10788 lines
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10788 lines
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"\u02ccj\u0113-\u02cc\u00e4r-\u02c8\u0113"
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"Chief Intelligence Directorate":[]
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"Russian Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie":""
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"Gr":{
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"definitions":{
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": a gray-and-white warbler ( Dendroica graciae ) black-streaked above with a yellow throat and chest and common in the southwestern U.S. and adjacent Mexico":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"after Grace D. Coues \u20201925, sister of Dr. Elliott Coues \u20201899 American ornithologist who discovered it":""
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},
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"\u02c8gr\u0101s\u0259\u0307z-"
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"Grand Forks":{
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"definitions":{
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"city on the Red River in eastern North Dakota population 52,838":[]
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"Grand Traverse":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": pine of cattle":[]
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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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"from Grand Traverse county, Michigan":""
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},
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},
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"Grand Traverse Bay":{
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"definitions":{
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"inlet of Lake Michigan on the northwest coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula":[]
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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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"\u02c8tra-v\u0259rs"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190552",
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"Grand Traverse Bay?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=gg&file=gggran09":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"inlet of Lake Michigan on the northwest coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula":[]
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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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"\u02c8tra-v\u0259rs"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202319",
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"Granville wilt":{
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"definitions":{
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": a wilt of tobacco caused by a bacterium ( Pseudomonas solanacearum )":[]
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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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"from Granville county, North Carolina":""
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gran\u02ccvil-",
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"chiefly in southern US -v\u0259l-"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105421",
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"noun"
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},
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"Granville-Barker":{
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"definitions":{
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"Harley 1877\u20131946 English actor, manager, and dramatist":[]
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gran-\u02ccvil-\u02c8b\u00e4r-k\u0259r"
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],
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"Grapsidae":{
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"definitions":{
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": a cosmopolitan family of crabs including pelagic and littoral and shore crabs as well as a few that have adapted to a strictly terrestrial or to a freshwater mode of life \u2014 see grapsus":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Grapsus , type genus + -idae":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-s\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130105",
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"plural noun"
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"Grasmere":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"lake 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) long in the Lake District of Cumbria, northwestern England":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"\u02c8gras-\u02ccmir"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111750",
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"Grass?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=bix&file=bixgra11":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a police informer":[],
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": a state or place of retirement":[
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"put out to grass"
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],
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": any of a large family (Gramineae synonym Poaceae) of monocotyledonous mostly herbaceous plants with jointed stems, slender sheathing leaves, and flowers borne in spikelets of bracts":[],
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": electronic noise on a radarscope that takes the form of vertical lines resembling lawn grass":[],
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": herbage suitable or used for grazing animals":[],
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": inform sense 1":[
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"\u2014 often used with on"
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],
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": land (such as a lawn or a turf racetrack) covered with growing grass":[
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"keep off the grass",
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"the horse had never won on grass"
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],
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": leaves or plants of grass":[],
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": marijuana":[],
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": to feed (livestock) on grass sometimes without grain or other concentrates":[],
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": to produce grass":[],
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"G\u00fcnter Wilhelm 1927\u20132015 German writer":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"They were smoking some grass .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"One study by researchers at Brigham Young University found that the surface temperature of artificial synthetic turf could be as much as 80 degrees hotter than natural grass . \u2014 David Abel, BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
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"The Chevrolet rolled and landed upside down in the grass median between the highway and the access road. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 1 July 2022",
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"His mother, a medical billing manager, moved to Las Vegas, while his father stayed in Neodesha, working as a rural-route mail carrier on the tall- grass prairie. \u2014 Paul Duggan, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
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"On the dewy grass of a nearby hillside, Private Percy Clare of the Seventh Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, was lying on his belly next to his commanding officer, awaiting the signal to advance. \u2014 Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 July 2022",
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"The grass also helps, said David Witt, a longtime coach. \u2014 Matthew Futterman, New York Times , 1 July 2022",
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"Black mondo grass is best suited to filtered sun to full shade and moist soil. \u2014 Terri Robertson, Country Living , 30 June 2022",
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"One is a tall- grass prairie with grasses and other plants that can get up to 10 feet tall, another is a short-grass prairie with plants that get 3 to 4 feet tall, and the third is a diverse prairie with plants that reach 3 to 4 feet. \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022",
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"Petra Kvitova has plenty of experience on the grass courts of Wimbledon. \u2014 Chris Lehourites, ajc , 30 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Burning mostly shrub and grass less than a mile from Top-of-The-World, the fire as of Tuesday has consumed more than 71,756 acres with no containment, according to InciWeb. \u2014 Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2021",
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"Berea Community Outreach now encompasses a long list of programs, from a food pantry and Dinner to Your Door to grass cutting and snowplowing for seniors and the disabled. \u2014 cleveland , 4 Jan. 2021",
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"Not wanting to miss out on an opportunity to embarrass themselves in public, many of our overzealous police forces have launched online contact forms so people can grass on their neighbors. \u2014 Charlie Peters, National Review , 8 Apr. 2020",
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"More of the area around the platform has been grassed , adding even more seating and picnicking areas. \u2014 John Davis, azcentral , 27 Jan. 2020",
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"Robotic lawn mowers like the Honda Miimo ($2,499); Robomow ($1,299); and Worx Landroid ($999) are to grass what the Roomba and its ilk are to carpet. \u2014 Maria Carter, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2017",
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"Related stories from Star-Telegram Hamels delivers gem as Rangers sweep Mariners Beyond a wild-card race, Rangers from Venezuela in dire fight for family and country Rangers\u2019 new ballpark won\u2019t look like Minute Maid Park, but will grass grow? \u2014 Jeff Wilson, star-telegram , 21 Sep. 2017",
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"How long should grass get before your town issues a warning or even a fine? \u2014 Linda Kinsey, cleveland.com , 21 June 2017",
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"Robotic lawn mowers like the Honda Miimo ($2,499); Robomow ($1,299); and Worx Landroid ($999) are to grass what the Roomba and its ilk are to carpet. \u2014 Maria Carter, Country Living , 19 Apr. 2017"
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],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"circa 1500, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English gras , from Old English gr\u00e6s ; akin to Old High German gras grass, Old English gr\u014dwan to grow":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u00e4s",
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"\u02c8gras"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"fink",
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"inform",
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"rat (on)",
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"sing",
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"snitch",
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"split (on)",
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"squeak",
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"squeal",
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"talk",
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"tell (on)"
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},
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"Gratiola":{
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"definitions":{
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": a genus of small widely distributed herbs (family Scrophulariaceae) with opposite sessile leaves and usually two bracts at the base of the calyx \u2014 see hedge hyssop":[]
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, diminutive of Latin gratia grace; from its alleged healing qualities":""
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"pronounciation":[
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"gr\u0259\u02c8t\u012b\u0259l\u0259",
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"-t\u0113\u0259-"
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],
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},
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"Grattan":{
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"definitions":{
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"Henry 1746\u20131820 Irish orator and statesman":[]
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},
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"\u02c8gra-t\u1d4an"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205814",
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"type":[
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},
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"Gray":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War":[],
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": any of a series of neutral colors ranging between black and white":[],
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": clothed in gray":[],
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": dull in color":[],
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": having an intermediate and often vaguely defined position, condition, or character":[
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"an ethically gray area"
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": having the hair gray : hoary":[],
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": of the color gray":[],
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": prosaically ordinary : dull , uninteresting":[
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"the boring, gray dullness of government",
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"\u2014 P. J. O'Rourke"
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],
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": something (such as an animal, garment, cloth, or spot) of a gray color":[],
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": tending toward gray":[
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"blue- gray eyes"
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],
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": the Confederate army":[],
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": the mks unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of one joule per kilogram of irradiated material":[
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"\u2014 abbreviation Gy"
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],
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": to become gray":[],
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": to make gray":[],
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"Asa 1810\u20131888 American botanist":[],
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"Thomas 1716\u20131771 English poet":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"What will you do when you are old and gray ?",
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"My friends have all gone gray .",
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"It was a gray winter day.",
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"the gray faces of the people in the crowd"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
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"1975, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Louis H. Gray \u20201965 British radiobiologist":"Noun",
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"Middle English, from Old English gr\u01e3g ; akin to Old High German gr\u012bs, gr\u0101o gray":"Adjective, Noun , and Verb"
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u0101"
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],
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"argentine",
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"grayish",
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"leaden",
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"pewter",
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"silver",
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"silvery",
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"slate",
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"slaty",
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"slatey",
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"steely"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110245",
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"Great Wall":{
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"definitions":{
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"system of defensive walls in northern China built over a two thousand year stretch and extending approximately 1500 miles (2400 kilometers) from Gansu Province to Bo Hai":[]
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"definitions":{
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": a person in a position of authority":[],
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"1806, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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": a quality or style imitative of Greek art or culture":[]
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"1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"\u02c8gr\u0113-\u02ccsi-z\u0259m"
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"Greco, El":{
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"definitions":{
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"1541\u20131614 Dom\u00e9nikos Theotok\u00f3poulos Spanish (Cretan-born) painter":[]
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},
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"el-\u02c8gre-(\u02cc)k\u014d also -\u02c8gr\u0101-"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": Greece : Greeks":[
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"Greco phile"
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],
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": Greek and":[
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"Graeco- Roman"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"Latin Graeco- , from Graecus":""
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"\u02c8gr\u0113-",
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"\u02c8gre-k\u014d"
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],
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"Greco- + Roman":""
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"\u00a6gr\u0113(\u02cc)k\u014d",
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"re(- sometimes -r\u0101(- +"
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],
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"adjective"
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},
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"Greco-Roman wrestling":{
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"definitions":{
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": wrestling in which the use of the legs for attack or defense is forbidden and a fall is gained by the contestant who pins both of an opponent's shoulders to the ground":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"definitions":{
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"country in southern Europe comprised of a jagged peninsula at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula and several hundred islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas; with a prominent history dating to ancient times, today it is a republic with its capital at Athens area 50,949 square miles (131,957 square kilometers), population 10,762,000":[]
|
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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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"\u02c8gr\u0113s"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114529",
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"type":[
|
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]
|
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"Greek":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a member of a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority":[],
|
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": a native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Greece":[],
|
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": a person of Greek descent":[],
|
|
": ancient Greek as used from the time of the earliest records to the end of the second century a.d. \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[],
|
|
": eastern orthodox":[],
|
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": of or relating to an Eastern church using the Byzantine rite in Greek":[],
|
|
": of or relating to fraternities or sororities":[
|
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"the Greek system"
|
|
],
|
|
": of or relating to the established Orthodox church of Greece":[],
|
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": of, relating to, or characteristic of Greece , the Greeks , or Greek":[
|
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"Greek architecture"
|
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],
|
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": something unintelligible":[
|
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"it's Greek to me"
|
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],
|
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": the language used by the Greeks from prehistoric times to the present constituting a branch of Indo-European \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English Greke , from Old English Gr\u0113ca , from Latin Graecus , from Greek Graikos":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113k"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181157",
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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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"Greek Orthodox":{
|
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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 1900, 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":"20220707-195704",
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"Greek Revival":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a style of architecture in the first half of the 19th century marked by the use or imitation of Greek orders":[],
|
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": a style of decoration (as of furniture) using or imitating the decorative motifs of ancient Greece":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1918, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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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":"20220707-191141",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"Greek alphabet":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an alphabet that has been used from ancient times for writing the Greek language, that is of Semitic origin but differs from Semitic alphabets in having characters for the vowels, and that has given rise directly or indirectly to various other alphabets (as the Latin, the Coptic, the Cyrillic)":[]
|
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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":"20220707-193235",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
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"Greek cross":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a cross having an upright and a transverse shaft equal in length and intersecting at their middles \u2014 see cross illustration":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1725, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195235",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Greek salad":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a tossed salad made typically with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, black olives, and feta cheese and dressed with olive oil, vinegar or lemon juice, and oregano":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1889, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"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":"20220707-183751",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Greeks":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a member of a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority":[],
|
|
": a native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Greece":[],
|
|
": a person of Greek descent":[],
|
|
": ancient Greek as used from the time of the earliest records to the end of the second century a.d. \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[],
|
|
": eastern orthodox":[],
|
|
": of or relating to an Eastern church using the Byzantine rite in Greek":[],
|
|
": of or relating to fraternities or sororities":[
|
|
"the Greek system"
|
|
],
|
|
": of or relating to the established Orthodox church of Greece":[],
|
|
": of, relating to, or characteristic of Greece , the Greeks , or Greek":[
|
|
"Greek architecture"
|
|
],
|
|
": something unintelligible":[
|
|
"it's Greek to me"
|
|
],
|
|
": the language used by the Greeks from prehistoric times to the present constituting a branch of Indo-European \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English Greke , from Old English Gr\u0113ca , from Latin Graecus , from Greek Graikos":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113k"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200220",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Greeneville":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"town in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains of northeastern Tennessee population 15,062":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-v\u0259l",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113n-\u02ccvil"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113412",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"geographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Groningen":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"city and capital of the province of Groningen population 383,497":[],
|
|
"province of the northeastern part of the Netherlands bordering on Germany and on the estuary of the Ems River area 934 square miles (2419 square kilometers), population 580,500":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8\u1e35r\u014d-ni\u014b-\u0259(n)",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014d-ni\u014b-\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195628",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"geographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Groote":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"Dutch religious reformer":[
|
|
"Gerardus Magnus \\ j\u0259-\u200b\u02ccr\u00e4r-\u200bd\u0259s-\u200b\u02c8mag-\u200bn\u0259s \\"
|
|
],
|
|
"Gerhard 1340\u20131384":[
|
|
"Gerardus Magnus \\ j\u0259-\u200b\u02ccr\u00e4r-\u200bd\u0259s-\u200b\u02c8mag-\u200bn\u0259s \\"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014d-t\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075450",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"biographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Gropius":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"Walter 1883\u20131969 American (German-born) architect":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014d-p\u0113-\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130805",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"biographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Gross":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"clean",
|
|
"decent",
|
|
"G-rated",
|
|
"nonobscene",
|
|
"wholesome"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": amount , sum":[],
|
|
": an aggregate of 12 dozen things":[
|
|
"a gross of pencils"
|
|
],
|
|
": big , bulky":[],
|
|
": coarse in nature or behavior : unrefined":[
|
|
"has gross table manners"
|
|
],
|
|
": consisting of an overall total exclusive of deductions":[
|
|
"gross income"
|
|
],
|
|
": deficient in knowledge : ignorant , untutored":[],
|
|
": glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness":[
|
|
"a gross error"
|
|
],
|
|
": gravely deficient in civility or decency : crudely vulgar":[
|
|
"merely gross , a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety",
|
|
"\u2014 Aldous Huxley"
|
|
],
|
|
": growing or spreading with excessive luxuriance":[
|
|
"a gross riot of vegetation"
|
|
],
|
|
": immediately obvious":[
|
|
"Now to all sense 'tis gross you love my son.",
|
|
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
|
|
],
|
|
": inspiring disgust or distaste":[
|
|
"That sandwich looks gross ."
|
|
],
|
|
": made up of material or perceptible elements":[],
|
|
": not fastidious in taste : undiscriminating":[],
|
|
": of, relating to, or dealing with general aspects or broad distinctions":[
|
|
"a gross outline of the plan"
|
|
],
|
|
": out-and-out , utter":[
|
|
"a gross injustice"
|
|
],
|
|
": overall total exclusive of deductions":[
|
|
"The company's gross doubled in five years."
|
|
],
|
|
": to earn or bring in (an overall total) exclusive of deductions (as for taxes or expenses)":[
|
|
"The movie grossed over 100 million dollars."
|
|
],
|
|
": visible without the aid of a microscope":[
|
|
"a gross lesion"
|
|
],
|
|
"David J(onathan) 1941\u2013 American physicist":[],
|
|
"\u2014 compare net":[
|
|
"gross income"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"They have suffered a gross injustice.",
|
|
"She has a gross habit of chewing on the ends of her hair.",
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"They grossed $50,000 before taxes."
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1c":"Adjective",
|
|
"1579, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
|
|
"1884, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English gros , probably from Anglo-French grosse sum, whole, from feminine of gros":"Noun",
|
|
"Middle English grosse , from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French gros large, thick, whole, from Late Latin grossus coarse":"Adjective, Verb, and Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014ds"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for gross Adjective coarse , vulgar , gross , obscene , ribald mean offensive to good taste or morals. coarse implies roughness, rudeness, or crudeness of spirit, behavior, or language. found the coarse humor of coworkers offensive vulgar often implies boorishness or ill-breeding. a loud vulgar belch gross implies extreme coarseness and insensitiveness. gross eating habits obscene applies to anything strongly repulsive to the sense of decency and propriety especially in sexual matters. obscene language not allowed on the air ribald applies to what is amusingly or picturesquely vulgar or irreverent or mildly indecent. entertained the campers with ribald folk songs flagrant , glaring , gross , rank mean conspicuously bad or objectionable. flagrant applies usually to offenses or errors so bad that they can neither escape notice nor be condoned. flagrant abuse of the office of president glaring implies painful or damaging obtrusiveness of something that is conspicuously wrong, faulty, or improper. glaring errors gross implies the exceeding of reasonable or excusable limits. gross carelessness rank applies to what is openly and extremely objectionable and utterly condemned. rank heresy",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bawdy",
|
|
"blue",
|
|
"coarse",
|
|
"crude",
|
|
"dirty",
|
|
"filthy",
|
|
"foul",
|
|
"gutter",
|
|
"impure",
|
|
"indecent",
|
|
"lascivious",
|
|
"lewd",
|
|
"locker-room",
|
|
"nasty",
|
|
"obscene",
|
|
"pornographic",
|
|
"porny",
|
|
"profane",
|
|
"raunchy",
|
|
"ribald",
|
|
"smutty",
|
|
"stag",
|
|
"trashy",
|
|
"unprintable",
|
|
"vulgar",
|
|
"wanton",
|
|
"X-rated"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120705",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"biographical name",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Grote":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"George 1794\u20131871 English historian":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014dt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070640",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"biographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Grotian":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of or relating to Grotius or his legal and theological theories":[
|
|
"the Grotian conception of Christ's death",
|
|
"\u2014 Williston Walker"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Hugo Groti us \u20201645 Dutch statesman + English -an":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014dsh(\u0113)\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182825",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun,"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Grotius":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"Dutch jurist and statesman":[
|
|
"Huigh de Groot \\ d\u0259-\u200b\u02c8gr\u014dt \\"
|
|
],
|
|
"Hugo 1583\u20131645":[
|
|
"Huigh de Groot \\ d\u0259-\u200b\u02c8gr\u014dt \\"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014d-sh(\u0113-)\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103919",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"biographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Groton":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
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"\u02c8gr\u022f"
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"graafian follicle":{
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"1883, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02ccgraf-",
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"\u02ccgr\u00e4f-\u0113-\u0259n-",
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"\u02c8gra-",
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"\u02c8gr\u00e4-f\u0113-\u0259n-"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180506",
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"noun"
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"heist",
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"pinch",
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"rip-off",
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"snatching",
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"swiping",
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"a grab for power"
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],
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"A lot of voters are still up for grabs ."
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],
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": clamshell sense 2a":[],
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": intended to be taken, seized, or grasped suddenly":[
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"a grab rail"
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],
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": something taken, seized, or grasped suddenly":[],
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": taken at random":[
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"grab samples of rocks"
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],
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": to impress favorably and deeply":[],
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": to make a sudden snatch":[],
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": to obtain without consideration of what is right or wrong":[
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"grab public lands"
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],
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": to seize the attention of":[
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"the technique of grabbing an audience",
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"\u2014 Pauline Kael"
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],
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": to take hastily":[
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"grab a bite to eat",
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"grab a cab"
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],
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": to take or seize by or as if by a sudden motion or grasp":[
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"grabbed the opportunity",
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"I have to go back in the house and grab my car keys.",
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"The little boy grabbed onto his mother's leg and wouldn't let go.",
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"I'll grab a taxi and meet you there.",
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"Let's grab a bite to eat before the movie starts.",
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"The store had a lot of nice stuff, but nothing really grabbed me.",
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"The play grabs the audience from the opening scene.",
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"One player in particular has been grabbing a lot of attention lately.",
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"Noun",
|
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"a political activist who thinks the government's lease of public lands to logging companies amounts to an illegal land grab",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Those thoughts were on the minds of three high school friends from New York City who arrived two hours before the parade began on Sunday to grab an upfront view at the starting point near the Flatiron Building in Manhattan. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
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"The police arrested another demonstrator, 23-year-old Juliana Bernado, on suspicion of resisting arrest after she was accused of trying to grab an officer\u2019s baton, according to the LAPD. \u2014 Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 26 June 2022",
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"On Friday, after the decision, Ivy and Sheila took a moment away from the patients to grab some duct tape and go outside. \u2014 Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker , 25 June 2022",
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"He wasn\u2019t done defensively, diving across the chalk of the right field line to grab Jake Burger\u2019s fly in the eighth. \u2014 Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
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"Multiple insiders are reporting that when the draft begins at 7 p.m. Thursday (ESPN), the Magic will stick with their plan and grab Smith with the No. 1 pick, which will lead to the Thunder taking Holmgren and leave Banchero for the Rockets. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 23 June 2022",
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"The Double Shovel Summer Outdoor Market is a place to hang out, explore local handmade goods and art, grab a bite and drink delicious cider. \u2014 Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
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"Luckily, Netflix has provided a whole new crop of streaming options to keep you company in July, so grab your beverage of choice and get ready. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 22 June 2022",
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"Pack the sunscreen, grab your red, white and blue garb and get ready because this Fourth of July is going to be one of the busiest on record for vacationers. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 June 2022",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
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"Mike Bello raced back to his right and made an attempt at a leaping grab at the left-field wall, just in front of Auburn\u2019s bullpen at Charles Schwab Field. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 18 June 2022",
|
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"But critics disagree and Media Research Center director of MRC Latino Jorge Bonilla blasted the move as a power grab by the left. \u2014 Fox News , 14 June 2022",
|
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"Tucker kept the Astros in front in the sixth, stealing a game-tying three-run homer from Kemp with a leaping grab at the right field wall to end the inning. \u2014 Chron , 3 Oct. 2021",
|
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"Lowe took away a run-scoring hit from Baddoo with a diving grab at second base on his 10th-inning grounder. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 18 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Appointing government overseers to the boardroom would be on trend for Beijing\u2019s current power grab at private enterprises in mainland China, where the government has quietly acquired seats on the boards of major tech firms. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 16 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"The two men repeated the smash-and- grab at Edina's Battle Creek Armory a week later, this time taking 10 handguns from a display case. \u2014 Andy Mannix, Star Tribune , 28 May 2021",
|
|
"For his latest headline grab , Aaron Rodgers says the end is near. \u2014 Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
|
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"Facing attacks from the civilian militias, which are fighting alongside ethnic insurgent groups, the Tatmadaw has ratcheted up a counteroffensive, launching airstrikes, burning villages and terrorizing those opposed to its power grab . \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"1777, in the meaning defined at sense 1c":"Noun",
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"circa 1581, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"obsolete Dutch or Low German grabben":"Verb, Noun, and Adjective"
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"\u02c8grab"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grab Verb take , seize , grasp , clutch , snatch , grab mean to get hold of by or as if by catching up with the hand. take is a general term applicable to any manner of getting something into one's possession or control. take some salad from the bowl seize implies a sudden and forcible movement in getting hold of something tangible or an apprehending of something fleeting or elusive when intangible. seized the suspect grasp stresses a laying hold so as to have firmly in possession. grasp the handle and pull clutch suggests avidity or anxiety in seizing or grasping and may imply less success in holding. clutching her purse snatch suggests more suddenness or quickness but less force than seize . snatched a doughnut and ran grab implies more roughness or rudeness than snatch . grabbed roughly by the arm",
|
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|
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|
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|
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"catch",
|
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"collar",
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|
"cop",
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|
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"get",
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"glom",
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"grapple",
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"hook",
|
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"land",
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"nab",
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"nail",
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"net",
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"nobble",
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"rap",
|
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"seize",
|
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"snag",
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"snap (up)",
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"snare",
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"snatch",
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"trap"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171916",
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|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
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"grab a seat":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": to sit down":[
|
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"Grab a seat . I'll be with you in a minute."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004554",
|
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|
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]
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},
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|
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"definitions":{
|
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": to quickly stretch out one's hand and try to touch or hold (something or someone)":[
|
|
"People were grabbing at her as she walked through the crowd.",
|
|
"He grabbed for the ball and missed.",
|
|
"\u2014 often used figuratively We grabbed at the chance to go. political parties grabbing for power"
|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053117",
|
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|
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|
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]
|
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|
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"grab bag":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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|
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": a miscellaneous collection : potpourri":[],
|
|
": a receptacle (such as a bag) containing small articles which are to be drawn (as at a party or fair) without being seen":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Congress has proposed a grab bag of tax cuts.",
|
|
"the festival featured a grab bag of independent films from widely disparate genres",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"As investment targets, the presentation listed a grab bag of high-growth industries including media, technology, health care, finance, consumer services and sustainable energy. \u2014 New York Times , 22 May 2022",
|
|
"And of course there are some elements that Austen didn\u2019t imagine, like a grab bag of a drug buffet before heading out to Underwear Night. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 1 June 2022",
|
|
"With Congress unable to achieve anything significant, that just leaves Biden with the usual grab bag of executive powers. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"The first 50 shoppers to spend $125 or more will have an opportunity to buy a $25 Sensi grab bag containing $300 worth of products. \u2014 Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press , 18 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"But there\u2019s a grab bag of other reasons behind vaccine hesitancy, Afflalo said, ranging from vaccine myths to religious reservations. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Then, during Democrat La Follette\u2019s long tenure, Republican governors stripped away nearly all the remaining grab bag of duties. \u2014 David Montgomery, Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"El Alfa proves versatile on his fourth studio album, Sabiduria, honing in on a grab bag of Latin sounds, from ranchera to reggaet\u00f3n. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 8 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The new models represent a growing grab bag of UV-IR mixing ideas. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
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|
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"1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
|
"agglomerate",
|
|
"agglomeration",
|
|
"alphabet soup",
|
|
"assortment",
|
|
"botch",
|
|
"clutter",
|
|
"collage",
|
|
"crazy quilt",
|
|
"farrago",
|
|
"gallimaufry",
|
|
"gumbo",
|
|
"hash",
|
|
"hodgepodge",
|
|
"hotchpotch",
|
|
"jambalaya",
|
|
"jumble",
|
|
"jungle",
|
|
"litter",
|
|
"mac\u00e9doine",
|
|
"medley",
|
|
"m\u00e9lange",
|
|
"menagerie",
|
|
"miscellanea",
|
|
"miscellany",
|
|
"mishmash",
|
|
"mixed bag",
|
|
"montage",
|
|
"motley",
|
|
"muddle",
|
|
"olio",
|
|
"olla podrida",
|
|
"omnium-gatherum",
|
|
"pastiche",
|
|
"patchwork",
|
|
"patchwork quilt",
|
|
"potpourri",
|
|
"ragbag",
|
|
"ragout",
|
|
"rummage",
|
|
"salad",
|
|
"salmagundi",
|
|
"scramble",
|
|
"shuffle",
|
|
"smorgasbord",
|
|
"stew",
|
|
"tumble",
|
|
"variety",
|
|
"welter"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123410",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grace":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"adorn",
|
|
"array",
|
|
"beautify",
|
|
"bedeck",
|
|
"bedizen",
|
|
"blazon",
|
|
"caparison",
|
|
"deck",
|
|
"decorate",
|
|
"do",
|
|
"do up",
|
|
"doll up",
|
|
"drape",
|
|
"dress",
|
|
"embellish",
|
|
"emblaze",
|
|
"emboss",
|
|
"enrich",
|
|
"fancify",
|
|
"fancy up",
|
|
"festoon",
|
|
"garnish",
|
|
"glitz (up)",
|
|
"gussy up",
|
|
"ornament",
|
|
"pretty (up)",
|
|
"trim"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": a charming or attractive trait or characteristic":[
|
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"Among disagreeable qualities he possessed the saving grace of humor."
|
|
],
|
|
": a musical trill, turn, or appoggiatura":[],
|
|
": a pleasing appearance or effect : charm":[
|
|
"all the grace of youth",
|
|
"\u2014 John Buchan"
|
|
],
|
|
": a short prayer at a meal asking a blessing or giving thanks":[],
|
|
": a special favor : privilege":[
|
|
"each in his place, by right, not grace , shall rule his heritage",
|
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"\u2014 Rudyard Kipling"
|
|
],
|
|
": a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance":[],
|
|
": a temporary exemption : reprieve":[],
|
|
": a virtue coming from God":[],
|
|
": adorn , embellish":[
|
|
"graveled walks graced with statues",
|
|
"\u2014 J. A. Michener"
|
|
],
|
|
": approval , favor":[
|
|
"stayed in his good graces"
|
|
],
|
|
": disposition to or an act or instance of kindness, courtesy, or clemency":[],
|
|
": ease and suppleness (see supple entry 1 sense 2b ) of movement or bearing":[
|
|
"danced with such grace"
|
|
],
|
|
": mercy , pardon":[],
|
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": sense of propriety or right":[
|
|
"had the grace not to run for elective office",
|
|
"\u2014 Calvin Trillin"
|
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],
|
|
": the quality or state of being considerate or thoughtful":[
|
|
"accepted his advice with grace"
|
|
],
|
|
": three sister goddesses in Greek mythology who are the givers of charm and beauty":[],
|
|
": to confer dignity or honor on":[
|
|
"The king graced him with the rank of a knight."
|
|
],
|
|
": unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Noun",
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"She walked across the stage with effortless grace .",
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"She handles her problems with grace and dignity.",
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"He has shown remarkable grace during this crisis.",
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"She is quite lovable despite her lack of social graces .",
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"Let us give thanks for God's grace .",
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"By the grace of God, no one was seriously hurt.",
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"She tried to live her life in God's grace .",
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"Verb",
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"Several marble statues grace the courtyard.",
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"I hope that you will grace our gathering with your presence.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"The first 10% of that bond\u2019s principal repayments is due May 15, before three other dollar-bond coupons\u2019 grace periods end. \u2014 Alice Huang, Fortune , 12 May 2022",
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"Schools expanded grace periods and eased vaccination requirements for remote learners, and had fewer submissions of vaccination documentation with fewer staff to assess kindergarten vaccination coverage. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"Most of America's top 20 banks have made significant changes to overdraft fees recently, including eliminating fees and providing grace periods, according to The Pew Trusts. \u2014 Matt Egan, CNN , 24 Feb. 2022",
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"In October letters to the FHFA, the regulator for Freddie and Fannie, housing advocates said the corporations should take steps to minimize evictions by requiring grace periods and allowing subleases, for instance. \u2014 Heather Vogell, ProPublica , 7 Feb. 2022",
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"What the production lacks in grace it more than makes up for in earthy energy. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 24 June 2022",
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"Clad in a blue satin jumpsuit, the singer, with his mane of black hair and showbiz smile, received his audience with patience and grace . \u2014 Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 June 2022",
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"These competing personae were rendered with dramatic clarity and lithe grace by Michael Francis and the All-Star Orchestra. \u2014 Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
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"Most frogs can jump and land with the precision and grace of an Olympic gymnast. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Tonight: Clear skies and calming winds grace the evening. \u2014 David Streit, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
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"The Strawberry Moon will grace our skies in mid-June. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 8 June 2022",
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"The designer\u2019s concepts will grace new WatchBox locations in Miami, Los Angeles and Boca Raton, all of which are slated to open later this year. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 7 June 2022",
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"For the first time in 23 years, the late and legendary John Madden will grace the cover of NFL Madden for its 23rd edition in perfect fashion. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 June 2022",
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"Legendary coach and broadcaster John Madden will grace the cover of Madden NFL 23, the popular football video game, Electronic Arts announced Wednesday. \u2014 Scooby Axson, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
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"John Madden \u2014 the late NFL coach, announcer and namesake of the mega-popular football video game series \u2014 will grace the Madden 2023 cover, EA Sports announced on Wednesday. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 1 June 2022",
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"Social media sensation MrBeast features on the cover alongside multi-hyphenate creator Bella Poarch, who\u2019ll grace a peelable bonus cover that was created in collaboration between Rolling Stone and Meta. \u2014 Ebbony Pinillos, Rolling Stone , 26 Apr. 2022",
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"Bretman Rock has become the first gay man to grace the cover of Playboy. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Nov. 2021"
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],
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin gratia favor, charm, thanks, from gratus pleasing, grateful; akin to Sanskrit g\u1e5b\u1e47\u0101ti he praises":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u0101s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grace Noun mercy , charity , clemency , grace , leniency mean a disposition to show kindness or compassion. mercy implies compassion that forbears punishing even when justice demands it. threw himself on the mercy of the court charity stresses benevolence and goodwill shown in broad understanding and tolerance of others. show a little charity for the less fortunate clemency implies a mild or merciful disposition in one having the power or duty of punishing. the judge refused to show clemency grace implies a benign attitude and a willingness to grant favors or make concessions. by the grace of God leniency implies lack of severity in punishing. criticized the courts for excessive leniency",
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"synonyms":[
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"benevolence",
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"boon",
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"courtesy",
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"favor",
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"indulgence",
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"kindness",
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"mercy",
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"service",
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"turn"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111108",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"grace note":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a small addition or embellishment":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Others support Senate candidate Ron Hanks, another election denier who attended the January 6, 2021, rally that served as a grace note to the assault on the Capitol. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 21 June 2022",
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"The film and the subsequent digging that unearthed Rebecca\u2019s sub-Saharan African lineage also provided a remarkable grace note for Maria, who passed away earlier this month. \u2014 Forest Whitaker, Variety , 28 Jan. 2022",
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"Another grace note comes from Vanessa Aurora Sierra, who works against the usual Anita stereotypes in favor of a character who is palpably vulnerable and, of course, hardly that much older than anyone else at the fateful dance. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 19 Feb. 2022",
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"But Hudson, who is also an executive producer, felt a grace note was needed to summarize the musical giant\u2019s journey. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 1 Dec. 2021",
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"While Jones is musical, her blue note always hits harder than any grace note . \u2014 New York Times , 17 Sep. 2021",
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"And the creative director Virginie Viard\u2019s spectacular princess-style gown only amplified this, punctuating her collection with a happily-ever-after grace note . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
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"The leather notes from the nose ride back in for a final flourish on a finish that is sweetened up with a grace note of toffee. \u2014 Brian Freedman, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
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"So minty on the nose, with cedar, sandalwood, spearmint, and a savory grace note to the mountain berries. \u2014 Brian Freedman, Forbes , 17 May 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1823, 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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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121231",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"grace period":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a period of time beyond a due date during which a financial obligation may be met without penalty or cancellation":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The terms of the loan allow for a ten-day grace period .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But at the end of the day on Sunday, the grace period on about $100 million of snared interest payments due May 27 expired, a deadline considered an event of default if missed. \u2014 Giulia Morpurgo, Fortune , 27 June 2022",
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"Like other Russian debt, those bonds have a 30-day grace period \u2014 which would cause default by Russia to be declared by late July, barring the unlikely scenario that the Russia-Ukraine war would come to an end before then. \u2014 Ken Sweet And Fatima Hussein, Anchorage Daily News , 24 May 2022",
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"If investors don\u2019t receive the $100 million in payments in their accounts by May 27, Russia will enter a 30-day grace period to remit the funds, after which point the country could be called in default by its creditors. \u2014 Andrew Duehren, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
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"Investors and rating agencies, however, disagreed and did not expect Russia to be able to convert the rubles into dollars before a 30-day grace period expired this week. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 1 May 2022",
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"Bond payments typically come with a 30-day grace period . \u2014 David Goldman, CNN , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"Back in Oklahoma City, Barbary gave Lux his grace period . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"In addition, unpaid medical collection debt won't appear on credit reports for the first year, whereas the previous grace period was six months, the three companies said. \u2014 Tami Luhby, CNN , 11 Apr. 2022",
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"Here, Khosrowshahi seems be suggesting that although the pandemic isn\u2019t over, an unofficial grace period for employees might be. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 9 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1907, 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":"20220708-073431",
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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]
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},
|
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"grace with one's presence":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": to come to a place to be with (a person, group, etc.)":[
|
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"\u2014 usually used humorously He finally decided to grace us with his presence 10 minutes after dinner started. Will you be gracing the meeting with your presence ?"
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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":"20220708-111328",
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"type":[
|
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"idiom"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"graceless":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"deft",
|
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"dexterous",
|
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"dextrous",
|
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"handy",
|
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"sure-handed"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": artistically inept or unbeautiful":[
|
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"graceless dancing"
|
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],
|
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": devoid of attractive qualities":[],
|
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": lacking a sense of propriety":[
|
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"a graceless accusation"
|
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],
|
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": lacking in divine grace : immoral , unregenerate":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Her writing can be graceless and awkward at times.",
|
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"a graceless person who was a butterfingered lout when it came to playing basketball",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Ali\u2019s desperation breeds a painful solitude underscored by his initially graceless homecoming. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
|
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"Shea Stadium is not Eden, and the picture of Tom and Nancy Seaver leaving its graceless precincts in tears did not immediately remind me of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve in the Brancacci Chapel. \u2014 Harper's Magazine , 28 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Lin tore down the graceless expansions, preserving only the shell of the original Lord & Hewlett building. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2021",
|
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"Just look at all the graceless work enabled by pixels, all the dull and droning selfies, all the videos shot in portrait mode. \u2014 Philip Martin, Arkansas Online , 27 Sep. 2020",
|
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"The others are the Turbo S Sport Turismo, an extended-roof model that manages not to be completely graceless , and a pair of plug-in hybrids, the 4S E-Hybrid and 5.9-inch longer 4S E-Hybrid Executive. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 23 Sep. 2020",
|
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"That team is leading the championship race again, but its superiority belies a turbulent, graceless campaign that featured five defeats before the coronavirus brought the season to a halt. \u2014 Tariq Panja, New York Times , 9 May 2020",
|
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"This, where many oilfield workers live in the booming Permian Basin oil fields, is the graceless side of the energy economy, a cluttered zone of mobile homes, oil tanks, service trucks, salvage yards, and endless commercial metal buildings. \u2014 John Maccormack, ExpressNews.com , 2 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"When Walker and his old frenemy Tyrese reunite for the first time, director John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) shoots their graceless scuffle in a Buster Keaton-esque longshot while an FBI guy has a snack. \u2014 Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica , 2 Aug. 2019"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0101s-l\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
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"awkward",
|
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"butterfingered",
|
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"cack-handed",
|
|
"clumsy",
|
|
"ham-fisted",
|
|
"ham-handed",
|
|
"handless",
|
|
"heavy-handed",
|
|
"left-handed",
|
|
"maladroit",
|
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"unhandy"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125218",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"gracias":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": thanks : thank you":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-th\u0113-",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00e4-s\u0113-\u00e4s"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115406",
|
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"type":[
|
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"Spanish noun"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"grade crossing":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a crossing of highways, railroad tracks, or pedestrian walks or combinations of these on the same level":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"In 1998, the agency made recommendations about technology that could alert drivers of the presence of a train when approaching a grade crossing . \u2014 Fox News , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"According to the Federal Railroad Administration, there were 2,148 highway-rail grade crossing collisions across the U.S. in 2021, causing 236 deaths and 662 injuries. \u2014 Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
|
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"In addition, federal officials cited Florida\u2019s five-year average of 2.84 incidents per grade crossing , compared to 1.51 nationally, as one element that drew their additional scrutiny. \u2014 David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com , 23 Feb. 2022",
|
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"The agency\u2019s inspections of Florida crossings will start next month in the Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville areas, said James Payne, the agency\u2019s staff director of grade crossing and trespass outreach. \u2014 David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com , 23 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Walsh said that the town will be working with the DOT on an at- grade crossing that will allow pedestrians to cross the tracks and get to the park. \u2014 Steve Smith, courant.com , 20 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"According to village statistics, there have been 45 crashes at the grade crossing between 1956 and 2005 that resulted in seven fatalities and 27 injuries. \u2014 Gary Gibula, chicagotribune.com , 16 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Indiana can compete for $5 billion for rail improvement and safety grants and $3 billion for grade crossing safety improvements. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 23 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The infrastructure package also targets rail safety, with about $5 billion for rail improvement and safety grants, and another $3 billion for grade crossing safety improvements. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Nov. 2021"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130244",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"graded area":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a region that shows characteristic speech features reflecting different degrees of influence from one or more focal areas":[
|
|
"\u2014 compare focal area , relic area"
|
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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":"20220708-123720",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gradient":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a graded difference in physiological activity along an axis (as of the body or an embryonic field)":[],
|
|
": a part sloping upward or downward":[],
|
|
": change in the value of a quantity (such as temperature, pressure, or concentration) with change in a given variable and especially per unit distance in a specified direction":[],
|
|
": the rate of regular or graded (see grade entry 2 sense transitive 2 ) ascent or descent : inclination":[],
|
|
": the vector sum of the partial derivatives with respect to the three coordinate variables x, y , and z of a scalar quantity whose value varies from point to point":[]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"the path goes up at a pretty steep gradient before leveling off",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The physical world is composed of mathematical constants, one of which is that the dunes of the Namib Desert collapse beyond a gradient of thirty-four degrees. \u2014 Ben Taub, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"The competition length of the track is 1,615 meters with a maximum gradient of 18% and 16 curves. \u2014 Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY , 2 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Every single image is the best one of that area chosen from over 10,000 taken by the LRO, according to the best match of brightness and gradient . \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"Optimize the altitude and gradient and the turns and so on. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 14 May 2022",
|
|
"Strong southerly gradient winds will be present across the state ahead of the cold front, bringing wind gusts of up to 35 mph, the briefing states. \u2014 Brianna Kwasnik, Arkansas Online , 13 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Hiking trails are, for the most part, family-friendly, and are highlighted by the gradient reds, pinks, and oranges of the Painted Desert. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In between, there is everything from elegant white satin to flowy mauve chiffon to tiered polka dot to a green gradient dress with spaghetti straps. \u2014 Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The stones are cut in precise gradient sizes to fit the pattern of the swirl. \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin gradient-, gradiens , present participle of gradi":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101-d\u0113-\u0259nt",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101d-\u0113-\u0259nt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"cant",
|
|
"diagonal",
|
|
"grade",
|
|
"inclination",
|
|
"incline",
|
|
"lean",
|
|
"pitch",
|
|
"rake",
|
|
"slant",
|
|
"slope",
|
|
"upgrade"
|
|
],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125455",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gradient concept":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a theory in embryology: embryonic differentiation is the result of gradation in the potentialities for development of various parts of the embryo of such nature that successful differentiation of a part inhibits the potentiality for similar change elsewhere in the system":[]
|
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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":"20220708-125908",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grain":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a basic or characteristic quality":[],
|
|
": a fast dye":[],
|
|
": a granulated surface or appearance":[],
|
|
": a minute portion or particle":[],
|
|
": a prevalent ideology or convention":[
|
|
"teaching against the grain"
|
|
],
|
|
": a seed or fruit of a cereal grass : caryopsis":[],
|
|
": a single small hard seed":[],
|
|
": a small hard particle or crystal":[],
|
|
": a texture due to constituent particles or fibers":[
|
|
"the grain of a rock"
|
|
],
|
|
": a unit of weight based on the weight of a grain of wheat taken as an average of the weight of grains from the middle of the ear \u2014 see Weights and Measures Table":[],
|
|
": an individual crystal in a metal":[],
|
|
": cochineal or a brilliant scarlet dye made from it":[],
|
|
": color , tint":[],
|
|
": ingrain":[],
|
|
": kermes or a scarlet dye made from it":[],
|
|
": natural disposition : temper":[
|
|
"lying goes against my grain"
|
|
],
|
|
": plants producing grain":[],
|
|
": tactile quality":[],
|
|
": the direction of threads in cloth":[],
|
|
": the least amount possible":[
|
|
"a grain of truth"
|
|
],
|
|
": the outer or hair side of a skin or hide":[],
|
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": the seeds or fruits of various food plants including the cereal grasses and in commercial and statutory usage other plants (such as the soybean)":[],
|
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": the stratification of the wood fibers in a piece of wood":[],
|
|
": to become granular : granulate":[],
|
|
": to feed with grain":[],
|
|
": to form into grains : granulate":[],
|
|
": to paint in imitation of the grain of wood or stone":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"bread made from whole wheat grain",
|
|
"The machine grinds grain into flour.",
|
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"The farm grows a variety of grains .",
|
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"Anyone with a grain of sense knows that she's lying.",
|
|
"There is not a grain of truth in what he said.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"These timelessly chic chaise lounges are crafted from solid acacia hardwood, with natural variation in the grain and an elegant teak stain. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2022",
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"Ukraine exports much of its grain , wheat and other foodstuffs from those ports, which are now menaced by Russia\u2019s fleet. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
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"Top Russian official Sergey Lavrov is holding talks with Turkish officials today on a plan that could allow Ukraine to export its grain through the Black Sea amid an escalating food crisis. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
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"The distinctive buildings with vaulted ceilings are ghorfas, used by Berbers to store their grain . \u2014 Griffin Shea, CNN , 4 May 2022",
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"If much of northern India\u2019s wheat had yet to form its grain before the heat wave began, the effects could be severe. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 4 May 2022",
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"Often, neutral visual narratives turned murky if read against their intrinsic grain . \u2014 Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
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"The barn contained farm machinery, grain and a workshop, Alkire said. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 20 June 2022",
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"The next harvest is expected to bring in as much as 2,000 tons of new seeds and grain . \u2014 Alistair Macdonald, WSJ , 19 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"White Ash features more subtle graining while Black Ash has a dark grain that contrasts with its light background. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 13 Mar. 2020",
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"The cereal grains mixed with clover attract deer first while the brassicas stand tall and are accessible above snow in northern areas for late-season forage. \u2014 Gerald Almy, Field & Stream , 14 Feb. 2020",
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"Microphenomena, such as tornadoes, may be missed because models are not sufficiently fine- grained . \u2014 The Economist , 17 Sep. 2019",
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"Each one would resemble the (A) to (E) outline above, but would be much more finely grained . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 June 2019",
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"The surface appears to be very, very fine- grained . . . . \u2014 Charles Bethea, The New Yorker , 25 May 2018",
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"Within 15 minutes, a portion of this radioactive dust \u2014 mostly grains the size of salt or sand \u2014 would begin to fall directly on the city. \u2014 Daily Intelligencer , 12 June 2018",
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"The raw flesh of the fish is opalescent, fine- grained and smooth and nearly translucent, with a flavor to match. \u2014 Ben Lowy, Smithsonian , 23 May 2018",
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"As in other full-size pickups at this price, the dashboard is largely made up of hard plastics, although their graining looks nice and most critical touch points inside the F-150 are made from softer materials. \u2014 Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver , 9 Mar. 2018"
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"Middle English, partly from Anglo-French grain cereal grain, from Latin granum ; partly from Anglo-French graine seed, kermes, from Latin grana , plural of granum \u2014 more at corn":"Noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Tribune becomes first newspaper to print color photo of breaking news event \u2014 a grain elevator fire. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 26 June 2022",
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"Her husband worked at a grain elevator across the river. \u2014 Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica , 20 May 2022",
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"Haidai accused Russia of attacking a grain elevator tons of grain in Rubizhne, a city in Luhansk, in April. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
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"Anatoly Guyvaronsky, who represents the Dnipro region in Ukraine\u2019s association of farmers and private landowners, said that his grain truck driver and grain elevator operator had gone to fight in the war. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
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"His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Dec. 2021",
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"His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Dec. 2021",
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"His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Dec. 2021",
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"His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator . \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Dec. 2021"
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": the seeds or fruits of various food plants including the cereal grasses and in commercial and statutory usage other plants (such as the soybean)":[],
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": the stratification of the wood fibers in a piece of wood":[],
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": to form into grains : granulate":[],
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": to paint in imitation of the grain of wood or stone":[]
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"Noun",
|
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"bread made from whole wheat grain",
|
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"The machine grinds grain into flour.",
|
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"The farm grows a variety of grains .",
|
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"Anyone with a grain of sense knows that she's lying.",
|
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"There is not a grain of truth in what he said.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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|
"These timelessly chic chaise lounges are crafted from solid acacia hardwood, with natural variation in the grain and an elegant teak stain. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"Ukraine exports much of its grain , wheat and other foodstuffs from those ports, which are now menaced by Russia\u2019s fleet. \u2014 Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Top Russian official Sergey Lavrov is holding talks with Turkish officials today on a plan that could allow Ukraine to export its grain through the Black Sea amid an escalating food crisis. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"The distinctive buildings with vaulted ceilings are ghorfas, used by Berbers to store their grain . \u2014 Griffin Shea, CNN , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"If much of northern India\u2019s wheat had yet to form its grain before the heat wave began, the effects could be severe. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"Often, neutral visual narratives turned murky if read against their intrinsic grain . \u2014 Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The barn contained farm machinery, grain and a workshop, Alkire said. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"The next harvest is expected to bring in as much as 2,000 tons of new seeds and grain . \u2014 Alistair Macdonald, WSJ , 19 June 2022",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"White Ash features more subtle graining while Black Ash has a dark grain that contrasts with its light background. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 13 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"The cereal grains mixed with clover attract deer first while the brassicas stand tall and are accessible above snow in northern areas for late-season forage. \u2014 Gerald Almy, Field & Stream , 14 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"Microphenomena, such as tornadoes, may be missed because models are not sufficiently fine- grained . \u2014 The Economist , 17 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Each one would resemble the (A) to (E) outline above, but would be much more finely grained . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 June 2019",
|
|
"The surface appears to be very, very fine- grained . . . . \u2014 Charles Bethea, The New Yorker , 25 May 2018",
|
|
"Within 15 minutes, a portion of this radioactive dust \u2014 mostly grains the size of salt or sand \u2014 would begin to fall directly on the city. \u2014 Daily Intelligencer , 12 June 2018",
|
|
"The raw flesh of the fish is opalescent, fine- grained and smooth and nearly translucent, with a flavor to match. \u2014 Ben Lowy, Smithsonian , 23 May 2018",
|
|
"As in other full-size pickups at this price, the dashboard is largely made up of hard plastics, although their graining looks nice and most critical touch points inside the F-150 are made from softer materials. \u2014 Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver , 9 Mar. 2018"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125124",
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"grand finale":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"baseline",
|
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"beginning",
|
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"dawn",
|
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"day one",
|
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"nascence",
|
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"nascency",
|
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"opening",
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"start"
|
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": a climactic finale (as of an opera)":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"All of the performers came on stage for the opera's grand finale .",
|
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"the award for best picture is traditionally the evening's grand finale",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Contestants in Sunday's semi-finals sang two songs before the final three grand finale competitors were announced. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 16 May 2022",
|
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"Parker will keep drawing ever closer to the sun and diving deeper into the corona until its grand finale orbit in 2025. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 2 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Parker will keep drawing ever closer to the sun and diving deeper into the corona until its grand finale orbit in 2025. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 16 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Well, The Voice is not playing around with their grand finale event. \u2014 Maggie Fremont, EW.com , 15 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Parker will keep drawing ever closer to the sun and diving deeper into the corona until its grand finale orbit in 2025. \u2014 Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The parade route starts at 6 p.m. in North Palm Beach and travels up the Intracoastal Waterway to the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, where a grand finale fireworks show ends the event at 8 p.m. \u2014 Arlene Borenstein-zuluaga, sun-sentinel.com , 26 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The grand finale celebration, scheduled for June 4, 2022, will offer food, drinks and live music at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, and will feature a virtual option as well. \u2014 Dallas News , 28 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"The traditional parade was back, as were amusement rides, games, food booths, live music and, of course, the grand finale fireworks show. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 3 Aug. 2021"
|
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|
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"1784, in the meaning defined above":""
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|
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"capper",
|
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"close",
|
|
"closing",
|
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"conclusion",
|
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"consummation",
|
|
"end",
|
|
"endgame",
|
|
"ending",
|
|
"finale",
|
|
"finis",
|
|
"finish",
|
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"homestretch",
|
|
"mop-up",
|
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"windup",
|
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"wrap-up"
|
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121225",
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|
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|
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},
|
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"granduncle":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an uncle of one's father or mother":[]
|
|
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|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"His grandmother Eleanor Slatkin was the principal cellist with Warner Bros., while his granduncle was a pianist with the studio. \u2014 Brian Mccollum, Detroit Free Press , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Her great- granduncle , Gustave Niebaum, founded Inglenook Vineyards in 1879 and helped establish Napa Valley\u2019s reputation for quality wine. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Elena is more empathetic than her granduncle , who was wise but a little harsher in his take on the human condition. \u2014 Bill Keveney, USA TODAY , 10 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Herb\u2019s great- granduncle was the commanding officer of the 104th IL Infantry in the Civil War, and that relative\u2019s grandson was killed in the Philippine Insurrection \u2013 for which he was honored by a gun battery in the Philippines bearing his name. \u2014 Peter Aitken, Fox News , 29 May 2021",
|
|
"Lail was raised at Inglenook, the legendary estate founded in the late 1800s by her great- granduncle , Gustave Niebaum. \u2014 Jill Barth, Forbes , 26 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"Parents: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Origin: Louis, pronounced with a silent s, is a tribute to Prince William\u2019s beloved great- granduncle , Louis Mountbatten, who was assassinated by the IRA in 1979. \u2014 Vogue , 23 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"Adams remembers his grandfather getting porpoises in the lagoon, and another time his granduncle got one in the ocean. \u2014 Jenna Kunze, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"But whereas his granduncle has a track record of operational performance and investing acumen, Rozek appears to have been a beneficiary of a confluence of events with a dash of humility. \u2014 Fortune , 27 Dec. 2017"
|
|
],
|
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|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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|
|
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|
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|
|
"\u02c8grand-\u02c8\u0259\u014b-k\u0259l"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114330",
|
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"type":[
|
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|
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|
|
"granita":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a coarse-textured ice confection typically made from fruit":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Of course, this recipe is just a jumping-off point into the granita galaxy. \u2014 Aliza Abarbanel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 2 June 2022",
|
|
"El Bulli\u2019s chicken curry featured a quenelle of curry ice cream and a cold curry-flavor granita in a pool of coconut milk, with the protein only present in a last-minute savory drizzle of chicken demi-glace. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Spoon the granita into the reserved passion fruit shells and freeze until ready to serve. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 28 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Her favorite way to use floral extracts is in sweet, bright, fruity treats\u2014she\u2019ll add a few drops to a frozen watermelon granita in the summertime. \u2014 Antara Sinha, Bon App\u00e9tit , 18 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Her desserts, from an early summer ring of peach and panna cotta over a nest of spun phyllo dough to a more recent medley of melon sorbets and granita , are consistent highlights. \u2014 Michael Russell, oregonlive , 22 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"That yields a super-slushy situation that\u2019s looser than your traditional granita . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 July 2021",
|
|
"Top scoops of the granita with a spoonful or two of sparkling wine, if desired. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 10 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Lemon granita and honeycomb flavors surf a wave of crisp acidity while salted filberts watch longingly from the beach. \u2014 Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 28 July 2021"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1869, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Italian, from feminine of granito , past participle of granire":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"gr\u0259-\u02c8n\u0113-t\u0259"
|
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113752",
|
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|
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|
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},
|
|
"granite":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"hesitation",
|
|
"indecision",
|
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"indecisiveness",
|
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"irresoluteness",
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"irresolution",
|
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|
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"definitions":{
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": a very hard natural igneous rock formation of visibly crystalline texture formed essentially of quartz and orthoclase or microcline and used especially for building and for monuments":[],
|
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": unyielding firmness or endurance":[
|
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"the cold granite of Puritan formalism",
|
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"\u2014 V. L. Parrington"
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]
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"had the granite to see the project out to the end",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The granite was formed as intrusive igneous rock approximately 350 million years ago. \u2014 Walter Nicklin, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"Its oldest granite and limestone temples date back to about 1200 BCE, but people have lived at the site for much longer, since at least 3000 BCE. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Some have ripped out turf in favor of succulents, decomposed granite and other drought-tolerant landscaping, only to see their monthly bills stay the same or in some cases increase. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
|
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"This includes wine made from grapes grown above decomposed granite and Table Mountain Sandstone. \u2014 Tom Mullen, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
|
|
"This reserve protects a rare pine forest atop 2,000-foot-tall mountains, but the real gem here are the rivers, which have carved tight gorges through granite and massive caves through limestone. \u2014 Graham Averill, Outside Online , 7 May 2022",
|
|
"As muons move through the pyramid, the high-energy particles interact with different materials \u2014 granite or limestone, for instance, or air in an open cavity \u2014 deflecting their energy and light in measurable ways. \u2014 NBC News , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"Workers in the granite quarry were skilled stonecutters from countries such as Scotland, England, Wales, Sweden, Norway and Italy. \u2014 AccessAtlanta , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"This wired rock speaker from Klipsch comes in a lovely granite or sandstone finish and doesn't require any mounting! \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Italian granito , from past participle of granire to granulate, from grano grain, from Latin granum":""
|
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|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gra-n\u0259t"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"decidedness",
|
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"decision",
|
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"decisiveness",
|
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"determination",
|
|
"determinedness",
|
|
"firmness",
|
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"purposefulness",
|
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"resoluteness",
|
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"resolution",
|
|
"resolve",
|
|
"stick-to-itiveness"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110519",
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
"grape":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
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": a smooth-skinned juicy light green or deep red to purplish black berry eaten dried or fresh as a fruit or fermented to produce wine":[],
|
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": any of numerous woody vines (genus Vitis of the family Vitaceae, the grape family) that usually climb by tendrils, produce grapes , and are nearly cosmopolitan in cultivation":[],
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"a bunch of seedless grapes",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Most affected are almonds, olive oil and other specialty produce from California\u2019s Central Valley, as well as citrus, grape and salad farms elsewhere in the state. \u2014 Chloe Sorvino, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
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"The goal with the first year of a grape vine is to shape the trunk to your preferred height. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
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"The Chicano civil rights movement grew from the famous 1965 grape strike in California\u2019s rural Central Valley, where Mexican migrants joined forces with protesting Filipino workers, but artists congregate in cities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
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"Half of its grape supply is already organically produced, the house says. \u2014 Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
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"Despite the pushback, many grape farmers say that the use of autonomous tractors is only a matter of time. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2022",
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"Each dish is made to pair perfectly with the star of the show: Pisco, Peru\u2019s national spirit, which is made through a process of distilling wine into a pure grape liquor in an ancestral process that dates back to the 17th century. \u2014 Michaela Trimble, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
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"The Sicilian grape once was used in making Marsala and has been seeing a resurgence. \u2014 cleveland , 12 June 2022",
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"The sweet and grape taste of Grape Ape is distinctive. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 June 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French grape grape stalk, bunch of grapes, grape, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German kr\u0101pfo hook":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Testing grape sugars for compounds confirming smoke taint is a tricky business. \u2014 Michelle Elias, New York Times , 6 Mar. 2020",
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"When yeast cultures consume grape sugar and metabolize it into alcohol, the process generates carbon dioxide gas. \u2014 Gar Joseph & Marnie Old, Philly.com , 7 Feb. 2018",
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"Its flavors of raspberry and strawberry are boosted by the natural grape sugar preserved in this uncommon wine-making process, yielding a wine that resembles an alcoholic cherry Wishniak. \u2014 Marnie Old, Philly.com , 5 Feb. 2018"
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": a smooth-skinned juicy light green or deep red to purplish black berry eaten dried or fresh as a fruit or fermented to produce wine":[],
|
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": any of numerous woody vines (genus Vitis of the family Vitaceae, the grape family) that usually climb by tendrils, produce grapes , and are nearly cosmopolitan in cultivation":[],
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": grapeshot":[]
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|
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"examples":[
|
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"a bunch of seedless grapes",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Most affected are almonds, olive oil and other specialty produce from California\u2019s Central Valley, as well as citrus, grape and salad farms elsewhere in the state. \u2014 Chloe Sorvino, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"The goal with the first year of a grape vine is to shape the trunk to your preferred height. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
|
|
"The Chicano civil rights movement grew from the famous 1965 grape strike in California\u2019s rural Central Valley, where Mexican migrants joined forces with protesting Filipino workers, but artists congregate in cities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Half of its grape supply is already organically produced, the house says. \u2014 Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"Despite the pushback, many grape farmers say that the use of autonomous tractors is only a matter of time. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"Each dish is made to pair perfectly with the star of the show: Pisco, Peru\u2019s national spirit, which is made through a process of distilling wine into a pure grape liquor in an ancestral process that dates back to the 17th century. \u2014 Michaela Trimble, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"The Sicilian grape once was used in making Marsala and has been seeing a resurgence. \u2014 cleveland , 12 June 2022",
|
|
"The sweet and grape taste of Grape Ape is distinctive. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 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 1":""
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French grape grape stalk, bunch of grapes, grape, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German kr\u0101pfo hook":""
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|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0101p"
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-131114",
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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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"grapeshot":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
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": an antipersonnel weapon consisting of a cluster of small iron balls shot from a cannon":[]
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},
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Wallis fired his guns at a promontory overlooking Matavai Bay, raining shrapnel and grapeshot on a crowd of angry onlookers. \u2014 Hampton Sides, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Sep. 2021",
|
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"He was wounded at the Battle of Savannah in 1779, hit by grapeshot in a charge, and perished. \u2014 Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online , 28 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"But while Laurens\u2019 troops set up their howitzer artillery, a large-caliber cannon with a short barrel built to fire clusters of grapeshot , the British spotted them, according to a SCBPT statement. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 Aug. 2020",
|
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"This hint to elevate the breeches of their guns was acted on and a volley of grapeshot fired into Captain Taylor\u2019s boat, defeated his bold plan of capture, and wounded him for life. \u2014 Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal , 23 Dec. 2017",
|
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"Early in the war, his left arm was shattered by grapeshot and amputated, but that didn't stop him, as Sears relates. \u2014 Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com , 27 Apr. 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1745, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8gr\u0101p-\u02ccsh\u00e4t"
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],
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|
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]
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"grapestone":{
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": a grape seed":[]
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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},
|
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|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"rassle",
|
|
"scuffle",
|
|
"tussle",
|
|
"wrestle"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a bucket (as on an excavating machine) having hinged jaws":[],
|
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": a contest for superiority or mastery":[
|
|
"their grapple with tyranny"
|
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],
|
|
": a hand-to-hand struggle":[
|
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"locked in a desperate grapple with his foe"
|
|
],
|
|
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|
|
": grappling hook":[],
|
|
": the act or an instance of grappling":[],
|
|
": to begin to understand or deal with something in a direct or effective way":[
|
|
"Officials grappled with an increase in violent crimes."
|
|
],
|
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": to bind closely":[],
|
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": to grasp with the hands : wrestle":[],
|
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": to make a ship fast with a grappling hook":[],
|
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": to seize with or as if with a grapple (see grapple entry 1 sense 2 )":[],
|
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": to use a grapple":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Noun",
|
|
"was simply unable to break my opponent's viselike grapple and lost the wrestling match",
|
|
"after a grapple with his conscience, he confessed to having an affair",
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"two sumo wrestlers grappling like a pair of mammoth bears",
|
|
"a crane grappled the sunken boat and hoisted it above water",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Macron has now been weakened just as the bloc and the broader continent grapple with the conflict in Ukraine, a growing energy crisis and the rise of China. \u2014 Patrick Smith, NBC News , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"Throughout the popular show\u2019s seven seasons, the gang has to deal with internal conflict and the authorities, plus grapple with their own personal lives. \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"Back at The Pynk, Autumn and Uncle Clifford grapple for the throne as new blood shakes up the locker room. \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 29 May 2022",
|
|
"As coastal regions and the Sunbelt grapple with the worsening effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels, record droughts and wildfires, a cool freshwater lake in the northern Midwest has particular appeal. \u2014 Amy Gamerman, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"The need for affordable housing has become even more crucial this year as households across the U.S. grapple with surging inflation, which is raising the price of gas, food and other necessities. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"Although trailing Macron in most polls, Le Pen has gained steady momentum, as the French grapple with inflation and slipping purchasing power \u2014 bread-and-butter issues that play to her strengths. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Many people with migraine grapple with more than head pain during an attack, too, such as nausea and vomiting. \u2014 Demetria Wambia, SELF , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In these luminous stories, Afghan characters both in the homeland and in the diaspora grapple with their heritage and the scars war has left on their bodies, minds and families. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Delta Airlines on Monday flew a large shipment of baby formula from London to Logan International Airport as the US continues to grapple with a formula shortage, according to the airline. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"The historic move marks the first time a Broadway theater will be named after a Black woman, as the industry continues to grapple with a relative lack of racial diversity. \u2014 Zachary Schermele, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"As our society continues to grapple with mass school shootings, schools must play a critical role in preventing future tragedies. \u2014 Nathaniel Von Der Embse, The Conversation , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Milwaukee continues to grapple with gun violence across the city. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"However, Airbnb continues to grapple with preventing people from using its platform to book properties and host unauthorized parties -- some of which have gotten severely out of hand and made headlines over the years. \u2014 Sara Ashley O'brien, CNN , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"The West African nation continues to grapple with a 10-year-old insurgency by Islamic extremist rebels in the northeast. \u2014 Chinedu Asadu, ajc , 20 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The recommendation to approve the sale and development agreement comes as the city continues to grapple with other real estate transactions \u2014 especially those pushed forward by former Mayor Kevin Faulconer. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The regional bloc continues to grapple with unreliable funding, political disagreements, and trade disputes across borders. \u2014 Priya Sippy, Quartz , 28 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1530, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
|
|
"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English grappel grappling hook, from Old French *grappelle , diminutive of grape hook \u2014 more at grape":"Noun and Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gra-p\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"clasp",
|
|
"clench",
|
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"grasp",
|
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"grip",
|
|
"handgrip",
|
|
"handhold",
|
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"hold"
|
|
],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082931",
|
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|
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"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grapple dredge":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a dredger that operates with a clamshell, orange-peel, or other bucket":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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|
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|
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|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084415",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grapple fork":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": hayfork":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-102810",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grapple plant":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an herb ( Harpagophytum procumbens ) of southern Africa having woody fruits with hooked or barbed thorns":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"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":"20220708-103503",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grappling":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": grapnel":[],
|
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|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Particularly Jack, with your grappling , and Sean, with your attitude both in and out of the cage. \u2014 Josh Chesler, SPIN , 4 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Victory and defeat live split seconds apart in mixed martial arts, where judges must factor in the impact of strikes and grappling , execution of takedowns, reversals, effective aggression, area control, and more, according to the ABC MMA ruleset. \u2014 Brian Roberts, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The process, the feeling, the emotion, the grappling , is very universal. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"Because our literary grappling with that crisis, and of mass species extinction and other related offshoots of human depredations on the natural world, is a direct engagement with the real. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 July 2021",
|
|
"This is what the book is about, about the grappling of American Jewry (and its secret girlfriend, Israel). \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2021",
|
|
"In neighboring Louisiana, Letlow described her own grappling with the decision to launch a campaign while grieving. \u2014 Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner , 7 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"From a parody of quarantine stereotypes to comedian Dave Chappelle's emotional grappling at the height of the racial injustice protests, this year's top 10 trending YouTube videos are vastly different from years past. \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 1 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"But in an illustration of how divisive grappling with that brutal colonial history is in Belgium, a spokesman for the mayor of Antwerp, Bart De Wever, said the statue of Leopold was not being removed because of the recent outcry. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2020"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1582, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gra-p(\u0259-)li\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114006",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grappling hook":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a hook usually with multiple prongs that is typically attached to a rope and is used for grabbing, grappling, or gripping":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Even so, Rusted Moss separates itself from the crowd thanks in large part to a unique grappling hook mechanic. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Clicking or tapping on the Bat-Signal GIF will transform your screen into a stormy night sky illuminated by the superhero\u2019s famous beacon \u2014 before the Batman himself fires a grappling hook and swings into view. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 23 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Here, Master Chief uses his new grappling hook to attach to a distant point, then fling himself forward quickly. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 6 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Far and away, the best new addition to the series is the grappling hook , perhaps not a new gaming concept in general, but when combined with Master Chief\u2019s usual gameplay? \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Master Chief begins the game with the grappling hook as a piece of equipment, giving the player a few hours to experiment with it in the opening, lower-pressure levels. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"One such piece of equipment, the grappling hook , is the star of the show, featured not just in the game\u2019s marketing and trailers but also in the in-game cutscenes. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The hydrophones, which Myers and the North Gulf Oceanic Society team recover once each year with a grappling hook or by diving for them, are suspended about 10 feet above the sea floor. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Aiden can use over 3000 parkour animations, a grappling hook , a host of melee weapons, and even zombie-like skills himself to contend with the undead. \u2014 Brittany Vincent, BGR , 31 Oct. 2021"
|
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104125",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grapsid":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of or relating to the family Grapsidae":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin Grapsidae":""
|
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|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8graps\u0259\u0307d"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105837",
|
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"type":[
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
},
|
|
"grasp":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"control",
|
|
"hand(s)"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": embrace":[],
|
|
": handle":[],
|
|
": hold , control":[
|
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"kept a firm grasp on the rope"
|
|
],
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"success lay within their grasp"
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": the reach of the arms":[
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"The books on the top shelf were beyond my grasp ."
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": to clasp or embrace especially with the fingers or arms":[
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"grasped the pen and began writing"
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": to lay hold of with the mind : comprehend":[
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"failed to grasp the danger of the situation"
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],
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": to make the motion of seizing : clutch":[
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"grasping for support"
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],
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": to reach for or try anything in desperation":[],
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": to take or seize eagerly":[
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"grasp the opportunity for advancement"
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"I grasped the end of the rope and pulled as hard as I could.",
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"I grasped the rope by its end.",
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"His arthritis is so bad he can barely grasp a pencil.",
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"Noun",
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"The author shows a weak grasp of military strategy.",
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"The books on the top shelf are just beyond my grasp .",
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"She moved the toy to within the baby's grasp .",
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"She felt the solution was within her grasp .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The best activity for a human being is to seek the truth without expecting to grasp it definitively. \u2014 Martha Bayles, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
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"All of this is to say: Disney World is ingrained in the state\u2019s identity, for better or worse, in ways that are hard to grasp for those outside Florida, or perhaps California, home of Disney Land. \u2014 Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"For Mikhaylo Dzhanda, who served as mayor of the western city of Khust from 2002 until 2010, and is now volunteering in the battalion, the sudden shift in control is almost hard to grasp . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
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"The ch\u00e2teau has had a level of longevity that is hard to grasp : When the estate was formed, the French Revolution was still nearly 70 years away. \u2014 Ted Loos, Robb Report , 12 Dec. 2021",
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"Like Edison\u2019s recording of sound, crypto enables the monetization of an ephemeral asset, one whose value is hard to grasp before the process of monetization is well underway. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
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"Each branch reaches out toward the edges of the property, as if to grasp hands with the younger trees nearby. \u2014 Ryan Martin, The Indianapolis Star , 22 June 2022",
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"The government also fails to grasp (or is consciously oblivious to) just how far plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers will ride these meal-and-rest-break claims if the Court denies review. \u2014 Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
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"Even though Saleh didn\u2019t grasp all of the material yet, Bazzi said Saleh was always taking notes. \u2014 Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Numerous speakers recalled his extraordinary grasp of world history, his encyclopedic knowledge of fashion, and the boom of him speaking in absolutely perfect French. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"The session will focus on building fine motor skills, improving pinch grasp , sensory motor development and increasing spatial awareness. \u2014 Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
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"Regardless of their poor relationship with Santos, this puts them in good stead to snatch the duo from the grasp of rivals Real Madrid - who bought Rodrygo from them in 2018 and other interested parties. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
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"But the Christmas miracle was still within the Browns\u2019 grasp . \u2014 Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY , 26 Dec. 2021",
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"But Elliott said that Fairhope and surrounding areas have grown so much that lawmakers need to be energetic and have a grasp on the challenges that Baldwin County faces with its rapid growth. \u2014 al , 19 May 2022",
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"Health authorities will have a firmer grasp of the risk factors in the coming days. \u2014 Geoff Whitmore, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
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"Well, coach Quin Snyder apparently has a firm grasp on what isn\u2019t the problem. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 Apr. 2022",
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"According to a new report, industry professionals also don\u2019t have a full grasp of the concept and want to know how that will affect the landscape. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 5 Apr. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
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"1561, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"Middle English graspen":"Verb and Noun"
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},
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"\u02c8grasp"
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grasp Verb take , seize , grasp , clutch , snatch , grab mean to get hold of by or as if by catching up with the hand. take is a general term applicable to any manner of getting something into one's possession or control. take some salad from the bowl seize implies a sudden and forcible movement in getting hold of something tangible or an apprehending of something fleeting or elusive when intangible. seized the suspect grasp stresses a laying hold so as to have firmly in possession. grasp the handle and pull clutch suggests avidity or anxiety in seizing or grasping and may imply less success in holding. clutching her purse snatch suggests more suddenness or quickness but less force than seize . snatched a doughnut and ran grab implies more roughness or rudeness than snatch . grabbed roughly by the arm",
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"comprehend",
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"know",
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"understand"
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": to try to take or get (something) in an eager or desperate way":[
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"He grasped at the opportunity to speak with her."
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]
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]
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},
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|
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"grasping for attention"
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]
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]
|
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"control",
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"hand(s)"
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"kept a firm grasp on the rope"
|
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],
|
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|
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|
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],
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|
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"grasped the pen and began writing"
|
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],
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": to lay hold of with the mind : comprehend":[
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"failed to grasp the danger of the situation"
|
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],
|
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"grasping for support"
|
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],
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"grasp the opportunity for advancement"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
|
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"I grasped the end of the rope and pulled as hard as I could.",
|
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"I grasped the rope by its end.",
|
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"His arthritis is so bad he can barely grasp a pencil.",
|
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"Noun",
|
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"The author shows a weak grasp of military strategy.",
|
|
"The books on the top shelf are just beyond my grasp .",
|
|
"She moved the toy to within the baby's grasp .",
|
|
"She felt the solution was within her grasp .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"The best activity for a human being is to seek the truth without expecting to grasp it definitively. \u2014 Martha Bayles, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"All of this is to say: Disney World is ingrained in the state\u2019s identity, for better or worse, in ways that are hard to grasp for those outside Florida, or perhaps California, home of Disney Land. \u2014 Noah Biermanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"For Mikhaylo Dzhanda, who served as mayor of the western city of Khust from 2002 until 2010, and is now volunteering in the battalion, the sudden shift in control is almost hard to grasp . \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The ch\u00e2teau has had a level of longevity that is hard to grasp : When the estate was formed, the French Revolution was still nearly 70 years away. \u2014 Ted Loos, Robb Report , 12 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Like Edison\u2019s recording of sound, crypto enables the monetization of an ephemeral asset, one whose value is hard to grasp before the process of monetization is well underway. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Each branch reaches out toward the edges of the property, as if to grasp hands with the younger trees nearby. \u2014 Ryan Martin, The Indianapolis Star , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"The government also fails to grasp (or is consciously oblivious to) just how far plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers will ride these meal-and-rest-break claims if the Court denies review. \u2014 Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"Even though Saleh didn\u2019t grasp all of the material yet, Bazzi said Saleh was always taking notes. \u2014 Eve Sampson, Detroit Free Press , 4 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Numerous speakers recalled his extraordinary grasp of world history, his encyclopedic knowledge of fashion, and the boom of him speaking in absolutely perfect French. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The session will focus on building fine motor skills, improving pinch grasp , sensory motor development and increasing spatial awareness. \u2014 Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Regardless of their poor relationship with Santos, this puts them in good stead to snatch the duo from the grasp of rivals Real Madrid - who bought Rodrygo from them in 2018 and other interested parties. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"But the Christmas miracle was still within the Browns\u2019 grasp . \u2014 Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY , 26 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"But Elliott said that Fairhope and surrounding areas have grown so much that lawmakers need to be energetic and have a grasp on the challenges that Baldwin County faces with its rapid growth. \u2014 al , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Health authorities will have a firmer grasp of the risk factors in the coming days. \u2014 Geoff Whitmore, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Well, coach Quin Snyder apparently has a firm grasp on what isn\u2019t the problem. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"According to a new report, industry professionals also don\u2019t have a full grasp of the concept and want to know how that will affect the landscape. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 5 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
|
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"1561, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English graspen":"Verb and Noun"
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grasp"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grasp Verb take , seize , grasp , clutch , snatch , grab mean to get hold of by or as if by catching up with the hand. take is a general term applicable to any manner of getting something into one's possession or control. take some salad from the bowl seize implies a sudden and forcible movement in getting hold of something tangible or an apprehending of something fleeting or elusive when intangible. seized the suspect grasp stresses a laying hold so as to have firmly in possession. grasp the handle and pull clutch suggests avidity or anxiety in seizing or grasping and may imply less success in holding. clutching her purse snatch suggests more suddenness or quickness but less force than seize . snatched a doughnut and ran grab implies more roughness or rudeness than snatch . grabbed roughly by the arm",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"comprehend",
|
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"know",
|
|
"understand"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082926",
|
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|
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"adjective",
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"noun",
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
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"grass carp":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
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": an herbivorous cyprinid fish ( Ctenopharyngodon idella ) of eastern Asia that has been introduced elsewhere to control aquatic weeds":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The only one of the four species found in Lake Erie so far is the grass carp . \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 30 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Within a decade of the grass carp 's arrival, Arkansas fish farmers would import three other carp species: black, bighead and silver. \u2014 jsonline.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
|
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"The boxes contained dozens of juvenile grass carp , a species native to Asia and famous for taking to forests of seaweed like locusts to crops. \u2014 jsonline.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Adult grass carp consume aquatic plants, which serve as food and habitat for native fish. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 13 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"There are four species of invasive carp in Missouri rivers -- bighead carp, black carp, grass carp and silver carp. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 13 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"There are a few hypotheses as to what might be attracting the grass carp . \u2014 Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com , 2 June 2021",
|
|
"The removal of the invasive fish comes in response to the discovery of 39 silver carp and 12 grass carp in the Pool 8 region in 2020, as well as an additional eight carp caught in the area this year. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"The silver and grass carp were caught in shallow backwaters of the river's Pool 8, near La Crosse, Wis., just above the southernmost lock and dam in Minnesota. \u2014 Greg Stanley, Star Tribune , 9 Apr. 2021"
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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|
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|
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|
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": a cosmopolitan thrips ( Anaphothrips obscurus ) especially destructive to the developing inflorescence of grasses":[]
|
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|
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"examples":[],
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|
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|
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]
|
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},
|
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|
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|
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|
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": any of a genus ( Xanthorrhoea ) of Australian plants of the lily family with a thick woody trunk bearing a cluster of stiff linear leaves and a terminal spike of small flowers":[]
|
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|
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"examples":[],
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
},
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
": fret , irritate":[],
|
|
": grating sense 2":[],
|
|
": to cause irritation : jar":[
|
|
"a voice that grates on the nerves"
|
|
],
|
|
": to cause to make a rasping sound":[],
|
|
": to furnish with a grate":[
|
|
"the lower windows were grated"
|
|
],
|
|
": to gnash or grind noisily":[],
|
|
": to reduce to small particles by rubbing on something rough":[
|
|
"grate cheese"
|
|
],
|
|
": to rub or rasp noisily":[
|
|
"metal grating against metal"
|
|
],
|
|
": to utter in a harsh voice":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Brush a hot grill grate with oil and add the mushrooms in a single layer, in batches if necessary. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Behind a glass partition, flames surge from the grill as chef Yoshiya Tomori lines its grate with skewered chicken thighs, gizzards and hearts. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Alternatively, finely chop, grate or press raw garlic cloves into ice trays, cover with oil, and freeze. \u2014 Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Once the grill is hot, coat the grate in olive oil. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"Replace the cooking grate , and set an oven or grill thermometer on top. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"By putting vegetarian ingredients at the center of the grate , both books provide ways to enjoy all the sensual pleasures of the grill and keep a clear conscience. \u2014 Barry Estabrook, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
|
|
"Place the steak on the cooking grate and grill for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on size. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Before and after each use, use a grill brush or crumpled aluminum foil to loosen and clean residue on the cooking grate . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"The hour, both brisk and sedate, was hosted by Darren Criss and Julianne Hough, whose cheerleader pep seemed to grate even on themselves. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Streaming, the cheap and convenient format that came to rule the industry in the past decade, has begun to grate on a diverse range of artists and listeners. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"There\u2019s also a lack of subtlety that begins to grate after a while. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
|
|
"To get the juice, peel and grate a cucumber, then wrap in a clean dish towel and squeeze juice into a dish. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 2 May 2022",
|
|
"At those lofty prices, and given the Grand Cherokee's overall refinement, the plug-in hybrid's rough edges begin to grate . \u2014 Austin Irwin, Car and Driver , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Use a box grater to grate tomato into a small mixing bowl. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 5 May 2021",
|
|
"Meanwhile, grate one pound of the cheese on the large holes of a box grater. \u2014 USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Mince or finely grate 3 garlic cloves and add them to the skillet. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022"
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
|
|
"1547, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Anglo-French grater to scratch, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German krazz\u014dn to scratch":"Verb",
|
|
"Middle English, from Medieval Latin crata, grata hurdle, alteration of Latin cratis \u2014 more at hurdle":"Noun and Verb"
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0101t"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"aggravate",
|
|
"annoy",
|
|
"bother",
|
|
"bug",
|
|
"burn (up)",
|
|
"chafe",
|
|
"eat",
|
|
"exasperate",
|
|
"frost",
|
|
"gall",
|
|
"get",
|
|
"gripe",
|
|
"hack (off)",
|
|
"irk",
|
|
"irritate",
|
|
"itch",
|
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"nark",
|
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|
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|
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"persecute",
|
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|
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"put out",
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"rasp",
|
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"rile",
|
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"ruffle",
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"spite",
|
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"vex"
|
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|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun",
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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|
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"grated":{
|
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|
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|
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": abrade":[],
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": cage , prison":[],
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": fireplace":[],
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": fret , irritate":[],
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": grating sense 2":[],
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": to cause irritation : jar":[
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"a voice that grates on the nerves"
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],
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": to cause to make a rasping sound":[],
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": to furnish with a grate":[
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"the lower windows were grated"
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],
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": to gnash or grind noisily":[],
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": to reduce to small particles by rubbing on something rough":[
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"grate cheese"
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],
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": to rub or rasp noisily":[
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"metal grating against metal"
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],
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": to utter in a harsh voice":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Brush a hot grill grate with oil and add the mushrooms in a single layer, in batches if necessary. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 23 June 2022",
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"Behind a glass partition, flames surge from the grill as chef Yoshiya Tomori lines its grate with skewered chicken thighs, gizzards and hearts. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
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"Alternatively, finely chop, grate or press raw garlic cloves into ice trays, cover with oil, and freeze. \u2014 Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping , 3 June 2022",
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"Once the grill is hot, coat the grate in olive oil. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
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"Replace the cooking grate , and set an oven or grill thermometer on top. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
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"By putting vegetarian ingredients at the center of the grate , both books provide ways to enjoy all the sensual pleasures of the grill and keep a clear conscience. \u2014 Barry Estabrook, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
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"Place the steak on the cooking grate and grill for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on size. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
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"Before and after each use, use a grill brush or crumpled aluminum foil to loosen and clean residue on the cooking grate . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 May 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The hour, both brisk and sedate, was hosted by Darren Criss and Julianne Hough, whose cheerleader pep seemed to grate even on themselves. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
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"Streaming, the cheap and convenient format that came to rule the industry in the past decade, has begun to grate on a diverse range of artists and listeners. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
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"There\u2019s also a lack of subtlety that begins to grate after a while. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
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"To get the juice, peel and grate a cucumber, then wrap in a clean dish towel and squeeze juice into a dish. \u2014 Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal , 2 May 2022",
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"At those lofty prices, and given the Grand Cherokee's overall refinement, the plug-in hybrid's rough edges begin to grate . \u2014 Austin Irwin, Car and Driver , 19 Apr. 2022",
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"Use a box grater to grate tomato into a small mixing bowl. \u2014 Kitty Greenwald, WSJ , 5 May 2021",
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"Meanwhile, grate one pound of the cheese on the large holes of a box grater. \u2014 USA TODAY , 1 Apr. 2022",
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"Mince or finely grate 3 garlic cloves and add them to the skillet. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
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"1547, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French grater to scratch, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German krazz\u014dn to scratch":"Verb",
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"Middle English, from Medieval Latin crata, grata hurdle, alteration of Latin cratis \u2014 more at hurdle":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u0101t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"aggravate",
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"annoy",
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"bother",
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"bug",
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"burn (up)",
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"chafe",
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"eat",
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"exasperate",
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"frost",
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"gall",
|
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"get",
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"gripe",
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"hack (off)",
|
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"irk",
|
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"irritate",
|
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"itch",
|
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"nark",
|
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"nettle",
|
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"peeve",
|
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"persecute",
|
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"pique",
|
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"put out",
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"rasp",
|
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"rile",
|
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"ruffle",
|
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"spite",
|
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"vex"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082522",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun",
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"gratifying":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"disagreeable",
|
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"pleasureless",
|
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"unpalatable",
|
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"unpleasant",
|
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"unwelcome"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": giving pleasure or satisfaction : pleasing":[
|
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"a gratifying result"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"It was a gratifying victory.",
|
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"The response has been gratifying .",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"That part of it was a surprise and very gratifying . \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
|
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"But the seminal moment of her career remains the U.S.-China final on July 10, 1999, when a series of magical events gave the nation one of its most gratifying and unifying sports results. \u2014 Christine Brennan, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
|
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"This season, the show covers a LOT of ground and examines multiple perspectives of each issue which Adele finds extremely gratifying . \u2014 Essence , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
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"It\u2019s a humbling experience, but very gratifying as well. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 21 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Mental Canvas\u2019 Dorsey said viewing the array of entries for the $100,000 challenge has been extremely gratifying . \u2014 Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
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"It's been very gratifying , the reception and the fact that so many people have been watching it. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
|
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"The prospect of providing answers to old mysteries makes the bumper crop of pupfish even more gratifying , Wilson said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
|
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"And one of the most gratifying parts of the experience of Drag Race has been hearing from people who tell me how important my time on the show has meant to them. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 23 Apr. 2022"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gra-t\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b-i\u014b"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"agreeable",
|
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"blessed",
|
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"blest",
|
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"congenial",
|
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"darling",
|
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"delectable",
|
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"delicious",
|
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"delightful",
|
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"delightsome",
|
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"dreamy",
|
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"dulcet",
|
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"enjoyable",
|
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"felicitous",
|
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"good",
|
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"grateful",
|
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"heavenly",
|
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"jolly",
|
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"luscious",
|
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"nice",
|
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"palatable",
|
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"pleasant",
|
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"pleasing",
|
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"pleasurable",
|
|
"pretty",
|
|
"satisfying",
|
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"savory",
|
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"savoury",
|
|
"sweet",
|
|
"tasty",
|
|
"welcome"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111506",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gratillity":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": gratuity":[]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"by alteration":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110143",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gratin":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": upper crust":[
|
|
"the gratin of London society"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The atmosphere was corporate canteen, but the fare was refined, especially a fruit salad with lime zest and, at dinner, a Roscoff-onion soup with buckwheat, sweetbreads, and a gratin of regional Ty Ewen cheese. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"Divide the spinach mixture among four individual gratin dishes (or one 8-inch round or oval oven-proof baking dish). \u2014 Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Here\u2019s a hearty, vegetable gratin with a crunchy, cheesy topping. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 29 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"In an oval gratin dish or 7-by-11-inch Pyrex dish, arrange citrus in a spiral, alternating Cara Cara and blood oranges. \u2014 Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"As soon as the tomato sauce is ready, arrange the eggplant slices alternately with the mozzarella and tomato sauce in a gratin baking dish. \u2014 Benjamin Liong Setiawan, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The lime and coconut potato gratin in Yotam Ottolenghi\u2019s Ottolenghi Flavor. \u2014 Riza Cruz, ELLE , 16 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"This creamy-yet-virtuous gratin of greens from Ivy Manning is crowned with crunchy homemade bread crumbs tossed with nutty-tasting brown butter. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Allow the gratin to cool completely before covering it with plastic and storing it in the refrigerator. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Nov. 2021"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1806, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French, from Middle French, from grater to scratch":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gra-t\u1d4an",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00e4-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084805",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gratinate":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to cook with a covering of buttered crumbs or grated cheese until a crust or crisp surface forms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French gratin er (from gratin ) + English -ate":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grat\u1d4an\u02cc\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082433",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"transitive verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grating":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"aesthetic",
|
|
"esthetic",
|
|
"aesthetical",
|
|
"esthetical"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a partition, covering, or frame of parallel bars or crossbars":[],
|
|
": a system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars ruled on a polished surface to produce spectra by diffraction":[],
|
|
": a wooden or metal lattice used to close or floor an opening":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Many on the left today would find the newspaper\u2019s accolade grating in its embrace of the classical West. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"But even the grating \u2013 albeit perky \u2013 bop with its dusting of sax and funk demonstrated John\u2019s musical elasticity. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
|
|
"Which raises a grating question: How long will the revulsion last\u2014not only in Germany but in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, even eternally neutral Switzerland, which has joined in? \u2014 Josef Joffe, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The key is in the grating , which cuts down on gluten formation and creates lightness. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Synthetic voices have become less grating in recent years, in part due to artificial intelligence research by companies such as Google and Amazon, which compete to offer virtual assistants and cloud services with smoother artificial tones. \u2014 Tom Simonite, Wired , 27 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Along with the office workers, the Franklin building's employees will be slicing, grating and packaging cheese made at other Saputo facilities before it's distributed to retailers and other wholesale customers. \u2014 Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Casein in particular endows cheese with its melting, stretching, grating , and aging endowments \u2014 not to mention its distinct taste. \u2014 Simon Mainwaring, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"An orange peel and grating of nutmeg bring home the holiday vibe, which makes for a great pairing with the crunchy starters. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Dec. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1563, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
|
|
"1622, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101t-i\u014b",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101-ti\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"grotesque",
|
|
"harsh",
|
|
"jarring",
|
|
"unaesthetic"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085745",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gratin\u00e9":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": au gratin":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1931, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French, from past participle of gratiner to cook au gratin, from gratin":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccgr\u00e4-",
|
|
"\u02ccgra-t\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082505",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gratin\u00e9e":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to cook au gratin":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1974, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccgra-t\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101",
|
|
"\u02ccgr\u00e4-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083347",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gratuity":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Reiki sessions are 15 minutes, no charge, gratuity only. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The price of the food itself isn\u2019t changing, but whereas dining prices previously included both meals and service, diners will now be asked to pay a gratuity to their server. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"In some countries, leaving a gratuity is still considered offensive, pandemic or not. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Dinners are $250 per person and include around nine courses, wine pairings and gratuity . \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Some restaurants have tried to solve the inequities and unpredictability of tipping by adding an automatic gratuity to each bill. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The package includes gourmet meals, unlimited snacks, smoothies, specialty coffee and gratuity . \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 17 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Brunch does not include beverage, tax, or gratuity . \u2014 Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal , 2 May 2022",
|
|
"The price of dinner is $75 per person plus tax and gratuity . \u2014 Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer , 12 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1540, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"see gratuitous":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"gr\u0259-\u02c8t\u00fc-\u0259-t\u0113",
|
|
"-\u02c8ty\u00fc-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"perquisite",
|
|
"tip"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113218",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"graveyard watch":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": graveyard shift":[],
|
|
": midwatch":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"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":"20220708-073219",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grawlix":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a series of typographical symbols (such as $#!) used in text as a replacement for profanity":[
|
|
"\u2026 it's impossible to quote Ryan directly without liberal use of the grawlix \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Steve Rushin"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1976, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"coined by the American cartoonist Mort Walker (1923-2018)":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u022f-\u02ccliks"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112332",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gray":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War":[],
|
|
": any of a series of neutral colors ranging between black and white":[],
|
|
": clothed in gray":[],
|
|
": dull in color":[],
|
|
": having an intermediate and often vaguely defined position, condition, or character":[
|
|
"an ethically gray area"
|
|
],
|
|
": having the hair gray : hoary":[],
|
|
": of the color gray":[],
|
|
": prosaically ordinary : dull , uninteresting":[
|
|
"the boring, gray dullness of government",
|
|
"\u2014 P. J. O'Rourke"
|
|
],
|
|
": something (such as an animal, garment, cloth, or spot) of a gray color":[],
|
|
": tending toward gray":[
|
|
"blue- gray eyes"
|
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],
|
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": the Confederate army":[],
|
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": the mks unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of one joule per kilogram of irradiated material":[
|
|
"\u2014 abbreviation Gy"
|
|
],
|
|
": to become gray":[],
|
|
": to make gray":[],
|
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"Asa 1810\u20131888 American botanist":[],
|
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"Thomas 1716\u20131771 English poet":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Adjective",
|
|
"What will you do when you are old and gray ?",
|
|
"My friends have all gone gray .",
|
|
"It was a gray winter day.",
|
|
"the gray faces of the people in the crowd"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
|
|
"1975, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Louis H. Gray \u20201965 British radiobiologist":"Noun",
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English gr\u01e3g ; akin to Old High German gr\u012bs, gr\u0101o gray":"Adjective, Noun , and Verb"
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": an area or situation in which it is difficult to judge what is right and what is wrong":[
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"a legal gray area"
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": a small birch ( Betula populifolia ) of northeastern North America that has many lateral branches, grayish-white bark, triangular leaves, and soft weak wood and that occurs especially in old fields reverting to woodland":[],
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"By planting wild indigo, gray birch , and switchgrass, his goal was to take a chunk of the Catskills and put it on his roof. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 10 Nov. 2020"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121213",
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"definitions":{
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": a fox ( Urocyon cinereoargenteus ) with coarse gray hair and white underparts that occurs from southern Canada to northern South America":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"All bets are off, though, for catching a gray fox climbing a tree. \u2014 Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic , 6 June 2022",
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"Physically, the Archeocyons was the size of today\u2019s gray fox , with long legs and a small head. \u2014 Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 May 2022",
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"Sometimes, as in the case of the gray fox at Crissy Field Marsh, the animals may appear to be friendly, and people may be tempted to pet them or help them. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Mar. 2022",
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"Of the two types of foxes that call Michigan home \u2014 the red fox and the gray fox \u2014 Michiganders are more likely to hear a red fox because of its comfort living near humans, according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 18 Feb. 2022",
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"With the help of a searchable online database, Nature to You brings everything from velvety gray fox pelts to a terrifying emperor scorpion specimens to students, sculptors, parents and park rangers. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Jan. 2022",
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"The surprisingly large black-tailed jackrabbit is always a crowd-pleaser, as is the diminutive gray fox . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Jan. 2022",
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"While the deer are unique pets in themselves, the family also has a propagation permit through the Pennsylvania Game Commission for gray fox . \u2014 Brian Whipkey, USA TODAY , 7 Jan. 2022",
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"Now, the ringtail sits alongside several other new additions: the Rock squirrel, fox squirrel, rat, raccoon, armadillo, bobcat, gray fox and axis deer. \u2014 Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News , 18 Nov. 2021"
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"gray iron":{
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"definitions":{
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": pig or cast iron containing much graphitic carbon which causes its fracture to be dark gray":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104033",
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"type":[
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},
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"gray ironbark":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a large eucalyptus ( Eucalyptus paniculata ) with heavy dark gray furrowed bark and very hard strong durable wood that varies in color from pale gray to chocolaty brown and is much used for heavy framing":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105511",
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"type":[
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"gray literature":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": written material (such as a report) that is not published commercially or is not generally accessible":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"There is no gray literature now: Everything is a magnet for immediate attention and misunderstanding. \u2014 James Heathers, The Atlantic , 23 Oct. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1975, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104908",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Cettire could be seen as a case study in how a company operates around the gray market . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Aug. 2021",
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"Emails showed that Hyman was also aware that there was already a gray market for reselling grams before the launch, although this was prohibited by the agreement investors had signed. \u2014 Darren Loucaides, Wired , 8 Feb. 2022",
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"Still, incentives remain for customers to look to the gray market . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Aug. 2021",
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"China\u2019s government is cool toward bitcoin mining, leaving the activity in a gray market short of being officially outlawed. \u2014 Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ , 21 May 2021",
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"But no one wants black or gray market transactions going on in front of their house. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Nov. 2020",
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"And these are suggested retail prices; a thirsty collector should expect to pay multiples on whiskey\u2019s torrid gray market . \u2014 Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report , 27 Mar. 2021",
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"The demand was so intense that a gray market sprang up for them. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Feb. 2021",
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"Some people have waited hours in lines, crossed state borders for better chances, and delved into an emerging gray market in order to get access to the vaccine. \u2014 Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com , 14 Feb. 2021"
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"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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": brains , intellect":[],
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": neural tissue especially of the brain and spinal cord that contains nerve-cell bodies as well as nerve fibers and has a brownish-gray color":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"she's got the gray matter to figure that equation out",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The authors of the study found that drinking a moderate amount of alcohol often can cause the volumes of white and gray matter to shrink in the brain. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 8 Mar. 2022",
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"The reference charts are visualizations created from aggregating analyses of over 120,000 brain scans to show ranges in brain size, or gray matter volume, for each age. \u2014 Kasra Zarei, STAT , 18 June 2022",
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"New research out of Oxford University suggests COVID-19 infection can lead to a reduction in gray matter in certain areas of the brain, along with a reduction in overall brain size\u2014even in people who had relatively mild cases of the virus. \u2014 Serena Coady, SELF , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"The scans showed signs of tissue damage in areas of the brain related to smell, as well as a reduction in gray matter in parts linked to smell and memory. \u2014 Alexander Tin, CBS News , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"Moreover, acute infection appears to significantly increase the risks of cardiovascular problems such as stroke and heart failure and is associated with reduction in gray matter thickness and cognitive performance. \u2014 Danielle Wenner, STAT , 19 May 2022",
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"Some studies also found gamers to have a higher volume of gray matter , the outer layer of the brain that processes information. \u2014 Julie Jargon, WSJ , 14 May 2022",
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"Of that group, those who were infected with the coronavirus had accelerated levels of gray matter loss compared with those who never tested positive. \u2014 Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"But those that had Covid-19 appeared to lose between 0.2 percent and 2 percent more gray matter over the three years between scans than those who didn\u2019t get the virus. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Mar. 2022"
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"intellect",
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"intelligence",
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"mentality",
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"reason",
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"sense",
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"smarts"
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": a transient dimming or haziness of vision resulting from temporary impairment of cerebral circulation":[],
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"She cut her head, bloodied her nose \u2026 and had actually grayed out for a few moments with shock.",
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"\u2014 Stephen King"
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]
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"1938, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
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"1942, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"gray rat snake":{
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"definitions":{
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": a large, heavy-bodied, nonvenomous rat snake ( Pantherophis spiloides synonym Elaphe spiloides ) of the eastern and central U.S. that is gray with brown to dark gray blotches on the back":[],
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"\u2014 compare eastern rat snake , western rat snake":[]
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a common light gray to black squirrel ( Sciurus carolinensis ) that is native to eastern North America and has been introduced into Great Britain and South Africa":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"As our group \u2013 Bill Smith and Dave Zeug, both of Shell Lake, and I \u2013 hiked over a meandering trail on the public property, the only signs of other animal life were the tracks of a raven, a gray squirrel and a white-tailed deer. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 Dec. 2021",
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"Many natural options include Saikoho goat, gray squirrel , silver fox, and even Kolinsky sable. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 23 Nov. 2021",
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"The gray squirrel , which has large white patches of fur, has been making itself at home in the area near the Asian Glade and Japanese Gardens. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 16 Nov. 2021",
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"For the past three years, a gray squirrel has set out to ruin my life, chewing leaves off my beloved exotic hibiscus and geraniums. \u2014 Julie Zickefoose, WSJ , 1 Nov. 2021",
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"Two species \u2013 the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and the fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) \u2013 thrive on campus landscapes and are willing participants in our behavioral experiments. \u2014 Robert J. Full, The Conversation , 5 Aug. 2021",
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"There is an animal that often finds itself in a somewhat similar position to the swimmer and has perfected an effective strategy for frustrating its pursuers: the common gray squirrel . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 29 June 2021",
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"The ticks\u2019 favorite mammalian host, the western gray squirrel , does not frequent seaside grass-scapes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2021",
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"The company has since achieved a cultlike following for its innovative color and makeup technology, and its Artistique line of brushes \u2014 all made in Kumano, half of them with gray squirrel hair \u2014 are top of the line. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2021"
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"gray water":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": household wastewater (as from a sink or bath) that does not contain serious contaminants (as from toilets or diapers)":[]
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"1977, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105630",
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"gray whale":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a large baleen whale ( Eschrichtius robustus ) of the northern Pacific having short jaws and no dorsal fin":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"During this more recent southern California bloom, dolphins and a gray whale were spotted swimming through the algae. \u2014 Priya Shukla, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
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"Gigi had been captured for scientific study at the gray whale breeding and calving grounds off the coast of Baja California and brought to SeaWorld in San Diego. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Those hoping to dive even deeper into gray whale migration might consider driving 65 miles from San Diego to Dana Point, which in 2021 was named the first Whale Heritage Site in the U.S. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
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"This marks the fourth straight cancellation for Whale Watch Week events, which first canceled during the spring gray whale migration in March 2020. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Dec. 2021",
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"On March 13, 1972 a gray whale called Gigi was released into the open ocean about four miles off Point Loma after a year in captivity. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Mar. 2022",
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"Those who opt to stay on land may need to bring a little patience to spot a gray whale in the open ocean. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Dec. 2021",
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"The Attorney General\u2019s Office for Environmental Protection said the boat, about 25 feet long and carrying nine tourists, was near shore when a breaching gray whale collided with it, the AP reported. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 12 Mar. 2015",
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"So researchers were surprised to hear reports of a lone gray whale spotted in the southeastern Atlantic off the coast of Namibia. \u2014 Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 June 2021"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110522",
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"gray widgeon":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": gadwall":[],
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": pintail sense 1":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120605",
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114341",
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a Eurasian shrubby willow ( Salix cinerea ) with whitish tomentose twigs":[],
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": silky willow sense 2":[]
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"examples":[],
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": a large, broad-headed, wide-muzzled wolf ( Canis lupus ) that has a dense, heavy coat of usually light brown or brownish gray interspersed with black above and yellowish white below and that was formerly widely distributed throughout North America and Eurasia but is now greatly restricted to the more northerly parts of its range":[
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"The only sizable gray wolf population south of Canada and Alaska continues to roam the forest-and-lake country of northern Minnesota.",
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"\u2014 Vic Banks"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The Nez Perce give the gray wolf status equal to that of human beings. \u2014 Paige Williams, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
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"Although earlier this year a federal district court ruling placed the gray wolf in Wisconsin and most states back under protections of the Endangered Species Act, the DNR is continuing to work on an update to the Wisconsin wolf management plan. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Apr. 2022",
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"Anubis, a Mexican gray wolf found outside his territory, is relocated How the wolves are counted To reach the new total, the Wolf Interagency Field Team counted wolves between November 2021 and February 2022. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"Activists and environmental activists decried the Biden administration's decision in August to back the Trump administration's removal of the gray wolf from federal protection. \u2014 Alexandra Larkin, CBS News , 11 Feb. 2022",
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"The story of the gray wolf that ventured hundreds of miles from Oregon into Southern California came to an unfortunate end. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Dec. 2021",
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"That blob of true nighttime darkness overlaps almost perfectly with the range of the gray wolf . \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Nov. 2021",
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"The gray wolf received protection from the ESA in the 1970s, when the population dwindled due to declines in their populations and frequent conflict with farmers and ranchers. \u2014 Emma Tucker And Hannah Sarisohn, CNN , 12 Feb. 2022",
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"Conservation groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Mexican gray wolf , a subspecies with a small population in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 14 Nov. 2014"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1595, 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":"20220708-105221",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"graybeard":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an old man":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Tom Hanks, who became a star in 1984 with Splash, is now doing avuncular, graybeard roles. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 1 June 2022",
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"But the graybeard , six days shy of age 40, stopped 19 of 20 shots over the final 46:50 of regulation to send the Bruins and Capitals to overtime. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2021",
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"The Braves invited 25 non-roster players to spring training and Kipnis is not the only graybeard with a resume. \u2014 Ray Glier, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2021",
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"At 39, Beyonc\u00e9 \u2014 who per academy tradition lost the major prizes but won several genre awards \u2014 was practically the graybeard of the night. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Mar. 2021",
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"San Jose Sharks center Joe Thornton, 40, is the NHL\u2019s ultimate graybeard . \u2014 Mike Brehm, USA TODAY , 2 May 2020",
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"Aaron Zimmerman, Copyeditor: Too many crotchety graybeards in this thread. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 12 Apr. 2020",
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"In Jakarta, a graybeard captain, speaking to me on the condition of anonymity, described the attitude of the new owners toward their pilots. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Sep. 2019",
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"Chara assisted on Carlo\u2019s goal, while both graybeard Sharks logged 0-0\u20140. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Oct. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1565, 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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"\u02c8gr\u0101-\u02ccbird"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110409",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"graybeard tree":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": fringe tree":[]
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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":"20220708-110306",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"grayfish":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": dogfish":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1917, 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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"\u02c8gr\u0101-\u02ccfish"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113725",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
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"graying":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": becoming gray or dull in color":[
|
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"His \u2026 hat thumbed back to show a wide brow and a bristle of graying hair.",
|
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"\u2014 Helen MacInnes",
|
|
"Other objects had been mounted according to kind on graying scraps of plywood, which leaned about the room\u2014against bookshelves, in corners\u2014like canvases about a painter's studio.",
|
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"\u2014 Donovan Hohn"
|
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],
|
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": having hair that is becoming gray : becoming older":[
|
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"Through heavy promotion and advertising directed at a graying population, the nutritious elixir has become a blockbuster seller \u2026",
|
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"\u2014 Michael J. McCarthy",
|
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"As I wait to pay the cashier, secure in her glass booth, I glance back over the starkly lit room, the graying waiters, the regulars hunched over stacks of hotcakes.",
|
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"\u2014 Javier Cabral"
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]
|
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1796, 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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"\u02c8gr\u0101-i\u014b"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103818",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"grayling":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": any of several freshwater salmonoid fishes (genus Thymallus ) valued as food and sport fishes":[]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Science and skill will always prevail over luck and superstition \u2014 never did get that big grayling out of Ugashik. \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
|
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"Fishermen can encounter native fish like cutthroat trout, Arctic grayling and mountain whitefish. \u2014 Fox News , 21 May 2022",
|
|
"Born in 1933, Lucy Adams spent her childhood outside Point Lay, in a place with a year-round supply of grayling , her son Enoch Jr. said. \u2014 Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The fish used include rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, brook trout, tiger trout, splake and Arctic grayling , and are specifically raised for fishing, TheGuardian reported. \u2014 Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com , 14 July 2021",
|
|
"Some feature walleyes, others lake trout, northern pike, Arctic grayling and more. \u2014 Star Tribune , 3 June 2021",
|
|
"The river\u2019s glare from the faint morning sunlight flashed off the grayling \u2019s dorsal fin and flanks, morphing from silver to blue to green to purple. \u2014 Colin Kearns, Field & Stream , 5 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"The family brought most of their food with them but caught grayling and pike and harvested six moose over the years. \u2014 Author: Roger Kaye, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2020",
|
|
"Juvenile grayling are scheduled to arrive soon at the Oden State Fish Hatchery in Emmet County, where an ultraviolet water disinfection system recently was installed. \u2014 USA TODAY , 1 Aug. 2019"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101-li\u014b"
|
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],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113259",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grayout":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a transient dimming or haziness of vision resulting from temporary impairment of cerebral circulation":[],
|
|
": to experience a grayout":[
|
|
"She cut her head, bloodied her nose \u2026 and had actually grayed out for a few moments with shock.",
|
|
"\u2014 Stephen King"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1938, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
|
|
"1942, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101-\u02ccau\u0307t",
|
|
"\u02ccgr\u0101-\u02c8au\u0307t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122647",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"intransitive verb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grayware":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": one-coat enameled metalware : graniteware sense 2":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123824",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grease":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a thick lubricant":[],
|
|
": bribe":[],
|
|
": in the natural uncleaned condition":[],
|
|
": oily matter":[],
|
|
": rendered animal fat":[],
|
|
": to lubricate with grease":[],
|
|
": to smear or daub with grease":[],
|
|
": to soil with grease":[],
|
|
": wool as it comes from the sheep retaining the natural oils or fats":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"Grease the pan before you put the cake batter in.",
|
|
"make sure you grease the pan before you put the batter in",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Blackcurrant jam with complex notes of fresh leather and bacon grease with a nimble body and fine tannins. \u2014 Cathrine Todd, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
|
|
"Remove bacon pieces with a spoon and reserve, leaving bacon grease in pan. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Plastic bowls may contain leftover grease from a previous use and the moisture will prevent your egg whites from becoming light and fluffy. \u2014 Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe needed a special kind of grease . \u2014 Chadd Scott, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"The cod was perfectly fried, the batter crunchy, the fish flaky, and the entire fritter almost miraculously devoid of grease . \u2014 Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"Luckily, some of the coolest hairstyle ideas of the moment\u2014slick supermodel buns, braids of all kinds, and Y2K spikes to name a few \u2014are actually enhanced by a little bit (or a lot) of grease . \u2014 Glamour , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"This shampoo cleanses and lifts grease from your roots and build-up from your hair without stripping any of the natural oils or moisture. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 June 2022",
|
|
"The chemicals are known for their ability to resist grease and keep it from migrating into your lap during your on-the-go lunch in the car. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Regular foot traffic can track dirt, grime, and grease over outdoor cement flooring. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The new neutrality agreement is pretty clearly intended to address these worries and grease FTC approval. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"The highway devastated the economies of Black Buffalo\u2019s commercial centers and sucked value from historic real estate, spitting grime and grease onto the windows of neighboring homes. \u2014 Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"If your body feels old and creaky, let\u2019s grease up those achy joints and get the most bang for your buck. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"And no one did more to grease the WeWork wheels and protect Neumann from accountability to his early investors than Japan\u2019s $100 billion man. \u2014 William Pesek, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Line the bottom of each pan with a round of parchment paper and grease it. \u2014 CNN , 20 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Once the dough is finished, grease the pan well with extra-virgin olive oil, both on the bottom and along the edges. \u2014 CNN , 22 May 2022",
|
|
"Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease a 2 1/2-quart baking dish with melted butter. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, USA TODAY , 5 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English grese , from Anglo-French gresse, greisse, creisse , from Vulgar Latin *crassia , from Latin crassus fat":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113s",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113z"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"lubricate",
|
|
"oil",
|
|
"slick",
|
|
"wax"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104104",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grease band":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a band of sticky material placed around a tree trunk to prevent insects from climbing up the tree":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115057",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grease monkey":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": mechanic":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Here are some deep discounts on devices that will unleash your inner grease monkey . \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 14 Oct. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1928, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104721",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grease the wheels":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to improve an essential or functioning part of an organization, process, etc.":[
|
|
"They hoped that the tax cuts would grease the wheels of the economy."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130832",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"idiom"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grease-nut":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the oily nut of an Australian tree ( Hernandia bivalvis )":[],
|
|
": the tree that bears grease-nuts and furnishes soft gray timber":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105855",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"greaseball":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a person of Hispanic or Mediterranean descent":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1922, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113s-\u02ccb\u022fl"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104528",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"greasehorn":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": flatterer , sycophant":[
|
|
"smooth-faced, sniveling greasehorn",
|
|
"\u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110538",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"great":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"agreeably",
|
|
"charmingly",
|
|
"delectably",
|
|
"deliciously",
|
|
"delightfully",
|
|
"dreamily",
|
|
"enchantingly",
|
|
"enjoyably",
|
|
"favorably",
|
|
"felicitously",
|
|
"fetchingly",
|
|
"gloriously",
|
|
"gratifyingly",
|
|
"nicely",
|
|
"palatably",
|
|
"pleasantly",
|
|
"pleasingly",
|
|
"pleasurably",
|
|
"prettily",
|
|
"satisfyingly",
|
|
"splendidly",
|
|
"sweetly",
|
|
"swimmingly",
|
|
"welcomely",
|
|
"well",
|
|
"winningly"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an outstandingly superior or skillful person":[
|
|
"a tribute to the greats of baseball"
|
|
],
|
|
": aristocratic , grand":[
|
|
"great ladies"
|
|
],
|
|
": chief or preeminent over others":[
|
|
"\u2014 often used in titles Lord Great Chamberlain"
|
|
],
|
|
": elaborate , ample":[
|
|
"great detail"
|
|
],
|
|
": eminent , distinguished":[
|
|
"a great poet"
|
|
],
|
|
": full of emotion":[
|
|
"great with anger"
|
|
],
|
|
": in a great manner : well":[
|
|
"Things are going great ."
|
|
],
|
|
": large in number or measure : numerous":[
|
|
"great multitudes"
|
|
],
|
|
": long continued":[
|
|
"a great while"
|
|
],
|
|
": marked by enthusiasm : keen":[
|
|
"great on science fiction"
|
|
],
|
|
": more remote in a family relationship by a single generation than a specified relative":[
|
|
"great -grandfather"
|
|
],
|
|
": notably large in size : huge":[
|
|
"all creatures great and small"
|
|
],
|
|
": of a kind characterized by relative largeness":[
|
|
"\u2014 used in plant and animal names the great horned owl"
|
|
],
|
|
": predominant":[
|
|
"the great majority"
|
|
],
|
|
": principal , main":[
|
|
"a reception in the great hall"
|
|
],
|
|
": remarkable in magnitude, degree, or effectiveness":[
|
|
"great bloodshed"
|
|
],
|
|
": remarkably skilled":[
|
|
"great at tennis"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"all creatures great and small",
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"The project will require a great amount of time and money.",
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"The building was restored at great expense.",
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"a great quantity of fish",
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"The low cost of these products gives them great appeal.",
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"There is a very great need for reform.",
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"They're in no great hurry to finish.",
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"There is a great demand for his services.",
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"an actress of great charm",
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"Is there any love greater than that between parent and child?",
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"Adverb",
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"We had some problems at first, but now things are going just great .",
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"Keep up the good work. You're doing great !",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"Initially, Fauci seemed to be a great boon to the White House during the pandemic, patiently explaining complicated science in language a child could understand. \u2014 Anna Peele, Washington Post , 29 June 2022",
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"Students ages 12 to 18 did not express great fear about their own schools according to the NCES report. \u2014 Donna St. George, Anchorage Daily News , 29 June 2022",
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"At the end of the day, the [Blue Jays] are a great example. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
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"That\u2019s great news for the billions of people who live across the swath of Asia where the grain is a popular staple, from India to Thailand, Vietnam and Japan. \u2014 Jon Emont, WSJ , 29 June 2022",
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"The ability of these Americans to withstand that pressure came at a great personal cost. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022",
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"Madison Haley Hart was jailed on $15,000 bond on a charge of child neglect with great bodily harm, according to online jail records. \u2014 Bill Hutchinson, ABC News , 28 June 2022",
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"The urge to boo the Astros, who Yankees fans are convinced stole the 2017 championship from them, is so great that the Astros' series even outdrew the season-opening series against the Boston Red Sox, who are supposed to be New York's archnemesis. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 27 June 2022",
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"Orlins: Because the cost differential is too great . \u2014 Russell Flannery, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
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"Plenty of Google services work great on iOS \u2014 Google Maps, Google Photos, Gmail, and the like. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 20 June 2022",
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"Santa Ana Foothill coach Yousof Etemadi called a timeout just before the third quarter ended specifically to offer compelling advice to junior Carlo Billings, who proceeded to play great in the fourth quarter. \u2014 Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 13 Mar. 2022",
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"Season water with your favorite liquid flavoring\u2014white wine, beer and soy sauce all work great . \u2014 Shay Spence, PEOPLE.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
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"Fartlek-style workouts work great in the off-season. \u2014 Greg Mcmillan, Outside Online , 19 Oct. 2021",
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"Goff says Ava was doing great on formula until the shortage really took hold in February. \u2014 Brenda Goodman, CNN , 6 June 2022",
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"Along with your front door, the small wreath will look great above a mantle or window. \u2014 Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE.com , 5 June 2022",
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"Their great -tasting craft brews provide a refreshing taste of craft beer, without the alcohol or the hangover. \u2014 Outside Online , 3 June 2022",
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"In situations where flip-flops don't provide enough security, these work great to let your feet breathe, keep things secure, and provide ample protection under foot. \u2014 Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Our coaches have done a great of challenging our players; our players are challenging themselves and each other. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 25 Mar. 2022",
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"The good as well as the great can earn rings alike, and these Giants are more than merely good. \u2014 Christina Kahrl, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Sep. 2021",
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"Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo said the 80-year-old soccer great is in an intensive care unit and will be transferred to a regular room on Tuesday. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 Sep. 2021",
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"Florida State backup quarterback McKenzie Milton nearly pulled off an emotional victory on a night the Seminoles honored Bobby Bowden, the coaching great who died at 91 of pancreatic cancer on Aug. 8. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 6 Sep. 2021",
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"Bowden, the coaching great who won two national titles with the Seminoles, died at 91 of pancreatic cancer Aug. 8. \u2014 Bob Ferrante, ajc , 6 Sep. 2021",
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"The Mexican-American great credited his comeback to Mike Tyson after the heavyweight icon competed in an exhibition last year versus Roy Jones Jr. at Staples Center. \u2014 Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times , 21 July 2021",
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"The backers of the league, CBS included, love the dynamic of an underdog upstaging a national great . \u2014 Jenna Fryer, Star Tribune , 10 June 2021",
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"Born in 1864, Anna Jarvis died in 1948 \u2014 the same era as my great -grandmothers Sophie and Lula. \u2014 Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com , 9 May 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English grete , from Old English gr\u0113at ; akin to Old High German gr\u014dz large":"Adjective, Adverb, and Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u0101t",
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"Southern also \u02c8gre(\u0259)t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"accomplished",
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"ace",
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"adept",
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"compleat",
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"complete",
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"consummate",
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"crack",
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"crackerjack",
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"educated",
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"experienced",
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"expert",
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"good",
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"master",
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"masterful",
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"masterly",
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"practiced",
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"practised",
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"professed",
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"proficient",
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"skilled",
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"skillful",
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"versed",
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"veteran",
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"virtuoso"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111549",
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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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"great auk":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an extinct large flightless auk ( Pinguinus impennis ) formerly abundant along North Atlantic coasts":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This is a great auk , which was driven to extinction. \u2014 Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"Museums and merchants started paying top dollar for great auk eggs and skins. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Dec. 2019",
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"Was the great auk heading for extinction before intensive hunting began? \u2014 The Conversation/jessica Emma Thomas, Ars Technica , 27 Dec. 2019",
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"Despite its appearance, the great auk is actually a relative of razorbills and puffins, not of penguins. \u2014 The Conversation/jessica Emma Thomas, Ars Technica , 27 Dec. 2019",
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"The great auk had long provided humans with a source of meat and eggs. \u2014 The Conversation/jessica Emma Thomas, Ars Technica , 27 Dec. 2019",
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"In the past, researchers have speculated that environmental change topped off by human greed took down the great auk . \u2014 New York Times , 4 Dec. 2019",
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"The great auk , a large, flightless bird with a black back and a white belly, once lived across the North Atlantic\u2014from Scandinavia to the eastern coast of Canada. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 28 Nov. 2019",
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"Like the dodo and the great auk , the tiger found a curious immortality as a global icon of extinction, more renowned for the tragedy of its death than for its life, about which little is known. \u2014 Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker , 16 Jan. 2012"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1768, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115652",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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},
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"great circle":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Scientists say there are great circle routes around the moon that avoid changing elevation, for example. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 29 Dec. 2021",
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"The scientists say there are great circle routes around the moon that avoid changing elevation, for example. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 16 June 2021",
|
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"The animators of Disney\u2019s The Lion King traveled to a park with dramatic landscapes in Kenya\u2019s Great Rift Valley to get a feel for, as Mufasa puts it, the great circle of life. \u2014 National Geographic , 11 July 2019",
|
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"On a hyperbolic surface, some geodesics are infinitely long, like straight lines in the plane, but others close up into a loop, like the great circles on a sphere. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 12 Aug. 2014",
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"Initially, the researchers tried to brute force the answer by examining every possible great circle on the planet. \u2014 David Shultz, Science | AAAS , 30 Apr. 2018",
|
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"Its memorial, at Lands End, stands on the great circle route from San Francisco to Guadalcanal. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 June 2018",
|
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"All straight-line paths along a sphere form a shape called a great circle . \u2014 David Shultz, Science | AAAS , 30 Apr. 2018",
|
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"But there\u2019s hundreds of millions of different possible great circles , each with tens of thousands of points to verify. \u2014 Julissa Trevi\u00f1o, Smithsonian , 2 May 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1530, 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":"20220708-115212",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"great duckweed":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a plant of the genus Spirodela (especially S. polyrhiza )":[]
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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":"20220708-120757",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"great egret":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a large white heron ( Ardea alba synonym Casmerodius albus ) with a yellow bill and black legs and feet that occurs in New and Old World temperate and tropical regions":[]
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},
|
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In Pittsfield, observers saw a great egret , a northern shoveler, and an osprey at Lake Pontoosuc. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Oct. 2021",
|
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"Reports featured a great egret in Pittsfield, ospreys in Pittsfield and Richmond, a cackling goose in South Egremont, and a late indigo bunting in Williamstown. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 Oct. 2021",
|
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"Suddenly, a great egret landed on the grass about 10 yards from me and slowly walked the length of the yard, looking for breakfast. \u2014 Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ , 20 July 2021",
|
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"In the Berkshires, three merlins were seen in Williamstown, a least bittern in Richmond, three red crossbills in Pittsfield, and a great egret and short-billed dowitcher in Sheffield. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 July 2021",
|
|
"Hampden County highlights featured a great egret , two dickcissels, and a blue grosbeak in Southwick, an acadian flycatcher in Granville, and five upland sandpipers in the Westover Grasslands in Chicopee. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2021",
|
|
"Juvenile little blue herons are half the size of a great egret . \u2014 Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver , 11 July 2018",
|
|
"Two islands off the Milford and Westbrook shorelines have been closed to the public to protect key nesting habitat for snowy egrets, great egrets , glossy ibis and little blue herons, state environmental officials announced Wednesday. \u2014 Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com , 23 May 2018",
|
|
"Snowy egret, not to be confused with the much larger and more common great egret , is a nice bird to see anytime in the area. \u2014 Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver , 16 May 2018"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1785, in the meaning defined above":""
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112249",
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"great horned owl":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": a large American owl ( Bubo virginianus ) with conspicuous ear tufts":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"High in a pine tree, a pair of great horned owls claim a nest in hopes of raising their brood. \u2014 Gregory Cowles, New York Times , 10 Apr. 2020",
|
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"The island is home to more than two hundred species of birds, including kestrels, great horned owls , and little blue herons. \u2014 Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker , 18 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"The current stars of RedGate are a pair of great horned owls . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"Rescue workers used a fire truck to save a great horned owl that had become entangled in a fishing line at Harriman Lake Park in Jefferson County, Colorado last week. \u2014 Fox News , 8 July 2019",
|
|
"Through the sliding glass door in the house where Kayla grew up, Marsha can keep an eye out for the great horned owls that sometimes appear on top of a wooden power pole out back. \u2014 Karina Bland, azcentral , 28 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"The Witch and Her Owl \u2014 Find out all about owls and why they are associated with Halloween from volunteer Ginamaria Smith, who will bring along Arc, a great horned owl . \u2014 Robert Gant, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Oct. 2019",
|
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"An injured great horned owl with penetrating yellow eyes was found Saturday by Ventura County firefighters in the ashes of a scorched canyon. \u2014 Allison Klein, Washington Post , 6 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"Hawks don\u2019t have many natural predators, said Petersen, but great horned owls , and mammals like raccoons and fishers, can take hawk nestlings. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 Oct. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1688, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114241",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
|
|
"great laurel":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a large-leaved evergreen rhododendron ( Rhododendron maximum ) of eastern North America with rosy bell-shaped flowers more or less speckled with green":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1784, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-131030",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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|
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},
|
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"great maple":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": sycamore sense 2":[]
|
|
},
|
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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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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123835",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"great seal":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a large seal that constitutes an emblem of sovereignty and is used especially for the authentication of important documents":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"When done properly, this provides a great seal over the window, and the air pocket created prevents condensation. \u2014 Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com , 26 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The debate over one mask or two masks continues, but Peter Krouse finds one thing that most medical officials can agree on: Nothing is more important than finding a mask with a great seal . \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 16 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"What Franklin did, Cook said, was write a private letter to his daughter more than a year after adoption of the great seal , which included some disparaging remarks about the eagle. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 July 2019",
|
|
"What Franklin did, Cook said, was write a private letter to his daughter more than a year after adoption of the great seal , which included some disparaging remarks about the eagle. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 July 2019"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121542",
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"type":[
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|
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|
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},
|
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"great silver fir":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": lowland fir":[]
|
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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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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125858",
|
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"type":[
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]
|
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},
|
|
"great skua":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a large seabird ( Stercorarius skua synonym Catharacta skua ) that is related to the jaegers, has dusky plumage and broad rounded wings, breeds chiefly along arctic and antarctic shores, and forages over most cold and temperate seas":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"And then, below the horizon, like an ungainly ghost, the birders spotted a rare European bully of the high seas: a great skua . \u2014 Eric Boodman, STAT , 24 May 2018"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114724",
|
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|
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},
|
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"great tit":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the largest common European tit ( Parus major ) distinguished by a glossy blue-black head and yellow underparts with a black stripe down the breast":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124357",
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|
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|
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"great toe":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": big toe":[
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"There is a sudden onset of pain in one, maybe two joints, most often at the base of the great toe .",
|
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"\u2014 Paul G. Donohue"
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Veteran guard Rajon Rondo will also be out approximately two weeks with a right great toe sprain. \u2014 Ashley Bastock, cleveland , 26 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"At various points this season, the third-year guard out of Villanova has missed games due to a right great toe sprain and soreness and he\u2019s been listed on the injury report with left Achilles soreness. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 28 May 2021",
|
|
"For the Timberwolves, Jimmy Butler (with soreness in his right knee) and Jamal Crawford (sprained left great toe ) have missed the past two games and will be reevaluated prior to Wednesday's game. \u2014 OregonLive.com , 23 Jan. 2018",
|
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"Jamal Crawford also sat out with a left great toe sprain. ... \u2014 USA TODAY , 20 Jan. 2018"
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"great vowel shift":{
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"definitions":{
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": a change in pronunciation of the long vowels of Middle English that began in the 15th century and continued into the 16th century in which the high vowels were diphthongized and the other vowels were raised":[]
|
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|
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|
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|
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},
|
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"great wheel":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the first wheel of a watch or clock train":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
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|
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"great white heron":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the white morph of the great blue heron ( Ardea herodias ) that is typically found in southern Florida and was formerly considered a separate species ( Ardea occidentalis )":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The great white heron , a pure white subspecies of the great blue heron, resides along the coastlines of southern Florida. \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com , 29 Dec. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1835, 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":"20220708-112108",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"great willow herb":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": fireweed sense b":[]
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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":"20220708-115326",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"great with child":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": expecting a baby : pregnant":[
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"\u2014 used especially for women in the last stage of pregnancy when the belly is largest"
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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":"20220708-113300",
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"type":[
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"idiom"
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]
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},
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"great year":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the period of about 25,800 years required for one complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"When to Go: Gateway Arch is a great year -round destination, due to much of the attractions being indoors. \u2014 Emily Pennington, Outside Online , 17 Dec. 2021",
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"Promoted for 120 years as a tourist escape for its sun, surf, and great year -round weather, Hawaii is a victim of its own success; sales of properties costing $10 million or more have increased sixfold in the last year. \u2014 Horacio Silva, Town & Country , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"This masculine blend is a unique and refreshing option that is great year -round. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Along these lines, 2021 was certainly a great year for horror fans, with Netflix debuting one major series and feature film after another along these lines. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 21 Mar. 2022",
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"If its algorithms are correct, 2022 will be another great year for the biggest companies with strong momentum. \u2014 Jon Markman, Forbes , 3 Jan. 2022",
|
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"This is a terrible way to end such a great year for this team. \u2014 Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
|
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"It's been a pretty great year for deals on some of our favorite TVs so far. \u2014 Eric Ravenscraft, Wired , 11 Dec. 2021",
|
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"Loreto is a great year -round fishing destination, and the Sea of Cortez is teeming with tuna, marlin, mahi-mahi, yellowtail, sea bass and more. \u2014 Roger Sands, Forbes , 9 Oct. 2021"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1741, 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":"20220708-112511",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"great-nephew":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": grandnephew":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1580, 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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"chiefly British -\u02c8nev-",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101t-\u02c8nef-(\u02cc)y\u00fc"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113804",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"great-uncle":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": granduncle":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101t-\u02c8\u0259\u014b-k\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113203",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"greatheartedly":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"chicken",
|
|
"chickenhearted",
|
|
"chicken-livered",
|
|
"coward",
|
|
"cowardly",
|
|
"craven",
|
|
"dastardly",
|
|
"fainthearted",
|
|
"fearful",
|
|
"gutless",
|
|
"lily-livered",
|
|
"milk-livered",
|
|
"nerveless",
|
|
"poltroon",
|
|
"poor-spirited",
|
|
"pusillanimous",
|
|
"spineless",
|
|
"spiritless",
|
|
"timorous",
|
|
"uncourageous",
|
|
"ungallant",
|
|
"unheroic",
|
|
"weakhearted",
|
|
"yellow"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": characterized by bravery : courageous":[],
|
|
": generous , magnanimous":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"those greathearted but otherwise ordinary individuals who answered their country's call for military service",
|
|
"a greathearted program to provide basic necessities to millions of children in war-torn countries"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101t-\u02cch\u00e4r-t\u0259d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bold",
|
|
"brave",
|
|
"courageous",
|
|
"dauntless",
|
|
"doughty",
|
|
"fearless",
|
|
"gallant",
|
|
"gutsy",
|
|
"gutty",
|
|
"heroic",
|
|
"heroical",
|
|
"intrepid",
|
|
"lionhearted",
|
|
"manful",
|
|
"stalwart",
|
|
"stout",
|
|
"stouthearted",
|
|
"undauntable",
|
|
"undaunted",
|
|
"valiant",
|
|
"valorous"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122127",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"greatly":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"basely",
|
|
"currishly",
|
|
"dishonorably",
|
|
"ignobly"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": in a great manner : nobly , magnanimously":[
|
|
"a man may live greatly in the law",
|
|
"\u2014 O. W. Holmes \u20201935"
|
|
],
|
|
": to a great extent or degree : very much":[
|
|
"contributed greatly to improved relations",
|
|
"not greatly bothered"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She has contributed greatly to our success.",
|
|
"They don't seem to be greatly bothered by the delay.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"All of this can greatly increase job satisfaction and worker motivation, which can directly translate to greater productivity among your team, all while freeing up valuable time. \u2014 Kate Vitasek, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"With lidar and recent developments in ARKit, Apple has greatly reduced this scanning time on some devices for most basic and common AR applications, but the process is more involved for this app. \u2014 Samuel Axon, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The drone industry and the Federal Aviation Administration are pushing to increase greatly the number of drones flying in and above U.S. communities. \u2014 Jay Stanley, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"The four-acre project has seen original cost estimates greatly increase, with construction costs significantly higher than the city anticipated. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 May 2022",
|
|
"De Beers\u2019s supply likely won\u2019t increase greatly until 2024, when an expansion at its flagship South African mine will be finished. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"Also, if there are very few actual active investors, their decisions can greatly increase company valuation volatility. \u2014 Joanna Ossinger, Fortune , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"Warsaw already handles processing for Russian and Belarusian visa applicants, so this would likely require the State Department to greatly increase its consular staff there. \u2014 Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic , 8 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Researchers working for the United Nations suggest that by 2100, average incomes will greatly increase, perhaps to 450 percent of today\u2019s incomes. \u2014 Bjorn Lomborg, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101t-l\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"gallantly",
|
|
"grandly",
|
|
"greatheartedly",
|
|
"heroically",
|
|
"high-mindedly",
|
|
"honorably",
|
|
"magnanimously",
|
|
"nobly"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114606",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"greatness":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the quality or state of being great (as in size, skill, achievement, or power)":[
|
|
"Today, many Inca buildings still stand\u2014all witnesses to an empire of unforgettable greatness .",
|
|
"\u2014 Michelle Laliberte",
|
|
"An understanding of the visible world became a better way of understanding the greatness of God.",
|
|
"\u2014 Mario Salvadori",
|
|
"I came back convinced that bourbon and its cousins are America's contribution to world distillery, with as strong a claim to greatness as anything from Scotland, Ireland, or Canada.",
|
|
"\u2014 Corby Kummer",
|
|
"\u2026 young team that came within a game of reaching the World Series, a team on the verge of greatness .",
|
|
"\u2014 Barry Rozner",
|
|
"Tyson, 33, has long since abandoned any claim to boxing greatness , having squandered his promise in two jail sentences, a suspension and several gory defeats.",
|
|
"\u2014 Richard Hoffer"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101t-n\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"choiceness",
|
|
"distinction",
|
|
"excellence",
|
|
"excellency",
|
|
"first-rateness",
|
|
"perfection",
|
|
"preeminence",
|
|
"primeness",
|
|
"superbness",
|
|
"superiority",
|
|
"supremacy"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115257",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"greave":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": armor for the shin":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Killing a man in full bronze armor\u2014helmet, breastplate, greaves \u2014was not an easy task. \u2014 Anne Carson, Harper's Magazine , 30 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Killing a man in full bronze armor\u2014helmet, breastplate, greaves \u2014was not an easy task. \u2014 Anne Carson, Harper's Magazine , 30 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Killing a man in full bronze armor\u2014helmet, breastplate, greaves \u2014was not an easy task. \u2014 Anne Carson, Harper's Magazine , 30 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Killing a man in full bronze armor\u2014helmet, breastplate, greaves \u2014was not an easy task. \u2014 Anne Carson, Harper's Magazine , 30 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Killing a man in full bronze armor\u2014helmet, breastplate, greaves \u2014was not an easy task. \u2014 Anne Carson, Harper's magazine , 2 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Each hoplite wielded an eight-foot spear made of ash, while his body armor consisted of a breastplate, helmet, and greaves , all made of bronze. \u2014 National Geographic , 6 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"And the film is worth watching for one gesture alone, as the Dauphin (Robert Pattinson), Hal\u2019s opposite number, lounges languidly, in his matte-black breastplate and greaves , above the fray. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 4 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"My favourite application of bronze has always been the cuirass (breastplate), shield, spear, sword and greaves of the Spartan soldiers. \u2014 Wei Koh, A-LIST , 3 Apr. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English greve , from Anglo-French":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113v"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115106",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"greet":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to address with expression of kind wishes upon meeting or arrival":[
|
|
"greeted guests at the door"
|
|
],
|
|
": to appear to the perception of":[
|
|
"a surprising sight greeted her eyes"
|
|
],
|
|
": to meet or react to in a specified manner":[
|
|
"greeted him with boos"
|
|
],
|
|
": to occur as a response to":[
|
|
"apathy greeted the plan"
|
|
],
|
|
": weep , lament":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"On a recent Sunday afternoon, the atrium bustles as worshippers greet familiar faces and welcome new ones. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Sub-Saharan decor, uplifting Afrobeat music and free samples greet you and provide a beguiling bridge between HTX and Africa. \u2014 Dwight Brown, Essence , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"The line to greet families and loved ones inside snaked around the parking lot. \u2014 Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com , 1 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Francis delivered the speech to a much smaller group of diplomats than usual, and skipped the part of the audience that ambassadors relish: a chance to greet him personally and exchange a few words. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, chicagotribune.com , 10 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"After the ceremony, Dickens was swarmed by supporters hoping to greet and take pictures with the new mayor. \u2014 J.d. Capelouto, ajc , 3 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"My parents were adamant about manners, and I was raised to greet people and acknowledge them. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"A few thousand Roman Catholic devotees lined up along Cesar Chavez Avenue to greet images of the mother of Jesus and view floats, bands, dancers and marchers. \u2014 Scott Sandell, Los Angeles Times , 6 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Tommy Moose will be on site to greet and hang out with kids. \u2014 Naomi Stock, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"When the Orange County Museum of Art opens to the public on Oct. 8, a large-scale work by Sanford Biggers will greet visitors atop the museum\u2019s sculpture terrace. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The new owners can greet guests from a covered porch at the front of the house and serve them cocktails on a rear patio. \u2014 Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"An array of restored features will greet visitors to Gillette Castle as the historic structure re-opens for public visits in late May. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"Other members of the royal family will greet some of the 8000 guests who gather on the back lawns of the palace in central London. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"This spring and summer, woolly mammoths and saber-tooth cats will greet visitors at the Brookfield Zoo. \u2014 Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune , 3 May 2022",
|
|
"Mahoning Valley Scrappers players and coaches will greet fans. \u2014 cleveland , 30 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Patchy fog and drizzle may greet Portlanders on their morning commute, but showers will decrease from west to east throughout the day and region. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Still, certain parts of the fandom will greet the end of this season with some weariness\u2014and the casting of a straight, cis man is a symptom, not the cause, of their burnout. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 20 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English greten , from Old English gr\u0113tan ; akin to Old English gr\u01e3tan to weep":"Verb",
|
|
"Middle English greten , from Old English gr\u01e3tan ; akin to Old Norse gr\u0101ta to weep":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120820",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grid-dip meter":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a device for testing radio frequencies that consists of a vacuum-tube oscillator having in its grid circuit a current-indicating meter which indicates a decrease in current when the oscillator and the circuit to which it is coupled resonate at the same frequency":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105402",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"griddle":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a flat stone or metal surface on which food is baked or fried":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The Oven Pan is made with the same non-stick ceramic coating as the other pieces of cookware and is designed to be both a stovetop griddle (hello, flapjacks) and an oven-roasting pan. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"The conflagration is also abetted by a corn tortilla (made off-site for the taqueria) dipped in chorizo oil before hitting the griddle . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Powering the griddle was an energy-friendly Jackery solar generator, and a small traditional grill served nearby. \u2014 The Indianapolis Star , 29 May 2022",
|
|
"Plus, the griddle was a fun addition for breakfast items, especially bacon. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"McDonough and Grace disdain the griddle , opting instead for one of Gunselman\u2019s five cast-iron skillets, passed down through McDonough\u2019s brother. \u2014 cleveland , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"To make the pancakes: Heat a griddle over medium heat. \u2014 Southern Kitchen, USA TODAY , 2 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Over the phone, Kim recounts memories of watching old ladies at the end of the grocery store checkout line hand-roasting paper-size sheets of gim over a metal griddle , brushing them with sesame oil and then sprinkling them with salt. \u2014 Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"This popular four-burner model from Royal Gourmet is half grill, and half griddle , offering an impressive total of 584 square inches of cooking space. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 13 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English gredil gridiron, from Anglo-French greil, gredile , from Latin craticulum , diminutive of cratis wickerwork \u2014 more at hurdle":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gri-d\u1d4al"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083726",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"griddle cake":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": pancake":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"buckwheat griddle cakes served with strawberry butter",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"It was inspired in part by a large, dinner-plate-size griddle cake I was served at a restaurant called Salt\u2019s Cure in Los Angeles. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Apr. 2021",
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"But the majority of O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s recipes are practical and austere\u2014rye bread, griddle cakes , oatmeal soup, roasted chicken. \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Yorker , 6 Mar. 2020",
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"The restaurant serves Belgian-style waffles and bacon, griddle cakes and various egg dishes. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 5 Feb. 2020",
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"The restaurant serves Belgian-style waffle and bacon, griddle cakes and various egg dishes. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 3 Feb. 2020",
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"The national launch of the Chicken McGriddles \u2014 made with griddle cakes and a McChicken patty \u2014 and the McChicken Biscuit could help appease franchise operators. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 28 Jan. 2020",
|
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"The Chicken McGriddles sandwich houses a McChicken between two griddle cakes , while the other option has a warm biscuit with the chicken. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2020",
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"Known for its all-day breakfast, menu items include Belgian-style waffle and bacon, griddle cakes and various egg dishes. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, azcentral , 6 Jan. 2020",
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"Meal for two, sans drinks: $55-$85 What to order: Corn and ricotta griddle cakes ($13), pizza, hummus, baby lettuces, fruit crisp dessert ($10) Meat-free options: The menu is all yours. \u2014 Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com , 3 Oct. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1783, 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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"flapjack",
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"hotcake",
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"pancake",
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"slapjack"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082624",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"griddle man":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a short-order cook":[]
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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":"20220708-073712",
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
|
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"grievance":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance":[
|
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"Her chief grievance was the sexual harassment by her boss."
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],
|
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": suffering , distress":[],
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": the formal expression of a grievance : complaint":[
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"filed a grievance against her employer"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
|
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"He has a deep sense of grievance against his former employer.",
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"She has been nursing a grievance all week.",
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"In the petition, the students listed their many grievances against the university administration.",
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"Several customers came to the front desk to air their grievances .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"That line paved the way for grievance procedures in colleges across the nation. \u2014 Tara Adhikari, The Christian Science Monitor , 20 June 2022",
|
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"The former President has been sowing white- grievance politics and lies about election corruption from Pennsylvania to Wyoming, setting the scene for a potential constitutional crisis. \u2014 The New Yorker , 14 June 2022",
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"Posters explaining the grievance procedures were available only in English, and many of the plant\u2019s 624 employees are Spanish-speaking. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Vance acknowledged the risk but countered that a healthy nationalism was an antidote to right-wing grievance politics. \u2014 Simon Van Zuylen-wood, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Vance acknowledged the risk but countered that a healthy nationalism was an antidote to right-wing grievance politics. \u2014 Simon Van Zuylen-wood, Washington Post , 4 Jan. 2022",
|
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"The deal also includes new requirements for working and living conditions and a new set of grievance procedures. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 5 Oct. 2021",
|
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"There is no magic formula for undoing anger and grievance . \u2014 Michael Kimmage, The New Republic , 13 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Richards filed a grievance and an arbitrator found she\u2019d been terminated without just cause. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 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 3":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"see grieve":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0113-v\u0259ns",
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0113-v\u0259n(t)s"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grievance injustice , injury , wrong , grievance mean an act that inflicts undeserved hurt. injustice applies to any act that involves unfairness to another or violation of one's rights. the injustices suffered by the lower classes injury applies in law specifically to an injustice for which one may sue to recover compensation. libel constitutes a legal injury wrong applies also in law to any act punishable according to the criminal code; it may apply more generally to any flagrant injustice. determined to right society's wrongs grievance applies to a circumstance or condition that constitutes an injustice to the sufferer and gives just ground for complaint. a list of employee grievances",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"down",
|
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"grudge",
|
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"resentment",
|
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"score"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083333",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grim":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"benign",
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"benignant",
|
|
"gentle",
|
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"mild",
|
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"nonintimidating",
|
|
"tender"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": fierce in disposition or action : savage":[
|
|
"grim wolves"
|
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],
|
|
": ghastly, repellent, or sinister in character":[
|
|
"a grim tale"
|
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],
|
|
": somber , gloomy":[
|
|
"grim news of the disaster"
|
|
],
|
|
": stern or forbidding in action or appearance":[
|
|
"a grim taskmaster"
|
|
],
|
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": unflinching , unyielding":[
|
|
"grim determination"
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Hikers made a grim discovery when they came across a dead body in the woods.",
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"The accident serves as a grim reminder of the dangers of drinking and driving.",
|
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"The prognosis is grim \u2014doctors do not expect her to live longer than six months.",
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"He paints a grim picture of the prospects for peace.",
|
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"His face looked grim , and we knew his news wouldn't be good.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Brutalism began to be criticized for seeming too severe, grim , and abstract, while brutalist structures fell into disrepair as dirty, graffitied eyesores. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"The soil collection Saturday was a grim and solemn memorial for members of the Black community and others in Utah who say Coleman\u2019s and Harvey\u2019s lives and deaths have never been properly recognized. \u2014 Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 June 2022",
|
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"But the drama, based on the 2009 Philipp Meyer novel about a murder in a Pennsylvania steel town, was relentlessly grim and lacking in urgency. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"The experience of many North African and Middle Eastern immigrants here has been grim . \u2014 Rick Noack And Sandra Mehl, Anchorage Daily News , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"The experience of many North African and Middle Eastern immigrants here has been grim . \u2014 Sandra Mehl, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"The conditions were grim , as illnesses often run through the units. \u2014 Phil Mccausland, NBC News , 6 May 2022",
|
|
"With no end in sight to Chinese President Xi Jinping's zero-Covid strategy, the outlook for Adidas' business in China \u2014 which accounted for about 20% of the company's sales last year \u2014 is grim . \u2014 Anna Cooban, CNN , 6 May 2022",
|
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"The Soviet-style estate where the Vilchynskas are staying in Warsaw may be grim , but their apartment reverberates with their hearty laughter. \u2014 Amandas Ong, ELLE , 3 May 2022"
|
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],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, \"fierce, savage, terrifying, repellent, violent, severe,\" going back to Old English grimm \"fierce, savage, harsh, severe,\" going back to Germanic *grimma-, from earlier *gremma- (whence also Old Frisian grim, grem \"fierce, severe, frightening,\" Old Saxon grimm \"fierce, hostile, severe,\" Old High German grim, grimmi, Old Norse grimmr ), adjective derivative from the base of *grimman- \"to rage\" (whence Old English & Old Saxon grimman \"to rage,\" Old High German grimmen ), probably going back to *ghrem-ne-, nasal present from an Indo-European verbal base *ghrem- \"roar, rage,\" whence Avestan gram\u0259\u1e47t- \"raging,\" Greek chremet\u00edzein \"to neigh, whinny,\" chr\u00e9misan \"(they) neighed\"; with zero-grade ablaut Old Church Slavic v\u016dzgr\u012dm\u011b \"thundered, roared,\" Lithuanian grumi\u00f9, grum\u0117\u0301ti \"to roar, thunder\"; with o-grade ablaut Germanic *gram- (whence Old English, Old Saxon & Old High German gram \"angry, hostile, fierce,\" Old Norse gramr \"anger,\" Old English gremman, gremian \"to anger, enrage,\" Old High German gremmen, Old Norse gremja, Gothic gramjan ), Old Church Slavic grom\u016d \"thunder,\" Greek chr\u00f3mos, chr\u00f3m\u0113 (Hesychius) \"kind of noise, snorting, neighing,\" chr\u00f3mados \"grinding of jaws\" (cf. chromis )":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grim"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"austere",
|
|
"dour",
|
|
"fierce",
|
|
"flinty",
|
|
"forbidding",
|
|
"gruff",
|
|
"intimidating",
|
|
"lowering",
|
|
"louring",
|
|
"rough",
|
|
"rugged",
|
|
"severe",
|
|
"stark",
|
|
"steely",
|
|
"stern",
|
|
"ungentle"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112256",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grinch":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a grumpy person who spoils the pleasure of others : killjoy , spoilsport":[
|
|
"It was a Christmas only a grinch could appreciate.",
|
|
"\u2014 Sky & Telescope",
|
|
"In between indulgent wine collectors who ignore price tags and frugal wine grinches who live by them are those wine lovers who know quality when they taste it, but refuse to spend a small fortune to get it.",
|
|
"\u2014 Robyn Bullard",
|
|
"\u2026 the sheer delight of watching Britain's Got Talent judge and notorious grinch Simon Cowell grow a heart right before the audience's eyes.",
|
|
"\u2014 Michelle Tauber et al."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Only a grinch would complain about the movie's silly plot.",
|
|
"accused the mayor of being a grinch after he cancelled the city's annual holiday parade for budgetary reasons",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Which brings us to this Christmas and a pernicious grinch named COVID who has teamed up with the Grim Reaper to batter us with waves of record-setting deaths, a resurgence of jobless claims and another lockdown here and in much of California. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"Does the sentimentality of the golden age Miracle on 34th Street (or its 1994 remake) warm the cockles of a grinch -like heart? \u2014 Jordan Wilson, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Consider this my public service announcement one for all the grinches , the recluses, and sufferers of seasonal affective disorder. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 20 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Only California, Hawaii and Nevada are bigger grinches , the study found. \u2014 David Selig, sun-sentinel.com , 10 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"These grinches , who formed the Saint Nicholas Society of New York, would change the world with two little poems. \u2014 Daniel Burke, CNN , 6 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Sellers are playing the grinch as 2019 draws to a close. \u2014 Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post , 4 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Christmas at Pemberley Manor features a grinch -like billionaire (William Darcy) who comes up against an event planner (Elizabeth Bennett) who's determined to use his sprawling mansion for a holiday festival. \u2014 Lourdes Avila Uribe, Glamour , 24 Dec. 2018",
|
|
"To protect yourself from these grinches , the BBB recommends taking these steps: Grab your gift card from the back of the rack. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 7 Dec. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1966, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"from the Grinch , character in the children's story How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957) by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grinch"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"drag",
|
|
"killjoy",
|
|
"party pooper",
|
|
"spoilsport",
|
|
"wet blanket"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114406",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grind":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"creak",
|
|
"jar",
|
|
"rasp",
|
|
"scrape",
|
|
"scratch"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an act of grinding":[],
|
|
": an action of rotating the hips in an erotic manner (as in a dance or in a burlesque striptease act) \u2014 compare bump entry 1 sense 3":[],
|
|
": dreary, monotonous, or difficult labor, study, or routine":[
|
|
"the dull grind of office work"
|
|
],
|
|
": one who works or studies excessively":[
|
|
"a grind who never goes to parties"
|
|
],
|
|
": oppress , harass":[
|
|
"tyrants who grind their subjects"
|
|
],
|
|
": the sound of grinding":[],
|
|
": to become pulverized, polished, or sharpened by friction":[],
|
|
": to move with difficulty or friction especially so as to make a grating noise":[
|
|
"gears grinding"
|
|
],
|
|
": to operate or produce by turning a crank":[
|
|
"grind a hand organ"
|
|
],
|
|
": to perform the operation of grinding":[],
|
|
": to press together with a rotating motion":[
|
|
"grind the teeth"
|
|
],
|
|
": to reduce to powder or small fragments by friction (as in a mill or with the teeth)":[
|
|
"grind the coffee beans"
|
|
],
|
|
": to rotate the hips in an erotic manner":[],
|
|
": to rub or press harshly":[
|
|
"ground the cigarette out"
|
|
],
|
|
": to weaken or destroy gradually":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used with down poverty ground her spirit down"
|
|
],
|
|
": to wear down, polish, or sharpen by friction":[
|
|
"grind an ax"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"The corn is ground into meal.",
|
|
"The steel grinds to a sharp edge.",
|
|
"She kept grinding the car's gears.",
|
|
"He grinds his teeth in his sleep.",
|
|
"I could hear the gears grinding .",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"I need a break from the daily grind .",
|
|
"the dull grind of office work",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Ask your butcher to grind part chuck with short ribs or brisket and live your most bespoke life. \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"The sneaky way is to let inflation do its thing having stopped printing new money and watch inflation grind to a halt as no new money drives its vicious circle. \u2014 Clem Chambers, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"On a day of fighting that put even territory thought to be securely in Ukrainian hands in play, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, warned that the war could grind on for years. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
|
|
"The Tigers will let the rookies grind through their struggles at the plate, as long as their defense doesn't waver. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"If the research proves successful, Rinke said waste managers could collect and grind Styrofoam materials and put them into a liquid solution made with the superworm enzyme. \u2014 Pranshu Verma, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"In any spot, just to be able to hit the ball the other way and grind at-bats and hit homers and then steal bases. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"San Joaquin Valley air regulators have struggled for nearly 20 years to outlaw the practice of agricultural burning, encouraging farmers instead to grind up forsaken crops in wood chippers and spread them as mulch. \u2014 Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2022",
|
|
"This leads to that rise & grind mentality that justifies our dehumanization. \u2014 Courtney Mccluney, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Van Horn wasn't interested in talking about getting away from the grind of playing SEC teams in the regional. \u2014 Bob Holt, Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
|
|
"From the daily work grind to navigating parenthood, including unpleasant diaper changing and attempting every trick in the book to calm a crying baby, a new dad has many sleepless nights ahead of him. \u2014 Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"This meant that if a trainee had an opportunity that pulled you away from the grind of medical residency, you were seen as abandoning ship. \u2014 Sachin H. Jain, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Lucas Raymond turned down an invitation to play for Sweden, citing a need to recover from the grind of an 82-game NHL season. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Big Santa Anita Canyon is known for the string of cottages that line a sylvan creek as well as the historic Sturtevant Camp, which until the fire was open to all who wanted a nearby respite from the urban grind . \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The Governors Awards, an annual event that presents Hollywood luminaries with honorary Oscar statuettes, is a reprieve, of sorts, from the awards season grind . \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 25 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Last week in upstate New York, Eric Musselman took his Arkansas team to Niagara Falls for an educational experience and nice break from the basketball grind . \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 24 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"While physically, Lillard, who could be seen taking shots at Monday\u2019s practice, appears to be on the mend, Cronin said that the 6-time All-Star is also benefitting mentally from being away from the NBA grind . \u2014 oregonlive , 11 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English grindan ; akin to Latin frendere to crush, grind":"Verb and Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u012bnd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grind Noun work , labor , travail , toil , drudgery , grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force. too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion. farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering. years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body. the grind of the assembly line",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"buff",
|
|
"file",
|
|
"hone",
|
|
"rasp",
|
|
"rub",
|
|
"sand"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114941",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grind house":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an often shabby movie theater having continuous showings especially of pornographic or violent films":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1923, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114230",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grind in":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to lap in (as a valve and valve seat) so that each surface serves as a lap for the other":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122855",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"transitive verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grindability":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": capacity for or resistance to being ground":[
|
|
"prepared an index of the grindability of various southern coals"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"\u02ccgr\u012bnd\u0259\u02c8bil\u0259t\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130625",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"grinderman":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one who tends an edge runner in papermaking":[],
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": one who tends the grinders in preparing groundwood":[]
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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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"-\u02ccman",
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"-m\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121749",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"grinders":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a machine or device for grinding":[],
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": an athlete who succeeds through hard work and determination rather than exceptional skill":[],
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": molar":[],
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": one that grinds":[],
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": submarine entry 2 sense 2":[],
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": teeth":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"ordered a meatball grinder from the beach's concession stand",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The designer\u2019s nice-to-haves include a mug drawer, a fridge drawer for creamer, a coffee grinder and a back-up carafe. \u2014 Jamie Gold, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
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"The Zwilling Fresh & Save vacuum pump is a mini handheld vacuum sealer about the size of a pepper grinder . \u2014 Alex Beggs, Bon App\u00e9tit , 4 May 2022",
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"It was subsequently found that the driver, a Cleveland Heights woman, 20, was in possession of a grinder used to grind marijuana. \u2014 cleveland , 20 Jan. 2021",
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"Place coffee beans into a grinder and turn handle to grind. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 20 May 2022",
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"Schoocraft\u2019s overall size and patient half-court offense put Beecher, a nine-time state champion, in a meat grinder en route to a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter. \u2014 Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press , 24 Mar. 2022",
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"Nearby, four other employees in a concrete shed manned three briquette machines, crushing husks into the grinder with a tool that resembled a baseball bat. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Dec. 2021",
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"Millions of unvaccinated children are being sent into a meat grinder this fall thanks to America's anti-vaxxers and the Republican death cult governors intent on preventing school districts from making instruction safer. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 25 Aug. 2021",
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"Transfer to a spice grinder or food processor and process to a coarse blend. \u2014 Jennifer Mcclellan, USA TODAY , 17 May 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":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u012bn-d\u0259r"
|
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"Cuban sandwich",
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"hero",
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"hoagie",
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"hoagy",
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"Italian sandwich",
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"po'boy",
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"poor boy",
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"sub",
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"submarine",
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"torpedo"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124328",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"griot":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"So do Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell\u2014and so does Boubacar Traor\u00e9, a Malian griot whose personal influence on Frisell has been substantial. \u2014 Paul Elie, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
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"Fujiie lives and works with Maboudou Sanou, a griot , and his family in a modest home in a community on the outskirts of Ouagadougou. \u2014 Clair Macdougall, Quartz , 22 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Questlove is nothing short of what West Africans call a griot ; a lyricist, musician, keeper and an orator of history. \u2014 Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone , 21 Oct. 2021",
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"Those in the crowd on Wednesday night included Davis; the museum's griot , or storyteller, Reggie Jackson; Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley; and Ald. \u2014 La Risa R. Lynch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Kilomba, who is of West African descent, describes her role in the film as that of a griot , a storyteller of the African oral tradition, while an ensemble of Black actors dance and mime, silently acting out the tales. \u2014 New York Times , 8 July 2021",
|
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"Director Sheri Williams Pannell also served as onstage griot (and occasional sixth singer). \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 June 2021",
|
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"These scenes are framed by interjections from a griot , or traditional Black storyteller. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 13 Apr. 2021",
|
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"Both the playwright and the actor have a touch of griot in them. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 Mar. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1820, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"French":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0113-\u02cc\u014d"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104329",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"grip":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"carry-on",
|
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"carryall",
|
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"handbag",
|
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"holdall",
|
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"portmanteau",
|
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"suitcase",
|
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"traveling bag",
|
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"wallet"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a firm tenacious hold typically giving control, mastery, or understanding":[
|
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"has the country in his grip"
|
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],
|
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": a part or device for gripping":[],
|
|
": a stage worker who handles scenery, properties, or lights : stagehand":[],
|
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": a strong or tenacious grasp":[
|
|
"had a good grip on the tennis racket"
|
|
],
|
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": a technician on a motion-picture or television set who handles and maintains equipment (such as cameras and their dollies and cranes)":[],
|
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": manner or style of gripping":[
|
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"the balanced grip of an expert golfer"
|
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],
|
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": mental grasp":[
|
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"can't seem to get a grip [=gain a good understanding of] on calculus",
|
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"\u2026 I'm curious to see if preteens have a grip on this fairly sophisticated concept.",
|
|
"\u2014 John Hoffman"
|
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],
|
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": strength in gripping":[],
|
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": suitcase":[],
|
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": to hold the interest of strongly":[
|
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"a story that grips the reader"
|
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],
|
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": to seize or hold firmly":[
|
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"gripped the door handle"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Verb",
|
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"The little boy gripped his mother's hand tightly.",
|
|
"I gripped the door handle and pulled as hard as I could.",
|
|
"The story really grips the reader.",
|
|
"The scandal has gripped the nation.",
|
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"Noun",
|
|
"His tennis instructor showed him the proper backhand grip .",
|
|
"a golfer with an incorrect grip",
|
|
"He has been doing all he can to maintain his grip on the company's finances.",
|
|
"I need new grips for my golf clubs.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
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"Crypto still seems to grip the imaginations of some congressional policymakers. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"As a bonus, the new outsole also seems to grip the road better. \u2014 Cory Smith, Outside Online , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"This may be surprising to some considering how far crypto units have fallen as inflation and recession fears grip the market. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"Until this truth is acknowledged and dealt with collectively as a nation, this theory will sadly continue to grip in the hearts and minds of individuals and incidents like Buffalo will never cease. \u2014 Deidre Montague, Essence , 31 May 2022",
|
|
"Grab a medium dumbbell and grip the middle of the weight in both hands. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"To prep skin, the pro leaned on primer to create the perfect base; one that smoothes fine lines, reduces shine, and helps grip the makeup that follows. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"But as Badr briefly lowered his hands in an apparent attempt to put his shoes on, one of the officers let loose a police dog, which sunk its teeth into Badr\u2019s arm and continued to grip it for close to a minute, causing Badr to scream in agony. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Bend your left knee and left hip to be able to grip the kettlebell in your right hand. \u2014 Jon-erik Kawamoto, Outside Online , 8 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Despite the jubilant tone in Chinese state media ahead of Friday\u2019s ceremonies, there are signs that Xi remains uneasy about Beijing\u2019s grip in Hong Kong. \u2014 Christian Shepherd, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"But halfway through that half-century, Hong Kong\u2019s distinctive differences have shrunk as Mr. Xi has tightened Beijing\u2019s grip on the city. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"Toretsk, like so many other mining cities across the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, may soon be excised from Kyiv\u2019s grip . \u2014 Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"Putin will want to tighten the grip in his immediate neighbourhood through an alliance of authoritarian regimes. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"The SmallRig grip has a clever design that holds the remote. \u2014 Jim Fisher, PCMAG , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"The decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade has raised new questions about Chief Justice John Roberts' grip on the Supreme Court, and whether his fellow conservatives are speeding past his incrementalist approach. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"When Sega pulled the plug on the Saturn in 1998 and announced new hardware, Stolar worked feverishly to create a marketing campaign that aimed to stymie Sony\u2019s grip on American gamers. \u2014 Matt Gardner, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Unlike more traditional media outlets, livestreams are ephemeral and potentially harder to monitor\u2014and therefore more worrying for a state that likes to maintain an iron grip over the political narrative. \u2014 Jane Li, Quartz , 24 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English grippen , from Old English grippan ; akin to Old English gr\u012bpan":"Verb and Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grip"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"clench",
|
|
"cling (to)",
|
|
"clutch",
|
|
"hold"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084525",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grip car":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a car equipped with a device for gripping a traction cable by which the car is moved : cable car":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-083437",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gripe":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"beef",
|
|
"bitch",
|
|
"bleat",
|
|
"carp",
|
|
"complaint",
|
|
"fuss",
|
|
"grievance",
|
|
"grouch",
|
|
"grouse",
|
|
"grumble",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
|
"lament",
|
|
"miserere",
|
|
"moan",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"plaint",
|
|
"squawk",
|
|
"wail",
|
|
"whimper",
|
|
"whine",
|
|
"whinge",
|
|
"yammer"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a pinching spasmodic intestinal pain":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
|
|
],
|
|
": afflict , distress":[],
|
|
": grievance , complaint":[
|
|
"Her main gripe was his utter lack of ambition."
|
|
],
|
|
": irritate , vex":[
|
|
"griped by the new regulations"
|
|
],
|
|
": seize , grasp":[],
|
|
": to cause pinching and spasmodic pain in the bowels of":[],
|
|
": to complain with grumbling":[
|
|
"Students griped about having too much homework."
|
|
],
|
|
": to experience gripes":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"All of the workers were griping about the new regulations.",
|
|
"The students griped that they had too much homework.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"I would rather not listen to gripes about your latest disasters in the dating game.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Gore Vidal used to gripe that every morning a tourist boat would pass below his cliff-hugging villa on the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Salerno\u2014a vertiginous one thousand feet below, to be exact. \u2014 Christopher Bollen, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Many workers were quick to gripe in the comment section underneath the post announcing the change, according to several employees who viewed the post. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"While some Northeast Ohio residents may gripe about shoveling out from a big snowstorm, skiers couldn\u2019t be more ecstatic. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 15 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Indeed, customers around the Louisville area have taken to social media over the past few months to gripe about bills that are 30% to 100% higher than those in previous months. \u2014 Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal , 19 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Unions representing health care workers gripe that far too many hospitals failed to fill staff vacancies or to retain pandemic-weary staff. \u2014 Philip Marcelo, Anne D'innocenzio, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Privately, some may even gripe that Manchin might as well be a Republican. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 20 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"In its comments section, followers do occasionally gripe and grumble about Mr. Todisco\u2019s picks. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 9 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"In Season 8, one contestant, Lex, used his time to gripe about Rob, one of the finalists. \u2014 Sallie Tisdale, The Atlantic , 10 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"But that was my first and last real gripe about the motorcycle. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"My one major gripe is that this movie has left me low-key obsessed with wanting an emotional support cat robot like Sox, the feline automaton companion assigned to Buzz by Star Command to ease his troubled mind after a series of setbacks. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Despite the lack of any legitimate gripe , Lakeway sided with the golfers. \u2014 Erica Smith Ewing, National Review , 1 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Because for a few years, the biggest gripe about foldables was their $2,000-ish price. \u2014 Ben Sin, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The biggest gripe one could have with the offense was third down (3 for 10) and those numbers can be misleading consider two included aforementioned sacks and another was followed by a conversion on fourth down. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"To be sure, Young\u2019s primary gripe is the fact that Boudin did not prosecute one of the alleged assailants in his son\u2019s killing in adult court, which could have yielded a longer sentence. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Those delicacies had disappeared from their homes, appearing only on Facebook, where millions of Cubans had started selling things and engaging in once-unthinkable gripe -fests, and Yanira was now staring at a post. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
|
|
"The Law & Order star also revealed his top gym gripe : bad equipment etiquette. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 18 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English gr\u012bpan ; akin to Old High German gr\u012bfan to grasp, Lithuanian griebti":"Verb and Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u012bp"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"aggravate",
|
|
"annoy",
|
|
"bother",
|
|
"bug",
|
|
"burn (up)",
|
|
"chafe",
|
|
"eat",
|
|
"exasperate",
|
|
"frost",
|
|
"gall",
|
|
"get",
|
|
"grate",
|
|
"hack (off)",
|
|
"irk",
|
|
"irritate",
|
|
"itch",
|
|
"nark",
|
|
"nettle",
|
|
"peeve",
|
|
"persecute",
|
|
"pique",
|
|
"put out",
|
|
"rasp",
|
|
"rile",
|
|
"ruffle",
|
|
"spite",
|
|
"vex"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111010",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gripe's egg":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a vessel in size and shape like a very large egg used by alchemists":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"gripe entry 3":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103234",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grippiness":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": miserliness , stinginess":[],
|
|
": the quality or state of being affected by or feeling as if one had the grippe":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"grippy + -ness":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-pin-",
|
|
"\"",
|
|
"\u02c8grip\u0113n\u0259\u0307s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084850",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gripping":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": taking a powerful hold upon one's interest or feelings":[
|
|
"a gripping thriller",
|
|
"Shabba Ranks has a gripping baritone voice that ranges from bedroom purr to locker-room-boast roar.",
|
|
"\u2014 Mark Coleman"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1896, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gri-pi\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084622",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grippit":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": gripped , caught , apprehended":[
|
|
"it will be high treason if I'm grippit",
|
|
"\u2014 John Buchan"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"from Scots variant of gripped , past participle of grip entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grip\u0259\u0307t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113742",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grivation":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the angle between north as indicated by a grid on a map and magnetic north at any point":[
|
|
"\u2014 used especially in aerial navigation"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"gri d v ari ation":""
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"gr\u012b\u02c8v-",
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"gr\u0259\u0307\u02c8v\u0101sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125758",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"grivet":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a monkey ( Cercopithecus aethiops ) of the upper Nile and Abyssinia having the back dull olive green and the lower parts white":[]
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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":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"gr\u0259\u0307\u02c8v\u0101",
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"\u02c8griv\u0259\u0307t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103538",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"grivois":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": free and bold : broad , indecent":[]
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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 grivois , noun, alert soldier, from grive thrush, war (in soldier slang)":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"gr\u0113vw\u0227"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103438",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
|
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},
|
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"grivoiserie":{
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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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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, from grivois + -erie -ery":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"gr\u0113vw\u0227zr\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084856",
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
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"grizzle":{
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"antonyms":[
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"crow",
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"delight",
|
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"rejoice"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": a gray or roan animal":[],
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": a roan coat pattern or color":[],
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": gray hair":[],
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": gripe , grumble":[],
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": to become grayish":[],
|
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": to make grayish":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Verb",
|
|
"He is always grizzling about the weather.",
|
|
"He always grizzles that the weather is bad.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Nearly every inhabitant of an Arctic scientific-research station has evacuated in advance of encroaching danger, but grizzle -bearded Augustine, who is gravely ill, has stayed behind. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 23 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"Aside from his charismatic grizzle , the role was educational. \u2014 Sopan Deb And Katie Rogers, New York Times , 22 Aug. 2017",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Grizzlies are typically brown, though their fur can appear to be white-tipped, or grizzled , lending them their name. \u2014 Fox News , 10 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Given that the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt - both grizzled and a bit beaten up but all the more handsome for it - that's saying a lot. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, chicagotribune.com , 25 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"That, for me, is praise for a work of art that\u2019s as close to puppy love as this grizzled , jaded old WASP will ever feel. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 24 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Given that the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt \u2014 both grizzled and a bit beaten up but all the more handsome for it \u2014 that\u2019s saying a lot. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 23 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"For as long as anyone can remember, the Spurs have been grizzled . \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, ExpressNews.com , 20 June 2019",
|
|
"Is Yellowstone big enough for both Roarke and Costner\u2019s grizzled rancher John Dutton? \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 19 June 2019",
|
|
"And then, after 110 fraught minutes, England switched off for a single second and Mandzukic, that grizzled old warrior, stole in and smashed home the winner. \u2014 Rory Smith, New York Times , 12 July 2018",
|
|
"Family groups of sea otters bob in the swells, the lone males, with their grizzled , silver faces, lay back like old men in their recliners, pining away their days. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 13 June 2018"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
|
|
"1740, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English grisel , adjective, gray, from Anglo-French, from gris , of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German gr\u012bs gray":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gri-z\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"beef",
|
|
"bellyache",
|
|
"bitch",
|
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"bleat",
|
|
"carp",
|
|
"caterwaul",
|
|
"complain",
|
|
"crab",
|
|
"croak",
|
|
"fuss",
|
|
"gripe",
|
|
"grouch",
|
|
"grouse",
|
|
"growl",
|
|
"grumble",
|
|
"grump",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"inveigh",
|
|
"keen",
|
|
"kick",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
|
"maunder",
|
|
"moan",
|
|
"murmur",
|
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"mutter",
|
|
"nag",
|
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"repine",
|
|
"scream",
|
|
"squawk",
|
|
"squeal",
|
|
"wail",
|
|
"whimper",
|
|
"whine",
|
|
"whinge",
|
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"yammer",
|
|
"yawp",
|
|
"yaup",
|
|
"yowl"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084716",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grizzled":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{},
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"He had thinning hair and a grizzled beard.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"At once grizzled and robust, Bridges doesn\u2019t really need anybody to play off of, including the strong if slightly adrift Brenneman. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"The Stars\u2019 skaters are a hodgepodge of grizzled veterans and up-and-coming youngsters. \u2014 Carol Schram, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The grizzled and avuncular Admiral Karl L. Schultz, the current Coast Guard Commandant, is legally required to leave his post by June 1. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"But to the grizzled veteran who loved and lost, the one who has been outbid countless times, scrolling through listings becomes work. \u2014 Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Young, tech-savvy adventurers are taking sponsors and funding away from grizzled , old-school explorers who aren\u2019t strong on Facebook and Twitter. \u2014 Devon O\u2019neil, Outside Online , 20 Apr. 2016",
|
|
"Baylor, last year\u2019s champions, won with a grizzled starting five and an average team age of 20.8 years. \u2014 Laine Higgins, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"But even the most grizzled promoters leave 2021 with some cause for optimism for next year. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Only the remaining coterie of grizzled Beatles fans, surely, would respond. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 Dec. 2021"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gri-z\u0259ld"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103232",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grizzly bear":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a very large brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) of northwestern North America":[
|
|
"The brown bears of Kodiak Island, the grizzly bears of the Rocky Mountains and interior Alaska, the European brown bear, all are now considered to be the same species, Ursus arctos , despite tremendous variation in color, size, and habits.",
|
|
"\u2014 Natural History"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The animal is a hybrid created by the mating of a grizzly bear and a polar bear \u2014 a pairing scientists found could be happening more often due to climate change. \u2014 Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Is it being stalked by a mountain lion or chased by a grizzly bear ? \u2014 Frederick Dreier, Outside Online , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Two Idaho men have been sentenced to jail time and banned from hunting for years after pleading guilty to poaching a grizzly bear near Yellowstone National Park. \u2014 CBS News , 23 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Two men have been sentenced to jail time and banned from hunting for years after pleading guilty to poaching a grizzly bear near Yellowstone National Park. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The body of a Montana man, who appears to have died after being attacked by a grizzly bear , has been found by search and rescue teams. \u2014 NBC News , 27 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"No details were provided on where he was found or why a grizzly bear was believed responsible for his death. \u2014 Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"When a wildlife official from anywhere in the American West, Alaska, or Canada has a nuisance grizzly bear and wants to avoid euthanizing it, the GWDC is often near the top of their call list. \u2014 Emma Walker, Outside Online , 9 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"The couple enjoyed a date night on top of a glacier and even had an encounter with a grizzly bear in the remote area, which had no cell service or wi-fi. \u2014 Jessica Sager, PEOPLE.com , 21 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1791, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123015",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"groom":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a person responsible for the feeding, exercising, and stabling of horses":[],
|
|
": bridegroom":[],
|
|
": man , fellow":[],
|
|
": manservant":[],
|
|
": one of several officers of the English royal household":[],
|
|
": to get into readiness for a specific objective : prepare":[
|
|
"was being groomed as a presidential candidate"
|
|
],
|
|
": to groom oneself":[],
|
|
": to make neat or attractive":[
|
|
"an impeccably groomed woman"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"The horses are being groomed for the competition.",
|
|
"She spent hours grooming herself.",
|
|
"She always seems to be perfectly groomed and neatly dressed.",
|
|
"He is being groomed to take over the company.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Other highlights of the reception were the glamorous outfits of the bride and groom . \u2014 Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"In one photo, which can be seen here, Gomez knelt in front of the bride and groom with a look of pure delight on her face. \u2014 Whitney Perry, Glamour , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Guests including Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath and Sabrina Elba were greeted by a violinist at the cathedral, and the bride and groom also hatched a plan to surprise the congregation with a flash mob-style gospel choir. \u2014 Kerry Mcdermott, Vogue , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"All the stress in the run-up to the wedding heightened the celebratory feeling the day of, the groom said. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The Louisville Ballet is redesigning the context of the ballet, but the classic story begins when a young groom is awakened on his wedding day by a kiss from a sylph. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"And until 2019, Harris County\u2019s license had an ornate image of a woman signing a book with a groom looming nearby. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"In Asch's drama, a Polish Jewish father who makes a living from the brothel in his basement wants to marry his virgin daughter to a pious Jewish groom . \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The bride wore a custom white mini-dress with a theatrically-long veil while the groom looked polished in a classic black suit. \u2014 Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"The event includes tours, a nature walk, demonstrations of carriage driving, round pen and therapeutic riding, opportunities to groom horses and meet the facility\u2019s mini-horses. \u2014 cleveland , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"The state\u2019s smaller parks are relatively easy to groom for wildfire preparedness but are threatened because of adjacent public lands. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"As for jewelry, the bride and groom both wore custom wedding bands by Stephanie Gottlieb. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 11 June 2022",
|
|
"In recent years, Instagram has launched new tools to protect teens from predatory users, particularly adults attempting to groom them. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"In recent years, Instagram has launched new tools to protect teens from predatory users, particularly adults attempting to groom them. \u2014 Drew Harwell, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"The bigger challenge is to groom potential audiences long term, and teach the public to appreciate and even crave the art form. \u2014 Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"Facial hair has been in style in some form or another for centuries, and men have been experimenting with different shapes and techniques to groom their beards for just as long. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Bride and groom Olivia and Paul Samplawski brought their dog, Amy, to serve as their ring bearer for their ceremony. \u2014 John Kuntz, cleveland , 14 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun",
|
|
"1809, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English grom":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gru\u0307m",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00fcm"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"fit",
|
|
"fix",
|
|
"lay",
|
|
"prep",
|
|
"prepare",
|
|
"ready"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110842",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"groomed":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a person responsible for the feeding, exercising, and stabling of horses":[],
|
|
": bridegroom":[],
|
|
": man , fellow":[],
|
|
": manservant":[],
|
|
": one of several officers of the English royal household":[],
|
|
": to get into readiness for a specific objective : prepare":[
|
|
"was being groomed as a presidential candidate"
|
|
],
|
|
": to groom oneself":[],
|
|
": to make neat or attractive":[
|
|
"an impeccably groomed woman"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"The horses are being groomed for the competition.",
|
|
"She spent hours grooming herself.",
|
|
"She always seems to be perfectly groomed and neatly dressed.",
|
|
"He is being groomed to take over the company.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Other highlights of the reception were the glamorous outfits of the bride and groom . \u2014 Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"In one photo, which can be seen here, Gomez knelt in front of the bride and groom with a look of pure delight on her face. \u2014 Whitney Perry, Glamour , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Guests including Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath and Sabrina Elba were greeted by a violinist at the cathedral, and the bride and groom also hatched a plan to surprise the congregation with a flash mob-style gospel choir. \u2014 Kerry Mcdermott, Vogue , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"All the stress in the run-up to the wedding heightened the celebratory feeling the day of, the groom said. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The Louisville Ballet is redesigning the context of the ballet, but the classic story begins when a young groom is awakened on his wedding day by a kiss from a sylph. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"And until 2019, Harris County\u2019s license had an ornate image of a woman signing a book with a groom looming nearby. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"In Asch's drama, a Polish Jewish father who makes a living from the brothel in his basement wants to marry his virgin daughter to a pious Jewish groom . \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The bride wore a custom white mini-dress with a theatrically-long veil while the groom looked polished in a classic black suit. \u2014 Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"The event includes tours, a nature walk, demonstrations of carriage driving, round pen and therapeutic riding, opportunities to groom horses and meet the facility\u2019s mini-horses. \u2014 cleveland , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"The state\u2019s smaller parks are relatively easy to groom for wildfire preparedness but are threatened because of adjacent public lands. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"As for jewelry, the bride and groom both wore custom wedding bands by Stephanie Gottlieb. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 11 June 2022",
|
|
"In recent years, Instagram has launched new tools to protect teens from predatory users, particularly adults attempting to groom them. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"In recent years, Instagram has launched new tools to protect teens from predatory users, particularly adults attempting to groom them. \u2014 Drew Harwell, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"The bigger challenge is to groom potential audiences long term, and teach the public to appreciate and even crave the art form. \u2014 Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"Facial hair has been in style in some form or another for centuries, and men have been experimenting with different shapes and techniques to groom their beards for just as long. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Bride and groom Olivia and Paul Samplawski brought their dog, Amy, to serve as their ring bearer for their ceremony. \u2014 John Kuntz, cleveland , 14 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun",
|
|
"1809, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English grom":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gru\u0307m",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00fcm"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"fit",
|
|
"fix",
|
|
"lay",
|
|
"prep",
|
|
"prepare",
|
|
"ready"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110814",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gros point":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a stitch used in making such canvas work \u2014 compare petit point":[],
|
|
": canvas work made with large tent stitches each of which crosses two vertical and two horizontal threads":[],
|
|
": raised point":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French, literally, large point":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014d\u02ccp\u022fint"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115610",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"gross":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"clean",
|
|
"decent",
|
|
"G-rated",
|
|
"nonobscene",
|
|
"wholesome"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": amount , sum":[],
|
|
": an aggregate of 12 dozen things":[
|
|
"a gross of pencils"
|
|
],
|
|
": big , bulky":[],
|
|
": coarse in nature or behavior : unrefined":[
|
|
"has gross table manners"
|
|
],
|
|
": consisting of an overall total exclusive of deductions":[
|
|
"gross income"
|
|
],
|
|
": deficient in knowledge : ignorant , untutored":[],
|
|
": glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness":[
|
|
"a gross error"
|
|
],
|
|
": gravely deficient in civility or decency : crudely vulgar":[
|
|
"merely gross , a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety",
|
|
"\u2014 Aldous Huxley"
|
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],
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": growing or spreading with excessive luxuriance":[
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"a gross riot of vegetation"
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],
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": immediately obvious":[
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"Now to all sense 'tis gross you love my son.",
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"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
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],
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": inspiring disgust or distaste":[
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"That sandwich looks gross ."
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],
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": made up of material or perceptible elements":[],
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": not fastidious in taste : undiscriminating":[],
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": of, relating to, or dealing with general aspects or broad distinctions":[
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"a gross outline of the plan"
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],
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": out-and-out , utter":[
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"a gross injustice"
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],
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": overall total exclusive of deductions":[
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"The company's gross doubled in five years."
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],
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": to earn or bring in (an overall total) exclusive of deductions (as for taxes or expenses)":[
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"The movie grossed over 100 million dollars."
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],
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": visible without the aid of a microscope":[
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"a gross lesion"
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],
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"David J(onathan) 1941\u2013 American physicist":[],
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"\u2014 compare net":[
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"gross income"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"They have suffered a gross injustice.",
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"She has a gross habit of chewing on the ends of her hair.",
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"Verb",
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"They grossed $50,000 before taxes."
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1c":"Adjective",
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"1579, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
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"1884, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English gros , probably from Anglo-French grosse sum, whole, from feminine of gros":"Noun",
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"Middle English grosse , from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French gros large, thick, whole, from Late Latin grossus coarse":"Adjective, Verb, and Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u014ds"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for gross Adjective coarse , vulgar , gross , obscene , ribald mean offensive to good taste or morals. coarse implies roughness, rudeness, or crudeness of spirit, behavior, or language. found the coarse humor of coworkers offensive vulgar often implies boorishness or ill-breeding. a loud vulgar belch gross implies extreme coarseness and insensitiveness. gross eating habits obscene applies to anything strongly repulsive to the sense of decency and propriety especially in sexual matters. obscene language not allowed on the air ribald applies to what is amusingly or picturesquely vulgar or irreverent or mildly indecent. entertained the campers with ribald folk songs flagrant , glaring , gross , rank mean conspicuously bad or objectionable. flagrant applies usually to offenses or errors so bad that they can neither escape notice nor be condoned. flagrant abuse of the office of president glaring implies painful or damaging obtrusiveness of something that is conspicuously wrong, faulty, or improper. glaring errors gross implies the exceeding of reasonable or excusable limits. gross carelessness rank applies to what is openly and extremely objectionable and utterly condemned. rank heresy",
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"synonyms":[
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"bawdy",
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"blue",
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"coarse",
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"crude",
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"dirty",
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"filthy",
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"foul",
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"gutter",
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"impure",
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"indecent",
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"lascivious",
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"lewd",
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"locker-room",
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"nasty",
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"obscene",
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"pornographic",
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"porny",
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"profane",
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"raunchy",
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"ribald",
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"smutty",
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"stag",
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"trashy",
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"unprintable",
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"vulgar",
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"wanton",
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"X-rated"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110242",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"biographical name",
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"gross domestic product":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the gross national product excluding the value of net income earned abroad":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"China needs gross domestic product growth of at least 5% this year to achieve its 5.5% unemployment target, according to Goldman Sachs economists. \u2014 Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
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"Several economists have already downgraded their gross domestic product growth forecasts for the year to 5% or less -- well below the government\u2019s target of about 5.5%. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
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"This year it was set at around 5.5 percent, which would be the second-lowest rate of gross domestic product growth since the 1990s. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2022",
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"The collapse in auto sales to consumers because of the chip shortage shaved more than two percentage points from U.S. gross domestic product growth in the third quarter. \u2014 Jeanne Whalen, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Jan. 2022",
|
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"That failure to react stems from provincial governments prioritizing gross domestic product growth as a measure of their performance. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Oct. 2021",
|
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"The Bank of Thailand earlier this week cut its 2021 gross domestic product growth forecast to 0.7% from 1.8% due to the latest outbreak and restrictive measures such as curfews and business closures to contain it. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 7 Aug. 2021",
|
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"Come Thursday, a first look at second-quarter gross domestic product growth \u2014 the broadest measure of economic activity \u2014 will show what the summer lull really means. \u2014 Anneken Tappe, CNN , 28 July 2021",
|
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"Back in March the Fed had projected 2021 gross domestic product growth of 6.5%, and an unemployment rate of 4.5%. \u2014 Jj Kinahan, Forbes , 16 June 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1951, 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":"20220708-115804",
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"gross ton":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": long ton":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Disney Wish will be look similar to the existing fleet coming in at approximately 144,000 gross tons , which is larger than the 130,000 gross tons of Dream and Fantasy, but will have the same number of staterooms: 1,250. \u2014 Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com , 25 Aug. 2019",
|
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"The 2,770-passenger, 110,000 gross ton vessel will sail out of PortMiami. \u2014 Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com , 15 Nov. 2019",
|
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"The 145,655 gross ton vessel will offer seven-, 10- and 11-night cruises, all with stops at the line\u2019s newest private destination, Harvest Caye in Belize. \u2014 Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com , 3 Oct. 2017"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1923, 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":"20220708-113509",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"gross tonnage":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": tonnage sense 4a":[]
|
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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":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114839",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grotesque":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"grating",
|
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"harsh",
|
|
"jarring",
|
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"unaesthetic"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": a piece of work in this style":[
|
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"an ornate structure, embellished with grotesques"
|
|
],
|
|
": a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature":[],
|
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": absurdly incongruous":[],
|
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": departing markedly from the natural, the expected, or the typical":[
|
|
"animals with grotesque deformities"
|
|
],
|
|
": fanciful , bizarre":[
|
|
"a grotesque Halloween costume"
|
|
],
|
|
": of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the grotesque: such as":[],
|
|
": one that is grotesque":[],
|
|
": sans serif":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"a gallery of grotesques from some sicko horror movie",
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"The actors wore dark capes and grotesque masks.",
|
|
"a grotesque distortion of the facts",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Yet Wyndham always takes care to dampen the grotesque and freakish elements of his stories. \u2014 Sam Sacks, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from serving our country. \u2014 Joan Biskupic, CNN , 20 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Skewing toward the absurd, the grotesque , sometimes the scatological, her books often center on drug- or alcohol-addicted protagonists mired in their own misery. \u2014 Annabel Graham, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The Marvel Cinematic Universe has rarely ventured in a direction this playful, this ghoulish, this exuberantly grotesque , writes film critic Justin Chang. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"While indebted to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Shivers succeeds in being even more unsparing and grotesque . \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Bernice details her affair with and escape from Bluebeard, here a tech billionaire whose pride in his distinctive furnishings conceals grotesque habits. \u2014 Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
|
|
"Still, Mariupol has been largely reduced to ruin, Ukrainian officials say that more than 20,000 inhabitants were killed, and the city has come to symbolize the war\u2019s grotesque horrors. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"The car is repaired, and the tour resumes, but from that point on the filmmakers link the grotesque genocidal past of the country\u2019s western expansion to the deadly megatonnage lying beneath the bleak, often beautiful landscape. \u2014 Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Continuing to send him vast amounts of money for fossil fuels (more on which in the news blurbs below) would only set up worse problems down the line\u2014and would of course be morally grotesque , given that the cash is funding slaughter in Ukraine. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 20 May 2022",
|
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"The sight is grotesque in its physical closeness and touching in its metaphysical distance. \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 7 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The Fly, all of which found grotesque things happening to the human form. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 4 June 2022",
|
|
"Frankenstein and his creation fused together in one grotesque insectoid body. \u2014 Adam Nayman, The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Her vendetta may turn out to be as terrifying as the grotesque violence of her enemies. \u2014 Joan Macdonald, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Their branding is literally eyeballs popping out and worms crawling and other horrible, grotesque visuals. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 20 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Some of the scenes were grotesque shootings, stabbings -- even a mother and her baby daughter in a bathtub, murdered by an angry boyfriend. \u2014 Paul Callan, CNN , 14 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The grotesque scene was a small glimpse of the human toll of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s assault on Ukraine. \u2014 Loveday Morris, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1561, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
|
|
"1603, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle French & Old Italian; Middle French, from Old Italian ( pittura ) grottesca , literally, cave painting, feminine of grottesco of a cave, from grotta \u2014 see grotto":"Noun and Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"gr\u014d-\u02c8tesk"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grotesque Adjective fantastic , bizarre , grotesque mean conceived, made, or carried out without adherence to truth or reality. fantastic may connote extravagance in conception or ingenuity of decorative invention. dreamed up fantastic rumors bizarre applies to the sensationally strange and implies violence of contrast or incongruity of combination. a bizarre medieval castle in the heart of a modern city grotesque may apply to what is conventionally ugly but artistically effective or it may connote ludicrous awkwardness or incongruity often with sinister or tragic overtones. grotesque statues on the cathedral though grieving, she made a grotesque attempt at a smile",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"grotesquerie",
|
|
"grotesquery",
|
|
"monster",
|
|
"monstrosity",
|
|
"ogre"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110456",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grotesquerie":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": something that is grotesque":[],
|
|
": the quality or state of being grotesque : grotesqueness":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was for a time exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"For all its rage and grotesquerie , that book was ultimately a conversion story about a depressive misanthrope who learns to live again, aided by psychopharmaceuticals and a brush with mass tragedy. \u2014 Jess Bergman, The New Republic , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Both the prosecution and the defense aimed to find a thread of logic in an inexplicable grotesquerie . \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Some Black writers and producers in America use horror and science fiction as a lens through which to examine the grotesquerie of the country\u2019s racist systems and history (Jordan Peele, for example, made Get Out after the killing of Trayvon Martin). \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 17 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"The apparent grotesquerie \u2014 honoring the mother of the Saviour of the universe, the vessel of salvation, with muscular gyrations designed to capture the momentary interest of six-year-olds \u2014 is inexpressibly beautiful in the mind\u2019s eye. \u2014 William F. Buckley Jr., National Review , 26 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"The original series was a secret family phenomenon, moving the goalposts of Sunday night prime-time acceptability by domesticating horror-film grotesquerie for the mainstream audience. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 29 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"At first glance, armed right-wing militants dressed in floral shirts may seem like another baffling grotesquerie in the parade of calamities that is 2020. \u2014 Dale Beran, The Atlantic , 4 July 2020",
|
|
"The grotesquerie Houellebecq is famous for pervades Serotonin. \u2014 Daniel Tenreiro, National Review , 16 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"But just in case a reader still has the stomach for more grotesquerie by the time the main narrative is finished, there\u2019s a 70-page appendix filled with truncated tales of lascivious behavior \u2014 bonus nuggets of lechery. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Oct. 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1666, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"grotesque + French -erie -ery":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"gr\u014d-\u02c8te-sk\u0259-r\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"grotesque",
|
|
"monster",
|
|
"monstrosity",
|
|
"ogre"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130215",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grotto":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an artificial recess or structure made to resemble a natural cave":[],
|
|
": cave":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"at the heart of the shrine is a small rocky grotto into which pilgrims can descend",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Under the waterfalls, there\u2019s a grotto with TVs and a bar. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 8 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The lordly African lion in his zoo grotto will cast a sentimental glance at his shaggy mate. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Terraces line the second story, overlooking a park-like backyard with gardens, lawns, a grotto -style swimming pool, skate park and five-hole golf course with sand traps. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Arguably the highlight of the compound: a massive, grassy outdoor area featuring a 75-yard-long pool with three waterfalls, a 35-foot swim-slide, two Jacuzzi tubs, a swim-up bar, private grotto , koi pond, cabana and fire pits. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 25 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Machnicki brought piece of stone from the grotto to experts from Bromberek Flagstone quarry in Lemont. \u2014 Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Fire up the grotto and alert the Bunnies: Playboy wants to bring its (in)famous mansion to the metaverse. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 11 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Barring a global pandemic, kids can meet Santa at the in-store Christmas grotto \u2026 if their parents have spent $2,700 or more at Harrods during the year. \u2014 The Editors, Robb Report , 19 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"In 1984, 15-year-old schoolgirl Ann Lovett died after giving birth to a baby boy in a grotto in Granard, County Longford. \u2014 Clare Egan, Longreads , 18 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1617, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Italian grotta, grotto , from Latin crypta cavern, crypt":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00e4-(\u02cc)t\u014d",
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00e4-t\u014d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"antre",
|
|
"cave",
|
|
"cavern",
|
|
"delve",
|
|
"grot"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115945",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grottoed":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": enclosed in or made into a grotto":[
|
|
"a shady grottoed spot in the mountains"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u014dd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130933",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grotty":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"clean",
|
|
"cleanly",
|
|
"immaculate",
|
|
"spick-and-span",
|
|
"spic-and-span",
|
|
"spotless",
|
|
"stainless",
|
|
"ultraclean",
|
|
"unsoiled",
|
|
"unstained",
|
|
"unsullied"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I lived in a grotty flat.",
|
|
"get rid of that grotty old rag",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Operative all along hasn\u2019t been Russia\u2019s historical and geographic imperatives, but the grotty nature of the current regime. \u2014 WSJ , 1 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Originally, each day I was allowed out two half-hours in a grotty little area that was half sealed above you. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The most telegenic bits, though, feel bona fide haunted \u2014 a grotty , Dionysian Manhattan, the woefully short life spans of it-girls and superstars, a blazing era for rock, punk, jazz and soul. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 May 2021",
|
|
"Lodgings come in all sizes and for every length of stay, no security deposit required, from a grotty single bed for the night to fancy permanent quarters for a colony. \u2014 Jill Lepore, The New Yorker , 31 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"Unlike us, though, with our bone and blood and grotty bits, potatoes are pretty much just starch. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 7 May 2020",
|
|
"While the rest of us spent the day at the Grotta Azzurra, Werner spent his in a grotty Neapolitan cell. \u2014 Anonymous, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 23 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Rooms cost half as much as in nearby hotels, the building has no disabled access and its grotty shopfronts stick out on an otherwise glamorous street. \u2014 The Economist , 30 Sep. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1964, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"origin unknown":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00e4-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bedraggled",
|
|
"befouled",
|
|
"begrimed",
|
|
"bemired",
|
|
"besmirched",
|
|
"black",
|
|
"blackened",
|
|
"cruddy",
|
|
"dingy",
|
|
"dirty",
|
|
"draggled",
|
|
"dusty",
|
|
"filthy",
|
|
"foul",
|
|
"grimy",
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"an uncle who is a real grouch when he's sick",
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"having been proven wrong, he had a grouch on for hours afterwards",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Legendary animator Chuck Jones directed the story about a green-skinned grouch who sets out to spoil Christmas for the citizens of Whoville. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Dec. 2021",
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"Ed was our real life Carl Fredricksen: a veneer of grouch over an incredibly loving and kind human being. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Aug. 2021",
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"The Indiana forward accomplished a possible NBA first by getting into a skirmish with the Spurs\u2019 Patty Mills, a player so affable as to make the Snuggle fabric softener bear seem like a grouch . \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 20 Apr. 2021",
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"Her late husband\u2014friend, adviser, sailor, grouch , almost an orphan, and perhaps a god\u2014would surely wish for no less. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2021",
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"Within two years, the comedy duo was on the air, with Tony Randall replacing Jack Lemmon as the fastidious Felix and Jack Klugman taking over for Walter Matthau in the role of slovenly grouch Oscar. \u2014 Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com , 10 Sep. 2020",
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"Her banter sings, particularly in the hands of a lovable grouch like Graham. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 1 June 2020",
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"Guy Pearce plays Ebenezer Scrooge, the eternally spiteful and selfish grouch whose misdeeds against his workers and even their families are no longer inferred. \u2014 Hunter Ingram, USA TODAY , 21 Dec. 2019",
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"So your method of writing something personal is fine \u2014 provided your e-cards are not the animated sort that take up time and space on the computer, annoying grouches like Miss Manners. \u2014 Judith Martin, Washington Post , 2 Dec. 2019"
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"their ground plan is first to finish college and then get married"
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"first_known_use":{
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"road map",
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"scheme",
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"strategy",
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"system"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103353",
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": a metallic plate buried in the ground to connect a circuit to earth":[],
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": a timber laid horizontally on or near the ground to support the uprights of a building : sill":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124641",
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"type":[
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"ground squirrel":{
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": any of various burrowing North American and Eurasian rodents (especially genus Spermophilus ) of the squirrel family that often live in colonies especially in open areas (such as grasslands)":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The lead conservationist is a large, fluffy ground squirrel known as a marmot. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 Feb. 2022",
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"Since squirrels haven\u2019t been shown to recognize their own reflections, this trial let researchers observe how a ground squirrel would treat another member of its species. \u2014 Maddie Bender, Scientific American , 17 Sep. 2021",
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"Considering that a heavy ground squirrel weighs a pound, this activity struck me as akin to digging ditches 12 hours a day for minimum wage\u2014the effort was grossly disproportionate to the reward. \u2014 Philip Caputo, Field & Stream , 22 Nov. 2020",
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"Marmots a type of large ground squirrel that is eaten in some parts of China and the neighboring country Mongolia, and which have historically caused plague outbreaks in the region. \u2014 Nectar Gan And Jessie Yeung, CNN , 7 Aug. 2020",
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"Your odds of seeing wild animals \u2014 ranging from arctic ground squirrels , marmots and Dall sheep to bears and moose \u2014 are good, considering the trail isn\u2019t as trafficked as others in the Chugach. \u2014 Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News , 28 May 2020",
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"Whereas some fears are innate\u2014such as humans\u2019 fear of spiders or snakes or a ground squirrel \u2019s fear of foxes\u2014others are learned, either through direct experience or observing others. \u2014 Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American , 21 May 2020",
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"Varmint hunting encompasses a wide variety of critters, ranging in size from ground squirrels to even feral hogs. \u2014 Richard Mann, Field & Stream , 17 Sep. 2019",
|
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"Just is the second photographer in recent memory to capture a ground squirrel smelling a yellow flower. \u2014 Fox News , 27 Feb. 2020"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1688, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115853",
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"ground staff":{
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": a group of people at an airport who take care of and repair aircraft":[],
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": the people who take care of a large area of land (such as a sports field)":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120635",
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"ground state":{
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": the state of a physical system (as of an atomic nucleus or an atom) having the least energy of all the possible states":[]
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|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Individual fragment are solved quantumly, then all the fragment solutions are recombined as the ground state for the molecule\u2019s entirety. \u2014 Paul Smith-goodson, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Since isomers are present in stars, nuclear reactions are different than if a material were in its ground state . \u2014 Artemis Spyrou, The Conversation , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"To show that the qubits are actually useful, the researchers use their two-qubit setup to calculate the ground state energy of molecular hydrogen. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 19 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The quasiparticles are expected to quickly lose energy and so won't be able to transfer enough to raise a qubit from its ground state to its excited state. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 14 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"But, in a stand-your- ground state such as Florida, Zimmerman had a lawful right to patrol the neighborhood near Martin\u2019s home. \u2014 Ronald Sullivan, The Conversation , 19 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"An array of lasers is used to cool the ion to its quantum ground state , where the momentum and position uncertainties of the ion are at their minimum. \u2014 Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American , 21 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"In Aspelmeyer\u2019s experiment, the particle was in its ground state 70% of the time on average. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Eventually, those electrons will make their most energetic transition: to the ground state . \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 13 May 2021"
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"ground zero in the battle over immigration laws",
|
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"a city that was once ground zero for the insurance industry",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The Pyramid Club may have been joyous, but the HIV/AIDS crisis cast a gloom over New York\u2019s gay community\u2014 ground zero for a pandemic that by 1990 had killed over 120,000 Americans, nearly twice as many as died in the Vietnam War. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"According to federal statistics, Indigenous women and girls are 12 times more likely to be murdered or missing than any other woman in Canada \u2013 and Winnipeg is considered ground zero of the problem. \u2014 Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"The episode further highlights an ongoing 2022 theme in which debates over school policies have become ground zero for voter mobilization efforts. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 17 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The hilltop shrine in the Old City is the emotional ground zero of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the center of previous rounds of violence. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The hilltop shrine in the Old City is the emotional ground zero of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the center of previous rounds of violence. \u2014 Tia Goldenberg, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Vice finds the hospital to be ground zero in matters of faith. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Far from realizing a new era of bipartisan inclusivity, Florida under DeSantis has become ground zero for the cultural clashes that have pitted the country's LGBTQ community against GOP leaders. \u2014 Steve Contorno, CNN , 9 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"School board meetings have become ground zero for parents who are angry about mask and vaccine mandates. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 Mar. 2022"
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"1946, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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|
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"axis",
|
|
"base",
|
|
"capital",
|
|
"center",
|
|
"central",
|
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"core",
|
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"cynosure",
|
|
"epicenter",
|
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"eye",
|
|
"focus",
|
|
"heart",
|
|
"hub",
|
|
"locus",
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"mecca",
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"navel",
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"nerve center",
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"nexus",
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"nucleus",
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"omphalos",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114755",
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": mentally and emotionally stable : admirably sensible, realistic, and unpretentious":[
|
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"remains grounded despite all the praise and attention"
|
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|
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"\u2014 see also ground entry 2":[
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Stay grounded and don\u2019t believe the hype about yourself too much. \u2014 Marc Myers, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
|
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"Stay calm, stay grounded and focus on clarifying the problem. \u2014 Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
|
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"Although Guzman\u2019s Andrew is more grounded and authentic than DeCarlo\u2019s wacky, ethereal Barrymore, the two actors match each other well in energy, wordplay and swordplay. \u2014 Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 May 2022",
|
|
"But what pushes The Kids over the top, for me, are the more grounded sketches. \u2014 Mike Postalakis, SPIN , 25 May 2022",
|
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"The group includes thirsty mess Luke (Matt Rogers); his inseparable bestie, gender fluid queen Keegan (Tom\u00e1s Matos); and the more grounded , bookish Max (Torian Miller). \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
|
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"Existenz, the latter the director\u2019s last foray into the genre before a two-decade stretch of more grounded but no-less-adventurous features. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 6 May 2022",
|
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"At its best, then, the series only uses the void to imbue its more grounded themes \u2014 grief, loneliness, faith, longing \u2014 with a palpable eeriness (not in small part thanks to Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans\u2019 off-kilter score). \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 14 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Marketers will shift their focus from intangible metrics, such as engagement, to more grounded metrics of measurement that reflect consumer buying intent, such as conversion rates. \u2014 Anil Malhotra, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113705",
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"group mind":{
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": a hypothetical psychic unity or collective consciousness of a group of individuals":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1889, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114224",
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"type":[
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"group practice":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": medicine practiced by a group of associated physicians or dentists (such as specialists in different fields) working as partners or as partners and employees":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"And doctors joining a group practice may find that others are opposed to providing abortions at the site or don\u2019t want the stigma and risks of doing so. \u2014 Emily Alpert Reyes Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 27 Sep. 2021",
|
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"As a result, the group practice locations will be associated with that doctor. \u2014 Diane Omdahl, Forbes , 7 July 2021",
|
|
"Mary Alvord, a psychologist who runs a large group practice in Maryland serving adolescents, said that many adolescents have suffered during the pandemic. \u2014 Matt Richtel, New York Times , 17 Mar. 2021",
|
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"Wallis has served as the group practice administrator at the Branch Health Clinics in Silverdale, Wash., director for remote health care for TRICARE Europe in Sembach, Germany, and was department head for TRICARE business services in Bethesda, Md. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 May 2021",
|
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"The founders emphasized the importance of a team approach to delivering patient care in their new endeavor, as a multi-discipline group practice with many specialists in one building. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 24 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"This, combined with the medical community\u2019s negative attitude about the hospital\u2019s group practice model, meant a change was needed, Bowen said. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 24 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"After opening training camp with three days of individual workouts, Friday morning saw the Utah Jazz take part in their first group practice ahead of the 2020-21 season. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"The first group practice isn\u2019t expected until Sunday, once several days of individual workouts required by the NBA\u2019s COVID-19 protocols finish, and even that timeline assumes all coronavirus results return negative. \u2014 Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 2 Dec. 2020"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112428",
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"group work":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": a technique within the field of social work wherein various groups (as educational and recreational) are guided by an agency leader to more effective personal adjustment and community participation":[]
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130246",
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"grouper":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": any of numerous fishes (family Serranidae and especially genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca ) that are typically large solitary bottom-dwelling fishes of warm seas and include important food fishes":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Recent videos on the channel show Sherron spearing grouper in deep water near offshore oil rigs. \u2014 Dan Carson, Chron , 13 June 2022",
|
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"The seafood portion of the menu will be sourced from the Gulf and beyond, with features including Gulf and East Coast oysters, cod and grouper . \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 1 June 2022",
|
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"Add some middleneck clams, blackened grouper tacos or a roasted beet and goat cheese salad and set your mood to chill. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"From fly-fishing for trout in the Tetons to casting for grouper in the Caribbean, these national park fishing spots are sure to surprise and delight. \u2014 Outside Online , 30 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Matanzas on the Bay has everything from Gulf shrimp to Ahi tuna, plus lobster tail, snapper, grouper and flounder. \u2014 Judy Koutsky, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Fisherman Gregory John Brown showed off his recent catch including a spinet lobster, yellow fin tuna and Nassau grouper . \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 25 Mar. 2022",
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"Lunch options include shrimp Po'Boy, salmon sliders, grouper sandwiches, Mahi tacos and fish sticks and chips. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 11 Mar. 2022",
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"There went the grouper , the goon of the reef, who keeps the population under control. \u2014 Heidi Mitchell, WSJ , 21 Jan. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1615, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Portuguese garoupa":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u00fc-p\u0259r"
|
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121429",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"groupment":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1837, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"French groupement , from grouper to group + -ment":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00fcpm\u0259nt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123020",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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"grouse":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"beef",
|
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"bitch",
|
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"bleat",
|
|
"carp",
|
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"complaint",
|
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"fuss",
|
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"grievance",
|
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"gripe",
|
|
"grouch",
|
|
"grumble",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
|
"lament",
|
|
"miserere",
|
|
"moan",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"plaint",
|
|
"squawk",
|
|
"wail",
|
|
"whimper",
|
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"whine",
|
|
"whinge",
|
|
"yammer"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds":[],
|
|
": complain , grumble":[
|
|
"groused about the higher prices"
|
|
],
|
|
": complaint":[
|
|
"listened to their grouses about working conditions"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Verb",
|
|
"She's been grousing to her boss about the working conditions.",
|
|
"Fans have groused that the higher prices are unfair."
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1531, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"1887, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
|
|
"1918, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"derivative of grouse entry 2":"Noun",
|
|
"origin unknown":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grau\u0307s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"beef",
|
|
"bellyache",
|
|
"bitch",
|
|
"bleat",
|
|
"carp",
|
|
"caterwaul",
|
|
"complain",
|
|
"crab",
|
|
"croak",
|
|
"fuss",
|
|
"gripe",
|
|
"grizzle",
|
|
"grouch",
|
|
"growl",
|
|
"grumble",
|
|
"grump",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"inveigh",
|
|
"keen",
|
|
"kick",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
|
"maunder",
|
|
"moan",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"mutter",
|
|
"nag",
|
|
"repine",
|
|
"scream",
|
|
"squawk",
|
|
"squeal",
|
|
"wail",
|
|
"whimper",
|
|
"whine",
|
|
"whinge",
|
|
"yammer",
|
|
"yawp",
|
|
"yaup",
|
|
"yowl"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085316",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grouseberry":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a blueberry ( Vaccinium scoparium )":[],
|
|
": checkerberry sense 1a":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grau\u0307s-\u2014 see berry"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085427",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grouser":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"beef",
|
|
"bitch",
|
|
"bleat",
|
|
"carp",
|
|
"complaint",
|
|
"fuss",
|
|
"grievance",
|
|
"gripe",
|
|
"grouch",
|
|
"grumble",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
|
"lament",
|
|
"miserere",
|
|
"moan",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"plaint",
|
|
"squawk",
|
|
"wail",
|
|
"whimper",
|
|
"whine",
|
|
"whinge",
|
|
"yammer"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds":[],
|
|
": complain , grumble":[
|
|
"groused about the higher prices"
|
|
],
|
|
": complaint":[
|
|
"listened to their grouses about working conditions"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"She's been grousing to her boss about the working conditions.",
|
|
"Fans have groused that the higher prices are unfair."
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1531, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"1887, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
|
|
"1918, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"derivative of grouse entry 2":"Noun",
|
|
"origin unknown":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grau\u0307s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"beef",
|
|
"bellyache",
|
|
"bitch",
|
|
"bleat",
|
|
"carp",
|
|
"caterwaul",
|
|
"complain",
|
|
"crab",
|
|
"croak",
|
|
"fuss",
|
|
"gripe",
|
|
"grizzle",
|
|
"grouch",
|
|
"growl",
|
|
"grumble",
|
|
"grump",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"inveigh",
|
|
"keen",
|
|
"kick",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
|
"maunder",
|
|
"moan",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"mutter",
|
|
"nag",
|
|
"repine",
|
|
"scream",
|
|
"squawk",
|
|
"squeal",
|
|
"wail",
|
|
"whimper",
|
|
"whine",
|
|
"whinge",
|
|
"yammer",
|
|
"yawp",
|
|
"yaup",
|
|
"yowl"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124831",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grows":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": increase , expand":[
|
|
"grows in wisdom"
|
|
],
|
|
": to assume some relation through or as if through a process of natural growth":[
|
|
"ferns growing from the rocks"
|
|
],
|
|
": to be able to grow in some place or situation":[
|
|
"trees that grow in the tropics"
|
|
],
|
|
": to become increasingly acceptable or attractive":[
|
|
"didn't like it at first, but it grew on him"
|
|
],
|
|
": to cause to grow":[
|
|
"grow wheat"
|
|
],
|
|
": to develop from a parent source":[
|
|
"the book grew out of a series of lectures"
|
|
],
|
|
": to have an increasing influence":[
|
|
"habit grows on a person"
|
|
],
|
|
": to increase in size by assimilation of material into the living organism or by accretion of material in a nonbiological process (such as crystallization)":[
|
|
"The tree grew to an immense size."
|
|
],
|
|
": to let grow on the body":[
|
|
"grew a beard"
|
|
],
|
|
": to pass into a condition : become":[
|
|
"grew pale"
|
|
],
|
|
": to promote the development of":[
|
|
"start a business and grow it successfully",
|
|
"\u2014 J. L. Deckter"
|
|
],
|
|
": to spring up and develop to maturity":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The city is growing rapidly.",
|
|
"The list of chores to do this weekend keeps growing .",
|
|
"She grew intellectually and emotionally in her first year at college.",
|
|
"It's wonderful to see how she has grown as a person since going to college.",
|
|
"It can be hard to watch our children change as they grow .",
|
|
"He's still just a growing boy.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Wally Seaver died in 2013, but the tournament has continued to grow , peaking at more than 150 teams in 2021 and raising $8,000-$10,000 annually for ALS awareness and research. \u2014 Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Over the past few years, the Santa Clara prospect has continued to grow taller and develop an NBA-ready body. \u2014 Nick Crain, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"Since Los Angeles County reported its first case of monkeypox earlier this month, along with cases in Sacramento, which reported the state\u2019s first, and in San Francisco and San Diego, the number of cases has continued to grow across the state. \u2014 Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The net continued to grow as the American economy stratified. \u2014 Hannah Zeavin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Thailand\u2019s deputy government spokesperson Rachada Dhnadirek said on Tuesday that local revenue from foreign film projects has continued to grow in recent years, reaching an average of about $100 million (3.5 billion baht) per year from 2017-2021. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Head counts at companies with fewer than 50 employees declined in three of the past four months, according to ADP payroll data, even as employment at larger firms continued to grow . \u2014 Ruth Simon, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"Still, Chad and Amy continued to grow their family, and second daughter Avery was born in June, 2016. \u2014 Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"The Pipeline Fire, which began Sunday morning just north of Flagstaff, continued to grow and prompted additional evacuations and an emergency declaration as of Monday. \u2014 Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic , 13 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English gr\u014dwan ; akin to Old High German gruowan to grow":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"crop",
|
|
"cultivate",
|
|
"culture",
|
|
"dress",
|
|
"promote",
|
|
"raise",
|
|
"rear",
|
|
"tend"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130810",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"growth":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a producing especially by growing":[
|
|
"fruits of his own growth"
|
|
],
|
|
": a stage in the process of growing : size":[],
|
|
": an abnormal proliferation of tissue (such as a tumor)":[],
|
|
": anticipated progressive growth especially in capital value and income":[
|
|
"some investors prefer growth to immediate income"
|
|
],
|
|
": full growth":[],
|
|
": increase , expansion":[
|
|
"the growth of the oil industry"
|
|
],
|
|
": outgrowth":[],
|
|
": progressive development : evolution":[],
|
|
": something that grows or has grown":[
|
|
"a growth of willows"
|
|
],
|
|
": the process of growing":[],
|
|
": the result of growth : product":[
|
|
"Protestantism was a relatively recent growth ."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He had a growth spurt when he was 16 years old.",
|
|
"She's concerned that the medication might slow her child's growth .",
|
|
"He discovered a substance that promotes the growth of new blood vessels.",
|
|
"The city has undergone explosive growth in recent years.",
|
|
"He sees his college years as an opportunity for personal growth .",
|
|
"It's important to prune the bush every year to encourage new growth .",
|
|
"Their profits have averaged five percent growth in the last four years.",
|
|
"The tree has an average annual growth of almost a foot.",
|
|
"a thick growth of underbrush",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Coupled with rising global inflation, global economic growth and investment are expected to slow. \u2014 Rusty Wiley, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"And, although central government has vowed to achieve a 5.5% economic growth target this year, Chinese consumer sentiment has been hit by rising levels of unemployment and a dangerous property crisis. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Rising inflation raises possibility of recession Stubborn inflation pressures have driven a stark shift in policy from central banks, which are raising rates to try and temper inflation after years of holding rates down to help economic growth . \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Another concern for Russia is that the cutoff of imports could lead to industrial shortages, while a drop in foreign investment is expected to drag down the country's economic growth for years, the Institute of International Finance predicted. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Countries may take years to raise funds in hard currency again, impairing economic growth . \u2014 Jon Sindreu, WSJ , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Another concern is stagflation, where a combination of low economic growth is combined with high inflation. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Dalio is just one name on a growing list of economists and Wall Street veterans arguing weak economic growth and high inflation are now the base case for the U.S. economy. \u2014 Will Daniel, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"One common definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth , that is, shrinking gross domestic product. \u2014 Don Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1557, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"grow + -th entry 3":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014dth"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"excrescence",
|
|
"excrescency",
|
|
"lump",
|
|
"neoplasm",
|
|
"tumor"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113933",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grub":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"bread",
|
|
"chow",
|
|
"chuck",
|
|
"comestibles",
|
|
"eatables",
|
|
"eats",
|
|
"edibles",
|
|
"fare",
|
|
"food",
|
|
"foodstuffs",
|
|
"meat",
|
|
"provender",
|
|
"provisions",
|
|
"table",
|
|
"tucker",
|
|
"viands",
|
|
"victuals",
|
|
"vittles"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a slovenly person":[],
|
|
": a soft thick wormlike larva of an insect (such as a beetle)":[],
|
|
": food":[],
|
|
": one who does menial work : drudge":[],
|
|
": to clear by digging up roots and stumps":[],
|
|
": to dig in the ground especially for something that is difficult to find or extract":[],
|
|
": to dig up by or as if by the roots":[],
|
|
": to search about":[
|
|
"grubbed in the countryside for food",
|
|
"\u2014 Lamp"
|
|
],
|
|
": toil , drudge":[
|
|
"grubbing along at newspaper jobs",
|
|
"\u2014 Walter Kirn"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"Everyone was grubbing for whatever food they could find.",
|
|
"students grubbing for better grades",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"Let's go get some grub .",
|
|
"after the game, we headed to the diner for some hearty grub",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"No henchmen of adversarial intelligence services or money- grubbing fraudsters are going to abide by such a magnanimous international accord\u2014even if governments or corporations pay it lip service. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 15 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"In its prickliness and insistence on the messiness and ineluctable pain of life, this is very different from the pandering, gold- grubbing titles that tend to hit theaters starting around now. \u2014 Manohla Dargis, New York Times , 26 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Get our daily newsletter China\u2019s freewheeling internet users hand plenty of precious information over to the country\u2019s data- grubbing apps. \u2014 The Economist , 7 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Sonny\u2019s Everyman tale revives the hope that cinema might still be a popular art form, even as the movie year heads into its ugliest, platitudinous, awards- grubbing phase. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 6 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Enter Maximus Worthington, a money- grubbing real estate tycoon danced by CTT artistic director and lead choreographer Mark Yonally, who promises big profits for DRC by using a trickle-down model. \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com , 9 June 2019",
|
|
"In an interview with People, the 48-year-old opened up about her go-to grub . \u2014 Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living , 3 May 2019",
|
|
"The amateur hunters and the independent and commercial hunters aren\u2019t all venal, money- grubbing opportunists. \u2014 Rachel Becker, The Verge , 15 Oct. 2018",
|
|
"Eleven-year-old Nan works with a gang of other kids her age, and younger, as a chimney sweep for a money- grubbing sadist named Wilkie Crudd. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 20 Sep. 2018",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"As long as the grub and grog kept comin\u2019, and as long as everyone had a few turns gripping and ripping. \u2014 Michael Mcknight, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Camaraderie was built over sharing a cold brew and some grub in a communal space, and the often beer-only bars soon fell into a category of their own. \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"There\u2019s a new taproom and Atmosphere Kitchen, featuring elevated pub grub , tapas-style. \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"Five Iron Golf will provide clubs, grub at new indoor facility Downtown Last year, Golfweek listed the best public courses in each state. \u2014 Joe Harrington, The Enquirer , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"The food is simple beer garden grub : totchos, brats, giant pretzels and spicy chicken thighs. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Half the grub went into the bear can while the rest went into a bag buried in the snow. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"An Irish pub with traditional and non-traditional pub grub . \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Doctors counted more than a dozen of the disturbing grub -like critters outside the eyeball and surrounding tissue. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English grubbe , from grubben":"Noun",
|
|
"Middle English grubben ; akin to Old English grafan to dig \u2014 more at grave":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0259b"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bang away",
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"beaver (away)",
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"dig (away)",
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"drudge",
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"endeavor",
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"fag",
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"hump",
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"hustle",
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"labor",
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"moil",
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"peg (away)",
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"plod",
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"plow",
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"plug",
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"slave",
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"slog",
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"strain",
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"strive",
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"struggle",
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"sweat",
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"toil",
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"travail",
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"tug",
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"work"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114028",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"grub hoe":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a heavy hoe for grubbing":[],
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": grub ax":[]
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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":"20220708-121438",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"grubby":{
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"antonyms":[
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"clean",
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"cleanly",
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"immaculate",
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"spick-and-span",
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"spic-and-span",
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"spotless",
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"stainless",
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"ultraclean",
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"unsoiled",
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"unstained",
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"unsullied"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": dirty , grimy":[
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"grubby hands"
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],
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": infested with fly maggots":[],
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": slovenly , sloppy":[],
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": worthy of contempt : base":[
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"grubby political motives"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He lives in a grubby little apartment.",
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"clean off those grubby hands before you touch anything",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Tracking how much the city changed from the end of the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, Dos Passos reveals the grubby underside of industrialization. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
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"Johnson is just the latest prime minister to fail spectacularly at the job, though in his case, in uniquely grubby circumstances. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 6 June 2022",
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"Groups of friends were erecting tepees next to camper vans overflowing with grubby children. \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
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"Everybody\u2019s got some grubby work to do, it\u2019s not the end-all of life. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
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"Tape and grips start out all sparkly clean but get grubby pretty quick. \u2014 Joe Lindsey, Outside Online , 17 July 2021",
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"But even without that climactic thrill, the scenery alone would have been worth the price of admission, as DP Simone D\u2019Arcangelo elevates the somewhat grubby cinematography with shots of indescribable beauty. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 14 Apr. 2022",
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"Or maybe your brown or beige ones got a little grubby ? \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
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"Art studios are famously grubby but by separating them from the main building, even two years after the latter\u2019s completion, the primary structure remains as immaculate as a hospital operating room. \u2014 Michael J. Lewis, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022"
|
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0259-b\u0113"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"bedraggled",
|
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"befouled",
|
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"begrimed",
|
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"bemired",
|
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"besmirched",
|
|
"black",
|
|
"blackened",
|
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"cruddy",
|
|
"dingy",
|
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"dirty",
|
|
"draggled",
|
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"dusty",
|
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"filthy",
|
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"foul",
|
|
"grimy",
|
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"grotty",
|
|
"grungy",
|
|
"mucky",
|
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"muddy",
|
|
"nasty",
|
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"smudged",
|
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"smutty",
|
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"soiled",
|
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"sordid",
|
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"stained",
|
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"sullied",
|
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"unclean",
|
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"uncleanly"
|
|
],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115421",
|
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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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"grudge":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a feeling of deep-seated resentment or ill will":[
|
|
"held no grudge against those who mistreated him"
|
|
],
|
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": to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully":[
|
|
"didn't grudge the time"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Verb",
|
|
"I don't grudge paying my share.",
|
|
"I don't grudge her the opportunities she has been given.",
|
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"Noun",
|
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"She still has a grudge against him for the way he treated her in school.",
|
|
"He has nursed a grudge against his former boss for years.",
|
|
"I don't bear him any grudges .",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
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"Their party was more likely to eschew deadly and costly violence in favor of grudging compromise and coexistence. \u2014 Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic , 8 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"Corbyn, meanwhile, began to win grudging praise from the guardians of established opinion for his willingness to coordinate the resistance. \u2014 David Graeber, The New York Review of Books , 13 Jan. 2020",
|
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"Summing up, Nixon called for the Chinese to be bold and not grudging . \u2014 William Mcgurn, WSJ , 26 Nov. 2018",
|
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"Instant coffee, often relegated to brownie recipes and steak rubs, is making a comeback and even winning grudging approval from connoisseurs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Sep. 2019",
|
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"And finally, a grudging first welcome to \u2026 the new pass interference rule in the regular season. \u2014 Jonathan Jones, SI.com , 5 Sep. 2019",
|
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"Smith presents a more modulated relationship of mutual if often grudging esteem and uneasy collaboration toward common objectives. \u2014 Jean Edward Smith, Washington Post , 22 Aug. 2019",
|
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"After initial hesitation, President Obama declared that Assad must go, but without lending more than grudging assistance to rebel groups fighting to achieve that outcome. \u2014 Brian Stewart, National Review , 10 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"But while there is some comic nature to booing and jeers aimed at Smith, there is also grudging respect. \u2014 James Masters, CNN , 11 July 2019",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Dan Chase is living a quiet, off-the-grid life when a major mistake from his past \u2014 involving an Afghani warlord with a decades-old grudge \u2014 sends him back on the run. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Carson Wentz, at least outwardly, doesn't hold a grudge against the Indianapolis Colts or team owner Jim Irsay. \u2014 Scott Horner, USA TODAY , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"After Valerie Solanas, an artist and writer with a grudge against Warhol, shot him in 1968, Marisol left the country. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 May 2022",
|
|
"That\u2019s not exactly a surprising stance from a sorcerer who already has a grudge against Doctor Strange. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Trump has held a grudge against Pence for not going along with his unconstitutional scheme to effectively overturn the 2020 election results. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 16 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Carson Wentz, at least outwardly, doesn't hold a grudge against the Indianapolis Colts or team owner Jim Irsay. \u2014 Scott Horner, USA TODAY , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"Carson Wentz, at least outwardly, doesn't hold a grudge against the Indianapolis Colts or team owner Jim Irsay. \u2014 Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Depp denied the accusation, saying Barkin held a grudge against him. \u2014 Mike Miller, EW.com , 12 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English grucchen, grudgen to grumble, complain, from Anglo-French grucer, grucher , of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German grogezen to howl":"Verb",
|
|
"derivative of grudge entry 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0259j"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for grudge Noun malice , malevolence , ill will , spite , malignity , spleen , grudge mean the desire to see another experience pain, injury, or distress. malice implies a deep-seated often unexplainable desire to see another suffer. felt no malice toward their former enemies malevolence suggests a bitter persistent hatred that is likely to be expressed in malicious conduct. a look of dark malevolence ill will implies a feeling of antipathy of limited duration. ill will provoked by a careless remark spite implies petty feelings of envy and resentment that are often expressed in small harassments. petty insults inspired by spite malignity implies deep passion and relentlessness. a life consumed by motiveless malignity spleen suggests the wrathful release of latent spite or persistent malice. venting his spleen against politicians grudge implies a harbored feeling of resentment or ill will that seeks satisfaction. never one to harbor a grudge",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"down",
|
|
"grievance",
|
|
"resentment",
|
|
"score"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103522",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grudgeful":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": harboring a grudge : full of resentment":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-f\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113247",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grudgeless":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": free of grudges or resentment":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-l\u0259\u0307s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130011",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grulla":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a mouse-dun horse":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Mexican Spanish, from Spanish grulla crane, probably alteration of Old Spanish gruya, gr\u00faa , from Latin grus ; from its crane color":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u00fcy\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-102910",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grum":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": morose , glum , sour , surly":[
|
|
"a very grum countenance",
|
|
"\u2014 Mary S. Watts"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"probably blend of grim and glum":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0259m"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-102652",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun,"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grumble":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"crow",
|
|
"delight",
|
|
"rejoice"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": growl , rumble":[
|
|
"Thunder grumbled in the distance."
|
|
],
|
|
": to express with grumbling":[
|
|
"grumbled his annoyance"
|
|
],
|
|
": to mutter in discontent":[
|
|
"grumbled about the scarcity of jobs"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"There's been a lot of grumbling among the employees.",
|
|
"Some of the customers have been grumbling about poor service.",
|
|
"Fans grumbled about the team's poor play.",
|
|
"\u201cWhen are we going to leave?\u201d he grumbled .",
|
|
"We could hear thunder grumbling in the distance.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Employers say the perks are critical to keeping their businesses open as employees grumble about rising gas prices and office return plans. \u2014 Kathryn Dill, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"The practice is formally called Public Safety Power Shutoffs, or PSPS, and residents often grumble about being left without electricity. \u2014 Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"Still, in a sport that clings so desperately to tradition, purists will grumble . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"Longtime lovers of South Africa\u2019s most stylish hideaway, Babylonstoren, grumble that its luster has somewhat tarnished. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Building permits have surged, and the cadre of mostly local builders who had the market more or less to themselves now grumble that the rapid growth has attracted big national builders like D.R. Horton and Toll Brothers. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Yes, the broadcast networks will inevitably grumble at the prospect of losing 30 minutes of prime-time revenue for a presidential address. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 9 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"When the coerced revision is the renaming of a sports team, people grumble and endure one more affront. \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Asked to volunteer in his stead, the men grumble about the near-suicidal odds of success and look away. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 15 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1580, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"probably from Middle French grommeler , ultimately from Middle Dutch grommen ; akin to Old High German grimm grim":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0259m-b\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"beef",
|
|
"bellyache",
|
|
"bitch",
|
|
"bleat",
|
|
"carp",
|
|
"caterwaul",
|
|
"complain",
|
|
"crab",
|
|
"croak",
|
|
"fuss",
|
|
"gripe",
|
|
"grizzle",
|
|
"grouch",
|
|
"grouse",
|
|
"growl",
|
|
"grump",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"inveigh",
|
|
"keen",
|
|
"kick",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
|
"maunder",
|
|
"moan",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"mutter",
|
|
"nag",
|
|
"repine",
|
|
"scream",
|
|
"squawk",
|
|
"squeal",
|
|
"wail",
|
|
"whimper",
|
|
"whine",
|
|
"whinge",
|
|
"yammer",
|
|
"yawp",
|
|
"yaup",
|
|
"yowl"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084021",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grumbling":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a growling or reverberating noise : rumbling":[
|
|
"On a shorter timescale, researchers and governments are working together to detect the first grumblings of an earthquake and alert communities that might be affected.",
|
|
"\u2014 Eva Botkin-Kowacki"
|
|
],
|
|
": a mutter of discontent : complaint":[
|
|
"Operators of bars and restaurants, who hear the first-hand grumblings of customers on the boardwalk, tend to oppose the ordinance.",
|
|
"\u2014 Kevin Robinson"
|
|
],
|
|
": expressing discontent especially by muttering":[
|
|
"Meanwhile, grumbling fans wondered why the new coach hadn't hired any Ohioans for his staff.",
|
|
"\u2014 Erick Adelson"
|
|
],
|
|
": making a low, heavy, rolling sound":[
|
|
"There was no sound, still, but the rushing river and the grumbling , looming storm.",
|
|
"\u2014 Susan Cooper"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1598, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
|
|
"circa 1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0259m-b(\u0259-)li\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084232",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"grump":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"beef",
|
|
"bellyache",
|
|
"bitch",
|
|
"bleat",
|
|
"carp",
|
|
"caterwaul",
|
|
"complain",
|
|
"crab",
|
|
"croak",
|
|
"fuss",
|
|
"gripe",
|
|
"grizzle",
|
|
"grouch",
|
|
"grouse",
|
|
"growl",
|
|
"grumble",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"inveigh",
|
|
"keen",
|
|
"kick",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
|
"maunder",
|
|
"moan",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"mutter",
|
|
"nag",
|
|
"repine",
|
|
"scream",
|
|
"squawk",
|
|
"squeal",
|
|
"wail",
|
|
"whimper",
|
|
"whine",
|
|
"whinge",
|
|
"yammer",
|
|
"yawp",
|
|
"yaup",
|
|
"yowl"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a fit of ill humor or sulkiness":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
|
|
],
|
|
": a person given to complaining":[],
|
|
": grumble , complain":[],
|
|
": sulk":[],
|
|
": to utter in a grumpy manner":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"Our neighbor is an old grump .",
|
|
"a real grump in the morning",
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"those incessantly grumping patients were generally ignored by the nursing home staff",
|
|
"he's been grumping about the house all morning because the golf tournament got rained out",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"The biggest grump of his generation is also its most charismatic singer and lyricist, a walking contradiction beloved and embraced by generations of Southern Californians \u2014 and tolerated, if that, by meat eaters and immigrant-rights activists. \u2014 Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Olivia Colman is just a sort of constant grump , garnished with the occasional fury. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Oscar-winner Simmons plays Frawley to perfection, allowing just a glimpse of the heart that lies beneath the grump . \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 2 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"And YassifyBot, a Twitter account that often goes viral, gave the world a dirty blond, wrinkle-free, femme version of the Christmas grump . \u2014 New York Times , 22 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Yet, as long as price levels remind people each week of price pain that has the power to sustain their grump . \u2014 Paul Swartz, Fortune , 22 Dec. 2021",
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"Watch for: Kidman and J.K. Simmons, who makes William Frawley an (unbelievably) adorable grump . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Dec. 2021",
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"More importantly, former grump /future husband Phillip (Chris Geere) looks at Kate in a way that will probably start to become more familiar this year. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 25 Nov. 2021",
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"But what Perelman offers us at his best is not a parody of a time gone by, or the notebooks of a grump . \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 24 Aug. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"For someone who felt exhausted by putting on a faux-happy face at work every day, the return might be a chance to establish boundaries and a reputation for being an authentic (but still likable) grump . \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 13 July 2021",
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"However, George did join William and Kate on their tour of Australia in 2014 and was the grumpiest grump that ever grumped . \u2014 Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire , 24 June 2019",
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"Though this year, his little brother might have out grumped him. \u2014 Sally Holmes, Marie Claire , 8 June 2019",
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"Regina grumped out of the bedroom and pressed the manual start. \u2014 Neal Pollack, Popular Mechanics , 1 May 2017"
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"1844, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"obsolete English grumps snubs, slights":"Noun"
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"\u02c8gr\u0259m(p)f",
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"\""
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": to decrease proportionally":[
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"the wage earner postpones purchases or grades down his buying when uncertain about his future",
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"\u2014 Biddle Survey"
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": a category below the suborder and above the subgroup in the hierarchy of soil classification comprising one or more subgroups based on similarities in horizons or characteristics of moisture or temperature":[]
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"1960, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141850"
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"gratulant":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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": showing gratification : congratulatory":[]
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"\u02c8grach\u0259l\u0259nt"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"Latin gratulant-, gratulans , present participle of gratulari":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141947"
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"noun",
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"definitions":{
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": to complain with grumbling":[
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"Students griped about having too much homework."
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": irritate , vex":[
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"griped by the new regulations"
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": afflict , distress":[],
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": to cause pinching and spasmodic pain in the bowels of":[],
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": seize , grasp":[],
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": grievance , complaint":[
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"Her main gripe was his utter lack of ambition."
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],
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": a pinching spasmodic intestinal pain":[
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u012bp"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"aggravate",
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"annoy",
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"bother",
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"bug",
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"burn (up)",
|
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"chafe",
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"eat",
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"exasperate",
|
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"frost",
|
|
"gall",
|
|
"get",
|
|
"grate",
|
|
"hack (off)",
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"irk",
|
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"irritate",
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"itch",
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"nark",
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"nettle",
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"peeve",
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"persecute",
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"pique",
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"put out",
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"rasp",
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|
"rile",
|
|
"ruffle",
|
|
"spite",
|
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"vex"
|
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],
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"beef",
|
|
"bitch",
|
|
"bleat",
|
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"carp",
|
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"complaint",
|
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"fuss",
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"grievance",
|
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"grouch",
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|
"grouse",
|
|
"grumble",
|
|
"holler",
|
|
"kvetch",
|
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"lament",
|
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"miserere",
|
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"moan",
|
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"murmur",
|
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"plaint",
|
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"squawk",
|
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"wail",
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"whimper",
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"whine",
|
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"whinge",
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"yammer"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
|
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"Verb",
|
|
"All of the workers were griping about the new regulations.",
|
|
"The students griped that they had too much homework.",
|
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"Noun",
|
|
"I would rather not listen to gripes about your latest disasters in the dating game.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Gore Vidal used to gripe that every morning a tourist boat would pass below his cliff-hugging villa on the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Salerno\u2014a vertiginous one thousand feet below, to be exact. \u2014 Christopher Bollen, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Many workers were quick to gripe in the comment section underneath the post announcing the change, according to several employees who viewed the post. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"While some Northeast Ohio residents may gripe about shoveling out from a big snowstorm, skiers couldn\u2019t be more ecstatic. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 15 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Indeed, customers around the Louisville area have taken to social media over the past few months to gripe about bills that are 30% to 100% higher than those in previous months. \u2014 Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal , 19 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Unions representing health care workers gripe that far too many hospitals failed to fill staff vacancies or to retain pandemic-weary staff. \u2014 Philip Marcelo, Anne D'innocenzio, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Privately, some may even gripe that Manchin might as well be a Republican. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 20 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"In its comments section, followers do occasionally gripe and grumble about Mr. Todisco\u2019s picks. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 9 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"In Season 8, one contestant, Lex, used his time to gripe about Rob, one of the finalists. \u2014 Sallie Tisdale, The Atlantic , 10 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"But that was my first and last real gripe about the motorcycle. \u2014 Josh Max, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"My one major gripe is that this movie has left me low-key obsessed with wanting an emotional support cat robot like Sox, the feline automaton companion assigned to Buzz by Star Command to ease his troubled mind after a series of setbacks. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Despite the lack of any legitimate gripe , Lakeway sided with the golfers. \u2014 Erica Smith Ewing, National Review , 1 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Because for a few years, the biggest gripe about foldables was their $2,000-ish price. \u2014 Ben Sin, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The biggest gripe one could have with the offense was third down (3 for 10) and those numbers can be misleading consider two included aforementioned sacks and another was followed by a conversion on fourth down. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"To be sure, Young\u2019s primary gripe is the fact that Boudin did not prosecute one of the alleged assailants in his son\u2019s killing in adult court, which could have yielded a longer sentence. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Those delicacies had disappeared from their homes, appearing only on Facebook, where millions of Cubans had started selling things and engaging in once-unthinkable gripe -fests, and Yanira was now staring at a post. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
|
|
"The Law & Order star also revealed his top gym gripe : bad equipment etiquette. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 18 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English gr\u012bpan ; akin to Old High German gr\u012bfan to grasp, Lithuanian griebti":"Verb and Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3":"Verb",
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142014"
|
|
},
|
|
"grayish":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": somewhat gray":[],
|
|
": low in saturation":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101-ish"
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|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"argentine",
|
|
"gray",
|
|
"grey",
|
|
"leaden",
|
|
"pewter",
|
|
"silver",
|
|
"silvery",
|
|
"slate",
|
|
"slaty",
|
|
"slatey",
|
|
"steely"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the black stallion and white mare produced a grayish filly",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The cushions, which are made with water-resistant fabric, have a grayish -blue hue to them that perfectly compliments summer skies. \u2014 Taylor Giangregorio, Popular Mechanics , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"In the distance, a large plume of grayish smoke rose over the surrounding hills. \u2014 Felicia Fonseca, ajc , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The animal is covered in grayish -brown fur with white front legs, black stripes running from its chest to its back, and a bushy tail, according to the National Zoo. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 4 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"To create the eye, Ganzer used the grayish pigment from Shiseido\u2019s Kaigan Street Waters palette as a base, then drew on a sharp wing, extending the color on the bottom lash as well. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The cat, which has developed a considerable following on social media, has grayish -white fur, yellow eyes ringed in black and a distinctive scowl on his face. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The poster alone\u2014which showed a dark grayish blue cloud hovering over a unnamed metropolis and which was released exactly 365 days before the film is set to open\u2014was enough to send the internet into a tailspin.\u2014R.S. \u2014 Taylor Antrim, Vogue , 10 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"As Rani explores the planet and uses her hand tool to remove the gunk she is dazzled to see the environment transform from a dull grayish landscape to one bursting with exotic flora. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"At his laboratory at the University of C\u00e1diz, V\u00edctor Palacios, a chemical engineer, recently showed me a petri dish filled with gritty, grayish -brown powder\u2014a sample of the charred paste of fish bones recovered from the Garum Shop at Pompeii. \u2014 Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 Oct. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
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|
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|
|
"1562, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
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|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142040"
|
|
},
|
|
"grub ax":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a mattock used in grubbing":[]
|
|
},
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142101"
|
|
},
|
|
"grappier cement":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a cement made by grinding fine the lumps of underburned and overburned material left when a hydraulic lime is slaked":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grap\u0113\u02cc\u0101-"
|
|
],
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
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|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French grappier , from grappe cluster, bunch of grapes (from Old French grape hook, grape stalk, bunch of grapes, grape) + -ier -er":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142104"
|
|
},
|
|
"grapes of wrath":{
|
|
"type":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an unjust or oppressive situation, action, or policy that may inflame desire for vengeance : an explosive condition":[
|
|
"will the grapes of wrath come to another harvest",
|
|
"\u2014 Stuart Chase"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"from The Grapes of Wrath (1939), novel by John Steinbeck born 1902, American novelist, from the line \"He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored\", from The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia W. Howe \u20201910 American writer and reformer":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142106"
|
|
},
|
|
"Great Triangle":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a triangle formed on the palm by the lines of Life, Head, and Mercury that when well-developed is usually held by palmists to indicate breadth of views, liberality, and generosity of spirit":[]
|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142321"
|
|
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|
|
"greasewood":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0113s-\u02ccwu\u0307d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
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|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"And while its importance began to fade 150 years ago, out here on the barren mesquite and greasewood flats, Horse Head Crossing has never been forgotten. \u2014 John Maccormack, San Antonio Express-News , 6 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"Snow topped Kings Crown Peak and hid in the shade of greasewood bushes and Emery oaks. \u2014 Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral , 15 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"The valley, covered in sagebrush and greasewood , is part of Modoc County, one of California\u2019s poorest, with a median income of about $30,000. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 June 2018",
|
|
"It is believed to have formed naturally, with white sage growing in soil consisting of light gray granite and white quartz that contrasts with the surrounding chaparral and greasewood . \u2014 Mike Mcphate, New York Times , 6 Dec. 2016"
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1838, in the meaning defined above":""
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142347"
|
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|
|
"gravity":{
|
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|
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"adjective",
|
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"noun"
|
|
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|
|
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|
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": dignity or sobriety of bearing":[
|
|
"a person of gravity and learning"
|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
": the gravitational attraction of the mass of the earth, the moon, or a planet for bodies at or near its surface":[],
|
|
": a fundamental physical force that is responsible for interactions which occur because of mass between particles, between aggregations of matter (such as stars and planets), and between particles (such as photons) and aggregations of matter, that is 10 -39 times the strength of the strong force, and that extends over infinite distances but is dominant over macroscopic distances especially between aggregations of matter":[
|
|
"\u2014 compare electromagnetism sense 2a , strong force , weak force"
|
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],
|
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": acceleration of gravity":[],
|
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": specific gravity":[]
|
|
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|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gra-v\u0259-t\u0113",
|
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"\u02c8grav-\u0259t-\u0113"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"earnest",
|
|
"earnestness",
|
|
"graveness",
|
|
"intentness",
|
|
"serious-mindedness",
|
|
"seriousness",
|
|
"soberness",
|
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"sobriety",
|
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"solemnity",
|
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"solemnness",
|
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"staidness"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"facetiousness",
|
|
"flightiness",
|
|
"flippancy",
|
|
"frivolity",
|
|
"frivolousness",
|
|
"levity",
|
|
"lightheartedness",
|
|
"lightness",
|
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"play",
|
|
"unseriousness"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"the hospital waiting room was filled with the kind of gravity that inevitably accompanies worry",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Boys, often with a parent\u2019s help, design and carve miniature wooden cars, which race on sloped tracks, since the cars are powered by gravity alone. \u2014 Gregg Opelka, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"The resulting remnant stellar core is crushed by gravity into a black hole, says NASA. \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
|
|
"In the case of Hawking radiation, that warm fuzzy effect is essentially a result of particles being pulled into a black hole by gravity . \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"Light gets chaotically bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. \u2014 Seth Borenstein, ajc , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"Black holes don't emit light, but the image shows the shadow of the black hole surrounded by a bright ring of light, which is bent by the gravity of the black hole. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 12 May 2022"
|
|
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"1505, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"1880, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"gripe water":{
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": dill water":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143208"
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"definitions":{
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": a variety of garnet that is most commonly green and consists of calcium aluminum silicate":[]
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"New Latin Grossularia , genus name of the gooseberry":""
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"1819, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a small pale brown elliptical leaf beetle ( Colaspis flavida or a closely related form) whose larva is a short-legged grub that feeds on the roots of many cultivated plants and is sometimes especially destructive to soybeans and corn planted after clover":[]
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"New Latin Colaspis , genus of leaf beetles, from col- entry 2 + -aspis":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143309"
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": to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to":[
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"it gratified him to have his wife wear jewels",
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"\u2014 Willa Cather"
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],
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": to give in to : indulge , satisfy":[
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"gratify a whim"
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],
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": remunerate , reward":[]
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gra-t\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
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"synonyms":[
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"cater (to)",
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"humor",
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"examples":[
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"A guilty verdict would gratify the victim's relatives.",
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"He's only concerned with gratifying his own desires.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Brooks didn\u2019t know how to gratify his master, and therefore was killed. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"Benedetta and Bartolomea awaken and gratify each other\u2019s desires, at times making strategic use of a sacred figurine that has been retooled to heighten their pleasure and, of course, to offend those with more parochial sensibilities in the audience. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Dec. 2021",
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"Jennifer\u2019s literal survival depends (for supernatural reasons) on her ability to gratify her vampiric, cannibalistic hungers, and thus to pursue her revenge plot unimpeded. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 1 Sep. 2021",
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"Protecting the liberty of the people ranks lower than the legislators\u2019 desire to gratify their own vain ambitions by doling out privileges and cash. \u2014 Lance Christensen, National Review , 14 May 2021",
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"Each camp of Democrats thus has a responsibility to learn from, if not gratify , the other. \u2014 Michael Kazin, The New Republic , 11 Feb. 2021",
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"Porter was in a position to provide information to a reporter but dictated terms that would gratify him and degrade her. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Jan. 2021",
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"Bailey\u2019s family tearfully told 3rd District Judge Paul Parker how French had begun manipulating the young teenager in order to gratify himself. \u2014 Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Aug. 2020",
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"How about writing to entertain or inform others, or perhaps gratify myself and my life's personal agenda? \u2014 Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online , 16 Aug. 2020"
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"Middle French gratifier , from Latin gratificari to show kindness to, from gratus + -ificari , passive of -ificare -ify":""
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"first_known_use":{
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"1539, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143401"
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"great hedge bedstraw":{
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"definitions":{
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": wild madder sense 2a":[]
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"definitions":{
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": three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal or otherwise closely associated":[]
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"definitions":{
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": a pound for stray animals":[]
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143443"
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},
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"ground-strafe":{
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"type":[
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"transitive verb"
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"definitions":{
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"adverb"
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": giving pleasure or satisfaction : pleasing":[
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"a gratifying result"
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"blessed",
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"blest",
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"delicious",
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"delightful",
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"delightsome",
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"dreamy",
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"enjoyable",
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"felicitous",
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"heavenly",
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"jolly",
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"luscious",
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"pretty",
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"savory",
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"savoury",
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"sweet",
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"tasty",
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"welcome"
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"disagreeable",
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"pleasureless",
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"unpalatable",
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"unwelcome"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"It was a gratifying victory.",
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"The response has been gratifying .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"That part of it was a surprise and very gratifying . \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
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"But the seminal moment of her career remains the U.S.-China final on July 10, 1999, when a series of magical events gave the nation one of its most gratifying and unifying sports results. \u2014 Christine Brennan, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
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"This season, the show covers a LOT of ground and examines multiple perspectives of each issue which Adele finds extremely gratifying . \u2014 Essence , 11 Apr. 2022",
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"It\u2019s a humbling experience, but very gratifying as well. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 21 Mar. 2022",
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"Mental Canvas\u2019 Dorsey said viewing the array of entries for the $100,000 challenge has been extremely gratifying . \u2014 Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"It's been very gratifying , the reception and the fact that so many people have been watching it. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
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"The prospect of providing answers to old mysteries makes the bumper crop of pupfish even more gratifying , Wilson said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
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"And one of the most gratifying parts of the experience of Drag Race has been hearing from people who tell me how important my time on the show has meant to them. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 23 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143541"
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},
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"Great White Way":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": a street brilliantly lighted at night and devoted chiefly to public amusements (as theaters)":[
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"their Great White Ways flooded with pleasure-seekers",
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"\u2014 Yale Review",
|
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"theaters flanking a dozen Great White Ways",
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"\u2014 Landscape"
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},
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"from the Great White Way , nickname for the theatrical section of Broadway in New York City":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1902, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143637"
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},
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"grade inflation":{
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The school will still take a holistic approach to every applicant, looking at grades, test scores and life experience \u2013 although Schmill also suggested there\u2019s quite a bit of grade inflation going on out there. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 2 Apr. 2022",
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"But students who get Ds and Fs are typically those who don\u2019t turn in their work or show up to class, said Rey Hern\u00e1ndez-Juli\u00e1n, a finance professor of Metropolitan State University of Denver who has studied grade inflation . \u2014 Mikhail Zinshteyn, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"This often does lead to dropping out, to a watering down of standards, grade inflation and other pathologies of the modern era. \u2014 Richard Vedder, Forbes , 18 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Ask anyone, but especially those in education, about grade inflation and you\u2019re likely to get strong responses. \u2014 Derek Newton, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Transcripts and diplomas don\u2019t carry much weight for many employers, as grade inflation has reduced the worth of a cumulative grade point average. \u2014 Douglas Belkin, WSJ , 11 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"One of the biggest stumbling blocks is whether all applicants should be required to take an entrance exam to safeguard against grade inflation or whether the use of test scores should be optional. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2021",
|
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"To give one example, high graduation or retention rates are great, but they can be dishonestly achieved by simply engaging in grade inflation . \u2014 Richard Vedder, Forbes , 24 May 2021",
|
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"But high-school GPA is subject to grade inflation , so colleges will always need to include a more-objective measure of academic aptitude alongside it. \u2014 Preston Cooper, National Review , 21 May 2021"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1975, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143804"
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},
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"great tuna":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": bluefin sense 2":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143942"
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"grind on":{
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"type":[
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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"\u2014 used to describe something unpleasant The war ground on for many more months."
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144157"
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},
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"ground stroke":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a stroke made (as in tennis) by hitting a ball that has rebounded from the ground \u2014 compare volley sense 1a(1)":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"His ground strokes were perfectly calibrated, his serve devastating, his drop shot dying on the bounce. \u2014 Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker , 2 Feb. 2020",
|
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"Medvedev did have near everything else: clean ground strokes , varying point patterns, improvisational daring, unwavering self-belief. \u2014 Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker , 9 Sep. 2019",
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"Men | Women While Federer was out of sorts early, Nagal hit strong, confident ground strokes , pushing Federer back on his heels. \u2014 David Waldstein, New York Times , 26 Aug. 2019",
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"Svitolina, seeded eighth here at Wimbledon and playing in her first grand slam semifinal, put up more of a fight in the second set but was powerless against the Romanian's thundering ground strokes . \u2014 Matias Grez, CNN , 11 July 2019",
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"In the fourth and final set, Federer\u2019s ground strokes , unexpectedly, allowed him to outlast Nadal in rallies. \u2014 Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker , 12 July 2019",
|
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"The end result can also increase the number of steps to a lateral target - like ground strokes in tennis. \u2014 NOLA.com , 23 Mar. 2018",
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"With a mix of slice and chips, lobs and bunts, whippy half-volleys and wristy crosscourt ground strokes off both wings, Hsieh pushed Kerber to the extremes and unsettled her rhythm. \u2014 John Pye, The Seattle Times , 21 Jan. 2018",
|
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"The preparation showed as her ground strokes were precise from the start, while unseeded Bilokin was prone to unforced errors throughout the one-sided first set. \u2014 Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com , 11 Dec. 2017"
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"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144245"
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": having the face dull, drawn, and worn (as from grief or fatigue)":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144315"
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"type":[
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a pencil in which the marking substance is pigment and grease":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The first thing to do is take a grease pencil or paint pen and mark each tire with its appropriate corner. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics , 5 Oct. 2020",
|
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"Mom held my hand when a nurse used a giant gray-green grease pencil to draw a large X on my right eyelid. \u2014 Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
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"Mom held my hand when a nurse used a giant gray-green grease pencil to draw a large X on my right eyelid. \u2014 Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
|
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"Mom held my hand when a nurse used a giant gray-green grease pencil to draw a large X on my right eyelid. \u2014 Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
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"Mom held my hand when a nurse used a giant gray-green grease pencil to draw a large X on my right eyelid. \u2014 Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
|
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"Mom held my hand when a nurse used a giant gray-green grease pencil to draw a large X on my right eyelid. \u2014 Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
|
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"Mom held my hand when a nurse used a giant gray-green grease pencil to draw a large X on my right eyelid. \u2014 Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
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"Through most of the 20th century, architectural offices were filled with armies of draftsmen, grease pencils and onionskin paper. \u2014 Lauren Weber, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2020"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1944, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144318"
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"great albacore":{
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144707"
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"growth spurt":{
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
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": an occurrence of growing quickly and suddenly in a short period of time":[
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"When he was 11 he had a growth spurt ."
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"disgust",
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"put off",
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"repel",
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"repulse",
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"that dead frog in our driveway grosses me out"
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1968, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144856"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The gas subsidies, which amount to nearly 2 percent of the country\u2019s gross national product , are starving other sectors of the economy, according to Andr\u00e9s Albuja, an economic analyst. \u2014 New York Times , 2 July 2022",
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"By 1968, Japan was rich, second only to the United States in gross national product , and one of the most polluted countries on earth. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Nov. 2021",
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"About 40 percent of Fiji's gross national product (GNP) comes from the tourism industry. \u2014 Lilit Marcus, CNN , 14 Sep. 2021",
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"That amounted to 4% of Mexico\u2019s gross national product . \u2014 Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Mar. 2021",
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"Briefly, Laffer forecast a level for the gross national product of $1,065 billion for 1971. \u2014 Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic , 8 Feb. 2021",
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"The heavyweights might demand to use oxygen between rounds, and Alvarez might refuse to fight unless he is made king of Mexico, with a percentage of the country\u2019s gross national product . \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 27 Nov. 2020",
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"More than 700,000 people in Spain make their living in some aspect of the music industry, which represents 3.2% of the gross national product , according to APM, the Spanish Association of Musical Promoters. \u2014 Judy Cantor-navas, Billboard , 1 Oct. 2020",
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"The conflict was costly, about $32 billion, or about half of that era\u2019s gross national product , according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. \u2014 USA Today , 22 May 2020"
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": to dig in the ground especially for something that is difficult to find or extract":[],
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": to search about":[
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"grubbed in the countryside for food",
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"\u2014 Lamp"
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],
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": toil , drudge":[
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"grubbing along at newspaper jobs",
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"\u2014 Walter Kirn"
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],
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": a soft thick wormlike larva of an insect (such as a beetle)":[],
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": one who does menial work : drudge":[],
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": a slovenly person":[],
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": food":[]
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u0259b"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bang away",
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"fag",
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"hump",
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"hustle",
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"labor",
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"moil",
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"peg (away)",
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"plod",
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"plow",
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"plug",
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"slave",
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"slog",
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"strain",
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"strive",
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"struggle",
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"sweat",
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"toil",
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"travail",
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"tug",
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"work"
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"bread",
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"chow",
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"chuck",
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"comestibles",
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"eatables",
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"eats",
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"edibles",
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"fare",
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"food",
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"foodstuffs",
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"meat",
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"provender",
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"provisions",
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"table",
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"tucker",
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"viands",
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"victuals",
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"vittles"
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"Everyone was grubbing for whatever food they could find.",
|
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"students grubbing for better grades",
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"Noun",
|
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"Let's go get some grub .",
|
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"after the game, we headed to the diner for some hearty grub",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"No henchmen of adversarial intelligence services or money- grubbing fraudsters are going to abide by such a magnanimous international accord\u2014even if governments or corporations pay it lip service. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 15 Apr. 2020",
|
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"In its prickliness and insistence on the messiness and ineluctable pain of life, this is very different from the pandering, gold- grubbing titles that tend to hit theaters starting around now. \u2014 Manohla Dargis, New York Times , 26 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Get our daily newsletter China\u2019s freewheeling internet users hand plenty of precious information over to the country\u2019s data- grubbing apps. \u2014 The Economist , 7 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Sonny\u2019s Everyman tale revives the hope that cinema might still be a popular art form, even as the movie year heads into its ugliest, platitudinous, awards- grubbing phase. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 6 Sep. 2019",
|
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"Enter Maximus Worthington, a money- grubbing real estate tycoon danced by CTT artistic director and lead choreographer Mark Yonally, who promises big profits for DRC by using a trickle-down model. \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com , 9 June 2019",
|
|
"In an interview with People, the 48-year-old opened up about her go-to grub . \u2014 Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living , 3 May 2019",
|
|
"The amateur hunters and the independent and commercial hunters aren\u2019t all venal, money- grubbing opportunists. \u2014 Rachel Becker, The Verge , 15 Oct. 2018",
|
|
"Eleven-year-old Nan works with a gang of other kids her age, and younger, as a chimney sweep for a money- grubbing sadist named Wilkie Crudd. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 20 Sep. 2018",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"As long as the grub and grog kept comin\u2019, and as long as everyone had a few turns gripping and ripping. \u2014 Michael Mcknight, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Camaraderie was built over sharing a cold brew and some grub in a communal space, and the often beer-only bars soon fell into a category of their own. \u2014 Megha Mcswain, Chron , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"There\u2019s a new taproom and Atmosphere Kitchen, featuring elevated pub grub , tapas-style. \u2014 Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"Five Iron Golf will provide clubs, grub at new indoor facility Downtown Last year, Golfweek listed the best public courses in each state. \u2014 Joe Harrington, The Enquirer , 11 May 2022",
|
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"The food is simple beer garden grub : totchos, brats, giant pretzels and spicy chicken thighs. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Jan. 2021",
|
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"Half the grub went into the bear can while the rest went into a bag buried in the snow. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"An Irish pub with traditional and non-traditional pub grub . \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Doctors counted more than a dozen of the disturbing grub -like critters outside the eyeball and surrounding tissue. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2022"
|
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],
|
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|
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"Middle English grubben ; akin to Old English grafan to dig \u2014 more at grave":"Verb",
|
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"Middle English grubbe , from grubben":"Noun"
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145202"
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},
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"greaseproof paper":{
|
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|
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"noun"
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],
|
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|
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|
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"1900, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145239"
|
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},
|
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"great gun":{
|
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"type":[
|
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|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145327"
|
|
},
|
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"grind down":{
|
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"type":[
|
|
"phrasal verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to make (something hard) smaller and smoother by gradually rubbing off tiny bits":[
|
|
"The old dog's teeth had been ground down by use."
|
|
],
|
|
": to weaken or destroy (someone or something) gradually":[
|
|
"Poverty ground her spirit down .",
|
|
"These people have been ground down by years of oppression."
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145329"
|
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},
|
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"group dynamics":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The team convened for a group dynamics event at Topgolf on Wednesday before McCarthy dismissed the veterans for summer. \u2014 Jori Epstein, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"Bearing witness to group dynamics revealing themselves in alphanumeric characters was also hard for Kira von Eichel, a writer in Brooklyn. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Many people have experienced group dynamics in which rumors, shaming, and silence beat out dialogue and empathy. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 3 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Issues in group dynamics could get blown out of all sense of proportion today, thanks to a harsh angle between fickle Mercury and severe Pluto in your 11th House of Social Networks and Global Communications. \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 30 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Multiple studies show that diversity and equality in group dynamics foster better outcomes. \u2014 Scott Wharton, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The attention to character, group dynamics and emotional texture makes the film often feel more alive in its quieter moments than its fairly routine CG action clashes. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 26 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Understanding the buying group dynamics and which players to target can drastically improve your outcomes. \u2014 Forrester, Forbes , 21 Oct. 2021",
|
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"As anyone with social skills intuitively understands group dynamics matter. \u2014 Bruce Dorminey, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021"
|
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],
|
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1935, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145336"
|
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},
|
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"gross anatomy":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a branch of anatomy that deals with the macroscopic structure of tissues and organs":[]
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"On a Thursday afternoon in mid-2014, the second-year student walked into his gross anatomy class at the University of Calabar in southern Nigeria, converging with fellow students around three tables with a cadaver laid out on each. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 June 2021",
|
|
"Week 1, essential in-person classes\u2014organic chemistry, gross anatomy , classes that simply couldn\u2019t be done remotely\u2014would begin, limited to 10 people, bringing 5,000 students back to campus buildings that first week. \u2014 Charles Fishman, The Atlantic , 1 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"Those would be things like organic chemistry lab, physics lab, gross anatomy lab, those kind of things. \u2014 CBS News , 23 Aug. 2020"
|
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|
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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":"20220708-145445"
|
|
},
|
|
"Gros Morne National Park":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"geographical name"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"area of varied landscape features in Newfoundland, Canada":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"gr\u014d-\u02c8m\u022frn"
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145700"
|
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},
|
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"growing":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": increasing in size or amount":[
|
|
"growing children",
|
|
"a growing number of wealthy residents",
|
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"growing success"
|
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|
|
": becoming greater in prevalence, popularity, or influence":[
|
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"a growing trend",
|
|
"a growing controversy",
|
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"Mr. Moseley and others like him are on the front lines of a growing battle for control of the shop floor.",
|
|
"\u2014 Alex Kotlowitz"
|
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],
|
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": of, relating to, or being the period during which something (such as a plant) grows or matures":[
|
|
"ideal growing conditions",
|
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"Peel color may vary and is dependent upon night temperatures during the growing season.",
|
|
"\u2014 M. McDevitt Rubin",
|
|
"Researchers are, in fact, on the verge of field-testing \u2026 a new tomato designed to meet a set of cannery specifications for shorter growing cycle \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Jack Fincher"
|
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|
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|
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|
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"\u02c8gr\u014d-i\u014b"
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145709"
|
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},
|
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"grayback":{
|
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"type":[
|
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|
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|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a Confederate soldier":[],
|
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": any of various animals: such as":[],
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|
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": knot entry 3":[],
|
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": dowitcher":[],
|
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": scaup duck":[],
|
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": body louse":[],
|
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": lake herring":[],
|
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": a very large wave":[],
|
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": a large boulder":[]
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145740"
|
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|
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"greaved tortoise":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the largest of African tortoises ( Testudo calcarata )":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0113v(d)-"
|
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],
|
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|
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"greave entry 2 + -ed ; from the large plates on its front legs":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145821"
|
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},
|
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"growth regulator":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": any of various synthetic or naturally occurring plant substances (such as an auxin or gibberellin) that regulate growth":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Verdant produces sheets, stickers and labels containing a plant growth regulator that slows the ripening of fruits, produce and flowers. \u2014 Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune , 2 July 2021",
|
|
"They are dosed with growth regulators to keep them compact, and their production timing has been honed down to a science that would make a Swiss watchmaker proud. \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 8 May 2020",
|
|
"The last step is to apply an insect growth regulator (IGR), which is essentially birth control for roaches. \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 13 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"But the chemicals that came out of the screen were known to interact with other key proteins in the cell (such as the growth regulator Raf). \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 1 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"The fly also can be somewhat controlled on fruiting trees by limiting the olive production using growth regulators . \u2014 Joan Morris, The Mercury News , 6 June 2019",
|
|
"Today, researchers recognize that TOR growth regulators are involved in a multitude of processes, including aging, brain development, and diseases such as cancer and diabetes. \u2014 Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS , 6 Sep. 2017"
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1936, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145823"
|
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},
|
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"great divide":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
|
"curtains",
|
|
"death",
|
|
"decease",
|
|
"demise",
|
|
"dissolution",
|
|
"doom",
|
|
"end",
|
|
"exit",
|
|
"expiration",
|
|
"expiry",
|
|
"fate",
|
|
"grave",
|
|
"passage",
|
|
"passing",
|
|
"quietus",
|
|
"sleep"
|
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],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"birth",
|
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"nativity"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"many religions claim to know what happens after we cross the great divide",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Therein lies the great divide in the Halo audience. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"There were, of course, divisions in America even before the great divide over whether the colonies should resist British rule or, eventually, break from Britain itself. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Nov. 2021",
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"Much like within our society, vaccination status has created a great divide for both employers and employees alike. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Oct. 2021",
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"What's more, reporting regulation alone does nothing to address wealth inequality or bridge the great divide . \u2014 Francois Botha, Forbes , 15 Oct. 2021",
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"The pink Mylar balloon floating near Bubbly Creek would have once faced an equally fateful reckoning on the continent's other great divide , the one that split the Mississippi River basin from the waters of the Great Lakes. \u2014 jsonline.com , 30 Aug. 2021",
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"Even a cursory accounting reveals the great divide between the protected and the unprotected. \u2014 Phil Gramm And Mike Solon, WSJ , 11 Aug. 2021",
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"This great divide \u2014 spilling into workplaces, schools, supermarkets and voting booths \u2014 has split the nation at a historic juncture when partisan factionalism and social media already are achieving similar ends. \u2014 Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY , 2 Aug. 2021",
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"There may be other solutions for the storied Venice community and the great divide on homeless encampments. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 12 June 2021"
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"the Great Divide , North American watershed":""
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"1868, in the meaning defined above":""
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"And even though Aidan suffers from the grippe every other Tuesday, Zane has never missed a day of school for medical reasons. \u2014 Kevin Fisher-paulson, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 May 2018",
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"It was called many names; Catarrh and la grippe and the sweating sickness. \u2014 Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star , 31 Jan. 2018"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, literally, seizure":""
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"first_known_use":{
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"1776, in the meaning defined above":""
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"definitions":{
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": a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain":[
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"a grimace of hate and rage"
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],
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": to distort one's face in an expression usually of pain, disgust, or disapproval":[
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"Grimacing slightly, he runs his finger over the back of his heel, where a deep \u2026 fissure has opened inside a callus.",
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"\u2014 Chris Ballard",
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"My father shifted his weight and grimaced . The sheet slid off his injured leg, the calf swollen, purple as a plum \u2026",
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"\u2014 Bernard Cooper"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gri-m\u0259s",
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"gri-\u02c8m\u0101s"
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"synonyms":[
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"face",
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"frown",
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"lower",
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"lour",
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"moue",
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"mouth",
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"mow",
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"mug",
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"pout",
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"scowl",
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"snoot"
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],
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"mouth",
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"mug"
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"Noun",
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"The patient made a painful grimace as the doctor examined his wound.",
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"he made a grimace when he tasted the medicine",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Then there was the stumble on No. 8, and the grimace in obvious pain. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
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"Bradley would enter the room wearing a grimace more often than a grin, sit behind a microphone and begin by explaining how his team could get better. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"But show the identical face on a runner crossing the finish line of a race, and the same grimace conveys triumph. \u2014 Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"Tiger clearly was in pain, a grimace frozen on his face. \u2014 USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
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"In the fourth, a pair of straight rights to the face made Kozin grimace . \u2014 New York Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
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"Yes, that concert was 59 years ago now \u2014 a figure Wolfe relays with a self-deprecating grimace . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 24 Feb. 2022",
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"The carved channels delineate in negative space the pendulous breasts, somnolent grimace and agitated body. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Feb. 2022",
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"The appreciative holiday crowd of 3,417 cheered every grunt, every grimace , every snap of the head until Ramirez ended the drama with a barrage of blows early in the 10th to win the WBA light heavyweight title eliminator in impressive fashion. \u2014 John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News , 19 Dec. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The thought of Daytona\u2019s orange beaches caused a few to grimace . \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
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"While some may grimace , natural gas will remain a prominent part of the American economy not just to generate electricity but also to assist in the manufacturing process. \u2014 Ken Silverstein, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
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"Above her, the rest of the art-world figures\u2014all, as Bloemink shows, caricatural portraits of real people\u2014gesticulate and grimace . \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
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"Matthew doesn\u2019t speak but can grimace , shrug, grunt, nod, or frown. \u2014 Weike Wang, The New Yorker , 24 Jan. 2022",
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"Lava-red splashes oozed across the screens as Collins dug into his theatrical leanings to sneer and grimace through the lyrics, punctuating them with the song's trademark reptilian cackle. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 20 Nov. 2021",
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"While those from the pro-vaccination camp might grimace in disdain at Minaj, her rationale for refraining from getting vaccinated is shared by many others who also remain unvaccinated. \u2014 Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021",
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"Having something to look forward to is important, so use family meetings to create ideas that will make everyone smile (or at least not grimace ). \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Sep. 2021",
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"DeGrom apeared to grimace after a third-inning pitch to Eric Sogard. \u2014 Jerry Beach, Star Tribune , 16 June 2021"
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, from Middle French, alteration of grimache , of Germanic origin; akin to Old English gr\u012bma mask":"Noun"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1651, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1762, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150707"
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": a salutation at meeting":[],
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": an expression of good wishes : regards":[
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"\u2014 usually used in plural holiday greetings"
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u0113-ti\u014b"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"hello",
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"salutation",
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"salute",
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"welcome"
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],
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"adieu",
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"bon voyage",
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"cong\u00e9",
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"congee",
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"farewell",
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"Godspeed",
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"good-bye",
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"good-by"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"He addressed the members of the delegation with a formal greeting .",
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"the volunteer directed the conference participants towards the coffee after offering them a cheerful greeting",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Steve Cernek, 51, who manages a greeting -card store in Cumberland Mall, decided to buy a gun after the 2016 shooting in the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. \u2014 Alan Judd, ajc , 6 Oct. 2017",
|
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"Read full article Soon after, Afghan government media released images of Taliban officials in Qatar greeting Haroon. \u2014 Carol Rosenberg, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
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"Johnson\u2019s greeting was muted but still affectionate. \u2014 Bill Pennington, New York Times , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"Owner Marcela Portillo was hard at work greeting customers, serving tacos, working the cash register, and running food from the kitchen to the counter. \u2014 Marco Torres, Chron , 9 June 2022",
|
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"That same month, Shakira and Piqu\u00e9 posted a Valentine's Day greeting on Instagram, wishing her 73.6 million followers well. \u2014 Sara Netzley, EW.com , 4 June 2022",
|
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"Even before a greeting and the drink order, your server lifts the grate on your table grill and turns a knob. \u2014 Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
|
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"While the queen was locked down at the castle and away from many public appearances, the palace has shared photographs of her at home greeting visitors and working. \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
|
|
"Its namesake is a friendly red-haired dog seen bounding around the park year-round and greeting newcomers, tongue lolling. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 28 May 2022"
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150736"
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"grail":{
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": the object of an extended or difficult quest":[]
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0101l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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|
"More important, though, are the lessons social media teaches us about what\u2019s newsworthy, appealing or interesting to audiences\u2014and these are and always have been the holy grail of capturing attention. \u2014 Beth Noymer Levine, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
|
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"Dave Schilling searches for the holy grail of L.A. outerwear. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The night parrot was long considered the holy grail of Australian birding. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Today, the floating fleets are considered the holy grail of efficiency in the charter market, with even smaller operators joining in. \u2014 Doug Gollan, Forbes , 10 Oct. 2021",
|
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"An ongoing rollout of deluxe reissues whet the appetite, while Jackson\u2019s Get Back, with its running time of 468 minutes, presented, for many, a holy grail of Beatles footage, much of which has been locked in the vault since it was shot. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 28 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"His new friend group, made up of characters played by Kiersey Clemons, Peter S. Kim, and Jaboukie Young-White, quickly inculcate him into their grail -seeking universe, in which looking cool \u2014 particularly for one\u2019s online audience \u2014 is all. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 28 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Selecting a reputable custodian with an accredited depository that can act as a broker is the holy grail for setting up Silver IRA. \u2014 Regal Assets, The Salt Lake Tribune , 17 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The holy grail of hair dryer brushes, Dyson's innovative design uses the Coanda effect (high-speed air that creates a vortex) to curl and style wet hair. \u2014 Tatjana Freund, ELLE , 10 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English greal, graal , from Middle French, bowl, grail, from Medieval Latin gradalis":""
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150755"
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},
|
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"gracile":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": slender , slight":[],
|
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": graceful":[],
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": of, relating to, resembling, or being a relatively small slender australopithecine (genus Australopithecus ) characterized especially by molars and incisors of similar size that are adapted to a diet including both plant matter and animal flesh \u2014 compare robust sense 5":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gras-\u0259l",
|
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"-\u02cc\u012bl",
|
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"\u02c8gra-s\u0259l",
|
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"-\u02ccs\u012b(-\u0259)l"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"agile",
|
|
"featly",
|
|
"feline",
|
|
"graceful",
|
|
"light",
|
|
"light-footed",
|
|
"light-foot",
|
|
"lightsome",
|
|
"lissome",
|
|
"lissom",
|
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"lithe",
|
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"lithesome",
|
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"nimble",
|
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"spry"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"awkward",
|
|
"clumsy",
|
|
"gawky",
|
|
"graceless",
|
|
"klutzy",
|
|
"lumbering",
|
|
"ungainly",
|
|
"ungraceful"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"gracile as any pair of classically trained dancers, the bride and groom made their way around the dance floor",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Elephant bones by comparison are gracile , slender\u2014they\u2019re like twigs compared to mastodons. \u2014 Peter Brannen, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"The bright colors and gracile X-braces of the Eames House are written all across the Pompidou Center. \u2014 Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker , 22 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Homotherium was not the only carnivore on the Pleistocene landscape, and the gracile cats might have faced competition from Ice Age hyenas, bears and other cats. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 June 2021",
|
|
"At first glance, there would seem to be nothing to find in that little house of Cobb\u2019s signature masterpiece, the gracile glass skyscraper that still crowns Boston\u2019s skyline and is the quintessence of what design historians call high modernism. \u2014 Thomas De Monchaux, The New Yorker , 6 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"Gracile skulls due to the Mongoloid\u2019s very recent evolutionary development. \u2014 Longreads , 1 Aug. 2017"
|
|
],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin gracilis":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1623, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151211"
|
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},
|
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"gross spread":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the difference between the price of a share of stock when an underwriter buys it from the issuer and when the underwriter sells it to the public":[]
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1931, in the meaning defined above":""
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151235"
|
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"gram-variable":{
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"type":[
|
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|
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"definitions":{
|
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": staining irregularly or inconsistently by Gram's stain":[]
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|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gram-\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259-b\u0259l",
|
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"\u02c8gram-\u02c8ver-\u0113-\u0259-b\u0259l, -\u02c8var-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1956, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151321"
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},
|
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"grin and bear it":{
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"type":[
|
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"idiom"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": to accept something that one does not like because there is no choice":[
|
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"I don't agree with their decision, but all I can do is grin and bear it ."
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]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151328"
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},
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"granite blue":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": pearl sense 6 b":[]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151432"
|
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},
|
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"gross premium":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the sum of the net premium in insurance and the load":[]
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151437"
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},
|
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"group discussion":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a discussion involving a number of people who are connected by some shared activity, interest, or quality":[]
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"pronounciation":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151512"
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},
|
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"growth factor":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a substance (such as a vitamin B 12 or an interleukin) that promotes growth and especially cellular growth":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Conaghan investigates new drugs for arthritis, including a growth factor called sprifermin that appears to slow the loss of cartilage in some patients. \u2014 Claudia Wallis, Scientific American , 1 June 2022",
|
|
"The growth factor outperformed value today as all sectors were positive, less discretionary dragged down by Alibaba HK. \u2014 Brendan Ahern, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Vascular endothelial growth factor markers were also higher in these people, with some measures specific to people who experienced cognitive changes soon after being infected. \u2014 ABC News , 4 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Her first finding regarding osteocyte communication with other organs, reported in 2006, was that the cells make a growth factor called FGF23. \u2014 Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Peloton revenues remain a substantial growth factor While margins and profits have been a challenge, revenues have doubled or more than doubled year over year since 2018. \u2014 Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The microbes released molecules called short-chain fatty acids that caused the liver and fat cells to make more of a growth factor called IGF-1, which promoted bone growth. \u2014 Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The cells feed on a complex broth that contains nutrients like carbohydrates and amino acids, and some type of growth factor , to become muscle, fat or connective tissue. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"That mRNA is engineered to stimulate production of a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor A, which promotes the formation of new blood vessels. \u2014 Brent Rose, Wired , 10 Nov. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1926, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151635"
|
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},
|
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"grape stake":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a post used for supporting wires to which grapevines are tied in vineyards":[]
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151641"
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},
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"great big":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": very large":[
|
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"They live in a great big house."
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]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151711"
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},
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"grouse disease":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an infectious disease of grouse characterized by hoarseness, cyanosis of the conjunctiva, emaciation, and quick tiring on flying":[]
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},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151855"
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},
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"grim reaper":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": death especially when personified as a man or skeleton with a scythe":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"CinemaCon comes amid signs that investors are starting to sour a bit on the streaming business, which has been positioned as both the grim reaper and the savior of movies, depending on who\u2019s talking. \u2014 Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
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"On the southern end of Gatorland are more photo opportunities, including a headless horseman, a way to look like a Gatorlandized grim reaper and an eerie set of jack-o\u2019-lanterns. \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com , 8 Oct. 2021",
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"From its perch, Spirit\u2019s mascot \u2014 a grim reaper , fittingly enough \u2014 grins down upon Portage Park. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 25 Oct. 2021",
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"Collaborating with sculpture artist and grim reaper painter Josh Smith, Williams created a collection of contrasts, a trend that fashion is seeing in the spring summer 2022 season. \u2014 Allyson Portee, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021",
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"Still, for some, the adrenaline fix is worth staring the grim reaper in the face. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 9 May 2021",
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"But one thing is certain: The grim reaper is waiting in Samarra. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 8 Apr. 2021",
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"Mulligan stars as Cassie, a twentysomething former medical student who moonlights as the good guy grim reaper . \u2014 Morgan Baila, refinery29.com , 18 Jan. 2021",
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"Mulligan stars as Cassie, a twentysomething former medical student who moonlights as the good guy grim reaper . \u2014 Morgan Baila, refinery29.com , 18 Jan. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1846, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152235"
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},
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"grumbler":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to mutter in discontent":[
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"grumbled about the scarcity of jobs"
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],
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": growl , rumble":[
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"Thunder grumbled in the distance."
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],
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": to express with grumbling":[
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"grumbled his annoyance"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u0259m-b\u0259l"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"beef",
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"bellyache",
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"bitch",
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"bleat",
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"carp",
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"caterwaul",
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"complain",
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"crab",
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"croak",
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"fuss",
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"gripe",
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"grizzle",
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"grouch",
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"grouse",
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"growl",
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"grump",
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"holler",
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"inveigh",
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"keen",
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"kick",
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"kvetch",
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"maunder",
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"moan",
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"murmur",
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"mutter",
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"nag",
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"repine",
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"scream",
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"squawk",
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"squeal",
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"wail",
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"whimper",
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"whine",
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"whinge",
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"yammer",
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"yawp",
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"yaup",
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"yowl"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"crow",
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"delight",
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"rejoice"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"There's been a lot of grumbling among the employees.",
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"Some of the customers have been grumbling about poor service.",
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"Fans grumbled about the team's poor play.",
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"\u201cWhen are we going to leave?\u201d he grumbled .",
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"We could hear thunder grumbling in the distance.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Employers say the perks are critical to keeping their businesses open as employees grumble about rising gas prices and office return plans. \u2014 Kathryn Dill, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
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"The practice is formally called Public Safety Power Shutoffs, or PSPS, and residents often grumble about being left without electricity. \u2014 Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 June 2022",
|
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"Still, in a sport that clings so desperately to tradition, purists will grumble . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
|
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"Longtime lovers of South Africa\u2019s most stylish hideaway, Babylonstoren, grumble that its luster has somewhat tarnished. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Robb Report , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Building permits have surged, and the cadre of mostly local builders who had the market more or less to themselves now grumble that the rapid growth has attracted big national builders like D.R. Horton and Toll Brothers. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Yes, the broadcast networks will inevitably grumble at the prospect of losing 30 minutes of prime-time revenue for a presidential address. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 9 Mar. 2022",
|
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"When the coerced revision is the renaming of a sports team, people grumble and endure one more affront. \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Asked to volunteer in his stead, the men grumble about the near-suicidal odds of success and look away. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 15 Feb. 2022"
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"probably from Middle French grommeler , ultimately from Middle Dutch grommen ; akin to Old High German grimm grim":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1580, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152340"
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},
|
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"grotzen":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the center back strip of a fur pelt":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u022fts\u0259n"
|
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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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"German, literally, core of a fruit":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152544"
|
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},
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"GR-S":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": any of a class of general-purpose synthetic rubbers that are made by copolymerizing emulsions of butadiene and styrene commonly at a temperature of either 122\u00b0 F or 41\u00b0 F and that are used especially in tires \u2014 see cold rubber":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u00a6j\u0113\u02cc\u00e4r\u00a6es"
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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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"g overnment r ubber + s tyrene":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152546"
|
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},
|
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"Grim's ditch":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": any of several ancient entrenchments found in the British Isles some of which are prehistoric":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"origin unknown":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152625"
|
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},
|
|
"grill":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to torment as if by broiling":[],
|
|
": to question intensely":[
|
|
"the police grilled the suspect"
|
|
],
|
|
": a cooking utensil of parallel bars on which food is exposed to heat (as from charcoal or electricity)":[],
|
|
": food that is broiled usually on a grill \u2014 compare mixed grill":[],
|
|
": a usually informal restaurant or dining room":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gril"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"catechize",
|
|
"examine",
|
|
"interrogate",
|
|
"pump",
|
|
"query",
|
|
"question",
|
|
"quiz",
|
|
"sweat"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"beanery",
|
|
"caf\u00e9",
|
|
"cafe",
|
|
"caff",
|
|
"diner",
|
|
"eatery",
|
|
"restaurant"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"We're planning to grill some chicken and burgers at the cookout.",
|
|
"Her parents grilled her when she came home late.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"She put the hamburgers on the grill .",
|
|
"headed down to the local bar and grill for a beer and a burger",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Among those damaged were the Holly Hotel, a bar and grill , and the Holly Moose Lodge. \u2014 Fox News , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Grill steak 3 to 4 minutes, turn and grill another 3 to 4 minutes. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"Pack your camping gear, food, drinks, and grill along with costumes and dress-up clothes for evening dance parties and the glow-in-the-dark celebration and laser show. \u2014 Patricia Harris And David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
|
|
"On Saturday evening, Daniel and a friend headed to the popular Sons of Boston bar and grill , just steps from Faneuil Hall Marketplace. \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 22 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Drizzle both sides of the bread with a bit of olive oil and grill until toasted, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Spread the bread with the cheese, dividing it evenly, and top each slice with the asparagus. \u2014 Colu Henry, Vogue , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Place the steak on the cooking grate and grill for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on size. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"The two-wheel design also makes this 36.5-pound grill a breeze to move around. \u2014 Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"The two-piece Nordicware 365 Grill, Steam & Bake Multi-Cooker with vent holes can broil, smoke, or grill whole fish. \u2014 Erin Cavoto, Country Living , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Pour out the chimney into the grill when the coals are covered in gray ash. \u2014 Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"This holiday weekend, as family and friends gather around the grill and attempt to cool off in the pool, temperatures could hit 106 degrees in parts of Arizona. \u2014 Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"There's also this large black and gray grill from Weber that is $90 less at Target. \u2014 Rachel Simon, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Johnny Bajjalieh, whose father opened Sammy\u2019s Sandwich Shop in the early \u201860s, works the grill while his wife, Susan, and their son, Sidney, take care of the customers. \u2014 Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Paella lends itself very well to being cooked on an outdoor grill or even over an open fire. \u2014 Cathy Huyghe, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"When ready to cook, prepare your gas or charcoal grill for direct-heat grilling or preheat a grill pan over medium-high heat. \u2014 Ann Maloney, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"According to prosecutors and court documents, the bribery scheme centered around a custom gold and diamond grill made by a Houston jeweler. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"White must have come away with more than a few tiger stripes, or scars, from scalding his arms on the oven and the grill in his time with them. \u2014 Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French gril , from Old French greil , from Latin craticulum \u2014 more at griddle":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1668, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
|
|
"1685, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152707"
|
|
},
|
|
"gray scale":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The earthy warmth of Tweed evokes summer days spent in the Cotswolds, while Tuxedo\u2019s gray scale calls to mind innumerable red-carpet photo calls. \u2014 Vogue , 13 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"The Holocaust, or the Gulag, are such monstrous events that the very idea of rendering them in any sort of gray scale seems monstrous, too. \u2014 Masha Gessen, The New Yorker , 21 June 2019",
|
|
"What the ad says: The one-minute ad opens in gray scale images and paints a dismal portrait of Maryland before Hogan was elected. \u2014 Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com , 30 May 2018",
|
|
"Water and nourishment enter through the gray scales on their leaves, so these plants don\u2019t need soil to survive. \u2014 Karen Dardick, sandiegouniontribune.com , 17 May 2018",
|
|
"The wearer sits calmly, her face and body rendered in gray scale \u2014 without any color. \u2014 Rhonda Garelick, The Cut , 14 Feb. 2018",
|
|
"Her images play black and white against color in different ways, most obviously in the skin tones, which are painted on the gray scale . \u2014 Roberta Smith, New York Times , 16 Oct. 2017",
|
|
"David Ferri\u2019s sterile lighting casts a glow on the chalky floor, which has white lines drawn here and there that travel up the dancers legs and torsos in random stripes across their gray scale costumes. \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1939, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152731"
|
|
},
|
|
"groundnut":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the root of a groundnut":[],
|
|
": peanut":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8grau\u0307n(d)-\u02ccn\u0259t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Learn how to make such dishes as traditional baklawa with pistachio and Ghanaian groundnut soup, then sit down to a facilitated discussion that includes experiences of resettlement while dining on your creations. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"The same was the case with coconut, palm oil and groundnut . \u2014 Michael E Odijie, Quartz Africa , 10 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"The leopards\u2019 presence is welcomed for keeping neelgai antelope, wild boar, and chinkara (Indian gazelles) away from crops of cotton, maize, wheat, mustard, and groundnut . \u2014 National Geographic , 22 Mar. 2019",
|
|
"During lunch at a beachside resort, try out local specialties like groundnut stew and jollof rice. \u2014 National Geographic , 12 June 2019",
|
|
"Pinchos de D\u00e0tiles y Bacon Fritos (Fried Date and Bacon Pinchos) Makes 20 20 dates 20 slices (rashers) thin rindless bacon 2\u20133 tablespoons peanut or groundnut oil 1. \u2014 Multiple Authors, House Beautiful , 5 Aug. 2010",
|
|
"Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute pointed out that the United States has wildly high tariffs, such a 350 percent tariff on smoking tobacco, 130 percent on peanuts and 99 percent on prepared groundnuts . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 10 June 2018",
|
|
"Deposits include unique varieties of rice, black-eyed peas, and Bambara groundnut (a drought-tolerant crop). \u2014 Julissa Trevi\u00f1o, Smithsonian , 1 Mar. 2018",
|
|
"For dessert, hot chocolate is inflamed by dehydrated Scotch bonnets; truffles are laced with suya spice, a flare-up of ginger, chile and kuli-kuli (spiced groundnut paste), more often slapped on meat before grilling. \u2014 Ligaya Mishan, New York Times , 1 Feb. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1602, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152738"
|
|
},
|
|
"Grossglockner":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"geographical name"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"mountain 12,461 feet (3798 meters) high in southwestern Austria; highest in the Hohe Tauern and in Austria":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u014ds-\u02ccgl\u022fk-n\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152815"
|
|
},
|
|
"grubble":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": grope":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0259b\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"probably alteration (influenced by grub entry 1 ) of grabble":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152917"
|
|
},
|
|
"great northern bean":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a large white kidney bean":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Dole pineapples, flour, peanuts, Glad tall kitchen bags, toilet paper, great northern beans , cat food, ranch dressing, Eggo waffles, coffee creamer and Sara Lee pies. \u2014 Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star , 16 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"The first ingredient is whole great northern beans , which provide the protein and fiber punch. \u2014 NBC News , 17 Oct. 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1969, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153109"
|
|
},
|
|
"graceful":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": displaying grace (see grace entry 1 sense 3 ) in form or action : pleasing or attractive in line, proportion, or movement":[
|
|
"a graceful dancer"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101s-f\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"agile",
|
|
"featly",
|
|
"feline",
|
|
"gracile",
|
|
"light",
|
|
"light-footed",
|
|
"light-foot",
|
|
"lightsome",
|
|
"lissome",
|
|
"lissom",
|
|
"lithe",
|
|
"lithesome",
|
|
"nimble",
|
|
"spry"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"awkward",
|
|
"clumsy",
|
|
"gawky",
|
|
"graceless",
|
|
"klutzy",
|
|
"lumbering",
|
|
"ungainly",
|
|
"ungraceful"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He has become a very graceful dancer.",
|
|
"the graceful movements of a ballerina",
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"She was a graceful young woman with delicate features.",
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"the long, graceful neck of a swan",
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"His writing is clear and graceful .",
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"There was no graceful way to say no to their offer.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But if Rice had been given a more graceful exit, industry vets would\u2019ve acknowledged that Chapek was hardly the first to knock off a potential successor in the great tradition of the town. \u2014 Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 June 2022",
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"There's no shame in making a graceful exit before a discussion gets out of hand! \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
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"Shirley wanted to portray the delicacy and poetry of the long-necked animal, including its graceful movements. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 23 Aug. 2021",
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"Blanchard\u2019s graceful and evocative score and the sublime chemistry within the cast carried the opera the rest of the way. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 24 May 2022",
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"And nobody ever personified the graceful and beauteous indulgences of art better than Oscar Wilde. \u2014 Scott Bradfield, Los Angeles Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
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"Wes had so many insights into the psychology of each character and was just such a graceful man and so clever and so smart and witty, and full of stories from his career and life. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 20 Dec. 2021",
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"The 6-foot-9, 31-year-old center for the Phoenix Mercury, one of the most gifted and graceful athletes of her generation, awaits trial on drug charges in Russia. \u2014 Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY , 6 May 2022",
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"Those graceful , highly huntable deer had snacked rural Scotland into a monoculture. \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"see grace entry 1":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1557, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153118"
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},
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"growing consensus":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": increasing agreement among people":[
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"There is a growing consensus about/on the need for further investigation."
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]
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153334"
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},
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"grunt":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to utter a grunt":[],
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": to utter with a grunt":[],
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": the deep short sound characteristic of a hog":[],
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": a similar sound":[],
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": any of a family (Haemulidae synonym Pomadasyidae) of chiefly tropical marine bony fishes":[],
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": a dessert made by dropping biscuit dough on top of boiling berries and steaming":[
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"blueberry grunt"
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],
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": a U.S. army or marine foot soldier especially in the Vietnam War":[],
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": one who does routine unglamorous work":[
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"\u2014 often used attributively grunt work"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8gr\u0259nt"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"chunter",
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"mouth",
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"mumble",
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"murmur",
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"mutter"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"grunting",
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"mumble",
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"murmur",
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"murmuring",
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"mutter",
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"muttering"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"The workers were grunting with effort as they lifted the heavy furniture.",
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"She grunted a few words in reply, then turned and walked away.",
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"Noun",
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"the grunt of a pig",
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"I could hear the grunts of the movers as they lifted the heavy furniture.",
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"He answered her with a grunt .",
|
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"He was a grunt who worked his way up to become an officer.",
|
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"He's just a grunt in the attorney's office.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"These specialists do grunt work that is critical to empowering artificial intelligence systems to handle complex tasks like driving safely down a city street. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 29 June 2022",
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"Sabrina retreated into the hallway and began to grunt . \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
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"High school didn't serve up much adventure, so Devin Murphy signed up to do grunt work on expedition ships that sailed to Alaska, Iceland, Antarctica, and other far-flung places. \u2014 Devin Murphy, Outside Online , 19 Jan. 2021",
|
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"Even the maxim that lifting is good only for getting big has been routinely undermined by a new legion of fitness instructors; women who were once cautioned against handling anything mightier than a hand weight now grunt and pull with abandon. \u2014 Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
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"And if your camels grunt and run away, take the hint. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 21 Oct. 2021",
|
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"The gymnasts do not grunt with effort like the women who spin like a top and fling the hammer or discus far into the distance. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Aug. 2021",
|
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"Eleven family members work full time, while the fourth generation does grunt work during their summer vacations as a reminder of where the family came from. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2021",
|
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"Patricia began as a Patriots grunt in 2004 (putting aside his degree in aeronautical engineering from RPI), and Belichick was his most vocal supporter before and after Patricia got the job as Lions head coach in 2018. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"That\u2019s a whole lot of grunt , and because of this, the vehicle will be able to rocket from zero to 60 mph in a blistering 1.9 seconds, run the quarter-mile in 9.0 seconds and hit a top speed of over 200 mph. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 30 June 2022",
|
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"Missing in action, Games 1-7: the one guy among the dozen Boston forwards willing to stand in there, take a beating, do the grunt work needed to mash 6 oz. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
|
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"There simply isn\u2019t the grunt there to get the most out of an action movie. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
|
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"Of course, Ferrari\u2019s first badged V-6 is by no means short on grunt . \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 21 Jan. 2022",
|
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"These heavy beasts need the power because all that weight requires some serious grunt . \u2014 Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"As for grunt , El Caran is equipped with twin 824 hp MTU engines that give her a top speed of 12 knots, a cruising speed of 10 knots and a range of 3,800 nautical miles. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 17 May 2022",
|
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"Keeping with the danger theme, Henry lands with a thud and audible grunt at different times and on varied painful surfaces: floors, rocks, car roofs. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
|
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"Leapfrogging cars ahead and squirting into gaps in traffic is theme-park fun, and the grunt doesn't tail off at extralegal speeds. \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 27 Oct. 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Old English grunnettan , frequentative of grunian , of imitative origin":"Verb",
|
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"derivative of grunt entry 1":"Noun"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
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"1553, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153423"
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},
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"gray seal":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a large grayish seal ( Halichoerus gryphus ) of the north Atlantic":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153443"
|
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},
|
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"grunting":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun",
|
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"verb"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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|
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": to utter with a grunt":[],
|
|
": the deep short sound characteristic of a hog":[],
|
|
": a similar sound":[],
|
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": any of a family (Haemulidae synonym Pomadasyidae) of chiefly tropical marine bony fishes":[],
|
|
": a dessert made by dropping biscuit dough on top of boiling berries and steaming":[
|
|
"blueberry grunt"
|
|
],
|
|
": a U.S. army or marine foot soldier especially in the Vietnam War":[],
|
|
": one who does routine unglamorous work":[
|
|
"\u2014 often used attributively grunt work"
|
|
]
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8gr\u0259nt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"chunter",
|
|
"mouth",
|
|
"mumble",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"mutter"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"grunting",
|
|
"mumble",
|
|
"murmur",
|
|
"murmuring",
|
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"mutter",
|
|
"muttering"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"The workers were grunting with effort as they lifted the heavy furniture.",
|
|
"She grunted a few words in reply, then turned and walked away.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"the grunt of a pig",
|
|
"I could hear the grunts of the movers as they lifted the heavy furniture.",
|
|
"He answered her with a grunt .",
|
|
"He was a grunt who worked his way up to become an officer.",
|
|
"He's just a grunt in the attorney's office.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"These specialists do grunt work that is critical to empowering artificial intelligence systems to handle complex tasks like driving safely down a city street. \u2014 Matt Mcfarland, CNN , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"Sabrina retreated into the hallway and began to grunt . \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
|
|
"High school didn't serve up much adventure, so Devin Murphy signed up to do grunt work on expedition ships that sailed to Alaska, Iceland, Antarctica, and other far-flung places. \u2014 Devin Murphy, Outside Online , 19 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Even the maxim that lifting is good only for getting big has been routinely undermined by a new legion of fitness instructors; women who were once cautioned against handling anything mightier than a hand weight now grunt and pull with abandon. \u2014 Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"And if your camels grunt and run away, take the hint. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 21 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"The gymnasts do not grunt with effort like the women who spin like a top and fling the hammer or discus far into the distance. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Eleven family members work full time, while the fourth generation does grunt work during their summer vacations as a reminder of where the family came from. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2021",
|
|
"Patricia began as a Patriots grunt in 2004 (putting aside his degree in aeronautical engineering from RPI), and Belichick was his most vocal supporter before and after Patricia got the job as Lions head coach in 2018. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2021",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"That\u2019s a whole lot of grunt , and because of this, the vehicle will be able to rocket from zero to 60 mph in a blistering 1.9 seconds, run the quarter-mile in 9.0 seconds and hit a top speed of over 200 mph. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"Missing in action, Games 1-7: the one guy among the dozen Boston forwards willing to stand in there, take a beating, do the grunt work needed to mash 6 oz. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
|
|
"There simply isn\u2019t the grunt there to get the most out of an action movie. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"Of course, Ferrari\u2019s first badged V-6 is by no means short on grunt . \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 21 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"These heavy beasts need the power because all that weight requires some serious grunt . \u2014 Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver , 29 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"As for grunt , El Caran is equipped with twin 824 hp MTU engines that give her a top speed of 12 knots, a cruising speed of 10 knots and a range of 3,800 nautical miles. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"Keeping with the danger theme, Henry lands with a thud and audible grunt at different times and on varied painful surfaces: floors, rocks, car roofs. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Leapfrogging cars ahead and squirting into gaps in traffic is theme-park fun, and the grunt doesn't tail off at extralegal speeds. \u2014 Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver , 27 Oct. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English grunnettan , frequentative of grunian , of imitative origin":"Verb",
|
|
"derivative of grunt entry 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
|
|
"1553, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153509"
|
|
},
|
|
"great gross":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a unit of quantity equal to 12 gross":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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|
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153539"
|
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},
|
|
"grow up":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to stop thinking or behaving in a childish way":[
|
|
"He should grow up and accept his responsibilities."
|
|
],
|
|
": to begin to exist and develop as time passes":[
|
|
"A number of cities grew up along the river."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"age",
|
|
"develop",
|
|
"grow",
|
|
"mature",
|
|
"progress",
|
|
"ripen"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"everyone has to grow up at some point in their lives"
|
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],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1535, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153540"
|
|
},
|
|
"grassveld":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": natural grassland of southern Africa":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Afrikaans grasveld , from gras grass + veld field":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153657"
|
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},
|
|
"grade point average":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the average obtained by dividing the total number of grade points earned by the total number of credits attempted":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Kylan, a native of Birmingham who attended Birmingham City Schools throughout elementary, middle and high school, ended up with a 4.5 grade point average . \u2014 Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The bike giveaway was an incentive for students that earned a 2.5 grade point average or higher this school year. \u2014 David Sharos, Chicago Tribune , 22 May 2022",
|
|
"In addition, those who earn a 2.5 grade point average or higher in community college are guaranteed entrance into a public four-year school without having to pay an application fee or write an application essay. \u2014 Kim Costigan, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"The death of Robbie Roper, a high school quarterback from Georgia who had multiple college scholarship offers and a 3.9 grade point average when he was buried in December, was more than a tragedy. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"Elliott Tanner is maintaining a 3.78 grade point average at the University of Minnesota and is participating in undergraduate research while also tutoring classmates. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Typically, dean\u2019s list honorees earn a minimum 3.5 grade point average , carrying at least 12 credits. \u2014 cleveland , 31 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Boley finished her degree in May, with a 3.98 grade point average , and is now working on a master\u2019s at Worcester State. \u2014 Kim Costigan, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"High school juniors or seniors with at least a 3.0 grade point average are eligible to apply. \u2014 Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com , 24 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1921, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153753"
|
|
},
|
|
"Great Horde":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a subdivision of the Kyrgyz living south of Lake Balkhash in Soviet Central Asia the chief divisions of which are the Kangli and the Dulat":[]
|
|
},
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"translation of Kyrgyz ulu-juz":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153904"
|
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},
|
|
"greaten":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to make greater":[],
|
|
": to become greater":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8gr\u0101-t\u1d4an"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Instead, Alabama went into the half leading 10-7 and later greatened its lead behind the punt block and the fumble recovery. \u2014 Matt Zenitz, AL.com , 3 Sep. 2017",
|
|
"One month into re- greatened America, liberal timelines are clogged with wish fulfillment. \u2014 Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine , 22 Feb. 2017"
|
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],
|
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1614, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153919"
|
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},
|
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"graceful kelp crab":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a common variably colored but usually greenish brown kelp crab ( Pugettia gracilis ) found from the Aleutians to California":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154024"
|
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"Great Slave Lake":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"geographical name"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
"lake in the southeastern part of the Northwest Territories, Canada, receiving the Slave River on the south and draining into the Mackenzie River on the west area about 11,000 square miles (28,490 square kilometers)":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8sl\u0101v"
|
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],
|
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|
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|
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|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154218"
|
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},
|
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"grapsoid":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": resembling or related to the family Grapsidae":[],
|
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": a grapsoid crab":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\"",
|
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"-\u02ccs\u022fid"
|
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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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"New Latin Grapsus + English -oid":"Adjective"
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154301"
|
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},
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"growth hormone":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": growth regulator":[]
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},
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"The doctor suspected the patient had an excess of one of these hormones \u2014 an overproduction of growth hormone will cause unregulated enlargement of the soft tissues throughout the body, a disorder called acromegaly. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
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"Sleep deprivation has been shown to suppress testosterone and growth hormone production and enhance cortisol levels, which could weaken muscles and leave you more susceptible to injury. \u2014 Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online , 16 Apr. 2021",
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"Age also decreases the amount of growth hormone and slows down the entire system. \u2014 Kelly O'mara, Outside Online , 15 May 2014",
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"The excess growth hormone causes enlargement of the soft tissues of the face, including the ears, the nose and the tongue, as well as the soft tissues of the hands and feet. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Dec. 2021",
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"Revivicor has added six such transgenes and an additional knockout in a porcine growth hormone receptor gene, aimed at preventing organs from getting too big for their human recipients. \u2014 Megan Molteni, STAT , 24 Jan. 2022",
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"When that lactic acid is produced in the body, the pituitary gland secretes growth hormone in response. \u2014 Outside Online , 13 May 2021",
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"This disorder is caused by an abnormal growth on the pituitary gland of the brain, a tumor that makes excess growth hormone . \u2014 New York Times , 29 Dec. 2021",
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"The disorder, a result of excessive growth hormone , made his face, hands and feet swell and ultimately caused the heart attack that killed him at age 51 in 1946. \u2014 Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News , 10 Sep. 2021"
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"These kinds of random strategies have been used to great effect in mathematics, particularly in graph theory . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 June 2022",
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"Using spectral graph theory , mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 16 May 2022",
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"To solve all the higher dimensional cases of equiangular lines, the researchers used something called spectral graph theory . \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 16 May 2022",
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"The game is played on the figure shown, which consists of six points, each of which is shown joined to every other by black lines (called edges in graph theory ). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 Apr. 2022",
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"The problem was well known in graph theory circles and attracted many attempts to solve it, none of which were successful. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 5 Apr. 2021",
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"Data science is another tool that encompasses AI plus statistical analysis, mathematical optimization, simulation, search and matching algorithms, graph theory and combinatorics. \u2014 Sushil Verma, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
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"The reports themselves\u2014on topics ranging from graph theory to user-interface design\u2014suggested the dimensions of the space; when multiple reports used similar groups of words, their dimensions could be combined. \u2014 James Somers, The New Yorker , 29 Nov. 2021",
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"Mathematicians are currently learning which rules of graph theory also apply for higher-order interactions, suggesting new areas of exploration. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 19 Aug. 2021"
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