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3092 lines
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"Native American":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1628, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061624",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Native American church":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an intertribal American Indian religious organization adapting Christianity to native beliefs and practices and including especially the sacramental use of peyote":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025015",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Native Americanism":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the principles and policies of the 19th-century political group known as the Native Americans characterized especially by hostility toward all but native-born Protestant Americans":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131533",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Natron, Lake":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"lake 35 miles (56 kilometers) long and 15 miles (24 kilometers) wide in northern Tanzania near the border with Kenya; a breeding ground for flamingos":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8n\u0101-tr\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085218",
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"type":[
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"geographical name"
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]
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},
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"natch":{
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"antonyms":[
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"abnormally",
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"atypically",
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"extraordinarily",
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"uncommonly",
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"untypically",
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"unusually"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": of course : naturally":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He bought the most expensive car he could find, natch .",
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"the next day the office lothario was claiming, \u201cThe chicks at the party couldn't resist a looker like myself, natch \u201d"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1942, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"by shortening & alteration from naturally":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8nach"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"commonly",
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"generally",
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"naturally",
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"normally",
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"ordinarily",
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"typically",
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"usually"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224416",
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"type":[
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"nates":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": buttocks":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1581, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin, plural of natis buttock":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8n\u0101-\u02cct\u0113z"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"backside",
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"behind",
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"booty",
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"bootie",
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"bottom",
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"breech",
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"bum",
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"buns",
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"butt",
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"buttocks",
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"caboose",
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"can",
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"cheeks",
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"derriere",
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"derri\u00e8re",
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"duff",
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"fanny",
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"fundament",
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"hams",
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"haunches",
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"heinie",
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"hunkers",
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"keister",
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"keester",
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"posterior",
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"rear",
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"rear end",
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"rump",
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"seat",
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"tail",
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"tail end",
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"tush"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200251",
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"type":[
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"noun plural",
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"plural noun"
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]
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},
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"nation":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government":[
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"Canada is a nation with a written constitution",
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"\u2014 B. K. Sandwell"
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],
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": a non-Jewish nationality":[
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"why do the nations conspire",
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"\u2014 Psalms 2:1 (Revised Standard Version)"
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],
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": a politically organized nationality":[],
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": a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status":[
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"a nation of vast size with a small population",
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"\u2014 Mary K. Hammond"
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],
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": a tribe or federation of tribes (as of American Indians)":[
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"the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma"
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],
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": group , aggregation":[],
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": nationality sense 5a":[
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"three Slav peoples \u2026 forged into a Yugoslavia without really fusing into a Yugoslav nation",
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"\u2014 Hans Kohn"
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],
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"Amelia 1846\u20131911 n\u00e9e Moore American temperance agitator":[
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"Car*ry \\ \u02c8ker-\u200b\u0113 , \u02c8ka-\u200br\u0113 \\"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"It's one of the richest nations in the world.",
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"the largest state in the nation",
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"The President will speak to the nation tonight.",
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"The entire nation is celebrating the victory.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Some 36 percent of people in the Netherlands commute daily on two wheels, making the flat nation one of the richest bicycle cultures on Earth. \u2014 Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report , 25 June 2022",
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"Tennessee ranks 36th in the nation for infant mortality. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 25 June 2022",
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"The festival-goers and holiday-makers superficially paint a different picture than that suggested by the GfK. After all, would a nation stricken with worry about the price of the weekly shop be packing out the terminals at Heathrow airport",
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"His 25 home runs as a freshman led the nation and was a Pac-12 record for a freshman, also breaking Barry Bonds' ASU record for home runs by a freshman. \u2014 Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic , 25 June 2022",
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"This nation of emigrants has also been enriched in recent decades by inward migration. \u2014 Maureen O'hare And Richard Quest, CNN , 24 June 2022",
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"Politico reports that Democrats began to make their cases to the Democratic National Committee yesterday for why their states should be the first-in-the- nation Democratic primary in 2024. \u2014 Mark Murray, NBC News , 24 June 2022",
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"The court's decision comes on the heels of a string of mass shootings from mid-May to early June that jolted the nation and acted as a catalyst for Congress to again search for consensus on a legislative plan to curb gun violence. \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 24 June 2022",
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"President Joe Biden addressed the nation in the Cross Hall of the White House. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English nacioun , from Anglo-French naciun , from Latin nation-, natio birth, race, nation, from nasci to be born; akin to Latin gignere to beget \u2014 more at kin":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"commonwealth",
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"country",
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"land",
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"sovereignty",
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"sovranty",
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"state"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223731",
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"type":[
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"biographical name",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"nation-state":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02ccst\u0101t",
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"\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n-\u02c8st\u0101t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115539",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"national":{
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"antonyms":[
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"citizen",
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"freeman",
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"subject"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a competition that is national in scope":[
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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],
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": belonging to or maintained by the federal government":[
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"the National Museum of American History"
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],
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": comprising or characteristic of a nationality":[
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"his national accent was plainly audible",
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"\u2014 Elinor Wylie"
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],
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": nationalist":[],
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": of or relating to a nation":[
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"national boundaries",
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"the national flag"
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],
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": of, relating to, or being a coalition (see coalition sense 2 ) government formed by most or all major political parties usually in a crisis":[],
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": one that owes allegiance to or is under the protection of a nation without regard to the more formal status of citizen or subject":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"She won the national championship last year.",
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"His test scores were higher than the national average.",
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"Doing well in the Olympics is a matter of national pride.",
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"Baseball is called America's national pastime.",
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"The game was shown on national television.",
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"Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.",
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"the National Museum of Art",
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"Noun",
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"She's a Mexican national now working in the United States.",
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"The U.S. Nationals will be held in New York City this year.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"As the three positions oversee profound issues that touch on national security, human rights and public safety, even casual decisions by anyone holding them can affect the lives of millions of Americans. \u2014 Elliot Williams, CNN , 23 June 2022",
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"Even as the pressure grew over recent years, new outlets like Insider and Proekt published scoops about national security and Putin\u2019s private life. \u2014 Adam Taylor, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
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"There is little doubt that Lai will be found guilty under the national -security law. \u2014 Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
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"The White House and congressional Democrats have discussed a national gas tax holiday as one of the few options for bringing down the cost at the pump, as external factors have been major drivers of surging prices. \u2014 New York Times , 20 June 2022",
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"But a national holiday honoring fathers did not become official until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson issued a presidential proclamation declaring that the third Sunday in June would be Father\u2019s Day. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 June 2022",
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"Now, Juneteenth has spread from Texas into a national holiday. \u2014 Mark Whitaker, CBS News , 19 June 2022",
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"Lee held her annual walk about a month after Floyd's death and her petition to make Juneteenth a national holiday gained more than a million signatures. \u2014 N'dea Yancey-bragg, USA TODAY , 19 June 2022",
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"Shortly after King\u2019s 1968 assassination, Congressman John Conyers and Sen. Edward Brooke introduced a bill to make King\u2019s birthday a national holiday \u2014 the first time the honor would have been bestowed on a non-elected official. \u2014 Ernie Suggs, ajc , 16 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"As part of his plea deal, the British national agreed to meet with any of his victims\u2019 families who wished to do so. \u2014 Anna Schecter, NBC News , 23 June 2022",
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"The company has notified the FBI, and Chinese detectives have also begun a probe into the case, and have detained at least one Chinese national , according to the lawsuit. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 24 Mar. 2022",
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"At least 15 dual nationals and one foreign national were known to be imprisoned in Iran as of April 2021, according to research by the Center for Human Rights in Iran, an independent not-for-profit organization. \u2014 Amir Vahdat, USA TODAY , 5 Aug. 2021",
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"Since the planes were built in the US and the flights took place after export restrictions were in effect, the Russian national would have needed a license from the Department of Commerce to fly them to Russia. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 7 June 2022",
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"The 51-year-old Mexican national will now be transported to Texas to face charges for failing to report his location to immigration officials in a separate case. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 7 June 2022",
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"Igor Danchenko, a Russian national linked to the Steele dossier, still faces Durham charges. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
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"Her mother, a Russian national , is sheltering with her husband and child. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"The 30-year-old Ukraine national was released from the makeshift government quarantine facility Friday, after three negative tests in the past week. \u2014 Fox News , 17 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8na-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
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"\u02c8nash-n\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for national Noun citizen , subject , national mean a person owing allegiance to and entitled to the protection of a sovereign state. citizen is preferred for one owing allegiance to a state in which sovereign power is retained by the people and sharing in the political rights of those people. the rights of a free citizen subject implies allegiance to a personal sovereign such as a monarch. the king's subjects national designates one who may claim the protection of a state and applies especially to one living or traveling outside that state. American nationals working in the Middle East",
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"synonyms":[
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"civil",
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"public"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003013",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"national forest":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a usually forested area of considerable extent that is preserved by government decree from private exploitation and is harvested only under supervision":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The restrictions are in effect throughout the 820,000-acre national forest with few exceptions, the forest announced. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 25 May 2022",
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"The cabins at Whispering Pines are spread across 13 acres of pine and oak timber abutting the national forest . \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 24 May 2022",
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"Prescott Valley, where Hayes lived, is surrounded by the 1.25 million-acre national forest . \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 20 May 2022",
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"Some 43% of all forest loss in the Tongass region from 2015\u20132020 occurred on lands transferred out of the national forest . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"According to the Forest Service, the blaze has spread outside the national forest and is being managed under unified command by the federal agency and New Hampshire Forest and Lands personnel. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 May 2022",
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"Some roads and trails along the highway may be closed, the National Park Service said, and many national forest roads between Grant Grove and the northern Sequoia park entrance are still closed until snow melts. \u2014 Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
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"The identification of Cho\u2019s remains comes weeks after authorities found the body of Gabby Petito in a Wyoming national forest . \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Oct. 2021",
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"The 23-year-old Laundrie was the former fianc\u00e9 of Gabby Petito, whose remains were found in a Wyoming national forest last month. \u2014 al , 26 Oct. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1848, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125611",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"national interest":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the interest of a nation as a whole held to be an independent entity separate from the interests of subordinate areas or groups and also of other nations or supranational groups":[
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"any foreign policy which operates under the standard of the national interest",
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"\u2014 H. J. Morgenthau"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124627",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"nationalise":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":[
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"Definition of nationalise chiefly British spelling of nationalize"
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],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-195648",
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"type":[]
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},
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"nationalism":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a nationalist movement or government":[
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"opposing nationalisms"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The war was caused by nationalism and greed.",
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"Nazism's almost epic nationalism appealed to downtrodden Germans still suffering the humiliation of being defeated in World War I.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Gripped by increasingly aggressive nationalism , Russia has ditched policies that promoted Russia as part of Europe and has moved advanced Iskander missiles into Kaliningrad. \u2014 New York Times , 20 June 2022",
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"This is partly a reflection of Russian nationalism , but it\u2019s also a longing for the role Russia used to have. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 18 June 2022",
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"Republicans energetically reject the cosmopolitanism in favor of the kind of ethno- nationalism embodied in Brexit, Narendra Modi\u2019s India, Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Hungary, and all the rest. \u2014 Ed Burmila, The New Republic , 15 June 2022",
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"The police largely stepped aside, allowing the mourners a rare show of Palestinian nationalism in the Old City, which Israel captured in 1967 and that the Palestinians claim as their capital. \u2014 David S. Cloud, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
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"Meanwhile, the Poles, whose ancestors were the chief victims of Ukrainian nationalism , have admitted nearly three million Ukrainian refugees, reminding us that there are other ways to handle history than stories of eternal victimhood. \u2014 Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"The resulting social media attention highlighted the relationship between the populist politician and a world-famous athlete who has sometimes embraced troubling symbols of Serbian nationalism . \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
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"In their resulting array of arguments, written and spoken, Mishra identifies the development of ideas that continue to shape the world, among them pan-Islamism and Chinese nationalism . \u2014 Bo Seo, The Atlantic , 1 June 2022",
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"Researchers say Christian nationalism is often also associated with mistrust of immigrants and Muslims. \u2014 Peter Smith And Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1798, 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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"\u02c8na-sh\u0259-n\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m",
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"\u02c8nash-n\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"chauvinism",
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"jingoism",
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"superpatriotism"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114900",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"nationalist":{
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"antonyms":[
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"chauvinist",
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"chauvinistic",
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"jingoist",
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"jingoistic",
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"nationalistic",
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"superpatriotic"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": of, relating to, or being a political group advocating or associated with nationalism":[]
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"a staunch nationalist who favored any policy that would give the country more power in the international arena",
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"Adjective",
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"The country's Nationalist Party won the election.",
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"a nationalist rant against the immigrants supposedly flooding the country",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Even considering the vast electoral machinery stacked against them, a united bloc of the Hungarian opposition had hopes of at least weakening the right-wing nationalist \u2019s mandate. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
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"Many French who cast ballots for him, however, did so only to bar Marine Le Pen\u2014a far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist \u2014from France\u2019s highest office. \u2014 Stacy Meichtry, WSJ , 7 May 2022",
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"For many who voted for left-wing candidates in the first round April 10, this runoff vote presents a unpalatable choice between a nationalist in Le Pen, and a president who some feel has veered to the right during his first term. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"For many who voted for left-wing candidates in the first round April 10, this runoff vote presents a unpalatable choice between a nationalist in Le Pen, and a president who some feel has veered to the right during his first term. \u2014 Thomas Adamson, BostonGlobe.com , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"\u00d6zdemir was friendly with Necmettin Erbakan, an Islamic nationalist and a vitriolic critic of Western culture. \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
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"After the win, Macron acknowledged that many voters went for him only to keep out the nationalist , Le Pen. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 25 Apr. 2022",
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"In this strange atmosphere, overshadowed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron, a centrist, holds a slight lead over Marine Le Pen, a hard-right nationalist , according to the latest polls. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
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"Miky Lee found herself in the eye of a storm whipped up by Park Geun-hye, South Korea\u2019s first woman president (2013-17), a fierce nationalist who traded favors and influence with some of Korea\u2019s chaebols. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"Modi has been widely criticized for taking a Hindu- nationalist approach to managing India\u2019s religious tensions and for his treatment of the country\u2019s minority Muslim population. \u2014 Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
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"And emasculation had no place in Italian Futurism, the bizarre and nationalist art movement founded by Marinetti in 1909 on the belief that Italy could never gain primacy if its feeble men were so preoccupied with history and tradition. \u2014 Amanda Arnold, Bon App\u00e9tit , 23 June 2022",
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"Separately, a more than 50-minute edited video was published on Saturday of Drueke and Huynh being interviewed by HelmCast, a pro-Russian Serbian nationalist YouTube channel. \u2014 Jonny Hallam And Helen Regan, CNN , 20 June 2022",
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"Soldiers confiscate workers\u2019 phones, trawl through text messages and social-media feeds, and check to see whose language settings are saved to Ukrainian rather than Russian\u2014seen as evidence of nationalist sentiment. \u2014 Drew Hinshaw, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
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"In Sao Paolo, newspaper reporter Patricia Campos Mello attends a rally for Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, a nationalist strongman who frequently directs his fervent followers\u2019 rage towards the Fourth Estate. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 15 June 2022",
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"After the rally, Dodik\u2019s supporters sang Serbian nationalist songs, waved the Republika Srpska tricolor flag and displayed banners dedicated to Mladi\u0107. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
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"Many Muslims in India have been questioning their place in society since Modi came to power in 2014, playing down his roots in a powerful Hindu- nationalist group with which his party is affiliated. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 13 June 2022",
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"But Trump mainstreamed a different kind of conservatism, one more nationalist , opposed to activity abroad, and distrustful of foreigners. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 13 June 2022"
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"1849, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"1884, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
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"\u02c8nash-n\u0259-list",
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"\u02c8na-sh\u0259-n\u0259-list"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"chauvinist",
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"flag-waver",
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"jingo",
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"superpatriot"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061253",
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"noun"
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": national sense 1":[],
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": of, favoring, or characterized by nationalism":[
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"nationalistic election speeches"
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"examples":[
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"the political party's nationalistic ideology",
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"a nationalistic display of the country's flag at all civic events",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"An anonymous movement that translates extreme and nationalistic posts from Chinese netizens has outraged state commentators who call it an anti-China smear campaign. \u2014 Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
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"Vu\u010di\u0107, who was elected to a second term as president in April, is one of the few European leaders maintaining close ties to Vladimir Putin, a relationship strengthened by their common Christian Orthodox faith and their nationalistic outlook. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022",
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"These organizations often force churches to teach counter to their dogma, and often insert nationalistic propaganda into worship. \u2014 Fox News , 25 May 2022",
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"That nationalistic glow extends to Maverick's courting of a former paramour, Jennifer Connelly, but there's a bittersweet sentimentality in their reconnection, the kind of unhurried adult romance that doesn't make it on screen much anymore. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 12 May 2022",
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"Instead, Putin can mostly offer his public a deep nationalistic grievance. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
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"Many historians agree that\u2019s exactly what happened: The level of sacrifice imposed on German citizens created fertile grounds for far-right, nationalistic doctrines, leading to the rise of Nazism. \u2014 Annalisa Merelli, Quartz , 23 Mar. 2022",
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"There, pro-Russia and anti-Western, nationalistic voices have also dominated, while there has been a suppression of pro-Ukrainian or anti-war messages on platforms and across the media landscape. \u2014 Simone Mccarthy, CNN , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"In place of these bonds, Tokarczuk challenges us to focus on the invisible similarities, the butterfly-effect linkages of fate and circumstance that don\u2019t appear in traditional accounts of history or in contemporary nationalistic myths. \u2014 Jake Bittle, The New Republic , 2 Mar. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02ccnash-n\u0259-\u02c8li-stik",
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"\u02ccna-sh\u0259-n\u0259-\u02c8li-stik"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"nationalist",
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"patriotic"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043743",
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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"nationwide":{
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"definitions":{
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": extending throughout a nation":[],
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": throughout the nation":[]
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"The murders attracted nationwide attention.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"But while many other parents amid the nationwide shortage could find alternate formulas, Beichler's only option was to stretch out their dwindling-down containers. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"One of the items was baby formula, a product in the midst of a severe nationwide shortage due to supply chain issues. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 23 June 2022",
|
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"Nine-month-old Jennifer lives almost entirely on baby formula, which remains difficult to find even a month after President Biden announced extraordinary measures to help alleviate a nationwide shortage. \u2014 Laura Reiley, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
|
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"The Trump administration turned to it to ease a shortage of N95 masks and, last month, the Biden administration invoked its powers to restock baby formula amid a nationwide shortage. \u2014 Anna Phillips, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
|
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"The formula \u2014 Nestle's Alfamino and Alfamino Junior brands \u2014 arrived at the Worldport hub from Switzerland as part of President Joe Biden's Operation Formula Fly to combat a nationwide shortage that has plagued families for months. \u2014 Eleanor Mccrary, The Courier-Journal , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"The facility had previously shut down in February, driving a nationwide shortage of infant and specialty formulas to a critical point, but had managed to reopen on June 4. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 16 June 2022",
|
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"And a nationwide housing shortage particularly acute in California has seen prices skyrocket in markets as far-flung as Boise, Idaho. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
|
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"Pools were initially expected to open for the summer June 24, but Chicago Park District officials had warned that a nationwide lifeguard shortage could affect pool openings. \u2014 Adriana P\u00e9rez, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
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"Marin\u2019s art collection has already done more than 50 museum tours nationwide and globally, but the Cheech will be its first permanent home. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
|
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"Muddy Bites are sold in close to 3,000 retail locations nationwide and earlier this year announced a major distribution deal with 7-Eleven stores. \u2014 Joan Verdon, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
|
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"The refrigerators were sold at Lowe\u2019s, Home Depot and appliance stores nationwide and online at Frigidaire.com from April 2020 through March 2022 for between $1,200 and $4,300. \u2014 Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al , 4 June 2022",
|
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"As baby formula supplies dried up nationwide and under pressure from the White House, Abbott entered a consent decree with the FDA that laid out the steps needed to resume production at the facility. \u2014 Caroline Linton, CBS News , 4 June 2022",
|
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"Founded in 1995, the company acquired a string of schools nationwide and at its peak enrolled 110,000 students at more than 100 campuses. \u2014 Stacy Cowley, New York Times , 1 June 2022",
|
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"That method now accounts for about half of abortions nationwide and in Kentucky, which reported 4,104 abortions for 2020, the most recent numbers available. \u2014 Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal , 19 May 2022",
|
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"That happened at a time when employee loyalty nationwide and in Central Indiana dropped more than any other single factor measured, says Bob Helbig, media partnerships director for Energage, which surveys employees for Top Workplaces. \u2014 Michael Schroeder, The Indianapolis Star , 18 May 2022",
|
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"Here's how to get them COVID-19 antiviral pills, Paxlovid and molnupiravir, are becoming increasingly available nationwide and in the Bay Area now that supply has improved since the rollout began in January. \u2014 Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 May 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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"1971, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb"
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccn\u0101-sh\u0259n-\u02c8w\u012bd"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231106",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb"
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]
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},
|
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"native":{
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"antonyms":[
|
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"local",
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"localite",
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"townie",
|
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"towny",
|
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"year-rounder"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an original or indigenous inhabitant":[],
|
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": belonging to a particular place by birth":[
|
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"a native New Yorker"
|
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],
|
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": belonging to or associated with one by birth":[
|
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"hailed in his native Sweden as an influential dramatist",
|
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"\u2014 William Peden"
|
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],
|
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": closely related":[],
|
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": constituting the original substance or source":[
|
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"the way I must return to native dust",
|
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"\u2014 John Milton"
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],
|
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": found in nature especially in an unadulterated form":[
|
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"mining native silver"
|
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],
|
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": grown, produced, or originating in a particular place or in the vicinity : local":[
|
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"native fruits and vegetables"
|
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],
|
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": having a usually superficial (see superficial sense 2 ) resemblance to a specified English plant or animal":[],
|
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": inborn , innate":[
|
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"native talents"
|
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],
|
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": living or growing naturally in a particular region : indigenous":[
|
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"native wildlife of Australia"
|
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],
|
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": natural , normal":[
|
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"a generosity that was native to him"
|
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],
|
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": of, relating to, or being a member of an indigenous people of North or South America : native american":[],
|
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": one born or reared in a particular place":[],
|
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": simple , unaffected":[
|
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"our feeling still native and entire, unsophisticated by pedantry",
|
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"\u2014 Edmund Burke"
|
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],
|
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": something indigenous to a particular locality":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Adjective",
|
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"people who are native to France",
|
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"She has a native ability to learn quickly.",
|
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"The island is home to several native species of trees.",
|
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"Noun",
|
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"She's a native of France who moved to the United States when she was 15.",
|
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"He wishes he could speak Spanish like a native .",
|
|
"The plant is a native of Central and South America.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
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"According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, black bears are native to all of Texas, but in the early 1900s, heavy hunting and trapping eliminated almost all of them from the state. \u2014 Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Matt Horton, Arkansas Game and Fish aquatic nuisance species program coordinator, says the growing number of animals, plants, even pathogens, that are not native to Arkansas is concerning because of the negative impact on the environment. \u2014 Lara Farrar, Arkansas Online , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"This Sonoma County winery makes its roast with an Aglianico grape, which is native to southern Italy and known for producing some of the most full-bodied wines in the world. \u2014 Jeanette Hurt, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
|
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"Three types of catfish are native to the Sooner State: flatheads, blue cats, and channel catfish. \u2014 Matt Carney, Outside Online , 15 June 2022",
|
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"Fernanda seemed not to be native to Fernandina Island. \u2014 Sammy Westfall, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"The parrot species is native to South America, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago, and is a popular exotic pet due to the bird's high intelligence and ability to mimic what people say. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"This vegetable is derived from the inner part of particular palm tree varieties that are native to South and Central America, according to the Michelin Guide. \u2014 Audrey Bruno, SELF , 11 June 2022",
|
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"What Jackson wants people to realize is that Michigan is home to more than 450 kinds of bees that are native to the state that live side by side with us in peace. \u2014 Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press , 10 June 2022",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
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"Pippen, the son of NBA legend Scottie Pippen, is a native of Los Angeles and attended Sierra Canyon High School. \u2014 Aria Gerson, USA TODAY , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Wilson was a native of Vermont and a world class cyclist, according to the Marshals Service. \u2014 Marlene Lenthang, NBC News , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Ousmane Dieng, 19, is a native of France who averaged 8.9 points in 23 games in New Zealand this past season. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Drummond is a native of Wedowee and a graduate of the University of Alabama. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 13 June 2022",
|
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"David is a native of Charleston, SC and graduated from Duke University with a degree in history. \u2014 People Staff, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
|
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"Gilbert Garcia is a native of Brownsville, Texas, with more than 20 years experience writing for weekly and daily newspapers. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News , 7 June 2022",
|
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"Garcia's nephew Steven Anthony Martinez, 27, of San Antonio is a native of Uvalde and told the Free Press that his family is grateful for the donations. \u2014 Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press , 25 May 2022",
|
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"Thomas, 6-foot-4, 266 pounds and 23 years old, is a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma. \u2014 Dan Labbe, cleveland , 30 Apr. 2022"
|
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|
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|
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"1535, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English natif , from Middle French, from Latin nativus , from natus , past participle of nasci to be born \u2014 more at nation":"Adjective and Noun"
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8n\u0101-tiv",
|
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"\u02c8n\u0101t-iv"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for native Adjective native , indigenous , endemic , aboriginal mean belonging to a locality. native implies birth or origin in a place or region and may suggest compatibility with it. native tribal customs indigenous applies to that which is not only native but which, as far as can be determined, has never been introduced or brought from elsewhere. indigenous plants endemic implies being peculiar to a region. a disease endemic in Africa aboriginal implies having no known others preceding in occupancy of a particular region. the aboriginal peoples of Australia",
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"synonyms":[
|
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"aboriginal",
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"autochthonous",
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"born",
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"domestic",
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"endemic",
|
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"indigenous"
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203516",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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},
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"native sparrow":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": either of two Australian weaverbirds ( Zonaeginthus oculatus and Z. bellus )":[]
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},
|
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195952",
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"native speaker":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a person who learned to speak the language of the place where he or she was born as a child rather than learning it as a foreign language":[
|
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"a native speaker of Swahili",
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"That kind of mistake is rarely made by native speakers ."
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193851",
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},
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"nativity":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a horoscope at or of the time of one's birth":[],
|
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": the place of origin":[]
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"my father and grandparents were proud observers of my nativity",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Nadia misses Ruth's death, but not her own nativity \u2014 literally giving birth to herself on a 1982 subway platform. \u2014 EW.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
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"There were eggs, elaborately painted with minuscule nativity scenes. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Jan. 2022",
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"There are usually lavish decorations, stalls selling arts and crafts, the waft of spicy gingerbread biscuits, South Tyrolean panforte and mulled wine, nativity scenes and Advent calendar windows. \u2014 Rob Hodgetts, CNN , 21 Dec. 2021",
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"The decorations also include figures from nativity scenes. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 18 Dec. 2021",
|
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"Plastic nativity scenes are quirky and very charming. \u2014 Better Homes & Gardens , 29 Nov. 2021",
|
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"The camel was part of a live drive-thru nativity display at the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame. \u2014 Doha Madani, NBC News , 8 Dec. 2021",
|
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"Dalton First United Methodist Church, in Dalton, Ga., had a drive-through nativity event in early December. \u2014 Ian Lovett, WSJ , 21 Dec. 2021",
|
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"See displays of nativity sets from around the world, a Dickens village, Santa Claus collection, Christmas trees and more Friday-Sunday through Dec. 31 by entering front door of church. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 20 Dec. 2021"
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],
|
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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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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English nativite , from Anglo-French nativit\u00e9 , from Medieval Latin nativitat-, nativitas , from Late Latin, birth, from Latin nativus":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"n\u0101-",
|
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"n\u0259-\u02c8ti-v\u0259-t\u0113"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"birth",
|
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"geniture"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213134",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
|
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"natroalunite":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a mineral NaAl 3 (SO 4 ) 2 (OH) 6 consisting of a basic sulfate of aluminum and sodium isomorphous with alunite":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"natr- + alunite":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u00a6na\u2027tr\u014d+",
|
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"\u00a6n\u0101\u2027tr\u014d"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111405",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"natrochalcite":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a mineral NaCu 2 (SO 4 ) 2 (OH).H 2 O consisting of a hydrous basic sodium copper sulfate":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"German natrochalzit , from natro- natr- + chalz- chalc- + -it -ite":""
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccn\u0101\u2027tr\u014d\u02c8kal\u02ccs\u012bt",
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"\u02ccna\u2027-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104818",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"natrojarosite":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a mineral NaFe 3 (SO 4 ) 2 (OH) 6 in which sodium takes the place of potassium in jarosite":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"natr- + jarosite":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6na\u2027tr\u014d+",
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"\u00a6n\u0101\u2027tr\u014d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103054",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"natrolite":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum that is related to zeolite":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1811, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"natr(on) + -o- + -lite , after German Natrolith":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8n\u0101-tr\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bt"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085622",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"natromontebrasite":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a mineral (Na, Li)Al(PO 4 )(OH, F) consisting of a basic phosphate of sodium, lithium, and aluminum isomorphous with amblygonite and montebrasite":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"French, from natr- + montebrasite":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u00a6na\u2027tr\u014d+",
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"\u00a6n\u0101\u2027tr\u014d"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084658",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"natron":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a hydrous native sodium carbonate used in ancient times in embalming, in ceramic pastes, and as a cleansing agent":[]
|
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Lake Natron gets its name from the naturally occurring mixture of sodium carbonates called natron . \u2014 Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Oct. 2021",
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"If so, this would be the first evidence for this practice being applied to a snake, although historical texts suggest a similar practice for the Apis bull, involving placing myrrh and natron under the tongue to slow down decomposition. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 21 Aug. 2020",
|
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"There was also evidence of the mouth opening being filled with resin (most likely natron ) to render the snake harmless. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 21 Aug. 2020",
|
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"After removing the body\u2019s internal organs, priests would use natron , a naturally occurring salt, to dry it out. \u2014 National Geographic , 10 Dec. 2019",
|
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"The proportion of magnesia in inlays and window glass from Samarra\u2019s palaces suggests plant ash, rather than natron , as the source of sodium carbonate in the glassmaking process. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 31 Aug. 2018"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1684, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from French naitron, natron, borrowed (by uncertain mediation) from Arabic na\u1e6dr\u016bn, borrowed from Greek n\u00edtron niter":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8n\u0101-\u02cctr\u00e4n",
|
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"-tr\u0259n"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084649",
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
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"natrophilite":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": a mineral NaMn(PO 4 ) consisting of phosphate of sodium and manganese almost isostructural with varulite but having sodium and manganese disordered":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"natr- + -phil + -ite":""
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"n\u0259\u02c8tr\u00e4f\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085632",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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"natter":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"backchat",
|
|
"cackle",
|
|
"causerie",
|
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"chat",
|
|
"chatter",
|
|
"chin music",
|
|
"chin-wag",
|
|
"chitchat",
|
|
"confab",
|
|
"confabulation",
|
|
"gab",
|
|
"gabfest",
|
|
"gossip",
|
|
"jangle",
|
|
"jaw",
|
|
"palaver",
|
|
"patter",
|
|
"rap",
|
|
"schmooze",
|
|
"small talk",
|
|
"table talk",
|
|
"talk",
|
|
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": chatter sense 2":[],
|
|
": idle talk or conversation : chat":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"If you ask about his grandchildren, he'll natter on about them for hours.",
|
|
"She nattered about herself through our entire meal.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"a section of the park in which nannies like to gather for a relaxed natter",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"The finale crystallized the show\u2019s acidic insights about how and why people natter . \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 15 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"All those nattering nabobs of negativism in the press were certainly guaranteed to give this speech the back of the hand, right",
|
|
"The Jerry Springer Show nattered away on a television in the corner; Gisell tried to focus on the screen. \u2014 Anndee Hochman, Philly.com , 19 Jan. 2018",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Francis and the driver natter away in unsubtitled Romanian, of which Julie does not understand a word. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 21 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Instead, Trump natters about video games and mental health \u2014 neither of which Congress will do anything about, either. \u2014 Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News , 11 Aug. 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1942, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
|
|
"1943, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"probably imitative":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8na-t\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"babble",
|
|
"blab",
|
|
"cackle",
|
|
"chaffer",
|
|
"chat",
|
|
"chatter",
|
|
"chin",
|
|
"converse",
|
|
"gab",
|
|
"gabble",
|
|
"gas",
|
|
"jabber",
|
|
"jaw",
|
|
"kibitz",
|
|
"kibbitz",
|
|
"palaver",
|
|
"patter",
|
|
"prate",
|
|
"prattle",
|
|
"rap",
|
|
"rattle",
|
|
"run on",
|
|
"schmooze",
|
|
"shmooze",
|
|
"talk",
|
|
"twitter",
|
|
"visit"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052524",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"natty":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"disheveled",
|
|
"dishevelled",
|
|
"frowsy",
|
|
"frowzy",
|
|
"sloppy",
|
|
"slovenly",
|
|
"unkempt"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": trimly neat and tidy : smart":[
|
|
"natty clothes",
|
|
"a natty dresser"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a soldier in his natty blue uniform",
|
|
"He's quite a natty dresser.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"It\u2019s the perfect gift for dads who love natty wine and value. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Head out back to the waterfront garden with your glass of natty wine and basket of crispy chicken sprinkled with vinegar powder and served with a side of ranch. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 3 May 2022",
|
|
"Despite our example's natty red seats and decent roster of tech and convenience features, the RX's biggest turnoffs are its aging interior and its infotainment system's unintuitive touchpad controller. \u2014 Mike Sutton, Car and Driver , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Because from pictures on Instagram, turning an Airstream into a natty home looks pretty glamorous. \u2014 Julia Buckley, CNN , 13 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Plus the women occasionally borrow the guys' natty hats. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"And, all the better to hold the collection\u2019s tortoise-print sunglasses and hair picks, natty silk scarves, and branded Moleskine notebooks. \u2014 Rachel Marlowe, Vogue , 8 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Particularly when subbing in for the standard nylon of a puffer jacket, the material makes a natty topper for a wide range of cold-weather looks. \u2014 Kareem Rashed, Robb Report , 4 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The Volt is also available in a natty silver scheme with orange highlights. \u2014 Bill Roberson, Forbes , 12 Nov. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1785, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"perhaps alteration of earlier netty , from obsolete net neat, clean":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8na-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dapper",
|
|
"sharp",
|
|
"smart",
|
|
"snappy",
|
|
"spruce"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064755",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"natural":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"airhead",
|
|
"birdbrain",
|
|
"blockhead",
|
|
"bonehead",
|
|
"bubblehead",
|
|
"chowderhead",
|
|
"chucklehead",
|
|
"clodpoll",
|
|
"clodpole",
|
|
"clot",
|
|
"cluck",
|
|
"clunk",
|
|
"cretin",
|
|
"cuddy",
|
|
"cuddie",
|
|
"deadhead",
|
|
"dim bulb",
|
|
"dimwit",
|
|
"dip",
|
|
"dodo",
|
|
"dolt",
|
|
"donkey",
|
|
"doofus",
|
|
"dope",
|
|
"dork",
|
|
"dullard",
|
|
"dum-dum",
|
|
"dumbbell",
|
|
"dumbhead",
|
|
"dummkopf",
|
|
"dummy",
|
|
"dunce",
|
|
"dunderhead",
|
|
"fathead",
|
|
"gander",
|
|
"golem",
|
|
"goof",
|
|
"goon",
|
|
"half-wit",
|
|
"hammerhead",
|
|
"hardhead",
|
|
"idiot",
|
|
"ignoramus",
|
|
"imbecile",
|
|
"jackass",
|
|
"know-nothing",
|
|
"knucklehead",
|
|
"lamebrain",
|
|
"loggerhead",
|
|
"loon",
|
|
"lump",
|
|
"lunkhead",
|
|
"meathead",
|
|
"mome",
|
|
"moron",
|
|
"mug",
|
|
"mutt",
|
|
"nimrod",
|
|
"nincompoop",
|
|
"ninny",
|
|
"ninnyhammer",
|
|
"nit",
|
|
"nitwit",
|
|
"noddy",
|
|
"noodle",
|
|
"numskull",
|
|
"numbskull",
|
|
"oaf",
|
|
"pinhead",
|
|
"prat",
|
|
"ratbag",
|
|
"saphead",
|
|
"schlub",
|
|
"shlub",
|
|
"schnook",
|
|
"simpleton",
|
|
"stock",
|
|
"stupe",
|
|
"stupid",
|
|
"thickhead",
|
|
"turkey",
|
|
"woodenhead",
|
|
"yahoo",
|
|
"yo-yo"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a note or tone affected by the natural sign":[],
|
|
": a result or combination that immediately wins the stake in a game: such as":[],
|
|
": a sign \u266e placed on any degree of the musical staff to nullify the effect of a preceding sharp or flat":[],
|
|
": a throw of 7 or 11 on the first cast in craps":[],
|
|
": afro":[],
|
|
": based on an inherent sense of right and wrong":[
|
|
"natural justice"
|
|
],
|
|
": being a relation by actual consanguinity as distinguished from adoption":[
|
|
"natural parents"
|
|
],
|
|
": being in a state of nature without spiritual enlightenment : unregenerate":[
|
|
"natural man"
|
|
],
|
|
": being in accordance with or determined by nature":[
|
|
"natural impulses"
|
|
],
|
|
": being neither sharp nor flat":[
|
|
"natural musical notes"
|
|
],
|
|
": blackjack sense 1b":[],
|
|
": born to parents not married to each other":[
|
|
"a natural child"
|
|
],
|
|
": closely resembling an original : true to nature":[],
|
|
": existing in or produced by nature : not artificial":[
|
|
"natural turf",
|
|
"natural curiosities"
|
|
],
|
|
": formulated by human reason alone rather than revelation":[
|
|
"natural religion",
|
|
"natural rights"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a form or appearance found in nature":[
|
|
"natural hair"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a normal or usual character":[
|
|
"events followed their natural course"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a physical or real existence as contrasted with one that is spiritual, intellectual, or fictitious":[
|
|
"a corporation is a legal but not a natural person"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a specified character by nature":[
|
|
"a natural athlete",
|
|
"a natural leader"
|
|
],
|
|
": having an essential relation with someone or something : following from the nature of the one in question":[
|
|
"his guilt is a natural deduction from the evidence"
|
|
],
|
|
": having neither flats nor sharps":[
|
|
"the natural scale of C major"
|
|
],
|
|
": having or constituting a classification based on features existing in nature":[],
|
|
": having the pitch modified by the natural sign":[],
|
|
": implanted or being as if implanted by nature : seemingly inborn":[
|
|
"a natural talent for art"
|
|
],
|
|
": living in or as if in a state of nature untouched by the influences of civilization and society":[],
|
|
": marked by easy simplicity and freedom from artificiality, affectation , or constraint":[
|
|
"Successful people are genuine and natural rather than synthetic and imitative.",
|
|
"\u2014 Gilbert Seldes"
|
|
],
|
|
": occurring in conformity with the ordinary course of nature : not marvelous or supernatural":[
|
|
"natural causes",
|
|
"died a natural death"
|
|
],
|
|
": of an off-white or beige color":[],
|
|
": of or relating to nature as an object of study and research":[
|
|
"natural observations"
|
|
],
|
|
": of, relating to, or operating in the physical as opposed to the spiritual world":[
|
|
"natural laws describe phenomena of the physical universe"
|
|
],
|
|
": one born without the usual powers of reason and understanding":[],
|
|
": one having natural skills, talents, or abilities":[],
|
|
": one that is obviously suitable for a specific purpose":[],
|
|
": possessing or exhibiting the higher qualities (such as kindliness and affection) of human nature":[
|
|
"a noble \u2026 brother \u2026 ever most kind and natural",
|
|
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
|
|
],
|
|
": relating to or being natural food":[],
|
|
": something that is likely to become an immediate success":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"furniture made of natural materials",
|
|
"The river forms a natural boundary between the two countries.",
|
|
"natural foods like whole grain bread and fresh vegetables",
|
|
"Gray hair is one of the natural consequences of getting older.",
|
|
"a natural increase in the population",
|
|
"the natural course of the disease",
|
|
"It's perfectly natural to feel nervous before a test.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"European explorers had a tendency to view the nonwhite peoples they encountered as uncivilized naturals .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Her parents\u2019 professions gave her a front row seat to see police chases, natural disasters, and car accidents up close. \u2014 Wendy Kaur, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"In addition to on-water assistance, our franchise network handles salvage and recovery missions, and responds to natural disasters, environmental hazards and oil spill cleanups. \u2014 Michele Kerrigan, Sun Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The reluctance of the international community could slow the deployment of emergency aid and teams typically sent after such natural disasters. \u2014 Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Whooping cranes are endangered due to habitat destruction, hunting, poaching, climate change, natural disasters, and oil spills. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"The Southern Apennine District Basin Authority is responsible for monitoring the correct use of water resources, forecasting and preventing natural disasters and malevolent anthropogenic activities. \u2014 Gajen Kandiah, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"There have always been refugees from war, repression, or natural disasters. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Re-establishing a human imprint in a national park is always a delicate operation, especially as a changing climate makes natural disasters more likely. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"Re-establishing a human imprint in a national park is always a delicate operation, especially as a changing climate makes natural disasters more likely. \u2014 Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"In more intimate settings, Oz can seem like a political natural . \u2014 The New Yorker , 15 May 2022",
|
|
"Mozart sets these words to an ascending major sixth, starting from the dominant, D natural . \u2014 Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic , 23 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The intrigues played and secrets kept in Dune make this kind of game a natural for a licensed game and Dune: Betrayal fits the genre nicely. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"First, there\u2019s the impeccable hot dog ($3.62), which features a snappy natural -casing Vienna Beef sausage topped with just mustard, relish, onions and sport peppers. \u2014 Ariel Cheung, chicagotribune.com , 4 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"But with vaccination levels lagging in Black and Brown communities, the program seemed a natural to persuade those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic but are often reluctant to get shots. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2021",
|
|
"But with vaccination levels lagging in Black and Brown communities, the program seemed a natural to persuade those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic but are often reluctant to get shots. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2021",
|
|
"But with vaccination levels lagging in Black and Brown communities, the program seemed a natural to persuade those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic but are often reluctant to get shots. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2021",
|
|
"But with vaccination levels lagging in Black and Brown communities, the program seemed a natural to persuade those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic but are often reluctant to get shots. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Adjective",
|
|
"1533, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
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"natural harmonic":{
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"natural hexachord":{
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"natural historian":{
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"examples":[
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"the natural history of bees",
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"We went to the Natural History Museum.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This study also highlights the critical importance of natural history museums for supporting this type of research. \u2014 Grrlscientist, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"The fact that millions of these pieces are in natural history museums, specifically, where most Americans first learn about Indigenous cultures, is problematic. \u2014 Rachel Parsons, Scientific American , 28 Mar. 2022",
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"The Middle East has few natural history museums and even fewer facilities dedicated to paleontology\u2014despite the many regional researchers who work to preserve rare fossils. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Mar. 2022",
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"Who ever though that a person could learn so much about natural history and evolution, about human culture and human nature by learning about mollusc shells",
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"The fossil popped up this week, listed as the star attraction for a new museum of natural history that will open in Abu Dhabi in 2025. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 26 Mar. 2022",
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"Although the book is more cultural history than natural history , the bald eagle and its impressive abilities are highlighted. \u2014 Olive Fellows, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 Feb. 2022",
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"Many of our state symbols represent the unique aspects of Ohio\u2019s natural history and showcase the incredible diversity and richness of our state. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 21 Feb. 2022",
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"The Bald Eagle is the rare natural history that plays as a comedy. \u2014 Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic , 15 Feb. 2022"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184534",
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"natural horn":{
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": the simplest form of the horn consisting of a tapering brass tube with mouthpiece and bell curved upon itself and without keys or valves and producing only those tones appearing in the harmonic series":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184612",
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"natural law":{
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"definitions":{
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": a body of law or a specific principle held to be derived from nature and binding upon human society in the absence of or in addition to positive law":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Neither historian, layman, nor lawyer will be persuaded that all the details prescribed in Roe v. Wade are part of either natural law or the Constitution. \u2014 WSJ , 3 May 2022",
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"Perhaps Vermeule and Smith are of the view that the natural law does, in fact, forbid the constitutional arrangements adopted by the people through the Constitution. \u2014 J. Joel Alicea, National Review , 3 May 2022",
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"Even when LuPone is just shimmying along with the ensemble, her magnetism is as incontrovertible as a natural law . \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
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"This may cost you dearly in your relationship with your mother; your actions will have consequences, too, since that bit of natural law doesn\u2019t spare people who act in good faith. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
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"This tells us that the Greater Will, the natural law of the world which the Golden Order worked to uphold, and the study of astrology were at odds with each other. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Apr. 2020",
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"Thomas has described his judicial philosophy as one of natural law , in which liberty and equality are endowed by God. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
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"Parents who want their children to study CRT, or natural law , or Talmud, or none of these things would be able to find schools that meet their needs. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 14 July 2021",
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"That is, American conservatism doesn\u2019t flow solely from appreciating human fallibility, understanding natural law , and valuing prudence. \u2014 Andy Smarick, National Review , 24 Sep. 2021"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125538",
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"natural life":{
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": the period of a person's earthly existence terminated by natural as opposed to civil death":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102233",
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"natural light":{
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": the light from the sun : sunlight":[
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"indoor photographs made in natural light"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053610",
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": a logarithm with e as a base":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This geometric structure is closely connected to important ideas in trigonometry, like the angle sum and difference formulas for sine and cosine, the theory of rotations of the plane, and e, the base of the natural logarithm function. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Sep. 2021",
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"This is despite the fact that the actual number of primes will always equal an integer, while on the other side of the asymptotic equality, the fraction involving the natural logarithm function could equal any value on the real number line. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 22 July 2020",
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"The chart below plots the natural logarithm of total cases on the vertical axis with the time index on the horizontal. \u2014 Rupa Subramanya, Quartz India , 13 Apr. 2020",
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"The actual percent is 1/e, where the base is the natural logarithm . \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 14 Feb. 2020",
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"Also called the Euler-Mascheroni constant, it is defined as the limiting difference between the natural logarithm the harmonic series. \u2014 Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics , 5 Oct. 2016"
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"1746, in the meaning defined above":""
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"natural magnet":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170705",
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"natural minor scale":{
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"definitions":{
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": a minor scale with the diatonic intervals being whole steps except those half-steps between 2\u20133 and 5\u20136 and corresponding in pattern to the Aeolian church mode \u2014 compare harmonic minor scale , melodic minor scale":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135404",
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"naturalise":{
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"examples":[
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"a major exponent of naturalism , Theodore Dreiser depicted life's harsh realities unflinchingly and without moral judgment",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The stage has been extended into the theater to create greater proximity to the audience, and the actors strive for naturalism , but the whispering quality that Nelson achieved isn\u2019t feasible in this grander space. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
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"Rahman approaches the sensitive topic of relations between Malays and Chinese Malays with a refreshing honesty and naturalism that contributes positively to Malaysian cinema. \u2014 Richard Kuipers, Variety , 17 Dec. 2021",
|
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"Oliver brings a great deal of observant naturalism to an underwritten role, but there are few sparks between her and the too-boyish Alwyn. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
|
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"The project, called Martyn Stewart's Listening Planet, is both a celebration Stewart\u2019s contributions to the field of audio naturalism and his final effort to call attention to vulnerable places and animals. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
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"So of course, who is overseeing the whole thing but Marlon Brando, the most influential actor of the second half of the 20th century \u2014 the man who sort of invented a new vocabulary of neurotic screen naturalism . \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Troye inhabits a character with such conviction and naturalism . \u2014 Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com , 17 Feb. 2022",
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"Here, Everett\u2019s turn is unflashy, with the production\u2019s hushed naturalism \u2014 most conspicuous in the tone and casting \u2014 extending to her musical segments. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Perhaps more importantly, the fine cast is not only avowedly contemporary in its exploration of the material, constantly searching for a deeper naturalism , but also very much in the present moment. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 13 Jan. 2022"
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"\u02c8nach-r\u0259-",
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"literalism",
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"realism",
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"representationalism",
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"verisimilitude",
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"verismo"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060616",
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"naturalist":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one that advocates or practices naturalism":[]
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},
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The naturalist John Muir, recently excoriated as a racist by the Sierra Club, is here covered in a chapter recounting his role in land conservation work around the Sierra Nevada area. \u2014 Jeff Vandermeer, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
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"His family, in a statement, remembered Sharpe as a brother and uncle, as well as a naturalist and activist for children\u2019s rights. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Once a month, join a naturalist and volunteers to hike at a vigorous pace for three to five miles. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 3 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Sign up for a (virtual) walk in the woods with a naturalist and a California officeholder. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Aug. 2021",
|
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"American naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau put our time in perspective more than a century and a half ago. \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 1 June 2021",
|
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"The city of Amsterdam sent one of her contemporaries, the naturalist and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, to Suriname to draw plants. \u2014 Jessi Jezewska Stevens, The New Yorker , 8 May 2021",
|
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"The Palm Beach chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society hosts Roger L. Hammer, author, naturalist , photographer for a presentation on wildflowers in Palm Beach County. \u2014 Cindy Kent, Sun Sentinel , 10 May 2022",
|
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"The Victorian naturalist Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), caught in the rigidities of his low-church fundamentalism, often didn\u2019t know what to do with his little boy Edmund, a moody child given to visions and dreams. \u2014 Christoph Irmscher, WSJ , 17 Feb. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8na-ch\u0259-r\u0259-list",
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"\u02c8nach-r\u0259-"
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"type":[
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"naturalistic":{
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"antonyms":[
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"nonrealistic",
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"unnatural",
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"unrealistic"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": of, characterized by, or according with naturalism":[]
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"examples":[
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"The zoo strives to create naturalistic settings for the animals.",
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"the movie's volcanic eruption is so naturalistic that it's easy to forget that it all came out of a computer",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The suiting was more naturalistic and hung on the body in a way that wasn\u2019t as constricting as your common American Brooks Brothers cut. \u2014 Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
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"Pointless favors visual boldness, but here a more understated and even (to the extent possible) naturalistic approach might have thrown the story\u2019s humor and nightmarishness into greater relief, and thus better served the play. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Apr. 2022",
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"Annette Bening was ignored for this compassionate dramedy from Mike Mills, a director who specializes in naturalistic dialogue and warm character sketches. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 26 Feb. 2022",
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"The main point though is that all the acrobatic machinery for Sonic just hangs in the air and feels out of place against the naturalistic art style. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
|
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"The zoo is famous for being the first to use many design innovations, such as keeping animals in naturalistic settings and putting several species together in one enclosure. \u2014 Michael J. Renner, The Conversation , 23 May 2022",
|
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"The lead actors, including soprano Adelaide Boedecker as their friend, give what is as close to naturalistic acting as this genre allows. \u2014 Bill Hirschman, Sun Sentinel , 25 Apr. 2022",
|
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"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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"New ocean bungalows have a naturalistic design and fab lanai with a hanging egg chair swing. \u2014 Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping , 19 May 2022"
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"\u02ccna-ch\u0259-r\u0259-\u02c8li-stik",
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"\u02ccnach-r\u0259-"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"lifelike",
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"living",
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"natural",
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"near",
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"photo-realistic",
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"realistic",
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"three-dimensional"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015742",
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"naturally":{
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": according to the usual course of things : as might be expected":[
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"we naturally dislike being hurt"
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": by nature : by natural character or ability":[
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"naturally timid"
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": with truth to nature : realistically":[],
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": without affectation":[
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"speak naturally"
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": without artificial aid":[
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"hair that curls naturally"
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"examples":[
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"He's naturally able to make people feel comfortable.",
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"Cats are said to be naturally curious.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Many shoppers fall into the trap of thinking that a higher thread count equals more luxurious fabric but don't realize that different fabrics naturally have different thread counts. \u2014 Hannah Jones, Country Living , 28 June 2022",
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"If your hair is weak or prone to breakage ( naturally , or because it\u2019s damaged from heat or coloring), then get your mitts on some Olaplex. \u2014 Justin Fenner, Robb Report , 26 June 2022",
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"Your plant, Elaeagnus pungens, naturally has spots or scales on the leaves. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 May 2022",
|
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"And, naturally , Roger Rabbit has a cameo in the beginning of the film as a hat-tip. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"Having begun idol trainee life in 2011 at the age of 14, and dedicated each day and night to learning how to be in a group, to write for a group, then actually lead one, B.I naturally has concerns about standing alone in the spotlight. \u2014 Taylor Glasby, Billboard , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Yesterday in Puglia, Italy, Gucci debuted its new resort 2023 collection at the magical Castle del Monte\u2014and the Italian label naturally had tons of celebrities show up for the occasion. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 17 May 2022",
|
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"As the chairman-CEO of Sony Music Publishing, Jon Platt naturally has a few thoughts about this crest of cashing in. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 11 May 2022",
|
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"Twitter, naturally , had some jokes to share and memes to create about the four-bedroom, three-bathroom house. \u2014 Samantha Hendrickson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 6 May 2022"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8nach-r\u0259-l\u0113",
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"\u02c8nach-r\u0259-",
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"\u02c8na-ch\u0259r-\u0259-l\u0113",
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"\u02c8na-ch\u0259r-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"congenitally",
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"constitutionally",
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"inherently",
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"innately",
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"intrinsically"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094424",
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"type":[
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"naturalness":{
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"antonyms":[
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"airhead",
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"birdbrain",
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"blockhead",
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"bonehead",
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"bubblehead",
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"chowderhead",
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"chucklehead",
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"clodpoll",
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"clodpole",
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"clot",
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"cluck",
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"clunk",
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"cretin",
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"cuddy",
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"cuddie",
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"deadhead",
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"dim bulb",
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"dimwit",
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"dip",
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"dodo",
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"dolt",
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"donkey",
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"doofus",
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"dope",
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"dork",
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"dullard",
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"dum-dum",
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"dumbbell",
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"dumbhead",
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"dummkopf",
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"dummy",
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"dunce",
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"dunderhead",
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"fathead",
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"gander",
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"golem",
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"goof",
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"goon",
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"half-wit",
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"hammerhead",
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"hardhead",
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"idiot",
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"ignoramus",
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"imbecile",
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"jackass",
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"know-nothing",
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"knucklehead",
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"lamebrain",
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"loggerhead",
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"loon",
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"lump",
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"lunkhead",
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"meathead",
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"mome",
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"moron",
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"mug",
|
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"mutt",
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"nimrod",
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"nincompoop",
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"ninny",
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"ninnyhammer",
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"nit",
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"nitwit",
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"noddy",
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"noodle",
|
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"numskull",
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"numbskull",
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"oaf",
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"pinhead",
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"prat",
|
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"ratbag",
|
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"saphead",
|
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"schlub",
|
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"shlub",
|
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"schnook",
|
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"simpleton",
|
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"stock",
|
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"stupe",
|
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"stupid",
|
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"thickhead",
|
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"turkey",
|
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"woodenhead",
|
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"yahoo",
|
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"yo-yo"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a note or tone affected by the natural sign":[],
|
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": a result or combination that immediately wins the stake in a game: such as":[],
|
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": a sign \u266e placed on any degree of the musical staff to nullify the effect of a preceding sharp or flat":[],
|
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": a throw of 7 or 11 on the first cast in craps":[],
|
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": afro":[],
|
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": based on an inherent sense of right and wrong":[
|
|
"natural justice"
|
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],
|
|
": being a relation by actual consanguinity as distinguished from adoption":[
|
|
"natural parents"
|
|
],
|
|
": being in a state of nature without spiritual enlightenment : unregenerate":[
|
|
"natural man"
|
|
],
|
|
": being in accordance with or determined by nature":[
|
|
"natural impulses"
|
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],
|
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": being neither sharp nor flat":[
|
|
"natural musical notes"
|
|
],
|
|
": blackjack sense 1b":[],
|
|
": born to parents not married to each other":[
|
|
"a natural child"
|
|
],
|
|
": closely resembling an original : true to nature":[],
|
|
": existing in or produced by nature : not artificial":[
|
|
"natural turf",
|
|
"natural curiosities"
|
|
],
|
|
": formulated by human reason alone rather than revelation":[
|
|
"natural religion",
|
|
"natural rights"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a form or appearance found in nature":[
|
|
"natural hair"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a normal or usual character":[
|
|
"events followed their natural course"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a physical or real existence as contrasted with one that is spiritual, intellectual, or fictitious":[
|
|
"a corporation is a legal but not a natural person"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a specified character by nature":[
|
|
"a natural athlete",
|
|
"a natural leader"
|
|
],
|
|
": having an essential relation with someone or something : following from the nature of the one in question":[
|
|
"his guilt is a natural deduction from the evidence"
|
|
],
|
|
": having neither flats nor sharps":[
|
|
"the natural scale of C major"
|
|
],
|
|
": having or constituting a classification based on features existing in nature":[],
|
|
": having the pitch modified by the natural sign":[],
|
|
": implanted or being as if implanted by nature : seemingly inborn":[
|
|
"a natural talent for art"
|
|
],
|
|
": living in or as if in a state of nature untouched by the influences of civilization and society":[],
|
|
": marked by easy simplicity and freedom from artificiality, affectation , or constraint":[
|
|
"Successful people are genuine and natural rather than synthetic and imitative.",
|
|
"\u2014 Gilbert Seldes"
|
|
],
|
|
": occurring in conformity with the ordinary course of nature : not marvelous or supernatural":[
|
|
"natural causes",
|
|
"died a natural death"
|
|
],
|
|
": of an off-white or beige color":[],
|
|
": of or relating to nature as an object of study and research":[
|
|
"natural observations"
|
|
],
|
|
": of, relating to, or operating in the physical as opposed to the spiritual world":[
|
|
"natural laws describe phenomena of the physical universe"
|
|
],
|
|
": one born without the usual powers of reason and understanding":[],
|
|
": one having natural skills, talents, or abilities":[],
|
|
": one that is obviously suitable for a specific purpose":[],
|
|
": possessing or exhibiting the higher qualities (such as kindliness and affection) of human nature":[
|
|
"a noble \u2026 brother \u2026 ever most kind and natural",
|
|
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
|
|
],
|
|
": relating to or being natural food":[],
|
|
": something that is likely to become an immediate success":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"furniture made of natural materials",
|
|
"The river forms a natural boundary between the two countries.",
|
|
"natural foods like whole grain bread and fresh vegetables",
|
|
"Gray hair is one of the natural consequences of getting older.",
|
|
"a natural increase in the population",
|
|
"the natural course of the disease",
|
|
"It's perfectly natural to feel nervous before a test.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"European explorers had a tendency to view the nonwhite peoples they encountered as uncivilized naturals .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Her parents\u2019 professions gave her a front row seat to see police chases, natural disasters, and car accidents up close. \u2014 Wendy Kaur, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"In addition to on-water assistance, our franchise network handles salvage and recovery missions, and responds to natural disasters, environmental hazards and oil spill cleanups. \u2014 Michele Kerrigan, Sun Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The reluctance of the international community could slow the deployment of emergency aid and teams typically sent after such natural disasters. \u2014 Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Whooping cranes are endangered due to habitat destruction, hunting, poaching, climate change, natural disasters, and oil spills. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"The Southern Apennine District Basin Authority is responsible for monitoring the correct use of water resources, forecasting and preventing natural disasters and malevolent anthropogenic activities. \u2014 Gajen Kandiah, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"There have always been refugees from war, repression, or natural disasters. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Re-establishing a human imprint in a national park is always a delicate operation, especially as a changing climate makes natural disasters more likely. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"Re-establishing a human imprint in a national park is always a delicate operation, especially as a changing climate makes natural disasters more likely. \u2014 Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"In more intimate settings, Oz can seem like a political natural . \u2014 The New Yorker , 15 May 2022",
|
|
"Mozart sets these words to an ascending major sixth, starting from the dominant, D natural . \u2014 Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic , 23 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The intrigues played and secrets kept in Dune make this kind of game a natural for a licensed game and Dune: Betrayal fits the genre nicely. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"First, there\u2019s the impeccable hot dog ($3.62), which features a snappy natural -casing Vienna Beef sausage topped with just mustard, relish, onions and sport peppers. \u2014 Ariel Cheung, chicagotribune.com , 4 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"But with vaccination levels lagging in Black and Brown communities, the program seemed a natural to persuade those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic but are often reluctant to get shots. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2021",
|
|
"But with vaccination levels lagging in Black and Brown communities, the program seemed a natural to persuade those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic but are often reluctant to get shots. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2021",
|
|
"But with vaccination levels lagging in Black and Brown communities, the program seemed a natural to persuade those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic but are often reluctant to get shots. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2021",
|
|
"But with vaccination levels lagging in Black and Brown communities, the program seemed a natural to persuade those who have been hardest hit by the pandemic but are often reluctant to get shots. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Adjective",
|
|
"1533, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Anglo-French naturel , from Latin naturalis of nature, from natura nature":"Adjective and Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8nach-(\u0259-)r\u0259l",
|
|
"\u02c8nach-r\u0259l",
|
|
"\u02c8na-ch\u0259-r\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for natural Adjective natural , ingenuous , naive , unsophisticated , artless mean free from pretension or calculation. natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made world. her unaffected, natural manner ingenuous implies inability to disguise or conceal one's feelings or intentions. the ingenuous enthusiasm of children naive suggests lack of worldly wisdom often connoting credulousness and unchecked innocence. politically naive unsophisticated implies a lack of experience and training necessary for social ease and adroitness. unsophisticated adolescents artless suggests a naturalness resulting from unawareness of the effect one is producing on others. artless charm synonyms see in addition regular",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"born",
|
|
"congenital"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202635",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"nature":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a creative and controlling force in the universe":[],
|
|
": a kind or class usually distinguished by fundamental or essential characteristics":[
|
|
"documents of a confidential nature",
|
|
"acts of a ceremonial nature"
|
|
],
|
|
": a simplified mode of life resembling this condition":[
|
|
"escape from civilization and get back to nature"
|
|
],
|
|
": a spontaneous attitude (as of generosity)":[],
|
|
": an inner force (such as instinct, appetite, desire) or the sum of such forces in an individual":[],
|
|
": disposition , temperament":[
|
|
"it was his nature to look after others",
|
|
"\u2014 F. A. Swinnerton",
|
|
"her romantic nature"
|
|
],
|
|
": humankind's original or natural condition":[],
|
|
": natural scenery":[
|
|
"enjoyed the beauties of nature"
|
|
],
|
|
": the external world in its entirety":[],
|
|
": the genetically controlled qualities of an organism":[
|
|
"nature \u2026 modified by nurture",
|
|
"\u2014 E. G. Conklin"
|
|
],
|
|
": the inherent character or basic constitution (see constitution sense 2 ) of a person or thing : essence":[
|
|
"the nature of the controversy"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He devoted himself to the study of nature .",
|
|
"That is a color not found in nature .",
|
|
"Hunger is nature's way of telling you to eat.",
|
|
"Gravity is one of the basic laws of nature .",
|
|
"She's very competitive by nature .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But not all neighbors of the sprawling 22-acre park, home to baseball diamonds, playgrounds, nature areas and schools, are in agreement. \u2014 Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"This discovery is important for nature conservation in Indonesian Borneo, which is a biodiversity hotspot. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"The nature preserve is one of the most popular and difficult spots to swim. \u2014 Anna Mazurek, Chron , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"The Russel Wright Design Center, an architectural version of Gilardi\u2019s nature carpets. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"Observing that ebike use has exploded in the region, the district undertook a thorough two-year policy review that looked at the potential impacts of allowing ebikes on its nature perserves. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"\u00c5lesund will satisfy any history or architecture buff, while nature lovers will enjoy the opportunity to explore Sunnm\u00f8re via sparkling waterways, wooded trails and blustery mountain summits. \u2014 Shelby Knick, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"The 820-acre nature park earned its designation in 2020. \u2014 Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Surviving Earth is the second high-profile nature series NBC has picked up in recent years. \u2014 Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3b":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin natura , from natus , past participle of nasci to be born \u2014 more at nation":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8n\u0101-ch\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for nature type , kind , sort , nature , description , character mean a number of individuals thought of as a group because of a common quality or qualities. type may suggest strong and clearly marked similarity throughout the items included so that each is typical of the group. one of three basic body types kind may suggest natural grouping. a zoo seemingly having animals of every kind sort often suggests some disparagement. the sort of newspaper dealing in sensational stories nature may imply inherent, essential resemblance rather than obvious or superficial likenesses. two problems of a similar nature description implies a group marked by agreement in all details belonging to a type as described or defined. not all acts of that description are actually illegal character implies a group marked by distinctive likenesses peculiar to the type. research on the subject so far has been of an elementary character",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"character",
|
|
"clay",
|
|
"colors",
|
|
"complexion",
|
|
"constitution",
|
|
"genius",
|
|
"personality",
|
|
"self",
|
|
"tone"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180945",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Natrix":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a large widely distributed genus of colubrid aquatic snakes that includes all the true water snakes of North America":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8n\u0101\u2027triks"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from Latin, water snake":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141539"
|
|
},
|
|
"natural gas":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": gas manufactured from organic matter (such as coal)":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a house heated by natural gas",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"According to the Wall Street Journal, Cowboys owner and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Jones\u2019s $1.1 billion investment in natural gas four years ago is now worth $2.7 billion. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Germany is alarmed that Russia is slashing its access to natural gas . \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Hydrogen for heating of buildings, typically blended with natural gas , has an early uptake in some regions, but will not scale globally. \u2014 Sverre Alvik, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Some manufacturing groups have complained that U.S. companies should not be exporting natural gas when prices at home are high. \u2014 Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The German government moved closer to rationing natural gas on Thursday after Russia cut deliveries to the country last week in an escalation of the economic war triggered by Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Bojan Pancevski, WSJ , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"But Russian natural gas is proving harder to quit, because of its immense importance in countries such as Germany and Italy. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Turning to coal allows nations to displace natural gas used in power generation and save it for other uses as it can\u2019t be easily replaced, said Samantha Gross, director of the Brookings Institution\u2019s Energy Security and Climate Initiative. \u2014 Reis Thebault, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"The disruption of global supply chains because of the pandemic and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has pushed up prices for oil, natural gas , wheat and fertilizer. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1825, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151503"
|
|
},
|
|
"national guard":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a military establishment serving as a national constabulary and defense force":[],
|
|
": a militia force recruited by each state of the U.S., equipped by the federal government, and jointly maintained subject to the call of either":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Those protections were only granted to D.C. residents after the Virginia and Maryland governors ordered their national guard to go into D.C. \u2014 Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"Ukrainian agencies breached on the eve of the Feb. 24 invasion include the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversees the police, national guard and border patrol. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Svyatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov Regiment, a nationalist group that is part of the Ukraine national guard , called for public support via a message on the Telegram app. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The Azov Regiment, which originated in 2014 as a far-right paramilitary force but has since become a unit of Ukraine\u2019s national guard , has been a favorite target of Russian propaganda. \u2014 Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"As well as reach out to the national guard to help provide additional safety to our residents, small business owners and schools. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"Illia Samoilenko are members of the Azov Regiment, a nationalist group that is part of Ukraine\u2019s national guard and has been defending the steel plant for weeks, mostly in its dark and dingy subterranean levels. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
|
|
"When Trump was president, L\u00f3pez Obrador agreed to a series of measures that limited migration to the United States, from a program that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico to a deployment of Mexico\u2019s national guard to detain migrants. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"Western officials say Russia has massed close to 200,000 military and national guard troops in and around Ukraine in recent months, a figure that if confirmed would represent the region\u2019s largest mobilization since World War II. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1792, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163257"
|
|
},
|
|
"natural gasoline":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a very volatile gasoline recovered from natural gas and used in blending with gasoline from petroleum and other sources to increase the volatility":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172131"
|
|
},
|
|
"national flag blue":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a dark purplish blue that is slightly darker than Scotch blue and slightly stronger and very slightly darker than homage blue":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
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"In 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2021",
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"Like Runciman, Spengler employed a natural philosophy to organize world history into a series of quasi-biological trajectories. \u2014 Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books , 6 June 2019",
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"Roberts, 51, has long been a beauty pioneer as well: That megawatt smile; those effortless curls; and, of course, her all- natural philosophy on body hair that has been turning heads since the \u201890s. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 3 Dec. 2018"
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"Just outside of the Hocking Hills is the state's largest natural bridge , located in Rockbridge Nature Preserve. \u2014 Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer , 16 May 2022",
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"The payoff on this hike is a 54-foot-high natural bridge , a beautiful formation amid a vast landscape of beautiful formations. \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland , 7 Apr. 2022",
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"As always, there\u2019s clear and juicy interest in Blagojevich\u2019s particular entry into and rise in Illinois politics, which Rod always saw as a natural bridge to the White House. \u2014 Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com , 18 Nov. 2021",
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"Negotiating around the 40-foot rock walls is half the fun (or claustrophobic for some) and is especially awesome when the trench-traversing trail winds under a natural bridge formed by a sedimentary slab. \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 11 Nov. 2021",
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"The Golden Eagles create a natural bridge from Sun Belt schools in Louisiana and Arkansas to those in Alabama and points east. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 26 Oct. 2021",
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"Many criticisms of modern natural science and the cognitive approaches associated with classical liberalism were therefore justified. \u2014 Francis Fukuyama, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"Authorities are also looking into whether the collection could go to natural science museums in Spain or nonprofits for research after the investigation, Gizmodo reports. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Apr. 2022",
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"From the grand to the tiny, Wilson retained his enthusiasm for natural science . \u2014 Patricia Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News , 27 Dec. 2021",
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"In this remarkable book, Wulf chronicles the life of the Prussian natural science behemoth Alexander von Humboldt from his childhood roots to his explorations in North, Central, and South America and across northern Europe. \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 11 Dec. 2021",
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"the early days of U.S. nationhood",
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"The colonists showed a strong desire for nationhood .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Spain had to come to terms with Simon Bolivar and the growing sense of nationhood in Latin America. \u2014 Frank Lavin, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
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"The idea that Ukrainians aren\u2019t a real people and that Ukrainian nationhood is an artificial construct has long been mainstream in Russian culture, literature and politics\u2014including among liberal luminaries like Brodsky, who died in 1996. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"For a few decades after the end of British rule, modernism seemed the best way to project an idea of cosmopolitanism and independence and, for some, a progressive, secular vision of nationhood . \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
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"Firstly, my people have fought long for our right to nationhood . \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"In the ashes of his country\u2019s Napoleonic humiliations, Fichte promoted German language, culture and nationhood as the pillars of a spiritual empire. \u2014 Jeffrey Collins, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
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"The appeal was to our senses of identity and nationhood , and the threats that exist to undermine them. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Mar. 2022",
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"In the latter, the persistence of essentially colonial laws and attitudes toward nationhood has entrenched the legal, territorial, and political subordination of non-Jewish citizens and inhabitants. \u2014 Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books , 1 July 2021",
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"Today, all togetherness shredded, Ukraine burns, bludgeoned by the invading army Mr. Putin sent to prove his conviction that Ukrainian nationhood is a myth. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Mar. 2022"
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"\u2014 W. B. Yeats"
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": a people having a common origin, tradition, and language and capable of forming or actually constituting a nation-state":[
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],
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": an ethnic group constituting one element of a larger unit (such as a nation)":[
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"The country is home to five nationalities and seven languages.",
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"people of all races and nationalities",
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"She's American, but her parents are of Japanese nationality .",
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"He has held French nationality for the past 20 years.",
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"The university has students of over 50 nationalities .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Travellers must hold a passport from one of these eligible nationality countries to apply for a visa waiver. \u2014 Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
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"There are 19 individuals for whom no nationality has been determined. \u2014 Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
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"Dutch tax authorities mistakenly took child care benefits away from needy families when a flawed algorithm penalized people with dual nationality . \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
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"Natela Dzalamidze, 29, was born in Moscow, but is listed on the WTA Tour website as having a Georgian nationality . \u2014 Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY , 20 June 2022",
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"Today, there are similar issues with divisions by nationality that younger generations hope to bridge. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 16 June 2022",
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"Wu was born in China but has Canadian nationality and had been one of China\u2019s biggest entertainment stars. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 11 June 2022",
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"The latest questions about Castillo\u2019s nationality emerged from a dispute over such rights, in light of a possible transfer to a team in Mexico. \u2014 Daniel Alarc\u00f3n, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
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"But the rates vary depending on the region the case is filed in, the applicant's nationality , the variables used in the calculations and access to legal representation, or lack thereof, government statistics show. \u2014 Camilo Montoya-galvez, CBS News , 2 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Australian researcher Frank Fenner and his colleagues were the first to show that natural selection favored less virulent viruses. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
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"This logic is fundamentally flawed because complexity does not license dismissal of the overwhelming evidence for natural selection and, by itself, does not mandate any design, intelligent or otherwise. \u2014 Stephan Lewandowsky, Scientific American , 16 Feb. 2022",
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"Charles Darwin\u2019s elegant revelation of the way life evolves, natural selection , is one such law. \u2014 Rob Dunn, Wired , 6 Jan. 2022",
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"But when a mutation offers some advantage, the process of natural selection will favor it. \u2014 Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News , 2 May 2022",
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"Henry is the patriarch, a believer in God and natural selection , a man dead set on convincing his daughter Henrietta that inbreeding is the best way to make a winning racehorse. \u2014 Courtney Maum, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"Humans have lived with dogs for 40,000 years \u2014 a relationship that through breeding and natural selection has shaped dogs to be people pleasers. \u2014 The Week Staff, The Week , 15 Aug. 2021",
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"In the earliest stages of evolution, physical aesthetics were perfected by the process of natural selection as a means of communication. \u2014 Steff Yotka, Vogue , 12 Apr. 2022",
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"Alternatively, the organisms may have evolved this scurrying gait independently through natural selection . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Dec. 2021"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174505"
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"definitions":{
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Though no one was injured, debris from the two homes is now scattered up and down the national seashore and will likely require an extensive cleanup process. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 May 2022",
|
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"Operated by the National Park Service, this area is the country\u2019s first national seashore and extends from Bodie Island to Ocracoke Island. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
|
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"The flag is bright yellow with an outline of a turtle in black and is flown on days when Kemp\u2019s ridley sea turtle eggs are found according to a Facebook post by the national seashore . \u2014 Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
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"The national seashore installed call boxes on six beaches to cover cellular service gaps. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Oct. 2021",
|
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"Supported by a $383,000 state grant, towns and the national seashore posted new shark-warning signs with a more imposing image and installed stop-the-bleed kits, with tourniquets and bandages, in bright orange boxes along the coast. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Oct. 2021",
|
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"With the sands stabilized, U.S. lawmakers first considered designating the Oregon Dunes as a national seashore in 1958, along with the Sea Lion Caves north of Florence. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Oct. 2021",
|
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"In the early 1970s, the Carnegies sold or deeded most of the island to the federal government, so the National Park Service could preserve the wild coastal forest as a national seashore . \u2014 New York Times , 21 Aug. 2021",
|
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"Residents here made their own agreement with the Department of the Interior in the 1970s to fold the island into the national seashore while continuing to own it privately, adhering to rigorous conservation principles. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Aug. 2021"
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"1962, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204045"
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": food that has undergone minimal processing and contains no preservatives or artificial additives":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The importance of the natural food chain to ecological balance is not well understood. \u2014 Louise Schiavone, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Mud, Sweat & Beards Wilderness experts and Donny Dust and Ray Livingston travel to remote locations to build elaborate shelters and find natural food sources, while enduring extreme weather, hunger and predators. \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
|
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"While the incidents were different, one clear similarity caught my attention: In the wake of these instances, both companies turned to increased fresh and natural food messaging, likely to appeal to the increasingly conscious consumer. \u2014 Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone , 10 Jan. 2022",
|
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"These single servings of frozen yogurt come encased in an edible protective film made from natural food particles. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 18 Aug. 2014",
|
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"A Dozen Cousins\u2019 products bridge a gap in the natural food industry. \u2014 Kimberly Wilson, Essence , 2 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The former Foxconn Opus building in Mount Pleasant will house Oterra, a natural food coloring company. \u2014 Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Feb. 2022",
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"Pruitt agreed with wildlife biologists that coyotes by nature want to avoid people, but with dwindling natural food sources they will be attracted to urban and suburban alternatives: rodents, feral cats and dog food left in backyard bowls. \u2014 Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News , 31 Jan. 2022",
|
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"The news outlet added that pollution has caused the animals' natural food sources to disappear, and manatees are dying at an alarming rate as a result. \u2014 Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com , 9 Dec. 2021"
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": rubber or rubber latex from a plant (especially Hevea brasiliensis ) : rubber sense 2a":[
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"\u2014 distinguished from synthetic rubber"
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"definitions":{
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"\u2014 Horace Walpole"
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"definitions":{
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": any of various predominantly aquatic snakes belonging to Natrix and closely related genera":[]
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"-s\u0259\u0307n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212453"
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": a natural falling or dropping off of branches and twigs of trees and shrubs especially as caused by suppression or death of branches and twigs \u2014 compare abscission sense 2":[]
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"definitions":{
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2021",
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"In 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2021",
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"The word scientist itself was new, having only been coined in 1833, the result of a newly professionalizing discipline that was moving away from an older model of natural philosophy . \u2014 Colin Dickey, The New Republic , 21 July 2021",
|
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"In 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2021",
|
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"In 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2021",
|
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"Morris gestures toward a better one, by titling each section with a discipline in which Edison distinguished himself: each backward-marching decade is matched to botany, defense, chemistry, magnetism, light, sound, telegraphy, or natural philosophy . \u2014 Casey Cep, The New Yorker , 21 Oct. 2019",
|
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"Like Runciman, Spengler employed a natural philosophy to organize world history into a series of quasi-biological trajectories. \u2014 Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books , 6 June 2019",
|
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"Roberts, 51, has long been a beauty pioneer as well: That megawatt smile; those effortless curls; and, of course, her all- natural philosophy on body hair that has been turning heads since the \u201890s. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 3 Dec. 2018"
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"native quince":{
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"definitions":{
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": a small shrubby Australian tree ( Petalostigma quadriloculare ) that is related to the eucalypts and has a very bitter bark":[]
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": any of several Australian predaceous carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus (especially D. viverrinus )":[]
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"definitions":{
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": the slope assumed by a mass of earth thrown up into a heap":[]
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"noun"
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": a legal holiday established by the central government of a nation rather than by state or local authorities":[
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"there are no annual legal national holidays in the United States",
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"\u2014 Literary Digest"
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]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230007"
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},
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"naturalize":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to introduce into common use or into the vernacular":[],
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": to bring into conformity with nature":[],
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": to cause (something, such as a plant) to become established as if native":[],
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": to become established as if native":[]
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},
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"\u02c8nach-r\u0259-",
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"\u02c8na-ch\u0259-r\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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],
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"examples":[
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"The government refused to naturalize them without documentation.",
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"naturalized citizens of the U.S.",
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"Several Asian fish have become naturalized in these lakes.",
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"Before you naturalize bulbs in your lawn, fertilize well.",
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"These daisies naturalize well in the Pacific Northwest.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In March, the Knesset resurrected a law denying Israelis the right to naturalize Palestinian spouses from the West Bank. \u2014 Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker , 18 June 2022",
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"And Asians in general couldn't naturalize until 1952. \u2014 Brandon Tensley, CNN , 17 June 2021",
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"In Massachusetts, where some 200,000 immigrants are eligible to naturalize but haven\u2019t, local advocates say the cost is prohibitive for some. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2021",
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"In Bowles\u2019s day, snowdrops had been in England long enough for colonies to naturalize in undisturbed sites. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Mar. 2021",
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"For me, one of the great wonders of my adopted hometown is that anyone can spontaneously naturalize themselves as a New Yorker\u2014and, most importantly, that the city will generously indulge them. \u2014 John Wray, Travel + Leisure , 8 Mar. 2021",
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"Something that is often missed in this debate is that switching to lower case is also a way to naturalize a word. \u2014 Meghan O'gieblyn, Wired , 10 Dec. 2020",
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"The organization was gearing up at the beginning of 2020 to launch a program focused on helping eligible immigrants naturalize in time to vote this election. \u2014 Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 Oct. 2020",
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"The organization was gearing up at the beginning of 2020 to launch a program focused on helping eligible immigrants naturalize in time to vote this election. \u2014 Kate Morrissey, Los Angeles Times , 31 Oct. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1559, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002927"
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},
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"nature trail":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a path through a forest, field, mountain range, etc., that is used for hiking and seeing plants and animals":[]
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},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010644"
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},
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"nationalize":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to give a national character to":[],
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": to invest control or ownership of in the national government":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8nash-n\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
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"\u02c8na-sh\u0259-n\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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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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"The government nationalized the health-care system in the mid-1950s.",
|
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"nationalizing the country's oil supply",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Only four months ago, President Biden came to Morehouse College in Atlanta to push Senate bills that would nationalize election administration and ban states from enacting voter-integrity measures of their own. \u2014 John Fund, National Review , 22 May 2022",
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"Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to retaliate against the companies leaving Russia, including threatening to nationalize their assets. \u2014 Robert Hart, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
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"Russia\u2019s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is considering legislation that would allow Russia to nationalize the assets of foreign companies that have exited from the country in response to its invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Nick Kostov, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
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"Russia\u2019s actions to nationalize the planes still in Russia. \u2014 Chris Isidore, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
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"Russia\u2019s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is considering legislation that would allow Russia to nationalize the assets of foreign companies that have exited from the country in response to its invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Nick Kostov, WSJ , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
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"At the time of Hebblethwaite's mass layoffs, the UK government had been urged to nationalize the company. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 20 Apr. 2022",
|
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"The government also appears to be attempting to mitigate the effects of the Western multinationals\u2019 withdrawal from Russia by creating a means to nationalize the businesses left behind. \u2014 Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Castillo, who defied polls to win the first-round vote, has vowed to nationalize Camisea and raise taxes on mines, as well as seek a referendum on drafting a new constitution. \u2014 Maria Cervantes, Bloomberg.com , 20 May 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1799, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-022426"
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},
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"native laurel":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a medium-sized Australian tree ( Pittosporum undulatum ) with shining evergreen leaves and fragrant creamy white flowers in terminal clusters":[],
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": an Australian timber tree ( Polyscias elegans ) of the family Araliaceae having whitish wood":[]
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},
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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":"20220710-024856"
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},
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"natality":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": birth rate":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"n\u0101-\u02c8ta-l\u0259-t\u0113",
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"n\u0259-",
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"n\u0101-\u02c8tal-\u0259t-\u0113, n\u0259-"
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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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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1888, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025121"
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}
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} |