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65 lines
3.8 KiB
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{
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"ubiquitous":{
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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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"definitions":{
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": existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread":[
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"a ubiquitous fashion"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"y\u00fc-\u02c8bi-kw\u0259-t\u0259s"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"common",
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"common or garden",
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"commonplace",
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"everyday",
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"familiar",
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"frequent",
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"garden-variety",
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"household",
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"ordinary",
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"quotidian",
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"routine",
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"usual"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"extraordinary",
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"infrequent",
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"rare",
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"seldom",
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"uncommon",
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"unfamiliar",
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"unusual"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Hot dogs are the ideal road trip food\u2014inexpensive, portable, ubiquitous . \u2014 Paul Lucas , Saveur , June/July 2008",
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"Shawarma is the new street meat. Both a late night favourite and a quick lunch classic, the Middle Eastern dish is now ubiquitous on the streets of Toronto. \u2014 Chris Dart , Torontoist , 8 Feb. 2007",
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"In major league locker rooms, ice packs are ubiquitous appendages for pitchers, who wrap their shoulder or elbow or both, the better to calm muscles, ligaments and tendons that have been stressed by the unnatural act of throwing a baseball. \u2014 Tom Verducci , Sports Illustrated , 26 Mar. 2007",
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"It was before the day of the ubiquitous automobile. Given one of those present adjuncts to farm life, John would have ended his career much earlier. As it was, they found him lying by the roadside at dawn one morning after the horses had trotted into the yard with the wreck of the buggy bumping the road behind them. \u2014 Edna Ferber , \"Farmer in the Dell,\" 1919 , in One Basket , 1949",
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"The company's advertisements are ubiquitous .",
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"by that time cell phones had become ubiquitous , and people had long ceased to be impressed by the sight of one",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In a community where guns are ubiquitous \u2014 for hunting, for sport and for personal protection \u2014 the idea of arming educators was not controversial. \u2014 Moriah Balingit, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
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"The wavy, crunchy instant ramen noodles that are ubiquitous in American grocery stores are very different. \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 22 June 2022",
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"That capability would grant solid-state EVs a huge advantage over their competitors, which rely on the ubiquitous \u2014but weaker\u2014lithium-ion (Li-on) batteries. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics , 21 June 2022",
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"Moreover, silver is liquid, ubiquitous , and versatile in trading. \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
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"Even at the Tokyo Games last summer, visitors in somewhat looser pandemic protocols enjoyed the semireligious privilege of entering the city\u2019s ubiquitous , and surprisingly tasty, convenience stores. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
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"Technological innovation made camera work, previously a cultural stepchild for more than a century, ubiquitous . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
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"One of the most ubiquitous \u2014and powerful\u2014pieces of evidence are contemporaneous emails (or texts and other types of messaging) regarding particular projects or workplace decisions that are at issue in the employment discrimination claim. \u2014 Eric Bachman, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
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"Neighborhood osterie, wood-burning-stove pizza joints, and even Italian versions of fast food are too good, and too ubiquitous , and more familiar. \u2014 Eric J. Lyman, Fortune , 11 Dec. 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"see ubiquity":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1772, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171307"
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}
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} |