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145 lines
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{
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"byword":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a frequently used word or phrase":[],
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": a proverbial saying : proverb":[],
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": epithet":[],
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": one that is noteworthy or notorious":[],
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": one that personifies a type":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Mom's favorite byword is \u201cYou can get more flies with honey than with vinegar\u201d.",
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"nationally, Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive has become a byword for luxury retailing",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Their names were a byword for the very idea of Entertainment writ large. \u2014 Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
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"Over the past decade, Edirisa\u2019s hiking and dugout canoeing tours, run not-for-profit and providing employment opportunities for dozens of local people, have become a byword for culturally sensitive travel that goes beyond the guidebooks. \u2014 Outside Online , 18 May 2015",
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"For now, a sorrowful procession arrives daily at the morgue in Bucha, a town whose name has become a byword for hideous suffering coming to light weeks after the fact. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
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"Now Bucha is a byword for war crimes, like Srebrenica or My Lai. \u2014 Time , 14 Apr. 2022",
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"In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega\u2019s Sandinista government has become a byword for overt power grabs and human rights abuses. \u2014 Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"The graying West looks fearfully to Japan \u2014 itself a byword for overpopulation in the early 20th century \u2014 where crashing fertility threatens government finances, the economy, and the social order at large. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"These speakers are an exceptional creation that reignites the design, heritage and engineering brilliance that made B&O a byword for audio and design excellence back in the 1970s. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
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"Then, Los Angeles was a byword for racial unrest, still reeling from the uprising over the acquittal of four officers for beating Mr. King. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8b\u012b-\u02ccw\u0259rd"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"adage",
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"aphorism",
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"apothegm",
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"epigram",
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"maxim",
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"proverb",
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"saw",
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"saying",
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"sententia",
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"word"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075018",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"bywalk":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a secluded or private walk : byway":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042220"
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},
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"byway":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a little traveled side road":[],
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": a secondary or little known aspect or field":[
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"meandering more and more in the fascinating byways of learning",
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"\u2014 The Times Literary Supplement (London)"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8b\u012b-\u02ccw\u0101"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"I prefer to take byways to town.",
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"He's traveled the highways and byways of this country.",
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"the byways of the art world",
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"The book chronicles some of the interesting byways of legal history.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The historic scenic byway of U.S. Route 201, called the Old Canada Road, covers 78 miles from Fairfield to the Canadian border. \u2014 Megan Michelson, Outside Online , 18 June 2020",
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"Once an ancient aboriginal trail, the path became a well-trodden byway for the workmen who built the Gilded Age mansions. \u2014 Amy Gamerman, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
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"This lakeside city serves as the gateway to the Creole Nature Trail, a lengthy scenic byway that spans more than 180 miles across southwestern Louisiana. \u2014 Jared Ranahan, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
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"The Natchez Trace Parkway is a scenic byway that runs through Tennessee and Alabama before cutting into Mississippi. \u2014 Outside Online , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"Minnesota\u2019s devotion to Bunyan \u2014 which includes claims to his birthplace being in Bemidji, multiple statues and even a scenic byway \u2014 could be related to when Bunyan stories made their way into print and popular culture. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Feb. 2022",
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"There were suggestions to select another street, a byway that cut through the whole city (Western Avenue",
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"Along the way, the book takes another byway into Arthurian legend, the better to explore Gage\u2019s weakening grip on the line between myth and reality. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Jan. 2022",
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"Scenic byway corridors that preserve the scenic vistas viewable from major highways. \u2014 Megan Becka, cleveland , 13 Jan. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044122"
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},
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"bywork":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": work done on the side : work done in intervals of leisure":[
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"won popular fame \u2026 by a piece of bywork",
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"\u2014 Times Literary Supplement"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174517"
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},
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"bywoner":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a laborer or farmer working another person's land:":[],
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": squatter":[],
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": sharecropper":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8b\u012b\u02ccv\u014dn\u0259(r)",
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"\u02c8b\u0101\u02ccv-"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Afrikaans, from by with, at (from Middle Dutch b\u012b ) + woner dweller (from woon to dwell\u2014from Middle Dutch w\u014dnen \u2014+ -er ); akin to Old High German b\u012b with, at, and to Old High German won\u0113n to dwell":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203024"
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}
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} |