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"idol":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a false conception : fallacy":[],
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": a form or appearance visible but without substance":[
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"an enchanted phantom, a lifeless idol",
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"\u2014 P. B. Shelley"
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],
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": a likeness of something":[],
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": pretender , impostor":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"an actor who is the idol of millions",
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"a movie idol whose reprehensible offscreen behavior caused him to experience a spectacular fall from grace",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"While belting out a flawless version of the national anthem, Brandy also managed to stylishly pay tribute to her idol Whitney Houston during the NFC Championship game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 30 Jan. 2022",
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"In any case, the money from the single helped bridge the gap, and the E Street Band stayed together, going on to make Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Born in the U.S.A. and all that followed, all thanks to their girl-group idol . \u2014 Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone , 13 Jan. 2022",
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"Drea uses her Knowledge Is Power advantage to try and take Mike\u2019s immunity idol . \u2014 Mike Rose, cleveland , 18 May 2022",
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"Disney Miguel is an aspiring young musician who wants to play like Ernesto de La Cruz, Miguel\u2019s idol . \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
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"Willy, whose golfing idol is Jordan Spieth, is also considered the team\u2019s best putter. \u2014 Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 May 2022",
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"That cascaded into a wild tribal vote: One player tried to steal a second player\u2019s immunity idol only to have the power play backfire because of a doublecross executed by a third player. \u2014 al , 11 May 2022",
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"Friday: Alcaraz powered past countryman/ idol Nadal in three sets, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, outmuscling the 35-year-old lefty on his preferred surface. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 9 May 2022",
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"ByteDance has invested in a couple of digital human and virtual idol startups over the past two years. \u2014 Nina Xiang, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French idle , from Late Latin idolum , from Greek eid\u014dlon image, idol; akin to Greek eidos form \u2014 more at idyll":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u1d4al"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"god",
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"hero",
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"icon",
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"ikon"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021226",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"idolater":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a person that admires intensely and often blindly one that is not usually a subject of worship":[],
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": a worshipper of idols":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"by and large the American colonists were not particularly tolerant of those who were regarded as idolaters",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The personification of those enthusiasms was the composer John Cage\u2014a student of Schoenberg, a devotee of Eastern thought, and an idolater of Duchamp. \u2014 Louis Menand, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
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"Carpenter, like Valenti, was an idolater , but the journalists had the same feeling. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
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"His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters , for whom the master could do no wrong. \u2014 Margalit Fox, New York Times , 18 May 2016"
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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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"pronounciation":[
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"\u012b-\u02c8d\u00e4-l\u0259-t\u0259r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"gentile",
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"heathen",
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"pagan"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115109",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"idolator":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a person that admires intensely and often blindly one that is not usually a subject of worship":[],
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": a worshipper of idols":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"by and large the American colonists were not particularly tolerant of those who were regarded as idolaters",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The personification of those enthusiasms was the composer John Cage\u2014a student of Schoenberg, a devotee of Eastern thought, and an idolater of Duchamp. \u2014 Louis Menand, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
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"Carpenter, like Valenti, was an idolater , but the journalists had the same feeling. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
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"His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters , for whom the master could do no wrong. \u2014 Margalit Fox, New York Times , 18 May 2016"
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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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"pronounciation":[
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"\u012b-\u02c8d\u00e4-l\u0259-t\u0259r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"gentile",
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"heathen",
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"pagan"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161847",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"idolatry":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": immoderate attachment or devotion to something":[],
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": the worship of a physical object as a god":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"her idolatry of her favorite rock star is one step removed from stalking",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"However, such idolatry might be inappropriate for a man who, as his son tells it, was less invested in his own celebrity than in organizing races, and participating in them into his mid 80s. \u2014 Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online , 6 Mar. 2021",
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"There\u2019s nothing in this hellzapoppin lampoon to prevent one from remembering its Hollywood idolatry as The Unbearable Weight of Nicolas Cage. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"Ultimately this phenomenon is a kind of idolatry , an attempt to be as God is. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 25 Mar. 2022",
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"TikTok accounts \u2014 create an illusory sense of intimacy that fans would not necessarily experience with the objects of their idolatry a century, or even a decade, ago. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
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"There is plenty of important work to be done in diagnosing and correcting what ails portions of the Evangelical right \u2014 extreme polarization, political idolatry , susceptibility to demagoguery, etc. \u2014 Brian G. Mattson, National Review , 20 Feb. 2022",
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"This is idolatry , this willingness to blame God for the morally wrong choices of humans. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Feb. 2022",
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"There is a temptation when discussing culturally significant and exalted figures like poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka to speak with an air of unfettered worship \u2014 to move past humanity and instead towards idolatry . \u2014 Sarah-tai Black, Los Angeles Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
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"Spencer itself is only a half-bad movie, promoting idolatry for a public that has lost respect for tradition and that has no sense of duty or sense of occasion. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 10 Nov. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th 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 ydolatrie , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin idolatria , alteration of Late Latin idololatria , from Greek eid\u014dlolatreia , from eid\u014dlon idol + -latreia -latry":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u012b-\u02c8d\u00e4-l\u0259-tr\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"adulation",
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"deification",
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"hero worship",
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"idolization",
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"worship",
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"worshipping",
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"worshiping"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021759",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"idolist":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": idolater sense 1":[]
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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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"-\u0259\u0307st"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105113",
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"type":[
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]
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},
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"idolization":{
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"definitions":{
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": to practice idolatry":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"an actor who is idolized by millions",
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"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
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"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
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"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
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"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
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"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
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"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
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"1598, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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"\u02c8\u012b-d\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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"adore",
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"adulate",
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"canonize",
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"dote (on)",
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"hero-worship",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011719",
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"examples":[
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"an actor who is idolized by millions",
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"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
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"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
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"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
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"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
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"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
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"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
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"an actor who is idolized by millions",
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"she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Lawrence is correct: Bauer isn\u2019t a kindergarten teacher \u2014 his sphere of influence as a pro ballplayer extends far beyond one classroom to millions of fans \u2014 including impressionable children who idolize pro athletes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
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"More politics Jackson and Kamala Harris idolize civil rights lawyers like Constance Baker Motley. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"These recent television moments depart from typical Hollywood storylines that celebrate and idolize youth and physical fitness. \u2014 Ai-jen Poo, The Hollywood Reporter , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"Dave Attell, one of those comedians that other comedians idolize , is at Foxwoods Resort Casino\u2019s Great Cedar Showroom, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
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"Treat church leaders at all levels as respected persons, but do not idolize them. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Jan. 2022",
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"Despite the popularity of Manchester United in Norway, the young B\u00f8e Risa was not one to follow soccer on television or idolize any of the players. \u2014 Asif Burhan, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
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"In July, analysts with the country\u2019s intelligence services warned that a decade after the 2011 attack, there are young men and boys who idolize the gunman. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Oct. 2021",
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"In an industry obsessed with physical appearances and beauty standards that idolize able-bodiedness, prejudice -- though not always as blatant as that recounted by Snell -- has always been part of the casting process. \u2014 Lottie Jackson, CNN , 29 Sep. 2021"
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": idol : image":[
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"idolo mania",
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"idolo clastic"
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054205"
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},
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"idol shepherd":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a counterfeit or worthless shepherd":[
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"woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock",
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"\u2014 Zechariah 11:17 (Authorized Version)"
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],
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"\u2014 compare shepherd sense 2":[
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"woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock",
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"\u2014 Zechariah 11:17 (Authorized Version)"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171637"
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},
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"idoneous":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": fit , appropriate , suitable , proper":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02c8)\u012b\u00a6d\u014dn\u0113\u0259s"
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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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"Latin idoneus":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-202110"
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}
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} |