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{
"Pend d'Oreille":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": kalispel":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"modification of French pendant d'oreille earring; probably from the fact that members of the tribe used to wear large shell earrings":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6p\u00e4nd\u0259\u00a6r\u0101"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-120153",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Pendelik\u00f3n":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"mountain 3638 feet (1109 meters) high in Attica, eastern Greece, northeast of Athens":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpen-de-l\u0113-\u02c8k\u022fn"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131807",
"type":[
"geographical name"
]
},
"Peneidae":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a family of chiefly warm water and tropical prawns (tribe Peneides ) including several edible prawns \u2014 see penaeus":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Peneus , type genus + -idae":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0113\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184405",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Peneides":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a tribe of decapod crustaceans (suborder Natantia) comprising shrimps and prawns in which the lateral plates of the second abdominal segment do not overlap those of the first segment":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Peneus + -ides":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccd\u0113z"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171849",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Penelope":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the wife of Odysseus who waits faithfully for him during his 20 years' absence":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek P\u0113nelop\u0113":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8ne-l\u0259-p\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205909",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Penobscot":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of an American Indian people of the Penobscot River valley and Penobscot Bay region of Maine":[],
"river 101 miles (162 kilometers) long in central Maine flowing south into":[
"Penobscot Bay (inlet of the Atlantic Ocean)"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1624, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"earlier Panawamske , from Eastern Abenaki p\u03b1n\u00e1w\u03b1hpskek , a village name, literally, where the rocks widen":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-sk\u0259t",
"p\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4b-\u02ccsk\u00e4t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120032",
"type":[
"geographical name",
"noun"
]
},
"pen":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a female swan":[],
": a medical device for injecting drugs that resembles a fountain pen, contains a cartridge prefilled with usually several doses of medication, and when designed for multiple injections has a needle that is replaced after each use":[
"insulin pens",
"People accidentally exposed to a food culprit can use the pen to inject themselves with a dose of epinephrine\u2014also known as adrenaline\u2014to avoid a severe allergic reaction.",
"\u2014 Walecia Konrad"
],
": a penholder containing a pen point":[],
": a protected dock or slip for a submarine":[],
": a small enclosure for animals":[],
": a small place of confinement or storage":[],
": a writing instrument regarded as a means of expression":[
"enlisted the pens of the best writers",
"\u2014 F. H. Chase"
],
": an implement for writing or drawing with ink or a similar fluid: such as":[],
": ballpoint pen":[],
": bullpen sense 2":[],
": fountain pen":[],
": pen point":[],
": penitentiary":[],
": quill":[],
": stylus sense d":[],
": the animals in a pen":[
"a pen of sheep"
],
": the internal horny feather-shaped shell of a squid":[],
": to shut in or as if in a pen":[
"The cattle were penned behind a wooden fence."
],
": write , indite":[
"pen a letter"
],
": writer":[],
"International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists":[],
"peninsula":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1881, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1550, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English penne , from Anglo-French, feather, pen, from Latin penna, pinna feather; akin to Greek pteron wing \u2014 more at feather":"Noun",
"Middle English pennen , from Old English -pennian":"Verb",
"Middle English, perhaps from pennen":"Noun",
"origin unknown":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pen"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175525",
"type":[
"abbreviation",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pen sketch":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a literary sketch":[],
": a sketch made with a pen":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162354",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pen staff":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": penholder":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090315",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pen up":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to put or keep (a person or animal) in an enclosed area":[
"Several dogs were penned up behind the house.",
"The men were penned up on the ship for months."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095311",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"pen-stabling":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": stabling (as of dairy cattle) in a loafing barn \u2014 compare loose-housing system":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040842",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"penalize":{
"antonyms":[
"excuse",
"pardon",
"spare"
],
"definitions":{
": to inflict a penalty on":[],
": to put at a serious disadvantage":[]
},
"examples":[
"The company was penalized for not paying taxes.",
"The hockey player was penalized for holding.",
"This law would unfairly penalize immigrants.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As that use has grown, search engines have become increasingly likely to penalize those who breach online standards. \u2014 John Hall, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"The Omicron variant has prompted South Korea to accelerate efforts to vaccinate schoolchildren, and penalize those who don\u2019t comply, sparking debates over the safety of Covid-19 shots and education access. \u2014 Dasl Yoon, WSJ , 6 Dec. 2021",
"But a proposal to reward power companies that move from fossil fuels to clean energy and penalize those that do not was dropped following opposition from coal-state Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. \u2014 Matthew Daly, ajc , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Environmentalists and liberals pushed unsuccessfully in the bill for a plan known as the Clean Energy Performance Program, which would reward power companies that increased their share of renewables by 4% a year and penalize those that didn\u2019t. \u2014 Steven Mufson, Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Oct. 2021",
"The program, which had been a cornerstone of Biden's climate plan, aimed to reward utilities for switching to clean energy sources, such as wind and solar, and penalize those relying on coal and gas. \u2014 Fredreka Schouten, CNN , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Manchin has highlighted his opposition to the Clean Electricity Performance Program -- which would reward utilities that deploy more clean energy and penalize those that do not -- in its current form, The Washington Post previously reported. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Manchin has highlighted his opposition to the Clean Electricity Performance Program - which would reward utilities that deploy more clean energy and penalize those that do not - in its current form, The Washington Post previously reported. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 Oct. 2021",
"And in Missouri, several bills have been introduced this session that would restrict the rights of trans people, including one that would penalize doctors who provide gender-affirming care for minors. \u2014 Anne Branigin, Washington Post , 14 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1888, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pe-",
"\u02c8p\u0113-n\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"castigate",
"chasten",
"chastise",
"correct",
"discipline",
"punish"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112347",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"penalty":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a disadvantage (such as loss of yardage, time, or possession of the ball or an addition to or subtraction from the score) imposed on a team or competitor for violation of the rules of a sport":[
"The team was given a penalty for the foul."
],
": disadvantage, loss, or hardship due to some action":[
"Loss of privacy is one of the penalties you pay for fame."
],
": points scored in bridge by the side that defeats the opposing contract":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
],
": the suffering in person, rights, or property that is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime or public offense":[
"trespassing forbidden under penalty of imprisonment"
],
": the suffering or the sum to be forfeited to which a person agrees to be subjected in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations":[
"A penalty was imposed on the contractor for breach of contract."
]
},
"examples":[
"The company was given a severe penalty for the violation.",
"They allowed him to pay back the money without a penalty .",
"They allowed him to pay back the money without penalty .",
"Lack of privacy is one of the penalties you pay for fame.",
"The hockey player was given a penalty for holding.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"By skirting the inflation penalty , companies also have fewer curbs on their overall pricing behavior. \u2014 Maureen Testoni, STAT , 13 June 2022",
"Centered the Grind Line terrifically and was a lethal penalty killer. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 12 June 2022",
"Bou controlled near the penalty spot and fired past Tim Melia. \u2014 Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"The move was questionable to race stewards, who awarded DeFrancesco a stop-and-go penalty for avoidable contact. \u2014 Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star , 12 June 2022",
"Bob Baffert, who trained Medina Spirit \u2014 last year\u2019s Derby winner until he was disqualified for failing a post-race drug test \u2014 had kept horse racing in the news by contesting the penalty . \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"In particularly egregious cases, as well as instances of statutory rape, the sentence can run to life imprisonment or even the death penalty . \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 11 June 2022",
"Colton Herta, one of Rossi's teammates, qualified fifth but will take a six-position grid penalty for an unapproved engine change related to his crash before the Indianapolis 500. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"With 6 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Warth threw a long pass to Beechwood\u2019s Parker Mason, with Mason drawing a pass interference penalty to keep the drive going, up 14-0. \u2014 James Weber, The Enquirer , 10 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English penalte , from Middle French penalit\u00e9 , from Medieval Latin poenalitas , from Latin poenalis":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pe-n\u1d4al-t\u0113",
"\u02c8pen-\u1d4al-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"damages",
"fine",
"forfeit",
"forfeiture",
"mulct"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210130",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"penchant":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Aside from the Catholic penchant for fish on Fridays, there is also the tradition of eating red beans and rice on Monday \u2026 \u2014 Tom Piazza , Why New Orleans Matters , 2005",
"Whether manifested in feminine decor or in an approach to teaching that assumes a female penchant for cooperative, or \"connected,\" learning, stereotypical notions of femininity often infect institutions for women and girls. \u2014 Wendy Kaminer , Atlantic , April 1998",
"From both her father and mother she had inherited a penchant for art, literature, philosophy, and music. Already at eighteen she was dreaming of painting, singing, writing poetry, writing books, acting\u2014anything and everything. \u2014 Theodore Dreiser , The Titan , 1914",
"a penchant for sitting by the window and staring moodily off into space",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the other hand, Jordan has a penchant for rainbow colors and prints. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 24 June 2022",
"Biden also has a penchant to only endorse candidates who backed him early in the presidential primary. \u2014 Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times , 24 June 2022",
"My grandparents were once long-distance outrigger canoe racers, and my grandfather still has a penchant for coaching my paddling technique. \u2014 Chantae Reden, Popular Mechanics , 21 June 2022",
"Dad, in turn, had always been a strict parent, a difficult person, and had a penchant for saying hurtful things. \u2014 Carmen Cusido, refinery29.com , 20 June 2022",
"Hall always had a penchant for performing but initially was hesitant to pursue such a risky career. \u2014 Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"Take Sumner Welles, for instance, a high-ranking official in Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s State Department and a member of that era\u2019s blue-blooded establishment, who had a penchant for propositioning train porters. \u2014 Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
"The guy\u2019s a good-looking, young director that has a penchant for younger girls. \u2014 Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone , 31 May 2022",
"In school, Xavier had a penchant for sports - favoring soccer and baseball - but also a great interest in art, his favorite subject, Martinez said. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 25 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1672, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from present participle of pencher to incline, from Vulgar Latin *pendicare , from Latin pendere to weigh":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"especially British \u02c8p\u00e4\u207f-\u02ccsh\u00e4\u207f",
"\u02c8pen-ch\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for penchant leaning , propensity , proclivity , penchant mean a strong instinct or liking for something. leaning suggests a liking or attraction not strong enough to be decisive or uncontrollable. a student with artistic leanings propensity implies a deeply ingrained and usually irresistible inclination. a propensity to offer advice proclivity suggests a strong natural proneness usually to something objectionable or evil. a proclivity for violence penchant implies a strongly marked taste in the person or an irresistible attraction in the object. a penchant for taking risks",
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bent",
"bias",
"bone",
"devices",
"disposition",
"genius",
"habitude",
"impulse",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011108",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pencil stripe":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194605",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pencilwood":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a moderate brown to reddish brown that is lighter than Tuscan brown":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044618",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pencraft":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": skill in using the pen : penmanship":[],
": the business of writing or of a writer : authorship":[],
": the use of the pen":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"pen entry 3 + craft":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233312",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"penda":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an Australian timber tree ( Xanthostemon oppositifolium ) of the family Myrtaceae with exceptionally heavy hard wood":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"native name in Australia":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pend\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030113",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pendant":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a hanging ornament of roofs or ceilings much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture":[],
": an electrical fixture suspended from the ceiling":[
"hung an incandescent light pendant from the ceiling over the reading area"
],
": an ornament (as on a necklace) allowed to hang free":[
"A turquoise pendant hung on her necklace."
],
": companion piece":[
"The portrait of his father is a pendant to the one of his mother."
],
": pennant sense 1a":[],
": something secondary or supplementary":[
"The illustration is an apt pendant to the poem."
],
": something suspended: such as":[]
},
"examples":[
"Navajo necklaces with pendants finely crafted in genuine sky-blue turquoise.",
"a pendant that once flew on Nelson's flagship",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The client found the Swedish copper pendant , which ties into the copper range hood in the kitchen. \u2014 Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful , 5 May 2022",
"His son, who had just graduated from high school, wore braces, a silver cross pendant , and a pair of Oakleys on top of a cap. \u2014 Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker , 30 Apr. 2022",
"So Patrick repurposed a Ruemmler lampshade into a pendant to spotlight and separate the dining area while also creating visual interest upon entrance at the end of the hall. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 31 May 2022",
"The displaced queen is then immortalized in resin and crafted into a pendant or pin by a jewelry-making friend. \u2014 Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"This outfit was more accessorized with a number of silver necklaces, including a silver cross pendant . \u2014 Aim\u00e9e Lutkin, ELLE , 22 May 2022",
"Wear it as is, or with a pendant , or layered with other necklaces. \u2014 Bernd Fischer, Men's Health , 12 May 2022",
"The diamond, nicknamed The Rock, is a 228.31-carat pear-shaped gem that comes with a diamond and platinum pendant mounting signed by Cartier. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 12 May 2022",
"This year, Gal Gadot stars as the face of the Blue Book campaign and wears a Dandelion necklace with a transferable platinum pendant of over 12 carats. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English pendaunt , from Anglo-French pendant , from present participle of pendre to hang, from Vulgar Latin *pendere , from Latin pend\u0113re ; akin to Latin pendere to weigh, estimate, pay, pondus weight":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pen-d\u0259nt",
"sense 5 is also p\u00e4\u207f-\u02c8d\u00e4\u207f",
"senses 3 & 4 are also \u02c8pe-n\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bangle",
"charm",
"lavaliere",
"lavalliere"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041751",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pendant post":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a part of the framing of an open-timbered roof that consists of a post set against the wall, resting on a corbel or other solid support, and supporting the ends of a collar beam or any part of the roof":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005501",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pendant switch":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": cord switch":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202540",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pendant tackle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a tackle attached to a pendant (as on a masthead) for hoisting, tautening, or staying purposes":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-002602",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pendant-set":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": set by pulling out the stem":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011926",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pendant-winding":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": stem-winding":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220419",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pendent":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": jutting or leaning over : overhanging":[
"a pendent cliff"
],
": remaining undetermined : pending":[],
": supported from above : suspended":[
"icicles pendent from the eaves"
]
},
"examples":[
"the dining area is lit by tasteful pendent lamps over the tables",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His distinctive speech-music, though a little rougher and breathier these days, has not altered, a shapely sequence of rhythmic, pendent clauses that resolve in a bassless but confiding growl. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English pendaunt":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pen-d\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"dangling",
"dependent",
"hanging",
"pendulous",
"suspended"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004056",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pending":{
"antonyms":[
"open",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"unresolved",
"unsettled"
],
"definitions":{
": during":[
"their opportunity to develop trade pending the laborious and fruitless negotiations",
"\u2014 Theodore Hsi-En Chen"
],
": imminent , impending":[],
": not yet decided : being in continuance":[
"the case is still pending"
],
": while awaiting":[
"pending approval",
"were held in custody pending trial"
]
},
"examples":[
"Preposition",
"He is being held in jail pending trial.",
"She received a four-year sentence and is currently out on bail pending appeal.",
"Adjective",
"The results of the investigation are pending .",
"There are lawsuits pending against the company.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
"Since Sorokin is currently in Immigration and Enforcement custody pending deportation, the video interview happened in fits and starts because Cooper and Sorokin had to keep reconnecting on the phone when time was up. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Even if the Trump team completes certain actions and publishes them in the Federal Register, the Biden team can halt implementation pending review. \u2014 Kelsey Brugger, Science | AAAS , 10 Nov. 2020",
"Although a federal judge issued an injunction to keep the program alive pending higher court review, the young immigrants stand to lose their right to work, travel and attend school. \u2014 Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Jan. 2018",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Pettit and his law firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection June 1, essentially putting a hold on the pending litigation. \u2014 Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News , 9 June 2022",
"On another pending issue, Wahl said the state Republican Party will certify the results in the primary races in House districts 28 and 29. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 31 May 2022",
"The most contentious pending issue there was President Donald Trump, who was deeply unpopular in the region. \u2014 Karen Deyoung, Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
"The new rate outlook helped crypto firm Circle Internet Financial Ltd. boost the valuation of its pending merger with a special-purpose acquisition company to $9 billion. \u2014 Peter Rudegeair, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"European regulators have given Amazon\u2019s $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM the green light, clearing a key hurdle for the pending merger. \u2014 Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Mar. 2022",
"And the wide-ranging deal comes just as Discovery is poised to grow significantly through its pending merger with WarnerMedia. \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Meanwhile, Mills can continue negotiating with the university on details of their pending merger. \u2014 Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Bankruptcy filings generally put on hold any pending litigation against a debtor. \u2014 Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Preposition",
"1643, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
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"French pendant , from present participle of pendre":"Preposition and Adjective"
},
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"\u02c8pen-di\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"amid",
"amidst",
"by",
"during",
"over",
"through",
"throughout"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074753",
"type":[
"adjective",
"preposition"
]
},
"pendulous":{
"antonyms":[
"unbending",
"upright"
],
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": inclined or hanging downward":[
"pendulous jowls"
],
": marked by vacillation, indecision, or uncertainty":[],
": poised without visible support":[],
": suspended so as to swing freely":[
"branches hung with pendulous vines"
]
},
"examples":[
"a cow with a pendulous udder",
"a pendulous crystal chandelier dominated the ballroom",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ang\u00e8le quickly set about working with Viard and the Chanel team to reimagine the designs\u2014with their thigh-high splits and pendulous accessories\u2014for a 21st-century pop star. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 23 May 2022",
"Her law clerks purchased the necklace\u2014sunflower-like with its bright yellow beadwork and pendulous small crystal balls\u2014from Anthropologie. \u2014 Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The carved channels delineate in negative space the pendulous breasts, somnolent grimace and agitated body. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
"Then, just before the Fourth of July, two adult orioles began bringing tender morsels of yumminess to a hanging, pendulous nest in the tree. \u2014 Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com , 9 July 2021",
"Veterinary pathologists examining a camelpox outbreak among male dromedaries in India noted pendulous lips and scrotal pox. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2021",
"Aerial photos show that the platform likely made a pendulous swing into a nearby rock face. \u2014 Nadia Drake, Science , 1 Dec. 2020",
"Weeping white pine: Its pendulous branches and dwarf stature are quite appealing. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 Dec. 2020",
"If tower four fails, the platform could either crash through the dish or make a pendulous swing into a nearby cliff. \u2014 Nadia Drake, National Geographic , 12 Nov. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Latin pendulus , from pend\u0113re to hang":""
},
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"-d\u0259-",
"\u02c8pen-dy\u0259-",
"-l\u0259s",
"\u02c8pen-j\u0259-l\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"bowed",
"bowing",
"declined",
"declining",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"descending",
"drooping",
"droopy",
"hanging",
"hung",
"inclining",
"nodding",
"sagging",
"stooping",
"weeping"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162652",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": a prawn of the family Peneidae":[],
": of or relating to the Peneidae":[]
},
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"New Latin Peneidae":"Adjective"
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130245",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the genus Penelope":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Penelope + English -ine":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-l\u0259\u02ccp\u012bn",
"-p\u0259\u0307n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031512",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"peneplain":{
"antonyms":[],
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": a land surface of considerable area and slight relief shaped by erosion":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1889, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin paene, pene almost + English plain or plane":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u0113-ni-\u02ccpl\u0101n",
"\u02c8pe-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035343",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
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": the process of peneplaining a land surface : erosion to a peneplain":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u0113n\u0259pl\u0259\u02c8n\u0101sh\u0259n"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184142",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"peneseismic":{
"antonyms":[],
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": being or relating to a region rarely affected by earthquakes":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary pene- + seismic":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6p\u0113n\u0113+"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201638",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"penetrable":{
"antonyms":[
"impassable",
"impassible",
"impenetrable",
"impermeable",
"impervious",
"nonporous"
],
"definitions":{
": capable of being penetrated":[]
},
"examples":[
"unfortunately, our netting proved to be a rather penetrable barrier that allowed in our cabin a steady stream of mosquitoes",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And then there are steel ceilings, ones that are not penetrable , no matter what skills, education or work ethic a person brings. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Feb. 2022",
"But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors. \u2014 Ivana Kottasov\u00e1, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
"But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors. \u2014 Ivana Kottasov\u00e1, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
"But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors. \u2014 Ivana Kottasov\u00e1, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
"But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors. \u2014 Ivana Kottasov\u00e1, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
"But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors. \u2014 Ivana Kottasov\u00e1, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
"But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors. \u2014 Ivana Kottasov\u00e1, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
"But the Taliban have proven how penetrable Kabul is to them in the past week, by assassinating government spokesmen, a local official and even prison prosecutors. \u2014 Ivana Kottasov\u00e1, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1538, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8pe-n\u0259-tr\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
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"passable",
"permeable",
"pervious",
"porous"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013049",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"penetrale":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an innermost part":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from penetralis inner, interior, from penetrare to penetrate + -alis -al":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpen\u0259\u2027\u02c8tr\u0101l\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173638",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"penetralia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the innermost or most private parts":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lounge chairs have sprouted up in yards and driveways like propagating agave, and many of us have migrated from the penetralia of our backyards to porches and lawns. \u2014 Maria Neuman, WSJ , 6 June 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1668, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, neuter plural of penetralis inner, from penetrare to penetrate":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpe-n\u0259-\u02c8tr\u0101-l\u0113-\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065545",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"penetrance":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the proportion of individuals of a particular genotype that express its phenotypic effect in a given environment":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sema4 only reports results for diseases that have a greater than 80 percent penetrance \u2014the proportion of people with a genetic variant who end up developing the disease. \u2014 Tanya Lewis, Scientific American , 24 Dec. 2019",
"Research suggests that random fluctuations in gene activity could explain some instances of the phenomenon, known as partial penetrance , which likely plays a role in some human diseases. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 22 May 2014"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary, from Latin penetrare":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pe-n\u0259-tr\u0259n(t)s",
"\u02c8pen-\u0259-tr\u0259n(t)s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111650",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"penetrant":{
"antonyms":[],
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": one that penetrates or is capable of penetrating":[],
": penetrating":[],
": producing a phenotypic effect : exhibiting penetrance":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Through working with master jewelers to realize her penetrant vision, Lipton has created something that embodies much more than a fine jewelry collection. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 7 Apr. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That created a pseudo-virus that would mimic 2019-nCoV\u2019s cell- penetrant biology but leave out its ability to replicate and cause illness. \u2014 Damian Garde, STAT , 5 Feb. 2020",
"Don\u2019t Forget the Penetrant Always use a penetrant when backing out damaged screws in metal. \u2014 Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics , 8 Nov. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
"circa 1734, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pe-n\u0259-tr\u0259nt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174615",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"penetrate":{
"antonyms":[
"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
],
"definitions":{
": to affect deeply the senses or feelings":[
"the suggestion might penetrate deeply enough \u2026 to make her a good deal more wary",
"\u2014 H. A. Overstreet"
],
": to affect profoundly with feeling":[
"men may still be penetrated with awe by the divine righteousness",
"\u2014 R. W. Dale"
],
": to diffuse through or into":[
"the cold began to penetrate his bones",
"\u2014 E. K. Gann"
],
": to discover the inner contents or meaning of":[
"a scientific secret which will eventually be penetrated by other countries",
"\u2014 Vera M. Dean"
],
": to enter by overcoming resistance : pierce":[
"This bullet can penetrate armor."
],
": to gain entrance to":[
"an apartment that I now penetrated for the first time",
"\u2014 Osbert Lancaster"
],
": to pass into or through":[
"this route \u2026 penetrates the leading resort and lake areas",
"\u2014 American Guide Series: Minnesota",
"Only a dirt road penetrates the rough, wooded terrain."
],
": to pass, extend, pierce, or diffuse into or through something":[
"fishes \u2026 which enter tidal rivers and penetrate almost to fresh water",
"\u2014 J. L. B. Smith"
],
": to pierce something with the eye or mind":[
"strained his eyes to penetrate beyond the thick cloud of dust",
"insight that penetrates to the very heart of some \u2026 problem",
"\u2014 W. F. Hambly"
],
": to see into or through":[
"their keen eyes can penetrate the water to a depth of \u2026 forty feet",
"\u2014 L. K. Porritt"
]
},
"examples":[
"These bullets can penetrate armor.",
"radiation penetrating the Earth's atmosphere",
"The bullet failed to penetrate .",
"The heat penetrated through the wall.",
"The roots of these plants have been known to penetrate to a depth of more than 15 feet.",
"My car's headlights couldn't penetrate the dense fog.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rub wood stain over the area to penetrate raw wood, then quickly wipe clean. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 27 June 2022",
"If crypto continues to penetrate financial and banking markets, the loss of confidence from the inevitable crash\u2014of an instrument that often has no intrinsic value\u2014as well as its contagion impact could be devastating. \u2014 WSJ , 19 June 2022",
"Yet Martin points out that only a tiny percentage of people manage to penetrate the top level, with the majority unable to make a living wage. \u2014 Lizzie Cernik, refinery29.com , 16 June 2022",
"The lid will trap any escaping radiation and send it back to the ground while the sun's rays continue to penetrate through. \u2014 Judson Jones, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"Part of that optimism comes from the opportunity to penetrate markets that were previously less accessible for the brand. \u2014 Alicia Kelso, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"But these ambitious goals have yet to fully penetrate the rest of the federal government. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 3 June 2022",
"Once the road reached the river, loggers would use the waterway to penetrate the rain forest and fell mahogany, cedar and other trees. \u2014 Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Aloe, hemp, and shea butter are the building blocks of this hardy aftershave, providing 24-hour hydration and a protective barrier that the grime of life won\u2019t be able to penetrate . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1530, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin penetratus , past participle of penetrare , from penitus deep within, far; akin to Latin penus provisions":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pen-\u0259-\u02cctr\u0101t",
"\u02c8pe-n\u0259-\u02cctr\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for penetrate enter , penetrate , pierce , probe mean to make way into something. enter is the most general of these and may imply either going in or forcing a way in. entered the city in triumph penetrate carries a strong implication of an impelling force or compelling power that achieves entrance. the enemy penetrated the fortress pierce means an entering or cutting through with a sharp pointed instrument. pierced the boil with a lancet probe implies penetration to investigate or explore something hidden from sight or knowledge. probed the depths of the sea",
"synonyms":[
"access",
"enter",
"pierce"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070524",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"penetrating":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": acute , discerning":[
"penetrating insights into life"
],
": having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading":[
"a penetrating shriek"
]
},
"examples":[
"She is one of our most penetrating and provocative critical thinkers.",
"an author famous for her penetrating social commentary",
"a penetrating account of what really happened during the crisis",
"flowers that give off a penetrating perfume",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even the most penetrating rhetoric is not an anti-missile defense system. \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Coming out of the pandemic, most organizations are willing to conduct a more penetrating examination of conscience, identify their gaps, and then work to close those gaps. \u2014 Timothy R. Clark, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"However, Lewis is a speedy and penetrating lead-guard who can break down defenses off the dribble and get to the basket. \u2014 Morten Jensen, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021",
"Lee has long since shown herself to be among the most penetrating literary biographers in English, and has been content, before now, to write only the lives of dead authors whose reputations are secure. \u2014 Andrew O\u2019hagan, The New York Review of Books , 13 Apr. 2021",
"The patients sustained non- penetrating spinal cord injuries from falls or minor trauma. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 Feb. 2021",
"British companies understand that this dynamic allows the EU to wield a passive yet highly penetrating form of power to unilaterally transform global markets and shape corporate behavior. \u2014 Anu Bradford, WSJ , 7 Feb. 2020",
"Available in 100- or 125-grain models, the DK4 features a one-piece aluminum ferrule and ultra-sharp penetrating steel tip. \u2014 Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream , 9 Jan. 2020",
"And Donovan's performance is made all the more emotionally penetrating by Joe's guardedness. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 Dec. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pe-n\u0259-\u02cctr\u0101-ti\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"biting",
"bitter",
"cutting",
"keen",
"piercing",
"raw",
"sharp",
"shrewd",
"smarting",
"stinging"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020056",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"peninsula":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"They built their house on a narrow peninsula .",
"the peninsula is constantly buffeted by storms",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Next, a trough of low pressure has created an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms from southeastern Louisiana across the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and the southern part of the Florida peninsula . \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
"There has already been one tropical storm, Alex, which formed on June 5 after crossing over the Florida peninsula as a potential tropical cyclone. \u2014 Leigh Morgan, al , 14 June 2022",
"Tropical storm warnings were issued Friday for much of the Florida peninsula , Cuba and the Bahamas as a system that battered Mexico moves through the Gulf of Mexico, bringing threats of heavy rain and wind for the weekend. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
"The Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, the Florida peninsula and the Florida Keys are all advised to monitor the progress of Elsa. \u2014 Brittany Borer, ABC News , 3 July 2021",
"The system drenched South Florida before moving across the peninsula and finally becoming Tropical Storm Alex on June 5. \u2014 Roger Simmons, Orlando Sentinel , 12 June 2022",
"North of Puerto Vallarta, Punta Mita is the striking peninsula that marks the northern border of the Bay of Banderas. \u2014 Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Dinosaurs went extinct roughly 66 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous Period, after an asteroid around 7 miles wide hit what is now the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula off the Mexican coast. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Coromandel is a scenic peninsula that can be reached by ferry from Auckland or by car within a couple of hours. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 17 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1552, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin paeninsula , from paene almost + insula island":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8nin(t)-s(\u0259-)l\u0259",
"p\u0259-\u02c8nin-s\u0259-l\u0259",
"-sh\u0259-l\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"arm",
"cape",
"foreland",
"headland",
"ness",
"point",
"promontory",
"spit"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113937",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"penitence":{
"antonyms":[
"impenitence",
"remorselessness"
],
"definitions":{
": the quality or state of being penitent : sorrow for sins or faults":[
"Forgiveness requires penitence ."
]
},
"examples":[
"the sincerity of the player's penitence is questionable\u2014he began to express remorse only after the suspension was handed down",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After putting in the hard work of patience and penitence , the month is finished off with optimism. \u2014 Manal Aman, Woman's Day , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Followers \u2014 including Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Episcopalians and Lutherans \u2014 put ashes on their foreheads as an outward symbol of their penitence . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 Mar. 2022",
"There are, no doubt, references to art historical tropes, perhaps to images that remind of us of the brevity of life, or even penitence . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Nov. 2021",
"The church has tended to emphasize spiritual penitence instead of penitentiaries. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Ashes and dust\u2014Catholic symbols of penitence and mortality\u2014were familiar to the author from the faith that restored meaning to his life. \u2014 Brenda Cronin, WSJ , 8 Oct. 2021",
"The trial broke new ground for the church, where abuse accusations have generally been dealt with behind closed doors or in canonical trials, where offenders can be defrocked or ordered to a life of prayer and penitence . \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Oct. 2021",
"McGuckin whispers the reason to you: in 325 CE, a council of the universal Church held at Nicaea (now Iznik, Turkey) forbade kneeling on Sundays, because kneeling is a gesture of penitence , and Sunday is the time to rejoice in glory. \u2014 Diarmaid Macculloch, The New York Review of Books , 2 July 2020",
"Another popular ritual is to walk to a river or stream and recite special prayers of penitence . \u2014 CNN , 26 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French penitance , from Medieval Latin poenitentia , alteration of Latin paenitentia regret, from paenitent-, paenitens , present participle":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pe-n\u0259-t\u0259n(t)s",
"\u02c8pe-n\u0259-t\u0259ns"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for penitence penitence , repentance , contrition , compunction , remorse mean regret for sin or wrongdoing. penitence implies sad and humble realization of and regret for one's misdeeds. absolution is dependent upon sincere penitence repentance adds the implication of a resolve to change. repentance accompanied by a complete change of character contrition stresses the sorrowful regret that constitutes true penitence. tearful expressions of contrition compunction implies a painful sting of conscience especially for contemplated wrongdoing. had no compunctions about taking back what is mine remorse suggests prolonged and insistent self-reproach and mental anguish for past wrongs and especially for those whose consequences cannot be remedied. thieves untroubled by feelings of remorse",
"synonyms":[
"contriteness",
"contrition",
"guilt",
"regret",
"remorse",
"remorsefulness",
"repentance",
"rue",
"self-reproach",
"shame"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064241",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"penitent":{
"antonyms":[
"impenitent",
"remorseless",
"unapologetic",
"unrepentant"
],
"definitions":{
": a person under church censure but admitted to penance or reconciliation especially under the direction of a confessor":[],
": a person who repents of sin":[],
": feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant":[]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"a penitent gossip who had come to ask for forgiveness",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Her husband\u2019s sudden, violent reaction to the joke, and his subsequent Best Actor speech that bobbed and weaved over the line between defiant and penitent , swallowed the rest of the night whole. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 27 Mar. 2022",
"However, lawmakers returned six years later to reinstate the clergy- penitent privilege. \u2014 Arizona Republic , 21 Apr. 2020",
"Even if absolution is denied, though, the exchange between penitent and confessor is to remain confidential. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Aug. 2019",
"As with McBride\u2019s voice-over, which Pitt delivers in intimate tones \u2014 like a lover or penitent whispering confidences in your ear \u2014 the helmet alternately reveals and obscures the character, putting the narrative dynamic into visual terms. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Sep. 2019",
"This rule applies, for example, to conversations between a lawyer and a client, between a priest and a penitent , and between a husband and wife. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Nov. 2019",
"Stacked up one by one, the whole thing feels unrelenting, like a a permanent, penitent chorus, sung in harmony, museum to museum. . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Oct. 2019",
"The Rockets organization was similarly penitent , and rumors began to circulate that Morey, one of the league\u2019s most talented executives, could lose his job. \u2014 Nathaniel Friedman, The New Republic , 11 Oct. 2019",
"Ito was penitent in a meeting this week meant to air grievances and begin to heal disagreements, according to a New York Times report. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Sep. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In his verse\u2014by turns, introspective, penitent , and hopeful\u2014No Malice seems to express thoughts that Pusha never will. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Today is Good Friday, which means those who\u2019ve been practicing a penitent and meat-free Lenten diet are nearing the end of their observance. \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel , 15 Apr. 2022",
"In the circumstances, Benedict\u2019s plea for forgiveness\u2014 penitent in mood but not in substance\u2014models a way of doing things that should be left behind. \u2014 Paul Elie, The New Yorker , 20 Feb. 2022",
"The operative subtext here is that Mary Magdalene has gotten a raw deal through the millennia \u2014 often depicted as a penitent prostitute follower of Jesus. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2022",
"In more recent years, Alfred Molina\u2019s melancholic, David Suchet\u2019s soulful innocent and John Malkovich\u2019s penitent exile sought to dignify him. \u2014 Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The administrator\u2019s caravan charted a penitent itinerary along the Gulf Coast, calling on communities of color that the EPA has historically failed to protect. \u2014 Ava Kofman, ProPublica , 24 Nov. 2021",
"The last bit is driven home when, like a penitent in a confessional, Hero tells Roxanne her dark secret, effectively surrendering herself for the low, low price of some matriarchal absolution. \u2014 Devon Maloney, Vulture , 4 Oct. 2021",
"That something similar holds for him suggests the one true-faith note of this novel: that there is no difference between judge and penitent . \u2014 David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times , 7 Sep. 2021"
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"An inmate was fatally stabbed at the Beaumont penitentiary in 2007, followed a few months later by an inmate strangled to death by his cellmates, AP reports. \u2014 Peter Weber, The Week , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Two inmates form a connection while grappling with their pasts in a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by a brilliant visionary who experiments on his subjects with mind-altering drugs. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 12 June 2022",
"The state penitentiary is home to the largest number of them: 302, roughly 18% of the prison\u2019s population. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 May 2022",
"The Alabama Department of Corrections said today that the warden of its largest penitentiary is on mandatory leave. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The community is even a stop on the Moundsville Area visitors\u2019 shuttle, which includes other attractions like the old state penitentiary and an ancient Adena burial mound. \u2014 Ashley Stimpson, Longreads , 19 Feb. 2022",
"He had also been involved in multiple stabbings during his stint, including one at a Pennsylvania penitentiary in 1998 and one in Colorado in 2007. \u2014 Chron Staff, Chron , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Security personnel at the Brians 2 penitentiary near the northeastern Spanish city tried to revive him, but the jail's medical team finally certified his death, a statement from the regional Catalan government said. \u2014 Aritz Parra, Star Tribune , 23 June 2021",
"Security personnel at the Brians 2 penitentiary near the northeastern Spanish city tried to revive McAfee, who was 75, but the jail's medical team finally certified his death, a statement from the regional Catalan government said. \u2014 CBS News , 23 June 2021",
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"The Melekhovo facility has been the subject of multiple media investigations revealing brutality in the Russian penitentiary system and systematic abuse of prisoners by guards and other convicts. \u2014 Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Kitchen then phoned the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and learned that White was incarcerated at the Darrington Unit, a penitentiary thirty miles outside Houston. \u2014 The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Violence in prisons has been escalating in recent years, but this was the worst penitentiary massacre in the South American country's history. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Burke was sentenced to 17 years, and Hodges to 12 years, in the federal penitentiary system. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Ecuador has about 40,000 inmates in its penitentiary system, which is far above the capacity of 30,000. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Nov. 2021",
"Ecuador has about 40,000 inmates in its penitentiary system, which is far above the capacity of 30,000. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Nov. 2021",
"Ecuador has about 40,000 inmates in its penitentiary system, which is far above the capacity of 30,000. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Nov. 2021",
"Ecuador has about 40,000 inmates in its penitentiary system, which is far above the capacity of 30,000. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Nov. 2021"
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"My third grade teacher thought it was important for us to learn penmanship .",
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"This one, still with the signature LA penmanship on the chest, was inspired by her boys and offers options for kids. \u2014 Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence , 9 June 2022",
"Professor Calkins became a revolutionary leader in education by bringing these practices to young children at a time when penmanship , spelling and sentence structure were often a bigger focus. \u2014 New York Times , 22 May 2022",
"With honest penmanship , the song tells the story of a person who\u2019s silently in love with someone else and dying on the inside. \u2014 Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard , 6 May 2022",
"But at the same time, sometimes your penmanship can fail you. \u2014 Brendan O'meara, Longreads , 10 May 2022",
"Inside, the children discover a quirky cohort of scribes who are responsible for producing invitations, place cards and other triumphs of penmanship for the royal household. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 15 Apr. 2022",
"York also instituted community play days and penmanship campaigns. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Nov. 2021",
"She could sometimes be found at a nurses station, giving a handful of physicians pointers about penmanship . \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Way beyond her age, however, VF7 has evolved in her penmanship and melodies, experimenting with punk rock and perreo for a different approach. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 25 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Morehead was 4-2 with a 3.72 ERA in seven starts down the stretch of the 1967 season to help the Sox win the pennant . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Sep. 2021",
"And speaking of the Hall of Fame\u2026Cooperstown once seemed to be the eventual destination for Maddon, who is one of just nine managers to win a pennant in both leagues and the only manager in the last 114 years to lead the Cubs to a championship. \u2014 Jerry Beach, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"In the surreal days of 2016, when the Cubs are on their way to a pennant and Trump is elected president, the Sullivan family\u2019s patriarch \u2014 the founder of the most famous restaurant in Oak Park \u2014 drops dead. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Showalter, 65, has never won a pennant but is widely respected for his preparedness and attention to detail. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Dec. 2021",
"To make: Cut paper straws into graduated lengths and group to form pennant shapes. \u2014 Charlyne Mattox, Country Living , 6 June 2022",
"But the deal was a coup for the Tigers, who would win four consecutive division titles and an American League pennant in Cabrera\u2019s prime. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Both Chicago teams made a pennant run, and New York fans were treated to a truly bizarre play: A home run that started in one ballpark and finished atop another. \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The only other player in franchise history to hit more than that in the first 20 games of a season is Ken Keltner, who hit 12 in the pennant winning season of 1948. \u2014 Terry Pluto, cleveland , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"She was unemployed and penniless .",
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"Warner \u2014 bespectacled already balding in his mid-30s \u2014 fell in love with the utterly penniless 21-year-old Emilia Terzulli, who then spoke almost no English. \u2014 Michael Dirda, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
"Discriminatory housing practices that have left a disproportionate number of Black people penniless and homeless. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Thanks to an ugly family battle over his inheritance, Gareth is on the verge of becoming penniless , and the diary\u2014and by extension Hyacinth\u2014is his only hope. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The father is a gambling addict in poor health; the brother is penniless yet sure of his talent as a medium. \u2014 Lise Pedersen, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022",
"By the time of her death in 1946, Smith was reportedly penniless , without even a tombstone to mark her grave in Staten Island, New York. \u2014 Charles Trepany, USA TODAY , 14 Feb. 2022",
"But sanitation experts think that in the era of climate change, when droughts and floods are becoming increasingly common, the West may have something to learn from the little waterless loos piloted in penniless Madagascan neighbourhoods. \u2014 Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads , 28 Aug. 2015",
"Because landowners were the only ones permitted to have children, women farm workers were largely single, penniless and even more dependent on landowners than their male counterparts. \u2014 Elizabeth Heath, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Feb. 2022",
"Lola, the midget pony, drops into Colette\u2019s dressing room each night for a drink of water, while Bastienne, the penniless ballerina, breast-feeds her baby in the corner. \u2014 Celia Imrie, WSJ , 14 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And a lot has been made comparing Cuomo\u2019s response to that of Governor Ralph Northam, of Virginia, but the allegations made against Northam were kind of penny ante compared to those that have now been made against the Governor. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
"And the abuelas did not like to lose their penny ante poker games, said Surfside native Michelle Kuper, whose grandmother and aunt lived in Champlain East. \u2014 Author: Linda Robertson, Anchorage Daily News , 4 July 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Botanical extracts like seaweed, arjun tree, and pennywort add even more hydration, plumping, and brightening effects. \u2014 Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Minari, a hardy edible plant that grows on the edges of ponds and rivers in Asia, is known by many other names: Chinese celery, Indian pennywort , Japanese parsley. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 9 Feb. 2021",
"In Bangladesh, the government has limited mobile internet access for many Rohingya, creating an information vacuum that has allowed rumors to flourish: Eating garlic or the pennywort leaf will ward off the virus, Rohingya refugees have been told. \u2014 Ben Hubbard, New York Times , 26 Mar. 2020",
"In fact, marsh pennywort foliage looks quite like nasturtium. \u2014 Kenneth Setzer, Sun-Sentinel.com , 4 Aug. 2017",
"Possibly because of their use as aquarium plants, some species of pennywort have morphed into non-native invasive weeds. \u2014 Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald , 6 July 2017",
"Nasturtium leaves also exhibit this; in fact marsh pennywort foliage looks quite like nasturtium. \u2014 Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald , 6 July 2017"
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"\u2026 the combination of national crisis and imminent electoral victory creates an atmosphere at once pensive and elated. \u2014 Yossi Klein Halevi , New Republic , 25 Dec. 2000",
"We take in the synchronized swimming of sardines and the pensive patrol of a leopard shark. \u2014 Roger Rosenblatt , Time , 5 Oct. 1998",
"\u2026 did not seem depressed so much as pensive , and within a few minutes he was talking eagerly\u2014in fact, unstoppably\u2014about his favorite subject: school. \u2014 James Traub , New Yorker , 19 Dec. 1994",
"The child sat by himself, looking pensive .",
"rainy days often put her in a pensive mood",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a result of his move \u2014 and a two-year pandemic \u2014 the superstar has now emerged with his most pensive album yet, twelve carat toothache, released June 2 on Mercury / Republic Records. \u2014 Lyndsey Havens, Billboard , 3 June 2022",
"Vassar's pensive reflection on the blessings of growing up in America is a great addition to any Independence Day playlist. \u2014 Brie Dyas, Country Living , 2 June 2022",
"The musician showcased the pensive tune, which reflects on embracing life for those who are no longer with us, alongside her band. \u2014 Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone , 11 May 2022",
"The melody climbs the musical scale, building tension before the tempo slows and becomes pensive and lyrical, like the slow drift of falling leaves. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"It\u2019s one of the more upbeat offerings in the group\u2019s pensive catalogue of music, with its music video featuring a dance-off and cheeky visuals. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"Moods transform into weather, and the confusion of adolescence is pressed against the legacy of generational abuse in this pensive story of endurance and survival. \u2014 Leah Tyler, ajc , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Clothes must be returned to the closet and the rooms tidied up, after which the family spends a poignant and pensive night. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 21 Apr. 2022",
"At the end of the program, Cuckson and GoGwilt performed a composition by Aucoin that resolved with the exchange of pensive , single notes. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"\u02c8pen(t)-siv",
"\u02c8pen-siv"
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"meditative",
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"ruminant",
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"\u2014 Lynn Ocone"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Other blooms include golden-beard penstemon , Indian paintbrush, yarrow and goldeneye. \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 24 Feb. 2022",
"One of Banner\u2019s favorite native plant species is pine leaf penstemon , a beautiful ground cover that comes in several colors. \u2014 Caroleine James, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Aug. 2021",
"Drought friendly pineleaf penstemon (Penstemon pinifolius) grows at Red Butter Gardens in Salt Lake City on Monday, July 26, 2021. \u2014 Caroleine James, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Aug. 2021",
"Repeat combinations in different beds, such as clusters of alliums, coneflowers and penstemon next to moor grass. \u2014 Lauren Dunec Hoang, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 Sep. 2020",
"Some of her favorite plants to add to attract hummingbirds are bee balm, lupine, salvia, columbine and penstemon . \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Sep. 2020",
"Some abundant species can deliver up to 16 gallons; others a cup or so, like prairie violet and slender penstemon . \u2014 Bob Timmons, Star Tribune , 31 July 2020",
"For example, penstemon is a drought-tolerant, flowering perennial native to North America that's a popular garden plant. \u2014 Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens , 19 May 2020",
"Poppies, penstemons , marigolds, and cactus blooms are but a few of the florals popping this time of year. \u2014 Kate Wertheimer, Sunset Magazine , 17 Jan. 2020"
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"a penstock carried water for the waterwheel",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"River water entered the powerhouse and fell down a system of 140-foot vertical pipes, called penstocks , one for each generator. \u2014 Charles R. Morris, WSJ , 21 June 2018",
"The penstock flows powered the turbines that turned shafts activating the top-side generators. \u2014 Charles R. Morris, WSJ , 21 June 2018",
"The reservoir can also be lowered by discharges through the dam\u2019s power plant, but one of the two power plant outlets, known as penstocks , was shut down for routine maintenance of turbines. \u2014 Ralph Vartabedian, latimes.com , 10 May 2017",
"Equipment: An intake gate called a penstock , valves and pressure gauges, turbine, switchgear, inverter, and electronics. \u2014 Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics , 6 Feb. 2017"
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"pent -up feelings"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Logistics operators are worried that like 2020, today\u2019s calm will be followed by chaos once lockdowns are lifted and the pent up-stock in factories and warehouses in China turns into a flood of goods bound for the US and Europe. \u2014 Aurora Almendral, Quartz , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Ohio\u2019s gambling establishments eked out another record month in March, despite competing with pent up demand from last year. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Some event planners said that after 20-plus months of remote work there is a pent up desire by employees and bosses to gather. \u2014 Ray A. Smith, WSJ , 7 Dec. 2021",
"With tight global supply and strong pent up demand worldwide as countries recover from the pandemic, oil prices remain near seven-year highs of around $85 a barrel, with the cost of the U.S. benchmark crude rising around 70% so far this year. \u2014 Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"And a brand-new transatlantic budget airline\u2014Norse Atlantic Airways\u2014has risen to try to fill the pent up demand. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 22 Sep. 2021",
"The combination of an historically low number of homes on the market, coupled with pent up demand for housing has made for an especially interesting time in Alabama\u2019s housing market. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 7 Sep. 2021",
"Luebkemann said the vaccine has made a huge difference and also noted the pent up demand with people worn out and ready for some normalcy. \u2014 Austin Fuller, orlandosentinel.com , 12 Aug. 2021",
"The huge spike was helped by the new iPhone 12\u2019s not shipping until part way into the December quarter, which meant there was a larger than normal pent up demand that had to be satisfied in the following quarter. \u2014 Chuck Jones, Forbes , 27 May 2021"
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"definitions":{
": a crystalline compound C 6 Cl 5 OH used especially as a wood preservative and fungicide and a disinfectant":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But pentachlorophenol and the copper formulas were lasting 60 years or longer. \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 17 Aug. 2020",
"Creosote and pentachlorophenol were both banned for residential uses in the late 1980s, although they can still be used for railroad ties, utility poles and some farm uses. \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 17 Aug. 2020",
"Near Alexandra, in central Louisiana, two plants that use coal-tar creosote and pentachlorophenol to pressure-treat and preserve wooden objects like rail ties and telephone poles operate directly adjacent to communities. \u2014 Justin Nobel, Longreads , 13 July 2017",
"Pentachlorophenol contains dioxins, which are used in making chemical weapons, like Agent Orange, and can peel away human skin and cause leukemia. \u2014 Justin Nobel, Longreads , 13 July 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"1869, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccpen-t\u0259-\u02cckl\u022fr-\u0259-\u02c8f\u0113-\u02ccn\u014dl",
"-fi-\u02c8",
"\u02ccpent-\u0259-\u02cckl\u014dr-\u0259-\u02c8f\u0113-\u02ccn\u014dl",
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"Greek pentachordon , from neuter of pentachordos five-stringed, from penta- + -chordos stringed (from chord\u0113 string)":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133343",
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"had a small penthouse built to serve as a toolshed",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Now, one of the apartments, the one-bedroom, two-bath penthouse , is again for sale, priced at $1.765 million. \u2014 Brenda Richardson, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Jurors heard similar testimony Tuesday from an officer who accompanied Hadden to the penthouse . \u2014 Matthew Barakat, ajc , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Jurors heard similar testimony Tuesday from an officer who accompanied Hadden to the penthouse . \u2014 CBS News , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Jurors heard similar testimony Tuesday from an officer who accompanied Hadden to the penthouse . \u2014 Matthew Barakat, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The 50 apartments, from small, open-plan units to a three-bedroom penthouse , are handsomely chic\u2014think velvet upholstery and bathroom tiling\u2014with sleek kitchens and daily housekeeping. \u2014 Christian L. Wright, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The narrator of this novel, Piedmont Livingston Kinsolver III, is a doorman at a fancy apartment building on Central Park West, who, unbeknownst to his colleagues, commutes home to a penthouse on upper Fifth Avenue. \u2014 The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"In the nearly eight years since, Pearl has more than exceeded expectations on the Plains, bringing the program from SEC cellar to the college basketball penthouse . \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Architectural Digest brings you high above the streets of Manhattan to the 96th floor penthouse of 432 Park Avenue, the most expensive unit in the third-tallest residential building on the planet. \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 9 Sep. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"alteration of Middle English pentis , from Anglo-French apentiz , from apent , past participle of apendre, appendre to attach, hang against \u2014 more at append":""
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": a body of rights held to be guaranteed by implication in a civil constitution":[
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"\u2014 Edward Eggleston"
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"\u2014 James Atlas"
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},
"examples":[
"the lunar eclipse began with a subtle darkening of the lunar surface as it passed within the Earth's penumbra",
"a penumbra of despair fell over the doomed city",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This is from the Earth\u2019s lighter shadow, called the penumbra , that is barely visible to the naked eye. \u2014 Dean Regas, The Enquirer , 10 May 2022",
"The whole moon is in Earth\u2019s penumbra , but the dimming is subtle. \u2014 Leigh Morgan, al , 15 May 2022",
"In eastern Wisconsin the spectacle is scheduled to begin at 8:32 p.m. Sunday when the edge of the Earth's shadow, or penumbra , starts touching the moon. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 May 2022",
"As Picasso\u2019s palette became more relentlessly monochromatic, space itself seemed to squeeze these figures into more compressed forms, containing them with a dark penumbra of rich blue, as if the world could not allow them even a little air or light. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"There\u2019s a whole penumbra of horrible things that happen after. \u2014 Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker , 22 Dec. 2021",
"This is made up of the time when the Moon hits the penumbra and umbra. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 17 Nov. 2021",
"The penumbra is the outer edge of the Earth's shadow, lasting over six hours, and the umbra is the deepest part of the shadow, lasting 3.5 hours. \u2014 Sherry Liang, CNN , 18 Nov. 2021",
"That\u2019s when the penumbra , partial shadow, first becomes visible. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com , 18 Nov. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1665, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"New Latin, from Latin paene almost + umbra shadow \u2014 more at umbrage":""
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"pi-\u02c8n\u0259m-br\u0259",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033910",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"The penurious school system had to lay off several teachers.",
"the company's penurious management could not be convinced of the need to earmark more money for research and development",
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"Her father had left high school at 14 to support his penurious mother and work as a delivery boy in a cotton trading company. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Beyond its penurious powertrain, the Prime's disinterested driving demeanor extends to its steering, which is light and numb. \u2014 Joe Lorio, Car and Driver , 8 Apr. 2022",
"In 1877, when young H.G. (called Bertie) was 11, his father fell off a ladder and began a penurious , cricket-free convalescence. \u2014 Stephanie Burt, The New Republic , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Owners will claim that competitive imbalance is on the verge of ruining the game, never mind the 21 World Series participants since 2001 years, including the electively penurious Tampa Bay Rays. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 30 Nov. 2021",
"An earnest rebuild is underway, but like all before it, the success will be in spite of penurious ownership. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 13 Nov. 2021",
"That would be their home away from home, Inglewood\u2019s SoFi Stadium, an opulent flat for which penurious tenant Fredo Spanos pays a flat $1-per-year rental fee. \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Sep. 2021",
"Jobs in universities, media, publishing, and think tanks offered former bohemians and penurious toilers money and social status. \u2014 Pankaj Mishra, The New Yorker , 19 Apr. 2021",
"Preller never stops maneuvering, and has taken full advantage of the passive and penurious franchises. \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Feb. 2021"
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"p\u0259-\u02c8nu\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259s",
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for penurious stingy , close , niggardly , parsimonious , penurious , miserly mean being unwilling or showing unwillingness to share with others. stingy implies a marked lack of generosity. a stingy child, not given to sharing close suggests keeping a tight grip on one's money and possessions. folks who are very close when charity calls niggardly implies giving or spending the very smallest amount possible. the niggardly amount budgeted for the town library parsimonious suggests a frugality so extreme as to lead to stinginess. a parsimonious lifestyle notably lacking in luxuries penurious implies niggardliness that gives an appearance of actual poverty. the penurious eccentric bequeathed a fortune miserly suggests a sordid avariciousness and a morbid pleasure in hoarding. a miserly couple devoid of social conscience",
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"The penurious school system had to lay off several teachers.",
"the company's penurious management could not be convinced of the need to earmark more money for research and development",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her father had left high school at 14 to support his penurious mother and work as a delivery boy in a cotton trading company. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Beyond its penurious powertrain, the Prime's disinterested driving demeanor extends to its steering, which is light and numb. \u2014 Joe Lorio, Car and Driver , 8 Apr. 2022",
"In 1877, when young H.G. (called Bertie) was 11, his father fell off a ladder and began a penurious , cricket-free convalescence. \u2014 Stephanie Burt, The New Republic , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Owners will claim that competitive imbalance is on the verge of ruining the game, never mind the 21 World Series participants since 2001 years, including the electively penurious Tampa Bay Rays. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 30 Nov. 2021",
"An earnest rebuild is underway, but like all before it, the success will be in spite of penurious ownership. \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 13 Nov. 2021",
"That would be their home away from home, Inglewood\u2019s SoFi Stadium, an opulent flat for which penurious tenant Fredo Spanos pays a flat $1-per-year rental fee. \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Sep. 2021",
"Jobs in universities, media, publishing, and think tanks offered former bohemians and penurious toilers money and social status. \u2014 Pankaj Mishra, The New Yorker , 19 Apr. 2021",
"Preller never stops maneuvering, and has taken full advantage of the passive and penurious franchises. \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Feb. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"p\u0259-\u02c8nu\u0307r-\u0113-\u0259s",
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"pinching",
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"spare",
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"stinting",
"tight",
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"uncharitable",
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"wealth",
"wealthiness"
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"lived in a time when single women like herself faced a lifetime of genteel penury",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The worst part of a bear market, besides the fears of penury , is the uncertainty. \u2014 Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
"Shchukin\u2019s lavish patronage of Matisse, which began in 1906, relieved the artist and his family from years of penury . \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"The North is a pariah nation of people hovering often on the knife-edge of starvation or penury . \u2014 David A. Andelman, CNN , 22 Feb. 2022",
"But within months, the Bitcoin bonanza took the nation from plenty to penury . \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 6 Jan. 2022",
"English roads teemed with men turned vagrant by penury ; Spain was on the cusp of war. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Burma, once lauded for its fine schools and polyglot cosmopolitanism, sank into penury . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
"Like all diseases, COVID-19 feeds on penury , and in the Bronx\u2014which has been hit twice as hard as Manhattan\u2014nearly one in three people lives below the poverty line. \u2014 Rozina Ali, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Embrace the programs that prevented millions of people from falling into penury . \u2014 Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic , 9 Aug. 2021"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English, from Latin penuria, paenuria want; perhaps akin to Latin paene almost":""
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"\u02c8pen-y\u0259-r\u0113"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for penury poverty , indigence , penury , want , destitution mean the state of one with insufficient resources. poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts. the extreme poverty of the slum dwellers indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances. the indigence of her years as a graduate student penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money. a catastrophic illness that condemned them to years of penury want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure. lived in a perpetual state of want the widespread destitution in countries beset by famine",
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"necessity",
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"penuriousness",
"poorness",
"poverty",
"want"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Parrales was arrested on child abuse charges with possible great bodily injury or death, according to the site, which could mean up to six years in prison, according to the California penal code . \u2014 Mackenzie Maysstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 May 2022",
"But, under the California penal code , intimidating a public officer into an official act would constitute extortion. \u2014 The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
"Such legislation is found in article 265 of chapter 40 of the state's penal code . \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"The American Medical Association endorsed the model penal code in 1967, its first policy change on the subject since 1871. \u2014 Judy Sammon, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
"The change to the penal code comes amid a state of emergency that has allowed security forces to detain civilians, without evidence, under suspicion for being involved in a gang. \u2014 Bryan Avelar, BostonGlobe.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The charge is always the same, a violation of Paragraph 175 of the German penal code . \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 10 Mar. 2022",
"One of the items seized from the storage unit, Carrillo said, was a copy of California\u2019s penal code . \u2014 Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times , 14 Dec. 2021",
"Though its origins have been (incorrectly) linked to rock star death anniversaries, the police penal code , and the number of chemical compounds in the THC-rich plant, the true genesis of 4/20 is more humble. \u2014 Brandt Ranj, Rolling Stone , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"circa 1777, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Grab, Didi, and ironSource have dropped into penny stock territory. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Naturally, Hycroft, a penny stock , went on its own meme move soon after. \u2014 Declan Harty, Fortune , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Hycroft is a penny stock and saw its share price soar Tuesday on the announcement, jumping more than 92% in pre-market trading. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 15 Mar. 2022",
"But now volatility in Phunware shares is off the charts\u2014enough to trigger Nasdaq to halt trading in the penny stock eight times before noon on Friday. \u2014 Jessica Mathews, Fortune , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The penny stock was delisted by the OTCQB over-the counter-market in April after catching the attention of prominent hedge fund manager David Einhorn. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 31 Dec. 2021",
"That massive interest in the Trump SPAC also created a flurry of trades of a penny stock with ties to the Trump reelection campaign, Phunware. \u2014 Jessica Mathews, Fortune , 22 Oct. 2021",
"This is the type of stock for penny stock and microcap investors. \u2014 Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021",
"In Blackburn, the SEC alleged that three defendants sold unregistered securities and misled investors in connection with the penny stock company Treaty Energy Corporation. \u2014 The Insider, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021"
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"circa 1920, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rising goalkeeper Benjamin Lundt who sealed the match, saving a penalty shot from New Mexico United forward Tabort Etaka Preston in extra time. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Canada stormed back with three consecutive goals, Marie-Philip Poulin\u2019s penalty shot giving her team a two-goal cushion. \u2014 Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"James Nichols stopped a penalty shot to preserve the win. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
"After a penalty shot drop from the water, Pereira\u2019s approach shot found the thick rough alongside the green. \u2014 Bill Pennington, New York Times , 22 May 2022",
"Eric Gay/Associated Press Once his penalty shot landed 76 feet from the hole, Pereira could kiss the Wanamaker Trophy \u2014 and all that comes with it \u2014 goodbye. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
"Also saved Reid Schaefer\u2019s penalty shot to keep Seattle out of the game. \u2014 Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive , 14 May 2022",
"Desbiens was phenomenal, and a penalty shot for Canada late in the second period provided the necessary cushion. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The Winterhawks couldn\u2019t stop Fizer, whose 4-point night was overshadowed by Palmer\u2019s goalie heroics, and Peach, who had a penalty shot goal that was arguably the turning point. \u2014 Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210212"
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"\u02c8p\u0113n-\u1d4al"
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"Australia was once a penal colony.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bill Clinton reportedly joked that U.S. Presidents get to live in the White House, the crown jewel in the American penal system. \u2014 Emma Green, The New Yorker , 30 June 2022",
"For decades, drug use in America has mainly been addressed through the penal system \u2014 1 in 5 people behind bars are there for a drug offense. \u2014 al , 29 June 2022",
"Once Hock fell into the Nazi penal system, bureaucrats took a harder look at her record, smoothing her path into the camps. \u2014 Samuel Huneke, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"After Conrad\u2019s father Apollo was implicated in the Polish revolution suppressed by Russia in 1863, he and his family were exiled to the harsh climate and brutal life of Vologda, a penal town 250 miles northeast of Moscow. \u2014 Jeffrey Meyers, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"But penal statutes, including those that are commonly used in terrorism cases, are enforcement tools, not political labels. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 17 May 2022",
"Going into hiding, too, was dangerous; people believed that those who were caught would be deported immediately to penal camps. \u2014 Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books , 11 May 2022",
"The family\u2019s heritage is as diverse as the stories within the novel: Native American, European penal colonist, plantation owner, enslaved African. \u2014 Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 May 2022",
"For instance, Boris Grekov, director of Moscow\u2019s Russian History Institute, had seen his son sentenced to penal servitude and, in terror, made wide-ranging concessions to the Stalinist line, writing books and papers to order. \u2014 Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin poenalis , from poena punishment \u2014 more at pain entry 1":""
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun"
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"verb"
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"The company was penalized for not paying taxes.",
"The hockey player was penalized for holding.",
"This law would unfairly penalize immigrants.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As that use has grown, search engines have become increasingly likely to penalize those who breach online standards. \u2014 John Hall, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"The Omicron variant has prompted South Korea to accelerate efforts to vaccinate schoolchildren, and penalize those who don\u2019t comply, sparking debates over the safety of Covid-19 shots and education access. \u2014 Dasl Yoon, WSJ , 6 Dec. 2021",
"But a proposal to reward power companies that move from fossil fuels to clean energy and penalize those that do not was dropped following opposition from coal-state Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. \u2014 Matthew Daly, ajc , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Environmentalists and liberals pushed unsuccessfully in the bill for a plan known as the Clean Energy Performance Program, which would reward power companies that increased their share of renewables by 4% a year and penalize those that didn\u2019t. \u2014 Steven Mufson, Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Oct. 2021",
"The program, which had been a cornerstone of Biden's climate plan, aimed to reward utilities for switching to clean energy sources, such as wind and solar, and penalize those relying on coal and gas. \u2014 Fredreka Schouten, CNN , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Manchin has highlighted his opposition to the Clean Electricity Performance Program -- which would reward utilities that deploy more clean energy and penalize those that do not -- in its current form, The Washington Post previously reported. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Manchin has highlighted his opposition to the Clean Electricity Performance Program - which would reward utilities that deploy more clean energy and penalize those that do not - in its current form, The Washington Post previously reported. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 Oct. 2021",
"And in Missouri, several bills have been introduced this session that would restrict the rights of trans people, including one that would penalize doctors who provide gender-affirming care for minors. \u2014 Anne Branigin, Washington Post , 14 May 2022"
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"The company was penalized for not paying taxes.",
"The hockey player was penalized for holding.",
"This law would unfairly penalize immigrants.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As that use has grown, search engines have become increasingly likely to penalize those who breach online standards. \u2014 John Hall, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"The Omicron variant has prompted South Korea to accelerate efforts to vaccinate schoolchildren, and penalize those who don\u2019t comply, sparking debates over the safety of Covid-19 shots and education access. \u2014 Dasl Yoon, WSJ , 6 Dec. 2021",
"But a proposal to reward power companies that move from fossil fuels to clean energy and penalize those that do not was dropped following opposition from coal-state Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. \u2014 Matthew Daly, ajc , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Environmentalists and liberals pushed unsuccessfully in the bill for a plan known as the Clean Energy Performance Program, which would reward power companies that increased their share of renewables by 4% a year and penalize those that didn\u2019t. \u2014 Steven Mufson, Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Oct. 2021",
"The program, which had been a cornerstone of Biden's climate plan, aimed to reward utilities for switching to clean energy sources, such as wind and solar, and penalize those relying on coal and gas. \u2014 Fredreka Schouten, CNN , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Manchin has highlighted his opposition to the Clean Electricity Performance Program -- which would reward utilities that deploy more clean energy and penalize those that do not -- in its current form, The Washington Post previously reported. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 17 Oct. 2021",
"Manchin has highlighted his opposition to the Clean Electricity Performance Program - which would reward utilities that deploy more clean energy and penalize those that do not - in its current form, The Washington Post previously reported. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 Oct. 2021",
"And in Missouri, several bills have been introduced this session that would restrict the rights of trans people, including one that would penalize doctors who provide gender-affirming care for minors. \u2014 Anne Branigin, Washington Post , 14 May 2022"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Every hour spent moving through its uniquely themed planets feels like eating handfuls of penny candy without the ensuing stomach ache. \u2014 Reid Mccarter, Wired , 4 Sep. 2021",
"With a little of everything, this convenience store (and its penny candy selection) offers a taste of local culture. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Aug. 2021",
"And besides the books, Davoll\u2019s also now has a caf\u00e9 and pub, and a grocery section with local eggs, milk, and honey, penny candy , and other luxuries and staples. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 July 2021",
"The local hardware store is the closest thing modern America has to the general store, that linchpin of city and frontier, with its evocation of paper bags filled with penny candy and the communal checkerboard set up before a potbellied stove. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2021",
"For example, the General Store set was filled with finds from vintage and thrift shops, as well as homemade preserves from HomeGoods and penny candy from Amazon. \u2014 Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful , 18 Dec. 2020",
"Despite the fame differential, the three girls became fast friends, sharing not only a love of penny candy but also a rare blood type. \u2014 Jennifer Crittenden, The New Yorker , 11 Jan. 2020",
"After graduating in 1949 from City College, Mr. Smith established Len\u2019s Variety Store at the intersection of Aisquith and Orleans streets in East Baltimore, selling penny candy , snowballs and popcorn. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
"For the better part of three decades, from the 1960s to the 1990s, Sigma Chemical Co. enticed kids with penny candy money to collect fireflies in jars and ship them to the company. \u2014 Dan Radel, USA TODAY , 1 Aug. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thermally expandable microspheres, by contrast, are plastic bubbles, ten microns across, that are filled with a hydrocarbon such as butane, pentane or octane. \u2014 The Economist , 28 May 2020",
"Known in the industry as a fractionator, the plant will receive 110,000 barrels of raw natural gas liquids per day and separate them into their more valuable components such as ethane, propane, butane and pentane . \u2014 Sergio Chapa, Houston Chronicle , 12 Dec. 2019",
"The two types of foam also hold different types of gas: Open-cell bubbles are often filled with water vapor, while closed-cell foams are filled with a variety of other chemicals with better insulating properties, such as pentane . \u2014 Meredith Fore, WIRED , 3 July 2019",
"Area residents had worried a flammable liquid called pentane used to help turn turbines could explode or release dangerous gas, but the majority of it has been removed from the site and the wells are being capped. \u2014 Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY , 29 May 2018",
"The report said authorities removed about 60,000 gallons of flammable pentane from the facility. \u2014 Fox News , 22 May 2018",
"Officials removed roughly 50,000 gallons of pentane , a flammable gas similar to lighter fluid used in power generation at the plant, to an off-site industrial park. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 June 2018",
"Despite the removal of the pentane , danger remains if the lava reaches the wells. \u2014 Megan Geuss, Ars Technica , 27 May 2018",
"Meanwhile, the lava in the east rift zone is inching dangerously close to the Puna Geothermal Venture plant that houses 50,000 gallons (190,00 liters) of pentane , a volatile gas. \u2014 Fox News , 11 May 2018"
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"Purchase of pardons had traditionally allowed people to bypass the penitential rituals the Church required for remission of sins. \u2014 Maureen Quilligan, WSJ , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The choir \u2013 split into two groups to accommodate social distancing \u2013 offers four works that touch on penitential themes. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 Mar. 2022",
"But there\u2019s something penitential about her account, a purging of her regret and guilt about her co-workers (many of whom testify here) but also her stupidity, about business and men. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Today is Ash Wednesday, which for Christians marks the start of the 40-day penitential season of Lent. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of penitential prayers. \u2014 CNN , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Or could the dust be ash, akin to the penitential mark that some Christians wear on their brows on Ash Wednesday",
"March Madness is an essentially penitential affair, a series of physical and spiritual trials interrupted by familiar rhythms, not unlike the experience of a novice in a monastery. \u2014 Matthew Walther, WSJ , 1 Apr. 2021",
"There is no Kingdom of God without the penitential turn of the soul to the grace and goodness of God. \u2014 Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review , 6 Feb. 2020"
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"Yet pennyroyal contains pulegone, which gets metabolized in the body and forms toxins that can cause liver necrosis, says Josh Trebach, emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist in Iowa City. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 29 June 2022",
"Many women turned to herbal remedies such as pennyroyal , which were often effective in terminating pregnancy but could also be toxic. \u2014 Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 25 Dec. 2020",
"The findings, published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Entomology, revealed that the most popular plant species among the bees were Oregon checker-mallow and mountain pennyroyal flowers. \u2014 Kristen Rogers And David G. Allan, CNN , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Another of Portugal\u2019s cookbook mainstays, V\u00edtor Sobral has opened modestly priced, casual tascas in Lisbon and Brazil that hew closer to traditional flavors yet with lightness and flair, such as Azorean tuna with mango, peppers, and pennyroyal . \u2014 Anne Farrar, National Geographic , 18 June 2019",
"Anecdotal evidence shows that cats dislike the smell of lavender, pennyroyal , rue, lemon thyme and Coleus canina (also called scaredy cat plant). \u2014 Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com , 17 Apr. 2018",
"Among the essential oils that are toxic to pets are cinnamon, citrus, lemon, pennyroyal , peppermint, pine, sweet birch, tea tree, thyme, wintergreen and ylang ylang. \u2014 Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee , 17 Jan. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Other common apotropaic marks are pentangles , or five-pointed stars, the letters AM (for Ave Maria), the letter M (for Mary) and VV (for Virgin of Virgins). \u2014 Fox News , 31 Oct. 2019"
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": a genus (the type of the family Peneidae) of edible prawns with well-developed rostrum and exopodites on all but the last pair of legs":[]
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"New Latin, probably from Latin Peneus , river in northwestern Peloponnesus, Greece, from Greek P\u0113neios":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The line's new refillable lipsticks are a start: The cases retain the same pentagonal columnar shape as her very first launches, but this time in sturdy, reusable metal. \u2014 Jessica Chia, Allure , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Now, replace the Danner Tanicus outsole with a pentagonal -patterned, custom Vibram\u00ae outsole made to grip various terrain, both indoors and outdoors. \u2014 Breanna Wilson, Forbes , 13 Sep. 2021",
"The result is a cluster of pentagonal buildings with angles designed to deflect wind. \u2014 David Nikel, Forbes , 10 Apr. 2021",
"From its unique double headlights and gigantic pentagonal grille to its slippery bodywork and sloping roofline, the all-new 2021 Genesis G80 is a rolling beauty. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 19 Feb. 2021",
"For example, a soccer ball has 20 white hexagonal and 12 black pentagonal patches for a total of 32 faces, as well as 90 edges and 60 vertices. \u2014 quantamagazine.org , 26 Jan. 2021",
"Kites and darts form the basic units of another kind of Penrose tiling for which Conway proved many interesting theorems about their uncountability, pentagonal symmetry and their other connections to the golden ratio. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 Nov. 2020",
"Its pentagonal grille shape is familiar from elsewhere in the Acura lineup, and the MDX's proportions look sharper and more athletic compared with the current model. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 1 Oct. 2020",
"Therrien says the discovery came in a failed attempt to synthesize pentagraphene, a sheet of carbon atoms bound in pentagonal rings that has been predicted but never created. \u2014 W. Wayt Gibbs, Science | AAAS , 12 Nov. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His act often features other instruments, as well, including the pennywhistle or the violin. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Ms. Sankoff and Mr. Hein, who wrote the music as well as the book and lyrics, know that there\u2019s nothing like a steady Gaelic drumbeat and a lilting pennywhistle to turn a skeptical audience into Pavlov\u2019s slobbering dogs. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 12 Mar. 2017",
"But as Mr. de Blasio begins his campaign for re-election this year, his tone has become markedly more modest, and his trumpet more of a pennywhistle . \u2014 J. David Goodman And William Neuman, New York Times , 1 Mar. 2017"
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"1730, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": the bench at which salvation seekers kneel at a Salvation Army meeting":[]
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": a monosaccharide C 5 H 10 O 5 (such as ribose) that contains five carbon atoms in the molecule":[]
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"1890, in the meaning defined above":""
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": the act or process of penetrating : such as":[],
": the act of entering a country so that actual establishment of influence is accomplished":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for penetration discernment , discrimination , perception , penetration , insight , acumen mean a power to see what is not evident to the average mind. discernment stresses accuracy (as in reading character or motives or appreciating art). the discernment to know true friends discrimination stresses the power to distinguish and select what is true or appropriate or excellent. the discrimination that develops through listening to a lot of great music perception implies quick and often sympathetic discernment (as of shades of feeling). a novelist of keen perception into human motives penetration implies a searching mind that goes beyond what is obvious or superficial. lacks the penetration to see the scorn beneath their friendly smiles insight suggests depth of discernment coupled with understanding sympathy. a documentary providing insight into the plight of the homeless acumen implies characteristic penetration combined with keen practical judgment. a director of reliable box-office acumen",
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"Cuts in the skin could permit the penetration of bacteria into the body.",
"the penetration of the CIA by foreign agents",
"the penetration of the U.S. market by a foreign company",
"multiple penetrations into enemy territory",
"a writer who analyzes the underlying causes of the recession with great penetration",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mondel\u0113z expects the transaction to be top-line accretive in year two, and will help expand Clif Bar\u2019s sales distribution and gain further penetration in the U.S. market by leveraging its vast retail network. \u2014 Douglas Yu, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"That way, the thinner serum texture can absorb into skin without heavier products to block its penetration . \u2014 April Franzino, Good Housekeeping , 13 May 2022",
"His dribble penetration caused the Mavericks to close out and bite on his pump-fakes because of his early hot hand, which enabled his drives into the paint. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 5 May 2022",
"The Symantec security division of Broadcom said Thursday that the malware, which was digitally signed to allow deeper penetration in computers, was aimed at financial, defense, aviation and tech services industries. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2022",
"The premium may reflect lower online penetration in Poland\u2019s fast-growing retail market compared with Western Europe. \u2014 Lisa Pham, Bloomberg.com , 21 Dec. 2020",
"Another danger was the vulnerability of the sewage system to outside penetration . \u2014 Amanda Foreman, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Market penetration of electric vehicles won't be the same everywhere. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"Currently, the Russian penetration is itself very thin. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022"
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": a male erectile organ of copulation by which urine and semen are discharged from the body and that develops from the same embryonic mass of tissue as the clitoris":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, penis, tail; akin to Old High German faselt penis, Greek peos":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1578, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
": a thief that steals jewelry by substituting a fake for a valuable piece":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from obsolete English pennyweight jewelry (from English pennyweight , weight unit) + English -er":""
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": a member of a religious society of Flagellants in Spanish-American communities of the southwestern U.S. (as New Mexico) who practice self-whipping and other forms of penitential torture particularly during Holy Week":[]
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"noun"
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": the suffering or the sum to be forfeited to which a person agrees to be subjected in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations":[
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": a disadvantage (such as loss of yardage, time, or possession of the ball or an addition to or subtraction from the score) imposed on a team or competitor for violation of the rules of a sport":[
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": points scored in bridge by the side that defeats the opposing contract":[
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"They allowed him to pay back the money without a penalty .",
"They allowed him to pay back the money without penalty .",
"Lack of privacy is one of the penalties you pay for fame.",
"The hockey player was given a penalty for holding.",
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"In response to recent concerns over declining birthrates and an aging population, families may now have three children without penalty . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 July 2022",
"Gonzales\u2019 attorneys have made a separate request asking the board to commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty . \u2014 Fox News , 3 July 2022",
"Some airlines have been rolling out weather waivers that allow affected passengers to change their flights without penalty . \u2014 Josh Rivera, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Like other no-fine policies, National City\u2019s new practice doesn\u2019t mean materials can be checked out indefinitely without penalty . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 May 2022",
"The union has started a petition to tell Delta to continue allowing workers to wear alternative uniforms without penalty . \u2014 Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc , 2 May 2022",
"Under that policy, guests who contracted the virus were allowed to cancel and get a refund, and hosts could cancel reservations without a penalty . \u2014 Hannah Sampson, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Many hotels and vacation rental sites modified their refund rules as a result of the pandemic, allowing guests to cancel their stays without a penalty . \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Dealers love repeat customers who keep pushing play, and in the hunger for more used cars, dealers are more eager to offer their lessees an earlier exit without penalty . \u2014 Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver , 23 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English penalte , from Middle French penalit\u00e9 , from Medieval Latin poenalitas , from Latin poenalis":""
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The pentatonic melodies and syncopated rhythms found within are some of the African influences that made the symphony a novel hybrid for its time. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The first five notes in the cycle form the pentatonic scale, which is used in the music of many ancient cultures. \u2014 Eugenia Cheng, WSJ , 23 Dec. 2020",
"In the second, by contrast, Thibaudet turned inward, using the exotic colors of the pentatonic scale and intervals to craft a profound and haunting rumination. \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 6 Dec. 2019",
"Based on the traditional pentatonic scale, the work took on an otherworldly quality. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Aug. 2019",
"Some make references to traditional Chinese melodies, some to Chinese aesthetics or ideas \u2014 pentatonic scales, for example \u2014 and some to the kind of evocations of nature (mountains, flowers) that are widespread in Chinese culture. \u2014 Jacob Dreyer, New York Times , 12 Jan. 2018",
"The chime's five notes, which correspond to a piano's black keys, make up the minor pentatonic scale. \u2014 William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics , 9 Feb. 2015",
"Chimes, painted black to fade into the shadows, are tuned to ring the pentatonic scale, according to Atlas Obscura. \u2014 Cate Root, NOLA.com , 24 Aug. 2017",
"As their pentatonic melodies and Western harmonies recapitulate the cultural conflict, their lyrics achieve the pith and mystery of haiku. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 4 May 2017"
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"first_known_use":{
"1864, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223036"
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"\u02ccpen-t\u0259-\u02c8pep-\u02cct\u012bd",
"\u02ccpent-\u0259-\u02c8pep-\u02cct\u012bd"
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"first_known_use":{
"1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a bicycle with a large front wheel and a small rear wheel common from about 1870 to 1890":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232643"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232912"
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"\u2014 American Guide Series: Minnesota",
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"\u2014 Osbert Lancaster"
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"their keen eyes can penetrate the water to a depth of \u2026 forty feet",
"\u2014 L. K. Porritt"
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": to discover the inner contents or meaning of":[
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"\u2014 Vera M. Dean"
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": to affect profoundly with feeling":[
"men may still be penetrated with awe by the divine righteousness",
"\u2014 R. W. Dale"
],
": to diffuse through or into":[
"the cold began to penetrate his bones",
"\u2014 E. K. Gann"
],
": to pass, extend, pierce, or diffuse into or through something":[
"fishes \u2026 which enter tidal rivers and penetrate almost to fresh water",
"\u2014 J. L. B. Smith"
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"insight that penetrates to the very heart of some \u2026 problem",
"\u2014 W. F. Hambly"
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": to affect deeply the senses or feelings":[
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"\u2014 H. A. Overstreet"
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"\u02c8pen-\u0259-\u02cctr\u0101t",
"\u02c8pe-n\u0259-\u02cctr\u0101t"
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"access",
"enter",
"pierce"
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"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
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"examples":[
"These bullets can penetrate armor.",
"radiation penetrating the Earth's atmosphere",
"The bullet failed to penetrate .",
"The heat penetrated through the wall.",
"The roots of these plants have been known to penetrate to a depth of more than 15 feet.",
"My car's headlights couldn't penetrate the dense fog.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Rub wood stain over the area to penetrate raw wood, then quickly wipe clean. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 27 June 2022",
"If crypto continues to penetrate financial and banking markets, the loss of confidence from the inevitable crash\u2014of an instrument that often has no intrinsic value\u2014as well as its contagion impact could be devastating. \u2014 WSJ , 19 June 2022",
"Yet Martin points out that only a tiny percentage of people manage to penetrate the top level, with the majority unable to make a living wage. \u2014 Lizzie Cernik, refinery29.com , 16 June 2022",
"The lid will trap any escaping radiation and send it back to the ground while the sun's rays continue to penetrate through. \u2014 Judson Jones, CNN , 13 June 2022",
"Part of that optimism comes from the opportunity to penetrate markets that were previously less accessible for the brand. \u2014 Alicia Kelso, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"But these ambitious goals have yet to fully penetrate the rest of the federal government. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 3 June 2022",
"Once the road reached the river, loggers would use the waterway to penetrate the rain forest and fell mahogany, cedar and other trees. \u2014 Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Aloe, hemp, and shea butter are the building blocks of this hardy aftershave, providing 24-hour hydration and a protective barrier that the grime of life won\u2019t be able to penetrate . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 May 2022"
],
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"Latin penetratus , past participle of penetrare , from penitus deep within, far; akin to Latin penus provisions":""
},
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"circa 1530, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233048"
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"noun"
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"first_known_use":{
"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233459"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235455"
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"noun"
],
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": a ketose C 5 H 10 O 5 (as ribulose or xylulose) containing five carbon atoms in the molecule":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011417"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an area alongside an ice hockey rink to which penalized players are confined for the duration of their penalty":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Stamkos, coming out of the penalty box , raced toward the net, took a pass from Kucherov and shot the puck. \u2014 Ken Belson, New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"In the deciding Game 6 against the Rangers, Stamkos: beat all-world goalie Igor Shesterkin from distance, sat in the penalty box and watched the Rangers tie the game with a power-play goal, came out of the box and scored the game-winner. \u2014 Michael Arace, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
"Stamkos put the Lightning ahead for good in the third period just 21 seconds after the Rangers\u2019 Frank Vatrano scored on a power play with the Lightning captain in the penalty box for holding. \u2014 Fred Goodall, Chicago Tribune , 11 June 2022",
"That\u2019s when OL Reign (2-1-3) created a free kick via Wave striker Alex Morgan taking a player down wide of the penalty box . \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 May 2022",
"Teammate Leo Backman dribbled down the left side, beating several Collinsville defenders, and found Ferguson open in near the top of the penalty box . \u2014 al , 13 May 2022",
"McNamara's curler from the top of the penalty box in front of Cincinnati's Bailey supporters section was the final tally of the contest. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 22 May 2022",
"Albers was one of the players sent to the penalty box but emerged from it to end the scoring drought with an unassisted goal with 38 seconds left in the period. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 7 May 2022",
"Trevor Carrick was sent to the penalty box for tripping. \u2014 Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Apr. 2022"
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"1914, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": a stroke in golf added to the score of a side under certain rules (as when a ball has been lost or hit out of bounds or is deemed unplayable)":[]
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"noun"
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": a person who receives or lives on a pension":[],
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": retainer":[],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Vitaly Kolesnichenko, a pensioner awaiting transport this week, sat on a bench with a sports bag filled with his clothes. \u2014 Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"The volunteers listened patiently to the pensioner and stuffed a frozen chicken into her shopping bag. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"Natalia Dema, a pensioner in her 60s wearing a light-blue jacket and work boots, joined her. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Since then, Tania Nikolayevna, a pensioner in her sixties, has reckoned with that loss. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times , 5 Mar. 2022",
"The pension portion of the debt will not be restructured which means every pensioner is supposed to received what they were promised. \u2014 Cristina Corujo, ABC News , 6 Feb. 2022",
"The reductions would go up while eligibility ages decrease between 2022 and 2025, at which time every pensioner would be eligible. \u2014 Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Alphabet, shy at first, soon came into his own as a lazy pensioner . \u2014 Susan Orlean, The New Yorker , 8 Feb. 2022",
"In nearby Poland, Barbara Grotowska, a pensioner , said outside a discount supermarket in the capital of Warsaw that she\u2019s been hit hardest by her garbage collection fee nearly tripling to 88 zlotys ($21). \u2014 The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Nov. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022248"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
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": the U.S. military leadership":[]
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"Noun (1)",
"The general attended a meeting at the Pentagon .",
"There was disagreement between the President and the Pentagon over the new military budget.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One of my favorites is an untitled work that features a plushy five-point star in shades of light brown enclosed in a red pentagon that fades to pink. \u2014 Roberta Smith, New York Times , 2 Apr. 2020",
"If this pentagon were any bigger, five-star generals would show up for work at it. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 30 Mar. 2020",
"The effect is a messy storyline that feels engineered to keep season 15\u2019s stale-back-then love pentagon going. \u2014 Ariana Romero, refinery29.com , 31 Jan. 2020",
"The pentagon is turning to crowdsourcing to come with some ideas. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 9 Feb. 2020",
"Preceding Orion are the bright autumn constellations Taurus the Bull, with the wonderful Pleiades star cluster, and Auriga, the constellation that looks like a lopsided pentagon with the bright star Capella. \u2014 Mike Lynch, Twin Cities , 1 Dec. 2019",
"At the crime scene Sunday night, yellow police tape formed a pentagon around the intersection of North Kimball and North Allen avenues. \u2014 Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com , 23 Sep. 2019",
"The images that the lines create in a mandala become symbols that can include the pentagon , meaning perfection and dots that represent everything is one. \u2014 Lyndi Mcnulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 20 Nov. 2019",
"His 6-foot-5 frame towers over the 17-inch rubber pentagon at his white-cleated feet. \u2014 Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News , 19 Sep. 2019"
],
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"Greek pentag\u014dnon , from neuter of pentag\u014dnos pentagonal, from penta- + g\u014dnia angle \u2014 more at -gon":"Noun",
"the Pentagon building, headquarters of the Department of Defense":"Noun"
},
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"1945, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022559"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the supposed coveting of the penis by a young human female which is held in Freudian psychoanalytic theory to lead to feelings of inferiority and defensive or compensatory behavior":[]
},
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"-\u02ccen-v\u0113"
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"first_known_use":{
"1924, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024340"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ferguson wore all black and was covered in piercings and tattoos, including an ornate pentagram on his head. \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
"Were symbols of evil (the pentagram instead of the swastika this time) once again inciting legions of the discontented to overthrow an existing order? \u2014 Bob Larsen, SPIN , 12 Feb. 2022",
"After a long court battle, the pentagram \u2013 a five-pointed star associated with Wicca \u2013 became an accepted symbol for military gravestones in 2007. \u2014 Helen A. Berger, The Conversation , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Videos posted to social media by Rise of the Moors showed members dressed in paramilitary gear and displaying military-style weapons and a Moroccan flag, which features a green pentagram on a field of crimson red. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 July 2021",
"Downstairs, below the dinner table, June the catering manager slash witch stood in the middle of a pentagram drawn in blood. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 6 July 2021",
"The sneakers, priced at $1,018 and decorated with a bronze pentagram pendant and a drop of human blood, quickly drew outrage online. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 Apr. 2021",
"Interviews with key record producers, label execs, band managers, costume designers, inner-circle pals, video-directors and photographers complete the pentagram . \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 7 Apr. 2021",
"The sneakers are based on Nike\u2019s Air Max 97, though with some distinct departures from the original \u2014 including a pentagram pendant and a drop of human blood in every sole. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2021"
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"Greek pentagrammon , from penta- + -grammon (akin to gramma letter) \u2014 more at gram":""
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"1825, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045050"
},
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"noun",
"verb"
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": a sacramental rite that is practiced in Roman, Eastern, and some Anglican churches and that consists of private confession, absolution , and a penance directed by the confessor (see confessor sense 3a )":[],
": something (such as a hardship or penalty) resembling an act of penance (as in compensating for an offense)":[
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"\u2014 Judith Thurman"
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"\u02c8pe-n\u0259ns"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"He did charitable work as a penance .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As climate collapse looms, bicycles have taken on a saintly quality, extolled as squeaky-clean instruments of penance for wealthy countries\u2019 carbon emissions. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Beery, The Atlantic , 31 May 2022",
"There was a time when public sinners were required to do such penance , only to be readmitted to the community at Easter. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Kaepernick has done his penance --and gotten paid for it. \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 28 Apr. 2022",
"As Lent 2022 commences, Christians worldwide mark the season with traditions that include self-sacrifice, penance , fasting and almsgiving \u2014 but with a new sense of hope after two dark pandemic years. \u2014 Cathi Douglas Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Lent is a 40-day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter where observers engage in penance , prayer and fasting. \u2014 Southern Kitchen, USA TODAY , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Or its confusing flexibility \u2014 anyone breastfeeding, elderly, ill, menstruating, pregnant or traveling need not fast (often redeemed in a penance called fidyah). \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"On Wednesday, the Human Rights Campaign rejected a $5 million donation offered as penance for Chapek's hesitation to intervene. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Since reunification, Germany has shrunk from geopolitical confrontation and sought a careful relationship with Moscow based on post-World War II penance and energy security through Russian gas. \u2014 Anthony Faiola, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That\u2019s where dynasty can be its most troubling: the inevitable comparisons to the forefathers and often penance for their political crimes. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 11 Aug. 2021"
],
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},
"first_known_use":{
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"1580, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-054450"
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"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
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": to form into a peninsula":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-055934"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Penistone , town in Yorkshire, England, where it was first made":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-062415"
},
"pentylenetetrazol":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a white, crystalline drug C 6 H 10 N 4 formerly used as a respiratory, circulatory, and central nervous system stimulant":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpent-i-\u02ccl\u0113n-\u02c8te-tr\u0259-\u02ccz\u022fl, -\u02ccz\u014dl",
"-\u02ccz\u014dl",
"\u02ccpen-t\u0259-\u02ccl\u0113n-\u02c8te-tr\u0259-\u02ccz\u022fl"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"pent a- + meth ylene + tetrazol e (CH 2 N 4 )":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-064204"
},
"pentosan":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of various polysaccharides that yield only pentoses on hydrolysis and occur widely in plants":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pent-\u0259-\u02ccsan",
"\u02c8pen-t\u0259-\u02ccsan"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"first_known_use":{
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"Balboa always seemed a fairyland \u2014 and the penny arcade was the icing on the cake. \u2014 Justin Ray Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Pick up colorful wine-stoppers and llama-shaped tea infusers at The Ten Spot, where everything costs $10 or less, or play skeeball at Arcade Amusements, a penny arcade with an old school prize counter. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 7 June 2021",
"Patti LuPone\u2019s basement looks like a cross between a penny arcade , a TGI Fridays, and an after-hours piano bar. \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Yorker , 17 Apr. 2020",
"At its best, Legend City was a family-friendly oasis filled with fun western rides, talented performers and nostalgic penny arcades . \u2014 Taylor Seely, azcentral , 29 July 2019",
"Argonaut Hotel Location, location, location: Families love the Argonaut for its proximity to attractions like the Maritime National Historic Park, Ghirardelli Square, Pier 39, and the Mus\u00e9e M\u00e9chanique, a penny arcade . \u2014 Elise Craig, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 28 Feb. 2018",
"Audiences were intrigued, so Edison began producing the machines in quantity and selling them to penny arcades around the country. \u2014 Longreads , 15 May 2018",
"Musee Mecanique Historical mechanical musical instruments and penny arcade machines. \u2014 Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle , 19 Apr. 2018",
"Musee Mecanique Historical mechanical musical instruments and penny arcade machines. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Dec. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"This small laundry room designed by Gail Davis is bursting with personality, from the colorful wallpaper, to the framed artwork, blue trim, and striped penny tile floors. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 22 June 2022",
"Every penny not spent on technology can be spent on the mission critical work that delivers support, art, education, healthcare, access and more to our nation. \u2014 Paige Francis, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Forecasters said wind gusts of 70 mph and penny -size hail are possible in some areas, adding that residents should expect damage to trees and power lines. \u2014 Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer , 14 June 2022",
"Energy experts estimate that every penny increase in the price of gasoline costs Americans an extra $4 million a day. \u2014 Clifford Kraus And Marie Solis, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"Energy experts estimate that every penny increase in the price of gasoline costs Americans an extra $4 million a day. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"None of this year\u2019s new helmets packs as much punch per penny as the 4Forty Air. \u2014 Ryan Labar, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Storms, which could include winds up to 60 mph and penny -sized hail, are possible in Baltimore, Columbia, Glen Burnie, Rockville, Bowie and Aspen Hill. \u2014 Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun , 22 May 2022",
"Likewise, Nicot coaxes equally naturalistic, penny -bright turns from the rest of the young cast, especially Charlie Drach as Lucile, Dalva\u2019s classroom nemesis, and adorable Roman Coustere Hachez as tiny urchin Dimi at the group home. \u2014 Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022"
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"Statement-making slingbacks will be a hero in your wardrobe, from Prada\u2019s metallic creations to Miu Miu\u2019s penny loafer style. \u2014 Vogue , 12 May 2022",
"Next up: a buffalo penny loafer lined in lambskin and inspired by 1970s Italian men\u2019s shoes, debuting this month. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Nov. 2021",
"An office-friendly leather penny loafer that won't give you blisters? \u2014 Claire Harmeyer, Health.com , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Much like the penny loafer or Chelsea boot, consider the ballet flat a pair-with-everything silhouette. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 21 Oct. 2021",
"Digital forums known for fervently reporting on the latest Nike releases have turned their attention to a shoe that is, by most definitions, the antithesis of cool: the penny loafer . \u2014 Kareem Rashed, Robb Report , 2 Oct. 2021",
"Attendees are encouraged to wear poodle skirts, saddle shoes, penny loafers and leather jackets and dance the afternoon away. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Sep. 2019",
"The songstress chose a Supriya Lele sleeveless mesh dress, Chloe penny loafer boots, and Acne Studio\u2019s oversized hoops to style-out in at her event. \u2014 Nandi Howard, Essence , 23 Aug. 2019",
"His staple summer shoes are Swims penny loafers made of mesh and rubber. \u2014 Shayne Benowitz, miamiherald , 4 June 2019"
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"And a lot has been made comparing Cuomo\u2019s response to that of Governor Ralph Northam, of Virginia, but the allegations made against Northam were kind of penny ante compared to those that have now been made against the Governor. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
"And the abuelas did not like to lose their penny ante poker games, said Surfside native Michelle Kuper, whose grandmother and aunt lived in Champlain East. \u2014 Author: Linda Robertson, Anchorage Daily News , 4 July 2021"
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"The plan also sends $2.65 billion toward paying down public pension debt, a key priority for House Appropriations Committee Chairman Thomas Albert, R-Lowell. \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 1 July 2022",
"Connecticut also is poised to make an unprecedented $3.6 billion supplemental payment against its long-term pension debt. \u2014 Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant , 29 June 2022",
"The steep price tag San Diego must pay to unwind all the damage caused by 2012\u2019s Proposition B pension cuts continues to grow nearly four years after the cuts were legally nullified by the state Supreme Court. \u2014 David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"Today, the immediate redirection of 1%-5% of your savings and pension fund toward private investment into equality and climate change mitigation would unequivocally be a game changer. \u2014 Nelson Dumas, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Petro has proposed pension , tax, health and agricultural reforms and changes to how Colombia fights drug cartels and other armed groups. \u2014 Elvia Lim\u00f3n, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"Chief financial officers are typically tasked in corporate breakups with dividing up cash, debt and other obligations such as pension liabilities. \u2014 Kristin Broughton, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"In London, workers in the Underground system went on strike in a separate pension dispute, bringing much of the capital to a halt. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
"Last October, Celsius reached what seemed like a legitimizing pinnacle \u2014 a $400 million investment round led by the private-equity firm WestCap and the Canadian public- pension giant CDPQ. \u2014 Rachel Lerman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
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"The plans kick in on Nov. 1 and apply to eligible state and local law enforcement, firefighters, emergency response personnel, pensioned retirees, as well as parents, children, or spouses of first responders killed in the line of duty. \u2014 Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY , 28 Oct. 2019",
"Nor can pension reform ever solve the deep inequality that lies behind the anger. \u2014 The Economist , 8 June 2019",
"The Imperial Beach City Council recently approved a new two-year contract with firefighters that includes 5 percent pay raises, as well as adjustments to time off and pension contributions. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 Aug. 2019",
"So could pension funds, which need returns of 7-8% to keep their promises to future pensioners, and have around 10% of their money stored in such investments, less than sovereign-wealth funds (15%) or endowments (25%). \u2014 The Economist , 29 June 2019",
"Probably to help the dangerous situation in the northwest, a local aristocrat, Sir William Brereton managed to have the Abbot\u2019s death sentence cancelled and he and his canons were pensioned off with the closure of Norton Abbey. \u2014 James Rogers, Fox News , 2 May 2018",
"The elderly could be pensioned off, the young dispatched to college and those who had jobs sent back to work. \u2014 The Economist , 28 Mar. 2018"
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"Celina scored its only goal on a penalty kick , and LeMaster turned away two one-on-one chances in the first 25 minutes. \u2014 San Antonio Express-News , 20 June 2022",
"Thorns midfielder Rocky Rodriguez committed a foul on a sliding tackle in the box, leading to a goal in the 29th minute on the penalty kick by ACFC forward Christen Press. \u2014 oregonlive , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Seconds later Nadia Nadim tied the score for Louisville on a penalty kick . \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
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"Playing against Atlanta for the first time after five season with the club, FC Cincinnati goalkeeper Alec Kann saved a Marcelino Moreno penalty kick in the 60th minute to preserves the scoreless tie. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 16 Apr. 2022",
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"Writing under the pen name Selena Montgomery, this suspense novel centers around an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization who must infiltrate a terrorist group that has stolen lethal environmental technology. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 29 May 2022",
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"Signed more than 3 million times, it was created by author Jeanne Larson, who writes under the pen name Jeannie Depp and who did not respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"An award-winning writer, Wang Fang, who went by the pen name Fang Fang, posted a detailed diary of her daily life under lockdown, which was read widely in China and around the world. \u2014 Joel Simon, The New Yorker , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Maude Newton, the ancestor after whom Maud (n\u00e9e Rebecca) chose her pen name , was described to her by her mother and grandmother as an idiosyncratic and irascible iconoclast, a woman who chose to live an independent life in Texas. \u2014 Colin Dickey, The New Republic , 21 Mar. 2022",
"The only significant reporting the Chinese public got was a first-person blog post written by a former investigative journalist known by her pen name , Jiang Xue. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Mar. 2022"
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"Last year, Parma gave its firefighters a $3,500 one-time pensionable payment using ARPA funds. \u2014 Lucas Daprile, cleveland , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The general idea is that participants would be offered a choice of two options, both of which would be benefit cuts compared to the present benefit formulas; either pensionable salary would be frozen or COLA benefit provisions would be reduced. \u2014 Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes , 11 May 2021",
"In the longer run, there are also costs related to the fact that a smaller population of working age will have to contribute more to support the ranks of those of pensionable age. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2020",
"There\u2019s growing opposition to the government\u2019s proposals, which will see 42 different retirement systems linked to certain jobs, replaced by new arrangements that will mean those becoming of pensionable age operate under the same rules. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Sep. 2019",
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": a small genus of southern African hoary shrubs (family Compositae) having small wedge-shaped leaves, yellow flowers in small heads, and achenes crowned with a cleft and cuplike pappus":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In a move that could create troublesome waves later in time, Claire decides to beat Alexander Fleming by a few centuries and invent penicillin . \u2014 Sharareh Drury, Variety , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In contrast, antibiotics can treat a whole type of bacteria, such as all Strep pneumoniae, unless the bacteria have developed resistance to penicillin , for example. \u2014 Judy Stone, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
"By the early 1940s, penicillin became widely available and was found to be a reliable cure, but the treatment was withheld from the study participants. \u2014 Talia Herman, ProPublica , 1 Nov. 2021",
"So hedgehogs with this particular skin fungus would naturally be exposed to penicillin . \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 8 June 2022",
"The family matriarch had been advised not to get a COVID-19 vaccine because of an allergy to penicillin and other health issues. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2021",
"Perhaps more importantly, penicillin and other antibiotics were discovered and found to be easier to administer. \u2014 Judy Stone, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
"World War II brought radar, penicillin , nuclear power, synthetic rubber, Jeeps and even duct tape. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Historian David Oshinsky, who directs the division of medical humanities at NYU Langone Health, said that the sudden acceptance of mRNA reminded him of the trajectory of penicillin . \u2014 Felicia Schwartz, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022"
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"The pentavalent vaccine -- which protects against five diseases (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B) -- is a great example. \u2014 Bill Gates, CNN , 13 Oct. 2021"
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"Use a pencil instead of a pen so you can erase your mistakes.",
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"He penciled some notes on a piece of paper.",
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"Place your index finger between your brows and draw a line on either side of it with an eyeliner pencil . \u2014 Paige Stables, Allure , 30 June 2022",
"Still, Bitner taught many of her students how to hold a pencil . \u2014 Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"The secret is this Maybelline pencil is designed to mimic smooth, precise, hair-like strokes. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 29 June 2022",
"Reed and Saunders have a deep appreciation for the detailed pencil markings and Ben-Day dots present on physical copies of the older comics. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"Even the method of holding a spoon is a tell, Beran said: Fine-dining chefs will often poise spoons as if holding a pencil or pen \u2014 not bear-pawing it \u2014 which gives more control while saucing. \u2014 Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"She was born near Siberia, moving to Slovyansk as a young woman and working in a pencil factory. \u2014 Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post , 18 June 2022",
"For now, pencil in Aug. 19 as the opener for Chris Henry Jr. as Mahon leads West Clermont against his old team, the Hamilton Big Blue. \u2014 Scott Springer, The Enquirer , 16 June 2022",
"Plus, its handy small exterior pocket fits a golf pencil , key or credit card. \u2014 Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping , 15 June 2022",
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"To recreate her look, pencil on super-thin eyebrows and put on deep purple lipstick. \u2014 Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping , 30 June 2022",
"For many companies, the cost of running rigorous studies doesn\u2019t pencil out in an increasingly competitive market. \u2014 Casey Ross, STAT , 8 June 2022",
"Nobody would blame Willis for wanting to pencil Reyes into his lineup as soon as possible. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
"But Friday\u2019s data prompted a number of economists to pencil in another big rate increase in September. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"One experience revolves around how to construct apartment buildings that pencil out financially. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Apr. 2022",
"State and federal money along with proceeds from the sale of property owned by the city\u2019s former redevelopment agency would help developers build projects that otherwise wouldn\u2019t pencil out. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Mar. 2022",
"By this measure, sprinkler rebates now pencil out at 2 cents per kilowatt-hour of energy saved, with water-efficient toilet rebates coming in at 4 cents. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Mar. 2021",
"Rodriguez, Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal and Matt Manning are easy to pencil in as the top four. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 11 Mar. 2022"
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"Middle English pensel , from Anglo-French pincel , from Vulgar Latin *penicellus , alteration of Latin penicillus , diminutive of peniculus brush, from diminutive of penis tail, penis":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-104929"
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"Next, a trough of low pressure has created an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms from southeastern Louisiana across the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and the southern part of the Florida peninsula . \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
"There has already been one tropical storm, Alex, which formed on June 5 after crossing over the Florida peninsula as a potential tropical cyclone. \u2014 Leigh Morgan, al , 14 June 2022",
"Tropical storm warnings were issued Friday for much of the Florida peninsula , Cuba and the Bahamas as a system that battered Mexico moves through the Gulf of Mexico, bringing threats of heavy rain and wind for the weekend. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
"The Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, the Florida peninsula and the Florida Keys are all advised to monitor the progress of Elsa. \u2014 Brittany Borer, ABC News , 3 July 2021",
"The system drenched South Florida before moving across the peninsula and finally becoming Tropical Storm Alex on June 5. \u2014 Roger Simmons, Orlando Sentinel , 12 June 2022",
"North of Puerto Vallarta, Punta Mita is the striking peninsula that marks the northern border of the Bay of Banderas. \u2014 Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Dinosaurs went extinct roughly 66 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous Period, after an asteroid around 7 miles wide hit what is now the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula off the Mexican coast. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Coromandel is a scenic peninsula that can be reached by ferry from Auckland or by car within a couple of hours. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 17 Aug. 2021"
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"Greek pent\u0113konteros , from pent\u0113konta fifty":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-123507"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The six-month journal features a sturdy leather cover and comes equipped with an elastic penholder , a closure band, bookmarks, a pocket for notes, and organizational stickers. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Health.com , 7 Jan. 2022",
"What better way to keep organized than with a device the combines a desk fan, a small desk light, a penholder , and a smartphone stand? \u2014 Popular Science , 29 June 2020",
"The president was fresh off another British gift gaffe with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after Brown gave him a penholder carved from the wood of an anti-slave ship, and in return, Obama gave him DVD box sets. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 22 Sep. 2017"
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"type":[
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": a genus of tongue worms that are chiefly parasitic in carnivorous mammals":[]
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"The general attended a meeting at the Pentagon .",
"There was disagreement between the President and the Pentagon over the new military budget.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"One of my favorites is an untitled work that features a plushy five-point star in shades of light brown enclosed in a red pentagon that fades to pink. \u2014 Roberta Smith, New York Times , 2 Apr. 2020",
"If this pentagon were any bigger, five-star generals would show up for work at it. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 30 Mar. 2020",
"The effect is a messy storyline that feels engineered to keep season 15\u2019s stale-back-then love pentagon going. \u2014 Ariana Romero, refinery29.com , 31 Jan. 2020",
"The pentagon is turning to crowdsourcing to come with some ideas. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 9 Feb. 2020",
"Preceding Orion are the bright autumn constellations Taurus the Bull, with the wonderful Pleiades star cluster, and Auriga, the constellation that looks like a lopsided pentagon with the bright star Capella. \u2014 Mike Lynch, Twin Cities , 1 Dec. 2019",
"At the crime scene Sunday night, yellow police tape formed a pentagon around the intersection of North Kimball and North Allen avenues. \u2014 Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com , 23 Sep. 2019",
"The images that the lines create in a mandala become symbols that can include the pentagon , meaning perfection and dots that represent everything is one. \u2014 Lyndi Mcnulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 20 Nov. 2019",
"His 6-foot-5 frame towers over the 17-inch rubber pentagon at his white-cleated feet. \u2014 Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News , 19 Sep. 2019"
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": a synthetic analgesic drug C 19 H 27 NO that is less addictive than morphine":[]
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a liturgical book in the Eastern Church containing offices for the period from Easter Sunday to the first Sunday after Pentecost":[]
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"-k\u00e4\u02cc-"
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"Late Greek pent\u0113kostarion , from pent\u0113kost\u0113 Pentecost":""
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"noun"
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": a vacuum tube with five electrodes including a cathode, an anode, a control grid, and two additional grids or other electrodes":[]
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"International Scientific Vocabulary penta- + -ode":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The upbeat data have helped the Federal Reserve justify raising short-term interest rates three times this year and penciling in another quarter-percentage point increase by the end of the year. \u2014 Akane Otani, WSJ , 3 Oct. 2018",
"Learn about every aspect of production, including writing, penciling , inking, coloring, lettering, editing, and more, with creators on hand to offer personal insights and anecdotes. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com , 6 July 2018"
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"Malay p\u0115nghulu , from hulu head, top":""
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": the Roman gods of the household worshipped in close connection with Vesta and with the Lares":[]
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"Latin, from penus food, provisions":""
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"pent entry 1":""
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": an ammine containing five molecules of ammonia":[]
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"\u02c8pent\u0259\u02ccm\u0113n",
"-m\u0259\u0307n",
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"noun"
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": a sharp-focus radar beam nearly round in its axis used to pick up an intruder located by a search radar beam and give it better definition on the radar screen":[]
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"prefix"
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": almost":[
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"pen acute"
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"Latin paene-, pene- , from paene, pene almost":""
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"adjective"
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": of, being, or resembling a penna":[]
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"New Latin pennaceus , from Latin penna + -aceus -aceous":""
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"noun"
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"adjective"
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": having five grids":[
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"\u02c8pent\u0259\u02ccgrid"
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": to cancel (a stamp) by hand with a pen":[]
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"back-formation from pen cancellation":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-175210"
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},
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"Middle English, from Old English pentecosten , from Late Latin pentecoste , from Greek pent\u0113kost\u0113 , literally, fiftieth day, from pent\u0113kostos fiftieth, from pent\u0113konta fifty, from penta- + -konta (akin to Latin vi ginti twenty) \u2014 more at vigesimal":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-175512"
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"noun"
],
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": a small pennon used in late medieval or Renaissance times":[]
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"Middle English penoncell , from Anglo-French penuncel , diminutive of penun":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-180818"
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"\u00a6p\u0113n\u0113+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-181608"
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"noun"
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": gaff entry 5":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-182215"
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"noun"
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": jeffrey pine":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-182234"
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"peng\u00f6":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the basic monetary unit of Hungary from 1925 to 1946":[]
},
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"-\u02ccfg\u0259",
"-\u02ccg\u0153",
"\u02c8pe\u014b-\u02ccg\u0259r"
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"Hungarian peng\u0151 , literally, jingling":""
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"1925, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-100254"
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"noun"
],
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": any of a genus ( Penicillium ) of fungi (such as a blue mold) that are found chiefly on moist nonliving organic matter (such as decaying fruit) and have been grouped with the imperfect fungi but are now often placed with the ascomycetes":[]
},
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"\u02ccpe-n\u0259-\u02c8si-l\u0113-\u0259m",
"\u02ccpen-\u0259-\u02c8sil-\u0113-\u0259m"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This gives the penicillium enough air to extend its gorgeous greenish veins throughout the cheese. \u2014 Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine , 20 Nov. 2021",
"Although underappreciated at first, Fleming\u2019s discovery proved monumental in the field of immunology\u2014and primed the scientist to recognize the potential of the penicillium mold that dropped into his lab dish in 1928. \u2014 Claudia Kalb, Scientific American , 27 Apr. 2021",
"Blue cheese, which has been ripened with cultures of the mold penicillium , includes varieties such as Stilton and Gorgonzola. \u2014 Jenna Birch, Washington Post , 2 Sep. 2019"
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"New Latin, from Latin penicillus":""
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"1867, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-182338"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a fisherman's pot for keeping crabs or lobsters":[]
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"pen entry 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-182352"
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"noun"
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": bead and reel":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-182919"
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"noun"
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": any of various erect short-legged flightless aquatic birds (family Spheniscidae) of the southern hemisphere":[]
},
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"\u02c8pen-gw\u0259n",
"\u02c8pe\u014b-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Order a traditional shaker, a fancy shaker or a retro rocket or penguin . \u2014 cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"The Milwaukee County Zoo has closed its aviary and penguin exhibits for the time being in an effort to protect the birds from avian flu. \u2014 Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The terrified penguin tried to escape as the game continued. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The terrified penguin tried to escape as the game continued. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 11 Mar. 2022",
"After a 104-year wait, Bertha Komor has met a penguin up close. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 3 June 2022",
"Mumbai\u2019s mayor mocked the penguin -viewing facility of Ahmedabad. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The newest chick is the 35th Humbolt penguin the zoo has hatched since 1996, says Kotheimer. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The wayward penguin eventually returned to sea with a one-inch microchip tucked under the skin of his right thigh and a three-inch satellite transmitter glued to his lower back, both of which stopped sending signals after five days. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"obsolete English penguin great auk, perhaps from Welsh pen gwyn white head (applied to the bird in winter plumage)":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-183535"
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"noun"
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"penta- + decyl":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-183651"
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": an open usually planked or boarded trough or tank from which water falls onto a waterwheel":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"pen entry 1 + trough":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-183837"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": furnished with a tuft of fine filaments":[
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},
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"\u02ccpe-n\u0259-\u02c8si-l\u0259t",
"-\u02cc\u0101t",
"-\u02ccl\u0101t",
"\u02ccpen-\u0259-\u02c8sil-\u0259t"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin penicillus brush \u2014 more at pencil":""
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"1819, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-184633"
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"noun"
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"pen entry 3 + gun ; from its being originally made from quills":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-184748"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"pentastome International Scientific Vocabulary, from New Latin Pentastomum; pentastomid International Scientific Vocabulary, from New Latin Pentastomidae , family of tongue worms, from Pentastomum + -idae; pentastomoid from New Latin Pentastomum + English -oid":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-184942"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": fudge made usually of brown sugar, butter, cream or milk, and nuts":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Their nine flavors include chocolate, chocolate walnut, mint chocolate swirl, sea salt caramel, vanilla, peanut butter and chocolate, penuche plain, penuche nut, rocky road and chocolate coconut. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022",
"Along with some of the more typical flavors including milk chocolate and peanut butter, the Nutmeg has butterbeer, cheesecake, buckeye, penuche , tiger butter and milk walnut. \u2014 Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022"
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"Mexican Spanish panocha raw sugar, from Spanish, ear of maize, ultimately from Latin panicula panicle \u2014 more at panicle":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Adjusting the pressure level makes a big difference for both the pen point as well as the eraser. \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 24 Nov. 2021"
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": a large and widely distributed family of terrestrial bugs (order Hemiptera) usually flattened and angular in form and often brilliantly colored that live mainly on the juices of plants and fruits though some are important predators of caterpillars and other insect pests \u2014 compare harlequin bug":[]
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"New Latin, from Pentatoma , type genus (from penta- + -toma ) + -idae":""
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"definitions":{
": an explosive C 8 H 6 (NO 2 ) 4 ONO 2 that is derived from nitramide, picric acid, and ethyl nitrate and that is somewhat more sensitive to friction than tetryl and much more sensitive than picric acid or trinitrotoluene":[]
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"definitions":{
": a granular barbiturate C 11 H 18 N 2 O 3 used especially in the form of its sodium or calcium salt as a sedative, hypnotic, and antispasmodic":[]
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"He was scheduled to die by injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson at 7 p.m. Tuesday. \u2014 CBS News , 17 May 2022",
"In the days before Dixon's death, the method of lethal injection was questioned by his lawyers, who said that a batch of the sedative sodium pentobarbital mixed in February had expired and that its use would violate Arizona's execution rules. \u2014 Erik Ortiz, NBC News , 11 May 2022",
"While assisted suicides in Switzerland are conducted with the ingestion of liquid sodium pentobarbital , Exit International is planning to offer an another option. \u2014 Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY , 8 Dec. 2021",
"The procedure involves the ingestion of liquid sodium pentobarbital . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 7 Dec. 2021",
"In September, after 14 great years that quickly went bad, Biff took a shot of pentobarbital in a lame leg and passed away. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Ernest Johnson died from an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Johnson was scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. and died shortly after from an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre. \u2014 Kyle Morris, Fox News , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Texas, Georgia and the U.S. government have recently used pentobarbital in executions. \u2014 Scott Sonner, ajc , 29 June 2021"
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"definitions":{
": an amino acid C 5 H 11 NO 2 S that is obtained from penicillins and is used especially in the treatment of cystinuria, rheumatoid arthritis, and poisoning by metals (such as copper or lead)":[]
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"\u02ccpe-n\u0259-\u02c8si-l\u0259-\u02ccm\u0113n",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Drugs that interact with zinc include certain antibiotics, penicillamine used for Wilson's disease and rheumatoid arthritis and the cancer treatment cisplatin. \u2014 Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com , 23 Feb. 2021"
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"After about another five or 10 years, the pendulum will shift back to cutting costs. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"But keep your eyes wide open, because a pendulum that swings one way will eventually swing the other. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"The last few days have been quite the emotional pendulum for Horford. \u2014 Tim Reynolds, ajc , 30 May 2022",
"The popularity pendulum swung further toward NASCAR at a time the love of the automobile was on the wane and myriad options were spreading entertainment dollars thinner. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"The spending pendulum can swing based on gas prices, inflation periods, recessions, labor costs and supply issues. \u2014 cleveland , 16 May 2022",
"Music was a pendulum swinging between two worlds for her. \u2014 Niko Stratis, SPIN , 10 May 2022",
"After last week\u2019s extremely cartel-heavy episode, the pendulum here swings back almost entirely to legal world. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 3 May 2022",
"But even as the fashion pendulum swung towards formal and elaborate, the underground Aesthetic Movement began encouraging women to dispose of their corsets in the 1870s, kicking back against industrial-age societal conventions. \u2014 Jacqui Palumbo, CNN , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-222327"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-230709"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-232411"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin, a district of five towns on the Dead Sea, from Greek, group of five cities, from penta- + polis city":""
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"definitions":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-022405"
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"definitions":{
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"definitions":{
": the thionic acid H 2 S 5 O 6 containing five atoms of sulfur in the molecule":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary penta- + thionic":""
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"definitions":{
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"definitions":{
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"In a move that could create troublesome waves later in time, Claire decides to beat Alexander Fleming by a few centuries and invent penicillin . \u2014 Sharareh Drury, Variety , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In contrast, antibiotics can treat a whole type of bacteria, such as all Strep pneumoniae, unless the bacteria have developed resistance to penicillin , for example. \u2014 Judy Stone, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
"By the early 1940s, penicillin became widely available and was found to be a reliable cure, but the treatment was withheld from the study participants. \u2014 Talia Herman, ProPublica , 1 Nov. 2021",
"So hedgehogs with this particular skin fungus would naturally be exposed to penicillin . \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 8 June 2022",
"The family matriarch had been advised not to get a COVID-19 vaccine because of an allergy to penicillin and other health issues. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2021",
"Perhaps more importantly, penicillin and other antibiotics were discovered and found to be easier to administer. \u2014 Judy Stone, Forbes , 22 Jan. 2022",
"World War II brought radar, penicillin , nuclear power, synthetic rubber, Jeeps and even duct tape. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Historian David Oshinsky, who directs the division of medical humanities at NYU Langone Health, said that the sudden acceptance of mRNA reminded him of the trajectory of penicillin . \u2014 Felicia Schwartz, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022"
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"In some cases, HPV infection can lead to six types of cancer: cervical, anal, penile , vaginal, vulvar and oropharyngeal (mouth and throat). \u2014 Jacqueline Howard, CNN , 27 Dec. 2019",
"In some cases, HPV infection can lead to six types of cancer: cervical, anal, penile , vaginal, vulvar and oropharyngeal (mouth and throat). \u2014 Jacqueline Howard, CNN , 27 Dec. 2019",
"Some observational studies have found that adult men who were circumcised as babies were less likely to get penile cancer. \u2014 Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times , 17 Apr. 2020",
"In some cases, HPV infection can lead to six types of cancer: cervical, anal, penile , vaginal, vulvar and oropharyngeal (mouth and throat). \u2014 Jacqueline Howard, CNN , 27 Dec. 2019",
"There have been four other successful penile transplants reported worldwide. \u2014 Erika Edwards, NBC News , 6 Nov. 2019",
"Even so, Deshmukh and his team were surprised to find that more than 80% of men and 75% of women ages 18 to 26 \u2014 and 70% of all U.S. adults \u2014 are unaware that HPV causes oral, anal, and penile cancers. \u2014 Marie Mccullough, chicagotribune.com , 19 Sep. 2019",
"In some cases, HPV infection can lead to six types of cancer: cervical, anal, penile , vaginal, vulvar and oropharyngeal (mouth and throat). \u2014 Jacqueline Howard, CNN , 26 June 2019",
"Men who are uncircumcised should have routine penile care with careful hygienic cleansing to keep their down-there healthy, adds Dr. Reitano. \u2014 Christina Oehler, Health.com , 20 June 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Saul, his eyes closed and his mouth slightly open, takes intense pleasure in these probing, penetrative sensations. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 May 2022",
"But does the less penetrative nature of oil mean the retinol won't work its magic on your skin? \u2014 Marci Robin, Allure , 18 Feb. 2022",
"This layer also naturally generates negative ions to fight free radicals while providing deeply penetrative heat that initiates a full-body detox, improves circulation, and reduces inflammation for inside-out healing. \u2014 Spin Contributor, SPIN , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Wednesday night was evident that there\u2019s a real lack of penetrative imagination from Juve\u2019s current midfielders. \u2014 Emmet Gates, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Recent experimentation provided an optimistic foundation for the penetrative electrode array system. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Due to the intensive pore- penetrative properties of BHAs, Dr. Sobel suggests that drier, more mature, and sensitive skin types try using an AHA, like glycolic acid, instead to avoid irritation. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 16 Nov. 2021",
"One of the more crucial aspects of the experiment was whether penetrative electrode arrays produced higher resolution images. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Unless there are recurring, penetrative rains in August, the family will sell half of its herd. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Aug. 2021"
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"Thorpe, a Sac and Fox/Potawatomi citizen, was stripped of his gold medals for the pentathlon and decathlon after losing his amateur status based on playing baseball in North Carolina. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
"In March, Frazee placed third indoors at the New Balance Nationals in the pentathlon . \u2014 Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"The heptathlon conference title marked the second of her career for Cano, who won the pentathlon in 2020. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 9 May 2022",
"Another longtime tradition of the relays is the inclusion of a pentathlon . \u2014 Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Two days earlier, the San Bernardino Cajon High track and field sensation had won the high school boys\u2019 pentathlon at the Nike Indoor Nationals in New York. \u2014 Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Freshman Kia Crooke, a national age-group champion in the pentathlon , won the high jump at 5-6 and ran a leg on Heritage Christian\u2019s first-place team in the 800 relay. \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Niki Ezeh won the women\u2019s 60 hurdles in 8.46 and was second in the pentathlon with 3,829 points. \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Though the Olympic Games began with a single event, by 724 B.C. both longer and shorter foot races were added followed by the pentathlon , boxing, and chariot racing over the course of the following century. \u2014 al , 16 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Indiana University heptathlete and pentathlete won six Big Ten championships and was the NCAA runner-up in the 1990 pentathlon. \u2014 Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"The third-gen Continental made a leap in looks, turning the previous model's enforcer physique into that of a pentathlete . \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Raboutou is just the seventh of what figures to be nearly a 600-person U.S. team, joining three open water swimmers, two modern pentathletes and a triathlete. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Aug. 2019",
"Her father is a lawyer and her brother, Arthur, is an Olympic pentathlete . \u2014 Morgan M. Evans, PEOPLE.com , 24 June 2019",
"Not so much for the pentathletes and archers and water polo-ers and fencers and other assorted quadrennials who play their games out of sight and out of mind. \u2014 Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com , 4 Aug. 2017",
"Alsop passed himself off as an Olympian and joined the Great Britan women's hockey team and modern pentathletes during a celebratory parade in Manchester last year. \u2014 Chris Chavez, SI.com , 16 July 2017",
"Two modern pentathletes and one sailor were also barred as were one wrestler and six cyclists. \u2014 Victor Mather, New York Times , 26 July 2016"
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"pen-\u02c8ta-m\u0259-t\u0259r"
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"a poem written in iambic pentameter",
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"From there, Bartlett uses Shakespearean iambic pentameter to point up the disparity between petty-minded behavior and grandiose dreams of a return to power. \u2014 David Benedict, Variety , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Washington is no stranger to iambic pentameter , but his Macbeth is more piercing in his sighs than in his utterances. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Jan. 2022",
"Elizabethan iambic pentameter has been trimmed, while keeping the songs intact and leaving room for spontaneous actor-audience interactions. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Nov. 2021",
"This man has arrived with actual bits and jokes and a series of riddles written in iambic pentameter to introduce The Tight Ass Party. \u2014 Ali Barthwell, Vulture , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Shakespearean: Project your scream and use iambic pentameter . \u2014 Dani Alvarez, The New Yorker , 11 July 2021",
"Delivering lines about the two devoted coalitions in iambic pentameter is truly a standout of the season. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 22 Apr. 2021",
"Wearing sweatpants, doing acting exercises like trilling my tongue and learning iambic pentameter . \u2014 Roberta Naas, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2021",
"The book received plenty of praise, but many critics missed the point, describing Betts\u2019s work as raw and gritty, when the title poem is entirely in blank verse \u2014 unrhymed iambic pentameter . \u2014 Adam Bradley, New York Times , 4 Mar. 2021"
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"noun"
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"\u02ccpe-n\u0259-\u02c8tr\u00e4-m\u0259-t\u0259r",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The penetrometer \u2013 a space version of a terrestrial engineering tool \u2013 is slated for a 2023 uncrewed mission to the lunar south pole, a region dimpled with icy craters. \u2014 Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Dec. 2021"
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"Latin penetrare + International Scientific Vocabulary -meter":""
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"channel between the Orkney Islands and the mainland of Scotland that connects the North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Strangers, assuming that an older woman living on her own must be lonely, have asked Mrs. Eiler to be their pen pal . \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
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"Sohna wrote back, starting a pen pal relationship that spanned several months. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Carmel Valley resident Cole Spector recently created a pen pal program for those with ALS, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The school\u2019s signature pen pal program, suspended for the pandemic, will have one last celebration this spring, but there are no more Saturday classes; no more competitive jump rope and trivia teams. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Celebrity cameos abound from the likes of Virginia Woolf (since Sheean mixed with and had affairs among the Bloomsbury group), Jawaharlal Nehru (a pen pal to Frances Gunther), and Rebecca West (a sort of fairy godmother to John Gunther in England). \u2014 Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker , 17 Mar. 2022",
"One recipient, Genovefa Klonovska, received a letter from a pen pal in Poland that was stamped in 1970, when Klonovska was 12. \u2014 Fox News , 29 Jan. 2022",
"According to Reuters, Klonovska doesn\u2019t remember her pen pal and thinks their relationship ended when Klonovska never got her letter. \u2014 Fox News , 29 Jan. 2022"
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": a mineral MgSO 4 .5H 2 O consisting of hydrous sulfate of magnesium isostructural with chalcanthite and containing less water than epsomite":[]
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": a genus (the type of the family Pentameridae) comprising Paleozoic brachiopods of the order Protremata abundant in the Silurian and having the shell rostrate and oval or somewhat pentagonal with its cavity divided by two internal vertical ridges and a spondylium in each valve":[]
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"definitions":{
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"definitions":{
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"Samuel L. Penfield \u20201905 American mineralogist + English -ite":""
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"definitions":{
": a group of five half feet in Greek and Latin prosody : a catalectic colon of two and a half feet":[]
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"Late Latin penthemimeres, penthemimeris , from Greek penth\u0113mimer\u0113s , from penta- + h\u0113mimer\u0113s halved, from h\u0113mi- hemi- + meros part":""
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"definitions":{
": any of the pentahydroxy alcohols HOCH 2 (CHOH) 3 CH 2 OH obtainable by reducing the corresponding pentoses":[]
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"definitions":{
": a reappearance in a painting of an original drawn or painted element which was eventually painted over by the artist":[]
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"But none of this backstory is explained in the film, which instead comes across as the cinematic equivalent of a pentimento , with the trace of the men\u2019s friendship concealed beneath a conventional documentary form. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 5 May 2021",
"Alabama\u2019s flag is a giant crimson X, St. Andrew\u2019s cross, that\u2019s almost a pentimento of the Confederate flag. \u2014 Karen Heller, Washington Post , 1 July 2019"
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"Italian, literally, repentance, correction, from pentire to repent, from Latin paenit\u0113re \u2014 more at penitent":""
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"definitions":{
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"definitions":{
": containing five usually fused rings in the molecular structure":[]
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"definitions":{
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"definitions":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-022210"
},
"pentalpha":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": pentacle sense 1":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"pen\u2027\u02c8talf\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek, from penta- + alpha ; from its presenting the form of an A on each of its five corners":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-023509"
},
"pentacle":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": pentagram":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pen-ti-k\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But in 2007 the military added a pentacle to its official list of religious symbols that can be engraved on headstones, so it now can be publicly recognized. \u2014 Jon Schwarz, The Intercept , 29 May 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin *pentaculum , probably from Greek pente":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1561, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-023819"
},
"pentacontane":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpent\u0259\u02c8k\u00e4n\u2027\u02cct\u0101n"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek pent\u0113konta fifty + English -ane":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-024545"
},
"pentact":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having five rays":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pen\u2027\u02cctakt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"penta- + -act":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-024722"
},
"Pentalonia":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of aphids containing forms which transmit bunchy top disease to some bananas":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpent\u0259\u02c8l\u014dn\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-024923"
},
"Pentacrinus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Pentacrinidae) comprising large stalked Jurassic crinoids having a small bowl-shaped calyx, strong numerously branched and pinnulate arms, and a pentangular stalk":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-n\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from penta- (from Greek) + -crinus":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-025214"
},
"pentail":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a tree shrew (genus Ptilocercus ) of Malaysia and adjacent islands that is dark brown above and white below and has a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on its distal third":[],
": a small New Guinea phalanger (genus Distoechurus ) related to the mouse opossums but distinguished by a tail fringed with long hairs":[],
": pintail sense 1":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"pen entry 3 + tail":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-030906"
},
"pentacosane":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8k\u014d\u02ccs\u0101n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary penta- + ei cosane":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-031342"
},
"pentacrinoid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a larval form of some crinoids (as members of the genus Antedon ) resembling crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccn\u022fid"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Pentacrinus + English -oid":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-032522"
},
"pentacid":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": able to react with five molecules of a monobasic acid (as to form a salt)":[
"\u2014 used especially of bases"
],
": containing five hydrogen atoms replaceable by basic atoms or radicals":[
"\u2014 used especially of acids"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)pent+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"penta- + acid":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-032739"
},
"pentacrinite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a fossil of the genus Pentacrinus":[],
": a Jurassic crinoid with star-shaped columnals":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"pen\u2027\u02c8takr\u0259\u02ccn\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Pentacrinus + English -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-034404"
},
"pentahydroxy-":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": containing five hydroxyl groups in the molecule":[],
": containing five hydroxyl groups":[
"\u2014 in names of chemical compounds"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpent\u0259\u02cch\u012b\u02c8dr\u00e4ks\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"pentahydroxy-":"Adjective",
"penta- + hydroxy-":"Combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-095744"
}
}
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