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{
"Labiatae":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a family of mostly aromatic herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees (order Polemoniales) distinguished especially by the four-lobed ovary which becomes four one-seeded nutlets in fruit \u2014 see mint":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from feminine plural of labiatus labiate":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccl\u0101b\u0113\u02c8\u0101\u02cct\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114445",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"label":{
"antonyms":[
"mark",
"tag",
"ticket"
],
"definitions":{
": a brand of commercial recordings issued under a usually trademarked name":[],
": a company issuing such recordings":[
"The band has made records for several different labels ."
],
": a descriptive or identifying word or phrase: such as":[],
": a heraldic charge that consists of a narrow horizontal band with usually three pendants":[],
": a recording so issued":[],
": a slip (as of paper or cloth) inscribed and affixed to something for identification or description":[
"The name is prominently displayed on the label ."
],
": a usually radioactive isotope used in labeling":[],
": a word or phrase used with a dictionary definition to provide additional information":[
"The label obsolete is abbreviated obs ."
],
": an adhesive stamp (as for postage or revenue)":[],
": epithet":[
"acquired the label of \"playboy\""
],
": the brand name of a retail store selling clothing, a clothing manufacturer, or a fashion designer":[
"She only buys clothes with a designer label ."
],
": to affix a label to":[
"labeled the switches so as not to confuse them"
],
": to describe or designate with or as if with a label":[
"labels his photos with the date and place they were taken"
],
": to distinguish (an element or atom) by using an isotope (see isotope sense 1 ) distinctive in some manner (as in mass or radioactivity)":[],
": to distinguish (something, such as a compound or cell) by introducing a traceable constituent (such as a dye or labeled atom)":[],
": written or printed matter accompanying an article to furnish identification or other information":[
"Read the warning label before taking any medicine."
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The name is prominently displayed on the label .",
"You should read the warning label before you take any medicine.",
"The word was given the label \u201cobsolete.\u201d",
"Some people describe him as \u201cselfish,\u201d but he doesn't deserve that label .",
"Once you give people labels , it's hard to see them as individuals.",
"The band has made records for several different labels in their career.",
"Verb",
"Be sure to carefully label the switches so that you don't confuse them.",
"He labels his photographs with the date and place they were taken.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Sabyasachi founded his label with 20,000 rupees from his father and sister, who both went on to work with him for many years, and a team of two craftspeople in his parents\u2019 apartment. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"D\u00e9buting in 2013, BTS was the creation of the producer and songwriter Bang Si-Hyuk and his K-pop label , Big Hit Entertainment. \u2014 E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker , 21 June 2022",
"Two members of 1970s rock band Orleans have sued Warner Music Group and its subsidiary label Warner Records over a dispute regarding royalty deductions the companies instituted that the members claim weren\u2019t disclosed to them. \u2014 Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022",
"Just this month, the prestigious LVMH Prize was awarded to British menswear designer Steven Stokey Daley and his label S.S. Daley for his flowing silhouettes, loud knits and penchant for skimpy, open shirts. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 21 June 2022",
"For all of the festivities\u2014with the exception of one epic Ala\u00efa pool party moment\u2014the bride made a statement in looks from her eponymous label . \u2014 Alexandra Macon, Vogue , 17 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, Jonathan Ingberg took a different approach and launched his unisex label By Hinders in 2020. \u2014 Stephan Rabimov, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Your label says your product kills 99.9 percent of germs in 30 seconds \u2014 but what about that 0.1 percent",
"As part of that restructuring, Alamo sold its Drafthouse Films label to digital distributor Giant Pictures. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Several posts have falsely sought to label teachers and librarians who accept the LGBTQ community as abusers or groomers of children. \u2014 Rebecca Boone, Anchorage Daily News , 14 June 2022",
"Several posts have falsely sought to label teachers and librarians who accept the LGBTQ community as abusers or groomers of children. \u2014 Rebecca Boone, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"In general, coroners and medical examiners are unlikely to label drug deaths as suicides without clear evidence. \u2014 Sara Novak, Scientific American , 6 June 2022",
"On the online message board 4Chan, users liberally shared the photos and discussed a plan to label the gunman as transgender, without any evidence to back it up. \u2014 CBS News , 26 May 2022",
"The claim also oversimplifies the new study's findings, which do not label the enzyme as a definitive biomarker, according to Dr. Rachel Moon, a SIDS researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"Rauh, Lev and some members of Congress are also calling on the administration to label fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) in order to strengthen punishments for entities and individuals who distribute the drug. \u2014 Audrey Conklin, Fox News , 16 May 2022",
"In January 2021, Apeda removed the requirement for slaughterhouses to label their meat as halal. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Without a clear definition and regulation of regenerative agriculture, Walmart can continue to label its efforts as regenerative with few repercussions. \u2014 Rachel Hellman, Fortune , 4 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun",
"1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French labelle":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u0101-b\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"marker",
"tag",
"ticket"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040106",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"labia majora":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the outer fatty folds of the vulva bounding the vestibule":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some people\u2019s labia minora extend past their labia majora and some don\u2019t. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 13 Aug. 2021",
"According to Davis, the labia majora 's job is to protect the more sensitive parts inside. \u2014 Cheryl Wischhover, Teen Vogue , 25 Dec. 2019",
"According to Davis, the labia majora 's job is to protect the more sensitive parts inside. \u2014 Cheryl Wischhover, Teen Vogue , 25 Dec. 2019",
"According to Davis, the labia majora 's job is to protect the more sensitive parts inside. \u2014 Cheryl Wischhover, Teen Vogue , 25 Dec. 2019",
"According to Davis, the labia majora 's job is to protect the more sensitive parts inside. \u2014 Cheryl Wischhover, Teen Vogue , 25 Dec. 2019",
"According to Davis, the labia majora 's job is to protect the more sensitive parts inside. \u2014 Cheryl Wischhover, Teen Vogue , 25 Dec. 2019",
"According to Davis, the labia majora 's job is to protect the more sensitive parts inside. \u2014 Cheryl Wischhover, Teen Vogue , 25 Dec. 2019",
"Most practitioners treat the labia majora , or the external lips of the vulva; many people request lightening the labia minora, or inner lips, as well, though this is not recommended and many practitioners will not do it. \u2014 E.j. Dickson, Vox , 6 Dec. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1838, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, literally, larger lips":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u0101-b\u0113-\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8j\u022fr-\u0259",
"\u02ccl\u0101-b\u0113-\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8j\u014dr-\u0259, -\u02c8j\u022fr-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104514",
"type":[
"noun plural",
"plural noun"
]
},
"labia minora":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the inner highly vascular largely connective-tissue folds of the vulva bounding the vestibule":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The aesthetic ideal produced by these surgeries is that of an \u2018innie\u2019, where the labia minora (inner lips) are hidden by the labia majora (outer lips). \u2014 Gina Tonic, refinery29.com , 25 Aug. 2021",
"Some people have labia minora smaller or bigger than that, which is also normal. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 13 Aug. 2021",
"The aesthetic ideal produced by this surgery is that of an \u2018innie\u2019, where the labia minora (inner lips) are hidden by the labia majora (outer lips). \u2014 Gina Tonic, refinery29.com , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Some people\u2019s labia minora extend past their labia majora and some don\u2019t. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 13 Aug. 2021",
"The truth is, the labia majora (outer lips) and labia minora (inner lips) look different on all types of bodies. \u2014 Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, Glamour , 4 Aug. 2020",
"Labiaplasty typically is performed on the labia minora . \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 30 Mar. 2020",
"The procedure involves removing some of the labia minora . \u2014 Brianna Holt, Quartzy , 8 Nov. 2019",
"The change in shape is also due to the surge in blood \u2014 the labia majora may retract, and their retraction can cause the labia minora to appear larger or even show for the first time. \u2014 Kristi Kellogg, Glamour , 29 Apr. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1838, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, literally, smaller lips":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-m\u0259-\u02c8n\u014dr-\u0259, -\u02c8n\u022fr-",
"\u02c8l\u0101-b\u0113-\u0259-m\u0259-\u02c8n\u022fr-\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084740",
"type":[
"noun plural",
"plural noun"
]
},
"labor":{
"antonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
],
"definitions":{
": a product of labor":[
"The flood destroyed the labor of years."
],
": an act or process requiring labor : task":[
"The three-month project evolved into a year-long labor ."
],
": an economic group comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages":[
"wants the vote of labor in the elections"
],
": distress , burden":[],
": expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when difficult or compulsory":[
"was sentenced to six months at hard labor"
],
": human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy":[
"Industry needs labor for production."
],
": of or relating to labor":[],
": of, relating to, or constituting a political party held to represent the interests of workers or made up largely of organized labor groups":[],
": the Labour party of the United Kingdom or of another part of the Commonwealth of Nations":[],
": the organizations or officials representing groups of workers":[
"negotiations between labor and management"
],
": the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits":[],
": to be in the labor of giving birth":[],
": to cause to labor":[],
": to exert one's powers of body or mind especially with painful or strenuous effort : work":[],
": to move with great effort":[
"the truck labored up the hill"
],
": to pitch or roll heavily":[],
": to spend labor on or produce by labor":[],
": to strive to effect or achieve":[],
": to suffer from some disadvantage or distress":[
"labor under a delusion"
],
": to treat or work out in often laborious detail":[
"labor the obvious"
],
": workers available for employment":[
"Immigrants provided a source of cheap labor ."
],
": workers employed in an establishment":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"A day's labor should get the job done.",
"Getting the job done will require many hours of difficult labor .",
"He rested from his labors .",
"The cost of repairing the car includes parts and labor .",
"an area in which there is a shortage of cheap labor",
"The proposed new law is opposed by organized labor .",
"She went into labor this morning.",
"She has been in labor for several hours.",
"She began to have labor pains this morning.",
"She had a difficult labor .",
"Verb",
"Workers labored in the vineyard.",
"He labored for several years as a miner.",
"She has labored in vain to convince them to accept her proposal.",
"We should honor those who labored so long to make the truth known.",
"The truck labored up the hill.",
"I have been laboring through this book for months.",
"She has a tendency to labor the obvious.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Energy sector jobs also enjoy higher union representation than the overall economy, with 10% of the energy workforce represented by a union or covered under a project labor agreement compared to 6% within the private sector. \u2014 Energy Innovation: Policy And Technology, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"However, labor forecasters expect those efforts won\u2019t be enough to meet the demand. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Chrang, who is a second generation Cambodian American, said his family was imprisoned in labor camps by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. \u2014 Seamus Webster, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"In the group's communique released at the end of the summit, the leaders criticized China for its military, humanitarian and labor actions. \u2014 Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News , 28 June 2022",
"Known as Bruce's Beach, the resort had offered Black families a place to enjoy the California life and was a labor of love for owners Charles and Willa Bruce. \u2014 Cheri Mossburg, CNN , 28 June 2022",
"Developers who opt in to the streamlined process would need to hire union workers through project labor agreements. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"Six months after a contentious and protracted labor dispute with its teachers, Orange County Public Schools has reached an agreement to give most teachers a $3,325 annual raise, the largest increase in more than a decade. \u2014 Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
"Ghalichi elaborated on the experience on her Instagram Story, sharing videos throughout her induction and labor . \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Low-wage workers must labor for about 14 hours to fill up their tank. \u2014 Nicole Goodkind, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Not only do employees labor over circuit boards and code, but there\u2019s a line of four sewing machines in the company\u2019s office for crafting exosuit prototypes. \u2014 Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
"Kaprielian then threw two changeups to Josh Naylor, who homered on the second. Kaprielian, who can labor in starts and see his pitch count climb early, sat at a manageable 75 after the fifth. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 June 2022",
"Stevens exhibits a mindfulness that modern people still labor to attain. \u2014 Robert Isenberg, Longreads , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But few people are blessed with a universal conscience, and most of us must labor to expand the power of empathy in radiating circles, from family to community to country to planet. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"More than half of all Mexican workers still labor in the informal sector. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Apr. 2022",
"In Africa, where youth unemployment is also high and the numbers are growing fastest, college graduates who compose barely 7 percent of the total workforce also labor in low-end jobs. \u2014 Joel Kotkin, National Review , 29 Mar. 2022",
"No need to labor over fictional narratives about brazen frauds when reality has given us Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"While Massachusetts has a long pro- labor tradition, state law carves out legislative staff from the definition of public employees who may collectively bargain. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
"But the staffers who work for those lawmakers and help craft those pro- labor bills are barred under California law from forming a union themselves. \u2014 Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 June 2022",
"But the companies\u2019 defeat in Massachusetts, a staunchly pro- labor and pro-union state, shows the limits of the strategy, said Terri Gerstein, a workers\u2019 rights lawyer at Harvard Law School\u2019s Labor and Worklife Program. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"The New York State AFL-CIO had opposed an earlier version, but agreed to stay neutral based on pro- labor edits made to the version of the BPRA which would have gone up for a vote. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
"The councilman noted that his heavily union district, which includes San Pedro, would not warm to a candidate who was not pro- labor . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Weil\u2019s withdrawal followed a punishing campaign by business interests to paint his pro- labor views as radical. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"The start of President Joe Biden\u2019s second year in office comes with new opportunities to deliver on his commitment to be pro- labor . \u2014 NBC News , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Many pro- labor politicians and top executives of large outside unions had been reluctant to embrace the ALU before its surprising victory. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French labur , from Latin labor ; perhaps akin to Latin labare to totter, labi to slip \u2014 more at sleep":"Noun, Verb, and Adjective"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u0101-b\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for labor Noun work , labor , travail , toil , drudgery , grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force. too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion. farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering. years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body. the grind of the assembly line",
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"beast",
"chore",
"headache",
"job",
"killer"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125410",
"type":[
"adjective",
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"labor force":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": workforce":[]
},
"examples":[
"the corporation has a labor force of nearly 100,000 people",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Atlanta\u2019s labor force \u2014 everyone working or looking for a job \u2014 has grown by 88,044 in the past 12 months, more than one-quarter of that since the start of this year. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 26 May 2022",
"The problem: the state\u2019s labor force , or number of adults with a job or looking for one, edged up by just 600 to 3.76 million. \u2014 Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"In 2021 its civilian labor force expanded by more than 30,000, and there were big gains in wages as well as jobs. \u2014 Bryan Mena, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The effects add up over time, resulting in lower labor force participation and diminished chance of economic mobility. \u2014 Ali Shahbaz, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"As Yellen noted, women's education levels, labor force participation, and future earnings increase, while teenaged marriages and infant mortality decrease, the research has found. \u2014 Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune , 10 May 2022",
"It is measured by the number of available workers in the labor force who do not have a job but are actively looking. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"And the number of people in the labor force declined in April by 363,000, the first drop since September. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 7 May 2022",
"In fact, the report showed a decline of 363,000 in the labor force . \u2014 Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times , 6 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1844, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"force",
"help",
"manpower",
"personnel",
"pool",
"staff",
"workforce"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113601",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"labor market":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the number of workers who are available to be hired":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133225",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"labor movement":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an organized effort on the part of workers to improve their economic and social status by united action through the medium of labor unions":[],
": the activities of labor unions to further the cause of organized labor":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1844, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015355",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"labor of love":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a labor voluntarily undertaken or performed without consideration of any benefit or reward":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1592, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215023",
"type":[]
},
"labor omnia vincit":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": labor conquers all":[
"\u2014 motto of Oklahoma"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u00e4-\u02ccb\u022fr-\u02cc\u022fm-n\u0113-\u02cc\u00e4-\u02c8wi\u014b-kit"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051742",
"type":[
"Latin phrase"
]
},
"labor relations":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the way in which workers and managers of a company talk to, behave toward, and deal with each other":[
"The company has a history of poor labor relations ."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180213",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"labor skate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of a labor union":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1930, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044335",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"labor spy":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an agent of an employer hired to report on union activities : stool pigeon":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1903, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111415",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"labored":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"The patient's symptoms included a rapid pulse and labored breathing.",
"The movie's dialogue seems very labored .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"My chest tightened and my breathing became labored . \u2014 The New Yorker , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Stover\u2019s breathing became labored , and he was admitted to McLaren Lapeer Region Hospital a week before Thanksgiving. \u2014 Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press , 3 Oct. 2021",
"Even scenes of intense combat \u2014explosions wounding the night sky \u2014 have moments that capture the quiet fear, the labored breathing, the sheer terror, the absolute helplessness of the men of Easy Company. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The polished Clive Langer/Alan Winstanley production that had brought Costello renewed commercial success on Punch the Clock wilted with this more labored material. \u2014 Al Shipley, SPIN , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Meanwhile, harm reduction counselors and fellow drug users keep an eye on one another, checking for dilated pupils or labored breathing. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Taking diuretics can help your heart pump more effectively, while also relieving congestion symptoms, like labored breathing and leg and ankle swelling. \u2014 Beth Krietsch, SELF , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Vada screams and hyperventilates; the sounds of her labored breathing and tangible terror hang as the credits roll, shedding, once again, any semblance of feeling safe. \u2014 Katherine Singh, refinery29.com , 26 Jan. 2022",
"After four months, 31 of a total 147 participants were classified as having long Covid based on the persistence of one of three major symptoms: fatigue, labored breathing, or chest pain. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1566, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u0101-b\u0259rd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093524",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"laborer":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"He has been working as a laborer on a construction project.",
"having no real skills, the men could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet the writers do not romanticize the life of the Ohio laborer . \u2014 cleveland , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Walker worked as a janitor, laborer and security guard, according to a probation report. \u2014 Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times , 14 Dec. 2021",
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"Her great-great grandfather, John Millos Sr., came to America from Romania to work as a laborer at the Highland Park Plant and later the Ford Rouge Factory Complex in the early 20th century. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 26 Apr. 2022",
"In the process, some lowly laborer spleens might get shrimpy too. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 5 Apr. 2022",
"So the Kambles rely on local farmers to donate feed, while the mother also works as a farm laborer . \u2014 Sanket Jain, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Nov. 2021",
"One such pioneer was Miina Sillanp\u00e4\u00e4, a former child laborer and maid who was elected to parliament in 1907 and served there for 38 years. \u2014 Naomi Moriyama And William Doyle, CNN , 8 Mar. 2022",
"In 1933, a laborer working at a bridge construction site in the city of Harbin discovered the peculiar skull. \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2021"
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"Yulia Kukula, a university student who was accepted for a PhD program in sustainable energy at Arizona State University, may have found a laborious and costly way around the problem of getting her visa to attend university. \u2014 Daniel Kozin And Jim Heintz, The Christian Science Monitor , 12 May 2021",
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"Buildings and sidewalks, however, remained at the lower level, which resulted in a labyrinth of underground walkways. \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland , 30 June 2022",
"Embarking on a bizarre trip to discover what happened, Juan feels immersed in a labyrinth of incongruities, including pianos falling from the sky. \u2014 Emiliano De Pablos, Variety , 26 May 2022",
"Season 2, which started April 28 on HBO Max, finds Hazel trapped in a labyrinth of lies, having returned to the cube with her husband (Billy Magnussen) to save the life of her father (Ray Romano). \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"Civilians also cowered for survival in a labyrinth of tunnels underneath the plant. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"They were also assigned case workers to guide them through the bureaucratic labyrinth that is freedom. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"The century-old mausoleum has been expanded over the years into a seemingly endless labyrinth of hallways and staircases. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 May 2022",
"Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that a U.N.-backed evacuation effort had shepherded more than 300 women, children and elderly people from the plant, but fighters say civilians could still be hiding in the complex\u2019s vast underground labyrinth . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"The Spanish Colonial compound is a labyrinth of courtyards filled with fountains and flowering plants. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 19 May 2022"
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"a website with an exceptionally labyrinthian procedure for ordering merchandise",
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"The Mercado de los Cielos at the West Side's Desert Sky Mall is a sprawling and labyrinthian swap meet that boasts more than 200 different stores. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 12 Dec. 2021",
"This latest twist in the labyrinthian belief system comes after dozens of JFK Jr. truthers \u2014 who waited for hours at Dealey Plaza for the Camelot scion to appear \u2014 went on to attend that night\u2019s Rolling Stones concert at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. \u2014 Steven Monacelli, Rolling Stone , 4 Nov. 2021",
"Wandering the labyrinthian night market in Ebisu and snacking on yakitori, Mizuki begins to feel like a past version of herself: the confident, beautiful, and happy young woman who\u2019d moved from rural Japan to New York City to make it as a singer. \u2014 Ali Francis, Bon App\u00e9tit , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Instead, Americans struggling with post-Covid symptoms face a highly unequal health care landscape, with the most vulnerable populations navigating labyrinthian barriers to treatment. \u2014 Karina Piser, The New Republic , 27 July 2021",
"This labyrinthian Swedish thriller features a wealthy cosmetics magnate whose ex-husband is serving time for killing their daughter. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2021",
"Fure melds installation and performance through a sonic art practice that brings immersive listening experiences to unusual places \u2014 most recently a labyrinthian water tank in Berlin. \u2014 Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2021",
"The signature Chiale-style labyrinthian black and white lines of his racecar concept serve as a sprawling and rapid inspiration to those up to the challenge of entering the design race. \u2014 Ryan Mccarthy, Rolling Stone , 12 May 2021",
"Those scenes of Puscifer performing are intercut with hazy scenes of Billy D being chased through labyrinthian hallways. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 17 Apr. 2021"
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"Bond driving directly from labyrinthine Italian streets to a railroad station, on the flat, in what looks like another town entirely, or emerging from a foggy Norwegian forest into a nice bright day. \u2014 The New Yorker , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Given the safety requirements and protocols, the setup for the graduation was labyrinthine . \u2014 Corbett Smith, Dallas News , 30 May 2020",
"Devs is only the latest in a series of puzzle-box shows more preoccupied with their own cleverness and their labyrinthine twists than with the burden of watchability. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 11 Mar. 2020",
"The result of this technique is that Raulff\u2019s text is somehow dreamy but not sentimental; labyrinthine but not frustrating. \u2014 C. E. Morgan, New York Times , 30 Mar. 2018",
"Here are five recommendations for purchase that might lead you into your own labyrinthine journey through the wormhole that is Bandcamp. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 May 2020",
"In the wake of the hack, the company is temporarily disabling the ability to log in to Nintendo Accounts through the NNID system, which, in the labyrinthine world of Nintendo account authentications, is only one method of doing so. \u2014 Julie Muncy, Wired , 24 Apr. 2020",
"Pynchon\u2019s labyrinthine novels, with their codes and puzzles that lead nowhere, on Ripatrazone\u2019s telling reflect a sacramental imagination that sees everything as \u2014 to use Dante\u2019s word \u2014 polysemantic. \u2014 James Matthew Wilson, National Review , 16 Apr. 2020",
"Autumn can\u2019t afford lodging in New York, but her hopes that her visit will be brief are dashed by labyrinthine rules. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 13 Mar. 2020"
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"Probable deaths include individuals who have COVID indicated as a cause of death on their death certificate but have not had a positive diagnostic laboratory test . \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 11 May 2022",
"Probable deaths include individuals who have COVID indicated as a cause of death on their death certificate but have not had a positive diagnostic laboratory test . \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 11 May 2022",
"And since your aren\u2019t Facebook, you are left with sharing laboratory test results to offer assurance that neither of you are infected. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
"BioNTech and Pfizer said three shots of its vaccine were able to neutralize omicron in a laboratory test . \u2014 NBC News , 11 Dec. 2021",
"When the analysis is limited only to cases confirmed positive by a central laboratory test , the vaccine was 51% effective in children 6 months to 2 years, and 37% in the older group, the company said. \u2014 Peter Loftus, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Probable deaths include individuals who have COVID indicated as a cause of death on their death certificate but have not had a positive diagnostic laboratory test . \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 20 Apr. 2022",
"On the state level, AIMS connects to all US states and territories and has long been used to route laboratory test results to government health systems, according to the NIH, and ReportStream connects to the majority of states. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Officials also urged patience as investigators await ballistics data and toxicology and laboratory test results. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Jan. 2022"
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"Jim Sturgess stars in this true story as S\u0142awomir Rawicz, a former Polish prisoner of war who is imprisoned at a Siberian labor camp after being betrayed by his wife during World War II. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 17 June 2022",
"Later, at a musical labor camp , or Mulag, a composer begs Kharitonov to deliver a stack of sheet music to the Kremlin. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Joyce got a package from the Soviet Union from Dmitri (Tom Wlaschiha), a crooked prison guard in Siberia, who wanted to illicitly ransom Hopper\u2014alive but imprisoned at a Soviet labor camp \u2014back to her. \u2014 James Grebey, Time , 27 May 2022",
"His heroic productivity just happened to take place in a labor camp . \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"He was convicted in a closed-door hearing in June 2020 and sentenced to 16 years in a Russian labor camp . \u2014 Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press , 20 May 2022",
"Still, a judge sentenced Reed to nine years in a labor camp . \u2014 Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Vladyslav Yesypenko, arrested last year and sentenced recently to six years in a Russian labor camp for alleged possession and transport of explosives, is this year's recipient of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. \u2014 Hillel Italie, ajc , 19 Apr. 2022",
"In Manhattan, Sami Steigmann, 82, who was born in what\u2019s now the southwestern Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi and survived a labor camp , fears that World War III has already begun. \u2014 Olivia B. Waxman, Time , 23 Mar. 2022"
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"What\u2019s clear is that Activision Blizzard pretty desperately needs a companywide labor union . \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 13 June 2022",
"The AFL-CIO, the largest labor union in the state, has been a key campaign supporter for members of the Assembly majority. \u2014 Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Because of this, there is no reason to hold officers accountable for the claims, said Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, the nation\u2019s largest police labor union . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, the country\u2019s largest labor union , also spoke in support of the legislation. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Jan. 2022",
"First lady Jill Biden, a professor, is a member of the National Education Association, the largest labor union in the country. \u2014 Jessica Chasmar, Fox News , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Two days after the incident, the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police labor union in the country, posted a photo of Young's son being held by a Philadelphia officer on its Facebook. \u2014 Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com , 16 Sep. 2021",
"The Fraternal Order of Police, the nation's largest police labor union , posted a Facebook picture two days later showing Young's toddler in the arms of a Philadelphia police officer just after the incident. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Days after suing to block what is believed to be among the nation\u2019s strictest COVID-19 employee vaccine mandates, Washington\u2019s largest state labor union has announced a tentative agreement for Gov. Jay Inslee\u2019s order for state workers. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 7 Sep. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The change in shape is also due to the surge in blood \u2014 the labia majora may retract, and their retraction can cause the labia minora to appear larger or even show for the first time. \u2014 Kristi Kellogg, Glamour , 29 Apr. 2019",
"The outer labia can also vary in terms of being barely there or a few inches long, and the inner labia (which are reminiscent of butterfly wings) might be hidden or hang past the outer lips. \u2014 Zoe Ruderman, Cosmopolitan , 19 June 2017",
"And, as many pointed out, there is nothing wrong with or unnatural about having dark labia . \u2014 refinery29.com , 7 May 2018",
"Most women's labia aren't perfectly symmetrical \u2014 one side is usually bigger than the other. \u2014 Zoe Ruderman, Cosmopolitan , 19 June 2017",
"Now, doctors are warning anyone with a vagina to steer clear of a product that some are claiming reduces vaginal odor (or at least steer clear of applying it on their labia or in their vaginas). \u2014 Lily Herman, Allure , 1 Nov. 2017",
"The vulva, the video states using diagrams (and cute cats), includes the outer labia , inner labia, clitoris, urethral opening, and vaginal opening. \u2014 Lily Herman, Allure , 5 Oct. 2017",
"And some people\u2014most people\u2014want their dicks on men and their labia on/vaginas in women. \u2014 Dan Savage, Chicago Reader , 20 Sep. 2017",
"Chances are a bump on your labia (the lips) or vulva (the skin around them) is just a pimple or an ingrown hair. \u2014 Amber Madison, Seventeen , 30 May 2017"
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"Tagalog, literally, quagmire, marsh":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-094911"
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"adjective"
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": labiate":[]
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": any of a breed of medium-sized strongly built retrievers largely developed in England from stock originating in Newfoundland and having a short dense black, yellow, or chocolate coat and a thick rounded tail":[]
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"Labrador , Newfoundland":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a mineral MgSi 3 O 6 (OH) 2 .H 2 O consisting of hydrous basic silicate of magnesium":[]
},
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"International Scientific Vocabulary lab- (from Laba river, the Caucasus, U.S.S.R.) + -ite ; originally formed as Russian labit":""
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"Labrador pine":{
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"noun"
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": jack pine sense 1":[]
},
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"Labor Day":{
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"1884, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-201055"
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"lab coat":{
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"noun"
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": a loose-fitting usually white coat with deep pockets that is worn in a laboratory or medical facility":[]
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Someone who dons an inventor\u2019s lab coat online is more creative at real-world meetings. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Nov. 2021",
"People will really believe anything an attractive young blonde woman in a lab coat says, huh",
"Hesse put on a red hairnet, a blue lab coat , and a pair of white plastic clogs\u2014mandatory cavewear\u2014and made her way down a spiral staircase. \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Kira, 32, shows up in a doctor's lab coat with nothing but red lingerie on underneath. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Uba, who also worked as a frontline worker at the University Hospital of Galway, shared her thoughts via her Instagram page, rocking a lab coat and her new emerald green bedazzled crown on Friday, Sept. 10. \u2014 Kevin L. Clark, Essence , 13 Sep. 2021",
"Habte would appear in one place, in her crisp white lab coat and with her large purse on her shoulder, then suddenly reappear in another. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Here\u2019s this little guy swinging from a steam pipe dressed in a white lab coat over a lab bench, that would eventually become my lab bench, with students standing around drinking American beer. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Samuel Oliver, of Valley City was among 49 students at the University of Findlay who recently received a crisp white lab coat at the College of Pharmacy\u2019s White Coat Ceremony. \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 30 Sep. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-202231"
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"adverb"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1750, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205743"
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"laburnum":{
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"noun"
],
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": any of a small genus ( Laburnum , especially L. anagyroides ) of poisonous leguminous shrubs and trees of Eurasia with pendulous racemes of bright yellow flowers":[]
},
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"l\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259r-n\u0259m"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But next winter, when temperatures cool again, the second phase of the restoration will include planting flowering trees like the white fringetree and laburnum ; bulbs, including tulips; and perennials. \u2014 Kathleen Beckett, New York Times , 6 Apr. 2020",
"For instance, Cassia fistula or the Indian laburnum , a native tree that paints many cities yellow at the onset of summer, is pollinated by several species of carpenter bees. \u2014 Kartik Chandramouli, Quartz India , 2 Mar. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin":""
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"1567, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210606"
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"labial stop":{
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211314"
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"labdanum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a soft dark fragrant bitter oleoresin derived from various rockroses (genus Cistus ) and used in making perfumes":[]
},
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],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Deep spicy accords of chestnut, Madagascan vanilla, and labdanum add body and longevity. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Miraceti - with amber, labdanum and resiny styrax is the one that really gets me away from lockdowns and into coastal hikes while Karst is both earthy and ethereal with juniper, cumin and sandalwood. \u2014 Sarah Turner, Forbes , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Return scent\u2014ambergris, oakmoss, powdered tobacco, labdanum resin, muguet, and honeybrush\u2014was inspired by a Voltaire quote. \u2014 Zoe Ruffner, Vogue , 14 Oct. 2020"
],
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"Medieval Latin lapdanum":""
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},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212537"
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"Labrador jay":{
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"noun"
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": a Canada jay of northeastern Canada that is usually considered to be a distinct race":[]
},
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],
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"island of Malaysia in an inlet of the South China Sea off the western coast of Sabah population 14,904":[]
},
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"laboratory":{
"type":[
"noun"
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": a place like a laboratory for testing, experimentation, or practice":[
"That area is a laboratory for cultivating the germ of terrorism."
],
": an academic period set aside for laboratory work":[
"a course of study requiring two lectures and one laboratory per week"
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},
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"or l\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-",
"or \u02c8la-b\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-",
"\u02c8la-b\u0259-r\u0259-",
"\u02c8lab-(\u0259-)r\u0259-\u02cct\u014dr-\u0113, -\u02cct\u022fr-, British usually l\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4r-\u0259-t(\u0259-)r\u0113",
"\u02c8la-b(\u0259-)r\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-\u0113",
"sometimes \u02c8la-b\u0259r-\u02cct\u022fr-",
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"examples":[
"experiments conducted in a modern laboratory",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fireworks permitted: Consumer fireworks items tested and certified by a third party laboratory as conforming with CPSC standards. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
"But Police Minister Bheki Cele said forensic samples taken from the victims were being sent to a toxicology laboratory in Cape Town, indicating that police were investigating whether the victims had ingested a poison or toxin. \u2014 Gerald Imray, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"Police have sent forensic samples from the victims to a toxicology laboratory to investigate if the teens ingested poison or a toxin at the party. \u2014 Gerald Imray, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
"Facing a months-long backlog of cases, the county Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has signed a contract with a private laboratory to work through hundreds of unfinished toxicology tests. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
"The World Health Organization is calling for more research into the theory that Covid leaked from a Chinese laboratory . \u2014 Mark Murray, NBC News , 16 June 2022",
"And so, Earth is a great experimental laboratory for chemistry. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"Built triggered the recall after receiving test results from a third-party laboratory . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 15 June 2022",
"The virus first got its name after being discovered in captive monkeys in a Danish laboratory in 1958, but monkeys are not thought to be the source of the virus. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 14 June 2022"
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"Medieval Latin laboratorium , from Latin laborare to labor, from labor":""
},
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"noun",
"verb"
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": expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when difficult or compulsory":[
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": the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits":[],
": human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy":[
"Industry needs labor for production."
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": an economic group comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages":[
"wants the vote of labor in the elections"
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": the organizations or officials representing groups of workers":[
"negotiations between labor and management"
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": workers employed in an establishment":[],
": workers available for employment":[
"Immigrants provided a source of cheap labor ."
],
": the Labour party of the United Kingdom or of another part of the Commonwealth of Nations":[],
": an act or process requiring labor : task":[
"The three-month project evolved into a year-long labor ."
],
": a product of labor":[
"The flood destroyed the labor of years."
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": to exert one's powers of body or mind especially with painful or strenuous effort : work":[],
": to move with great effort":[
"the truck labored up the hill"
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": to suffer from some disadvantage or distress":[
"labor under a delusion"
],
": to be in the labor of giving birth":[],
": to pitch or roll heavily":[],
": to treat or work out in often laborious detail":[
"labor the obvious"
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": distress , burden":[],
": to cause to labor":[],
": to spend labor on or produce by labor":[],
": to strive to effect or achieve":[],
": of or relating to labor":[],
": of, relating to, or constituting a political party held to represent the interests of workers or made up largely of organized labor groups":[]
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"\u02c8l\u0101-b\u0259r"
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"bear",
"beast",
"chore",
"headache",
"job",
"killer"
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"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for labor Noun work , labor , travail , toil , drudgery , grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force. too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion. farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering. years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body. the grind of the assembly line",
"examples":[
"Noun",
"A day's labor should get the job done.",
"Getting the job done will require many hours of difficult labor .",
"He rested from his labors .",
"The cost of repairing the car includes parts and labor .",
"an area in which there is a shortage of cheap labor",
"The proposed new law is opposed by organized labor .",
"She went into labor this morning.",
"She has been in labor for several hours.",
"She began to have labor pains this morning.",
"She had a difficult labor .",
"Verb",
"Workers labored in the vineyard.",
"He labored for several years as a miner.",
"She has labored in vain to convince them to accept her proposal.",
"We should honor those who labored so long to make the truth known.",
"The truck labored up the hill.",
"I have been laboring through this book for months.",
"She has a tendency to labor the obvious.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Energy sector jobs also enjoy higher union representation than the overall economy, with 10% of the energy workforce represented by a union or covered under a project labor agreement compared to 6% within the private sector. \u2014 Energy Innovation: Policy And Technology, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"However, labor forecasters expect those efforts won\u2019t be enough to meet the demand. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Chrang, who is a second generation Cambodian American, said his family was imprisoned in labor camps by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. \u2014 Seamus Webster, BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022",
"In the group's communique released at the end of the summit, the leaders criticized China for its military, humanitarian and labor actions. \u2014 Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News , 28 June 2022",
"Known as Bruce's Beach, the resort had offered Black families a place to enjoy the California life and was a labor of love for owners Charles and Willa Bruce. \u2014 Cheri Mossburg, CNN , 28 June 2022",
"Developers who opt in to the streamlined process would need to hire union workers through project labor agreements. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
"Six months after a contentious and protracted labor dispute with its teachers, Orange County Public Schools has reached an agreement to give most teachers a $3,325 annual raise, the largest increase in more than a decade. \u2014 Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel , 27 June 2022",
"Ghalichi elaborated on the experience on her Instagram Story, sharing videos throughout her induction and labor . \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Low-wage workers must labor for about 14 hours to fill up their tank. \u2014 Nicole Goodkind, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Not only do employees labor over circuit boards and code, but there\u2019s a line of four sewing machines in the company\u2019s office for crafting exosuit prototypes. \u2014 Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
"Kaprielian then threw two changeups to Josh Naylor, who homered on the second. Kaprielian, who can labor in starts and see his pitch count climb early, sat at a manageable 75 after the fifth. \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 June 2022",
"Stevens exhibits a mindfulness that modern people still labor to attain. \u2014 Robert Isenberg, Longreads , 26 Apr. 2022",
"But few people are blessed with a universal conscience, and most of us must labor to expand the power of empathy in radiating circles, from family to community to country to planet. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"More than half of all Mexican workers still labor in the informal sector. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Apr. 2022",
"In Africa, where youth unemployment is also high and the numbers are growing fastest, college graduates who compose barely 7 percent of the total workforce also labor in low-end jobs. \u2014 Joel Kotkin, National Review , 29 Mar. 2022",
"No need to labor over fictional narratives about brazen frauds when reality has given us Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"While Massachusetts has a long pro- labor tradition, state law carves out legislative staff from the definition of public employees who may collectively bargain. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
"But the staffers who work for those lawmakers and help craft those pro- labor bills are barred under California law from forming a union themselves. \u2014 Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 June 2022",
"But the companies\u2019 defeat in Massachusetts, a staunchly pro- labor and pro-union state, shows the limits of the strategy, said Terri Gerstein, a workers\u2019 rights lawyer at Harvard Law School\u2019s Labor and Worklife Program. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"The New York State AFL-CIO had opposed an earlier version, but agreed to stay neutral based on pro- labor edits made to the version of the BPRA which would have gone up for a vote. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 8 June 2022",
"The councilman noted that his heavily union district, which includes San Pedro, would not warm to a candidate who was not pro- labor . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Weil\u2019s withdrawal followed a punishing campaign by business interests to paint his pro- labor views as radical. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"The start of President Joe Biden\u2019s second year in office comes with new opportunities to deliver on his commitment to be pro- labor . \u2014 NBC News , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Many pro- labor politicians and top executives of large outside unions had been reluctant to embrace the ALU before its surprising victory. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French labur , from Latin labor ; perhaps akin to Latin labare to totter, labi to slip \u2014 more at sleep":"Noun, Verb, and Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
"1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015632"
},
"labellum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the median and usually most morphologically distinct member of the corolla of an orchid":[],
": a terminal part of the labium or labrum of various insects":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"l\u0259-\u02c8be-l\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The sepals, which are pink, petal-like extensions of the flower, look like wings while the lip (or labellum ) mimics the body of a bee. \u2014 Patricia Shannon, Southern Living , 30 Apr. 2020",
"The slipper orchids had brightly colored labellum surrounded by two massive petals and were about the size of a hand, fairly large for an orchid. \u2014 Katy Kelleher, Longreads , 9 Oct. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, diminutive of labrum lip \u2014 more at lip":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1810, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015817"
}
}
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