernihiv and risk being attacked from the rear, the invading force attempted to beat the town into submission . \u2014 Michael Tobin, Fox News , 9 June 2022",
"Sophomore Hailey Rabideaux\u2019s film submission advanced to the national level and received the Merit Award, Bronze Medal. \u2014 C.r. Walker, Chicago Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"In addition, films do not have to be submitted via the Golden Globes submission website for awards consideration. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"Experts testified that seismic surveys could harm animals in the ocean, including whales and dolphins, contrary to Shell\u2019s submission that the surveys were not harmful to marine life. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 2 June 2022",
"Politico reported that the agency was holding off on reviewing Moderna\u2019s submission until Pfizer\u2019s was in. \u2014 Josh Fischman, Scientific American , 31 May 2022",
"But family and community pressures stymie her feminist zeal, and the conflict between freedom and submission can\u2019t be resolved by resorting to force or ideology. \u2014 Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin submission-, submissio act of lowering, from submittere ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-235805"
},
"suspended animation":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": temporary suspension of the vital functions (as in persons nearly drowned)",
": a condition (such as inactivity) likened to suspended animation",
": temporary suspension of the vital functions (as in persons nearly drowned)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8spend-\u0259d-"
],
"synonyms":[
"abeyance",
"cold storage",
"deep freeze",
"doldrums",
"dormancy",
"holding pattern",
"latency",
"moratorium",
"quiescence",
"suspense",
"suspension"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
],
"examples":[
"animals that sleep through the winter in a state of suspended animation",
"the husband's feeling that their love life was in suspended animation while his wife lavished all her attention on the new baby",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With the economy practically in suspended animation at the start of the pandemic, car sales plummeted. \u2014 Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
"One solution long championed by science fiction is suspended animation , or putting humans in a hibernation-like sleep for the duration of travel time. \u2014 CNN , 28 Dec. 2020",
"With the agreements with Mexico and Central American in suspended animation during the pandemic, Title 42 is necessary stopgap that Biden will come under intense pressure from pro-immigration groups to reverse. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 15 Nov. 2020",
"Four days after the election, the U.S. presidential race hovered in suspended animation Saturday as the long, exacting work of counting votes brought Democrat Joe Biden ever closer to a victory over President Donald Trump. \u2014 Staff And Wire Reports, chicagotribune.com , 7 Nov. 2020",
"New York City, where nearly 24,000 people have died from COVID-19, remains in a kind of suspended animation more than six months after the disease raced across its five boroughs and crippled America's largest metropolis. \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 1 Oct. 2020",
"Good employment numbers, stock-market uncertainty, New York City\u2019s suspended animation , and more. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 4 Sep. 2020",
"And more speculatively, such methods might one day approximate the musings about suspended animation that turn up in the movies. \u2014 Simon Makin, Scientific American , 15 June 2020",
"Welcome to the Great Shutdown, as wide swaths of the American economy enter suspended animation to combat the spread of the coronavirus. \u2014 Anders Melin, Bloomberg.com , 5 May 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1787, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-000447"
},
"surround":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to enclose on all sides : envelop",
": to enclose so as to cut off communication or retreat : invest entry 2",
": to form or be a member of the entourage of",
": to constitute part of the environment of",
": to extend around the margin or edge of : encircle",
": to cause to be surrounded by something",
": something (such as a border or ambient environment) that surrounds",
": to enclose on all sides : encircle",
": to be closely related or connected to"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8rau\u0307nd",
"s\u0259-\u02c8rau\u0307nd"
],
"synonyms":[
"circle",
"compass",
"embrace",
"encircle",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"environ",
"gird",
"girdle",
"ring",
"wreathe"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambient",
"atmosphere",
"climate",
"clime",
"context",
"contexture",
"environment",
"environs",
"medium",
"milieu",
"mise-en-sc\u00e8ne",
"setting",
"surroundings",
"terrain"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Huge and hulking chunks of defunct machinery surround you. \u2014 Luke Leitch, Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The Russian strategy seems to be to surround the cities, then pound them into submission with rockets and tube artillery. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Influencers surround themselves with fans who are attracted to them as a person. \u2014 John Knotts, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"To surround herself with support and with love, and to take a step back. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 17 Feb. 2022",
"For a dramatic visual contrast to the snowy-white heart\u2014and a nice, tart counterpoint to its unctuousness\u2014 surround it with a coulis of pur\u00e9ed raspberries, spiked with a few spoonfuls of cr\u00e8me de framboise liqueur. \u2014 Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ , 2 Feb. 2022",
"That is, surround them with adults and older children who are vaccinated. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Why not surround ourselves with reminders of the natural world that sustains us and provides sustenance? \u2014 Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Much of Eternals possesses the same meditative magic: Natural light bathes the characters and sublime landscapes\u2014broad skies, rolling prairies, churning seas\u2014 surround them. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There is also a central vacuum, a security system and wiring for surround -sound. \u2014 Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant , 5 June 2022",
"The pool surround and patio are of Kota stone, and the topiaries are boxwood. \u2014 Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor , 10 May 2022",
"The function button has moved from the front to the top, the rear screen now sits flush and, more strangely, the viewfinder surround breaks the traditionally straight line of the top plate. \u2014 Charlie Thomas, Robb Report , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Rothenberg, Dacamera\u2019s artistic director, has long been captivated by the Rothkos, the way their monolithic darkness gives way to endless depth and variation, the surround -sound of their silence and intimacy of their grandeur. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
"All three players support Dolby Atmos virtual surround -sound audio with the appropriate home theater hardware as well. \u2014 Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica , 2 Feb. 2022",
"In other words, don\u2019t underestimate the power of foot-tapping jams on a giant screen enhanced by surround -sound. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 21 Dec. 2021",
"While lane-keep assist is standard, adaptive cruise control is not, nor is a surround -view camera; they can be added a la carte or with the $4550 Assistance Package. \u2014 Elana Scherr, Car and Driver , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Your Renaissance Revival fireplace surround also appears to be made of oak. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"circa 1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)",
"Noun",
"1893, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-001236"
},
"subtle":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": delicate , elusive",
": difficult to understand or perceive : obscure sense 1c",
": clever and indirect : disguised in purpose",
": having or involving keen perception or insight",
": highly skillful : expert",
": cunningly made or contrived : ingenious",
": artful , crafty",
": operating insidiously",
": difficult to perceive",
": shrewd , keen",
": delicate sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-t\u1d4al",
"\u02c8s\u0259-t\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"cute",
"designing",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"scheming",
"shrewd",
"slick",
"sly",
"tricky",
"wily"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"undesigning"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The changes to the rear of the Escape are more subtle , with the taillights sporting a new upside-down-U LED lighting signature. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 15 June 2022",
"That self-expression of Pride can be bold or subtle in shoe style. \u2014 cleveland , 1 June 2022",
"As the Sun in your 8th House of Shared Resources sextiles subtle Neptune in your 6th House of Daily Activities, focusing on the routines that bind you together can calm you down. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"The change to the trophy, while subtle in appearance, was a five-year project. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 8 May 2022",
"No one does jewelry quite like Mejuri, and their zodiac necklaces are a great way to show off your sign in a super subtle way. \u2014 Marie Lodi, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 May 2022",
"That divide has played out in policy differences \u2014 some subtle , others glaring \u2014 in the candidates\u2019 approach to the economy, immigration and foreign policy. \u2014 New York Times , 2 May 2022",
"These keychains give them a subtle way to show off their identity. \u2014 Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Camila Cabello is the latest celebrity to step out in a see-through bustier, proving the piece is surprisingly wearable\u2014and a subtle way to add edge to one\u2019s signature style. \u2014 Jake Smith, Glamour , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sotil, subtile , from Anglo-French, from Latin subtilis , literally, finely textured, from sub- + tela cloth on a loom; akin to Latin texere to weave \u2014 more at technical ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-020606"
},
"superfluous":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra",
": not needed : unnecessary",
": marked by wastefulness : extravagant",
": going beyond what is enough or necessary : extra"
],
"pronounciation":[
"su\u0307-\u02c8p\u0259r-fl\u00fc-\u0259s",
"su\u0307-\u02c8p\u0259r-fl\u0259-w\u0259s"
],
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"excess",
"extra",
"redundant",
"spare",
"supererogatory",
"supernumerary",
"surplus"
],
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"examples":[
"In the Imagist model, the writer is a sculptor. Technique consists of chipping away everything superfluous in order to reveal the essential form within. \"It took you ninety-seven words to do it,\" Pound is reported to have remarked to a young literary aspirant who had handed him a new poem. \"I find it could have been managed in fifty-six.\" \u2014 Louis Menand , New Yorker , 9 & 16 June 2008",
"Oddly, despite the preponderance of superfluous words, the book has no glossary, which is a must for an introductory audience. \u2014 Dorothy Merritts , Eos , 3 Oct. 2000",
"Twenty years ago, baby boomers were written about as if every one of them had as a life goal making enough money to accumulate the same superfluous material objects that everyone else had. \u2014 Calvin Trillin , Time , 6 Sept. 1999",
"cleared off all the superfluous stuff on his desk to make room for the new computer",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Only those officials who are superfluous to the running of the state \u2014 and are relative outsiders \u2014 have been allowed to leave, economists said. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"When a notification is superfluous , adjust the alarm: Every alarm should be an occasion that requires action. \u2014 Steven Gustafson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"This, Miss Manners points out, will not only eliminate the need for superfluous details, but also for guests asking about presents. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
"In creating them, Bamana artists are expected to strip away superfluous details, using abstraction to reveal the essence of the antelope, which is further communicated through dance. \u2014 Susan Delson, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"My job was to capture their genius and not take shots that were superfluous . \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"Although some types of special districts have value, most are superfluous , obscure and burdensome. \u2014 Judge Glock, WSJ , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Clearly, if the bank sanctions were really so severe that doing a SWIFT exclusion would be superfluous , there\u2019d be no reason to refrain from a SWIFT exclusion. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Taking a deeper dive into the NOBULL process, here are a few key takeaways on how to leverage technology without burdening the end user with the superfluous . \u2014 Nicole Gull Mcelroy, Fortune , 15 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin superfluus , literally, running over, from superfluere to overflow, from super- + fluere to flow \u2014 more at fluid ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-025251"
},
"surroundings":{
"type":[
"noun plural",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded : environment",
": the circumstances, conditions, or things around an individual : environment"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8rau\u0307n-di\u014bz",
"s\u0259-\u02c8rau\u0307n-di\u014bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambient",
"atmosphere",
"climate",
"clime",
"context",
"contexture",
"environment",
"environs",
"medium",
"milieu",
"mise-en-sc\u00e8ne",
"setting",
"surround",
"terrain"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All of these artists are telling a unique story about their surroundings , experience and identity. \u2014 Julissa Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
"Visible enough to see but not enough to be sure of their surroundings , this rendered the characters to be only partially in control and creates a feeling of intense threat. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 16 May 2022",
"This constancy occurs because neurons that initiate eye movements to scan sentences also send a corollary signal to the visual system to indicate whether the world or the eyeball is moving, thus stabilizing the perception of your surroundings . \u2014 Gy\u00f6rgy Buzs\u00e1ki, Scientific American , 14 May 2022",
"The researchers analyzed the Zhurong rover's data about the sediments and minerals found in the basin as well as the analysis performed by several of the rover's instruments of its surroundings . \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 11 May 2022",
"According to the sheriff's office, beachgoers should: Be cautious of your surroundings . \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 10 May 2022",
"That grace about his surroundings , his home, remains. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 31 Jan. 2022",
"The devices are collecting raw data about the surroundings . \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Throughout it all, Mr. Epstein remained curious about his surroundings . \u2014 New York Times , 23 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1841, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-091041"
},
"superannuated":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": outmoded , old-fashioned",
": incapacitated or disqualified for active duty by advanced age",
": older than the typical member of a specified group"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8an-y\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101-t\u0259d"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"d\u00e9mod\u00e9",
"demoded",
"fossilized",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moribund",
"mossy",
"moth-eaten",
"neolithic",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"out-of-date",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"rusty",
"Stone Age"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a periodical that insists on using largely superannuated terms like \u201ceditress\u201d and \u201caviatrix\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The reformers who rallied around Mohammad Khatami (president from 1997 through 2005) and believed the theocracy could be softened, even superannuated , through the ballot box have been banned from the corridors of power. \u2014 Reuel Marc Gerecht And Ray Takeyh, WSJ , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Breasts come in for their share of drollery as well in a play that sets up two superannuated choruses, one droopily male, the other saggingly female. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Sep. 2021",
"And who knew about the existence, at least in this droll fiction, of an animal shelter for retired police dogs where the superannuated sniffers\u2019 specific talents are listed for potential owners? \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 22 July 2021",
"Our health care, housing, recreation and retirement institutions are not set up to manage the needs of the superannuated . \u2014 New York Times , 1 July 2021",
"Spores have often been suggested as a vehicle for superannuated bacteria. \u2014 Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American , 4 Mar. 2021",
"The remaking of the High Line turned a chunk of superannuated freight infrastructure into a verdant catwalk. \u2014 Justin Davidson, Curbed , 20 Jan. 2021",
"Predominantly white, male and English, the cabbies present a superannuated vision of Britain, next to the ethnically diverse immigrants and other strivers who get behind the wheel and slap an Uber decal on their window. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 3 Dec. 2020",
"Not just the question of superannuated friendships, but also past-prime careers, aging bodies, senior finances and calcifying personality traits are all fairly coldly examined here. \u2014 Marion Winik, Star Tribune , 31 July 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Medieval Latin superannuatus , past participle of superannuari to be too old, from Latin super- + annus year \u2014 more at annual ",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1634, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-120303"
},
"substitutive":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": serving or suitable as a substitute",
": serving or suitable as a substitute"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-st\u0259-\u02cct\u00fc-tiv",
"-\u02ccty\u00fc-",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-st\u0259-\u02cct(y)\u00fct-iv"
],
"synonyms":[
"makeshift",
"new",
"substitute"
],
"antonyms":[
"original"
],
"examples":[
"his recent religious fanaticism is only the latest substitutive addiction of a person with an addictive personality"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1656, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-120505"
},
"suite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": retinue",
": the personal staff accompanying a ruler, diplomat, or dignitary on official business",
": a group of things forming a unit or constituting a collection : set : such as",
": a group of rooms occupied as a unit",
": a 17th and 18th century instrumental musical form consisting of a series of dances in the same or related keys",
": a modern instrumental composition in several movements of different character",
": a long orchestral concert arrangement in suite form of material drawn from a longer work (such as a ballet)",
": a collection of minerals or rocks having some characteristic in common (such as type or origin)",
": a set of matched furniture",
": a set of computer programs designed to work together and usually sold as a single unit",
": a number of connected rooms (as in a hotel)",
": a set of matched furniture for a room",
": a group of rooms in a medical facility dedicated to a specified function or specialty"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sw\u0113t",
"sense 2d is also",
"\u02c8sw\u0113t",
"\u02c8s\u00fct",
"\u02c8sw\u0113t"
],
"synonyms":[
"cortege",
"cort\u00e8ge",
"entourage",
"following",
"posse",
"retinue",
"tail",
"train"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a suite of offices on the fifth floor",
"The executive suite is on the top floor.",
"She checked into a suite .",
"We stayed in the hotel's honeymoon suite .",
"The orchestra will be performing a suite .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"You will be left with a C- suite who is inadvertently making decisions based on fear or job preservation. \u2014 Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone , 2 June 2022",
"The third, with a sitting room and principal suite , is topped with straw. \u2014 Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"Other features include an executive office, a formal dining room and an expansive primary suite . \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 1 June 2022",
"There is a fireplace in the step-down great room, formal dining room and primary suite . \u2014 oregonlive , 31 May 2022",
"The 2019 home features an open chef's kitchen; a family room with glass doors to the patio; a main suite with vaulted ceiling, dual closets, and laundry; and a lower-level game room, gym, bar, and half-bath. \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 8 May 2022",
"But people of color held only 15% of C- suite marketing roles. \u2014 Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune , 6 May 2022",
"Also on the main level of the model home is a laundry room, a space which can be used as a den or as an office, a powder room and a primary suite . \u2014 Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant , 23 Apr. 2022",
"No matter your room or suite , though, face masks, sanitizer, and antibacterial wipes are supplied in each for greater peace of mind. \u2014 Travis Levius, Travel + Leisure , 20 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French, from Old French siute, suite \u2014 more at suit entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-130241"
},
"suburbia":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the suburbs of a city",
": people who live in the suburbs",
": suburban life"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259r-b\u0113-\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[
"environs",
"outskirts",
"purlieus"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a problem that is common in suburbia",
"the percentage of the country's population living in suburbia",
"The film is an interesting critique of suburbia .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Threats continue for the few hundred surviving animals, also called a puma, with suburbia invading their remaining Everglades refuge and rising sea levels expected to take more. \u2014 Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com , 5 Dec. 2021",
"The point of running new highways, the theory goes, was providing middle-class whites with a path into suburbia . \u2014 Steven Malanga, WSJ , 19 Apr. 2021",
"Earlier route proposals were met with concerns over proximity to homes, churches and schools in neighborhoods in the densely populated suburbia between Palmer and Wasilla, Castro said. \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Apr. 2022",
"On this corner of suburbia , Watkins enters drivers\u2019 lives for 10 or 15 seconds at red lights. \u2014 Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Black authors are carrying us into bird sanctuaries, catholic mass pews, sweeping tropical graveyards, locker room huddles, ship bows, and the hollows of suburbia this season. \u2014 Admin, Essence , 7 Jan. 2022",
"The population growth has strained the county\u2019s limited housing stock, spurring debate over zoning changes that has appeared, at times, like a referendum on traditional notions of suburbia . \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Generally, those living in outer suburbia and rural areas will pay less than motorists in large urban areas where there is a greater probability of getting into a wreck and/or having a car get damaged or stolen. \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Joe says Shirley Jackson wrote that suburbia is where people go to come apart. \u2014 Jessica Goldstein, Vulture , 17 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"New Latin, from English suburb ",
"first_known_use":[
"1870, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-131350"
},
"sustain":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to give support or relief to",
": to supply with sustenance : nourish",
": keep up , prolong",
": to support the weight of : prop",
": to carry or withstand (a weight or pressure)",
": to buoy up",
": to bear up under",
": suffer , undergo",
": to support as true, legal, or just",
": to allow or admit as valid",
": to support by adequate proof : confirm",
": a musical effect that prolongs a note's resonance",
": to provide with what is needed",
": to keep up the spirits of",
": to keep up : prolong",
": to hold up the weight of",
": experience entry 2",
": to allow or uphold as true, legal, or fair",
": to support as true, legal, or just",
": to allow or uphold as valid",
"\u2014 compare overrule sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8st\u0101n",
"s\u0259-\u02c8st\u0101n",
"s\u0259-\u02c8st\u0101n"
],
"synonyms":[
"nourish",
"nurture"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Hope sustained us during that difficult time.",
"The roof, unable to sustain the weight of all the snow, collapsed.",
"The army sustained heavy losses.",
"He sustained serious injuries in the accident.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The franchise has evolved and become something else in order to sustain itself. \u2014 Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"The pack stayed patient, convinced Kioko couldn\u2019t sustain it. \u2014 Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 8 June 2022",
"Be sure to borrow enough money to launch the business and sustain it through the often rocky first months. \u2014 Rohit Arora, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"Rick 'Hollywood' Neven \u2013 Dan Fouts: Really gifted aerial artist back in the day but couldn't sustain it when the playoff bullets flew. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
"The self-regulatory initiative is seeking startup funding, potentially from philanthropies, beyond whatever dues or fees would sustain it. \u2014 Darius Tahir, Fortune , 18 May 2022",
"The country\u2019s military was unable to sustain itself in large part because of the loss of U.S. airstrikes in support of the Afghans, the report found. \u2014 Courtney Kube, NBC News , 18 May 2022",
"Eventually if this emptiness is not filled by a return to in-person interactions, young people will rely more and more on social media\u2014which will sustain us only for a limited time before the addiction takes over and causes harm. \u2014 WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"But the basic problem was that the military culture of the Soviet Union endured, despite the lack of men and means to sustain it, analysts said. \u2014 New York Times , 16 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Our intelligence and capacities as a species require a brain far too large to sustain in utero. \u2014 USA Today , 9 June 2022",
"Decades of pollution has reached a tipping point, where an explosive and ongoing growth of harmful algae has wiped out the underwater beds of seagrass that sustain manatees. \u2014 Orlando Sentinel , 10 May 2022",
"Good schools drive property values and attract young families, but also most importantly produce educated citizens who are able to self sustain and thrive. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"From a senior executive point of view, trust-making is the most powerful corporate DNA to sow, cultivate, and sustain . \u2014 Cindy Gordon, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Ordinary people, not charismatic leaders, sustain democracy. \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 6 Mar. 2022",
"The aim is to understand these works in the context of their own cultures, exploring the customs and beliefs that the works were\u2014and among some groups still are\u2014created to sustain . \u2014 Susan Delson, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Sitting in second place in the West Division for the NWSL\u2019s Challenge Cup, Portland knocked off San Diego 3-2, using three first-half goals to build enough of a lead to sustain a late charge from the road team. \u2014 Tyson Alger For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Dancers with the stamina and grace to sustain slowly become agents of astonishment. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1972, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-132720"
},
"subduer":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish",
": to bring under control especially by an exertion of the will : curb",
": to bring (land) under cultivation",
": to reduce the intensity or degree of : tone down",
": to bring under control",
": to overcome in battle"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8d\u00fc",
"-\u02c8dy\u00fc",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8d\u00fc",
"-\u02c8dy\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"dispatch",
"do down",
"get",
"get around",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"skunk",
"stop",
"surmount",
"take",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"upend",
"win (against)",
"worst"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"examples":[
"The troops were finally able to subdue the rebel forces after many days of fighting.",
"He was injured while trying to subdue a violent drunk.",
"She struggled to subdue her fears.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Just as the United States had conquered the American West, the nation would subdue , civilize, and remake international relations. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Law enforcement couldn\u2019t immediately subdue the killer. \u2014 The Editors, Scientific American , 26 May 2022",
"In a shallow water grappling fight, Midtb\u00f8 and his opponent start out on their knees in the tide, with the goal being to achieve a dominant position, subdue the other, and get their head under the water. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 14 May 2022",
"In the final moments, the officer was on top of Lyoya, trying to subdue him. \u2014 Mike Householder And Ed White, USA TODAY , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Before late July, if the person was ordered detained and refused to go, police would physically subdue the person and take them to a hospital. \u2014 Daniel Gilbert, oregonlive , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Police on Thursday arrested an Escondido landlord who allegedly attacked his tenant, stabbing him and hitting with a baseball bat, and then stabbed a police dog that was trying to subdue him, a lieutenant said. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The easiest hits to eliminate would come from fights, but Bettman views fighting as an outlet to subdue more violent tendencies, like a weary parent sending rowdy kids outside to play to release energy. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2021",
"Details are beginning to emerge about what happened inside a Laguna Woods church Sunday after 1 p.m., when a gunman opened fire and some parishioners were able to subdue him and recover two handguns. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sodewen, subduen , from Anglo-French soduire, subdure to lead astray, overcome, arrest (influenced in form and meaning by Latin subdere to subject), from Latin subducere to withdraw, remove stealthily",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-142423"
},
"substantiate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to give substance or form to : embody",
": to establish by proof or competent evidence : verify"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8stan(t)-sh\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrate",
"establish",
"prove",
"show"
],
"antonyms":[
"disprove"
],
"examples":[
"substantiated his claim to local mountaineering fame with a photo of himself on the summit of Mount McKinley",
"Mr. MacGregor couldn't substantiate that it was Peter, and not some other rabbit, in the cabbage patch.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As part of its defense, the tabloid newspaper was forced to substantiate its claims under the country\u2019s stringent libel laws, unlike in the U.S. trial, where the burden of proof was on Depp. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 June 2022",
"Heard, who divorced Depp in 2016 after obtaining a domestic violence restraining order, has been dragged through two trials across two continents to substantiate allegations that Depp abused her. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"Quarterly tests of reserve coverage are limited to attestations that, unlike audits, neither substantiate the data presented nor seek to identify gaps in systems or controls. \u2014 Matt Sekerke, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"However, the current evidence and the CDC\u2019s changing policies do not substantiate the need for vaccine mandates for schoolchildren to achieve these public-health goals. \u2014 Heidi Overton, National Review , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Emotional control could prove even harder to substantiate , especially in a country where open discussion of mental health can still carry a stigma. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Jan. 2022",
"De Oreo's lawsuit also claims the diocese investigated the allegations in each letter and found no evidence to substantiate them. \u2014 Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Frito-Lay denied the rumor, and USA TODAY could find no other evidence to substantiate it. \u2014 Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2020",
"In recent months, as platforms like Gettr and Truth Social have come online and expanded, the universe of users has grown \u2014 though that growth has been uneven and difficult to substantiate independently, experts said. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-143613"
},
"survive":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to remain alive or in existence : live on",
": to continue to function or prosper",
": to remain alive after the death of",
": to continue to exist or live after",
": to continue to function or prosper despite : withstand",
": to remain alive : continue to exist",
": to live or exist longer than or past the end of",
": to remain alive or in existence : live on",
": to remain alive after the death of",
": to continue to exist or live after"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259r-\u02c8v\u012bv",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8v\u012bv",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8v\u012bv"
],
"synonyms":[
"ride (out)",
"weather"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like his counterparts in Hermans\u2019s other books, the nerdy young geologist, Alfred Issendorf, is determined to survive under highly challenging circumstances; but unlike them, he is not required to commit or cover up a murder. \u2014 Francine Prose, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"The AICO Act will result in small and specialized merchants losing access to online customers like my husband, threatening their ability to survive . \u2014 Rajshree Agarwal, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"But concerns about the economy have many people wondering if their jobs are secure enough to survive . \u2014 Ray A. Smith, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"Its first three albums, the school trilogy, reflected the concerns of teen-agers and young adults trying to survive South Korea\u2019s high-pressure education system. \u2014 E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker , 21 June 2022",
"Chen was rushed to an area hospital but didn't survive despite several subsequent hours of rescue efforts. \u2014 CBS News , 21 June 2022",
"This may eventually equip you to survive on your own. \u2014 Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive , 21 June 2022",
"But the control that's enabled her to build her fascinating life and career -- and survive an industry that's made victims of so many women like her -- doesn't quite leave scope for the vulnerability that would allow a full, raw picture. \u2014 Holly Thomas, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"Roberts said that program could not survive the court\u2019s scrutiny. \u2014 Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
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"adjective",
"verb"
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": to stand or lie at the top of",
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"s\u0259r-\u02c8mau\u0307nt"
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"an Olympic swimmer who surmounted endless obstacles to achieve her goals",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That Republicans are overwhelmingly conservative makes their messaging challenges much easier to surmount . \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 6 June 2022",
"To pass the legislation, supporters would need 60 votes to surmount a filibuster. \u2014 Scott Macfarlane, CBS News , 4 May 2022",
"The option is designed to help surmount a fundamental hurdle for private commercial developers. \u2014 Jeffrey Steele, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Marx undermined this interiority of man that had shaped the Western mind, even the mind of the German philosopher Hegel, who is the cornerstone of Marx\u2019s philosophical endeavor but one that Marx strived to surmount . \u2014 Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"The job gradually gave him stability, and enabled him to surmount the trauma of Estonian independence. \u2014 Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Although her arrival breaks one of the remaining racial barriers in American democracy, many Black Americans still struggle to surmount systemic blocks. \u2014 Aaron Morrison, ajc , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Fellowes to some degree borrows from himself in Gosford Park by mixing film folk with upper-crust locals to observe the class divide and then erase it as masters and servants pitch in together to surmount all obstacles. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The tanker bot faces a new challenge, though, one that governments enforcing sanctions will also struggle to surmount . \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 28 Mar. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-171052"
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"noun"
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02ccp\u0101-tr\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4-tik",
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"1857, in the meaning defined above"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": coolly and patronizingly haughty"
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8si-l\u0113-\u0259s",
"-\u02c8sil-y\u0259s"
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"While Americans did congregate together at baseball games, \u2026 amusement parks, dance halls and arcades, tensions still roiled. The middle class may not have been as supercilious as the elites it replaced, but middle-class reformers were every bit as strident as those elites in condemning \u2026 working-class entertainments, and for the same reason: These entertainments constituted a challenge to the class's social control. \u2014 Neal Gabler , Life: The Movie , 1998",
"Cross' popular academic sleuth Kate Fansler returns, this time as a guest professor at the down-at-the-heels Schuyler Law School, where she has been asked to teach a course on literature and the law. Ardent feminist Kate soon finds that not only is Schuyler a bastion of intolerant, supercilious white males, but worse, any attempt by women or minorities to be heard is quickly quashed by the old-boy network. \u2014 Emily Melton , Booklist , 15 Dec. 1994",
"Jorgeson had a sharp tongue and was so supercilious in his remarks that I didn't know quite how seriously I should take this talk, but I enjoyed his humor and I did believe he had the sensibilities of an artist. \u2014 Thom Jones , New Yorker , 2 Dec. 1991",
"the supercilious art dealer rolled her eyes when we asked if she had anything for under $1,000",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To advertise that confidence with an unselfconscious, open-mouthed, haplessly disarming smile \u2014 to resist the urge, in other words, to fake an air of supercilious self-importance \u2014 is the very best thing. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Jan. 2022",
"From a supercilious smile to icy anger and back again, wonderfully easeful Charles Edwards is every inch the droll Vidal. \u2014 David Benedict, Variety , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Absent context, hand gestures perform a supercilious pantomime. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Aug. 2021",
"On the surface, Richardson appears unequivocally bold, toeing the line between confident and supercilious . \u2014 oregonlive , 19 June 2021",
"And the trustees who gleefully conspire in old age to gum up the keys of Petrie\u2019s cherished typewriter seem unaltered from the supercilious , eager-to-humiliate childhood chums of long ago. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Susan remembers Conway, a supercilious jerk, all too well. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Dec. 2020",
"This always induces some supercilious snickering among foreigners. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Service is immaculate, but friendly and never supercilious . \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 1 Dec. 2019"
],
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"1543, in the meaning defined above"
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"While Americans did congregate together at baseball games, \u2026 amusement parks, dance halls and arcades, tensions still roiled. The middle class may not have been as supercilious as the elites it replaced, but middle-class reformers were every bit as strident as those elites in condemning \u2026 working-class entertainments, and for the same reason: These entertainments constituted a challenge to the class's social control. \u2014 Neal Gabler , Life: The Movie , 1998",
"Cross' popular academic sleuth Kate Fansler returns, this time as a guest professor at the down-at-the-heels Schuyler Law School, where she has been asked to teach a course on literature and the law. Ardent feminist Kate soon finds that not only is Schuyler a bastion of intolerant, supercilious white males, but worse, any attempt by women or minorities to be heard is quickly quashed by the old-boy network. \u2014 Emily Melton , Booklist , 15 Dec. 1994",
"Jorgeson had a sharp tongue and was so supercilious in his remarks that I didn't know quite how seriously I should take this talk, but I enjoyed his humor and I did believe he had the sensibilities of an artist. \u2014 Thom Jones , New Yorker , 2 Dec. 1991",
"the supercilious art dealer rolled her eyes when we asked if she had anything for under $1,000",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To advertise that confidence with an unselfconscious, open-mouthed, haplessly disarming smile \u2014 to resist the urge, in other words, to fake an air of supercilious self-importance \u2014 is the very best thing. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Jan. 2022",
"From a supercilious smile to icy anger and back again, wonderfully easeful Charles Edwards is every inch the droll Vidal. \u2014 David Benedict, Variety , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Absent context, hand gestures perform a supercilious pantomime. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Aug. 2021",
"On the surface, Richardson appears unequivocally bold, toeing the line between confident and supercilious . \u2014 oregonlive , 19 June 2021",
"And the trustees who gleefully conspire in old age to gum up the keys of Petrie\u2019s cherished typewriter seem unaltered from the supercilious , eager-to-humiliate childhood chums of long ago. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Susan remembers Conway, a supercilious jerk, all too well. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Dec. 2020",
"This always induces some supercilious snickering among foreigners. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Service is immaculate, but friendly and never supercilious . \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 1 Dec. 2019"
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"1543, in the meaning defined above"
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"\u02c8s\u0259n-\u02ccl\u012bt",
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"Sunlight streamed through the windows.",
"let's raise the shades and let in some sunlight",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For example, red is life, orange is healing and yellow is sunlight . \u2014 oregonlive , 7 June 2022",
"And there is so much more sunlight to coax the little studs of new spruce to grow to monarch size. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
"Outfitted with banquettes, tables, and other cozy nooks and surrounded by trees and vibrant plants, the beauty of the room transforms and casts new shadows as sunlight changes from the early morning hours to twilight. \u2014 Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2022",
"Or the sensation in the retina when a ray of sunlight slips between mountain peaks and illuminates a high-altitude landscape. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"The key to maximizing growth and fruit production is enough sunlight . \u2014 Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 May 2022",
"The small room at the garrison, with an altar and church icons on the wall, had a somber feel as morning sunlight and the smell of incense filled the space. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 May 2022",
"The technology could be particularly useful in a place such as Alaska, where near-constant summer sunlight coincides with relatively low rates of energy use. \u2014 Anna Blaustein, Scientific American , 6 May 2022",
"The lowest sunlight percentage since the 1893 mark was 32% in 2011. \u2014 Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune , 5 May 2022"
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"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0259n"
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"Economy got you down? Provocateur Ehrenreich \u2026 says: Don't try cheering yourself up. \u2026 Her sharp, funny critique finds that sunny types don't necessarily live longer or better than grumps. Besides, can you really get rid of all negativity in your life? \"It is not so easy,\" she notes, \"to abandon the whiny toddler or the sullen teenager.\" \u2014 Richard Eisenberg , People , 26 Oct. 2009",
"The skies grew sullen and the air chillier, but it wasn't until the third day that the snow came. \u2014 Bill Bryson , A Walk In The Woods , 1999",
"Despite angry alumni calls and sullen students protests\u2014including the cancellation of all fraternity parties at the school's annual Winter Carnival\u2014the faculty unanimously voted in favor of the college's goal to make fraternities and sororities substantially coed, along with developing new social alternatives for its 4,300 undergraduates. \u2014 Anita Hamilton , Time , 1 Mar. 1999",
"sullen skies that matched our mood on the day of the funeral",
"sullen and bored at his in-laws' house, he couldn't wait for the holidays to end",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Although Barry never took murder lightly, per se, the show mined plenty of comedy from the ensemble surrounding its sullen protagonist, as Barry strained to pantomime the sunniness around him. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"McIlroy on Tuesday was everything the sullen and snippy Phil Mickelson was not on Monday at the U.S. Open. \u2014 Christine Brennan, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"Perfetti, who plays well-intended but exhaustingly woke Jacob on ABC hit Abbott Elementary, walks a tightrope of sullen selfishness that masks a deeper loneliness and hunger for relationships. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"Shawna Oertley stepped into the stark white room, silent but for the muffled sounds of sullen voices. \u2014 Katie Mettler, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
"In the maternity ward, Nucchi (Sarwat Gilani) \u2014 sullen and sweaty \u2014 stares off into the distance as Saleem gently strokes her face. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"Her character, Erin, is damaged, leaving her quiet, sullen , bitter. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 20 May 2022",
"Every sullen goth teen who ever wore black in the Eighties has a soft spot in their heart for this man, which is why fans all over the world are blasting Black Celebration in his honor right now. \u2014 Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone , 27 May 2022",
"Fertility clinic waiting rooms with sullen faces consumed my mornings for nearly two years. \u2014 Chloe Melas, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": hobo sense 2 , vagrant sense 1a",
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"[from his habit of arriving at a place where he hopes to obtain food and lodging too late to do any work]"
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"sundowners showing up at a sheep station looking for work",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Southern Santa Barbara County will face gusty, sundowner winds through Tuesday night, which will be followed by gusty onshore winds during the afternoon to evening period from Tuesday through Sunday. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 7 June 2022",
"The Valley Center Chamber of Commerce holds a sundowner from 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday at Star Valley Park, 14970 Vesper Road. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Over at Sandy Lane on the other side of the island, Scruffy\u2019s bar is a winning mix of yachties, owners and locals and especially buzzy on Wednesday night for a BBQ; Shenanigans, a restaurant nearby, is another sundowner -ready spot. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 3 Apr. 2022",
"The Valley Center Chamber of Commerce hosts a sundowner from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Valley Center Optometry, 29115 Valley Center Road, Suite E. All are welcome. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Head back to have a sundowner on your private patio facing Zion's magnificence and drop off into your plush mattress for a well-deserved rest. \u2014 Rina Nehdar, Travel + Leisure , 4 Mar. 2022",
"For the cocktail lovers, there are few more striking places in the Maldives to enjoy a sundowner than at Whale Bar. \u2014 Travis Levius, Travel + Leisure , 4 Jan. 2022",
"The largest there was the Alisal fire, which scorched 16,970 acres along the Gaviota coast in Santa Barbara County after it was sparked during a sundowner wind event in October. \u2014 Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times , 13 Dec. 2021",
"There, the danger will escalate Wednesday evening, when sundowner winds, named for their tendency to peak around sunset, are forecast to increase over the burn area. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times , 13 Oct. 2021"
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"subjoined an epilogue that informs the reader of the current doings and whereabouts of the participants in this real-life mystery"
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"1543, in the meaning defined above"
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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": marked by compact precise expression without wasted words",
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"Other experts are in the business of selling their research. Alan Greenspan made his reputation and career as a partner of Townsend-Greenspan, whose clients were a who's who of old Wall Street. Successful research firms can command substantial fees, and buyers demand clear, succinct and unequivocal analysis and predictions. \u2014 Zachary Karabell , Newsweek , 9 Mar. 2009",
"As Esther Benbassa recounts in her dry but impressively succinct and informative history, they arrived in the Roman province of Gaul in the first centuries of the common era, and soon found themselves trod underfoot by the ascendant Christian church. \u2014 David A. Bell , New Republic , 28 Feb. 2000",
"In his first work of popular science, English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proves himself to be a master of vivid clarity. His title, \" A Brief History of Time,\" is understated even by British standards; in 198 pages Hawking manages no less than a succinct history of cosmology, a concise explanation of general relativity and its intersection with quantum mechanics \u2026 \u2014 Richard Rhodes , Chicago Tribune , 27 Mar. 1988",
"He gave a succinct overview of the expansion project.",
"a pocket guide that provides succinct explanations for rules of grammar and punctuation",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In a succinct email, clearly articulate the reason for getting in contact with the potential partner, and end by asking for the best time to continue the conversation to discuss what was briefly presented at length. \u2014 Pauleanna Reid, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Clocking in at 2\u00bd hours, the Olivier Award-winning production is not a particularly succinct bit of storytelling. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"Her zingers\u2014 succinct , often biting, always revealing\u2014leapt out amid the show\u2019s famously sparse dialogue. \u2014 Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country , 29 May 2022",
"This remarkably succinct format was called a probabilistically checkable proof (PCP). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"Shell\u2019s succinct comments about Peacock\u2019s advertiser-friendly status were downright sedate compared what came from deputy Linda Yaccarino. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 May 2022",
"Kings coach Todd McLellan was angry and succinct at his postgame news conference. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
"That\u2019s what Orioles ace John Means posted Saturday afternoon, confirming the worst-case scenario with a succinct update on his impending elbow reconstruction surgery. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But her announcement post felt more succinct \u2014meandering from food baby to baby baby. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 13 Apr. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-192923"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": the explosion of a star in which the star may reach a maximum intrinsic luminosity one billion times that of the sun",
": one that explodes into prominence or popularity",
": superstar"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8n\u014d-v\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"megahit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner"
],
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"flop",
"misfire",
"turkey",
"washout"
],
"examples":[
"tragically, a shoulder injury cut short the pitching career of one of baseball's brightest supernovas",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The most distant supernova seen by astronomers to date goes back 12 billion years. \u2014 Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The most distant supernova seen by astronomers to date goes back 12 billion years. \u2014 Marcia Dunn, Baltimore Sun , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The most distant supernova seen by astronomers to date goes back 12 billion years. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"When a giant star explodes in a final, dramatic supernova , its collapse creates a tiny clot of matter so dense that its gravitational pull warps the fabric of space and time around it. \u2014 Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Early startup mentality was often driven by anxiety about this new supernova of E-commerce. \u2014 Stephan Rabimov, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"The star lost a large chunk of its mass before its reverse shock supernova . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The beautiful remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova are located about 11,000 light-years away from Earth. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 16 Feb. 2022",
"This type of supernova is essentially a rapid collapse of the energy in the star before what\u2019s left of its core explodes. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 11 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"New Latin",
"first_known_use":[
"1932, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-193141"
},
"suffrage":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a short intercessory prayer usually in a series",
": a vote given in deciding a controverted question or electing a person for an office or trust",
": the right of voting : franchise",
": the exercise of such right",
": the right to vote",
": a vote in deciding a controverted question or the choice of a person for an office or trust",
": the right of voting : franchise",
": the exercise of such right"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-frij",
"sometimes",
"\u02c8s\u0259-frij",
"\u02c8s\u0259-frij"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballot",
"enfranchisement",
"franchise",
"vote"
],
"antonyms":[
"disenfranchisement"
],
"examples":[
"women who fought for suffrage",
"even as the world entered the 21st century, some nations still did not permit women's suffrage",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Though the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention is often identified as the beginning of the U.S. women\u2019s suffrage movement, the seeds of the struggle were present long before this historic convention. \u2014 Treva B. Lindsey, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2022",
"Smith also got involved with the women's suffrage movement as well as the Red Cross, her priorities seemingly changed. \u2014 CNN , 12 May 2022",
"Born poor, Woodhull was a leader of the women's suffrage movement and spoke before congress. \u2014 Jeryl Brunner, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"While scholars and historians have long known about the role Utah women played in the suffrage movement, most ordinary citizens did not. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Mar. 2022",
"She was also known for supporting women's suffrage and encouraging women to vote. \u2014 Sarah Ewall-wice, CBS News , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In August 2020, State Parks installed a statue of Truth at the western entrance of the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park in Highland, Ulster County, and dedicated it to the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage . \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 1 Mar. 2022",
"With this justification, many embraced a range of causes, including temperance, the abolition of slavery, and suffrage . \u2014 Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Apr. 2022",
"But minority suffrage has grown tremendously, and the benefits of federal oversight have persisted. \u2014 The Editors, Scientific American , 21 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, \"help, aid, intercessory prayer, indulgence,\" borrowed from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin suffr\u0101gium \"vote, selection, aid, support, intercessory prayer,\" going back to Latin, \"vote cast in an assembly, right to vote, decision reached by a vote, influence exerted in support of a candidate or policy,\" from suffr\u0101gor, suffr\u0101g\u0101r\u012b \"to express public support (for a candidate, measure, etc.), be favorable (toward)\" (from suf-, assimilated form of sub- sub- + -fr\u0101g-, probably from the base of frangere, past participle fr\u0101ctus, \"to break, shatter\") + -ium, deverbal suffix of function or state \u2014 more at break entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-194245"
},
"suited":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a set of garments: such as",
": an ensemble of two or more usually matching outer garments (such as a jacket, vest, and trousers)",
": a costume to be worn for a special purpose or under particular conditions",
": an action or process in a court for the recovery of a right or claim",
": recourse or appeal to a feudal superior for justice or redress",
": all the playing cards in a pack bearing the same symbol",
": all the dominoes bearing the same number",
": all the cards or counters in a particular suit held by one player",
": the suit led",
": a business executive",
": a group of things forming a unit : suite",
": an act or instance of suing or seeking by entreaty : appeal",
": courtship",
": suite sense 1",
": to meet the needs or desires of : please",
": to be proper for : befit",
": to be becoming to",
": to outfit with clothes : dress",
": accommodate , adapt",
": to put on specially required clothing (such as a uniform or protective garb)",
": to be in accordance : agree",
": to be appropriate or satisfactory",
": a set of clothing having matching top and bottom pieces",
": a set of clothes or protective coverings worn for a special purpose or under particular conditions",
": an action in court to settle a disagreement or enforce a right or claim",
": all the playing cards of one kind (as spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs) in a pack",
": to be suitable or satisfactory",
": to make suitable : adapt",
": to be proper for or pleasing with",
": to meet the needs or desires of",
"\u2014 see g suit , pressure suit",
": a proceeding to enforce a right or claim",
": an action brought in a court seeking a remedy for injuries suffered or a determination of rights : lawsuit"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fct",
"\u02c8s\u00fct"
],
"synonyms":[
"action",
"lawsuit",
"proceeding"
],
"antonyms":[
"befit",
"beseem",
"do",
"fit",
"go",
"serve"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Amanda Carley, a onetime Mendocino County deputy probation officer, filed suit against the county and Chief Noble Waidelich in 2017 after years of alleged domestic abuse. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Since the trade, two more women have filed suit against the quarterback. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 10 June 2022",
"Wu said the release of the massive file was to demonstrate a commitment to transparency \u2014 though it should be noted that the Globe had filed suit seeking those same records in 2021, prior to Wu taking office. \u2014 Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Legal Aid filed suit on Feb. 18, 2021 after the state agency failed to provide a timeline for the production of documents. \u2014 Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online , 10 June 2022",
"How many massage therapists have now filed suit against new Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson? \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 7 June 2022",
"The companies announced the surprising partnership five years after Waymo filed a suit against Uber, alleging a plot to steal trade secrets and intellectual property. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 7 June 2022",
"Henry\u2019s Louisiana Grill had filed suit against Allied Insurance Co. of America after its affiliate, Nationwide, denied coverage. \u2014 Bill Rankin, ajc , 3 June 2022",
"In response, attorneys for the Southern Environmental Law Center have filed suit in US District Court to throw out the license, saying the FAA failed to correctly assess the risks of launching small rockets from the location, AP reports. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 3 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But some Chrome critics have noted that the Manifest V3 changes rather suit Google\u2019s browser, since the tech giant's business model is based around advertising. \u2014 Kate O'flaherty, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"But management may not suit their skills, Race says. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 9 June 2022",
"But part of the case remains, thanks to pre- suit assurances by Twitter. \u2014 Jack Greiner, The Enquirer , 11 May 2022",
"The majority of grill gazebos are roughly 8 feet wide by 5 feet deep, so first decide whether those dimensions suit your space. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 9 May 2022",
"One, inertia rules the day and local counties are stuck with a big tax bill; two, Disney files suit to stop the dissolution; or three, Disney and Florida renegotiate a new special district. \u2014 Eric Levenson And Steve Contorno, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Prior to its appearance at the Get Back sessions, worn the day the band recorded the song of the same name, Harrison wore the ultra-'60s suit to the premiere of the film Wonderwall at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 1968. \u2014 Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The pace and narrative arcs of the two shows suit the individual artists, Ouzounian adds. \u2014 Deborah Vankinstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Not only is the lack of noise pollution (and regular pollution), lower maintenance costs and usability attractive to big ski resorts, Bruneau says the performance and battery characteristics suit ski patrol duties perfectly. \u2014 Bryan Campbell, Robb Report , 25 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 7",
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-195149"
},
"succeeding":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to come next after another in office or position or in possession of an estate",
": to inherit sovereignty , rank, or title",
": to follow after another in order",
": to turn out well",
": to attain a desired object or end",
": to pass to a person by inheritance",
": to follow in sequence and especially immediately",
": to come after as heir or successor",
": to achieve a desired result : be successful",
": to turn out well",
": to come after : follow",
": to come next after another person in office or position",
": to come next after another in office or position",
": to take something by succession",
": to acquire the rights, obligations, and charges of a decedent in property comprising an estate",
": to follow in sequence and especially immediately",
": to come after as heir or successor"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259k-\u02c8s\u0113d",
"s\u0259k-\u02c8s\u0113d",
"s\u0259k-\u02c8s\u0113d"
],
"synonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"work out"
],
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"wash out"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What\u2019s more, Twitter would need to succeed where Facebook parent Meta, a company with nearly 10 times the employee count, has largely failed. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Candidates of both parties who are running to succeed outgoing Republican Gov. \u2014 Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun , 16 June 2022",
"Suder said his father\u2019s guidance and influence have been a key factor in his development, and his drive to succeed at the next level. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal , 16 June 2022",
"To succeed , supply chains need to integrate people, processes, technology and data internally and externally across their network. \u2014 Clayton Nicholas, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Society has engrained in us that multitasking is an important skill that is needed to succeed , Miller said. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"Mitchell is fully aware the Jazz need a superstar to succeed . \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"Reagan begins to succeed at work, finally securing backing to expand her Minishonka cultural center, but must do so without the support of her best friend. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"Former Orange County Commissioner Ted Edwards is the latest Republican to jump into the race to succeed retiring Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy. \u2014 Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English succeden , from Anglo-French succeeder , from Latin succedere to go up, follow after, succeed, from sub- near + cedere to go \u2014 more at sub- ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-195220"
},
"sunrise":{
"type":[
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the apparent rising of the sun above the horizon",
": the accompanying atmospheric effects",
": the time when the upper limb of the sun appears above the horizon as a result of the diurnal rotation of the earth",
": the apparent rise of the sun above the horizon",
": the light and color of the rise of the sun above the horizon",
": the time at which the sun rises",
"city in southeastern Florida west of Fort Lauderdale population 84,439"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259n-\u02ccr\u012bz",
"\u02c8s\u0259n-\u02ccr\u012bz",
"\u02c8s\u0259n-\u02ccr\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"aurora",
"cockcrow",
"dawn",
"dawning",
"day",
"daybreak",
"daylight",
"light",
"morn",
"morning",
"sun",
"sunup"
],
"antonyms":[
"nightfall",
"sundown",
"sunset"
],
"examples":[
"We were up before sunrise .",
"We worked from sunrise to sunset .",
"We watched the sunrise from the beach.",
"the pink light of sunrise",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Before sunrise on Friday, June 24, 2022 is the last best chance to see the five naked-eye planets shining together until 2041. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"The trip also includes cultural highlights like the Taj Mahal in India (and a sunrise photo op, of course) and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 17 June 2022",
"The parade of planets will be best seen about 45-60 minutes before sunrise on cloud-free mornings through then. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Scattered to numerous showers and storms become probable in the sunrise period, with remnants of a storm complex likely passing the area in the 6-10 a.m. timeframe. \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"The coolest anticipated temperatures, expected around sunrise Saturday, were in the 60s to low 70s in the valley and foothills, and 50s to 60s in the mountains, forecasters said. \u2014 Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"The lakeside campout will introduce a new third stage, The Hideout, which will feature all night music and sunrise sets. \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 9 June 2022",
"The same five planets are viewable before sunrise in the Southern Hemisphere, but stargazers there should stake out a location with unobstructed views of the eastern and northeastern horizon, instead. \u2014 Denise Chow, NBC News , 3 June 2022",
"In North or South America, EarthSky notes, the fullest moon hangs in the West before sunrise on the 14th. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 28 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-195253"
},
"suggestive":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": giving a suggestion : indicative",
": full of suggestions : stimulating thought",
": stirring mental associations : evocative",
": suggesting or tending to suggest something improper or indecent : risqu\u00e9",
": giving a hint",
": full of suggestions",
": suggesting something improper or indecent",
": serving to indicate",
": tending to act like or have the effect of suggestion",
": giving a suggestion or making a hint: as",
": being a trademark, trade dress, trade name, or service mark that requires the consumer to use thought and imagination to perceive the nature of the product or service",
": relating to or being a lineup that in some way suggests to the witness which member of the lineup is in fact the defendant"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259g-\u02c8je-stiv",
"s\u0259-\u02c8je-",
"s\u0259g-\u02c8je-stiv",
"s\u0259-\u02c8je-",
"s\u0259(g)-\u02c8jes-tiv"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdy",
"blue",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"lewd",
"off",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"racy",
"ribald",
"risqu\u00e9",
"salty",
"spicy"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"making unwelcome suggestive remarks to a subordinate will be regarded as sexual harassment",
"a haunting and suggestive song about a long-lost love",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Contains some strong language and suggestive references. \u2014 Ann Hornaday, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"The forms are suggestive : Urns, traditionally, hold human remains; a wreath is a funerary offering going back centuries. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"How come the Actor is making suggestive remarks about Sasha\u2019s wife? \u2014 New York Times , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The irony is that, at the time of DDT\u2019s ban, the science linking its spray to human health was suggestive but inconclusive. \u2014 Scott W. Stern, The New Republic , 31 May 2022",
"Contains some suggestive references, strong language and mature thematic elements. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Peter sees photos of his ex, Anne (Gina Rodriguez), a middle school English teacher, snuggling with drama teacher Logan (Manny Jacinto) and leaving suggestive comments on his posts. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Thankfully, there are also insightful wall labels and smart and suggestive pairings of art. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"Cooper\u2019s suit claimed that Elkhart police officials, including detective Steve Rezutko, framed the men through false witness statements and unduly suggestive photo lineups. \u2014 Marek Mazurek, ProPublica , 5 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1631, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-195551"
},
"subsist":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to have existence : be",
": persist , continue",
": to have or acquire the necessities of life (such as food and clothing)",
": to nourish oneself",
": to hold true",
": to be logically conceivable as the subject of true statements",
": to support with provisions",
": to continue living or being"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8sist",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8sist"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"breathe",
"exist",
"live"
],
"antonyms":[
"depart",
"die",
"expire",
"pass away",
"perish",
"succumb"
],
"examples":[
"The author's right to royalties shall subsist for the term of the copyright.",
"a love that was as great as any that ever did subsist",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ukraine and Russia account for a third of global wheat and barley exports, which countries in the Middle East and Africa rely on to feed millions of people who subsist on subsidized bread. \u2014 Phil Mccausland, NBC News , 28 May 2022",
"Smedler also helped with business decisions that enabled the family to subsist on a limited budget. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 18 May 2022",
"Regal fritillary butterflies, which subsist on violets and stick to prairie habitats, are disappearing. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The people subsist on fishing, hunting, and farming crops such as cassava and plantain. \u2014 V\u00edctor Bastidas, Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Ukraine and Russia account for a third of global wheat and barley exports, which Middle East countries rely on to feed millions of people who subsist on subsidized bread and bargain noodles. \u2014 Samy Magdy, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Ukraine and Russia account for a third of global wheat and barley exports, which countries in the Middle East rely on to feed millions of people who subsist on subsidized bread and bargain noodles. \u2014 Celina Tebor, USA TODAY , 28 Mar. 2022",
"But another, and potentially more pressing one is whether theaters will always have enough movies to subsist in between the biggest hits. \u2014 Jake Coyle, USA TODAY , 31 Jan. 2022",
"There\u2019s something here, in theory, for everyone \u2014 except those who subsist on an exclusive cinematic diet of superhero movies. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 22 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Late Latin subsistere to exist, from Latin, to come to a halt, remain, from sub- + sistere to come to a stand; akin to Latin stare to stand \u2014 more at stand ",
"first_known_use":[
"1549, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-201039"
},
"sulk":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to be moodily silent",
": the state of one sulking",
": a sulky mood or spell",
": to be angry or irritable about something but childishly refuse to talk about it",
": the state of a person who is sullenly silent or irritable",
": a sulky mood"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259lk",
"\u02c8s\u0259lk"
],
"synonyms":[
"grump",
"mope",
"pout"
],
"antonyms":[
"grouch",
"hump",
"pet",
"pouts",
"snit",
"sulkiness",
"sullenness"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"He went to sulk in his room.",
"She has been sulking all day.",
"Noun",
"a child sitting in a sulk over a minor disagreement",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In comparison, some may sulk if they\u2019re exposed to temperatures below 60 degrees. \u2014 Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun , 6 Apr. 2022",
"That doesn\u2019t mean an end to single-family homes, or that quaint bungalows will soon sulk in the shadows of towering apartment buildings. \u2014 Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com , 26 Dec. 2021",
"Yes, many people do, and many who do not will sulk when their birthdays are not acknowledged. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"But this front office will not sulk and will get back to work in preparation for a crucial offseason, even without a first-round pick in hand. \u2014 Jason Patt, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
"When Last Man Standing wasn\u2019t picked up for the 10th season, fans everywhere started to sulk over how their favorite sitcom would end. \u2014 Rebecca Norris, Country Living , 20 May 2021",
"All that was left was to bury my head in the pillow and try to sulk an apology out of her. \u2014 Robert Tate Miller, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 Dec. 2020",
"Rivers had to learn that lesson long ago, to block it out and not to bring it home, not to sit and sulk with his wife, Tiffany, and their nine children. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Oct. 2020",
"The Celtics entered last season with an abundance of talent, leaving coach Brad Stevens with difficult choices to make when distributing playing time, and sometimes leaving deserving players sulking about their roles. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Dec. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The team is horrified to watch sweet little Hughie become corrupted by power\u2026 but there's no time to sulk . \u2014 Alex Raiman, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"The summits abruptly ended after that since Obama's successor, President Donald Trump, had no interest in being anybody's amigo, as his campaign based on insulting Mexicans and an outrageous sulk at the G7 summit in Canada made quite clear. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 18 Nov. 2021",
"As Woodson pointed out, the Big Ten schedule offers no time to sulk . \u2014 Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Clinton and Penny reserve their darkest shade for former President Eric Dunn, a preening, bombastic one-termer who shredded the country\u2019s reputation and retreated to Florida to sulk , play golf and plot his return. \u2014 Sarah Lyall, New York Times , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Dumpty grudgingly consented in a sour and surly sulk . \u2014 John Lithgow, The New Yorker , 27 Sep. 2021",
"In the wild-card chase with precious few games left, the Mariners don\u2019t have time to sulk after tough losses. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Her anger and fatigue color her early opinions of other nuns, and Groff beautifully captures Marie\u2019s teenaged sulk . \u2014 Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times , 7 Sep. 2021",
"But rather than sulk , Ms. Meizz decided to do something about it. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1781, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1804, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-204848"
},
"summit":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": top , apex",
": the highest point : peak",
": the topmost level attainable",
": the highest level of officials",
": the diplomatic level of heads of government",
": a conference of highest-level officials (such as heads of government)",
": to participate in a summit conference",
": to climb to the summit",
": the highest point (as of a mountain) : top"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-m\u0259t",
"\u02c8s\u0259-m\u0259t"
],
"synonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"apogee",
"capstone",
"climax",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high noon",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"ne plus ultra",
"noon",
"noontime",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"sum",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith"
],
"antonyms":[
"bottom",
"nadir",
"rock bottom"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The mountain range has summits over 10,000 feet high.",
"The climbers failed to reach the summit .",
"Leaders of several nations attended the economic summit .",
"A summit on global warming was held that year.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The White House said Tuesday Biden would travel to Saudi Arabia next month for a summit of Arab leaders. \u2014 Ben Gittleson, ABC News , 14 June 2022",
"In recent years, scientists discovered microplastic pollution near the summit of Mount Everest and in the Marianas Trench \u2014 at depths among the deepest in the ocean. \u2014 Evan Bush, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
"Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been on the rise since a summit meeting between Kim and President Donald Trump in 2019 collapsed over sanctions relief. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The agreement to deliver anti-aircraft tanks to Kyiv was announced on Tuesday in conjunction with a summit meeting among western nations held at the U.S. Air Force Base in Ramstein, Germany. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Given both countries\u2019 relationships with NATO, applications to join the 30-member alliance would be accepted quickly, probably in late June, at NATO\u2019s summit meeting in Madrid. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The last summit meeting between the EU and China was in June 2020. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 2 Apr. 2022",
"President Joe Biden and President of France Emmanuel Macron at a Thursday NATO summit meeting in Brussels. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Last year, the Biden administration renewed the New START treaty, lifted sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and invited Putin to a summit meeting, all without exacting any concessions from Russia in return. \u2014 Jim Talent, National Review , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Originally, Carter had planned to summit Everest, then come back to the South Col and take off from there. \u2014 Lilit Marcus, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"Of the expeditions leaving Nepalese camp, the first teams are expected to summit on Tuesday, May 1o, with others following in the ensuing days. \u2014 Ben Ayers, Outside Online , 7 May 2022",
"Lone Pine, the jumping-off point for hikers attempting to summit Mt. Whitney, is home to plenty of down-to-earth inns and eateries accustomed to serving an outdoorsy crowd and the eerily beautiful Alabama Hills. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Naperville\u2019s Lucy Westlake climbed into the record books at 5:36 a.m. Thursday (Nepal time) as the youngest American female to summit the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest. \u2014 Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune , 12 May 2022",
"Authorities say an Austrian mountain climber has died after going missing while attempting to summit Denali in Alaska. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 7 May 2022",
"Leaving Kahiltna, the pilots flew a meandering path that followed parts of the West Buttress route, which, according to the Army, more than 90% of climbers follow to try to summit Denali. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 2 May 2022",
"The first expedition of Black mountaineers to attempt to summit Mount Everest is sitting on top of the world \u2014 literally. \u2014 Kimberly Wilson, Essence , 15 May 2022",
"Plus, breathless stories about the youngest person to summit a mountain or complete a trail feel like the continuation of an outdated and increasingly unhealthy attitude toward outdoor recreation. \u2014 Krista Langlois, Outside Online , 11 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1955, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-204955"
},
"sure-enough":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": actual , genuine , real",
": as one might expect : certainly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8shu\u0307r-\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259f",
"\u02c8sh\u0259r-"
],
"synonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"certifiable",
"certified",
"dinkum",
"echt",
"genuine",
"honest",
"pukka",
"pucka",
"real",
"right",
"true"
],
"antonyms":[
"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"false",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pseudo",
"sham",
"spurious",
"suppositious",
"supposititious",
"unauthentic",
"unreal"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"And sure enough , asset is the right answer for the win! \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 25 May 2022",
"A day after Diamondbacks closer Mark Melancon couldn't keep the score tied in the ninth inning for the second time in his last four outings, sure enough , the Diamondbacks entered the ninth all even with the Chicago Cubs Sunday at Chase Field. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 15 May 2022",
"But sure enough , the Dodgers are expected to employ him as the starter or bulk reliever in the series finale with the Phillies. \u2014 Steve Hensonassistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
"And sure enough , Franco will be there, too; he\u2019s Washington\u2019s everyday third baseman this season. \u2014 Patrick Stevens, Chron , 13 May 2022",
"And, sure enough , the list of countries not participating in Meta's Social Connectedness Index reads like an almanac of countries at war. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 3 May 2022",
"She was slightly stooped but sure enough on her feet to go unassisted from the aisle to her chair, which served as a kind of throne. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Golf resorts have popped up in places where tourists rarely dream of going, but the proprietors have built fantastic courses\u2014unique, challenging, fun, timeless\u2014and sure enough , golfers have packed up their sticks and come. \u2014 J. George Gorant, Robb Report , 2 Jan. 2022",
"Health-policy analysts say that in order to avoid overwhelming its medical system in a major outbreak, China needs not just to free up hospital beds but make sure enough health workers are on hand. \u2014 Liyan Qi And Natasha Khan, WSJ , 23 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"circa 1846, in the meaning defined above",
"Adverb",
"circa 1545, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-212720"
},
"suitcase":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a portable case designed to hold a traveler's clothing and personal articles",
": a rectangular case used to carry clothing and belongings when traveling"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fct-\u02cck\u0101s",
"\u02c8s\u00fct-\u02cck\u0101s"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry-on",
"carryall",
"grip",
"handbag",
"holdall",
"portmanteau",
"traveling bag",
"wallet"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She packed her suitcases the night before she left.",
"it'll be much easier to carry a backpack than to lug that suitcase all over the place",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For reasons of state, the permanent inhabitants of the archipelago were removed, often with little warning, and typically allowed to bring only a single bag or suitcase or wooden box. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"The call to the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center came after U.S. deputy marshals reported seeing a person dressed in black clothing and carrying a backpack and suitcase emerge from a taxi stopped in front of Kavanaugh's house. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 14 June 2022",
"The person was dressed in black clothing and carrying a backpack and a suitcase . \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"These pouches can easily be added to any duffel bag or suitcase with no worries of spillage, and made in a hotel room or at a campsite with just a mug and hot water. \u2014 Jennifer Konerman, Sunset Magazine , 4 June 2022",
"Another thing to keep in mind is that lodges are often reached by tiny airplane, which often have weight limits around 20 kgs (or 44 lbs) for a passenger\u2019s entire bag allowance, meaning main suitcase and carry-ons combined. \u2014 Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country , 18 May 2022",
"The bag and suitcase still matched, but increasingly their owners went on vacation separately. \u2014 Valerie Stivers, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
"Pack light and opt for a backpack rather than a suitcase as most train stations feature flights of stairs and offer less overhead baggage room than an airline. \u2014 Alexandra Talty, Travel + Leisure , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Laxami's corpse was discovered in the Mae Klong River in Kanchanaburi town, dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase loaded with stones. \u2014 Heather Chen And Kocha Olarn, CNN , 1 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1873, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-231320"
},
"summarize":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to tell in or reduce to a summary",
": to make a summary",
": to tell in or reduce to a short statement of the main points"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz",
"\u02c8s\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"boil down",
"brief",
"digest",
"encapsulate",
"epitomize",
"outline",
"recap",
"recapitulate",
"reprise",
"sum up",
"synopsize",
"wrap up"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I would like to take a moment to summarize the facts that I presented earlier.",
"He summarized by saying we needed better planning and implementation.",
"To summarize , we need better schools.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There were three punts and a turnover to better summarize the uninspiring action. \u2014 Evan Dudley, al , 1 Sep. 2021",
"To summarize , in 2017 then-Special Operations Chief Gallagher led his Alpha SEAL platoon into Mosul, Iraq, in hopes of driving Islamic State fighters out of the city. \u2014 Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 Aug. 2021",
"The feature will summarize , in a few sentences, conversations that a user may have missed by being away or doing other tasks. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
"In a regular drumbeat, international experts summarize the global state of climate science. \u2014 Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 May 2022",
"Founders summarize their idea on a business model canvas, instead of writing a business plan and trying to guess all the unknowns. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"To summarize , the little bird comes to tell the receiver that they are being thought of and remembered by the giver. \u2014 Brenda Yenke, cleveland , 5 May 2022",
"In the 2019 Alaska Statewide Threat Assessment, which set out to summarize the risks permafrost presents, Point Lay is ranked as one of the top three communities under threat from permafrost thaw. \u2014 Lois Parshley, Anchorage Daily News , 3 May 2022",
"To quickly summarize the meat of the episode: Varga, through Mike Ehrmantraut, makes contact with Gus Fring \u2014 the cartel\u2019s man in the north, who used Varga to sic the hitmen on Salamanca. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1832, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-233410"
},
"sufferance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": patient endurance",
": pain , misery",
": consent or sanction implied by a lack of interference or failure to enforce a prohibition",
": endurance sense 1",
": consent or sanction implied by a lack of interference or failure to enforce a prohibition \u2014 see also estate at sufferance at estate sense 1 , tenancy at sufferance at tenancy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-f(\u0259-)r\u0259n(t)s",
"\u02c8s\u0259-fr\u0259ns, -f\u0259-r\u0259ns"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowance",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"granting",
"green light",
"leave",
"license",
"licence",
"permission",
"sanction",
"warrant"
],
"antonyms":[
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription"
],
"examples":[
"was pointedly reminded that he was at the private beach on sufferance and could be kicked out at any time",
"spending a whole day with my airheaded sister-in-law is beyond sufferance",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Air India\u2019s nationalization signaled that in independent India private enterprise would survive on the government\u2019s sufferance . \u2014 Sadanand Dhume, WSJ , 14 Oct. 2021",
"In the music of Beethoven, there is such an ethical, moral integrity \u2026 and power and sufferance . \u2014 Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com , 10 Sep. 2019",
"Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. \u2014 Thomas Jefferson Et Al, Cincinnati.com , 4 July 2018",
"Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. \u2014 Thomas Jefferson Et Al, Cincinnati.com , 4 July 2018",
"Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. \u2014 Thomas Jefferson Et Al, Cincinnati.com , 4 July 2018",
"Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. \u2014 Thomas Jefferson Et Al, Cincinnati.com , 4 July 2018",
"Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. \u2014 Thomas Jefferson Et Al, Cincinnati.com , 4 July 2018",
"Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. \u2014 Thomas Jefferson Et Al, Cincinnati.com , 4 July 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English suffraunce, sufferaunce \"affliction, endurance,\" borrowed from Anglo-French suffrance, suffraunce, borrowed from Late Latin sufferentia \"endurance,\" from Latin sufferent-, sufferens, present participle of sufferre \"to submit to, endure\" + -ia -ia entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-001056"
},
"subjection":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": one that is placed under authority or control: such as",
": vassal",
": one subject to a monarch and governed by the monarch's law",
": one who lives in the territory of, enjoys the protection of, and owes allegiance to a sovereign power or state",
": that of which a quality, attribute, or relation may be affirmed or in which it may inhere",
": substratum",
": material or essential substance",
": the mind, ego, or agent of whatever sort that sustains or assumes the form of thought or consciousness",
": a department of knowledge or learning",
": motive , cause",
": one that is acted on",
": an individual whose reactions or responses are studied",
": a dead body for anatomical study and dissection",
": a person who has engaged in activity that a federal prosecutor has identified as being within the scope of a federal grand jury investigation",
": something concerning which something is said or done",
": something represented or indicated in a work of art",
": the term of a logical proposition that denotes the entity of which something is affirmed or denied",
": the entity denoted",
": a word or word group denoting that of which something is predicated",
": the principal melodic phrase on which a musical composition or movement is based",
": owing obedience or allegiance to the power or dominion of another",
": suffering a particular liability or exposure",
": having a tendency or inclination : prone",
": contingent on or under the influence of some later action",
": to bring under control or dominion : subjugate",
": to make (someone, such as oneself) amenable to the discipline and control of a superior",
": to make liable : predispose",
": to cause or force to undergo or endure (something unpleasant, inconvenient, or trying)",
": the person or thing discussed : topic",
": an area of knowledge that is studied in school",
": a person who owes loyalty to a monarch or state",
": a person under the authority or control of another",
": the word or group of words about which the predicate makes a statement",
": a person or animal that is studied or experimented on",
": owing obedience or loyalty to another",
": possible or likely to be affected by",
": depending on",
": to bring under control or rule",
": to cause to put up with",
": an individual whose reactions or responses are studied",
": a dead body for anatomical study and dissection",
": the person upon whose life a life insurance policy is written and upon whose death the policy is payable : insured \u2014 compare beneficiary sense b , policyholder"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"-(\u02cc)jekt",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8jekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02ccjekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8jekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02ccjekt"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"matter",
"motif",
"motive",
"question",
"theme",
"topic"
],
"antonyms":[
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subjugate",
"subordinate",
"vanquish"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Deliberately blurring objects in the foreground can also serve as a great way to frame the subject in your photo so, as well as enhanced realism, this new feature will bring new creative possibilities to iPhone photography. \u2014 Paul Monckton, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The rate at which global temperatures are changing was not even the subject of the paper, Thorne, who was also an author of a 2021-2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, told USA TODAY in an email. \u2014 Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"The subsequent financial review uncovered questionable NRA expenditures, which were later detailed in a lawsuit and became the subject of an ongoing inquiry by New York Attorney General Letitia James. \u2014 Laura Strickler, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Over the past few months, several plays presented at San Diego theaters have dealt with the subject of aging, dying and adult caregiving. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"James' career is a fascinating subject upon which to hang a narrative of homosocial bonding and the complicated dance of male friendship. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"McClarnon has always been an incredible camera subject , his face all lines and angles, his eyes so big and expressive. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 9 June 2022",
"Once the subject was brought up, the two shared there mutual love for romantic comedies, and Aniston bemoaned the lack of rom-coms in modern day filmmaking. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"Over the course of the six-week defamation trial \u2014 which ended with the jury siding mostly with Depp, 58, against his ex-wife Amber Heard \u2014 Vasquez, one of Depp's lead attorneys, became the subject of social media fodder. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Lawyers for seven Morgan County residents contend in a court filing dated Tuesday that the Morgan board erred in granting its approval, and that deal isn\u2019t a usufruct but another type of lease that would be subject to full taxation. \u2014 J. Scott Trubey, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"The $600 is not subject to state or federal income tax. \u2014 Connor Radnovich, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Rhode Island Reporter. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Although its exact location is disputed, the possible locations lie in the northern part of Xinjiang, an autonomous territory in northwest China that's been subject to allegations of human rights abuses. \u2014 Tamara Hardingham-gill, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Alana's relationship with Carswell has been subject to criticism from fans who question their four-year age gap \u2014 while Alana is still legally a minor. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"Some schools, including charters and military academies, are not subject to the district\u2019s dress code guidelines. \u2014 Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Like everything else, baby names are subject to trends. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 22 June 2022",
"Rich Hoover, a spokesperson for The Oregon Department of Revenue, said the payments are not subject to state or federal income tax. \u2014 Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Fighter jets subject their airframes to more physical stress than larger airplanes, inducing metal fatigue on the airframe. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 1 June 2022",
"In Hieronymus Bosch\u2019s visions of hell, Satan and his followers subject sinners to an endless parade of punishments. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022",
"Inside Twitter, that has confirmed some employees\u2019 fears that Musk as owner would subject them to public scorn and harassment, rather than meeting with them privately, as any worker might hope a boss would do. \u2014 Will Oremus, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Why would this 21-year-old multimillionaire \u2014 who is among TikTok\u2019s most popular creators with nearly 52 million followers \u2014 subject himself to such punishment? \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
"As in the case of Iran, the U.S. must subject Russian oil to comprehensive sanctions. \u2014 Frank Fannon, WSJ , 8 Mar. 2022",
"These larger balls subject significantly less surface area (24%, to be precise) to the drink. \u2014 Kate Dingwall, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
"The Build Back Better bill, for example, included a provision that would subject crypto to the wash-sale rule. \u2014 Jeanne Sahadi, CNN , 11 May 2022",
"At this point, with all the traumatic things both the girls and guys have experienced during this experiment, I'm genuinely shocked any parent would willingly subject their kids to this. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 7 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-005830"
},
"supper club":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": nightclub"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"bistro",
"bo\u00eete",
"cabaret",
"caf\u00e9",
"cafe",
"club",
"nightclub",
"nightspot",
"nitery",
"niterie",
"roadhouse"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a posh suburban supper club that caters to a generally well-heeled clientele",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Opium, the sister show to Spiegelworld\u2019s beloved Absinthe, now has a supper club to go along with it. \u2014 Christina Liao, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"It was initially meant to be a dinner-and-a-movie supper club in partner chef Corey Dozier\u2019s backyard. \u2014 Michaela Heidemann, Chron , 6 May 2022",
"By 1976, Munley had his eye on a much larger \u2014 and quite different \u2014 venue: the Royal Hawaiian, a refined supper club in Baileys Crossroads. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Rodriguez plays a college literature professor who hits it off with a headliner at a Manhattan supper club (Fontana). \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 27 Mar. 2022",
"The restaurant is a modern take on a supper club , but done so in a way that still recalls the 1950s. \u2014 Christina Liao, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Pronto Kitchen) will shut down his Italian restaurant on May 12 for a $3 million transformation to turn Anthony\u2019s from an old-school dining room with airplane motifs into a sleek supper club . \u2014 Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Jackson Grill had an old-school, classic neighborhood-restaurant atmosphere \u2014 bar in the front, dining room in the back \u2014 which led some to think of it as a supper club . \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Another supper club option in the area, The Del-Bar dates to 1943 and is housed in a Prairie-style building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright prot\u00e9g\u00e9 James Dresser. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1844, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-012107"
},
"surf":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": the swell of the sea that breaks upon the shore",
": the foam, splash, and sound of breaking waves",
": to ride the surf (as on a surfboard )",
": to scan a wide range of offerings for something of interest",
": to scan the offerings of (such as television or the Internet) for something of interest",
": the waves of the sea that splash on the shore",
": the sound, splash, and foam of breaking waves",
": to ride the incoming waves of the sea (as on a surfboard)",
": to scan a wide range of offerings (as on television or the Internet) for something that is interesting or fills a need"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259rf",
"\u02c8s\u0259rf"
],
"synonyms":[
"foam",
"froth",
"head",
"lather",
"spume",
"suds"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We could hear the roar of the surf .",
"beachgoers romping in the swirling surf",
"Verb",
"He learned to surf when he was living in California.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Single red flags - indicating the potential for dangerous rip surf and currents \u2013 are flying in Destin today. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 13 June 2022",
"Two old piers with whitewashed railings carry tourists out over the placid bay, while amateur anglers cast lines into the surf . \u2014 Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor , 3 June 2022",
"Expect some dangerous surf if you're headed to the beach this weekend along the East Coast. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Wilfert said it's been fun interacting with people and sharing his knowledge of the surf and rip currents. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 Sep. 2021",
"Forecasters say the strongest surf and rip currents will occur north of Carlsbad, and that the waves could hit 6 feet in parts of southern Orange County. \u2014 Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 Sep. 2021",
"These swells could produce dangerous surf and rip current conditions. \u2014 Greg Norman, Fox News , 20 Aug. 2021",
"Riding waves at Waimea Bay, the dangerous and revered surf break on Oahu\u2019s North Shore, Greg Noll would orient himself by triangulating with two local Hawaiian landmarks, a church steeple and a cemetery. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 June 2021",
"Mayor Lenny Curry of Jacksonville, in Florida\u2019s northeast corner, urged residents to stay out of the water, warning that the surf and rip currents could be dangerous. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Nov. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"My nephews are learning to surf and can swim for hours just minutes from the house. \u2014 Fox News , 11 June 2022",
"Santa Teresa is the perfect place to surf , do yoga, and relax. \u2014 Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure , 1 June 2022",
"Paniccia used to surf for a living, one of the few female pro surfers back in the 1970s when the surfing world was mostly a boys' club. \u2014 CBS News , 22 May 2022",
"But many die-hard surfers want to surf , not train, and that entails more than just standing on top of a wave. \u2014 Spenser Mestel, The Atlantic , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Unlike Maverick\u2019s or the waves near Santa Cruz, Ocean Beach lacks deep-water channels, so there\u2019s no way to paddle from sand to surf without a beatdown. \u2014 Daniel Duane, Outside Online , 18 June 2021",
"Jonah Raisner learned how to surf after his father's death in 2009 because his father loved surfing. \u2014 Jennifer Mcdermott, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"On the fabled North Shore of Oahu, Kelea pioneered the women-only surf -and-yoga retreat some 15 years ago. \u2014 Ann Abel, Outside Online , 19 May 2015",
"Songwriters who surf Jack Johnson, June 26 at Xfinity Theater. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 25 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1685, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1917, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-014122"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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": regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion : suspected",
": doubtful , questionable",
": one that is suspected",
": a person suspected of a crime",
": to imagine (one) to be guilty or culpable on slight evidence or without proof",
": to have doubts of : distrust",
": to imagine to exist or be true, likely, or probable",
": to imagine something to be true or likely",
": to suppose to be true or likely",
": to have doubts of : distrust",
": to imagine to be guilty without proof",
": a person who is thought to be guilty of something",
": thought of with suspicion",
": regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion or heightened scrutiny",
": a person suspected of a crime",
": a person apprehended for but not yet charged with an offense",
": to imagine (one) to be guilty on slight evidence or without proof",
": to imagine to exist or be probable"
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"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccspekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccspekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccspekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccspekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259s-\u02ccpekt, s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259s-\u02ccpekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt"
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"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspicious"
],
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"assume",
"conjecture",
"daresay",
"guess",
"imagine",
"presume",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise",
"suspicion"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The police chief said a recent breaking-and-entering crime in the city was solved by searching the Flock database, which revealed a suspect from another city\u2019s camera. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
"On Tuesday, police arrested a second suspect in connection with the disappearance of the pair, according to a press release from the Federal Police. \u2014 CNN , 15 June 2022",
"Shinn is the third suspect charged with murder in Laquinten\u2019s death. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 15 June 2022",
"North Little Rock police have identified a suspect in a fatal shooting reported Tuesday, according to a Wednesday news release. \u2014 Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online , 15 June 2022",
"Police initially were searching for a suspect who was in his 20s because of his over 6-feet-tall height and some-200-pound weight. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 14 June 2022",
"The shocking murder remains unsolved, and the Jacksonville Beach Police Department hasn't publicly named a suspect . \u2014 Fox News , 14 June 2022",
"Officials said detectives are trying to find a suspect and figure out a motive. \u2014 Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"Officials consider Maldonado a suspect in the suspicious death of 24-year-old Angela Leann Mitchell, according to KHOU-TV, though Texas City police said in the release that the investigation is ongoing. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Officers suspect the driver of the Malibu may have been distracted by a phone prior to the crash, officials said. \u2014 Hannah Brock, The Indianapolis Star , 17 June 2022",
"Seven people were confirmed as dead, including an unidentified man who police suspect set the fire in a lawyer\u2019s office. \u2014 Fox News , 9 June 2022",
"That means ordinary Texans who suspect violations can report their neighbors, acquaintances and others. \u2014 Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Parents who suspect their child might be a victim are urged to call Cincinnati police Detective McCoy or Detective Delk at 513-263-8300. \u2014 Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer , 1 June 2022",
"This movie focuses on a young couple who suspect a paranormal presence after moving into their tract home in suburbia. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, Good Housekeeping , 19 May 2022",
"Master Corporal Pepper said the state police suspect foul play in the case. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Feb. 2022",
"The man has since been identified as James Davis III, who authorities suspect has a mental illness. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The limited series premiered on May 5, 2022, and culminates on June 9, 2022, and follows as Michael becomes the prime and only suspect in his wife\u2019s death as well as the ensuing murder investigation. \u2014 Dana Feldman, Forbes , 2 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1591, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-024122"
},
"substantially":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": consisting of or relating to substance",
": not imaginary or illusory : real , true",
": important , essential",
": ample to satisfy and nourish : full",
": possessed of means : well-to-do",
": considerable in quantity : significantly great",
": firmly constructed : sturdy",
": being largely but not wholly that which is specified",
": large in amount",
": important sense 1",
": firmly constructed",
": abundant",
": prosperous sense 1",
": made up of or relating to substance : material",
": of or relating to substance",
": not illusory : having merit",
": having importance or significance : material",
": considerable in quantity : significantly great",
"\u2014 compare de minimis"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8stan(t)-sh\u0259l",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8stan-sh\u0259l",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8stan-ch\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"earth-shattering",
"earthshaking",
"eventful",
"historic",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"monumental",
"much",
"significant",
"tectonic",
"weighty"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"small",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"examples":[
"A substantial number of people commute to work each day.",
"Activities like that pose a substantial risk of injury.",
"She purchased her tickets at a substantial discount.",
"Only the buildings that were constructed of more substantial materials survived the earthquake.",
"I was hoping that they would serve us something more substantial than wine and cheese.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Brett Kappel, a campaign finance expert at Washington, D.C.-based Harmon Curran, said Braun likely will be fined a substantial amount. \u2014 Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022",
"Chrysler parent Stellantis plans to get a substantial amount of the lithium needed for its electric vehicle batteries from a former tourist mecca in California. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 2 June 2022",
"Iran has managed to keep a substantial number of aircraft flying, but at the price of slowly cannibalizing its fleet of planes. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 1 June 2022",
"The tallying was delayed in part because a printing error made the bar codes unreadable on some ballots in Clackamas County, home to a substantial number of Democrats in the district. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"Influencers with sizable active followership can make a substantial full-time income from their social media activities and marketing partnerships with luxury brands. \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Tindell said a substantial number of autopsy reports that are pending are LeVaughn's. \u2014 Leah Willingham, ajc , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Russia has always had a substantial number of ICBMs that could strike the United States and Europe, said John Erath, senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Researchers in Denmark and the U.S., however, have recently found that a substantial number of men are nevertheless obtaining overlapping prescriptions for both classes of drugs. \u2014 Benjamin Ryan, NBC News , 18 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-060225"
},
"surety":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the state of being sure: such as",
": sure knowledge : certainty",
": confidence in manner or behavior : assurance",
": a formal engagement (such as a pledge) given for the fulfillment of an undertaking : guarantee",
": a basis of confidence or security",
": one who has become legally liable for the debt, default, or failure in duty of another",
": a formal engagement (as a pledge) given for the fulfillment of an undertaking",
": one (as an accommodation party) who promises to answer for the debt or default of another"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8shu\u0307r(-\u0259)-t\u0113",
"\u02c8sh\u0259r-",
"\u02c8shu\u0307r-\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"bond",
"contract",
"covenant",
"deal",
"guarantee",
"guaranty",
"warranty"
],
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"examples":[
"As sureties , they will be liable in his place.",
"gave his surety that he would pay back the loan if his sister was unable to for any reason",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The era resists surety : During that time in Europe\u2014and these references are almost always made to Europe\u2014the majority of people, including virtually all peasants, were illiterate. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 6 May 2022",
"The owners of Coal Hollow Mine near Alton must provide the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining with a $13.4 million surety by March 10, or begin reclaiming the mine\u2019s permit area, according to the cessation order. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Slowly but with increasing surety , Trump has become a larger focus of the January 6 committee\u2019s efforts. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Ben Catterlin, Russell's attorney, asked the judge to set bond at $100,000 cash or corporate surety . \u2014 Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Richland County Judge Alison Lee granted Fleming a $100,000 surety with a 10% cash option, according to local news reports. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Black settlers are required to find two people willing to post a $500 surety guaranteeing their good behavior. \u2014 cincinnati.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The Scottsdale Unified school board members do not have surety bonds, and they are not required to do so under Arizona law. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The New York Times in 1975 wrote of the legendary Alabama speed trap town of Fruithurst as if aggressive policing was a Southern surety . \u2014 John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al , 9 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English seurte , from Anglo-French seurt\u00e9 , from Latin securitat-, securitas security, from securus ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-163649"
},
"subject (to)":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":[
": affected by or possibly affected by (something)",
": likely to do, have, or suffer from (something)",
": dependent on something else to happen or be true"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-174657"
},
"subtlety":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being subtle",
": something subtle"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-t\u1d4al-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"artfulness",
"artifice",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"canniness",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"deviousness",
"foxiness",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"slickness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"subtleness",
"wiliness"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The pianist performed with subtlety and passion.",
"we appreciated the subtlety with which our host indicated that it was time to leave: he volunteered to pack us a little lunch for the road",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But in those days, Chevy Chase\u2019s subtlety in his humor was so hilarious. \u2014 Jonathan Cohen, SPIN , 27 May 2022",
"The detective is played with icy subtlety by Doona Bae, who also starred in the role of a detective in Jung\u2019s debut feature, A Girl at My Door. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
"We are blessed right now with a surplus of writers and intellectuals critiquing the left with great subtlety and sophistication. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"Nicholas Barasch is a sprightly Orpheus, tracking the young poet's journey from na\u00efve innocent to tragic hero with a warm subtlety enhanced by his mop of unruly ginger hair. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 5 May 2022",
"Yes, but subtlety is not exactly in great supply on Winning Time. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Users who find beauty in subtlety or who want a sleek, black look to complete their setup can appreciate the G413 SE. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Oriental and opulent, Oud Silk Mood contrasts airiness and subtlety with floral, woody notes for an enveloping fragrance that can be worn all year round. \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 23 Jan. 2022",
"The voices and accompanying urban soundscape, though at times sacrificing subtlety for vibrancy, lend a modern gloss to a Shakespeare presentation designed to widen the play\u2019s cultural embrace. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sotilte, subtilte , from Anglo-French sotilt\u00e9 , from Latin subtilitat-, subtilitas , from subtilis ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-213724"
},
"sure thing":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that is certain to succeed : a sure bet"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"cinch",
"lock",
"shoo-in",
"slam dunk"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he's a sure thing for the promotion: he's the most qualified candidate by far",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Chances for rain will be highest on Tuesday and Wednesday but rain is not a sure thing . \u2014 Leigh Morgan, al , 13 June 2022",
"Not everyone is convinced that Ringling Bros 2.0 is a sure thing . \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"Fall is bear season, and while the odds of spotting a grizzly or black bear are strong, a sighting is not guaranteed, just as hooking a whopper salmon on a fishing outing isn\u2019t a sure thing . \u2014 Jen Murphy, Robb Report , 7 May 2022",
"Musk now boasts of plans to grow and monetize Twitter back to profitability, but that is hardly a sure thing . \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a level of confidence that, for them, Thursday night\u2019s first round is a sure thing . \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 28 Apr. 2022",
"But, at its heart, the movie explores the inability to walk away from a sure thing that makes a movie anyone who believes in luck. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 30 Apr. 2022",
"But after years toiling in a publishing landscape that hasn\u2019t always paid much attention to Black women, nothing feels like a sure thing . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
"However, since the Haslams took over in October 2012, there have been two one-and-done coaches \u2014 Rob Chudzinski in 2013 and Freddie Kitchens in 2019 \u2014 so continuity never feels like a sure thing . \u2014 Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY , 6 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1767, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-111025"
},
"suppliance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": entreaty , supplication"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-pl\u0113-\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjuration",
"appeal",
"conjuration",
"cry",
"desire",
"entreaty",
"petition",
"plea",
"pleading",
"prayer",
"solicitation",
"suit",
"supplication"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"with arms raised in humble suppliance , the priest asked for blessings from above"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1611, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-113257"
},
"sulfurous":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or containing sulfur especially with a lower valence than sulfuric compounds",
": resembling or emanating from sulfur and especially burning sulfur",
": of, relating to, or dealing with the fire of hell : infernal",
": scathing , virulent",
": profane , blasphemous",
": containing or suggesting sulfur",
": of, relating to, or containing sulfur especially with a lower valence than sulfuric compounds",
": resembling or emanating from sulfur and especially burning sulfur"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259l-f\u0259-r\u0259s",
"-fy\u0259-",
"also (especially for sense 1a)"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For those seeking an alternative to the popular Golden Circle, the Diamond Circle winds through volcanic landscapes featuring powerful waterfalls, misty vistas and sulfurous pools. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"There are two main types of hydrotherapy in France\u2014thermalism and, for those who prefer their water salty rather than sulfurous , thalasso. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Urals is moderately heavy and sulfurous , meaning it can be replaced by crudes such as Arab Medium, produced in Saudi Arabia, and most crudes produced in Iraq. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 7 Mar. 2022",
"In contrast, Dmitry Kiselyev, a longtime Kremlin propagandist who is known as one of the most sulfurous personalities on Russian television, opened his state television program on Sunday with a rundown of Russia\u2019s nuclear arsenal. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Parts of the lake boiled and volcanic openings called fumaroles belched out hot sulfurous gases. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 3 Feb. 2022",
"His odes to unity and his faith in government seemed positively countercultural, after four years in which Trump had bathed Americans in his sulfurous brand of cynicism. \u2014 Evan Osnos, The New Yorker , 20 Jan. 2022",
"The golf course closed in 1933 and the clubhouse burned in 1951, but the hot and sulfurous waters remain in rocky pools along the shoreline. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Lo stared through the window at the blistered paint of the dumpster, the sulfurous spatters of fireworks on the pavement. \u2014 Seija Rankin, EW.com , 7 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-113700"
},
"subsequently":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": at a later or subsequent time"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-si-\u02cckwent-l\u0113",
"-kw\u0259nt-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1537, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-123106"
},
"subtract":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to take away by or as if by deducting",
": to perform a subtraction",
": to take away (as one part or number from another) : deduct"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8trakt",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8trakt"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"deduct",
"knock off",
"take off"
],
"antonyms":[
"add",
"tack (on)"
],
"examples":[
"if you subtract 10 from 23, you get 13",
"you can subtract the time you spent daydreaming from your total homework time",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Also your finances In these uncertain times, subtract one thing from your list of worries. \u2014 Matthew Ballinger, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"People need a regular opportunity to subtract work from their life and see what remains. \u2014 Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic , 23 May 2022",
"This one\u2014again, absolutely true\u2014indicated that stingrays could be taught how to add and subtract . \u2014 Joe Queenan, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"Sync the educational accessories with the brand\u2019s apps for hands-on games that teach kids how to count, add, subtract , spell and build their problem-solving skills. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 May 2022",
"More clouds and unrelenting breezes could subtract a few degrees; more sun and less breeze than currently expected may add a few degrees. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"While fish don\u2019t have much mathematical ability, a new study shows that some species can add and subtract by one in a group of up to five. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Shanghai is so important that a full month's shutdown will subtract 2% from China's annual economic growth, according to Pang of ING. \u2014 Joe Mcdonald, ajc , 18 Apr. 2022",
"For all his dealing, Zito did not have to subtract from his varsity roster \u2014 forced to surrender no one from a core, confident group that looks destined to finish first or second in the Eastern Conference standings. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 26 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin subtractus , past participle of subtrahere to draw from beneath, withdraw, from sub- + trahere to draw",
"first_known_use":[
"1557, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-130821"
},
"sudsy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": full of suds : frothy , foamy",
": soapy sense 4"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259d-z\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"foamy",
"frothy",
"lathery"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"came out of the bathroom with her hair all sudsy because someone had turned off the water",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It\u2019s sudsy , with the potential to last as long as people will watch. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Mix up another batch of sudsy dish liquid and warm water and wipe down the exterior, handle, side trays and any bottom doors with a sponge or cloth or use a grease-cutting all-purpose cleaner, like Mr. Clean Clean Freak Deep Cleaning Mist. \u2014 Carolyn Fort\u00e9, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"If the foam filter is very dirty, dip it in warm, sudsy water to clean it and then rinse well. \u2014 Carolyn Fort\u00e9, Good Housekeeping , 18 May 2022",
"Fill the basin about halfway up\u2014no more than \u2154 full\u2014with water, leaving enough room for the hat as well as for your hands to move without sloshing sudsy water everywhere. \u2014 Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 May 2022",
"Building up a rich lather, the shampoo\u2019s sudsy texture is actually 100% soap-free, instead derived from fair trade Samoan coconut oil. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 May 2022",
"Some soap varieties may contain ingredients known to affect LCD screens and a sudsy mix is not only too wet, but won't evaporate quickly enough to safely be used on a laptop screen. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Let Anthony bring you into holiday celebration mode year-round with this fun, sudsy wash. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 Mar. 2022",
"What started with 300 brews in our nomination round is now down to a sudsy 16. \u2014 Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer , 10 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1866, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-132023"
},
"subscribe (to)":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to pay money to get (a publication or service) regularly",
": to belong to or support (something, such as an organization) by paying money regularly",
": to agree with or support (an opinion, theory, etc.)"
],
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"synonyms":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-135858"
},
"sumptuously":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent",
": magnificent sense 4",
": very expensive or luxurious"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259m(p)(t)-sh\u0259-w\u0259s",
"-sh\u0259s",
"-shw\u0259s",
"\u02c8s\u0259mp-ch\u0259-w\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"Babylonian",
"deluxe",
"lavish",
"Lucullan",
"Lucullian",
"luxe",
"luxuriant",
"luxurious",
"luxury",
"opulent",
"palace",
"palatial",
"plush",
"plushy",
"silken"
],
"antonyms":[
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"austere",
"humble",
"no-frills",
"spartan"
],
"examples":[
"the cruise ship claims to offer sumptuous furnishings, exquisitely prepared cuisine, and stellar entertainment",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Organic safflower seed, borage seed, and organic sesame seed oils make for a sumptuous \u2014but not overly heavy\u2014blend of skin-loving ingredients that your skin will sap right up. \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 5 May 2022",
"Her poems are sumptuous and rigorous, probing and vehemently lyrical. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Together at Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, the pair dreamed up the world of Fortuny, creating sumptuous fabrics and clothing that appealed to the bohemian tastes of the time. \u2014 Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor , 20 May 2022",
"The film has become infamous for its ludicrous language, sumptuous furnishings, and over the top acting with a capital A. \u2014 Callahan Tormey, Town & Country , 8 May 2022",
"Inspired by a Belle \u00c9poque boudoir, the room is replete with exquisite art nouveau features, rich velvet curtains and sumptuous furnishings that together evoke the glitz and glamor of the late 19th century. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 6 May 2022",
"Sotheby\u2019s reports that this tiara is widely seen as one of the most elegant and sumptuous colored gemstone tiaras created anywhere in the world. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"And Price\u2019s sumptuous but strong-boned orchestration spotlighted every section in the orchestra. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 6 May 2022",
"While Gilded Age fashion was known for sumptuous and luxe fabrics, ornate details and heavily structured, relatively modest silhouettes, many a celebrity treated the occasion as simply a night to dress in their most flamboyant finery. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin sumptuosus , from sumptus ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-142144"
},
"surrender":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to yield to the power, control, or possession of another upon compulsion or demand",
": to give up completely or agree to forgo especially in favor of another",
": to give (oneself) up into the power of another especially as a prisoner",
": to give (oneself) over to something (such as an influence)",
": to give oneself up into the power of another : yield",
": the action of yielding one's person or giving up the possession of something especially into the power of another",
": the relinquishment by a patentee of rights or claims under a patent",
": the delivery of a principal into lawful custody by bail",
": the voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of an insurance company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration",
": the delivery of a fugitive from justice by one government to another",
": an instance of surrendering",
": to give up after a struggle",
": to let go of : relinquish",
": the act of giving up after a struggle",
": the act of giving something over to the possession or control of someone else",
": to yield to the control or possession of another",
": to give up completely or agree to forgo",
": to cancel (one's insurance policy) voluntarily",
": to give over to the custody of the law",
": to give oneself up",
": an act or instance of surrendering",
": the yielding of an estate by a tenant to the landlord so that the leasehold interest is extinguished by mutual agreement"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8ren-d\u0259r",
"s\u0259-\u02c8ren-d\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"cede",
"cough up",
"deliver",
"give up",
"hand over",
"lay down",
"relinquish",
"render",
"turn in",
"turn over",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"capitulating",
"capitulation",
"cession",
"handover",
"relinquishment",
"rendition",
"submission",
"submitting"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The Ukrainian government sought to extol the valor of the fighters, who refused to surrender until ordered. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"In the southern Donbas, the Azov Sea port of Mariupol is now largely under Russian control, except for a few hundred Ukrainian troops who have refused to surrender and remain holed up in the Azovstal steel factory. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 16 May 2022",
"In the southern Donbas, the Azov Sea port of Mariupol is now largely under Russian control, except for a few hundred Ukrainian troops who have refused to surrender and remain holed up in the Azovstal steel factory. \u2014 Oleksandr Stashevskyi And Ciaran Mcquillan, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 May 2022",
"In the southern Donbas, the Azov Sea port of Mariupol is now largely under Russian control, except for a few hundred Ukrainian troops who have refused to surrender and remain holed up in the Azovstal steel factory. \u2014 David Keyton, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
"In the southern Donbas, the Azov Sea port of Mariupol is now largely under Russian control, except for a few hundred Ukrainian troops who have refused to surrender and remain holed up in the Azovstal steel factory. \u2014 Oleksandr Stashevskyi And Ciaran Mcquillan, Chicago Tribune , 15 May 2022",
"In the southern Donbas, the Azov Sea port of Mariupol is now largely under Russian control, except for a few hundred Ukrainian troops who have refused to surrender and remain holed up in the Azovstal steel factory. \u2014 Oleksandr Stashevskyi And Ciaran Mcquillan, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"Officers then sent a robot with camera systems into the home after Giesel still refused to surrender . \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 13 May 2022",
"The defenders, members of the Azov regiment, have refused to surrender despite heavy bombardment and quickly depleting sources of food, water and medicine. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The movement vocabulary is by now familiar; there\u2019s a sense of community, of choir, hands raised in surrender one moment, fists clenched the next. \u2014 Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
"And while the surrender of Mariupol may just be a matter of hours away, the Ukrainian soldiers who fought there should be celebrated for their achievement. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Testimony and video showed Flores had his hands up in apparent surrender , but was holding a knife in one of them, when the deputies fired. \u2014 Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News , 11 May 2022",
"Some of them think surrender would be the most peaceful option \u2014 and Lensky agrees. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
"If a policy of no-first-use was in place\u2014and there was no other way to save American forces\u2014 surrender would be the only remaining option. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Animal rescue groups have congregated outside pet collection facilities and sent reminders on social media to tell owners that pet surrender is voluntarily and not legally obligated. \u2014 Yvonne Lau, Fortune , 21 Jan. 2022",
"However, up until that point, both the surrender and emancipation had been mere rumors to Texas slaves. \u2014 Colleen Mcmillar, Better Homes & Gardens , 4 June 2021",
"His struggle for self-definition mirrors the journey of a nation to chart a course between the denial of history and the surrender to it. \u2014 Bo Seo, The Atlantic , 1 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-180856"
},
"summon":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to issue a call to convene : convoke",
": to command by service of a summons to appear in court",
": to call upon for specified action",
": to bid to come : send for",
": to call forth : evoke",
": to call or send for : convene",
": to order to appear before a court of law",
": to call into being : arouse",
": to command by service of a summons to appear in court"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-m\u0259n",
"\u02c8s\u0259-m\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"hail"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The queen summoned him back to the palace.",
"without explanation, the managing editor summoned me to his office",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Shortly after officers left the home around 1:30 a.m. the next morning, the recruit called 911 to summon officers back to the home, police said. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Two reading rooms, hidden away at either end of the Long Room, will be relocated to the basement of the modern Ussher Library nearby, and scholars will still be able to summon Long Room books from off-campus storage. \u2014 Ed O'loughlin, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"Like a fighter on the ropes, bloodied and wobbly-legged, but able to summon enough strength to land a decisive blow, nobody saw the comeback of vinyl. \u2014 Mike Postalakis, SPIN , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Perhaps most impressive is how Cave and Ellis were able to summon so much drama with a smaller group of musicians. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Murphy, along with Hoppel and Harris, were primed to run a strong but not all-out effort through 600 meters and then be able to summon a strong kick to the finish. \u2014 Brian Metzler, Outside Online , 22 June 2021",
"Ideally, the Legislature would summon the political will to impose true accountability by amending the state Constitution to make sheriffs appointed positions, like police chiefs. \u2014 Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times , 1 May 2022",
"The industry\u2019s biggest stars \u2014 who probably have more influence over American gun owners than any other faction in popular culture \u2014 could not summon the collective courage to speak up for gun control. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Governments, businesses and individuals must summon the willpower to transform economies, embrace new habits and leave behind the age of fossil fuels - or face the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change. \u2014 Sarah Kaplan And Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English somnen, somonen , from Anglo-French somondre , from Vulgar Latin *summonere , alteration of Latin summon\u0113re to remind secretly, from sub- secretly + mon\u0113re to warn \u2014 more at sub- , mind ",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-221029"
},
"submissiveness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": submitting to others",
": willing to give in to others",
": characterized by tendencies to yield to the will or authority of others"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-siv",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-siv",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mis-iv"
],
"synonyms":[
"amenable",
"biddable",
"compliant",
"conformable",
"docile",
"law-abiding",
"obedient",
"tractable"
],
"antonyms":[
"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"noncompliant",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"unamenable",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"examples":[
"it's not in her nature to be submissive",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Here\u2019s this fleecy white creature, submissive and prepared for the bloodbath soon to come, a pure being, elevated far above the muck. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Last fall, during Richard Quinn's London Fashion Week show, drag queen Violet Chachki wore a cinched dominatrix catsuit and mask down the runway -- complete with a submissive companion crawling in-tow. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"Almond described him as combative at times and submissive at other times. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Lovett and Vilim\u2019s reference point was the 1975 version of the The Stepford Wives, which is about a woman who moves to suburban Connecticut and comes to suspect that the submissive , samey-looking wives all around her are robots programmed to serve. \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022",
"People today place a high value on their choices, and as a result, the era of the submissive consumer has come to an end. \u2014 Ildeme Mahinay Koch, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Muse pushes back on the perception of muses as submissive , a blank canvas rather than one bursting with ideas. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022",
"The most important thing for us wasn\u2019t just the idea of a superhero, but the idea of making her completely the opposite of every trope about Arab woman as submissive or weak. \u2014 Adam B. Vary, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"Many false narratives paint the Ukrainians as submissive and eager for reunification. \u2014 Maggie Smith, The Conversation , 7 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1572, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-005210"
},
"supposititious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": fraudulently substituted : spurious",
": falsely presented as a genuine heir",
": not recognized as lawful offspring",
": born to parents not married to each other",
": imaginary",
": of the nature of or based on a supposition : hypothetical",
"[influenced in meaning by supposition ]"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02ccp\u00e4-z\u0259-\u02c8ti-sh\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"baseborn",
"bastard",
"illegitimate",
"misbegotten",
"natural",
"spurious",
"unfathered"
],
"antonyms":[
"legitimate"
],
"examples":[
"entered the world as the supposititious son of a housemaid"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin suppositicius , from suppositus , past participle of supponere to substitute",
"first_known_use":[
"1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-015759"
},
"supposedly":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": as is supposed : according to what is or was said, claimed, or believed by some"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8p\u014d-z\u0259d-l\u0113",
"also"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1597, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-044923"
},
"surfeited":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": an overabundant supply : excess",
": an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something (such as food or drink)",
": disgust caused by excess",
": to feed, supply, or give to surfeit",
": to indulge to satiety in a gratification (such as indulgence of the appetite or senses)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259r-f\u0259t"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellyful",
"excess",
"fat",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"overplus",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"plus",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surplus",
"surplusage"
],
"antonyms":[
"cram",
"glut",
"gorge",
"sate",
"stuff"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"ended up with a surfeit of volunteers who simply got in each other's way",
"Verb",
"having surfeited ourselves on raw oysters, we had to decline the rest of the restaurant's offerings",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The big question hanging over this auction season is whether \u2014 with a surfeit of blue-chip art coming up for sale and a limited pool of very rich buyers \u2014 the current market can absorb so much big-ticket material. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
"Some of the biggest causes of today\u2019s inflation do not seem related to the sudden surfeit of dollars. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 2 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s a surfeit of acting talent in them, and a dearth of uplift. \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Economy Candy's Skye Greenfield Cohen points out the surfeit of sweets to correspondent Martha Teichner. \u2014 CBS News , 13 Feb. 2022",
"Their vehicular exegeses tend to unfurl against drearily anonymous exurban backdrops textured with McDonalds and McMansions, a surfeit of big-box stores and a dearth of sidewalks. \u2014 Colin Marshall, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The lack of sun and cloudy weather throughout 2021 meant the farming beds, mostly on the west coast, had struggled to produce the normal surfeit of shuckable molluscs. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 9 Feb. 2022",
"With allusions to the AIDS epidemic, Yanagihara illustrates the way, given a surfeit of fear, acceptance of others gradually reverts to deadly prejudice. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2022",
"But there there\u2019s been a preponderance, a surfeit , of podcasts of late, and God bless all of them. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 4 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-155053"
},
"sunup":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": sunrise",
": sunrise sense 2"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259n-\u02cc\u0259p",
"\u02c8s\u0259n-\u02cc\u0259p"
],
"synonyms":[
"aurora",
"cockcrow",
"dawn",
"dawning",
"day",
"daybreak",
"daylight",
"light",
"morn",
"morning",
"sun",
"sunrise"
],
"antonyms":[
"nightfall",
"sundown",
"sunset"
],
"examples":[
"We will meet at sunup .",
"have you ever actually heard a rooster crow at sunup ?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In honor of the anniversary, Washington Post journalists chronicled one of those days, from sunup to sundown. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"Key West is a top-notch destination for a girls getaway, as you're guaranteed to have a good time from sunup to sundown. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Irving is observing Ramadan and fasting (no food or fluids) from sunup to sundown. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2022",
"From trekking poles to sleeping bags, the items found at Dick\u2019s can upgrade your next camping trip from sunup to sundown. \u2014 Sara Coughlin, SELF , 22 Mar. 2022",
"To avoid the crowds, plan to arrive at the park by sunup , hitting the more popular trails early. \u2014 Catherine Toth Fox, Outside Online , 9 Mar. 2020",
"For example, the earliest parade in Ireland famously kicks off in Dingle just before sunup ! \u2014 Jill Gleeson, Country Living , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The lowest temperatures will be just before sunup on Thursday, Kuroski said. \u2014 Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Jan. 2022",
"With 24 hours of playtime, JBL Original Pro Sound has enough stamina to fuel any party from sunup to sundown. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1572, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-163158"
},
"suds":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun plural",
"noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": water impregnated with soap or a synthetic detergent compound and worked up into froth",
": the lather or froth on such water",
": foam , froth",
": beer",
": to wash in suds",
": to form suds",
": soapy water especially when foamy",
": the foam on soapy water"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259dz",
"\u02c8s\u0259dz"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"Issues of collegiate athletics enter the frame, not without accompanying soap suds . \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 18 Feb. 2022",
"In 1994, Saint Arnold Brewing Company opened its doors to become the first craft brewery serving suds in Bayou City. \u2014 Anna Mazurek, Chron , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Anheuser-Busch is the exclusive beer sponsor of the Super Bowl and will have plenty of national pitches for suds , but local ads often present a more cost-effective way to get the word out about a variety of products. \u2014 Brian Steinberg, Variety , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Also close at hand on Traction Avenue are Loqui for tacos, Groundworks for coffee and Arts District Brewing for suds and ax-throwing. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Jan. 2022",
"These suds are creamy, rich, and instantly bubble out, and without the use of sulfates to boot. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 Mar. 2022",
"After a two-year hiatus, 1,200 beer aficionados turned out, enjoying suds and 60-degree temperatures at Windows on the River in Cleveland\u2019s Flats. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 5 Mar. 2022",
"What\u2019s more, errant shampoo and soap suds can strip leaves of their protective waxy layer. \u2014 Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
"All that equipment now has suds running through it - for the taproom and in distribution. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Russian River guests get to snooze in a luxury tent, classic Airstream, or miniature Happier Camper, ride around on complimentary Linus bicycles, and suds it up with Ursa Major bath products (there are communal bathrooms in the clubhouse). \u2014 Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Nearby, sleeves rolled up, suds up to their elbows, women washed plastic jerrycans in rainbow colors, cut into pieces. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Jan. 2022",
"According to the Clorox website, the company's regular bleach, absent the sudsing agent, has a sodium hypochlorite concentration between 5% and 6.5%. \u2014 Joshua Gargiulo, USA TODAY , 11 June 2020",
"And, to be clear, disinfecting common spaces is not a replacement for thoroughly sudsing up your grubby mitts with soap. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Popular Science , 16 Mar. 2020",
"Parents should also encourage their children to suds up regularly, which can greatly reduce the risk of multiple family members getting sick all at once. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 4 Mar. 2020",
"Note that in the short, he\u2019s seen rinsing\u2014not sudsing \u2014his trademark long hair. \u2014 Vogue , 8 June 2018",
"Note that in the short, he\u2019s seen rinsing\u2014not sudsing \u2014his trademark long hair. \u2014 Vogue , 8 June 2018",
"But, Jane isn\u2019t merely some flimsy melodrama sudsing up the CW\u2019s schedule every Friday night. \u2014 refinery29.com , 26 Mar. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction",
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1834, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-172547"
},
"sullied":{
"type":[
"biographical name ()",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make soiled or tarnished : defile",
": soil , stain",
"Duc de 1560\u20131641 Maximilien de B\u00e9thune Baron",
"French statesman",
"Thomas 1783\u20131872 American (English-born) painter"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0113",
"(\u02cc)s\u0259-\u02c8l\u0113",
"s\u1d6b-\u02c8l\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"befoul",
"begrime",
"bemire",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"daub",
"dirty",
"distain",
"foul",
"gaum",
"grime",
"mire",
"muck",
"muddy",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"soil",
"stain"
],
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanse"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"people that sully our state parks with their trash",
"a once-gleaming marble interior sullied by decades of exposure to cigarette smoke",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Overcoming a concerted effort by Republicans to sully her record and derail her nomination, Judge Jackson was confirmed on a 53-to-47 vote, with three Republicans joining all 50 members of the Democratic caucus in backing her. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Palin, in her testimony, accused The Times of deliberately fabricating lies to sully her reputation. \u2014 Aaron Katersky, ABC News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Palin, in her testimony, accused The Times of deliberately fabricating information to sully her reputation. \u2014 Bill Hutchinson, ABC News , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Seriously, if King wants to sully the reputation of New York with his ridiculous antics, fine. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Anyway, what would be the point of selling people on a safe space just to sully it with dangers? \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 8 Nov. 2021",
"On March 16th, Josh Vlasto, a longtime adviser to Cuomo, wrote in a group text that Cohen had approached him about the effort to sully Kim. \u2014 Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Unplanned bathroom breaks can sully a pleasant hike. \u2014 Siena Giljum, Los Angeles Times , 12 July 2021",
"Plus, if Susie allows even a speck of her outrage to sully her son\u2019s relationship with his dad, then her offense would be worse than your hitting on Debbie. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 June 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1601, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-172609"
},
"summate":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to add together : sum up",
": to form a sum or cumulative effect",
": to add together or sum up",
": to form a sum or cumulative effect"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t",
"\u02c8s\u0259m-\u02cc\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"add",
"cast (up)",
"foot (up)",
"sum",
"tot (up)",
"total",
"totalize",
"tote (up)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"summate all of the expenses that you incurred on your last business trip"
],
"history_and_etymology":"back-formation from summation ",
"first_known_use":[
"1900, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-173553"
},
"subsume":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8s\u00fcm"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry",
"comprehend",
"contain",
"embrace",
"encompass",
"entail",
"include",
"involve",
"number",
"take in"
],
"antonyms":[
"exclude",
"leave (out)",
"miss out",
"omit"
],
"examples":[
"games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of \u201crecreation\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For these reasons, the phrase web3 may yet subsume the word Metaverse. \u2014 Charlie Fink, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Additionally, some platforms can subsume existing IaC scripts for continual reuse by using blueprints of entire environments that incorporate all necessary components of an environment like applications, data and services. \u2014 Edan Evantal, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Many Ukrainians see Russia as a colonial power that for centuries has tried to suppress Ukrainian identity and subsume it into mainstream Russian culture. \u2014 Max Bearak, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"What\u2019s fascinating about all this is the world had become a place where big bully countries no longer could subsume their neighbors that had bed the way of the world for a long time. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 2 Mar. 2022",
"There was a growing sense that the roiling underground was rising up to subsume the status quo. \u2014 Adam Sternbergh, Vulture , 22 Dec. 2021",
"The tyrants of the past demanded obedience\u2014the outward performance of certain behaviors\u2014but totalitarian regimes seek to subsume , to obliterate the core of the human being. \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Campion has spent her career probing the complex inner worlds of these and other women, giving vivid expression to desires they are often forced to subsume or repress. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 Nov. 2021",
"In terms of broader concerns, gas prices, inflation, border policies and supply-chain disruptions threaten to subsume all other messaging. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 17 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"New Latin subsumere , from Latin sub- + sumere to take up \u2014 more at consume ",
"first_known_use":[
"1818, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-181401"
},
"suggest":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to mention or imply as a possibility",
": to propose as desirable or fitting",
": to offer for consideration or as a hypothesis",
": to call to mind by thought or association",
": to serve as a motive or inspiration for",
": to call forth : evoke",
": to seek to influence : seduce",
": to put (as a thought or desire) into a person's mind",
": to recommend as being worthy of accepting or doing",
": to call to mind through close connection or association",
": to mention or imply as a possibility",
": to enter on the record as a suggestion"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259g-\u02c8jest",
"s\u0259-\u02c8jest",
"s\u0259g-\u02c8jest",
"s\u0259-\u02c8jest"
],
"synonyms":[
"allude",
"hint",
"imply",
"indicate",
"infer",
"insinuate",
"intimate"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Authorities say the bodies of seven men were found dumped on a roadway late Thursday in the Huasteca region with extensive bruising that suggest they were beaten. \u2014 Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News , 11 June 2022",
"Bike lane supporters have also questioned if the businesses really need the parking spaces to get by, pointing to studies in other cities with similar projects that suggest little effect on spending at local businesses. \u2014 Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"There are a few indicators that suggest global inflation may have peaked\u2014for an optimistic outlook, turn your eyes towards chips, shipping and fertilizer. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 8 June 2022",
"That would suggest Novavax\u2019s Covid vaccine, which has already been authorized for use in more than 40 other countries, will become available in the United States sometime in the next few weeks. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 8 June 2022",
"But there are some clues from the chemistry that have come out recently that suggest that the building blocks of RNA and DNA might have been made side by side, in the same environment at the same time, same place. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 June 2022",
"Still, the woody herb has been used for centuries as a mild sedative and there have been several studies that suggest it can be used to help ease anxiety. \u2014 Glamour , 2 June 2022",
"There are other signs that suggest job openings have leveled off or even declined a bit in recent months. \u2014 Christopher Rugaber, ajc , 1 June 2022",
"The global system is showing high levels of fragility that suggest our capacity to commensurate risk is probably failing. \u2014 Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes , 1 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin suggestus , past participle of suggerere to pile up, furnish, suggest, from sub- + gerere to carry",
"first_known_use":[
"1526, in the meaning defined at sense 3b"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-183215"
},
"subtleness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": delicate , elusive",
": difficult to understand or perceive : obscure sense 1c",
": clever and indirect : disguised in purpose",
": having or involving keen perception or insight",
": highly skillful : expert",
": cunningly made or contrived : ingenious",
": artful , crafty",
": operating insidiously",
": difficult to perceive",
": shrewd , keen",
": delicate sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-t\u1d4al",
"\u02c8s\u0259-t\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"cute",
"designing",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"scheming",
"shrewd",
"slick",
"sly",
"tricky",
"wily"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"undesigning"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The changes to the rear of the Escape are more subtle , with the taillights sporting a new upside-down-U LED lighting signature. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 15 June 2022",
"That self-expression of Pride can be bold or subtle in shoe style. \u2014 cleveland , 1 June 2022",
"As the Sun in your 8th House of Shared Resources sextiles subtle Neptune in your 6th House of Daily Activities, focusing on the routines that bind you together can calm you down. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"The change to the trophy, while subtle in appearance, was a five-year project. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 8 May 2022",
"No one does jewelry quite like Mejuri, and their zodiac necklaces are a great way to show off your sign in a super subtle way. \u2014 Marie Lodi, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 May 2022",
"That divide has played out in policy differences \u2014 some subtle , others glaring \u2014 in the candidates\u2019 approach to the economy, immigration and foreign policy. \u2014 New York Times , 2 May 2022",
"These keychains give them a subtle way to show off their identity. \u2014 Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Camila Cabello is the latest celebrity to step out in a see-through bustier, proving the piece is surprisingly wearable\u2014and a subtle way to add edge to one\u2019s signature style. \u2014 Jake Smith, Glamour , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sotil, subtile , from Anglo-French, from Latin subtilis , literally, finely textured, from sub- + tela cloth on a loom; akin to Latin texere to weave \u2014 more at technical ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-184651"
},
"subtitular":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or being a subtitle"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6s\u0259b+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"from subtitle , after English title : titular ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-192137"
},
"superable":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of being overcome or conquered"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-p(\u0259-)r\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin superabilis , from superare to surmount \u2014 more at insuperable ",
"first_known_use":[
"1629, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-204933"
},
"suitably":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": adapted to a use or purpose",
": satisfying propriety : proper",
": able , qualified",
": similar , matching",
": being fit or right for a use or group"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"equal",
"fit",
"good",
"qualified"
],
"antonyms":[
"incompetent",
"inept",
"poor",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified"
],
"examples":[
"The dress was a suitable choice.",
"We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bicycles, ride-hailing companies, and car rentals are additional options if public transportation is not suitable for a trip. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"Lift settings range from 16 to 23.5 inches, which is suitable for taller ride heights. \u2014 Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"An important mindset to have, as experts note, pilates is suitable for everyone regardless of gender, age, or body type. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"But even though the meals were suitable for beginner cooks, they were still given top marks for flavor and fresh ingredients. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Warning, the language is not suitable for all ages. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"In the meantime, parents eager to finally get their young children protected against the devastating pandemic virus will have to carefully determine which of the two vaccine options is suitable for their kids. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
"For others, lighter fragrances, mists, or perfume oils are suitable for their needs. \u2014 Lenora E. Houseworth, Allure , 14 June 2022",
"The shampoo is free of all harsh chemicals and is suitable for all hair types. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1563, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-205052"
},
"suck-up":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a person who is ingratiating or fawning"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259k-\u02cc\u0259p"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polisher",
"bootlicker",
"brownnoser",
"fawner",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lickspittle",
"sycophant",
"toady"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1970, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-221232"
},
"superpatriotism":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": having or showing extreme patriotism"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02ccp\u0101-tr\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4-tik",
"chiefly British"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1857, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-002353"
},
"sudser":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": soap opera"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259d-z\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The movie, which follows DOOL's Beyond Salem spinoff that aired in September, will feature Hogestyn, Davidson, Deidre Hall, and Alison Sweeney, as well as several other favorites from the long-running NBC sudser . \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Details were wickedly limited Monday morning but the NBC sudser did send this teaser. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 13 Sep. 2021",
"For example, why not revive Generations, the landmark sudser which featured a mostly Black cast, as a six-week, 30-episode limited series which lived on both NBC and Peacock? \u2014 Josef Adalian, Vulture , 1 July 2021",
"When Greg Rikaart joined the NBC sudser in 2018 to play a gay villain, some fans didn't take too kindly to him playing an unlikable LGBTQ character. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 11 June 2021",
"Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause has agreed to reprise her (dead) role as Jordan on the NBC sudser \u2014 and EW has the exclusive first look. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 19 May 2021",
"The daytime drama vet is best known for playing Sean Donely on the ABC sudser from 1984 to 2013. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 26 Apr. 2021",
"Sweeney already shot episodes of DOOL from her last stint on the sudser that will last through the end of September. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 24 Aug. 2020",
"Here, the recent Emmy winner talks about their new normal at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, where the CBS sudser is taped. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 7 Aug. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1967, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-003058"
},
"sundeck":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the usually upper deck of a ship that is exposed to the most sun",
": a roof, deck, or terrace for sunning"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259n-\u02ccdek"
],
"synonyms":[
"balcony",
"deck",
"terrace"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the girls spent the afternoon reading and tanning on the sundeck",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Residents of the Art Deco landmark can also enjoy amenities including a rooftop saltwater pool, spa, fitness studio, sundeck , Zen garden and concierge service. \u2014 Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"The boat has five enclosed decks, each with plenty of exterior terraces and verandahs, plus an open sundeck . \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Each unit can also be securely fastened to any sundeck or terrace using mounting rings and an optional tubular foot. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 11 May 2022",
"The Retreat also includes a private restaurant with dishes created by Chef Daniel Boulud, a beautiful private sundeck with a pool, and a dedicated lounge. \u2014 Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Didn\u2019t want to share a pool or hot tub or sundeck sunning space with a thousand screaming kids in mouse ears. \u2014 Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel , 18 May 2022",
"The swanky pool, elevated sundeck , party-sized Jacuzzi, half-moon bar, and boardwalk above the beach are all new additions to the building. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 12 May 2022",
"Building amenities include a concierge, gym, sundeck , and pool. \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 8 May 2022",
"The foredeck, sundeck and stern are fitted with more than 16,000 square feet of solar panels. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 9 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1876, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-014457"
},
"sullow":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": plow"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259(\u02cc)l\u014d",
"-l\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English solow, suluh , from Old English sulh ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-104326"
},
"superfluity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": excess , oversupply",
": something unnecessary or superfluous",
": immoderate and especially luxurious living, habits, or desires"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8fl\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"amenity",
"comfort",
"extra",
"frill",
"indulgence",
"luxury"
],
"antonyms":[
"basic",
"essential",
"fundamental",
"must",
"necessity",
"requirement"
],
"examples":[
"spends most of her money on designer clothes and other superfluities",
"a superfluity of wire coat hangers from all of those trips to the dry cleaner",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sort of like a proto \u2013Yeezus, except instead of rapping about falling in love with a Kardashian, Blanco rapped with a sly wit about the superfluity of gender. \u2014 Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone , 28 June 2021",
"Not quite as aged as the a\u00f1ejo, Clase Azul Reposado delivers a superfluity of flavor highlighted by cooked agave, tropical fruit, vanilla and toffee. \u2014 Jason O'bryan, Robb Report , 27 Apr. 2021",
"The twisting trails here are great to explore on horseback or mountain bike, with a superfluity of waterfalls offering excellent end points (check out Hardraw Force, Janet's Foss, and Aysgarth Falls). \u2014 Jonathan Thompson, Travel + Leisure , 14 Mar. 2021",
"The sequel serves up plenty for specialists to chew on, not least a Jack Nicholson look-alike\u2014insofar as that\u2019s possible\u2014behind the hotel bar, yet these semi-reconstructions betray an odd sense of superfluity and strain. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 8 Nov. 2019",
"Under low light, these faded, wispy clippings from the cutting-room floor suggest a superfluity of ideas that might have supplied a lifetime of inspiration to other artists. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 18 Oct. 2019",
"Perhaps the excess and superfluity of our present-day leaders\u2019 clothing is a subconscious compensation for not being clothed with power from on high? \u2014 Troy Patterson, The New Yorker , 14 June 2019",
"The skull and its accompanying void inhabit a more abstract reality, a statement stripped of all superfluity . \u2014 Teju Cole, New York Times , 18 Jan. 2018",
"Sarah Perry\u2019s After the Eclipse, on the other hand, is stripped of superfluity . \u2014 Laura Miller, Slate Magazine , 15 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English superfluitee , from Anglo-French superfluit\u00e9 , from Late Latin superfluitat-, superfluitas , from Latin superfluus ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-112620"
},
"submitting":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to yield to governance or authority",
": to subject to a condition, treatment, or operation",
": to present or propose to another for review, consideration, or decision",
": to deliver formally",
": to put forward as an opinion or contention",
": to yield oneself to the authority or will of another : surrender",
": to permit oneself to be subjected to something",
": to defer to or consent to abide by the opinion or authority of another",
": to leave to the judgment or approval of someone else",
": to yield to the authority, control, or choice of another",
": to put forward as an opinion, reason, or idea",
": to yield or subject to control or authority",
": to present or propose to another for review, consideration, or decision",
": to commit to a trier of fact or law for decision after the close of trial or argument",
": to deliver formally",
": to put forward as an opinion or contention",
": to yield oneself",
": to defer to or consent to abide by the opinion of another"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mit",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mit"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"bow",
"budge",
"capitulate",
"concede",
"give in",
"knuckle under",
"quit",
"relent",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"resist"
],
"examples":[
"Candidates interested in the position should submit their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s to the Office of Human Resources.",
"Submit your application no later than January 31st.",
"Requests must be submitted in writing.",
"Photographs submitted for publication will not be returned.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"People can also download the P3tips mobile app to submit a tip, or go to www. \u2014 Hannah Brock, The Indianapolis Star , 10 June 2022",
"Just choose the plan that\u2019s right for you and submit eligible claims for reimbursement. \u2014 Elizabeth Sheldon, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"Since then, the NRA\u2019s website for School Shield grant information has remained dormant, encouraging schools that need funding to submit email addresses for future grant program updates. \u2014 Laura Strickler, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Orchard plans to submit Libmeldy to the FDA later this year or early next. \u2014 Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Additionally, Biden\u2019s Executive Order on March 9, 2022 asked various regulatory agencies to investigate and submit reports on a similar list of topics included in the bill. \u2014 Hailey Lennon, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"By presenting the film early, Universal believed cinema owners would submit to the hype and would not be able to resist playing the movie in their venues. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"Black remained at the Pulaski County jail on Thursday evening in lieu of a $15,000 bond on charges of disorderly conduct, refusal to submit to arrest and first degree battery, according to an online inmate roster. \u2014 Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online , 9 June 2022",
"Eastman proposed having seven states submit competing slates of electors to be counted on Jan. 6, 2020. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English submitten , from Latin submittere to lower, submit, from sub- + mittere to send",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-122057"
},
"supereminent":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely eminent , distinguished, or prominent"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8e-m\u0259-n\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1531, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-133547"
},
"Suita":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"city north of Osaka on Honshu, Japan population 356,000"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u00fc-\u02c8\u0113-t\u00e4"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-135305"
},
"Sudra":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a Hindu of a lower caste traditionally assigned to menial occupations"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-dr\u0259",
"\u02c8sh\u00fc-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Sanskrit \u015b\u016bdra ",
"first_known_use":[
"1630, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-135425"
},
"sum (to":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
"to have a total of a lifetime of charitable contributions that sum into the millions"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-145601"
},
"sudden":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": happening or coming unexpectedly",
": changing angle or character all at once",
": marked by or manifesting abruptness or haste",
": made or brought about in a short time : prompt",
": an unexpected occurrence : emergency",
": sooner than was expected : at once",
": happening or coming quickly and unexpectedly",
": met with unexpectedly",
": hasty sense 2",
": sooner than was expected : suddenly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-d\u1d4an",
"\u02c8s\u0259-d\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"unanticipated",
"unexpected",
"unforeseen",
"unlooked-for"
],
"antonyms":[
"anticipated",
"expected",
"foreseen"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The sudden spread of monkeypox among gay and bisexual men echoes the emergence of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. \u2014 Denise Roland And Jon Kamp, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"The police try to find out what is behind the trio of sudden disappearances, but are unable to find any clues. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 25 June 2022",
"His entire team was gone, and this three-year ride, which included headlining tours and performances with the likes of Nickelodeon star Miranda Cosgrove, came to a sudden halt. \u2014 ELLE , 24 June 2022",
"Clark\u2019s ideas alarmed his colleagues, as did his sudden rise into Trump\u2019s orbit as a potential new acting attorney general. \u2014 Lisa Mascaro And Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News , 24 June 2022",
"When sudden rain storms flooded the park shortly after noon, rangers tried to get to Capitol Gorge. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"Pandemics, global conflicts, societal unrest, sudden asset crashes and other unforeseen events can throw real challenges at your business, and your old roadmaps and strategies might have to be thrown out the window. \u2014 Ariel Katz, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"These sudden movements radiate outward from the fault as seismic waves, which cause the ground to shake. \u2014 Sasha Warren, Scientific American , 24 June 2022",
"A year and change later, McConnell seized a sudden opportunity: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, less than two months before the 2020 presidential election, gave his party the chance to confirm a third Trump nominee to the Supreme Court. \u2014 Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal , 24 June 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1558, in the meaning defined above"
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": homage , fealty",
": one's full duty"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
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": sudoriferous"
],
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"\u00a6s\u00fcd\u0259\u00a6rip\u0259r\u0259s"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": to make a humble entreaty",
": to pray to God",
": to ask humbly and earnestly of",
": to ask for earnestly and humbly",
": to ask or beg in a humble way : beseech"
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"\u02c8s\u0259-pl\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t",
"\u02c8s\u0259-pl\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t"
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"beg",
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"besiege",
"conjure",
"entreat",
"impetrate",
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"pray",
"solicit"
],
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"examples":[
"the minister reminded his flock that God is a being to be obeyed and worshipped always and not just someone to be supplicated in times of trouble",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Now, finally, Farley, as chief of Ford for barely half a year, has come to supplicate before the narrative. \u2014 Dale Buss, Forbes , 1 June 2021",
"Committees should draw power from their accomplishments, not based on which industries need to supplicate before the gavel. \u2014 Ben Sasse, WSJ , 8 Sep. 2020",
"Two rows of little red devils bow at the magician\u2019s feet, as though supplicating a supreme figure of dark and mysterious powers. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Mar. 2020",
"But while its competitors were giving grandiose speeches and supplicating at the White House, the company\u2019s content-moderation choices stood out as an example of a social network with a moral compass. \u2014 Kevin Roose, New York Times , 30 Dec. 2019",
"To restore their good standing, executives must supplicate , with minimal guidance from the party-state. \u2014 Isaac Stone Fish, Twin Cities , 14 Oct. 2019",
"Women run many Sufi shrines across Tunisia, prepare and serve food for worshipers and the needy, while women are allowed to pray and supplicate at shrines alongside men \u2013 a rarity at Islamic sites. \u2014 Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 Mar. 2018"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-162337"
},
"Sunday supplement":{
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"noun"
],
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},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
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"to have a total of a lifetime of charitable contributions that sum into the millions"
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},
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"verb"
],
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": to abound or prevail in greater measure or to excess"
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u0259-\u02c8bau\u0307nd"
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"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Late Latin superabundare , from Latin super- + abundare to abound",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-172216"
},
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"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": in a supplicating manner"
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"history_and_etymology":" supplicating (present participle of supplicate ) + -ly ",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-173832"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
"as in reduce , decrease"
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-173917"
},
"suspect":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion : suspected",
": doubtful , questionable",
": one that is suspected",
": a person suspected of a crime",
": to imagine (one) to be guilty or culpable on slight evidence or without proof",
": to have doubts of : distrust",
": to imagine to exist or be true, likely, or probable",
": to imagine something to be true or likely",
": to suppose to be true or likely",
": to have doubts of : distrust",
": to imagine to be guilty without proof",
": a person who is thought to be guilty of something",
": thought of with suspicion",
": regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion or heightened scrutiny",
": a person suspected of a crime",
": a person apprehended for but not yet charged with an offense",
": to imagine (one) to be guilty on slight evidence or without proof",
": to imagine to exist or be probable"
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"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccspekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccspekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccspekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259-\u02ccspekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259s-\u02ccpekt, s\u0259-\u02c8spekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259s-\u02ccpekt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8spekt"
],
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"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspicious"
],
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"assume",
"conjecture",
"daresay",
"guess",
"imagine",
"presume",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise",
"suspicion"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The police chief said a recent breaking-and-entering crime in the city was solved by searching the Flock database, which revealed a suspect from another city\u2019s camera. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
"On Tuesday, police arrested a second suspect in connection with the disappearance of the pair, according to a press release from the Federal Police. \u2014 CNN , 15 June 2022",
"Shinn is the third suspect charged with murder in Laquinten\u2019s death. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 15 June 2022",
"North Little Rock police have identified a suspect in a fatal shooting reported Tuesday, according to a Wednesday news release. \u2014 Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online , 15 June 2022",
"Police initially were searching for a suspect who was in his 20s because of his over 6-feet-tall height and some-200-pound weight. \u2014 Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel , 14 June 2022",
"The shocking murder remains unsolved, and the Jacksonville Beach Police Department hasn't publicly named a suspect . \u2014 Fox News , 14 June 2022",
"Officials said detectives are trying to find a suspect and figure out a motive. \u2014 Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"Officials consider Maldonado a suspect in the suspicious death of 24-year-old Angela Leann Mitchell, according to KHOU-TV, though Texas City police said in the release that the investigation is ongoing. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Officers suspect the driver of the Malibu may have been distracted by a phone prior to the crash, officials said. \u2014 Hannah Brock, The Indianapolis Star , 17 June 2022",
"Seven people were confirmed as dead, including an unidentified man who police suspect set the fire in a lawyer\u2019s office. \u2014 Fox News , 9 June 2022",
"That means ordinary Texans who suspect violations can report their neighbors, acquaintances and others. \u2014 Mar\u00eda Luisa Pa\u00fal, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Parents who suspect their child might be a victim are urged to call Cincinnati police Detective McCoy or Detective Delk at 513-263-8300. \u2014 Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer , 1 June 2022",
"This movie focuses on a young couple who suspect a paranormal presence after moving into their tract home in suburbia. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, Good Housekeeping , 19 May 2022",
"Master Corporal Pepper said the state police suspect foul play in the case. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Feb. 2022",
"The man has since been identified as James Davis III, who authorities suspect has a mental illness. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The limited series premiered on May 5, 2022, and culminates on June 9, 2022, and follows as Michael becomes the prime and only suspect in his wife\u2019s death as well as the ensuing murder investigation. \u2014 Dana Feldman, Forbes , 2 June 2022"
],
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"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1591, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-174007"
},
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"type":[
"geographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": an attack made without warning",
": a taking unawares",
": something that surprises",
": the feeling caused by something unexpected or unusual",
": to attack unexpectedly",
": to capture by an unexpected attack",
": to take unawares",
": to detect or elicit by a taking unawares",
": to strike with wonder or amazement especially because unexpected",
": to cause astonishment or surprise",
": something that is unexpected",
": astonishment , amazement",
": an act or instance of coming upon without warning",
": to cause to feel wonder or amazement because of being unexpected",
": to come upon without warning",
": to attack without warning : capture by an unexpected attack",
": a condition or situation in which a party to a proceeding is unexpectedly placed without any fault or neglect of his or her own and that entitles the party to relief (as a new trial)",
": an aspect of procedural unconscionability that consists of hiding a term of a contract in a mass of text",
"city in south central Arizona west of Phoenix population 117,517"
],
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"s\u0259r-\u02c8pr\u012bz",
"s\u0259-",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8pr\u012bz",
"s\u0259-\u02c8pr\u012bz",
"s\u0259r-\u02c8pr\u012bz"
],
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"bombshell",
"jar",
"jaw-dropper",
"jolt",
"stunner"
],
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"amaze",
"astonish",
"astound",
"bowl over",
"dumbfound",
"dumfound",
"flabbergast",
"floor",
"rock",
"shock",
"startle",
"stun",
"stupefy",
"thunderstrike"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 2014, to the surprise of many experts, including himself, Jha was tapped to run Harvard\u2019s Global Health Institute. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 18 June 2022",
"Honestly, Nevermind album isn\u2019t the only surprise the OVO boss has in store this year. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 17 June 2022",
"But the biggest surprise came when Dean's sister asked what happened to the couple's baby, Holly Marie. \u2014 Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"The amazing surprise is that so many people have embraced the show on many different levels. \u2014 Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"That might explain the surprise of London's commuters on Wednesday, when Prince William popped up on the city's streets, selling copies of the Big Issue magazine. \u2014 Max Foster And Rob Picheta, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"The biggest surprise from their analysis is that the bits of Ryugu are a close match to a 1.5-pound meteorite that landed in Tanzania in 1938. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"Much to the surprise of its listeners, a major Russian radio station began playing the Ukrainian anthem and a string of anti-war songs. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"Turner was preparing to step back in the box when, to the surprise of almost everyone except the Hall of Fame manager himself, La Russa stuck up his arm and put four fingers in the air. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Their conversation about trying new things prompts Helen to surprise Jessica by kissing her, encouraging her to broaden her horizons. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet and Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes starred in a solid starting five that could have the talent to surprise again and nab a top-six spot in the East. \u2014 Matt Eppers, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Maggie Gray and Andrew Perloff recently weighed in on their CBS Sports Radio show, Maggie and Perloff, and their thoughts might surprise some people. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 17 June 2022",
"The long-absent silver trains showed up like an apparition Thursday, emerging from Metro tunnels to surprise passengers waiting at stations along the Green and Yellow lines. \u2014 Justin George, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"While disappointing, the result is unlikely to surprise researchers. \u2014 Denise Roland, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"If these thoughts have crossed your mind, now is a good time to surprise Dad with luxury scents. \u2014 Emerald Elitou, Essence , 15 June 2022",
"When the clips were finished, Park got to surprise the people and have a discussion on how to approach being more present with each other. \u2014 Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com , 13 June 2022",
"Guests including Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath and Sabrina Elba were greeted by a violinist at the cathedral, and the bride and groom also hatched a plan to surprise the congregation with a flash mob-style gospel choir. \u2014 Kerry Mcdermott, Vogue , 9 June 2022"
],
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"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-174511"
},
"succeed":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to come next after another in office or position or in possession of an estate",
": to inherit sovereignty , rank, or title",
": to follow after another in order",
": to turn out well",
": to attain a desired object or end",
": to pass to a person by inheritance",
": to follow in sequence and especially immediately",
": to come after as heir or successor",
": to achieve a desired result : be successful",
": to turn out well",
": to come after : follow",
": to come next after another person in office or position",
": to come next after another in office or position",
": to take something by succession",
": to acquire the rights, obligations, and charges of a decedent in property comprising an estate",
": to follow in sequence and especially immediately",
": to come after as heir or successor"
],
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"s\u0259k-\u02c8s\u0113d",
"s\u0259k-\u02c8s\u0113d",
"s\u0259k-\u02c8s\u0113d"
],
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"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"work out"
],
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"bomb",
"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"wash out"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What\u2019s more, Twitter would need to succeed where Facebook parent Meta, a company with nearly 10 times the employee count, has largely failed. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Candidates of both parties who are running to succeed outgoing Republican Gov. \u2014 Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun , 16 June 2022",
"Suder said his father\u2019s guidance and influence have been a key factor in his development, and his drive to succeed at the next level. \u2014 Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal , 16 June 2022",
"To succeed , supply chains need to integrate people, processes, technology and data internally and externally across their network. \u2014 Clayton Nicholas, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Society has engrained in us that multitasking is an important skill that is needed to succeed , Miller said. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"Mitchell is fully aware the Jazz need a superstar to succeed . \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"Reagan begins to succeed at work, finally securing backing to expand her Minishonka cultural center, but must do so without the support of her best friend. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"Former Orange County Commissioner Ted Edwards is the latest Republican to jump into the race to succeed retiring Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy. \u2014 Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel , 15 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English succeden , from Anglo-French succeeder , from Latin succedere to go up, follow after, succeed, from sub- near + cedere to go \u2014 more at sub- ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-174722"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, constituting, or being part of a highly superior or exclusive elite"
],
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u0101-\u02c8l\u0113t",
"-i-",
"-\u0113-"
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"first_known_use":[
"1908, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-175000"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": adapted to a use or purpose",
": satisfying propriety : proper",
": able , qualified",
": similar , matching",
": being fit or right for a use or group"
],
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"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"equal",
"fit",
"good",
"qualified"
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"inept",
"poor",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified"
],
"examples":[
"The dress was a suitable choice.",
"We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bicycles, ride-hailing companies, and car rentals are additional options if public transportation is not suitable for a trip. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"Lift settings range from 16 to 23.5 inches, which is suitable for taller ride heights. \u2014 Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"An important mindset to have, as experts note, pilates is suitable for everyone regardless of gender, age, or body type. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 16 June 2022",
"But even though the meals were suitable for beginner cooks, they were still given top marks for flavor and fresh ingredients. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Warning, the language is not suitable for all ages. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
"In the meantime, parents eager to finally get their young children protected against the devastating pandemic virus will have to carefully determine which of the two vaccine options is suitable for their kids. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
"For others, lighter fragrances, mists, or perfume oils are suitable for their needs. \u2014 Lenora E. Houseworth, Allure , 14 June 2022",
"The shampoo is free of all harsh chemicals and is suitable for all hair types. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 June 2022"
],
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"1563, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-181256"
},
"subsidize":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to furnish with a subsidy : such as",
": to purchase the assistance of by payment of a subsidy",
": to aid or promote (someone or something, such as a private enterprise) with public money"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-s\u0259-\u02ccd\u012bz",
"-z\u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[
"endow",
"finance",
"fund"
],
"antonyms":[
"defund",
"disendow"
],
"examples":[
"The state subsidizes housing for low-income families.",
"She feels that private businesses should not be subsidized by taxpayers.",
"The company subsidizes health insurance for its employees.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The group, which includes former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, marks a bipartisan effort to invest in chip-making companies and lobby legislators to subsidize the industry. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
"The South Coast Air Quality Management District has been spending millions of grant dollars in recent years to subsidize natural gas trucks and infrastructure instead of cleaner electric vehicles. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"There, Schor said, governments have stepped in directly to subsidize company hours. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
"Challenging data and assumptions are essential for breaking the spell of the latest efforts to squeeze more and more money from state and local government to subsidize housing that if not over-regulated in the first place wouldn\u2019t be needed. \u2014 Roger Valdez, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"The private-sector companies argued the city would struggle to build their own broadband network, and could better allocate money to subsidize existing internet services for low-income residents. \u2014 Camille Squires, Quartz , 4 May 2022",
"Arms-exporting countries and companies rely on foreign sales to subsidize the development and production of new weapons systems for their home militaries. \u2014 Daniel Michaels, WSJ , 25 Apr. 2022",
"To cope, James said she's taken out two private loans through payday lenders to subsidize her bills. \u2014 Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Legislation before Congress would provide up to $52 billion to subsidize domestic semiconductor production and research, and Oregon hopes to get a share of that. \u2014 oregonlive , 29 Mar. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1755, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-182705"
},
"submissively":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": submitting to others",
": willing to give in to others",
": characterized by tendencies to yield to the will or authority of others"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-siv",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mi-siv",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8mis-iv"
],
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"amenable",
"biddable",
"compliant",
"conformable",
"docile",
"law-abiding",
"obedient",
"tractable"
],
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"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"noncompliant",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"unamenable",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"examples":[
"it's not in her nature to be submissive",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Here\u2019s this fleecy white creature, submissive and prepared for the bloodbath soon to come, a pure being, elevated far above the muck. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Last fall, during Richard Quinn's London Fashion Week show, drag queen Violet Chachki wore a cinched dominatrix catsuit and mask down the runway -- complete with a submissive companion crawling in-tow. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"Almond described him as combative at times and submissive at other times. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Lovett and Vilim\u2019s reference point was the 1975 version of the The Stepford Wives, which is about a woman who moves to suburban Connecticut and comes to suspect that the submissive , samey-looking wives all around her are robots programmed to serve. \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022",
"People today place a high value on their choices, and as a result, the era of the submissive consumer has come to an end. \u2014 Ildeme Mahinay Koch, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Muse pushes back on the perception of muses as submissive , a blank canvas rather than one bursting with ideas. \u2014 Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2022",
"The most important thing for us wasn\u2019t just the idea of a superhero, but the idea of making her completely the opposite of every trope about Arab woman as submissive or weak. \u2014 Adam B. Vary, Variety , 4 May 2022",
"Many false narratives paint the Ukrainians as submissive and eager for reunification. \u2014 Maggie Smith, The Conversation , 7 Feb. 2022"
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"Last year, Johnson was hired for a role in Treasure Valley, a Western movie set in Idaho, but none of his scenes were filmed in the wake of the sudden death of actor-writer Jay Pickett, 60, who died in the early days of production in July. \u2014 Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"The title says it all, but for a little more context, this 2021 film starring Kevin Hart follows a man struggling with being a single father to his infant daughter after the sudden death of his wife. \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"Four months after Bob Saget's sudden death on Jan. 9, his widow Kelly Rizzo paid tribute to the beloved comedian on what would have been his 66th birthday. \u2014 Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com , 17 May 2022",
"Charlene Murphey\u2019s son, Michael Murphey, testified at Friday\u2019s sentencing hearing that his family remains devastated by the sudden death of their matriarch. \u2014 Kaiser Health News, oregonlive , 13 May 2022",
"That's why Saget's sudden death at age 65 prompted breaking news bulletins, push alerts on phones, and special reports on television. \u2014 Brian Stelter, CNN , 9 Jan. 2022",
"The Foo Fighters have canceled all of their upcoming tour dates following the sudden death of drummer Taylor Hawkins last Friday, March 25. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The Ravens proposed two time formats for their amendment: sudden death or timed (7 minutes, 30 seconds). \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Tim's sudden death and launched their Only Murders in the Building podcast to document their findings along the way. \u2014 Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com , 27 Mar. 2022"
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"Monster had another remarkable conversation during the call -- one that seemed to sum up his entire approach to online hate speech. \u2014 Rob Kuznia, CNN , 9 Dec. 2021",
"The adage may sum up India\u2019s recent decision to buy discounted Russian oil. \u2014 Megha Mandavia, WSJ , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Following a nearly three-week trial, lawyers sum up their evidence in long-running legal battle. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Mar. 2022",
"More in Indiana music:A new album asks 20 musicians to sum up Indiana in 2 minutes. \u2014 Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The Miami Heat already have had their one-game wonders, Briante Weber, Emanuel Terry, DeAndre Liggins and Matt Fish each able to sum up their careers with the franchise in a single appearance. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 5 Jan. 2022",
"If one week could somehow sum up Boris Johnson\u2019s chaotic premiership, this was it. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Sturdy and steady sum up the BEAUTURAL iron, which is about the same size as the Rowenta \u2014 at a third of the price. \u2014 Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"In the first paragraph, attempt to sum up the person\u2019s life in a way that tells a story. \u2014 Jeff Bradford, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 2014, to the surprise of many experts, including himself, Jha was tapped to run Harvard\u2019s Global Health Institute. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 18 June 2022",
"Honestly, Nevermind album isn\u2019t the only surprise the OVO boss has in store this year. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 17 June 2022",
"But the biggest surprise came when Dean's sister asked what happened to the couple's baby, Holly Marie. \u2014 Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"The amazing surprise is that so many people have embraced the show on many different levels. \u2014 Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
"That might explain the surprise of London's commuters on Wednesday, when Prince William popped up on the city's streets, selling copies of the Big Issue magazine. \u2014 Max Foster And Rob Picheta, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"The biggest surprise from their analysis is that the bits of Ryugu are a close match to a 1.5-pound meteorite that landed in Tanzania in 1938. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"Much to the surprise of its listeners, a major Russian radio station began playing the Ukrainian anthem and a string of anti-war songs. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"Turner was preparing to step back in the box when, to the surprise of almost everyone except the Hall of Fame manager himself, La Russa stuck up his arm and put four fingers in the air. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Their conversation about trying new things prompts Helen to surprise Jessica by kissing her, encouraging her to broaden her horizons. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet and Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes starred in a solid starting five that could have the talent to surprise again and nab a top-six spot in the East. \u2014 Matt Eppers, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"Maggie Gray and Andrew Perloff recently weighed in on their CBS Sports Radio show, Maggie and Perloff, and their thoughts might surprise some people. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 17 June 2022",
"The long-absent silver trains showed up like an apparition Thursday, emerging from Metro tunnels to surprise passengers waiting at stations along the Green and Yellow lines. \u2014 Justin George, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"While disappointing, the result is unlikely to surprise researchers. \u2014 Denise Roland, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"If these thoughts have crossed your mind, now is a good time to surprise Dad with luxury scents. \u2014 Emerald Elitou, Essence , 15 June 2022",
"When the clips were finished, Park got to surprise the people and have a discussion on how to approach being more present with each other. \u2014 Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com , 13 June 2022",
"Guests including Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath and Sabrina Elba were greeted by a violinist at the cathedral, and the bride and groom also hatched a plan to surprise the congregation with a flash mob-style gospel choir. \u2014 Kerry Mcdermott, Vogue , 9 June 2022"
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": supplication",
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],
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": an act or instance of suppressing : as",
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"learned that suppression of her angry feelings didn't necessarily make them go away",
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"Standing up to this suppression and sharing a commitment to liberty were two famous poets, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, celebrated in some circles, a cause for scandal in others. \u2014 Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
"This article is an extension of our series on immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"This site is protected by recaptcha Privacy Policy | Terms of Service From congressional hearings about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to claims of excessive voter purging, gerrymandering and suppression , much is happening in the voting sphere. \u2014 Donna M. Owens, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
"Exposure is linked with liver damage, thyroid disease, diabetes, decreased fertility, kidney problems, high cholesterol, obesity, hormone suppression and cancer. \u2014 Jen Christensen And Nadia Kounang, CNN , 15 June 2022",
"Following the rollout of background noise supression in late 2020, Teams is now getting echo cancellation and reverberation suppression . \u2014 Mark Knapp, PCMAG , 13 June 2022",
"During the last fiscal year, the state\u2019s wildfire suppression costs ballooned beyond $1.1 billion. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Legislators also approved new measures to combat voter suppression under the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, invoking the former congressman and civil rights leader in a nod to the voting rights bill that failed to pass in Congress. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Land displacement, pollution and suppression of Native Hawaiian voices are motifs often threaded throughout Kahunahana\u2019s work. \u2014 Haley Yamada, ABC News , 31 May 2022"
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": floating vegetable matter that forms obstructive masses especially in the upper White Nile",
"swamp region of South Sudan drained by the White Nile River"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-223259"
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"plural noun"
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": miscellaneous small articles, details, or items",
"\u2014 compare sundry entry 2",
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"\u02c8s\u0259n-dr\u0113z"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In parts of the city, activists have nailed small wooden cupboards to street posts offering up sundries such as socks, tampons, shampoo and cans of tuna. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"External flaps and a zip pocket kept sundries organized, while the weather resistant body and padded shoulder straps played nicely on trails and trains. \u2014 Elizabeth Miller, Outside Online , 11 June 2022",
"The tough Cordura body and padded sides and bottom keep your kit safe, and the large top lid yields ample room for lunch and sundries . \u2014 Owen Clarke, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"And what\u2019s not to love about the ample area for potting plants, not to mention the wooden pegs for hanging tools and a shelf above for pots and sundries ? \u2014 Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine , 9 May 2022",
"Priest allegedly directed the bookkeeper to withhold funds paid by students for snacks and sundries and to use the cash to purchase more such items to be sold to the students, according to Smith. \u2014 Michael Wetzel The Decatur Daily, al , 12 Apr. 2022",
"This section of countertop turned into a coffee bar after the couple added an outlet and shelves for all the sundries . \u2014 Sarah Egge, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 Feb. 2022",
"The hotel\u2019s boutique\u2014stocked with playing cards, sunscreen, and sundries \u2014had sat undisturbed. \u2014 Mickey Rapkin, Town & Country , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The bot helped arrange delivery of two nights of pizza dinners and a tube of toothpaste from the sundries shop downstairs, and relayed Ms. Down\u2019s request for the extra towels and tissues to be left at the door. \u2014 Alina Dizik, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2022"
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],
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": transcending the personal"
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],
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"verb"
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": a printed statement or fragment of dialogue appearing on the screen between the scenes of a silent motion picture or appearing as a translation at the bottom of the screen during the scenes of a motion picture or television show in a foreign language",
": to give a subtitle to"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Future viewers watching on TV streamer channels may be inclined to use the subtitle option to follow the dialogue on The Stranger, while the film as a whole could also serve as a public service reminder on the advisability of sunscreen. \u2014 Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"The film\u2019s subtitle refers most explicitly to the advent of talkies, which were just becoming a thing in the late 1920s. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Arendt was responsible for the wording of her subtitle , but the discussion regarding the phenomenon of evil and its banality started when Jaspers sent her two copies of his book Die Schuldfrage (The Question of German Guilt). \u2014 Seyla Benhabib, The New York Review of Books , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Week 1481 was our perennial Mess With Our Heads contest, in which readers chose a headline from any publication and reinterpreted it by adding a bank head, or subtitle . \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
"As the subtitle alludes to, Hochman narrates a century and a half of wiretapping, from the Civil War to the War on Terror. \u2014 Andrew Lanham, The New Republic , 21 Apr. 2022",
"But one has to wonder at the book\u2019s hackneyed and misleading subtitle . \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, WSJ , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Following its first season, the DC animated superhero series Young Justice has sported a subtitle for each subsequent outing. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Even its voluminous subtitle is a witty expression of Tokarczuk\u2019s irrepressible, omnivorous reach. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"This resulted in Channel 4 falling short of its annual quota to subtitle 90% of programs on Freesat, achieving only 85.41%, which is in breach of its licence conditions. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 20 June 2022",
"Tony Kushner makes the story more relevant to a modern audience (Spielberg doesn\u2019t subtitle the Spanish dialogue, which is nice). \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 10 Feb. 2022",
"His decision not to subtitle the Spanish language scenes speaks to the open-hearted of the whole enterprise, and there\u2019s a little part of us that wonders if, in 20 years, that\u2019s what this adaptation will be most remembered for. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Invigorating choice to have subtitle -less Spanish comprise ~40% of dialogue. \u2014 J. Kim Murphy, Variety , 29 Nov. 2021",
"The First Solvay Conference in Physics, in Brussels in October 1911, accomplished far less than its organizers envisioned, making Orens\u2019s subtitle something of a mystery. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Aug. 2021",
"The sweeping restrictions have motivated fans of shows and movies that run afoul of censorship rules to subtitle them in Chinese and upload unauthorized copies online. \u2014 Nectar Gan, CNN , 2 Mar. 2021",
"KineMaster This Android and iOS app can blur faces in videos, including other features such as voiceovers, subtitling , and transitions and special effects. \u2014 Coral Murphy, USA TODAY , 29 May 2020",
"This whole time, the only legitimate way to stream the anime has been through Hulu, which granted, has dubbed and subtitled versions of both Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal. \u2014 Michelle Santiago Cort\u00e9s, refinery29.com , 22 Apr. 2020"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": an unusual state of matter noted only in liquid helium cooled to near absolute zero and characterized by apparently frictionless flow (as through fine holes)"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the case of helium, however, sufficient cooling will create a superfluid , at which point its atoms will flow without losing energy to viscosity. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 16 Mar. 2022",
"At temperatures above the point at which liquid helium becomes a superfluid , the transition created a broad peak instead of a sharp one. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 16 Mar. 2022",
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"In conventional superconductors, where clusters of atoms pair free electrons, just 1 in 100,000 electrons join the superconducting superfluid . \u2014 Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine , 16 Mar. 2021",
"Their work explains the behavior of superconductors and superfluids by connecting these systems to topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties including surfaces. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 4 Oct. 2016",
"But to isolate it in superfluid helium is a big job, one that Mills\u2019s lab will do by tuning a special antimatter beam. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Related Stories The Bose-Einstein condensate phase is also a superfluid , first made in a lab in 1995. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Hall and M\u00f6tt\u00f6nen used a quantum state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) as their medium\u2014technically a superfluid . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 15 Nov. 2019"
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"The campaign's summary notes how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director, Robert Redfield, contacted his counterpart in China and offered to send U.S. experts to aid its investigation on Jan. 3. \u2014 Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Local health departments also can access summary disease reports. \u2014 Rachel Dissell, cleveland , 6 Apr. 2020",
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"The finding followed two separate internal affairs inquiries, according to the board\u2019s summary report. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 Jan. 2020",
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"State finance officials said anyone can read those summary documents and raise questions themselves. \u2014 Jason Pohl, ProPublica , 28 Dec. 2019",
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"The new agency would develop and enforce rules that regulate company conduct, mimicking the role played by oversight bodies that police pharmaceutical drugs or media standards, according to a summary of the bill provided by Bennet\u2019s office. \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 12 May 2022",
"In an April 2019 meeting with U.S. prosecutors in Europe, the two sides discussed having Saab surrender on May 30 of that year, according to a summary of events contained in court records. \u2014 Joshua Goodman, ajc , 2 May 2022",
"Councilman Kevin de Le\u00f3n has raised about $580,000 since the year began and spent a little more than $500,000 during the same period, according to a summary of the filing shown to The Times. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Put simply, metadata refers to the summary of the actual data or document. \u2014 Manan Shah, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Here's how it will be paid for: The $10 billion legislation would be fully offset by Covid-19 relief funds that were previously authorized by Congress but have not yet been spent, according to a summary provided by Romney's office. \u2014 Katie Lobosco And Tami Luhby, CNN , 4 Apr. 2022",
"According to a summary of the conversation from China, however, Xi reportedly told Biden both the U.S. and China have an obligation to promote peace between Russia and Ukraine. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 19 Mar. 2022",
"The responses included 143 comments, more than three-quarters of which were negative, according to someone privy to a summary of the report who was granted anonymity to describe this sensitive personnel matter. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"According to a summary Albritton gave at a press conference today, the plan calls for creation of the Alabama Education and Lottery Gambling Commission to supervise the state lottery and issue licenses for casinos. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 3 Mar. 2022"
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"As Esther Benbassa recounts in her dry but impressively succinct and informative history, they arrived in the Roman province of Gaul in the first centuries of the common era, and soon found themselves trod underfoot by the ascendant Christian church. \u2014 David A. Bell , New Republic , 28 Feb. 2000",
"In his first work of popular science, English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proves himself to be a master of vivid clarity. His title, \" A Brief History of Time,\" is understated even by British standards; in 198 pages Hawking manages no less than a succinct history of cosmology, a concise explanation of general relativity and its intersection with quantum mechanics \u2026 \u2014 Richard Rhodes , Chicago Tribune , 27 Mar. 1988",
"He gave a succinct overview of the expansion project.",
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"In a succinct email, clearly articulate the reason for getting in contact with the potential partner, and end by asking for the best time to continue the conversation to discuss what was briefly presented at length. \u2014 Pauleanna Reid, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Clocking in at 2\u00bd hours, the Olivier Award-winning production is not a particularly succinct bit of storytelling. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 30 May 2022",
"Her zingers\u2014 succinct , often biting, always revealing\u2014leapt out amid the show\u2019s famously sparse dialogue. \u2014 Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country , 29 May 2022",
"This remarkably succinct format was called a probabilistically checkable proof (PCP). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"Shell\u2019s succinct comments about Peacock\u2019s advertiser-friendly status were downright sedate compared what came from deputy Linda Yaccarino. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 May 2022",
"Kings coach Todd McLellan was angry and succinct at his postgame news conference. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
"That\u2019s what Orioles ace John Means posted Saturday afternoon, confirming the worst-case scenario with a succinct update on his impending elbow reconstruction surgery. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 24 Apr. 2022",
"But her announcement post felt more succinct \u2014meandering from food baby to baby baby. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 13 Apr. 2022"
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"She spoke in a subdued voice.",
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"On the other hand, the two major economies in Asia\u2014China and Japan\u2014are bucking the tightening trend because domestic inflationary pressure remains relatively subdued . \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"The testimony was relatively subdued ; most court watchers are waiting for key testimony from Palin and Bennet next week. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Feb. 2022",
"In Shanghai, however, the official narrative is much more subdued . \u2014 Nectar Gan, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"Wages in the United States are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, while pay growth in Europe has been more subdued . \u2014 New York Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The outdoors strongly influences the indoors too, with sky- or foliage-themed rooms dressed in subdued hues and natural fabrics. \u2014 Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure , 19 Feb. 2020",
"Today Putin responded with a more subdued and nuanced warning. \u2014 Fox News , 16 May 2022",
"Speaking specifically of Friday, a fair assessment might conclude that despite its bland appearance, the day seemed pleasant, even if in a subdued way. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"This week in Sydney, a bold handful of the Aussie fashion set traded in their typical subdued neutrals and surprised us with bold and bright hues. \u2014 Madeline Fass, Vogue , 13 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The former couple's first child, Nevada Alexander Musk, died of sudden infant death syndrome at only 10 weeks. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 21 June 2022",
"In 2020, there were 4,403 deaths from congenital abnormalities, 3,141 deaths from short gestation, or preterm birth and low birth weight, and 1,389 deaths from sudden infant death syndrome . \u2014 Jill Terreri Ramos, San Antonio Express-News , 5 June 2022",
"Biden has signed legislation that would ban the sale of padded crib bumpers that are widely sold despite recommendations that cribs be kept bare to prevent sudden infant death syndrome . \u2014 cleveland , 18 May 2022",
"In December, her youngest daughter, Laramie, died of sudden infant death syndrome just 12 days before her first birthday. \u2014 Brenda Goodman, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"My stepsister was born soon after but died three months later in 1976 from sudden infant death syndrome . \u2014 Marc Myers, WSJ , 3 May 2022",
"The Alaska State Medical Examiner Office determined the death was due to asphyxia, ruling out sudden infant death syndrome . \u2014 Hope Hodge Seck, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The city already has many prevention programs in place, such as B\u2019more for Healthy Babies, the long-standing effort to reduce sleep deaths including sudden infant death syndrome . \u2014 Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com , 21 Jan. 2022",
"One of the researchers has suggested that police officers involved in the deaths are often unfairly blamed \u2014 like parents of babies who die of sudden infant death syndrome . \u2014 New York Times , 26 Dec. 2021"
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"There is also the opportunity for organizations to connect freely via virtual communication, reducing the sunk cost of initial conversations. \u2014 Dax Grant, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"An additional 20 fans, about the size of small trucks, destined for Russia are sitting on her factory floor \u2014 a sunk cost of \u20ac350,000. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"If the Rockets just sit him now, perhaps the thinking is that that $36 million contract becomes a sunk cost? \u2014 Rahat Huq, Chron , 15 Nov. 2021",
"The move didn\u2019t eliminate the enormous cap hit the team faced from its disastrous long-term extension with Wentz, but ultimately Philadelphia recognized a sunk cost and moved on from the Wentz era. \u2014 Howard Megdal, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Happy Customers Buy More Until recently, assisting customers was regarded as a sunk cost that dragged down the bottom line. \u2014 Jeff Koyen, Forbes , 7 May 2021",
"And even though the money is a sunk cost, the Rangers do not have a history of releasing players with multiple years left remaining on long-term contracts. \u2014 Evan Grant, Dallas News , 1 Dec. 2020",
"With his contract essentially a sunk cost and the team\u2019s top pitching prospects on the cusp of debuting at some point this season, Zimmermann will have to stay healthy and pitch effectively to stick in the rotation. \u2014 Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press , 13 July 2020",
"Since it\u2019s already something of a sunk cost, oil-producing states\u2019 request could present an opportunity for the federal government for a jobs program that will pass muster in red states. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 12 May 2020"
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"subsiding reservoir":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": settling reservoir"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-114037"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": magistrate court"
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"1880, in the meaning defined above"
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"sucky":{
"type":[
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],
"definitions":[
": awful sense 1"
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"\u02c8s\u0259-k\u0113"
],
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"atrocious",
"awful",
"dismal",
"execrable",
"horrible",
"lousy",
"punk",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[
"bitchin'",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"wonderful"
],
"examples":[
"I'm tired of driving around in a sucky car that is always breaking down.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What feels unmanageable today may feel, when tomorrow comes, still sucky but somehow not hopeless anymore. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2021",
"There's the person voted out right before the merge \u2014 another super sucky spot to go since the entire game can be flipped on its head the day after you were voted out. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 11 Nov. 2021",
"But hey, at least their sucky season earned them a high draft pick, and Klay will be back! \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Apr. 2021",
"If this holiday season feels really sucky , take comfort in the fact that the holidays won\u2019t always be this way. \u2014 Jenny Mccoy, Glamour , 25 Nov. 2020",
"Cities are going to be a little bit more sucky in the next few years. \u2014 The Atlantic , 28 Apr. 2020",
"An Insulated Mug Regular plastic water bottles are a sucky choice for a hot drink. \u2014 Joe Lindsey, Outside Online , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Still, the last few spots are the hardest the climb, and there\u2019s no guarantee the Giants, who need two wins in their final three games for the Lions to move to No. 2, Dolphins and Washington will all sustain their sucky ways. \u2014 Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press , 9 Dec. 2019",
"His friends seem more sucky than him for most of the film. \u2014 Alissa Wilkinson, Vox , 2 July 2019"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1984, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-131243"
},
"suni":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": either of two very small delicately built antelopes ( Nesotragus moschatus and N. livingstonei ) of southeastern Africa"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fcn\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"native name in southeastern Africa"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-132546"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being subdued"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-\u00fc(\u0259)dn\u0259\u0307s"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-133341"
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"sudorific":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": causing or inducing sweat : diaphoretic",
": causing or inducing sweat : diaphoretic sense 1",
": a sudorific agent or medicine"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-d\u0259-\u02c8ri-fik",
"-\u02c8rif-ik"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin sudorificus , from Latin sudor"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1626, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-135859"
},
"suitor":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that petitions or entreats",
": a party to a suit at law",
": one who courts a woman or seeks to marry her",
": one who seeks to take over a business",
": a man who tries to get a woman to marry him",
": a party to a suit",
": one that seeks to take over a business"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8s\u00fc-t\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"gallant",
"swain",
"wooer"
],
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"examples":[
"He was her most persistent suitor , and she eventually agreed to marry him.",
"An unwanted suitor is buying up the company's stock.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report reported that Collins could be available in the trade market and named the Blazers as a possible suitor . \u2014 oregonlive , 15 June 2022",
"Despite his devotion, her family was at first reluctant to accept him as a suitor . \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"Left to very few devices, the princess uses lace from her clothing and steel chains that keep her shackled to take on guards and other unsuspecting staffers working to uphold her scorned suitor 's plan. \u2014 Jasmine Washington, Seventeen , 3 June 2022",
"Fort Lauderdale \u2014 The old Wingate incinerator site, a long vacant parcel with an infamous past, might finally have a well-heeled, name-in-lights suitor in the form of a movie studio. \u2014 Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel , 28 Apr. 2022",
"And more than one suitor , including at least one fellow Republican governor, has made the case that the Senate could be a stepping stone to a future presidential bid, which Hogan has openly contemplated. \u2014 Steve Peoples, ajc , 11 Jan. 2022",
"And more than one suitor , including at least one fellow Republican governor, has made the case that the Senate could be a stepping stone to a future presidential bid, which Hogan has openly contemplated. \u2014 Steve Peoples, baltimoresun.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Also, the public prosecutor had been a former (unsuccessful) suitor of de Freitas' wife, raising the possibility that he was motivated by personal animosity toward the defendant. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 2 Jan. 2022",
"The 6-foot-4, 250-pound standout narrowed his college suitor list from 10 to 6 on Friday. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 13 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English sutour, suytour , follower, petitioner, from Anglo-French siuter, suytour , from Latin secutor follower, from sequi to follow \u2014 more at sue"
],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-140805"
},
"superabsorbent":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely absorbent"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022fr-b\u0259nt"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1914, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-141641"
},
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"type":[
"noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction"
],
"definitions":[
": any of several day-flowering herbs (genera Oenothera and Calylophus ) of the evening-primrose family"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259n-\u02ccdr\u00e4ps"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1785, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-142027"
},
"surprisable":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of being surprised : liable to surprise"
],
"pronounciation":[
"",
"\u2212"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-142202"
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"subterfuge":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade",
": a deceptive device or stratagem"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-t\u0259r-\u02ccfy\u00fcj"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"gamesmanship",
"hanky-panky",
"jiggery-pokery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
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"examples":[
"And the same kind of subterfuge that causes employees to open a virus-laden attachment could also lead them to unknowingly install programs that ship all their data to unscrupulous competitors. \u2014 Paul Wallich , Scientific American , July 2000",
"Williams has worn a wedding ring for the past decade. Originally it was a fake diamond used as a subterfuge during her days as an activist in Central America \u2026 \u2014 Annie Leibovitz , Vogue , February 1998",
"The first pool appeared on the scene in 1791, organized to manipulate stock of the U.S. Bank. Members of a pool contributed money, which was handed over to a single operator, who put into effect various strategies and subterfuges . He could depress the price of a stock, buy a lot at the low point, then artificially raise the price, and sell at a profit; or he might sell short, then depress the price and make a profit. \u2014 Kathleen Odean , High Steppers, Fallen Angels, and Lollipops , 1988",
"They obtained the documents by subterfuge .",
"propagandists who use a kind of photographic subterfuge , superimposing one image on another to create a false \u201creality\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In our interview, the Edge and Bono talked about everything the subterfuge of sneaking serious themes into family-friendly animation to where U2\u2019s recording and touring status is at. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 28 Jan. 2022",
"But the South Korean official and missile experts said further close analysis of images in North Korean state media of last week's launch gave two potential clues relating to Pyongyang's alleged subterfuge . \u2014 Brad Lendon And Gawon Bae, CNN , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The 36-page, six-count criminal complaint, filed in federal court Tuesday, alleges that Branson\u2019s subterfuge began in 2011. \u2014 Michael Ruiz, Fox News , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Season 6 begins with the married attorneys partnering for a complex bit of subterfuge . \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
"But there can also be joy in that survival, as well as a playful sense of subterfuge \u2014 a willingness to defy norms and break rules that Haroun pointedly frames not as a wrong but as a moral imperative. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"As for the cyberattacks, Ukraine has no doubt who\u2019s behind the mischief: Russia, known worldwide for its legions of hackers and online subterfuge , including a disinformation campaign aimed at disrupting the 2016 U.S. presidential election. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"In 2014, the Kremlin\u2019s subterfuge allowed Russian forces stripped of identifying markings to capture Crimea without firing a single shot. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Once filming was complete, the next stage of the gig began for Cox: the subterfuge . \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Feb. 2022"
],
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"Late Latin subterfugium , from Latin subterfugere to escape, evade, from subter- secretly (from subter underneath; akin to Latin sub under) + fugere to flee \u2014 more at up , fugitive"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1573, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-142216"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that suppresses",
": a mutant gene that suppresses the expression of another nonallelic mutant gene when both are present",
": one that suppresses",
": a mutant gene that suppresses the expression of another nonallelic mutant gene when both are present"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8pre-s\u0259r",
"-\u02c8pres-\u0259r"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Chandler Pappas, 29, faced a single felony charge of possessing a firearm suppressor , or silencer. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Apr. 2022",
"During and after his 2018 election victory over Stacey Abrams, the national media tarred Kemp as a vote- suppressor , while Abrams won press plaudits for insisting, baselessly, that Kemp had stolen the election. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 20 May 2022",
"Cleveland said the process to buy a stamp for a suppressor through the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) has been streamlined as of late December 2021. \u2014 al , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Based on an acoustic echo-canceller and noise- suppressor technologies, the earbuds can effectively reduce noise in a variety of settings and environments, ensuring clear phone calls. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The more pressing need is security and compound maintenance, such as to the elevators and fire- suppressor systems. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Liddy wrote that Clancy\u2019s description of making a firearm suppressor was incorrect. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Karlena Lara-Otero, PhD, a genetic counselor at Stanford Health Care, says BRCA1 and 2 genes are specifically tumor suppressor genes that prevent cells from growing out of control, which is what leads to cancer. \u2014 Ashley Abramson, Health.com , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Smith was playing the part of fire starter and fire suppressor , the guy who pulls the alarm and rides to the rescue. \u2014 Ray Glier, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1560, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-142714"
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"sudburite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a basic hypersthene-bearing basalt composed of bytownite, hypersthene, augite, and magnetite, often vesicular, and sometimes somewhat metamorphosed"
],
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"\u02c8s\u0259db\u0259\u02ccr\u012bt"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"from Sudbury district, Ontario, Canada + English -ite"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-144119"
},
"superempirical":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": experienced or experiencing by more than empirical means : transcendent , transcendental"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"super- + empirical"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-154337"
},
"supersubstantial":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": being above material substance : of a transcending substance"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-s\u0259b-\u02c8stan(t)-sh\u0259l"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Late Latin supersubstantialis , from Latin super- + substantia substance"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1534, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-155307"
},
"subsultory":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": involving irregularity of movement or advance : bounding , leaping"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-t\u0259r\u0113"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin subsult us (past participle of subsilire to leap up, from sub- up + -silire , from salire to leap) + English -ory"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-161517"
},
"sudd":{
"type":[
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": floating vegetable matter that forms obstructive masses especially in the upper White Nile",
"swamp region of South Sudan drained by the White Nile River"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259d",
"\u02c8s\u0259d"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Arabic, literally, obstruction"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1874, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-165122"
},
"suck":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to draw (something, such as liquid) into the mouth through a suction force produced by movements of the lips and tongue",
": to draw something from or consume by such movements",
": to apply the mouth to in order to or as if to suck out a liquid",
": to draw by or as if by suction",
": to take in and consume by or as if by suction",
": to draw something in by or as if by exerting a suction force",
": to draw milk from a breast or udder with the mouth",
": to make a sound or motion associated with or caused by suction",
": to act in an obsequious manner",
": to be objectionable or inadequate",
": to make the effort required to do or deal with something difficult or unpleasant",
": a sucking movement or force",
": the act of sucking",
": to draw something (as liquid or air) into the mouth",
": to draw liquid from by action of the mouth",
": to allow to dissolve gradually in the mouth",
": to put (as a thumb) into the mouth and draw on as if drawing liquid",
": to take in by or as if by absorption or suction",
": to draw (as liquid) into the mouth through a suction force produced by movements of the lips and tongue",
": to draw out by suction",
": to draw something in by or as if by exerting a suction force",
": to draw milk from a breast or udder with the mouth"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259k",
"\u02c8s\u0259k",
"\u02c8s\u0259k"
],
"synonyms":[
"bite",
"smell",
"stink"
],
"antonyms":[
"rock",
"rule"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Filled with twists, turns, and plenty of unsuspecting moments, this Whodunnit novel will suck you in from the first page. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 9 May 2022",
"And some companies will suck up a much higher toll than the others. \u2014 Dan Runkevicius, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2021",
"Look for a vacuum that has a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, which can suck up airborne particles with a size of 0.3 micron, according to the EPA. \u2014 Beth Krietsch, SELF , 19 May 2022",
"That's why families are opting for this powerful vacuum that can suck up pet hair and debris. \u2014 Lindsey Greenfeld, PEOPLE.com , 13 May 2022",
"Planting massive new forests and no-till agriculture can increase the Earth\u2019s ability to absorb and sequester carbon dioxide, while building machines that suck carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere can do that in a different way. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 May 2022",
"Some insist on the long-lasting power of a corded vacuum, while pet owners need a unit that can suck up half of Petco on the regular. \u2014 Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver , 17 Mar. 2022",
"If there is no invasion, the United States and Europe could still be dragged into a long, diplomatic morass over Ukraine\u2019s future that will suck time and energy from other important global affairs. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The woodpeckers suck down more sugar water than the hummingbirds do but their presence does not seem to bother the hummingbirds. \u2014 Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News , 27 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Maybe that explains one of the Washington women\u2019s rowing team\u2019s mottos this year: Embrace the suck . \u2014 Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times , 29 May 2017",
"While these are technically DOT legal, FCA points out that the meats wear quickly on the highway, suck in the rain, and should not, under any circumstances, be used in any way, shape, or form at temperatures below 15 degrees Fahrenheit. \u2014 Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver , 23 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Verb",
"Middle English suken , from Old English s\u016bcan ; akin to Old High German s\u016bgan to suck, Latin sugere"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
"Noun",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-165241"
},
"succent":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to sing the close or second part of (a verse) especially in responsive singing",
": to act as succentor"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259k\u02c8sent"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"back-formation from succentor"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-171721"
},
"subsidiary ledger":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a ledger which is supplementary to a controlling account in a general ledger and in which detailed accounts of a like class are kept"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-181137"
},
"succentor":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that succents",
": a precentor's deputy or assistant especially in a monastery or cathedral"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-t\u0259(r)"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Late Latin, leader, succentor, from Latin succentus (past participle of succinere to sing to, sing after, from sub- to, after + canere to sing) + -or"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-181750"
},
"Sullivan":{
"type":[
"biographical name ()"
],
"definitions":[
"Sir Arthur Seymour 1842\u20131900 English composer",
"John 1740\u20131795 American general in Revolution",
"John L(awrence) 1858\u20131918 American boxer",
"Louis Henri 1856\u20131924 American architect"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0259-v\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-183739"
},
"suslik":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": any of several rather large short-tailed ground squirrels (genus Spermophilus ) of eastern Europe or northern Asia",
": the mottled grayish-black fur of a suslik"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-slik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Russian"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1774, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-184310"
},
"suddent":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of suddent dialectal variant of sudden"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-d\u1d4ant"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-185106"
},
"SUCL":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":[
"set up in carloads"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-191455"
},
"suchwise":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": in such a manner : so"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-193057"
},
"succinate dehydrogenase":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an iron-containing flavoprotein enzyme that catalyzes often reversibly the dehydrogenation of succinic acid to fumaric acid in the Krebs cycle and that is widely distributed especially in animal tissues, bacteria, and yeast",
": an iron-containing flavoprotein enzyme that catalyzes often reversibly the dehydrogenation of succinic acid to fumaric acid in the presence of a hydrogen acceptor and that is widely distributed especially in animal tissues, bacteria, and yeast"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1962, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-203440"
},
"submitochondrial":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": relating to, composed of, or being parts and especially fragments of mitochondria",
": relating to, composed of, or being parts and especially fragments of mitochondria"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02ccm\u012b-t\u0259-\u02c8k\u00e4n-dr\u0113-\u0259l",
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02ccm\u012bt-\u0259-\u02c8k\u00e4n-dr\u0113-\u0259l"
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"first_known_use":[
"1963, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-204828"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely subtle"
],
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0259-t\u1d4al"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1605, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-213027"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to give substance or form to : embody",
": to establish by proof or competent evidence : verify"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8stan(t)-sh\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrate",
"establish",
"prove",
"show"
],
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"disprove"
],
"examples":[
"substantiated his claim to local mountaineering fame with a photo of himself on the summit of Mount McKinley",
"Mr. MacGregor couldn't substantiate that it was Peter, and not some other rabbit, in the cabbage patch.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Although social media users and some news outlets seized on the hate crime narrative, Nabha said there is no evidence to substantiate it. \u2014 Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2022",
"As part of its defense, the tabloid newspaper was forced to substantiate its claims under the country\u2019s stringent libel laws, unlike in the U.S. trial, where the burden of proof was on Depp. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 June 2022",
"Heard, who divorced Depp in 2016 after obtaining a domestic violence restraining order, has been dragged through two trials across two continents to substantiate allegations that Depp abused her. \u2014 Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 June 2022",
"Quarterly tests of reserve coverage are limited to attestations that, unlike audits, neither substantiate the data presented nor seek to identify gaps in systems or controls. \u2014 Matt Sekerke, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"However, the current evidence and the CDC\u2019s changing policies do not substantiate the need for vaccine mandates for schoolchildren to achieve these public-health goals. \u2014 Heidi Overton, National Review , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Emotional control could prove even harder to substantiate , especially in a country where open discussion of mental health can still carry a stigma. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Jan. 2022",
"De Oreo's lawsuit also claims the diocese investigated the allegations in each letter and found no evidence to substantiate them. \u2014 Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Frito-Lay denied the rumor, and USA TODAY could find no other evidence to substantiate it. \u2014 Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-225510"
},
"surprint":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": overprint"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccprint"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1917, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-230102"
},
"sunk center":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the portion of a watch dial that is depressed below the common surface to provide clearance for a hand"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-230237"
},
"submissionist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one who advocates submission"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-sh\u0259n\u0259\u0307st"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-231202"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": constituting a class alone : unique , peculiar",
": constituting a class alone : unique or particular to itself"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-\u02cc\u012b-\u02c8je-n\u0259-r\u0259s",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-\u0113-\u02c8je-",
"-\u02c8ge-",
"\u02c8s\u00fc-\u02cc\u012b-\u02c8je-n\u0259-r\u0259s, \u02c8s\u00fc-\u0113-"
],
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"alone",
"lone",
"one",
"one-off",
"only",
"singular",
"sole",
"solitary",
"special",
"unique"
],
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"examples":[
"among history's greats Leonardo da Vinci is often considered sui generis \u2014a man of such stupendous genius that the world may never see his like again",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This movement had evolved in part from the populist Yellow Vest protests, burgeoning for a few years now, while also having different and fully sui generis components of its pedigree. \u2014 Justin E. H. Smith, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"Possibly sociopathic and certainly capable of slitting Achilles tendons while lurking under a bed \u2014 smiling all the while \u2014 Comer\u2019s Villanelle was a sui generis TV antiheroine not given to sentimentality. \u2014 Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"Like California itself, so long isolated from the East and Midwest, California fast food was the first fast food, sui generis , and woe betide most interloper chains trying to cross the Rockies and the desert to plant themselves here. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s a tendency to see Trump and his successful 2016 campaign as sui generis . \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 4 Apr. 2022",
"And that is a sign of the feverish M&A marketplace for sui generis IP assets. \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Over his more than fifty years at this magazine, George Booth, with his sui generis way of looking at the world, has established a style that is as instantly recognizable as it is beloved. \u2014 Fran\u00e7oise Mouly, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Few filmmakers have cast an eye back over childhood joys and growing pains with more piercing intimacy and resonant emotional connection than Richard Linklater in his sui generis masterwork, Boyhood. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"The result is delightfully Amis, absolutely sui generis , and is best read, perhaps, at the bar with something warming at hand. \u2014 Bill Tipper, WSJ , 26 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin, of its own kind"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1615, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-235149"
},
"superflack":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an extremely skillful and successful publicity agent or flack"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8flak"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1967, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-002408"
},
"sullens":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a sullen mood : sulks"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-l\u0259nz"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"sullen + -s (plural suffix)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-013442"
},
"summat":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of summat dialectal variant of somewhat"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259m\u0259t"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-030715"
},
"suddenty":{
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": suddenness",
": suddenly",
": without premeditation"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English sodeinte, sodentie , from Middle French sodeinet\u00e9 , from sodein sudden + -t\u00e9 -ty"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-033600"
},
"subtillage":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": subsurface tillage"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-lij"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"sub- + tillage"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-043107"
},
"succinctorium":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of succinctorium variant of subcinctorium"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-055332"
},
"Susian":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a native or resident of the ancient city of Susa or the ancient Persian province of Susiana ( Elam )",
": elamite",
": of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Persian province Susiana or to its capital Susa"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fcz\u0113\u0259n",
"\""
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun",
"Susian from Latin Susiani (plural) inhabitants of Susa or of Susiana, from Greek Sousian\u0113 Susiana, province of the ancient Persian empire roughly coextensive with Elam, from Sousa , its capital; Susianian from Greek Sousian\u0113 + English -ian"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-055918"
},
"sudoriferous":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": producing or conveying sweat"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-d\u0259-\u02c8ri-f(\u0259-)r\u0259s"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Late Latin sudorifer , from Latin sudor sweat (from sudare to sweat) + -ifer -iferous \u2014 more at sweat"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1597, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-062228"
},
"succ\u00e8s d'estime":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": something (such as a work of art) that wins critical respect but not popular success",
": the reception accorded such a piece"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259k-\u02ccs\u0101-\u02ccde-\u02c8st\u0113m"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"French, literally, success of esteem"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1859, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-070337"
},
"sudoku":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a puzzle in which missing numbers are to be filled into a 9 by 9 grid of squares which are subdivided into 3 by 3 boxes so that every row, every column, and every box contains the numbers 1 through 9"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u00fc-\u02c8d\u014d-k\u00fc"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pressure is on Devin now, and since the second puzzle is another sudoku involving quick math, Emanuel asks for help from the other players \u2026 and Tori and Kaycee actually give him tips. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 9 Dec. 2021",
"In 2004, after a fan from New Zealand got a sudoku published in the Times of London, a global craze was born. \u2014 Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ , 20 Aug. 2021",
"Free online games Get our free daily crossword puzzle, sudoku , word search and arcade games in our new game center at latimes.com/games. OPINION \u2014 Newsom has been the leader California needs during coronavirus. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2020",
"Poetry Foundation Free online games Get our free daily crossword puzzle, sudoku , word search and arcade games in our new game center at latimes.com/games. \u2014 Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2020",
"Los Angeles Times Free online games Get our free daily crossword puzzle, sudoku , word search and arcade games in our new game center at latimes.com/games. \u2014 Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2020",
"The Ultimate Puzzle Book is a new home delivery offer available only to print members who are eager for more crosswords, sudoku puzzles, and other fun and challenging games. \u2014 Dallas News , 17 Apr. 2020",
"Wright explains that pursuits like puzzles, crosswords and sudoku change the way your brain functions from moment to moment. \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 21 Mar. 2020",
"Creative projects such as drawing, compiling photographs, or sudoku can help keep the mind active. \u2014 Olivia Goldhill, Quartz , 15 Mar. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Japanese s\u016bdoku , short for s\u016bji wa dokushin ni kagiru \"the numerals must remain single\" (i.e., the digits can occur only once)"
],
"first_known_use":[
"2000, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-071552"
},
"supporting":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to endure bravely or quietly : bear",
": to promote the interests or cause of",
": to uphold or defend as valid or right : advocate",
": to argue or vote for",
": assist , help",
": to act with (a star actor)",
": to bid in bridge so as to show support for",
": to provide with substantiation : corroborate",
": to pay the costs of : maintain",
": to provide a basis for the existence or subsistence of",
": to hold up or serve as a foundation or prop for",
": to maintain (a price) at a desired level by purchases or loans",
": to maintain the price of by purchases or loans",
": to keep from fainting, yielding, or losing courage : comfort",
": to keep (something) going",
": the act or process of supporting : the condition of being supported",
": assistance provided by a company to users of its products",
": one that supports",
": sufficient strength in a suit bid by one's partner in bridge to justify raising the suit",
": to hold up or in position : serve as a foundation or prop for",
": to take sides with : favor",
": to provide evidence for : verify",
": to pay the costs of : maintain",
": to keep going : sustain",
": to provide help or encouragement to",
": the act of supporting : the condition of being supported",
": someone or something that supports",
": to hold up or serve as a foundation or prop for",
": to maintain in condition, action, or existence",
": the act or process of supporting : the condition of being supported",
": supporter",
": to promote the interests or cause of",
": to uphold or defend as valid or right",
": to argue or vote for",
": to provide with substantiation or corroboration",
": to provide with the means of livelihood (as housing, food, or clothing) especially in accordance with an agreement or court order",
": to hold up or in position : maintain the physical integrity of",
": the act or process of supporting : the condition of being supported",
": a means of obtaining the necessities of life (as food, shelter, and clothing) : a source of livelihood especially in the form of alimony or child support",
": something that provides support"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8p\u022frt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8p\u022frt",
"s\u0259-\u02c8p\u014d(\u0259)rt, -\u02c8p\u022f(\u0259)rt"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"patronize",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)"
],
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"brace",
"buttress",
"mount",
"mounting",
"prop",
"reinforcement",
"shore",
"spur",
"stay",
"underpinning"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The new product will be launched first in Germany, and will support people undergoing Lilly\u2019s oncology treatment programs for breast cancer. \u2014 Mario Aguilar, STAT , 18 June 2022",
"Some, as indicated by the specifications of my PC mentioned above, may support multiple lengths. \u2014 Joseph Moran, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"Loved ones have found great help and support there, so special shout-out AFSP North Texas. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 17 June 2022",
"Their results, published in Nature Astronomy, support the twofold hypothesis while also raising the exciting possibility that data from other meteorological satellites may be repurposed for a broad range of astronomical observations. \u2014 Allison Gasparini, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
"Lichen species grow on the granite and can wear away depressions, allowing for soil to gather and support moss, then plants and finally, trees. \u2014 AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
"The pads would support structures associated with the next phase, like a man camp and fuel storage, according to the plan of operations. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"The Society of Italian American Businessmen is a fellowship of Italian American businessmen who live, work or worship in Harford County that support other nonprofits in Maryland with similar beliefs. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 16 June 2022",
"Now, with Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, most Germans are firmly on board with the idea of the need for a strong military: Sixty-seven percent support the \u20ac100 billion infusion. \u2014 Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That prediction raised troubling questions: would the Voyagers\u2014or the support of Congress\u2014last that long? \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022",
"The effort to stop the wall was led by board member Colleen Root who also had support from David Seaman and Cynthia Rapp. \u2014 Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune , 18 June 2022",
"Kyiv needs the unanimous support of all the leaders in the 27-nation economic bloc to set in motion the painstaking process for becoming a member. \u2014 James Marson, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Even though Guyton was in the Music Row system, which is a feat of its own, she wasn\u2019t given the support and tools an artist needs to have any chance at success. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 17 June 2022",
"Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate PITTSBURGH \u2014 Carlos Rod\u00f3n gets the most meager run support in the San Francisco Giants\u2019 rotation, and the team is on a recent run of hitting solo homers. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 June 2022",
"The support Petro has garnered can be partially attributed to Colombia's worsening socioeconomic situation, including deteriorating living conditions, made worse by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine. \u2014 Stefano Pozzebon, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"This film had the support of Catapult Film Fund in the very beginning, so that is a fund that supports you to make a fundraising sample, so that money basically paid for the initial shoot. \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
"The support of France, Germany and Italy for E.U. membership was widely celebrated as a breakthrough for Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Verb",
"Middle English, from Anglo-French supporter , from Late Latin supportare , from Latin, to transport, from sub- + portare to carry \u2014 more at fare"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-073227"
},
"subsummit":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": situated or occurring somewhat below an adjacent summit"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6s\u0259b+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"sub- + summit"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-074033"
},
"sundry":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"pronoun, plural in construction"
],
"definitions":[
": including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous , various",
": an indeterminate number",
"\u2014 compare sundries",
": more than one or two : various"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259n-dr\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259n-dr\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Early fans include sundry Kardashians and the rapper A$AP Rocky, who wore a repurposed quilt of Mr. Linsetz\u2019s design to the Met Gala in 2021. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"In addition to sundry other objections Scholz has raised in recent weeks, the chancellor has repeatedly voiced fears his country could be inadvertently dragged into a war with Russia. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 26 Apr. 2022",
"African-American vendors will sell sundry products and foods. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 31 May 2022",
"That's double the number in 2020, and a fraction of total damages from sundry suits. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 9 May 2022",
"The internet was\u2014of course\u2014full of outrage, but there is more to this story than initially meets the eye; below, find a breakdown of what\u2019s going on between Wilde, Sudeikis, and their various and sundry legal representatives. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The packet contains your bib, a shirt, a rainforest worth of coupons/advertising and sundry other items. \u2014 Channing King, The Indianapolis Star , 5 May 2022",
"Its collection runs to paintings, furniture, statuary, manuscripts, sundry objets de vertu and an authoritative collection of photography. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Still, many remain grateful towards the workers, who have helped residents with sundry tasks, such as securing food provisions, or getting permission for an emergency hospital visit. \u2014 Jane Li, Quartz , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Adjective",
"Middle English, different for each, from Old English syndrig , from sundor apart \u2014 more at sunder"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Pronoun, plural in construction",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-093814"
},
"subsultive":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": subsultory"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b\u02c8s\u0259ltiv"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin subsult us (past participle of subsilire to leap up) + English -ive"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-103959"
},
"superegoist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an extreme egoist : one who is excessively self-centered or devoted to self-interest"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8\u0113-g\u0259-wist",
"-g\u014d-ist"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1909, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-104316"
},
"suppressant":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an agent (such as a drug) that tends to suppress or reduce in intensity rather than eliminate something",
": suppressive",
": an agent (as a drug) that tends to suppress or reduce in intensity rather than eliminate something"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259-\u02c8pre-s\u1d4ant",
"s\u0259-\u02c8pres-\u1d4ant"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Why would the color blue serve as an appetite suppressant ? \u2014 Prince Ghuman, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The plane made one water drop and had returned with suppressant when the crash occurred, the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u2014 NBC News , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Dozens of gallons of fire- suppressant foam were accidentally released on Thursday following an electric-component malfunction at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, officials said. \u2014 Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 8 Oct. 2021",
"The immune suppressant rapamycin makes mice live longer, yet shrivels their testicles. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The immune suppressant rapamycin makes mice live longer, yet shrivels their testicles. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The immune suppressant rapamycin makes mice live longer, yet shrivels their testicles. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The immune suppressant rapamycin makes mice live longer, yet shrivels their testicles. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"The type of immune suppressant has a big effect on whether the vaccine will be effective. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 21 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1884, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-110652"
},
"suclat":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": any of various woolens",
": European broadcloth"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259\u02c8kl\u00e4t"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Hindi suql\u0101t \u0324 , from Persian saqal\u0101t a rich cloth"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-111104"
},
"superencipherment":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an enciphering of what already is a cryptogram especially in code"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"super- + encipherment"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-113858"
},
"Sundsvall":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"city and port on the Gulf of Bothnia in eastern Sweden population 93,252"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259n(t)s-\u02ccv\u00e4l",
"\u02c8su\u0307ndz-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-114319"
},
"sugar daddy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a well-to-do usually older man who supports or spends lavishly on a mistress, girlfriend, or boyfriend",
": a generous benefactor of a cause or undertaking"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"angel",
"benefactor",
"donator",
"donor",
"fairy godmother",
"Maecenas",
"patron"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She's on the lookout for a new sugar daddy .",
"the only reason the town has any Independence Day fireworks in the first place is because the Internet tycoon has willingly become the event's de facto sugar daddy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The new museum director, the article implied, was little more than a chorus girl with a sugar daddy . \u2014 Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Any scenario where your friend would need to send money to her potential sugar daddy could be this sort of mistaken overpayment scam and is a red flag. \u2014 Paco De Leon, refinery29.com , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Finding the right sugar daddy and slowly building trust simply takes time. \u2014 Paco De Leon, refinery29.com , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Would Kelsey Chevrolet be a legal sugar daddy for Xavier? \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 29 June 2021",
"Central Florida sports fans will always owe Orlando City owner Fl\u00e1vio Augusto da Silva a massive debt of gratitude for stepping up when a minor-league franchise needed a sugar daddy to fund the leap to Major League Soccer. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com , 11 May 2021",
"Shiva Baby is a movie with a perfect logline: a sugar baby runs into both her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend while sitting shiva (a period of mourning following a Jewish funeral) with her parents. \u2014 Jocelyn Silver, Vogue , 2 Apr. 2021",
"While begrudgingly accompanying her parents to a shiva, the Jewish mourning ritual, a college student encounters not only her ex-girlfriend, but also her sugar daddy . \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Apr. 2021",
"But probably not one including your ex-girlfriend, sugar daddy (wife and baby daughter in tow) and your parents, too. \u2014 David Oliver, USA TODAY , 30 Mar. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1926, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-114644"
},
"superego":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is only partly conscious, represents internalization of parental conscience and the rules of society, and functions to reward and punish through a system of moral attitudes, conscience, and a sense of guilt \u2014 compare ego , id",
": the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is only partly conscious, represents internalization of parental conscience and the rules of society, and functions to reward and punish through a system of moral attitudes, conscience, and a sense of guilt \u2014 compare ego , id entry 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8\u0113-(\u02cc)g\u014d",
"also",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8\u0113-(\u02cc)g\u014d"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Instead, Deb now serves as the superego to Dexter's id. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 9 Sep. 2021",
"The Twitter prompts are an outsourcing of the superego , the little warning voice in our heads externalized as a piece of code. \u2014 Laurence Scott, Wired , 14 July 2021",
"Car buyer superegos have welcomed these improvements and choose safer models, all other things being equal. \u2014 Dan Albert, Vox , 21 June 2019",
"But Freud assumed that healthy people operate under the restraint of the superego , which is shaped by social norms. \u2014 Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ , 4 May 2018",
"Snooki is perpetually and jubilantly tipsy, Ronnie is sour and reserved, and Vinny is the guido superego . \u2014 Jon Caramanica, New York Times , 4 Apr. 2018",
"Not that Lara never functioned as Bobby\u2019s superego , no. \u2014 refinery29.com , 26 Mar. 2018",
"The superego is the intellectualized philosophy of the movement \u2014 the thinkers. \u2014 Ben Shapiro, National Review , 11 Sep. 2017",
"Spider-Man was the perfect expression of that adolescent angst of id versus superego . \u2014 Kareem Abdul-jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 July 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, translation of German \u00dcber-ich , from \u00fcber over + ich I"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1908, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-135512"
},
"sushi":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": cold rice dressed with vinegar, formed into any of various shapes, and garnished especially with bits of raw seafood or vegetables"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-sh\u0113",
"also"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Glass Box, a sleek, aquarium-like sushi and modern Asian restaurant, opened Jan. 21 in the Sky Deck restaurant collective at the Del Mar Highlands Town Center in Del Mar Heights. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The sushi and \u200b\u200bomakase menus focus on hyper-local, fresh ingredients that are transformed and paired in an astounding and playful manner. \u2014 Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure , 26 Nov. 2021",
"The restaurant, at the corner of Illinois Street and E. Georgia Street, served sushi and dumplings as well as entrees like lobster and steak. \u2014 Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Oct. 2021",
"According to the New York Times, around 70%\u201380% of mid- and high-range sushi restaurants in some U.S. cities buy from True World. \u2014 Aliza Abarbanel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The best strategy is to reserve at the chef\u2019s counter, where the person who made your sushi might actually hand it over and introduce the fish. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"His distinguished guests will start out with assorted appetizers - various sushi , Sashimi and Nigiri, as well as Yakitori Chicken Skewers. \u2014 Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Red sea urchin is a mainstay at high-end sushi restaurants and raw bars \u2014 a symbol of the state\u2019s coastal bounty. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Summer Pavilion serves modern Chinese cuisine in a refined atmosphere, while Iwau treats guests to a chef\u2019s table and ultra-fresh sushi selection. \u2014 Sandra Ramani, Robb Report , 7 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Japanese"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1893, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-140513"
},
"surge":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to rise and fall actively : toss",
": to rise and move in waves or billows : swell",
": to slip around a windlass, capstan, or bitts",
": to rise suddenly to an excessive or abnormal value",
": to move with a surge or in surges",
": to let go or slacken gradually",
": a swelling, rolling, or sweeping forward like that of a wave or series of waves",
": a large wave or billow : swell",
": a series of such swells or billows",
": the resulting elevation of water level",
": a movement (such as a slipping or slackening) of a rope or cable",
": a sudden jerk or strain caused by such a movement",
": a transient sudden rise of current or voltage in an electrical circuit",
": to rise suddenly and greatly",
": to move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction",
": a rush like that of a wave",
": a large wave"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259rj",
"\u02c8s\u0259rj"
],
"synonyms":[
"billow",
"swell",
"wave"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon defended his record against critics who have accused him of being soft on crime as violence in the city continues to surge . \u2014 Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News , 26 June 2022",
"If the offense continues to surge , St. X could be hanging another championship banner. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 5 June 2022",
"As legal sports betting continues to surge and become more widely available in the U.S., interest in NFL news and pro football betting remains a leader among sports. \u2014 Jay Ginsbach, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"But even without an announcement, insiders don\u2019t expect drastic changes to the latest version of the nearly two-year-old health and safety agreement as COVID spread remains in flux and local production continues to surge . \u2014 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 Apr. 2022",
"The Consumer Price index jumped 8.5% in March compared to 12 months earlier, as inflation continues to surge at its fastest pace in more than 40 years. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Demand continues to surge , even as the war in Ukraine \u2013 which shares a border with Hungary \u2013 has cast a pall over Europe and the rest of the world. \u2014 Christopher Vourlias, Variety , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Gas prices may be on the rise again Wednesday, as the cost of fuel continues to surge with no signs of slowing down, according to the American Automobile Association. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Ortiz placed Mo Donegal in mid-pack down the backstretch before swinging wide at the top of the stretch to surge to the front. \u2014 Jim Chairusmi, WSJ , 11 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That has led to a surge in prices for those commodities, putting them out of reach for many lower-income countries. \u2014 Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News , 28 June 2022",
"Cyber insurance: Cyber insurance premiums continue to rise while coverage limits decrease in a market that has been hardening since 2019 in response to a surge of ransomware incidents and other cyber threats. \u2014 Jim Deloach, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"But the shipping lines and terminal operators are all making huge profits thanks to a surge in cargo and very high rates. \u2014 Chris Isidore, CNN , 20 June 2022",
"Coaches and officials point to a confluence of factors contributing to the surge . \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"All that e-commerce demand led to a surge in demand for fulfillment workers: Amazon\u2019s global workforce grew almost 75% during the pandemic. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 17 June 2022",
"Officials have projected that crossings will continue to rise through the summer, with warmer weather, and political instability and economic hardship across parts of Latin America, contributing to the surge . \u2014 Alicia A. Caldwell, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"The Biden administration\u2019s decision to drop the requirement for a negative coronavirus test before flying to the United States may only add to the surge in demand. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"Contributing to that surge were much higher prices for everything from airline tickets to restaurant meals to new and used cars. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 11 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Verb",
"earlier, to ride (at anchor) probably in part from Middle French sourgir to cast anchor, land, from Catalan surgir to heave, cast anchor, from Latin surgere to rise, spring up; from sub- up + regere to lead straight; in part from Latin surgere \u2014 more at sub- , right"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1511, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"1520, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-160913"
},
"superefficient":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely efficient : producing desired effects with very little or no waste"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-i-\u02c8fi-sh\u0259nt"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1857, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-161307"
},
"suit oneself":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":[
": to do what one wants to do"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-161745"
},
"Suchocka":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"Hanna 1946\u2013 prime minister of Poland (1992\u201393)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u00fc-\u02c8\u1e35\u022ft-\u02ccsk\u00e4"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-165836"
},
"subsulfate":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a basic sulfate"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6s\u0259b+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"sub- + sulfate"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-174017"
},
"sudatory":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": sudatorium"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-d\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1615, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-174600"
},
"surreptitious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine",
": acting or doing something clandestinely : stealthy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u0259r-\u0259p-\u02c8ti-sh\u0259s",
"\u02ccs\u0259-r\u0259p-",
"s\u0259-\u02ccrep-"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstairs",
"behind-the-scenes",
"clandestine",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hole-and-corner",
"hugger-mugger",
"hush-hush",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"sneak",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealth",
"stealthy",
"undercover",
"underground",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"antonyms":[
"open",
"overt",
"public"
],
"examples":[
"The letter didn't offer up the jewels, only shadowy suggestions about their disappearance, claiming that [heiress, Carolyn] Skelly, in a surreptitious trading of parcels with \"a man in an ankle-length tweed overcoat,\" had left a bag full of jewelry on the floor at J.F.K. \u2014 Mark Seal , Vanity Fair , December 2001",
"In the early evening as we gathered in the lobby beneath mounted elk heads and bear skins, the lights of the chandelier flickered mysteriously. But the teacher and I both spied the surreptitious action of the desk clerk, whose sheepish smile acknowledged that one brief hotel mystery had been solved. Other signs of pranking there included a \"ghost\" photo (displayed in a lobby album) that the clerk confided to me was staged, and some pennies, placed on the back of a men's room toilet, that from time to time would secretly become rearranged to form messages\u2014like the word \"why?\" that I encountered. \u2014 Joe Nickell , Skeptical Inquirer , September/October 2000",
"The next week offered [FBI agent] Wiser the opportunity he had been waiting for. Ames was leaving the country, going to Ankara for a weeklong international conference on drugs. Wiser went to Bryant for permission to run a \u2026 surreptitious search of Ames' garbage. But the chief was dead set against it. \u2014 Tim Weiner et al. , Rolling Stone , 29 June 1995",
"She had a surreptitious relationship with her employee.",
"a private investigator adept at taking surreptitious pictures of adulterous couples",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While these concerns may seem relatively new, pop star celebrity Madonna has been raising alarm bells about the potential for nonconsensual, surreptitious collection and testing of DNA for over a decade. \u2014 Liza Vertinsky, The Conversation , 3 June 2022",
"The surreptitious surgeries began occurring at plastic surgery clinics in South Korea in the 2010s, after the government started promoting medical tourism as an economic driver, according to legal experts. \u2014 John Yoon, New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"Deep in the center of the rosebush and hidden from plain view, pests and disease can get a surreptitious foothold that can end up being very challenging to your entire rose garden. \u2014 Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 May 2022",
"The New York Times reported that the detection system was installed Wednesday, and violators may be asked to leave the theater or delete any surreptitious footage. \u2014 Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2022",
"In October 2020, the Sussexes sued and forced another paparazzi agency to confess and apologize for taking surreptitious photos, allegedly by drones, of their son Archie in their Los Angeles rental backyard. \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Some suggest that the U.S. move MiG fighters (and presumably other equipment) near the Polish\u2014Ukrainian border for surreptitious pickup by Ukrainian pilots. \u2014 John Yoo, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022",
"Nevertheless, Val forms a bond with the 9-year-old girl, known as Sigrid, and conducts a surreptitious and increasingly dangerous investigation into Andy\u2019s death. \u2014 Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
"There is good reason to believe that Nelly became pregnant; that Dickens sequestered her in France, making frequent surreptitious visits to her; and that a child was born there who either died in infancy or was put up for adoption. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from Latin surrepticius , from surreptus , past participle of surripere to snatch secretly, from sub- + rapere to seize \u2014 more at rapid"
],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-175636"
},
"surplusage":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": surplus sense 1a",
": excessive or nonessential matter",
": matter introduced in legal pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case",
": excessive or nonessential matter",
": matter contained in a pleading that is unnecessary or irrelevant"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259r-(\u02cc)pl\u0259-sij",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u02ccpl\u0259-sij"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellyful",
"excess",
"fat",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"overplus",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"plus",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"insufficiency",
"undersupply"
],
"examples":[
"a mall with a surplusage of stores all selling the same lines of clothing"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-180112"
},
"subterete":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": not precisely cylindrical : nearly terete"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"sub- + terete"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-181001"
},
"suggestible":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": easily influenced by suggestion",
": easily influenced by suggestion"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259g-\u02c8je-st\u0259-b\u0259l",
"s\u0259-\u02c8je-",
"s\u0259(g)-\u02c8jes-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The patient was highly suggestible .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For kids who had yet to learn about unconscious minds and suggestible bodies, the device really seemed to move the fingers, rather than the other way around. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 14 Jan. 2022",
"But the communications with the dead went by without raising a single goose bump on this suggestible viewer\u2019s skin. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Hence its migration from college campuses to K-12 schools, where its practitioners expect to find supple and more- suggestible minds. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 21 June 2021",
"Patients, many of them vulnerable and afraid, are suggestible in the extreme\u2014and the COVID-19 pandemic has only underscored that truth. \u2014 Carolyn Barber, Fortune , 22 Sep. 2020",
"Silverstone applies a harried sense of confused anxiety to Susan, while Corddry plays Bob as an unmotivated and easily suggestible pushover. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2020",
"People who are overly suggestible , isolated and angry, based on their social and environmental circumstances may get attracted to dangerous ideologies, or join a criminal group or cult. \u2014 Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation , 8 Aug. 2019",
"Others may be suggestible to hearing or sensing sounds within the realm of the imagination. \u2014 Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics , 15 July 2018",
"And while some psychologists assert people with DID are simply highly suggestible , there are neural imaging studies indicating otherwise. \u2014 Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 July 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1890, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-185048"
},
"suscitation":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of suscitating or the condition of being suscitated"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Late Latin suscitation-, suscitatio , from Latin suscitatus (past participle of suscitare to rouse, stir up) + -ion-, -io -ion"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-190945"
},
"supportance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": support",
": aid enabling a person otherwise incapable to go to kirk or market so as to validate a conveyance of heritage made within 60 days next before death"
],
"pronounciation":[
"|t\u1d4an(t)s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from supporten to support + -ance"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-191146"
},
"subsumption":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or process of subsuming"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8s\u0259m(p)-sh\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin subsumption-, subsumptio , from subsumere"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1652, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-191625"
},
"substantiator":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that substantiates something"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cc\u0101t\u0259-",
""
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-194019"
},
"surreverence":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of surreverence obsolete variant of sir-reverence"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-195253"
},
"sucr-":{
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"combining form"
],
"definitions":[
": sugar",
"successor"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Combining form",
"International Scientific Vocabulary, from French sucre , from Old French"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-201423"
},
"superabundancy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": superabundance"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\""
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Late Latin superabundantia"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-235731"
},
"surplus to requirements":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":[
": no longer needed"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-015305"
},
"submittal":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an act or instance of submitting something : a sending or delivery of something for consideration, study, or decision",
": something submitted for consideration or approval : submission"
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"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8mi-t\u1d4al"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The auditors checked with environmental agencies in nine other states, and found that eight had already moved to requiring electronic submittal of reports or planned to do so soon. \u2014 Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com , 26 Jan. 2021",
"The agreement before the council on Tuesday advances the date for submittal of the site plan but delays the inspection deadline \u2014 the date by which Moreno\u2019s company can walk away from the deal \u2014 until Sept. 30. \u2014 Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times , 7 May 2020",
"Enbridge recognizes that this submittal is happening at a very challenging time as Michigan and the country continues to engage in the COVID-19 response. \u2014 Bruce Walker, Washington Examiner , 9 Apr. 2020",
"The Building Standards office will continue to accept permit requests, inspection requests, and plan submittals through www. \u2014 Robin Goist, cleveland , 18 Mar. 2020",
"The rest of the project\u2019s schedule includes: Error 0: June 2020 \u2014 Final design submittal to TXDOT and city. \u2014 Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle , 2 Mar. 2020",
"The new design-build contract submittals are due Feb. 28. \u2014 Jon Murray, The Denver Post , 1 Dec. 2019",
"Who changed the long standing whistleblower rules just before submittal of the fake whistleblower report? \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Oct. 2019",
"Dorsey is also a real estate development executive in Baldwin County, who said he was not involved in any discussions with the mayors ahead of their submittal of the May 9 letter opposing SB250. \u2014 al.com , 16 June 2019"
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"first_known_use":[
"1798, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-020929"
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"suiting":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": fabric for suits",
": a suit of clothes"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-ti\u014b"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Flushed with a variety of colorful oversized knits, vests, shirting and relaxed suiting , the collaborative capsule is designed to evoke LA\u2019s relaxed vibe. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 20 May 2022",
"While making appearances with his wife, Hailey Bieber, by his side, the singer played the part of a Hollywood heartthrob\u2014but never succumbed to boring, traditional suiting . \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 22 Dec. 2021",
"Sales of women\u2019s suiting , dresses and skirts at Banana Republic grew 62%, while men\u2019s suit sales nearly doubled. \u2014 Jinjoo Lee, WSJ , 28 May 2022",
"The 22-year-old actress and activist posted pictures of herself in her cap, gown and custom Dior suiting to celebrate the achievement, even making a countdown toward the big day. \u2014 Elise Brisco, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"The pieces fuse sport and workwear, offering, among other things, bold new takes on three-piece suiting . \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 8 Apr. 2022",
"In Paris\u2019s front row, contrasts continued with model Tina Kunakey\u2019s avant-garde suiting at Y/Project, bringing welcome drama to the front row. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 24 Jan. 2022",
"This manifests in sleek leather dresses with plunging necklines, exquisite suiting , and luxurious jersey bodysuits. \u2014 Time , 11 May 2022",
"High Country Consider dressing up a dress that\u2019s steeped in Americana with the simplicity of white suiting \u2014for instance, Chlo\u00e9\u2019s crisp jacket and trousers. \u2014 Christian Macdonald, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022"
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"1863, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-023402"
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"suppressor grid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a grid usually located between the screen grid and plate of an electron or vacuum tube to prevent the passage of secondary electrons from one to the other"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-024346"
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"subdural":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": situated or occurring beneath the dura mater or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane",
": situated, occurring, or performed under the dura mater or between the dura mater and the arachnoid"
],
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"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8du\u0307r-\u0259l",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r-",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02ccd(y)u\u0307r-",
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8d(y)u\u0307r-\u0259l"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Christmas Eve of 2017, Murphey fell ill and was diagnosed with a subdural hematoma. \u2014 Timothy Bella, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"His mom, Madeleine McHale, died from a subdural hematoma just as Ed was entering adolescence. \u2014 Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic , 10 Apr. 2022",
"The 87-year-old man had taken a fall and needed treatment for a subdural hematoma \u2014 bleeding between his brain and skull. \u2014 Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal , 8 Mar. 2022",
"About 10 days later, his condition had degenerated into paralysis due to a subdural hematoma. \u2014 Karen Rosen, USA TODAY , 18 Jan. 2022",
"The Greenville News also reported that the medical notes show Murdaugh was treated for a laceration to his scalp, a small subdural hemorrhage and a skull fracture consistent with two superficial bullet wounds to the head. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 17 Oct. 2021",
"The official diagnosis was subarachnoid hemorrhage and subdural hematoma \u2014 bleeding and the pooling of blood on the surface of the brain. \u2014 John Branch, New York Times , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Doctors found a subdural hematoma, a serious injury that occurred when his head struck the wall the day before. \u2014 Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Feb. 2014",
"The girl, Ariel Young, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions, and subdural hematomas in the crash, according to medical records. \u2014 Amir Vera And Keith Allen, CNN , 7 June 2021"
],
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"sub- + dura (mater)"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1870, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-032251"
},
"suck-rock":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": chiton sense 2"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-044921"
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"sun hemp":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of sun hemp variant of sunn"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-063654"
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"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"mountain range in central West Papua, Indonesia \u2014 see puncak jaya"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u00fc-\u02c8dir-m\u0259n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-080809"
},
"surge chamber":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": surge tank"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-090309"
},
"supereffective":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely effective"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-i-\u02c8fek-tiv",
"-e-",
"-\u0113-",
"-\u0259-"
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"first_known_use":[
"1909, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-091831"
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"sune":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of sune chiefly dialectal variant of soon"
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"\u02c8s\u00fcn"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-111205"
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"suit-preference signal":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the play or discard in contract bridge of an unnecessarily high card to ask one's partner to lead the higher of two available suits and of a low card to ask him to lead the lower"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-114812"
},
"suigenderism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the state or the period of development (as in childhood or early adolescence) in which one becomes chiefly interested in or attracted toward persons of the same sex"
],
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"\u02ccs\u00fc\u02cc\u012b\u02c8jend\u0259\u02ccriz\u0259m",
"\u02ccs\u00fc\u0113\u02c8j-"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin su us one's own + English -i- + gender + -ism"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-123752"
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"supplicant":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one who supplicates",
": suppliant"
],
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"\u02c8s\u0259-pli-k\u0259nt"
],
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"petitioner",
"pleader",
"solicitor",
"suitor",
"suppliant"
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"beseeching",
"entreating",
"imploring",
"pleading",
"prayerful",
"soliciting",
"suppliant",
"supplicating",
"supplicatory"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the new governor soon had to deal with a long line of supplicants asking for jobs and other political favors",
"Adjective",
"hated having to go before his boss like a supplicant beggar whenever he needed some time off to attend to personal matters",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This is why the wizard acts as an exorcist, never a supplicant , King explained. \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"But both mendicant and supplicant have a religious connotation. \u2014 Stephen Miller, WSJ , 11 Oct. 2021",
"In Afghanistan, America is necessarily a supplicant now. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Synonyms for beggar include hobo, pauper, tramp, vagrant, derelict, mendicant, bum, supplicant , deadbeat, borrower. \u2014 Stephen Miller, WSJ , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Many contracts treat the buyer as a worthless supplicant , lucky to have the opportunity to acquire the seller\u2019s property. \u2014 Joshua Stein, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021",
"One of the best strategies to feel more normal about networking is to approach people as a peer, rather than a supplicant . \u2014 Dorie Clark, WSJ , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Another supplicant wanted a piece of the lottery winnings to get her driveway paved. \u2014 Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2021",
"Another supplicant wanted a piece of the lottery winnings to get her driveway paved. \u2014 Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Speakers seemed alternately angry and supplicant , aware, at some level, their efforts probably won\u2019t work. \u2014 Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 July 2021",
"For the Kremlin, the shipment was a propaganda coup: the latest chance to show Mr. Putin\u2019s nation and the globe that the days of Russia as a supplicant on the world stage were long gone. \u2014 Anton Troianovski, New York Times , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Peled was superb in the role of supplicant , with full-bodied tone and a wide range of tonal colors. \u2014 cleveland , 21 Oct. 2019",
"Her critics in Hong Kong derided her smiling presence in Beijing as that of a supplicant , not an autonomous leader, which illustrated the depth of the chasm between the two sides. \u2014 Chris Buckley, New York Times , 1 Oct. 2019",
"George and William used to be equals\u2014now George is a supplicant . \u2014 Willing Davidson, The New Yorker , 24 June 2019",
"The 1990 and 1997 summits both took place at the peak of American triumph, when the Russian state was very much a supplicant to the world\u2019s only superpower. \u2014 Jeet Heer, The New Republic , 27 June 2018",
"This time, Trump is more of a supplicant , needing vigorous turnout from pro-gun voters to offset what many Republicans fear could be a midterm election disaster in November. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 4 May 2018",
"Once Trump took office, Roth would remain a visible supplicant , appearing with the president at a public event in Ohio to lend credence to his bogus infrastructure initiative. \u2014 Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer , 29 Apr. 2018"
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"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Adjective",
"1577, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-145741"
},
"superendurance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely great power of endurance"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"super- + endurance"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-152839"
},
"Sudety":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"mountains in central Europe west of the Carpathian Mountains between the Czech Republic and Poland"
],
"pronounciation":[
"",
""
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-172127"
},
"subtenure":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the tenure of a subtenant"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"sub- + tenure"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-185207"
},
"Sully":{
"type":[
"biographical name ()",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make soiled or tarnished : defile",
": soil , stain",
"Duc de 1560\u20131641 Maximilien de B\u00e9thune Baron",
"French statesman",
"Thomas 1783\u20131872 American (English-born) painter"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0113",
"(\u02cc)s\u0259-\u02c8l\u0113",
"s\u1d6b-\u02c8l\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259-l\u0113"
],
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"befoul",
"begrime",
"bemire",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"daub",
"dirty",
"distain",
"foul",
"gaum",
"grime",
"mire",
"muck",
"muddy",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"soil",
"stain"
],
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"clean",
"cleanse"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"people that sully our state parks with their trash",
"a once-gleaming marble interior sullied by decades of exposure to cigarette smoke",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Overcoming a concerted effort by Republicans to sully her record and derail her nomination, Judge Jackson was confirmed on a 53-to-47 vote, with three Republicans joining all 50 members of the Democratic caucus in backing her. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Palin, in her testimony, accused The Times of deliberately fabricating lies to sully her reputation. \u2014 Aaron Katersky, ABC News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Palin, in her testimony, accused The Times of deliberately fabricating information to sully her reputation. \u2014 Bill Hutchinson, ABC News , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Seriously, if King wants to sully the reputation of New York with his ridiculous antics, fine. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Anyway, what would be the point of selling people on a safe space just to sully it with dangers? \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 8 Nov. 2021",
"On March 16th, Josh Vlasto, a longtime adviser to Cuomo, wrote in a group text that Cohen had approached him about the effort to sully Kim. \u2014 Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Unplanned bathroom breaks can sully a pleasant hike. \u2014 Siena Giljum, Los Angeles Times , 12 July 2021",
"Plus, if Susie allows even a speck of her outrage to sully her son\u2019s relationship with his dad, then her offense would be worse than your hitting on Debbie. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 June 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Verb",
"Middle English *sullien , probably alteration (influenced by Anglo-French suillier, soiller to soil) of sulen to soil, from Old English sylian"
],
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"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1601, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-190636"
},
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"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of supered past tense of super"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-193512"
},
"superduty":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": designed to withstand extremely hard use",
": designed to withstand use under extreme heat"
],
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"\u00a6s\u00fcp\u0259(r)+"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"super- + duty"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-220410"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": that may be suspected"
],
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"s\u0259\u02c8spekt\u0259b\u0259l"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-224237"
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"suckling pig":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a young pig that is roasted and served at a meal"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-234251"
},
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"definitions":[
"Definition of suit service variant of suit and service"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-173911"
},
"surg":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":[
"surgeon ; surgery ; surgical",
"surgeon",
"surgery",
"surgical"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-175002"
},
"substantification":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an act or product of substantifying"
],
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"s\u0259bz\u02cctant\u0259f\u0259\u0307\u02c8k\u0101sh\u0259n",
"-b\u02ccst-"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"from substantify , after such pairs as English magnify : magnification"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-175018"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": coolly and patronizingly haughty"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8si-l\u0113-\u0259s",
"-\u02c8sil-y\u0259s"
],
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"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
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"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
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"examples":[
"While Americans did congregate together at baseball games, \u2026 amusement parks, dance halls and arcades, tensions still roiled. The middle class may not have been as supercilious as the elites it replaced, but middle-class reformers were every bit as strident as those elites in condemning \u2026 working-class entertainments, and for the same reason: These entertainments constituted a challenge to the class's social control. \u2014 Neal Gabler , Life: The Movie , 1998",
"Cross' popular academic sleuth Kate Fansler returns, this time as a guest professor at the down-at-the-heels Schuyler Law School, where she has been asked to teach a course on literature and the law. Ardent feminist Kate soon finds that not only is Schuyler a bastion of intolerant, supercilious white males, but worse, any attempt by women or minorities to be heard is quickly quashed by the old-boy network. \u2014 Emily Melton , Booklist , 15 Dec. 1994",
"Jorgeson had a sharp tongue and was so supercilious in his remarks that I didn't know quite how seriously I should take this talk, but I enjoyed his humor and I did believe he had the sensibilities of an artist. \u2014 Thom Jones , New Yorker , 2 Dec. 1991",
"the supercilious art dealer rolled her eyes when we asked if she had anything for under $1,000",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To advertise that confidence with an unselfconscious, open-mouthed, haplessly disarming smile \u2014 to resist the urge, in other words, to fake an air of supercilious self-importance \u2014 is the very best thing. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Jan. 2022",
"From a supercilious smile to icy anger and back again, wonderfully easeful Charles Edwards is every inch the droll Vidal. \u2014 David Benedict, Variety , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Absent context, hand gestures perform a supercilious pantomime. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Aug. 2021",
"On the surface, Richardson appears unequivocally bold, toeing the line between confident and supercilious . \u2014 oregonlive , 19 June 2021",
"And the trustees who gleefully conspire in old age to gum up the keys of Petrie\u2019s cherished typewriter seem unaltered from the supercilious , eager-to-humiliate childhood chums of long ago. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Susan remembers Conway, a supercilious jerk, all too well. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Dec. 2020",
"This always induces some supercilious snickering among foreigners. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Service is immaculate, but friendly and never supercilious . \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 1 Dec. 2019"
],
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"Latin superciliosus , from supercilium eyebrow, haughtiness, from super- + -cilium eyelid (akin to celare to hide) \u2014 more at hell"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1543, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-181232"
},
"superstructure":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an entity, concept, or complex based on a more fundamental one",
": social institutions (such as the law or politics) that are in Marxist theory erected upon the economic base",
": a structure built as a vertical extension of something else: such as",
": all of a building above the basement",
": the structural part of a ship above the main deck"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02ccstr\u0259k-ch\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ship has two aircraft elevators on the starboard side, fore and aft of the island superstructure . \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 15 June 2022",
"The festival also marks the return of the superstructure stage, first introduced during Relentless Beats\u2019 2021 summer concert series. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 Apr. 2022",
"But right now the general appraisals looking at these bridges are looking at the culvert, the deck, the substructure of the superstructure . \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
"On the other side of the crane stands a huge tent-like enclosure, where sections of the hull and its superstructure are broken down after being sliced off. \u2014 al , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The first phase of the project involves replacing the deck and superstructure of 19 bridges at a total cost of $24.3 million. \u2014 Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press , 6 Apr. 2022",
"As part of Amels\u2019s Limited-Edition approach, it will be built on the same hull and superstructure , but owners can heavily customize the interior as well as custom tenders and toys. \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Local manufacturers and craftsmen built the superstructure , outfitted the cabin and installed the waterwheels and boilers constructed by local engine builders Moore & Richardson. \u2014 Jeff Suess, The Enquirer , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The firm balanced the strength of the steel hull with aluminum for the yacht\u2019s superstructure to reduce weight and lower its center of gravity. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 25 Mar. 2022"
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8si-l\u0113-\u02ccer-\u0113",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8sil-\u0113-\u02ccer-\u0113"
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"the minister reminded his flock that God is a being to be obeyed and worshipped always and not just someone to be supplicated in times of trouble",
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"Now, finally, Farley, as chief of Ford for barely half a year, has come to supplicate before the narrative. \u2014 Dale Buss, Forbes , 1 June 2021",
"Committees should draw power from their accomplishments, not based on which industries need to supplicate before the gavel. \u2014 Ben Sasse, WSJ , 8 Sep. 2020",
"Two rows of little red devils bow at the magician\u2019s feet, as though supplicating a supreme figure of dark and mysterious powers. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Mar. 2020",
"But while its competitors were giving grandiose speeches and supplicating at the White House, the company\u2019s content-moderation choices stood out as an example of a social network with a moral compass. \u2014 Kevin Roose, New York Times , 30 Dec. 2019",
"To restore their good standing, executives must supplicate , with minimal guidance from the party-state. \u2014 Isaac Stone Fish, Twin Cities , 14 Oct. 2019",
"Women run many Sufi shrines across Tunisia, prepare and serve food for worshipers and the needy, while women are allowed to pray and supplicate at shrines alongside men \u2013 a rarity at Islamic sites. \u2014 Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 Mar. 2018"
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"Middle English, from Latin supplicatus , past participle of supplicare , from supplic-, supplex supplicant \u2014 more at supple"
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"Middle English supportacion , from Middle French, from Medieval Latin supportation-, supportatio , from Late Latin, endurance, bearing, from supportatus (past participle of supportare to endure) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-202423"
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"noun"
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": submission"
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": extremely sweet"
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"Neither reason nor moral suasion can deter Wanda from her dastardly mission; thus Strange, his longtime ally Wong (Benedict Wong), Christine, and America herself have no choice but to challenge the all-powerful sorceress in cataclysmic combat. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022",
"English missionaries, seeing the practice as heathen, tried moral suasion . \u2014 Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure , 30 Jan. 2022",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021",
"France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 23 Nov. 2021"
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In overtime, Masaros hit a takedown with 37 seconds left for the sudden victory . \u2014 cleveland , 12 Mar. 2022",
"His semifinal match against Highland\u2019s James Scavuzzo could have gone either way, but a big time toss led to a takedown, which gave Miller a 4-2 sudden victory . \u2014 Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland , 28 Mar. 2022",
"After opening the state tournament with a technical fall, Lillard had a scare that resulted in a 3-1 sudden victory . \u2014 Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Penn State\u2019s Aaron Brooks, the defending champ at 184, is a No. 2 seed after his loss to Michigan\u2019s Myles Amine in sudden victory at the Big Ten Tournament two weeks ago. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The teams exchanged decisions with Middletown\u2019s Oliver Graham beating Sparrows Point\u2019s Wayne Brooks, 10-8 in sudden victory at 145. \u2014 Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com , 12 Feb. 2022",
"The crowd exploded as Jordan popped his head free for a reversal and 6-4 sudden victory in the 106-pound title match over Bethlehem Catholic\u2019s top seeded Nate Desmond. \u2014 cleveland , 11 Dec. 2021",
"After three consecutive pins, Blaze had a 3-1 sudden victory to move on to the semifinal. \u2014 cleveland , 11 Dec. 2021",
"Louisville's historic field hockey season ended in heartbreaking fashion in the Final Four with Michigan's 2-1 sudden victory shootout, Friday at Karen Shelton Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. \u2014 Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal , 8 May 2021"
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"first_known_use":[
"1971, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-085412"
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": a T cell that suppresses the immune response of B cells and other T cells to an antigen",
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"1972, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-085843"
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"noun"
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": shirker"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-090021"
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"Medieval Latin substantificare , from Latin substantia substance + -ficare -fy"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-122629"
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": a morpheme consisting of a pattern of stress, intonation, or juncture features that are associated with the syllables of a word or phrase (such as the distinctive stress patterns of the noun subject and the verb subject )"
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"super- + -fix (as in prefix )"
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"1948, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-123411"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-124911"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-125835"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-134356"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-134902"
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"They have a summer house on the lake.",
"the sudden shower had wedding guests scurrying to the safety of the garden's summerhouse",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The ch\u00e2teau\u2014once the summerhouse of the countess du Barry, the last mistress of King Louis XV\u2014is a stone\u2019s throw from the former horse stables and staff quarters that now house Le Doyenn\u00e9. \u2014 WSJ , 18 June 2022",
"The story is about four teenagers who were involved in a car crash and decide to stay at a summerhouse in the countryside to work through their grief. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"The Swedish summerhouse tradition originated in the 19thcentury, as Sweden industrialized and urban populations increased rapidly. \u2014 Annika Hipple, House Beautiful , 16 Aug. 2021",
"The home, originally built as a lavish summerhouse for a local family, now sits as a museum dedicated to the architect and all his design work in the region. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 22 June 2021",
"Old friends gather after their freshman year in college to rent a summerhouse on Lake Michigan and chase girls. \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Old friends gather after their freshman year in college to rent a summerhouse on Lake Michigan and chase girls. \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Old friends gather after their freshman year in college to rent a summerhouse on Lake Michigan and chase girls. \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Old friends gather after their freshman year in college to rent a summerhouse on Lake Michigan and chase girls. \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2021"
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"adverb",
"noun"
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"Middle English, from Late Latin superabundant-, superabundans , from present participle of superabundare"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-140730"
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"adjective"
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"Middle English, from Latin succedent-, succedens , present participle of succedere"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": the region of the eyebrows : eyebrow",
": the overhanging margin of a bony cavity (as of the acetabulum)",
": a fillet surmounting the cymatium in a Roman cornice",
": a fillet above or below the scotia of an Attic base",
": the lintel of a door"
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"Latin, eyebrow, ridge, pride"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":[
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-142216"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": blueback herring"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-143647"
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"superaccurate":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": extremely accurate"
],
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8a-ky\u0259-r\u0259t",
"-\u02c8a-k(\u0259-)r\u0259t"
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"1852, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-145752"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a salt or ester of succinic acid",
": a salt or ester of succinic acid"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259k-s\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t",
"\u02c8s\u0259k-s\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
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"first_known_use":[
"1789, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-150943"
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"summary procedure":{
"type":[
"noun"
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": the procedure followed in a summary proceeding"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-151750"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": to practice subsurface tillage on",
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"definitions":[
": a four-wheel two-seated horse-drawn pleasure carriage",
": a pleasure carriage that has two wide seats and four wheels and is drawn by horses",
"Earl of \u2014 see Henry howard",
"county of southeastern England south of London; capital Kingston upon Thames area 662 square miles (1714 square kilometers), population 1,132,000",
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"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259-r\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259r-\u0113",
"\u02c8s\u0259-r\u0113"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Karen delighted in a ride on a surrey cycle pedaled by Erik and his girlfriend, Renee Aguilar. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Sep. 2021",
"Only instead of a surrey with a fringe on the top, there\u2019s an ice cream stand and a small store that sells fresh produce and a restaurant that serves the freshest foods. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Sep. 2021",
"The actual surrey with the fringe on top shown in the movie is on display at Jerome State Historic Park. \u2014 Roger Naylor, azcentral , 12 Dec. 2019",
"Bici Pincio rentals, just inside the park entrance, offered the ideal solution for a family of five: the surrey -style Risci\u00f2 Max ($22 first hour, other bikes from $4.50). \u2014 Shelly Rivoli, latimes.com , 11 July 2019",
"Old-time Pearlanders wrote of Zychlinski, rumored to be a Polish nobleman, traveling the dirt streets of Pearland in a fancy surrey pulled by a pair of shiny black, high stepping horses. \u2014 Jaimy Jones, Houston Chronicle , 19 June 2018",
"Bike rentals: cruisers, tandems, choppers, quad sports, deuce coupes, four-wheel surrey bikes. \u2014 The Courier-Journal , 26 July 2017",
"Bike rentals: cruisers, tandems, choppers, quad sports, deuce coupes, four-wheel surrey bikes. \u2014 The Courier-Journal , 19 July 2017",
"Bike rentals: cruisers, tandems, choppers, quad sports, deuce coupes, four-wheel surrey bikes. \u2014 The Courier-Journal , 19 July 2017"
],
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"Surrey , England"
],
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"circa 1891, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-161024"
},
"superchurch":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a church with an extremely large membership"
],
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"\u02c8s\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02ccch\u0259rch"
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"first_known_use":[
"1920, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-161958"
},
"sugar-free":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": not containing sugar : containing an artificial sweetening substance instead of sugar"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-162154"
},
"suggestio falsi":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": suggestion of an untruth : false statement as opposed to suppression of the truth \u2014 compare suppressio veri"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259(g)\u00a6jes(h)ch\u0113\u02cc\u014d\u02c8f\u022fl(t)\u02ccs\u012b"
],
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"New Latin"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-162443"
},
"subjugating":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to bring under control and governance as a subject : conquer",
": to make submissive : subdue"
],
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"\u02c8s\u0259b-ji-\u02ccg\u0101t"
],
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"conquer",
"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subject",
"subordinate",
"vanquish"
],
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"examples":[
"The emperor's armies subjugated the surrounding lands.",
"a people subjugated by invaders",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Always deliberating, reasoning, establishing and applying standards, demanding consistency from oneself and others, making every attempt to subjugate instinct to reason\u2014all these might make life still harder to navigate. \u2014 Willing Davidson, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Such an attack would be both embarrassing and potentially provocative to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in his troubled military campaign to subjugate Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Many Taiwanese fear China will eventually use its immense military to subjugate them and inflict the kind of repression its unleashed on Hong Kong, the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Tibet or on the Tiananmen Square protesters 33 years ago. \u2014 Michael Saul Garber, Fox News , 4 June 2022",
"You are seen by some other White, male Americans as being part of an exclusive club, the membership of which gives you the ability to subjugate other, less fortunate citizens. \u2014 Keith Magee, CNN , 17 May 2022",
"The point is to subjugate and humiliate under the guise of amusement. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. \u2014 Fox News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. \u2014 Matthew Lee, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 25 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from Latin subjugatus , past participle of subjugare , from sub- + jugum yoke \u2014 more at yoke"
],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-162827"
},
"supersymmetry":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the correspondence between fermions and bosons of identical mass that is postulated to have existed during the opening moments of the big bang and that relates gravity to the other forces of nature"
],
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"\u02ccs\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02c8si-m\u0259-tr\u0113"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Finally, there is the news\u2014or lack thereof\u2014from the latest particle accelerators, which have not found any evidence for the extra particles predicted by supersymmetry , an idea that string theory relies on. \u2014 Adam Becker, Scientific American , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Beautiful, all-encompassing theories such as supersymmetry , which predicts a complete set of mirror-image particles for all the ones in the Standard Model, were in vogue; the subtleties of neutrino oscillations were not. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The Large Hadron Collider, the first of its kind powerful enough to detect the supersymmetry particles required for String Theory to hang together, has found nothing of the like. \u2014 Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes , 1 Oct. 2021",
"One possibility is that an extension of the standard model, called supersymmetry , is true. \u2014 Don Lincoln, Forbes , 7 Apr. 2021",
"In 2003 signs of supersymmetry \u2014a conjectured extension of the Standard Model that introduces new particles\u2014were seen at LEP, also at around three sigma. \u2014 Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American , 7 Apr. 2021",
"As the name of the article implies, interest in the octonions has been rekindled by their surprising relationship to recent developments in theoretical physics, including supersymmetry , string theory and M-theory. \u2014 Michael Moyer, Scientific American , 4 May 2011",
"Loeb points out that many of the most fashionable research topics in physics \u2014 other than supersymmetry , ideas like extra-spatial dimensions, string theory, multiverses \u2014 lack much experimental backing. \u2014 Farhad Manjoo New York Times, Star Tribune , 12 Feb. 2021",
"Even though none of them turned up, that has ended up being informative, killing off a huge range of potential models for other particles and causing plenty of people to rethink models based on the idea of supersymmetry . \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 25 June 2020"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1974, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-163446"
},
"Suckling":{
"type":[
"biographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a young unweaned animal",
": a young mammal still sucking milk from its mother",
"Sir John 1609\u20131642 English Cavalier poet"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-kli\u014b",
"\u02c8s\u0259-kli\u014b",
"\u02c8s\u0259-kli\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the menu are ham croquettes, Segovian-style suckling -pig empanadas, seafood fritters, octopus and filet mignon. \u2014 Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle , 22 Apr. 2020",
"Dishes like fatty ox tartare topped with white truffle shavings and wisps of blue cheese, slow-roasted suckling pig dotted with creme fraiche, and aromatic black rice infused with squid brought the bold flavors of Spain into sharp focus. \u2014 Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Case in point: soppable escabeche like abuela used to make, and a peerless rendition of Castilian roast suckling pig that defies physics with its weightless, so-crisp-it-shatters skin. \u2014 Benjamin Kemper, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Dishes like fatty ox tartare topped with white truffle shavings and wisps of blue cheese, slow-roasted suckling pig dotted with creme fraiche, and aromatic black rice infused with squid brought the bold flavors of Spain into sharp focus. \u2014 Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Dishes like fatty ox tartare topped with white truffle shavings and wisps of blue cheese, slow-roasted suckling pig dotted with creme fraiche, and aromatic black rice infused with squid brought the bold flavors of Spain into sharp focus. \u2014 Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Dishes like fatty ox tartare topped with white truffle shavings and wisps of blue cheese, slow-roasted suckling pig dotted with creme fraiche, and aromatic black rice infused with squid brought the bold flavors of Spain into sharp focus. \u2014 Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Dishes like fatty ox tartare topped with white truffle shavings and wisps of blue cheese, slow-roasted suckling pig dotted with creme fraiche, and aromatic black rice infused with squid brought the bold flavors of Spain into sharp focus. \u2014 Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Dishes like fatty ox tartare topped with white truffle shavings and wisps of blue cheese, slow-roasted suckling pig dotted with creme fraiche, and aromatic black rice infused with squid brought the bold flavors of Spain into sharp focus. \u2014 Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com , 6 Dec. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English suklyng , from suken to suck"
],
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-170610"
},
"suit every pocketbook":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":[
": to be affordable by people with different amounts of money"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-174415"
},
"superpersonality":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a deity or a collection of persons constituting a transcendent personality"
],
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"\"+"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"super- + personality"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-190207"
},
"successional":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the order in which or the conditions under which one person after another succeeds to a property, dignity, title, or throne",
": the right of a person or line to succeed",
": the line having such a right",
": the act or process of following in order : sequence",
": the act or process of one person's taking the place of another in the enjoyment of or liability for rights or duties or both",
": the act or process of a person's becoming beneficially entitled to a property or property interest of a deceased person",
": the continuance of corporate personality",
": unidirectional change in the composition of an ecosystem as the available competing organisms and especially the plants respond to and modify the environment",
": a number of persons or things that follow each other in sequence",
": a group, type, or series that succeeds or displaces another",
": a series of people or things that follow one after another",
": the order, act, or right of succeeding to a throne, title, or property",
": the order in which or the conditions under which one person after another succeeds to a property, dignity, position, title, or throne",
": the right of a person or line of ancestry to succeed",
": the line of ancestry having such a right",
": the act or process of following in order",
": the act or process of one person's taking the place of another in the enjoyment of or liability for rights or duties or both",
": the act or process by which a person becomes entitled to the property or property interest of a deceased person and especially an intestate : the transmission of the estate of a decedent to his or her heirs, legatees, or devisees",
": the estate of the deceased including assets and liabilities",
": the transmission of property or property interests of a decedent as provided by statute as distinguished from the transfer in accordance with the decedent's will",
": the operation of such statutory provisions in transmitting intestate property",
": property that is not disposed of by will but by operation of statute",
": the transmission of property in accordance with a valid will",
": an estate that has not been claimed, of which the heirs are unknown, or that has been renounced by all of the heirs",
": the continuance of a corporation's status as a legal person",
": the act or process by which one corporation assumes ownership of another",
": the act or process by which one state takes over or follows upon another and becomes entitled to its rights and position in international law"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259k-\u02c8se-sh\u0259n",
"s\u0259k-\u02c8se-sh\u0259n",
"s\u0259k-\u02c8se-sh\u0259n"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"As third in the line of succession , she would only become queen if her brothers both died or became ineligible.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Prince Albert's niece, Pauline Ducruet, is 16th in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 18 June 2022",
"Upon her birth, Lady Sarah was seventh in the line of succession to the throne, but she's now moved down to the 28th spot. \u2014 Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"If Congress never validly counted the Electoral College, the order of succession says that next in line is the Speaker of the House. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"In 1679, after rumors of a Catholic plot against the crown sparked unrest and a concerted effort to exclude James from the line of succession , the king sent James and his wife Mary to Scotland. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 June 2022",
"This did not go down well with English Protestants, who formed the Country Party (later the Whigs) and attempted to exclude James from the line of succession , creating a constitutional crisis. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 10 June 2022",
"What to know: First in the line of succession , Prince Charles is the longest serving British monarch-in-waiting; he's been the heir apparent since the age of three. \u2014 Cnn Staff, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"En route to the Netherlands, Harry, who is sixth in Britain\u2019s royal line of succession , visited his ailing grandmother Queen Elizabeth II. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"The first looks from House of the Dragon also unveil Considine's King Viserys, whose throne is the one that causes all these qualms about succession . \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 30 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin succession-, successio , from succedere"
],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-210919"
},
"succinamide":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a crystalline compound H 2 NCOCH 2 CH 2 CONH 2 that is the amide of succinic acid"
],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)s\u0259k\u02c8sin\u0259\u02ccm\u012bd",
"\u02ccs\u0259ks\u0259\u0307\u02c8nam\u0259\u0307d",
"-a\u02ccm\u012bd"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"International Scientific Vocabulary succin- + amide"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-222125"
},
"suppurate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to form or discharge pus",
": to form or discharge pus"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259-py\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t",
"\u02c8s\u0259p-y\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin suppuratus , past participle of suppurare , from sub- + pur-, pus pus \u2014 more at foul entry 1"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1615, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-224543"
},
"submittingly":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": in a submitting or submissive manner"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-233050"
},
"surplus value":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the difference in Marxist theory between the value of work done or of commodities produced by labor and the usually subsistence wages paid by the employer"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Extraordinary surplus value was achieved by both as according to the Associated Press, the average major league salary on Opening Day in 2021 was $4.17 million. \u2014 Wayne G. Mcdonnell, Jr., Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"That same surplus value disappears at other positions. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Marx\u2019s theory of surplus value derives from the labor theory of value as articulated by David Ricardo and Adam Smith. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 21 July 2021",
"The amateur draft and the international market have incredible surplus value . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Jan. 2022",
"The surplus value created by expos\u00e9s about labor abuses at Amazon enriches the capitalist who committed them. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 21 July 2021",
"Again, that\u2019s not exactly a ton of surplus value , but Ballard and Co. can still make some hay with those picks. \u2014 Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star , 7 Apr. 2021",
"Coffee had the extraordinary ability to generate surplus value not only in its production but in its consumption as well, as an episode in the history of the coffee break makes clear. \u2014 Michael Pollan, The Atlantic , 6 Apr. 2020",
"In a capitalist economy, surplus value (profit) is generated from human labor and everything is commodified. \u2014 Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times , 13 Aug. 2019"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1887, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-234448"
},
"surfy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of, abounding in, or resembling surf"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259rf\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"surf entry 1 + -y"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-005100"
},
"surrendry":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": surrender"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259\u02c8rendr\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"surrender entry 1 + -ry"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-020410"
},
"Succinea":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a cosmopolitan genus (the type of a family Succineidae ) of amphibious or terrestrial pulmonate snails"
],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)s\u0259k\u02c8sin\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, feminine of Latin succineus of amber, from succinum amber; from the color of the shell"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-021529"
},
"subjugable":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of being subjugated"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259bj\u0259g\u0259b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin subjug are to subjugate + English -able"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-025921"
},
"suasible":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of being persuaded : easily persuaded"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sw\u0101s\u0259b\u0259l",
"-\u0101z\u0259-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Late Latin suasibilis , from Latin suasus (past participle of suad\u0113re to advise, urge) + -ibilis -ible"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-030830"
},
"succedaneum":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": substitute",
"\u2014 see caput succedaneum"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u0259k-s\u0259-\u02c8d\u0101-n\u0113-\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from Latin, neuter of succedaneus substituted, from succedere to follow after"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1641, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-042812"
},
"suckler":{
"type":[
"noun ()"
],
"definitions":[
": suckling",
": an animal that suckles its young : mammal",
": the flowering head of a clover"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-k(\u0259)l\u0259(r)",
"\""
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun (1)",
"suckle entry 1 + -er",
"Noun (2)",
"suckle entry 2 + -er"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-064206"
},
"subtilizer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that subtilizes"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-071731"
},
"subduing":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish",
": to bring under control especially by an exertion of the will : curb",
": to bring (land) under cultivation",
": to reduce the intensity or degree of : tone down",
": to bring under control",
": to overcome in battle"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259b-\u02c8d\u00fc",
"-\u02c8dy\u00fc",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8d\u00fc",
"-\u02c8dy\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"dispatch",
"do down",
"get",
"get around",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"skunk",
"stop",
"surmount",
"take",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"upend",
"win (against)",
"worst"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"examples":[
"The troops were finally able to subdue the rebel forces after many days of fighting.",
"He was injured while trying to subdue a violent drunk.",
"She struggled to subdue her fears.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Just as the United States had conquered the American West, the nation would subdue , civilize, and remake international relations. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Law enforcement couldn\u2019t immediately subdue the killer. \u2014 The Editors, Scientific American , 26 May 2022",
"In a shallow water grappling fight, Midtb\u00f8 and his opponent start out on their knees in the tide, with the goal being to achieve a dominant position, subdue the other, and get their head under the water. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 14 May 2022",
"In the final moments, the officer was on top of Lyoya, trying to subdue him. \u2014 Mike Householder And Ed White, USA TODAY , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Before late July, if the person was ordered detained and refused to go, police would physically subdue the person and take them to a hospital. \u2014 Daniel Gilbert, oregonlive , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Police on Thursday arrested an Escondido landlord who allegedly attacked his tenant, stabbing him and hitting with a baseball bat, and then stabbed a police dog that was trying to subdue him, a lieutenant said. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The easiest hits to eliminate would come from fights, but Bettman views fighting as an outlet to subdue more violent tendencies, like a weary parent sending rowdy kids outside to play to release energy. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2021",
"Details are beginning to emerge about what happened inside a Laguna Woods church Sunday after 1 p.m., when a gunman opened fire and some parishioners were able to subdue him and recover two handguns. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English sodewen, subduen , from Anglo-French soduire, subdure to lead astray, overcome, arrest (influenced in form and meaning by Latin subdere to subject), from Latin subducere to withdraw, remove stealthily"
],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-075307"
},
"sui juris":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": having full legal rights or capacity",
": having full legal capacity to act on one's own behalf : not subject to the authority of another",
": qualified to enjoy full rights of citizenship (as of holding public office or serving on a jury)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u00fc-\u02cc\u012b-\u02c8ju\u0307r-\u0259s",
"\u02ccs\u00fc-\u0113-\u02c8yu\u0307r-",
"-\u02c8ju\u0307r-is, -\u02c8y\u00fc-r\u0113s"
],
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"Latin, of one's own right"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1590, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-075931"
},
"successive":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": following in order : following each other without interruption",
": characterized by or produced in succession",
": following in order and without interruption",
": of or relating to succession",
": created by succession",
": following in order : following each other without interruption",
": of, relating to, or being a petition for habeas corpus that raises a claim already adjudicated"
],
"pronounciation":[
"s\u0259k-\u02c8se-siv",
"s\u0259k-\u02c8se-siv",
"s\u0259k-\u02c8se-siv"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutive",
"sequent",
"sequential",
"straight",
"succeeding",
"successional"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconsecutive",
"inconsequent",
"nonconsecutive",
"nonsequential"
],
"examples":[
"a trait found in successive generations",
"made the honor roll for three successive school terms",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Before signing successive one-year deals with the Capitals and Islanders, Zdeno Chara inked a pair of similar contracts with the Bruins. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
"Three successive , large rate increases are desperately reactionary to quell inflation but could push the economy from overheated into recession. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
"Likewise, Kelly is trying to win re-election in a state where Democrats struggled for decades before beating former Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., in successive elections to win both Senate seats. \u2014 Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic , 22 June 2022",
"Led by former FC Barcelona head coach, Llu\u00eds Cort\u00e9s, the current IFFHS club coach of the year, Ukraine last played in February, winning three successive matches in Antalya, Turkey to win the Turkish Women's Cup. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Sheeran\u2019s huge year played out on the Official U.K. Charts, with = (equals) debuting at No. 1, for his fifth successive leader. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 21 June 2022",
"Macron held successive meetings with opposition members, including the president of The Republicans, Christian Jacob, the head of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, and far-right leader Marine Le Pen. \u2014 Sylvie Corbet, ajc , 21 June 2022",
"Bennett formed the eight-party coalition in June 2021 after four successive inconclusive elections. \u2014 Ilan Ben Zion, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
"The key is the kitchen will reuse the same mother lard for a month, maybe longer, to build up flavors over each successive cook. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-080125"
},
"summary judgment":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": judgment that may be granted upon a party's motion when the pleadings, discovery, and any affidavits show that there is no issue of material fact and that the party is entitled to judgment in its favor as a matter of law"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The summary judgment , released Tuesday, sides with the plaintiffs from the United Cook Inlet Drift Association, a trade association representing the approximately 500 drift gillnet permit holders in Cook Inlet. \u2014 Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News , 24 June 2022",
"Then on Tuesday, Trauger permanently blocked the law by granting the ACLU's motion for summary judgment , which asks a court to decide a case without a full trial. \u2014 Jo Yurcaba, NBC News , 17 May 2022",
"The federal trial court granted Tactile Systems' motion for summary judgment , which meant the case was dismissed before a jury trial occurred. \u2014 Eric Bachman, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Earlier this year her legal team, believing her case to be strong, made a move to obtain summary judgment , which means asking the judge to hand down a verdict without a trial. \u2014 K.j. Yossman, Variety , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Lawyers request summary judgment , trial, and an order precluding defendants from arguing that the photos were not spread electronically. \u2014 Stella Chan, CNN , 9 Nov. 2021",
"In seeking the summary judgment to dismiss the case, the county\u2019s attorneys wrote that the photos have never been in the media, on the internet or otherwise publicly disseminated and that the lawsuit is speculative. \u2014 NBC News , 6 Jan. 2022",
"In Riverside, however, Bernal denied the FDA\u2019s motion for summary judgment . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"Her decision siding with the agency via summary judgment \u2014 that is, without trial \u2014 effectively shut down U.S. Stem Cell\u2019s clinic. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1798, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-080207"
},
"surge gap":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a spark gap (as in an arrester) for the discharge of surges due to lightning"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-081005"
},
"subjecting":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": one that is placed under authority or control: such as",
": vassal",
": one subject to a monarch and governed by the monarch's law",
": one who lives in the territory of, enjoys the protection of, and owes allegiance to a sovereign power or state",
": that of which a quality, attribute, or relation may be affirmed or in which it may inhere",
": substratum",
": material or essential substance",
": the mind, ego, or agent of whatever sort that sustains or assumes the form of thought or consciousness",
": a department of knowledge or learning",
": motive , cause",
": one that is acted on",
": an individual whose reactions or responses are studied",
": a dead body for anatomical study and dissection",
": a person who has engaged in activity that a federal prosecutor has identified as being within the scope of a federal grand jury investigation",
": something concerning which something is said or done",
": something represented or indicated in a work of art",
": the term of a logical proposition that denotes the entity of which something is affirmed or denied",
": the entity denoted",
": a word or word group denoting that of which something is predicated",
": the principal melodic phrase on which a musical composition or movement is based",
": owing obedience or allegiance to the power or dominion of another",
": suffering a particular liability or exposure",
": having a tendency or inclination : prone",
": contingent on or under the influence of some later action",
": to bring under control or dominion : subjugate",
": to make (someone, such as oneself) amenable to the discipline and control of a superior",
": to make liable : predispose",
": to cause or force to undergo or endure (something unpleasant, inconvenient, or trying)",
": the person or thing discussed : topic",
": an area of knowledge that is studied in school",
": a person who owes loyalty to a monarch or state",
": a person under the authority or control of another",
": the word or group of words about which the predicate makes a statement",
": a person or animal that is studied or experimented on",
": owing obedience or loyalty to another",
": possible or likely to be affected by",
": depending on",
": to bring under control or rule",
": to cause to put up with",
": an individual whose reactions or responses are studied",
": a dead body for anatomical study and dissection",
": the person upon whose life a life insurance policy is written and upon whose death the policy is payable : insured \u2014 compare beneficiary sense b , policyholder"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"-(\u02cc)jekt",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8jekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02ccjekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"s\u0259b-\u02c8jekt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-jikt",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02ccjekt"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"matter",
"motif",
"motive",
"question",
"theme",
"topic"
],
"antonyms":[
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subjugate",
"subordinate",
"vanquish"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Deliberately blurring objects in the foreground can also serve as a great way to frame the subject in your photo so, as well as enhanced realism, this new feature will bring new creative possibilities to iPhone photography. \u2014 Paul Monckton, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The rate at which global temperatures are changing was not even the subject of the paper, Thorne, who was also an author of a 2021-2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, told USA TODAY in an email. \u2014 Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"The subsequent financial review uncovered questionable NRA expenditures, which were later detailed in a lawsuit and became the subject of an ongoing inquiry by New York Attorney General Letitia James. \u2014 Laura Strickler, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
"Over the past few months, several plays presented at San Diego theaters have dealt with the subject of aging, dying and adult caregiving. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"James' career is a fascinating subject upon which to hang a narrative of homosocial bonding and the complicated dance of male friendship. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"McClarnon has always been an incredible camera subject , his face all lines and angles, his eyes so big and expressive. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 9 June 2022",
"Once the subject was brought up, the two shared there mutual love for romantic comedies, and Aniston bemoaned the lack of rom-coms in modern day filmmaking. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"Over the course of the six-week defamation trial \u2014 which ended with the jury siding mostly with Depp, 58, against his ex-wife Amber Heard \u2014 Vasquez, one of Depp's lead attorneys, became the subject of social media fodder. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Lawyers for seven Morgan County residents contend in a court filing dated Tuesday that the Morgan board erred in granting its approval, and that deal isn\u2019t a usufruct but another type of lease that would be subject to full taxation. \u2014 J. Scott Trubey, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"The $600 is not subject to state or federal income tax. \u2014 Connor Radnovich, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Rhode Island Reporter. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Although its exact location is disputed, the possible locations lie in the northern part of Xinjiang, an autonomous territory in northwest China that's been subject to allegations of human rights abuses. \u2014 Tamara Hardingham-gill, CNN , 22 June 2022",
"Alana's relationship with Carswell has been subject to criticism from fans who question their four-year age gap \u2014 while Alana is still legally a minor. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"Some schools, including charters and military academies, are not subject to the district\u2019s dress code guidelines. \u2014 Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune , 22 June 2022",
"Like everything else, baby names are subject to trends. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 22 June 2022",
"Rich Hoover, a spokesperson for The Oregon Department of Revenue, said the payments are not subject to state or federal income tax. \u2014 Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Facebook will change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housing advertising and its parent company will subject itself to court oversight to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday. \u2014 Larry Neumeister, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
"Facebook will change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housing advertising and its parent company will subject itself to court oversight to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"In addition, Myers supported bills at the Legislature to limit the commission's power to enact clean energy standards and to allow lawmakers to initiate reviews of commission decisions and subject them to consideration by the Arizona Supreme Court. \u2014 Melissa Estrada, The Arizona Republic , 8 May 2022",
"These lines of questioning are not designed to vet Judge Jackson\u2019s impartiality, but to subject her to enough contempt so as to make her break and/or to discourage others who are unwilling to put up with the racial antagonism. \u2014 Brea Baker, refinery29.com , 25 Mar. 2022",
"That\u2019d be a reasonable request in any other rock genre, but Dio split from that band rather than subject himself to anything so low and unmystical as a love song. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 23 Mar. 2022",
"President Joe Biden earlier this month ordered businesses with more than 100 workers to require immunizations or subject them to weekly testing. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Fighter jets subject their airframes to more physical stress than larger airplanes, inducing metal fatigue on the airframe. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 1 June 2022",
"In Hieronymus Bosch\u2019s visions of hell, Satan and his followers subject sinners to an endless parade of punishments. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun",
"Middle English suget, subget , from Anglo-French, from Latin subjectus one under authority & subjectum subject of a proposition, from masculine & neuter respectively of subjectus , past participle of subicere to subject, literally, to throw under, from sub- + jacere to throw \u2014 more at jet"
],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-081349"
},
"supercity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": megalopolis"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc-p\u0259r-\u02ccsi-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1910, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-082030"
},
"Succineidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a family of small often amber-colored snails (suborder Stylommatophora) that comprises the amber shells \u2014 see succinea"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccs\u0259ks\u0259\u02c8n\u0113\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from Succinea , type genus + -idae"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-085606"
},
"sun helmet":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a hat worn for protection from the sun",
": topee"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-085646"
},
"summer hyacinth":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a southern African herb ( Galtonia candicans synonym Hyacinthus candicans ) cultivated for its spicate white bell-shaped flowers"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-095410"
},
"summary jurisdiction":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the authority or power of a court to use a summary procedure"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-095949"
},
"successional speciation":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": gradual evolution from and replacement of one species by another"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-103210"
},
"subtentorial":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": situated or occurring under the tentorium"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6s\u0259b+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"sub- + tentorial"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-103447"
},
"supply-side economics":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a theory that reducing taxes especially for rich people will lead to an improved economy"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-105031"
},
"Sur, Point":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"promontory in California on the Pacific south-southwest of Monterey \u2014 see big sur"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-121314"
},
"succinamic acid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a crystalline compound H 2 NCOCH 2 CH 2 COOH that is the half amide of succinic acid"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6s\u0259ks\u0259\u0307\u00a6namik-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"succinam ide + -ic"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-121350"
},
"suasoria":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an ancient Roman oration dealing with a problem of conscience"
],
"pronounciation":[
"sw\u0259\u02c8s\u014dr\u0113\u0259",
"-s\u022fr-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin, from feminine of suasorius persuasive, from suasus + -orius -ory"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-123035"
},
"suiform":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of or relating to the Suiformes"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8s\u00fc\u0259\u02ccf\u022frm"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin Suiformes"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-130518"
},
"surgeless":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": free from surges"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-jl\u0259\u0307s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-130912"
},
"sugar cube":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small cube of sugar that is put in coffee or tea to make it sweet":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105906"
},
"sub judice":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": before a judge or court : not yet judicially decided":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccsu\u0307b-\u02c8y\u00fc-di-\u02cck\u0101",
"\u02c8s\u0259b-\u02c8j\u00fc-d\u0259-(\u02cc)s\u0113",
"\u02ccs\u0259b-\u02c8j\u00fc-d\u0259-s\u0113, \u02ccsu\u0307b-\u02c8y\u00fc-di-\u02cck\u0101"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But media still face charges for sub judice contempt. \u2014 Rod Mcguirk, The Seattle Times , 26 Mar. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1613, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-110009"
}
}