dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/int_MW.json

{
  "Interlaken":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "commune in Bern canton , west central Switzerland, on the Aare River between the Lake Thun and the Lake of Brienz population 5500":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccl\u00e4-k\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112721",
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ]
  },
  "International System of Units":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a system of units based on the metric system and developed and refined by international convention especially for scientific work":[
        "\u2014 abbreviation SI"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1932, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8nash-n\u0259l-, -\u0259n\u1d4al-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195233",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "noun phrase"
    ]
  },
  "Interpol":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "International Criminal Police Organization":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccp\u014dl",
      "British usually \u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccp\u00e4l",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccp\u00e4l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193811",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
    ]
  },
  "intact":{
    "antonyms":[
      "imperfect",
      "incomplete",
      "partial"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having no relevant component removed or destroyed:":[],
      ": not castrated":[],
      ": physically virginal":[],
      ": untouched especially by anything that harms or diminishes : entire , uninjured":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The house survived the war intact .",
      "After 25 years, their friendship remained intact .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "What\u2019s more, silver seems to be able to differentiate between good bacteria and bad bacteria, leaving the all-important skin microbiome intact . \u2014 Ahmed Zambarakji, Robb Report , 21 June 2022",
      "Duvet covers take the brunt of wear, leaving your duvet inside intact for longer, just like your sheets protect your mattress or your pillowcase protects your pillow. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
      "If the dead plants don\u2019t easily break, cut them at the base, leaving the roots intact . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
      "Russian forces retreated from the city in early April, leaving little intact . \u2014 Washington Post , 8 May 2022",
      "The board expressed concern about Roberts\u2019 potential interest in finding a middle ground that would limit Roe while leaving it intact . \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 3 May 2022",
      "Tap the eggs with the back of a metal spoon on all sides while leaving the shell intact . \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Leaving ham's inner plastic or foil covering intact , place ham in large container and cover with hot tap water; set aside for 45 minutes. \u2014 Susan Selasky, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "Leaving ham's inner plastic or foil covering intact , place ham in large container and cover with hot tap water; set aside for 45 minutes. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 13 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English intacte , from Latin intactus , from in- + tactus , past participle of tangere to touch \u2014 more at tangent entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8takt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intact perfect , whole , entire , intact mean not lacking or faulty in any particular. perfect implies the soundness and the excellence of every part, element, or quality of a thing frequently as an unattainable or theoretical state. a perfect set of teeth whole suggests a completeness or perfection that can be sought, gained, or regained. felt like a whole person again after vacation entire implies perfection deriving from integrity, soundness, or completeness of a thing. the entire Beethoven corpus intact implies retention of perfection of a thing in its natural or original state. the boat survived the storm intact",
    "synonyms":[
      "compleat",
      "complete",
      "comprehensive",
      "entire",
      "full",
      "grand",
      "integral",
      "perfect",
      "plenary",
      "total",
      "whole"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162647",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intaglio":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an engraving or incised figure in stone or other hard material depressed below the surface so that an impression from the design yields an image in relief":[],
      ": printing (as in die stamping and gravure) done from a plate in which the image is sunk below the surface":[],
      ": something (such as a gem) carved in intaglio":[],
      ": the art or process of executing intaglios":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "L'Amour Cupid is cast from a glass intaglio in 18K gold and set in a one-of-a-kind bezel. \u2014 Beth Bernstein, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "This association is present in the smallest of details on both tiaras -- namely the cameo and intaglio portraits of classical deities and ancient figures that Napoleon and Jos\u00e9phine often wore, including on the former's coronation crown. \u2014 CNN , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "While the inventories of Jos\u00e9phine\u2019s jewels list numerous examples of her cameo and intaglio jewelry, there are few details of the contents. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
      "The gold seal matrix dates to between 1250 and 1350 A.D. and boasts a Roman intaglio engraved with an elephant. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 May 2021",
      "Instead of resting flat, the object\u2019s back has an uneven surface, with a hole exposing the reverse of the intaglio . \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 May 2021",
      "The intaglio is now gray in color due to damage caused by an unknown fire. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 May 2021",
      "An intaglio from the 1400s, for example might depict a sacrifice to the Roman god Janus. \u2014 Lia Picard, House Beautiful , 2 Apr. 2021",
      "The store linoleum installer, Bud Fritzke, was attending night art classes at the U of M and making intaglio prints, and the owner, Florian Herring, was a stage actor for Lakeside Players in White Bear Lake. \u2014 Letter Writers, Twin Cities , 13 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1644, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian, from intagliare to engrave, cut, from Medieval Latin intaliare , from Latin in- + Late Latin taliare to cut \u2014 more at tailor":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4l-",
      "-\u02c8ta-gl\u0113-\u02cc\u014d",
      "in-\u02c8tal-(\u02cc)y\u014d",
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221248",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intaglio rilevato":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": sunk relief":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian, from intaglio + rilevato raised or rilievo relief":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccr\u0113l\u0259\u02c8v\u00e4(\u02cc)t\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101519",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intagliotype":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intaglio entry 1 + type":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094116",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intake":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an opening through which fluid enters an enclosure":[],
      ": a taking in":[],
      ": the amount taken in":[],
      ": something (such as energy) taken in : input":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-\u02cct\u0101k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "input"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "output",
      "outturn",
      "production",
      "throughput"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "You should limit your daily intake of fats and sugars.",
      "a larger intake of fluids",
      "the recommended daily intakes of selected vitamins",
      "a sudden intake of breath",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But their risk is not just in losing the pipeline\u2019s water intake . \u2014 AZCentral.com , 21 June 2022",
      "Proper water intake is always essential for optimal organ function, healthy skin, and feeling energized, but even more so while active or under the sun. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 31 May 2022",
      "If there is a single water intake pipe to a single residence, the flow of that water can be measured electronically with a sub-meter. \u2014 Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022",
      "Turn off the spigot, then connect the other end of the hose to the water intake on the pressure washer. \u2014 Kristina Mcguirk, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 May 2022",
      "Lake Mead has dropped more than 170 feet since 1983, and the uppermost water intake became visible last week. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 10 May 2022",
      "The lake's low water level exposed one of the reservoir's original water intake valves in April for the first time. \u2014 Travis Caldwell, CNN , 10 May 2022",
      "Drought has dropped the water level of Lake Mead on the Colorado River in southern Nevada and northern Arizona so much that Las Vegas' uppermost water intake became visible last week. \u2014 CBS News , 9 May 2022",
      "Lake Mead's historically low water levels last month exposed a water intake valve that had been serving Las Vegas-area customers since 1971. \u2014 NBC News , 3 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155340"
  },
  "intake manifold":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a manifold that brings fuel and air into an engine":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194814",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intake stroke":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the stroke in the cycle of an internal-combustion engine during which the fuel mixture is drawn in before compression":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194810",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intangible":{
    "antonyms":[
      "palpable",
      "tactile",
      "tangible",
      "touchable"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an abstract quality or attribute":[],
      ": an asset (such as goodwill) that is not corporeal":[],
      ": not tangible : impalpable":[
        "education's intangible benefits"
      ],
      ": something intangible: such as":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "Leadership is an intangible asset to a company.",
      "electrical energy is completely intangible",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "What does art look like in an intangible digital space",
      "The Brewers designated the centerfielder for assignment on the date of him reaching the 10-year mark of major-league service time, an important milestone for reasons both intangible and tangible. \u2014 Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel , 18 June 2022",
      "The Brewers designated the center fielder for assignment on the date of him reaching the 10-year mark of major-league service time, an important milestone for reasons both intangible and tangible. \u2014 Curt Hogg, USA TODAY , 18 June 2022",
      "Sisu, the Finnish fighting spirit, is an intangible advantage. \u2014 Adam O\u2019neal, WSJ , 12 June 2022",
      "At least one intangible factor came into play, as well, perhaps due to all the good vibes generated by Cosmo\u2019s. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Despite their intangible nature and a looming question mark over their value, NFTs have managed to cultivate hype and luxury status. \u2014 Ivan Burazin, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
      "Machado credited the game\u2019s great intangible and separator. \u2014 Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 1 June 2022",
      "Goodrow was given a six-year, $21.8-million contract, in part, to add an intangible , but essential, winning ingredient to a team preparing to make deep playoff runs. \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Those intangibles caught the Chargers\u2019 attention, Lynn said. \u2014 Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times , 26 Apr. 2020",
      "But what about the intangibles , like touch, reading defenses and feel for the game",
      "But the intangibles seem to be at least as much of a loss to the music education veteran. \u2014 David Z. Morris, Fortune , 27 Apr. 2020",
      "His brain and his intangibles are an asset on the field. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 20 Feb. 2020",
      "But those are intangibles that wouldn\u2019t show up on the balance sheet. \u2014 Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com , 10 Oct. 2019",
      "But there are also some intangibles worth discussing beyond the gunplay and the gameplay loop. \u2014 Samuel Axon, Ars Technica , 23 Jan. 2020",
      "There are also the intangibles that only Lynch can bring to a locker room. \u2014 Ken Belson, New York Times , 24 Dec. 2019",
      "The Dolphins are banking on those intangibles to help return them to relevance. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 16 Mar. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1640, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1914, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French or Medieval Latin; French, from Medieval Latin intangibilis , from Latin in- + Late Latin tangibilis tangible":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tan-j\u0259-b\u0259l",
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8tan-j\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "impalpable"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041556",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "integer":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a complete entity":[],
      ": any of the natural numbers, the negatives of these numbers, or zero":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Both 10 and -10 are integers .",
      "three is a positive integer",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In this way, the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) can add, subtract, multiply, and divide positive and negative integer numbers. \u2014 Andrew Hudson, Ars Technica , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "That problem focused on finding an algorithm for determining whether, for some system of polynomial equations with integer coefficients, there exists a solution in the integers, Kedlaya notes. \u2014 Rachel Crowell, Scientific American , 14 Oct. 2021",
      "And the roadmap is not just about integer performance, SiFive plans to deliver platform capabilities including vector processing and virtualization. \u2014 Kevin Krewell, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Instead of asking about integer solutions to polynomial equations, the Andre\u0301-Oort conjecture is about solutions involving far more complicated geometric objects called Shimura varieties. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "Enlarge / Google fixes its integer overflow/underflow bug. \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 5 Jan. 2022",
      "Traditional encryption uses schemes based on complex mathematics such as factoring (breaking an integer down to its prime factors) or discrete logarithm. \u2014 Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics , 26 Oct. 2021",
      "Mathematicians aim to find out if there are any integer or rational solutions to the equations. \u2014 Rachel Crowell, Scientific American , 14 Oct. 2021",
      "Intel is betting on this first-generation datacenter GPU for HPC to finally catch up with Nvidia and AMD, both for HPC (64-bit floating point) and AI (8 and 16-bit integer and 16-bit floating point). \u2014 Karl Freund, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1571, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, adjective, whole, entire \u2014 more at entire entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-ti-j\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "digit",
      "figure",
      "number",
      "numeral",
      "numeric",
      "whole number"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203604",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "integral":{
    "antonyms":[
      "adventitious",
      "extraneous",
      "extrinsic"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": being, containing, or relating to one or more mathematical integers":[],
      ": composed of constituent parts":[],
      ": essential to completeness : constituent":[
        "an integral part of the curriculum"
      ],
      ": formed as a unit with another part":[
        "a seat with integral headrest"
      ],
      ": lacking nothing essential : entire":[],
      ": relating to or concerned with mathematical integration or the results of mathematical integration":[],
      ": the result of a mathematical integration \u2014 compare definite integral , indefinite integral":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "I do know that shoot-'em-ups (and saw-'em-ups) are likely to remain part of our lives, and that suggests a depressing idea: Maybe the love of violence is an integral part of human nature \u2026 \u2014 Stephen King , Entertainment Weekly , 12 Oct. 2007",
      "Stuffed with peanut butter, celery is the quintessential after-school snack; diced, it provides an essential crunch to chicken and potato salads; buttered up, it is an integral part of Thanksgiving stuffing. \u2014 Sara Dickerman , New York Times Magazine , 3 Sept. 2006",
      "Sitting out on the grass \u2026 watching the freight trains roll by on the levee at two in the morning, drinking a beer and listening to the music drifting out of the club, is an integral part of the whole experience. \u2014 Tom Piazza , Why New Orleans Matters , 2005",
      "She had become an integral part of their lives.",
      "a car dealer respected for his integral honesty and straightforwardness with customers",
      "Noun",
      "The main tools used in the study of these functions are those we have already discussed: representation as integrals , power-series expansions, and differential equations. \u2014 Robert S. Strichartz , The Way of Analysis , 2000",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Proponents define social and emotional learning (SEL) as an integral part of education and human development. \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
      "The seven-time Mr. Olympia champion also touched on this subject in his newsletter last year, writing about how a morning workout remains an integral part of his routine. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 29 June 2022",
      "Lincoln played an integral part in helping the Scorpions\u2019 boys capture county, regional and state titles. \u2014 Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun , 28 June 2022",
      "There has never been a more important time to reimagine the employee experience and make social impact an integral part of it. \u2014 Hilary Smith, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 June 2022",
      "Seider, 21, is an integral part of the rebuild, a blue chip defenseman with size, smarts and leadership. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022",
      "For Perry, 37, working out is an integral part of her routine. \u2014 Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
      "Officer Bob said Safety Town is an integral part of the community. \u2014 cleveland , 20 June 2022",
      "Traditionally, these were meant to sustain the family during the barren winter months, and, to this day, the root cellar has wide use in small Ukrainian towns and villages, because preservation is still an integral part of our culinary culture. \u2014 Anna Voloshyna, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Both Croot and Bloom broke the integral into parts and proved that one main term was large and positive, and that all the other terms (which could sometimes be negative) were too small to make a meaningful difference. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Wired , 4 July 2021",
      "The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Wired , 4 July 2021",
      "The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Wired , 4 July 2021",
      "The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Wired , 4 July 2021",
      "The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Wired , 4 July 2021",
      "The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Wired , 4 July 2021",
      "The path integral is more of a physics philosophy than an exact mathematical recipe. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Wired , 4 July 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1551, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
      "circa 1741, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "see integer":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "also nonstandard \u02c8in-tr\u0259-g\u0259l",
      "\u02c8in-ti-gr\u0259l",
      "in-\u02c8te-gr\u0259l",
      "also -\u02c8t\u0113-",
      "\u02c8in-ti-gr\u0259l (usually so in mathematics)"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "built-in",
      "constitutional",
      "constitutive",
      "essential",
      "hardwired",
      "immanent",
      "inborn",
      "inbred",
      "indigenous",
      "ingrain",
      "ingrained",
      "engrained",
      "inherent",
      "innate",
      "intrinsic",
      "native",
      "natural"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192110",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "integrate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": desegregate":[
        "integrate school districts"
      ],
      ": to become integrated":[],
      ": to end the segregation of and bring into equal membership in society or an organization":[],
      ": to find the integral of (something, such as a function or equation)":[],
      ": to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole : unite":[],
      ": to incorporate into a larger unit":[],
      ": to unite with something else":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The car's design successfully integrates art and technology.",
      "She integrates elements of jazz and rock in her music.",
      "They have resisted efforts to integrate women into the military.",
      "Many immigrants have found it difficult to integrate into American culture.",
      "a law requiring schools to integrate",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In the same way, leaders with WDS choose not to engage or integrate other parts of the wisdom development process. \u2014 Gregory Stebbins, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
      "For devs, Apple pointed to MapKit improvements, like a more richly detailed city experience and the ability to integrate the detailed map into their apps. \u2014 Samuel Axon And Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 6 June 2022",
      "The team decided more shooting was needed, and the plan is to integrate that and lock the picture in July, while looking for financing for the post-production and for a sales agent. \u2014 Jennie Punter, Variety , 4 May 2022",
      "Still, key questions remain about that capability, including whether the missile has the ability to integrate a nuclear warhead that can survive reentry and strike accurately, according to Abrams. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Plus, it's made of sturdy concrete in a smooth design that can easily integrate into any garden setup. \u2014 Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens , 17 June 2022",
      "Adopt the bipartisan Senate bill that would integrate air and missile defenses in the Greater Middle East. \u2014 Matthew Continetti, National Review , 11 June 2022",
      "Participants will learn to create protest banners that integrate their own stories into the design. \u2014 Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
      "Create a bill that would integrate and connect neighborhoods to the train stations and warehouses through bus and shuttle facilities. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1586, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin integratus , past participle of integrare , from integr-, integer":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int-\u0259-\u02ccgr\u0101t",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccgr\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "absorb",
      "assimilate",
      "co-opt",
      "embody",
      "incorporate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164958",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "integrative":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": serving to integrate or favoring integration : directed toward integration":[
        "the integrative powers of the human imagination",
        "\u2014 J. A. McPherson"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Though she\u2019s been trained in a more integrative style of medicine, her approach toward body acceptance was also shaped by her discovery of intuitive eating during medical school. \u2014 Alexandra Ossola, Quartz , 19 June 2022",
      "Executives are focused on an integrative system based on purpose, collaboration and partnership. \u2014 Dax Grant, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "In 2018, Liu was helping his father manage the integrative medicine center and started a Hybrid Calisthenics blog to write about fitness. \u2014 Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online , 30 May 2022",
      "Contain carbon black in its nano form Elise Brisco, OD, CCH, integrative optometrist and clinical homeopath, says yes, overall, magnetic lashes are safe to use around the eyes. \u2014 Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping , 26 May 2022",
      "Gender- integrative leadership is about ensuring leadership displays the duality of perspectives, thoughts, behaviors and actions that each gender offers to lead fully with impact. \u2014 Arthi Rabikrisson, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "Located on a 12-acre campus in Laurel, MUIH is the oldest accredited acupuncture school in the nation, and has established itself as a leader in the study and practice of integrative health and wellness. \u2014 Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun , 9 Apr. 2022",
      "Because the virus does not affect all people equally, the Post-Covid health programme is coordinated by multiple specialists, following the principles of SHA's integrative approach. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "But some practices, when used alongside conventional medicine, may help ease some of the unpleasant side effects of cancer treatment, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in a practice known as integrative medicine. \u2014 Elizabeth Millard, Time , 27 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1862, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccgr\u0101-tiv",
      "\u02c8int-\u0259-\u02ccgr\u0101t-iv"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132522",
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The 37-year-old electronic security integrator has been here for hours, hoping to make the first cut after shooting a 1-under-par 71 in a local qualifier at Foxborough Country Club. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
      "There aren\u2019t many companies in the aerospace industry that will look back fondly on 2021, but F-35 airframe integrator Lockheed LMT Martin has good reason to be satisfied. \u2014 Loren Thompson, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "PureStorage is supplying a flash subsystem growing up to an exabyte of training data, and Penguin Computing is acting as the system integrator , helping out with the setup and installation. \u2014 Karl Freund, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "Currently, Teksouth implements two enterprise-level data warehouses across the Air Force and is the exclusive integrator between these two major systems. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "And in many cases \u2013 installed, monitored, and managed by the likes of AWS, HPE, Dell, or an integrator using these platforms. \u2014 Matt Kimball, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "An integrator is more comfortable integrating personal and work-related tasks on one platform. \u2014 Christelle Rohaut, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "The acquisition of LF Logistics will transform Maersk into a global integrator of container logistics, providing digital end-to-end logistics solutions to customers worldwide, Soren Skou, CEO of Maersk said in a statement. \u2014 Jonathan Burgos, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "Second, a good integrator takes a broad and deep perspective on the value the technology provides to their customers. \u2014 Steve Banker, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1849, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccgr\u0101-t\u0259r"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221651",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": whole : entire":[
        "integri folious",
        "integri palliate"
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from integr-, integer":""
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181923",
    "type":[
      "combining form"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of various glycoproteins found on cell surfaces that are involved in the adhesion of cells (such as T cells) to other cells (such as endothelial cells) or to extracellular material (such as fibronectin or laminin) and mediate various biological processes (such as phagocytosis , wound healing, and embryogenesis)":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Next, Lee and his team administered a compound that inactivated integrin alpha-5. \u2014 Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS , 13 Dec. 2019",
      "In one cartoon, a man holding an integrin with the wrong shape is about to jump out of an airplane. \u2014 Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2019",
      "In the 1980s Springer discovered integrins , a group of proteins believed to play a role in a variety of serious disorders, from fibrotic diseases to cancer. \u2014 Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com , 28 Aug. 2019",
      "In 2011, Reiser and colleagues reported in Nature Medicine that in cell culture, suPAR damaged human podocytes through the integrin pathway. \u2014 Stephen S. Hall, Science | AAAS , 19 Apr. 2018",
      "But his research into a family of proteins known as integrins outgrew the boundaries of his lab. \u2014 Brian Gormley, WSJ , 19 July 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1986, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "integr- (from integral membrane protein complex ) + -in entry 1":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in(t)-\u0259-gr\u0259n",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-gr\u0259n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224336",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[
      "badness",
      "evil",
      "evildoing",
      "immorality",
      "iniquity",
      "sin",
      "villainy",
      "wickedness"
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    "definitions":{
      ": an unimpaired condition : soundness":[],
      ": firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility":[],
      ": the quality or state of being complete or undivided : completeness":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Many were tempted by a piece of the equity action and compromised their integrity. \u2014 Bruce Nussbaum , Business Week , 28 Jan. 2002",
      "By September, Gorbachev had told his aides that with Eastern Europe and Germany lost, the task was to defend the integrity of the Soviet Union itself. \u2014 Condoleezza Rice , Newsweek , 22 Nov. 1999",
      "But it is stunning to hear self-appointed watchdogs of public integrity shrug their shoulders at \"standard\" prosecutorial practice \u2026 \u2014 Wendy Kaminer , New York Times Book Review , 22 Mar. 1998",
      "\u2026 a hundred-and-one-year-old Jewish philanthropist \u2026 donated two and a quarter million dollars to the Archdiocese to purchase the property and preserve the integrity of the landmark. \u2014 Brendan Gill , New Yorker , 10 June 1991",
      "He's a man of the highest integrity .",
      "I admire her artistic integrity .",
      "She had the integrity to refuse to compromise on matters of principle.",
      "Without music, the film loses its integrity .",
      "They are trying to preserve the cultural integrity of the community.",
      "The earthquake may have damaged the building's structural integrity .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Our albums are reserved for our artistic rights and our artistic integrity , so can\u2019t nobody tell us what albums to make. \u2014 Armon Sadler, Billboard , 28 June 2022",
      "The ease of data migration, both in and out of the cloud, is essential to its integrity and the user experience. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
      "But the Office of the Public Defender made clear the state\u2019s attorney\u2019s failure to follow ethical and legal standards called for swift action from the court to uphold its own integrity . \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 15 June 2022",
      "Yet the much smaller group of people who know about her as an artist, a musician, and an activist appreciate her integrity . \u2014 Louis Menand, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
      "How can the United Nations, and others, engage with China on human rights while maintaining their integrity ",
      "Performers like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who long ago bartered their integrity and believability for money and ratings, can peddle their noisome pro-Trump propaganda on Fox News. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
      "To qualify for the tax credit, the building must be preserved and restored to maintain its historic integrity , Heard said. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 June 2022",
      "The integrity of the videos becomes a key talking point for the women running for president of the United States, including Evangelyne Moreau, Jane\u2019s former best friend and almost-lover. \u2014 Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic , 16 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English integrite , from Middle French & Latin; Middle French integrit\u00e9 , from Latin integritat-, integritas , from integr-, integer entire":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8teg-r\u0259t-\u0113",
      "in-\u02c8te-gr\u0259-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for integrity honesty , honor , integrity , probity mean uprightness of character or action. honesty implies a refusal to lie, steal, or deceive in any way. honor suggests an active or anxious regard for the standards of one's profession, calling, or position. integrity implies trustworthiness and incorruptibility to a degree that one is incapable of being false to a trust, responsibility, or pledge. probity implies tried and proven honesty or integrity.",
    "synonyms":[
      "character",
      "decency",
      "goodness",
      "honesty",
      "morality",
      "probity",
      "rectitude",
      "righteousness",
      "rightness",
      "uprightness",
      "virtue",
      "virtuousness"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190740",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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  "integrodifferential":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": involving both mathematical integration and differentiation":[
        "integrodifferential equations"
      ]
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "integr(al) + -o- + differential":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259\u0307(\u02cc)gr\u014d also in\u00a6teg-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034346",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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  "integument":{
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    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1611, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin integumentum , from integere to cover, from in- + tegere to cover \u2014 more at thatch":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8te-gy\u0259-m\u0259nt",
      "in-\u02c8teg-y\u0259-m\u0259nt"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181019",
    "type":[
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    "examples":[],
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050121",
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      "adjective"
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1831, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02ccte-gy\u0259-\u02c8men-t(\u0259-)r\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220600",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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  "intel":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": useful information concerning a subject of interest (such as an enemy) : intelligence":[
        "Fresh and accurate intel would result in successful operations.",
        "\u2014 Darryl Young",
        "The airlines crave intel on your food allergies, your tolerance for G-forces and your propensity for air rage.",
        "\u2014 McKenzie Funk",
        "\u2014 often used before another noun intel data an intel briefing"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The content planning for Vogue.com is in full swing, with writers and editors busy gathering intel about what celebrities will wear on the night. \u2014 Chioma Nnadi, Vogue , 19 May 2022",
      "For good intel , browse through Amazon's Customers' Most-Loved hub, which is filled with popular items with four-star ratings and above. \u2014 Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com , 15 May 2022",
      "Bizzarri was hunting for design-room intel , and Michele was a long-timer at Gucci who\u2019d risen through the ranks. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "Mallory doesn't have any intel on the weapon the Russian forces used to kill Soldier Boy, but Butcher knows someone who might. \u2014 Alex Raiman, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
      "The Cold War-era technique was similar to the one attempted by Rocket Lab: the film canister fell to Earth from outer space and used parachutes to slow its descent so that planes could nab the intel . \u2014 Jennifer Korn, CNN , 2 May 2022",
      "Will\u2019s people were led by a US Senator who had all this classified intel . \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "Their billing support staff and social work department may have good intel about which insurance plans are best about covering their services and medications. \u2014 cleveland , 22 Aug. 2021",
      "The plan is to bring this intel back into the park, educating guests through the words and stories of Pueblo people\u2014just like Atsye\u2019s Mesa Verde audio guide, which launched in the summer of 2020. \u2014 Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online , 12 July 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1961, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-\u02cctel"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105058",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intellect":{
    "antonyms":[
      "blockhead",
      "dodo",
      "dolt",
      "dope",
      "dumbbell",
      "dummy",
      "dunce",
      "fathead",
      "goon",
      "half-wit",
      "hammerhead",
      "idiot",
      "imbecile",
      "knucklehead",
      "moron",
      "nitwit",
      "numskull",
      "numbskull",
      "pinhead"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person with great intellectual powers":[],
      ": the capacity for rational or intelligent thought especially when highly developed":[],
      ": the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She is a woman of superior intellect .",
      "She has a sharp intellect .",
      "We were required to read a book every week in order to develop our intellects .",
      "music that appeals to the intellect while still satisfying the emotions",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Colleagues described his keen intellect , instantly legible in the quickness and charm of his conversation. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "While courts have upheld Reeves' conviction, the last-minute fight to stop the execution involved his intellect , his rights under federal disability law and how the state planned to kill him. \u2014 Jay Reeves, ajc , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "While courts have upheld Reeves' conviction, the last-minute fight by his lawyers seeking to stop the execution involved his intellect , his rights under federal disability law and how the state planned to kill him. \u2014 CBS News , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "The Supreme Court\u2019s other eight justices all praised their retiring colleague, Stephen Breyer , on Thursday, unanimously citing his intellect , humor and civility. \u2014 Jess Bravin, WSJ , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "By the age of thirteen, struggling with his racing intellect , Wong began to express suicidal thoughts, and he was diagnosed as having depression. \u2014 Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
      "Still, Parks was remembered Sunday as a dogged reporter with a keen intellect and a mentor and advisor to many younger journalists. \u2014 Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times , 9 Jan. 2022",
      "Someone with your sharp intellect could thrive in a position that requires you to develop innovative solutions to problems, while dull routines and restrictive rules might dull your natural vivacity. \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 29 Nov. 2021",
      "Johnson meshes intellect and excitement in a way no other broadcaster has ever done. \u2014 Mike Freeman, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin intellectus , from intellegere to understand \u2014 more at intelligent":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int-\u1d4al-\u02ccekt",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02cclekt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "brain",
      "brainiac",
      "genius",
      "thinker",
      "whiz",
      "wiz",
      "wizard"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065455",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intellection":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an act of the intellect : thought":[],
      ": exercise of the intellect : reasoning":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "notebooks filled with his intellections on an amazing array of topics",
      "ever since Decartes famously declared, \u201cI think, therefore I am,\u201d people have tended to regard acts of conscious intellection as proof of their own existence",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There is pleasant cohesion to his body of work, with its blend of bookish intellection and breezy verbal humor. \u2014 The New Yorker , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "This is a big spread, in other words, an ambitious platter of intellection and emotion. \u2014 Dwight Garner, New York Times , 6 Sep. 2016"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1526, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8lek-sh\u0259n",
      "\u02ccint-\u1d4al-\u02c8ek-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "abstraction",
      "cogitation",
      "concept",
      "conception",
      "idea",
      "image",
      "impression",
      "mind's eye",
      "notion",
      "picture",
      "thought"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185803",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intellective":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having, relating to, or belonging to the intellect : rational":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8lek-tiv"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112617",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "intellectual":{
    "antonyms":[
      "double-dome",
      "geek",
      "highbrow",
      "intellectualist",
      "longhair",
      "nerd"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an intellectual person":[],
      ": developed or chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience : rational":[],
      ": engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect":[
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      ": given to study, reflection, and speculation":[],
      ": intellectual powers":[],
      ": of or relating to the intellect or its use":[],
      ": requiring use of the intellect":[
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      ]
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    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "the social and intellectual life of the campus",
      "as the daughter of college professors, she's used to being around intellectual people",
      "Noun",
      "He thinks that he's an intellectual , but he doesn't know what he's talking about.",
      "She's a hard worker but she's no great intellectual .",
      "a caf\u00e9 where artists and intellectuals mingle",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Peter Sachs, attorney and a founding partner of the law firm, also felt there was a need for employment for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. \u2014 Sergio Carmona, Sun Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
      "The company, whose owners are mother-daughter duo Mary Clark and Kathryn Flick, provides community living support and companionship services to individuals with mental, intellectual and developmental disabilities. \u2014 Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press , 8 June 2022",
      "Their flight from Mariupol illustrated the extra layers of trauma that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as Down syndrome and autism, can experience during wartime. \u2014 Maryna Dubyna, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
      "Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and raises funds for the group dedicated to ending the economic isolation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities like autism and Down syndrome. \u2014 Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
      "Past winners include: The Cedar Lake Foundation, which was awarded $12,500 last year and supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the Greater Louisville area. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
      "In later proceedings in federal court, his lawyers argued that his trial lawyer had failed to investigate or present evidence about his intellectual and developmental disabilities that might have prompted the jury to show leniency. \u2014 Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
      "Beacons North County, a Carlsbad nonprofit helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is holding an Open House noon to 2 p.m. Friday May 13 at 6150 Yarrow Drive. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 May 2022",
      "Those with the disease (now that number stands at around 70) often end up with intellectual and physical disabilities. \u2014 Terry Demio, The Enquirer , 5 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "As readers might expect from the title, the influence of W.E.B. Du Bois, a leading Black intellectual and sociologist who lived from 1868 to 1963, is present throughout. \u2014 Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 May 2022",
      "Being an in-demand, and somewhat reluctant, public intellectual has left Robinson struggling to find time to start a new novel. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
      "As the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore\u2019s work has shown, Stalin was a genuine Marxist intellectual who believed in class warfare and the evils of the bourgeoisie as much as any student at the Sorbonne. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "Hannah-Jones wants to be taken seriously as a public intellectual who deserves her Pulitzer Prize and her university professorship and whose historical writings are taught in schools. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "The most demanding part of Mann\u2019s Princeton life, however, and that which forms the bulk of Corngold\u2019s book, must have been his activism as a public intellectual . \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "The film\u2019s drama involves her encounter with a middle-aged South Korean intellectual , Jin Lee (John Cho), who helps to awaken her nascent passion for architecture and to find a practical way of developing it. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "There are forgivable intellectual and policy errors, and then there\u2019s the self-delusion that has driven the West into its dependence on Vladimir Putin\u2019s oil and gas. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "Jack is everything Alan isn't: combat expert, casual intellectual , man of substance and advanced sleeper holds. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1599, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-shw\u0259l",
      "-ch\u00fc(-\u0259)l",
      "-ch\u0259l",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8lek-ch\u0259-w\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "blue",
      "cerebral",
      "eggheaded",
      "geeky",
      "highbrow",
      "highbrowed",
      "intellectualist",
      "intellectualistic",
      "long-haired",
      "longhair",
      "nerdish",
      "nerdy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042037",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
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  "intellectual disability":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": mild to severe impairment in intellectual ability equivalent to an IQ of 70 to 75 or below that is accompanied by significant limitations in social, practical, and conceptual skills (as in interpersonal communication, reasoning, or self-care) necessary for independent daily functioning and that has an onset before age 18":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Organizers said the athlete has an intellectual disability . \u2014 Marlene Lenthang, NBC News , 13 June 2022",
      "In that real-life 1989 crime, high school football players in New Jersey gang raped a 17-year-old girl with an intellectual disability . \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 7 June 2022",
      "Organizers said the athlete has an intellectual disability . \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
      "If that happened under the age of 18, that could be considered an intellectual disability . \u2014 Tasha Lemley, Scientific American , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "She was separated from her daughter Arian, who has an intellectual disability , in the chaos. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "It was never tested for 40 genetic disorders, including the one that prevented him from developing normally and was once a leading cause of intellectual disability in the United States. \u2014 jsonline.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "The high court, however, left the work of determining the threshold for intellectual disability to states, creating disagreements over the definition and criteria. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Oct. 2021",
      "Previously, abortions were only allowed if a patient\u2019s life was in danger or if someone with an intellectual disability was raped. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Feb. 2022"
    ],
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Black was shorthand for money, intellectualism , and power. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 23 May 2022",
      "To promote classical charters, the GOP is rebranding as the party that nourishes human flourishing and intellectualism , inconsistent as this posture may be with its actual policies. \u2014 Annie Abrams, The New Republic , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "American anti- intellectualism provides a rich cultural agar for growing these theories. \u2014 Elizabeth Williamson, Wired , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "But navel-gazing intellectualism must meet realpolitik. \u2014 Andrew T. Walker, National Review , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "In contrast with Accel\u2019s patrician intellectualism , Sequoia Capital built its reputation on immigrant grit. \u2014 Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "There are framed photographs of Michelle Obama and Oprah on the walls, and gigantic storybooks on the floor\u2014a wink at the spirit of faux intellectualism . \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
      "There are framed photographs of Michelle Obama and Oprah on the walls, and gigantic storybooks on the floor\u2014a wink at the spirit of faux intellectualism . \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
      "What Youngkin\u2019s choice to raise this issue at this point in the campaign reveals is his understanding of the appeal of anti- intellectualism among a specific segment of voters. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Oct. 2021"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Black was shorthand for money, intellectualism , and power. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 23 May 2022",
      "To promote classical charters, the GOP is rebranding as the party that nourishes human flourishing and intellectualism , inconsistent as this posture may be with its actual policies. \u2014 Annie Abrams, The New Republic , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "American anti- intellectualism provides a rich cultural agar for growing these theories. \u2014 Elizabeth Williamson, Wired , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "But navel-gazing intellectualism must meet realpolitik. \u2014 Andrew T. Walker, National Review , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "In contrast with Accel\u2019s patrician intellectualism , Sequoia Capital built its reputation on immigrant grit. \u2014 Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "There are framed photographs of Michelle Obama and Oprah on the walls, and gigantic storybooks on the floor\u2014a wink at the spirit of faux intellectualism . \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
      "There are framed photographs of Michelle Obama and Oprah on the walls, and gigantic storybooks on the floor\u2014a wink at the spirit of faux intellectualism . \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
      "What Youngkin\u2019s choice to raise this issue at this point in the campaign reveals is his understanding of the appeal of anti- intellectualism among a specific segment of voters. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Oct. 2021"
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      "He thinks that he's an intellectual , but he doesn't know what he's talking about.",
      "She's a hard worker but she's no great intellectual .",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Peter Sachs, attorney and a founding partner of the law firm, also felt there was a need for employment for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. \u2014 Sergio Carmona, Sun Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
      "The company, whose owners are mother-daughter duo Mary Clark and Kathryn Flick, provides community living support and companionship services to individuals with mental, intellectual and developmental disabilities. \u2014 Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press , 8 June 2022",
      "Their flight from Mariupol illustrated the extra layers of trauma that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as Down syndrome and autism, can experience during wartime. \u2014 Maryna Dubyna, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
      "Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and raises funds for the group dedicated to ending the economic isolation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities like autism and Down syndrome. \u2014 Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
      "Past winners include: The Cedar Lake Foundation, which was awarded $12,500 last year and supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the Greater Louisville area. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
      "In later proceedings in federal court, his lawyers argued that his trial lawyer had failed to investigate or present evidence about his intellectual and developmental disabilities that might have prompted the jury to show leniency. \u2014 Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
      "Beacons North County, a Carlsbad nonprofit helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is holding an Open House noon to 2 p.m. Friday May 13 at 6150 Yarrow Drive. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 May 2022",
      "Those with the disease (now that number stands at around 70) often end up with intellectual and physical disabilities. \u2014 Terry Demio, The Enquirer , 5 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "As readers might expect from the title, the influence of W.E.B. Du Bois, a leading Black intellectual and sociologist who lived from 1868 to 1963, is present throughout. \u2014 Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 May 2022",
      "Being an in-demand, and somewhat reluctant, public intellectual has left Robinson struggling to find time to start a new novel. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
      "As the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore\u2019s work has shown, Stalin was a genuine Marxist intellectual who believed in class warfare and the evils of the bourgeoisie as much as any student at the Sorbonne. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "Hannah-Jones wants to be taken seriously as a public intellectual who deserves her Pulitzer Prize and her university professorship and whose historical writings are taught in schools. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "The most demanding part of Mann\u2019s Princeton life, however, and that which forms the bulk of Corngold\u2019s book, must have been his activism as a public intellectual . \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "The film\u2019s drama involves her encounter with a middle-aged South Korean intellectual , Jin Lee (John Cho), who helps to awaken her nascent passion for architecture and to find a practical way of developing it. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "There are forgivable intellectual and policy errors, and then there\u2019s the self-delusion that has driven the West into its dependence on Vladimir Putin\u2019s oil and gas. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "Jack is everything Alan isn't: combat expert, casual intellectual , man of substance and advanced sleeper holds. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050948",
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      ": the ability to perform computer functions":[],
      ": the act of understanding : comprehension":[],
      ": the basic eternal quality of divine Mind":[]
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      "She impressed us with her superior intelligence .",
      "a person of average intelligence",
      "gathering intelligence about a neighboring country's activities",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The agency is driving companies to modernize and replace paper processes with technology that manages validation and builds more intelligence into the process. \u2014 Bryan Ennis, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
      "The Post reported in May that the United States had provided Ukraine with the intelligence that helped Kyiv attack and sink it. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
      "Included in the exchange are a husband and wife, both soldiers with the Azov regiment, according to Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the defense intelligence of Ukraine. \u2014 Michael Schwirtz, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
      "That prompts those artillery units to often rely on their own drones and often U.S.-supplied intelligence , soldiers and U.S. defense officials said. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
      "The fact of this disappointment betrays a funny optimism, circa the early 2010s, about the power and promise of passing human intelligence through a machine in order to distill or expand it. \u2014 Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic , 28 June 2022",
      "The Spurs also liked Branham\u2019s efficiency, intelligence , knowledge of the game and understanding of his limitations. \u2014 Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News , 26 June 2022",
      "Armed with this new understanding, the thinking goes, greater intelligence will follow. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 24 June 2022",
      "At a June 13 news conference, Chicago\u2019s police Superintendent David Brown said officers have shored up intelligence and have various plans to guard the Pride Parade and other festivities. \u2014 Adriana P\u00e9rez, Chicago Tribune , 24 June 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":""
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      "Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin intelligentia , from intelligent-, intelligens intelligent":""
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      "in-\u02c8tel-\u0259-j\u0259n(t)s",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100254",
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      "the student journalist asked questions as probing as those of a seasoned intelligencer",
      "as the nation's top intelligencer , the director of the CIA should have been more skeptical of the information he was being fed"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8te-l\u0259-j\u0259n(t)-s\u0259r",
      "-\u02ccte-l\u0259-\u02c8jen(t)-",
      "-\u02c8te-l\u0259-\u02ccjen(t)-"
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      "She asked some intelligent questions.",
      "He's a hard worker but he's not very intelligent .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "To suggest that this study shows any kind of systematic genetic difference between white and Black Americans that makes the former innately more intelligent than the latter is absolutely a misreading that was not intended by the study\u2019s authors. \u2014 Emily Klancher Merchant, STAT , 23 June 2022",
      "Introduced as a fierce and capable leader of the Rebellion in the original trilogy, adult Leia (Carrie Fisher) is sassy, intelligent , brave, kind and committed to the cause, and has long commanded a legion of devoted fans. \u2014 Tracy Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Like Lip, Carmy is sullen, intelligent , scrappy, and trying to find his way out of a complicated youth. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
      "As well as having an innate control over time, Five is also a skilled assassin and intelligent thinker. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
      "The high-speed dryer works to dry hair faster than most other models and uses intelligent heat control to make hair super shiny. \u2014 Rebecca Carhart, Travel + Leisure , 21 June 2022",
      "Sam works for a prestigious Chambers, and is a highly intelligent and strategic barrister. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 21 June 2022",
      "Being strong, intelligent and independent is by no means something that\u2019s going to protect you. \u2014 Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022",
      "Dangerous physical labor is being reduced as intelligent machines replace humans, and so on. \u2014 Brian H. Robb, Forbes , 15 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intelligent-, intelligens , present participle of intelligere, intellegere to understand, from inter- + legere to gather, select \u2014 more at legend":""
    },
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      "in-\u02c8te-l\u0259-j\u0259nt"
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intelligent intelligent , clever , alert , quick-witted mean mentally keen or quick. intelligent stresses success in coping with new situations and solving problems. an intelligent person could assemble it fast clever implies native ability or aptness and sometimes suggests a lack of more substantial qualities. clever with words alert stresses quickness in perceiving and understanding. alert to new technology quick-witted implies promptness in finding answers in debate or in devising expedients in moments of danger or challenge. no match for his quick-witted opponent",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230930",
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  "intelligentsia":{
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    "definitions":{
      ": intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite":[]
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      "a presidential candidate who was the darling of the intelligentsia \u2014and very few others",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The book, centering on a Mexican literary critic who suspects that his translator wife is having an affair with an American novelist, offers a window on the social and intellectual world of a privileged Mexico City intelligentsia . \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
      "Her first book was her PhD thesis, which focused on Hindi writer Munshi Premchand and his role in the formation of the nationalist intelligentsia of the 20th century. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 27 May 2022",
      "Today America\u2019s intelligentsia is in the grip of a hallucinogenic fever dream. \u2014 Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Now, Trump-friendly intelligentsia and power-brokers are far more allured by the use of government interventions to achieve conservative ends. \u2014 Ethan Lamb, National Review , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Novaya cemented itself as the go-to publication of Russia\u2019s liberal intelligentsia during the heyday of independent journalism in the 1990s. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "Recently a prominent Russian critic wrote a very good piece about the collective responsibility of Russian intelligentsia , including filmmakers. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Regions of the former Soviet Union to which the intelligentsia were exiled in the twentieth century have since experienced high rates of economic development. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "The Russian intelligentsia of the late 19th century endlessly debated the nature of man and the future of class relations, but their colloquies led to Bolshevism and the deaths of millions by purges, war and famine. \u2014 Barton Swaim, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Russian intelligentsiya , from Latin intelligentia intelligence":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8gen(t)-",
      "in-\u02ccte-l\u0259-\u02c8jen(t)-s\u0113-\u0259"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
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      "literati"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125141",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "examples":[
      "the ability to make complex concepts intelligible to the average reader",
      "Very little of the recording was intelligible .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Ry\u016bky\u016ban languages split from what would become the mainstream Japanese language over 2,000 years ago, and are not mutually intelligible . \u2014 Anyssa Murphy, The Conversation , 23 May 2022",
      "Following a car crash and severe stroke at age 20, the man, known as Pancho, lost the ability to produce intelligible speech. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
      "The higher power will allow SCUPLS to transmit intelligible voice messages out to 1,000 meters, and the flash-bangs will produce a sound level of up to 165 decibels, the equivalent of standing inside a jet engine. \u2014 David Hambling, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2022",
      "The information exists, as its near instant assembly into an intelligible pattern after the Buffalo killings and so many others testifies. \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
      "At the same time, however, a rival faction in the capital, the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians, was calling for compositional techniques that remained intelligible , engaging and edifying for a modern socialist listener. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
      "For all the claptrap Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have spouted about the filibuster facilitating bipartisan compromise, their opposition to eliminating it is most intelligible as a matter of material politics. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Its emergence demonstrates how a code-switching people can enrich language while making a horrific war more intelligible to themselves. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "But the images of hypnagogia never stop; the creativity of the dreaming mind is a transformative force defined by the fact that it can\u2019t be distilled into intelligible sentences, paintable images, tolerable music. \u2014 Michael W. Clune, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin intelligibilis , from intelligere":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8te-l\u0259-j\u0259-b\u0259l"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
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      "coherent",
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      "comprehensible",
      "fathomable",
      "graspable",
      "legible",
      "scrutable",
      "understandable"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001115",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162056",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": inviolate , pure , undefiled":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02c8tem\u0259\u02ccr\u0101t",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180300",
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    "antonyms":[
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      "temperance"
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    "examples":[
      "in his harangue on the perils of drink, the prohibitionist claimed that intemperance has always been the number one destroyer of marriages",
      "there's a wearisome intemperance in his verbal attacks against any and all who dare to disagree with him",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In a situation that forbids explicit expressions of intemperance or protest, mischief is the perfect solution. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
      "Her attention to the vibrancy of our inner lives and to the barbed pleasure of sentimental intemperance has lately become more explicit. \u2014 Rachelvoronacote, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
      "The intemperance alienated some suffragists, and by 1875, when Anthony drafted the amendment that would bear her name, the movement had split. \u2014 USA Today , 26 Feb. 2020",
      "Acton, whose Catholicism shaped every facet of his thought and work, identified this excess with a certain kind of Protestant intemperance . \u2014 Yuval Levin, National Review , 31 Dec. 2019",
      "Fifty years of putting up with discrimination, hatred and intemperance . \u2014 Joe Lynch, Billboard , 1 July 2019",
      "But that was the 1980s and 1990s, and nothing had prepared him for the intemperance of the night. \u2014 Bradley Hope, WSJ , 15 Sep. 2018",
      "But the most interesting response has been from Brennan allies warning him that his intemperance may be backfiring. \u2014 William Mcgurn, WSJ , 20 Aug. 2018",
      "Perhaps due to such intemperance , his 2003 campaign to become a WTO jurist was rebuffed. \u2014 Greg Rushford, WSJ , 4 July 2018"
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Latin intemperantia":""
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      "intemperate anger that is so extreme that the man should be in therapy",
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      "But despite the intemperate ramblings of the current occupant of the Oval Office, there is no support whatsoever in the Congress or the country for a war of regime change in Russia. \u2014 Ben Domenech, National Review , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "Three months, and not one player reaching for his phone in an intemperate moment, publicly second-guessing the negotiating strategy of his union. \u2014 Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times , 26 Feb. 2022",
      "We are thus left with an object lesson on the perils of intemperate rhetoric and absurd arguments when employed in the service of dubious, unlikely to be met goals. \u2014 Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "Something more assertive is required: a crust that can stand up for itself, that holds without crumbling and can survive intemperate handling and a long, brisk walk. \u2014 Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "The cutoff was accompanied by some intemperate commentary from the business community. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
      "If not for the permanence of computerized keystrokes, the intemperate remarks of teenagers could be easily ignored or charitably forgotten. \u2014 Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal , 15 Sep. 2021",
      "The president is deeply ambivalent about the rise of the country\u2019s capitalist class, note the public rebuke meted out to Jack Ma late last year for his intemperate outburst on the ills of China\u2019s financial system. \u2014 Vasuki Shastry, Forbes , 3 Sep. 2021",
      "De Grey vexes many in the life-extension community, and one reason may be his intemperate life style. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "But despite the intemperate ramblings of the current occupant of the Oval Office, there is no support whatsoever in the Congress or the country for a war of regime change in Russia. \u2014 Ben Domenech, National Review , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "Three months, and not one player reaching for his phone in an intemperate moment, publicly second-guessing the negotiating strategy of his union. \u2014 Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times , 26 Feb. 2022",
      "We are thus left with an object lesson on the perils of intemperate rhetoric and absurd arguments when employed in the service of dubious, unlikely to be met goals. \u2014 Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "Something more assertive is required: a crust that can stand up for itself, that holds without crumbling and can survive intemperate handling and a long, brisk walk. \u2014 Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "The cutoff was accompanied by some intemperate commentary from the business community. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
      "If not for the permanence of computerized keystrokes, the intemperate remarks of teenagers could be easily ignored or charitably forgotten. \u2014 Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal , 15 Sep. 2021",
      "The president is deeply ambivalent about the rise of the country\u2019s capitalist class, note the public rebuke meted out to Jack Ma late last year for his intemperate outburst on the ills of China\u2019s financial system. \u2014 Vasuki Shastry, Forbes , 3 Sep. 2021",
      "De Grey vexes many in the life-extension community, and one reason may be his intemperate life style. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Middle English intemperat , from Latin intemperatus , from in- + temperatus , past participle of temperare to temper":""
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      ": distempered state : intemperance":[
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        "\u2014 Tobias Smollett"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in- entry 1 + temperature":""
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": untimely , inopportune":[]
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      "Latin intempestivus , from in- in- entry 1 + tempestivus tempestive":""
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      "\u00a6in(\u02cc)tem\u00a6pestiv"
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      "I didn't intend any disrespect.",
      "We intended that she come with us.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Cheryl Treworgy did not intend to start a movement. \u2014 David Woods, The Indianapolis Star , 28 June 2022",
      "Brockton Rox general manager Tom Tracey didn\u2019t intend to build a summer league team that had five sons of prominent former major league players on the roster. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "Intensive shelling was also heard overnight in Kharkiv, a northeastern city that lies outside of the Donbas but is seen one of the gateways the Russians intend to use to encircle Ukrainian forces in the Donbas from the north, the south and the east. \u2014 David Keyton And Yesica Fisch, ajc , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Two other Jackson employees also intend to make the move. \u2014 Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
      "On the other hand, some respondents did intend to do so. \u2014 Janet Ruane, The Conversation , 8 June 2022",
      "When the Senate returns from its break next week, its members intend to discover if there are any gun-control measures on which 60 senators can agree. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 2 June 2022",
      "Later this year, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Baylor College of Medicine intend to examine his protocols in two clinical studies. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
      "Along with their day-to-day operations, the Chargers also intend to conduct training camp at the new facility. \u2014 Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3":""
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      "Middle English entenden, intenden , from Anglo-French entendre , from Latin intendere to stretch out, direct, aim at, from in- + tendere to stretch \u2014 more at thin":""
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      "aim",
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      "propose",
      "purport",
      "purpose"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225355",
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      "noun",
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      "his scrupulous intendance of the university's finances"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1739, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
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      "in-\u02c8ten-d\u0259n(t)s"
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      "Noun",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "What to Consider Kayaks come in varying shapes and sizes, each with an intended purpose. \u2014 Chantae Reden, Popular Mechanics , 21 June 2022",
      "High-profile malefactors can spawn unregistered communication channels or use the operator\u2019s gear beyond its intended purpose, for instance, to promote the services of dubious content providers. \u2014 David Balaban, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "Its age shows in places, and it doesn\u2019t get used so much for its intended purpose anymore. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 19 June 2022",
      "Deleting iMessages in iOS 16 will not always have the intended result. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 8 June 2022",
      "If funds are not needed for the intended purpose, they should be returned to the Federal government to help slow the rapid increase in the nation's deficit, which is contributing to debilitating inflation. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
      "Location-tracking data has increasingly been used for reasons beyond its intended purpose. \u2014 Georgia Wells, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
      "The heroic artwork, meant to inspire 19th-century European revolutionaries and reinvigorate American patriotism, seemed to work its intended purpose in that era and beyond. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "None of these programs achieved the intended result of increasing cocoa productivity and subsequently impacting farmer livelihoods at scale. \u2014 Shayna Harris, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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      "in-\u02c8ten-d\u0259d"
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      "witting"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202807",
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      "noun"
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      ": an intendant in a country of Spanish or Portuguese speech":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Spanish, from French intendant":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113451",
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    "antonyms":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin intendimentum meaning, interpretation, hidden purpose, from Latin intendere to intend, attend + -mentum -ment":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195518",
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      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": prospective , aspiring":[
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "No longer was denial an option for decent intending people. \u2014 Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine , 26 Sep. 2017"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1788, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003518",
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      "adjective"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": the true meaning or intention especially of a law":[]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tend-m\u0259nt",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104948",
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to make tender : soften":[]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1576, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in- entry 2 + Latin tener soft, tender \u2014 more at tender entry 1":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8te-n\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083813",
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    "antonyms":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071036",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intense + -ate":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183201",
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      "He shielded his eyes from the intense flash of light.",
      "She has an intense dislike for her husband's friend.",
      "After many years of intense study, he received his medical degree.",
      "School reform is a subject of intense debate.",
      "The work requires intense concentration.",
      "He was an intense young man who was very determined to do well in school.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Climate change is loading the dice in favor of more intense , frequent and long-lasting heat waves, Ebi said. \u2014 Drew Kann, ajc , 23 June 2022",
      "Freshwater microbial blooms, wildfires, coral bleaching and spikes in ocean temperature are becoming more frequent and intense in our warming world. \u2014 Chris Mays, Scientific American , 23 June 2022",
      "Specifically, the body starts making less of the hormone, potentially causing more intense and frequent migraine attacks in some people. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 22 June 2022",
      "Meanwhile, temperatures are rising nearly everywhere because of global warming, combining in some places with brutal drought to create more intense , frequent and longer heat waves. \u2014 Elvia Lim\u00f3n, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
      "All participants reported more frequent or intense instances of eye strain, visual fatigue and nausea. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 21 June 2022",
      "In recent years, a library of studies by scholars and even the National Academy of Sciences confirms that heatwaves are becoming more intense and frequent due to climate change. \u2014 Marshall Shepherd, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Scientists have said that climate change is fueling more frequent and more intense heat waves in the U.S. and around the world. \u2014 Denise Chow, NBC News , 19 June 2022",
      "Statewide, Alaska is experiencing warmer temperature trends that can cause drying, which in turn can spell more frequent and intense fires. \u2014 Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin intensus , from past participle of intendere to stretch out":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)s",
      "in-\u02c8tens"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063540",
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      "He shielded his eyes from the intense flash of light.",
      "She has an intense dislike for her husband's friend.",
      "After many years of intense study, he received his medical degree.",
      "School reform is a subject of intense debate.",
      "The work requires intense concentration.",
      "He was an intense young man who was very determined to do well in school.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Climate change is loading the dice in favor of more intense , frequent and long-lasting heat waves, Ebi said. \u2014 Drew Kann, ajc , 23 June 2022",
      "Freshwater microbial blooms, wildfires, coral bleaching and spikes in ocean temperature are becoming more frequent and intense in our warming world. \u2014 Chris Mays, Scientific American , 23 June 2022",
      "Specifically, the body starts making less of the hormone, potentially causing more intense and frequent migraine attacks in some people. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 22 June 2022",
      "Meanwhile, temperatures are rising nearly everywhere because of global warming, combining in some places with brutal drought to create more intense , frequent and longer heat waves. \u2014 Elvia Lim\u00f3n, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
      "All participants reported more frequent or intense instances of eye strain, visual fatigue and nausea. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 21 June 2022",
      "In recent years, a library of studies by scholars and even the National Academy of Sciences confirms that heatwaves are becoming more intense and frequent due to climate change. \u2014 Marshall Shepherd, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Scientists have said that climate change is fueling more frequent and more intense heat waves in the U.S. and around the world. \u2014 Denise Chow, NBC News , 19 June 2022",
      "Statewide, Alaska is experiencing warmer temperature trends that can cause drying, which in turn can spell more frequent and intense fires. \u2014 Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin intensus , from past participle of intendere to stretch out":""
    },
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214320",
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    "antonyms":[
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      ],
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        "intense pain"
      ],
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      ": marked by or expressive of great zeal, energy, determination, or concentration":[
        "intense effort"
      ]
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      "He shielded his eyes from the intense flash of light.",
      "She has an intense dislike for her husband's friend.",
      "After many years of intense study, he received his medical degree.",
      "School reform is a subject of intense debate.",
      "The work requires intense concentration.",
      "He was an intense young man who was very determined to do well in school.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Climate change is loading the dice in favor of more intense , frequent and long-lasting heat waves, Ebi said. \u2014 Drew Kann, ajc , 23 June 2022",
      "Freshwater microbial blooms, wildfires, coral bleaching and spikes in ocean temperature are becoming more frequent and intense in our warming world. \u2014 Chris Mays, Scientific American , 23 June 2022",
      "Specifically, the body starts making less of the hormone, potentially causing more intense and frequent migraine attacks in some people. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 22 June 2022",
      "Meanwhile, temperatures are rising nearly everywhere because of global warming, combining in some places with brutal drought to create more intense , frequent and longer heat waves. \u2014 Elvia Lim\u00f3n, Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
      "All participants reported more frequent or intense instances of eye strain, visual fatigue and nausea. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 21 June 2022",
      "In recent years, a library of studies by scholars and even the National Academy of Sciences confirms that heatwaves are becoming more intense and frequent due to climate change. \u2014 Marshall Shepherd, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Scientists have said that climate change is fueling more frequent and more intense heat waves in the U.S. and around the world. \u2014 Denise Chow, NBC News , 19 June 2022",
      "Statewide, Alaska is experiencing warmer temperature trends that can cause drying, which in turn can spell more frequent and intense fires. \u2014 Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin intensus , from past participle of intendere to stretch out":""
    },
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      "in-\u02c8ten(t)s",
      "in-\u02c8tens"
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      "almighty",
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      "dreadful",
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      "explosive",
      "exquisite",
      "fearful",
      "fearsome",
      "ferocious",
      "fierce",
      "frightful",
      "furious",
      "ghastly",
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      "heavy-duty",
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      "terrible",
      "vehement",
      "vicious",
      "violent"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181830",
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      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intensifier":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "\u201cSo\u201d can function as an intensifier , as in \u201cI'm so tired.\u201d",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The years leading to the Civil War, and the war itself, were political intensifiers ; radicalism was rewarded and could be made to pay. \u2014 Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic , 12 Mar. 2020",
      "The weapon also has a full length Picatinny rail to mount optics, image intensifiers , and other aiming tools. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 28 Feb. 2020",
      "Under this scenario there is no vacancy but there still would be a considerable intensifier for Democratic voters. \u2014 Chris Stirewalt, Fox News , 19 Sep. 2018",
      "Thermal technology Image intensifier systems work fine outdoors, where there\u2019s almost always a bit of starlight or other ambient light to work with. \u2014 Emily Matchar, Smithsonian , 19 May 2017",
      "Branden Baker, 34, acknowledges stealing more than 50 image intensifiers and other night vision equipment from Marine Helicopter Squadron One. \u2014 Leada Gore, AL.com , 30 May 2017",
      "In such an ecology, the only possible intensifier is a curse word. \u2014 Henry Alford, New York Times , 11 Mar. 2017",
      "Dan Tran Dang, Liem Duc Huynh and George Kgoc Bui allegedly (.pdf) set up a Huntington Beach company called Professional Security for the sole purchase of buying the coveted AN/PVS-7 image intensifiers , made by ITT. \u2014 Kevin Poulsen, WIRED , 5 Dec. 2008"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1835, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-s\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b(-\u0259)r"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172730",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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      "moderate"
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      ": to make more acute : sharpen":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "We could hear the wind howling outside as the storm intensified .",
      "They intensified their efforts to increase sales.",
      "an intensified search for survivors",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Those showers are part of a continuing trend of instability this weekend that will only intensify Sunday. \u2014 Greg Porter, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
      "The pressure to lower barriers to ADU construction and ownership will only intensify , thanks to the potent combination of too little affordable housing and the swelling demographics of an aging population. \u2014 Next Avenue, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
      "Across social media, Russian front organizations still try to induce doubt, efforts that will only intensify as the war wages on. \u2014 David Robert Grimes, Scientific American , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Worse, these rivalries can only intensify in a warming, unpredictable world beset by climate migration, natural resource scarcity, and existential anxiety. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Either way, military experts expect Russia\u2019s tactics in Ukraine to only intensify in its brutality and disregard for the laws of war. \u2014 Shelley Inglis, The Conversation , 15 Mar. 2022",
      "And if Putin responds to sanctions and other international pressure by lashing out, in cyber-space or with more traditional weapons, by positioning nuclear weapons in Belarus, for example, Western resistance to his rule will only intensify . \u2014 Ian Bremmer, Time , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "The effects of climate change will only intensify these problems. \u2014 Sophie Tremblay, CNN , 25 May 2022",
      "In one sign of Polish support, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and President Andrzej Duda will intensify their lobbying for the EU to grant Ukraine the status of EU candidate at a June 23\u201324 summit. \u2014 Vanessa Gera, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1817, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten-s\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-s\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
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      "boost",
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      "deepen",
      "enhance",
      "heighten",
      "magnify",
      "redouble",
      "step up",
      "strengthen"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033427",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
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  "intension":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": connotation sense 3":[],
      ": intensity":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1604, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-sh\u0259n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191940",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
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  },
  "intensitometer":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an instrument for measuring the intensity of X rays":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intensito- (from intensity ) + -meter":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02ccten(t)s\u0259\u02c8t\u00e4m\u0259d\u0259(r)"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190753",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  },
  "intensity":{
    "antonyms":[
      "impassiveness",
      "impassivity",
      "insensibility",
      "insensibleness",
      "insensitiveness",
      "insensitivity"
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      ": saturation sense 4a":[],
      ": the magnitude of a quantity (such as force or energy) per unit (as of area, charge, mass, or time)":[]
    },
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      "the intensity of the sun's rays",
      "the intensity of the argument",
      "The sun shone with great intensity .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Rising global temperatures have increased the frequency and intensity of heat extremes in these regions since the 1950s, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). \u2014 Ian Livingston, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
      "Railways across the country could become more vulnerable with the increasing frequency and intensity of heat events, according to a 2019 study in Transport Policy. \u2014 Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "As wildfires grow in size, frequency and intensity , officials are looking for new ways to fight back. \u2014 Tori B. Powell, CBS News , 18 June 2022",
      "The flooding came as the Midwest and East Coast sizzle from a heat wave and other parts of the West burn from an early wildfire season amid a persistent drought that has increased the frequency and intensity of fires. \u2014 Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
      "Wildfires broke out early this spring in multiple states in the Western U.S., where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires. \u2014 Fox News , 14 June 2022",
      "Wildfires broke out early this spring in multiple states in the Western U.S., where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires. \u2014 Felicia Fonseca, Anchorage Daily News , 14 June 2022",
      "Due to manmade climate change, the frequency and intensity of heatwaves will only get worse, scientists say. \u2014 Julie Coleman, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "Officials and experts are blaming the growing frequency and intensity of sandstorms in the region on the mismanagement of agricultural areas, an ongoing drought, and the effects of climate change. \u2014 Alan Taylor, The Atlantic , 23 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1665, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten-s\u0259-t\u0113",
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-s\u0259-t\u0113",
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-s\u0259t-\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "ardency",
      "ardor",
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      "enthusiasm",
      "fervency",
      "fervidness",
      "fervor",
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      "heat",
      "intenseness",
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      "vehemence",
      "violence",
      "warmth",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114835",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intensive":{
    "antonyms":[
      "light",
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      ": an intensive linguistic element":[],
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        "intensive farming"
      ],
      ": highly concentrated":[
        "intensive study"
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      ": of, relating to, or marked by intensity or intensification : such as":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "an intensive course in business writing",
      "an intensive effort to prevent an adult bookstore from opening in town",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The state\u2019s reliance on coal might be why its officials are trying to guard against the EPA one day decreeing that local power generators switch to less carbon- intensive fuels. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 29 June 2022",
      "This carbon- intensive model of economic growth means China is the world\u2019s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, accounting for a third of global emissions in 2021. \u2014 Christian Shepherd, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
      "The company re-engineered traditional lumber and created cross-laminated timber (CTL) that reduces carbon- intensive construction practices and the cost of labor. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "That would encourage carbon- intensive steel and cement production. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "That would encourage carbon- intensive steel and cement production. \u2014 Joe Mcdonald, ajc , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "The first is that fossil fuel finance is not directly analogous to carbon emissions, since some banks lend more to especially carbon- intensive sectors like tar sands. \u2014 Amanda Shendruk, Quartz , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Cheese is one of Sweetgreen\u2019s most carbon- intensive ingredients but also one that is tough to measure. \u2014 Jean Eaglesham, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Apple\u2019s brushed metal aesthetic relies on aluminum, a carbon- intensive material. \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The ballet has the Otto M. Budig Academy, too, with a schedule of summer intensives . \u2014 David Lyman, Cincinnati.com , 24 Mar. 2020",
      "Lynx said many of the students who come for the monthslong intensives (another option) are divorced, or on their way to it. \u2014 Nellie Bowles, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2020",
      "The non-profit holds annual summer intensives in each country, during which notable songwriters and producers teach collaborative songwriting, music production and music business in an effort to foster local talent. \u2014 Chris Eggertsen, Billboard , 23 Aug. 2019",
      "In addition to the U.S., Spotify has also held Sound Up intensives in Australia, Brazil, and the U.K. \u2014 Chris Eggertsen, Billboard , 7 June 2019",
      "So Hong Kong has become a central hub for short-term theological intensives , distance Bible seminaries and networking conventions. \u2014 Time , 5 Mar. 2018",
      "Some students compete nearly every weekend during the season, which runs approximately September to July, and train at intensives and classes during the rest of the year. \u2014 Lizzie Feidelson, New York Times , 21 Dec. 2017",
      "Edwards is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and attended various workshops and intensives including Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Joffrey, Kirov and the New York City Ballet. \u2014 Valerie Bonk, baltimoresun.com , 23 Aug. 2017",
      "A member of the company for 12 years, she has been accepted into countless dance intensives over the years and this summer will study with the Milwaukee Ballet, the Kansas City Ballet and the Ballet Austin summer programs. \u2014 David Laurell, Burbank Leader , 20 June 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1604, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1813, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten-siv",
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-siv"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "acute",
      "almighty",
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      "deep",
      "dreadful",
      "excruciating",
      "explosive",
      "exquisite",
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      "fearsome",
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      "fierce",
      "frightful",
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      "keen",
      "profound",
      "terrible",
      "vehement",
      "vicious",
      "violent"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201609",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intensively":{
    "antonyms":[
      "light",
      "moderate",
      "soft"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an intensive linguistic element":[],
      ": constituting or relating to a method designed to increase productivity by the expenditure of more capital and labor rather than by increase in scope":[
        "intensive farming"
      ],
      ": highly concentrated":[
        "intensive study"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or marked by intensity or intensification : such as":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "an intensive course in business writing",
      "an intensive effort to prevent an adult bookstore from opening in town",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The state\u2019s reliance on coal might be why its officials are trying to guard against the EPA one day decreeing that local power generators switch to less carbon- intensive fuels. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 29 June 2022",
      "This carbon- intensive model of economic growth means China is the world\u2019s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, accounting for a third of global emissions in 2021. \u2014 Christian Shepherd, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
      "The company re-engineered traditional lumber and created cross-laminated timber (CTL) that reduces carbon- intensive construction practices and the cost of labor. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "That would encourage carbon- intensive steel and cement production. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "That would encourage carbon- intensive steel and cement production. \u2014 Joe Mcdonald, ajc , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "The first is that fossil fuel finance is not directly analogous to carbon emissions, since some banks lend more to especially carbon- intensive sectors like tar sands. \u2014 Amanda Shendruk, Quartz , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Cheese is one of Sweetgreen\u2019s most carbon- intensive ingredients but also one that is tough to measure. \u2014 Jean Eaglesham, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Apple\u2019s brushed metal aesthetic relies on aluminum, a carbon- intensive material. \u2014 Tim De Chant, Ars Technica , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The ballet has the Otto M. Budig Academy, too, with a schedule of summer intensives . \u2014 David Lyman, Cincinnati.com , 24 Mar. 2020",
      "Lynx said many of the students who come for the monthslong intensives (another option) are divorced, or on their way to it. \u2014 Nellie Bowles, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2020",
      "The non-profit holds annual summer intensives in each country, during which notable songwriters and producers teach collaborative songwriting, music production and music business in an effort to foster local talent. \u2014 Chris Eggertsen, Billboard , 23 Aug. 2019",
      "In addition to the U.S., Spotify has also held Sound Up intensives in Australia, Brazil, and the U.K. \u2014 Chris Eggertsen, Billboard , 7 June 2019",
      "So Hong Kong has become a central hub for short-term theological intensives , distance Bible seminaries and networking conventions. \u2014 Time , 5 Mar. 2018",
      "Some students compete nearly every weekend during the season, which runs approximately September to July, and train at intensives and classes during the rest of the year. \u2014 Lizzie Feidelson, New York Times , 21 Dec. 2017",
      "Edwards is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and attended various workshops and intensives including Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Joffrey, Kirov and the New York City Ballet. \u2014 Valerie Bonk, baltimoresun.com , 23 Aug. 2017",
      "A member of the company for 12 years, she has been accepted into countless dance intensives over the years and this summer will study with the Milwaukee Ballet, the Kansas City Ballet and the Ballet Austin summer programs. \u2014 David Laurell, Burbank Leader , 20 June 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1604, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1813, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten-siv",
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-siv"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "acute",
      "almighty",
      "blistering",
      "deep",
      "dreadful",
      "excruciating",
      "explosive",
      "exquisite",
      "fearful",
      "fearsome",
      "ferocious",
      "fierce",
      "frightful",
      "furious",
      "ghastly",
      "hard",
      "heavy",
      "heavy-duty",
      "hellacious",
      "intense",
      "keen",
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      "vehement",
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      "violent"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003516",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intent":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bent (on ",
      "bound",
      "decisive",
      "determined",
      "do-or-die",
      "firm",
      "hell-bent (on ",
      "out",
      "purposeful",
      "resolute",
      "resolved",
      "set",
      "single-minded"
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      ": a usually clearly formulated or planned intention : aim":[
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      ": directed with strained or eager attention : concentrated":[],
      ": having the mind, attention, or will concentrated on something or some end or purpose":[
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      ],
      ": meaning , significance":[],
      ": the state of mind with which an act is done : volition":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "She thinks I'm trying to make things difficult for her, but that's not my intent .",
      "The intent of the law is to protect consumers.",
      "He was charged with assault with intent to kill.",
      "Adjective",
      "intent on finishing her sculpture in time for the group show",
      "he was so intent on his work that he didn't hear the dog bark",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "He had previously been convicted of assault with intent to kill. \u2014 Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
      "But more recently, following the overprescribing of opioids and the takeoff of the overdose crisis, courts started upholding convictions of doctors who were found guilty for prescribing in dangerous ways, regardless of intent . \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 28 June 2022",
      "The question of intent , however, can be muddy when the crime under investigation involves an action in which the defendant\u2019s state of mind can be hard to establish. \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2022",
      "The question of intent , however, can be muddy when the crime under investigation involves an action in which the defendant\u2019s state of mind can be hard to establish. \u2014 Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
      "However, experts told ABC News this charge might be more difficult to prove, going back to the question of Trump's intent . \u2014 Libby Cathey, ABC News , 16 June 2022",
      "Extreme political correctness has bulldozed any efforts at a basic human understanding of intent . \u2014 Chip Bell, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
      "The defiant party anthem doubles as a statement of intent as the newcomer lays down her approach to life, love, and the industry. \u2014 Neena Rouhani, Billboard , 13 June 2022",
      "Those requests could help the special grand jury get a better sense of Trump's intent , according to Melissa Redmon, a University of Georgia law professor and former Fulton County prosecutor. \u2014 Graham Kates, CBS News , 1 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Republicans in the state, however, remain intent on unseating Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the fall -- and the other primary candidates have their own ideas about the best strategy for achieving that. \u2014 Charles Hilu, National Review , 22 June 2022",
      "But his administration became increasingly intent on controlling its message. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
      "Paranoid and provincial \u2014 and outrageously ironic considering the United States is built upon centuries of displacement and plunder \u2014 the theory proposes that white people are endangered by interlopers intent on ousting them. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
      "This may sound a little scathing, but an adversarial relationship isn\u2019t HR\u2019s intent . \u2014 Dustin Snyder, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
      "Rainey understood that people like the Proud Boys\u2014and a future president intent on encouraging them\u2014were possible. \u2014 Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
      "But word gets out, and a PR battle ensues between the two men, with McKenzie intent on banning the gleeful culprit from all clubs across the U.K. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
      "Many mainstream politicians quickly rallied to Hern\u00e1ndez's side after his surprise showing Sunday, fiercely intent on shaping his potential administration and blocking Petro's path to the presidency. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 30 May 2022",
      "Some public health experts have concluded that the best way to stop school shootings is to keep guns \u2014 and semiautomatic rifles like the one Salvador Ramos had \u2014 out of the hands of people intent on killing schoolchildren. \u2014 Moriah Balingit, Washington Post , 29 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intentus , from past participle of intendere":"Adjective",
      "Middle English entente , from Anglo-French, from Late Latin intentus , from Latin, act of stretching out, from intendere":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tent"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intent Noun intention , intent , purpose , design , aim , end , object , objective , goal mean what one intends to accomplish or attain. intention implies little more than what one has in mind to do or bring about. announced his intention to marry intent suggests clearer formulation or greater deliberateness. the clear intent of the statute purpose suggests a more settled determination. being successful was her purpose in life design implies a more carefully calculated plan. the order of events came by accident, not design aim adds to these implications of effort directed toward attaining or accomplishing. her aim was to raise film to an art form end stresses the intended effect of action often in distinction or contrast to the action or means as such. willing to use any means to achieve his end object may equal end but more often applies to a more individually determined wish or need. his constant object was the achievement of pleasure objective implies something tangible and immediately attainable. their objective is to seize the oil fields goal suggests something attained only by prolonged effort and hardship. worked years to reach her goals",
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      "bourn",
      "design",
      "dream",
      "end",
      "goal",
      "idea",
      "ideal",
      "intention",
      "mark",
      "meaning",
      "object",
      "objective",
      "plan",
      "point",
      "pretension",
      "purpose",
      "target",
      "thing"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060814",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intention":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a determination to act in a certain way : resolve":[],
      ": a process or manner of healing of incised wounds":[],
      ": import , significance":[],
      ": purpose with respect to marriage":[],
      ": the object for which a prayer, mass, or pious act is offered":[],
      ": what one intends to do or bring about":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She announced her intention to run for governor.",
      "He seemed to think that I was trying to cause problems, but that was never my intention .",
      "He bought a dog with the intention of training it to attack intruders.",
      "He has good intentions , but his suggestions aren't really helpful.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At the time, Senate sponsor Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, said the intention of the bill was to rid beaches of cigarette butts that don\u2019t quickly biodegrade. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 17 June 2022",
      "The intention is to provide a comfortable space for migrants arriving in a country with a different culture and language, advocates said. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
      "The intention might be there, but this verbal relic misses the mark. \u2014 Shauna Harrison, SELF , 14 June 2022",
      "There are features that don't work yet, but the intention is to get all the smart and automation functionality back online in the near future. \u2014 Matthew Humphries, PCMAG , 13 June 2022",
      "As Post Malone told Billboard in his January cover story, the intention was always to make a tight album, and the 14 tracks on twelve carat clock in at just over 40 minutes. \u2014 Lyndsey Havens, Billboard , 3 June 2022",
      "The intention was simply to better envision how the County can provide more alternative responses to law enforcement and reduce violence through other strategies. \u2014 The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune , 1 June 2022",
      "The intention , Millstein said, was to highlight shared sonic and artistic elements in disparate works, particularly the way composers have sourced different elements of folk music for their compositions. \u2014 Eva Barrosse, Los Angeles Times , 29 May 2022",
      "Brenner\u2019s intention is to later use these powers to help the U.S. government spy on the USSR). \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 20 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten-sh\u0259n",
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-sh\u0259n",
      "in-\u02c8ten-ch\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intention intention , intent , purpose , design , aim , end , object , objective , goal mean what one intends to accomplish or attain. intention implies little more than what one has in mind to do or bring about. announced his intention to marry intent suggests clearer formulation or greater deliberateness. the clear intent of the statute purpose suggests a more settled determination. being successful was her purpose in life design implies a more carefully calculated plan. the order of events came by accident, not design aim adds to these implications of effort directed toward attaining or accomplishing. her aim was to raise film to an art form end stresses the intended effect of action often in distinction or contrast to the action or means as such. willing to use any means to achieve his end object may equal end but more often applies to a more individually determined wish or need. his constant object was the achievement of pleasure objective implies something tangible and immediately attainable. their objective is to seize the oil fields goal suggests something attained only by prolonged effort and hardship. worked years to reach her goals",
    "synonyms":[
      "aim",
      "ambition",
      "aspiration",
      "bourne",
      "bourn",
      "design",
      "dream",
      "end",
      "goal",
      "idea",
      "ideal",
      "intent",
      "mark",
      "meaning",
      "object",
      "objective",
      "plan",
      "point",
      "pretension",
      "purpose",
      "target",
      "thing"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022938",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intentional":{
    "antonyms":[
      "nondeliberate",
      "nonpurposive",
      "unintentional"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": done by intention or design : intended":[
        "intentional damage"
      ],
      ": having external reference":[],
      ": of or relating to epistemological intention":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "an intentional and premeditated killing",
      "I apologize for the omission of your name from the list. It was not intentional .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Prosecutors have charged him with more than 80 counts, including multiple counts of reckless endangerment and six counts of intentional homicide. \u2014 Todd Richmond, ajc , 24 June 2022",
      "The suspect has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide. \u2014 Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
      "Darrell Brooks, 40, originally pleaded not guilty to several counts of first-degree intentional homicide after the November 21, 2021, tragedy that left six people dead and more than 60 others injured. \u2014 Amir Vera, Amanda Musa And Jarrod Wardwell, CNN , 21 June 2022",
      "Franklin police confirmed Friday that a search warrant was executed at a Waukesha home on June 7, 2022, regarding the case for first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 18 June 2022",
      "In a closing statement earlier this month, the prosecution asked that each defendant be convicted of intentional homicide. \u2014 Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
      "But his hunger to represent in a more intentional way is more recent, and a result of the hatred he's seen directed toward his community. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 17 May 2022",
      "Balsewicz was charged with first-degree intentional homicide but pleaded guilty to second-degree homicide and armed burglary. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel , 10 June 2022",
      "Law enforcement says the shooting was not intentional . \u2014 David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten-sh\u0259-n\u0259l",
      "in-\u02c8ten-ch\u0259-n\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8ten(t)-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
      "in-\u02c8tench-n\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intentional voluntary , intentional , deliberate , willing mean done or brought about of one's own will. voluntary implies freedom and spontaneity of choice or action without external compulsion. a voluntary confession intentional stresses an awareness of an end to be achieved. the intentional concealment of vital information deliberate implies full consciousness of the nature of one's act and its consequences. deliberate acts of sabotage willing implies a readiness and eagerness to accede to or anticipate the wishes of another. willing obedience",
    "synonyms":[
      "conscious",
      "deliberate",
      "intended",
      "knowing",
      "purposeful",
      "purposive",
      "set",
      "voluntary",
      "willed",
      "willful",
      "wilful",
      "witting"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004658",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intentional fallacy":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the fallacy that the value or meaning of a work of art (as a poem) may be judged or defined in terms of the artist's intention":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224127",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intentional object":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": something whether actually existing or not that the mind thinks about : a referent of consciousness \u2014 compare phenomenology":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182750",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intentional pass":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act or an instance of deliberately walking a batter in baseball":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174841",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intentional species":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": mental images or forms produced by sensation and cognition \u2014 compare species":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094515",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intentionalism":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": act psychology":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary intentional + -ism":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u1d4al\u02cciz\u0259m",
      "-\u0259\u02ccli-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184639",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intentionally":{
    "antonyms":[
      "inadvertently",
      "unconsciously",
      "unintentionally",
      "unknowingly",
      "unwittingly"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in an intentional manner : with awareness of what one is doing : purposely":[
        "an intentionally vague response",
        "The witness intentionally gave misleading answers to the questions.",
        "The test is intentionally designed to trick students."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1673, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tench-n\u0259-l\u0113",
      "-\u02c8ten(t)-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "advisedly",
      "consciously",
      "deliberately",
      "designedly",
      "knowingly",
      "purposefully",
      "purposely",
      "purposively",
      "willfully",
      "wittingly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005136",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "intently":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": in an intent or concentrated manner : with great effort, attention, or concentration":[
        "Their eyes, when they look at you and listen intently , focus like laser beams.",
        "\u2014 Molly Haskell",
        "He turned back to face her again and stared at her most intently .",
        "\u2014 Robert C. O'Brien"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tent-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "amain",
      "arduously",
      "assiduously",
      "determinedly",
      "diligently",
      "doggedly",
      "hard",
      "hardly",
      "industriously",
      "intensely",
      "intensively",
      "laboriously",
      "mightily",
      "purposefully",
      "resolutely",
      "sedulously",
      "slavishly",
      "strenuously"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072011",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "intentness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bent (on ",
      "bound",
      "decisive",
      "determined",
      "do-or-die",
      "firm",
      "hell-bent (on ",
      "out",
      "purposeful",
      "resolute",
      "resolved",
      "set",
      "single-minded"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a usually clearly formulated or planned intention : aim":[
        "the director's intent"
      ],
      ": connotation sense 3":[],
      ": directed with strained or eager attention : concentrated":[],
      ": having the mind, attention, or will concentrated on something or some end or purpose":[
        "intent on their work"
      ],
      ": meaning , significance":[],
      ": the state of mind with which an act is done : volition":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "She thinks I'm trying to make things difficult for her, but that's not my intent .",
      "The intent of the law is to protect consumers.",
      "He was charged with assault with intent to kill.",
      "Adjective",
      "intent on finishing her sculpture in time for the group show",
      "he was so intent on his work that he didn't hear the dog bark",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "He had previously been convicted of assault with intent to kill. \u2014 Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
      "But more recently, following the overprescribing of opioids and the takeoff of the overdose crisis, courts started upholding convictions of doctors who were found guilty for prescribing in dangerous ways, regardless of intent . \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 28 June 2022",
      "The question of intent , however, can be muddy when the crime under investigation involves an action in which the defendant\u2019s state of mind can be hard to establish. \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2022",
      "The question of intent , however, can be muddy when the crime under investigation involves an action in which the defendant\u2019s state of mind can be hard to establish. \u2014 Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
      "However, experts told ABC News this charge might be more difficult to prove, going back to the question of Trump's intent . \u2014 Libby Cathey, ABC News , 16 June 2022",
      "Extreme political correctness has bulldozed any efforts at a basic human understanding of intent . \u2014 Chip Bell, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
      "The defiant party anthem doubles as a statement of intent as the newcomer lays down her approach to life, love, and the industry. \u2014 Neena Rouhani, Billboard , 13 June 2022",
      "Those requests could help the special grand jury get a better sense of Trump's intent , according to Melissa Redmon, a University of Georgia law professor and former Fulton County prosecutor. \u2014 Graham Kates, CBS News , 1 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Republicans in the state, however, remain intent on unseating Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the fall -- and the other primary candidates have their own ideas about the best strategy for achieving that. \u2014 Charles Hilu, National Review , 22 June 2022",
      "But his administration became increasingly intent on controlling its message. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
      "Paranoid and provincial \u2014 and outrageously ironic considering the United States is built upon centuries of displacement and plunder \u2014 the theory proposes that white people are endangered by interlopers intent on ousting them. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
      "This may sound a little scathing, but an adversarial relationship isn\u2019t HR\u2019s intent . \u2014 Dustin Snyder, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
      "Rainey understood that people like the Proud Boys\u2014and a future president intent on encouraging them\u2014were possible. \u2014 Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
      "But word gets out, and a PR battle ensues between the two men, with McKenzie intent on banning the gleeful culprit from all clubs across the U.K. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
      "Many mainstream politicians quickly rallied to Hern\u00e1ndez's side after his surprise showing Sunday, fiercely intent on shaping his potential administration and blocking Petro's path to the presidency. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 30 May 2022",
      "Some public health experts have concluded that the best way to stop school shootings is to keep guns \u2014 and semiautomatic rifles like the one Salvador Ramos had \u2014 out of the hands of people intent on killing schoolchildren. \u2014 Moriah Balingit, Washington Post , 29 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intentus , from past participle of intendere":"Adjective",
      "Middle English entente , from Anglo-French, from Late Latin intentus , from Latin, act of stretching out, from intendere":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tent"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intent Noun intention , intent , purpose , design , aim , end , object , objective , goal mean what one intends to accomplish or attain. intention implies little more than what one has in mind to do or bring about. announced his intention to marry intent suggests clearer formulation or greater deliberateness. the clear intent of the statute purpose suggests a more settled determination. being successful was her purpose in life design implies a more carefully calculated plan. the order of events came by accident, not design aim adds to these implications of effort directed toward attaining or accomplishing. her aim was to raise film to an art form end stresses the intended effect of action often in distinction or contrast to the action or means as such. willing to use any means to achieve his end object may equal end but more often applies to a more individually determined wish or need. his constant object was the achievement of pleasure objective implies something tangible and immediately attainable. their objective is to seize the oil fields goal suggests something attained only by prolonged effort and hardship. worked years to reach her goals",
    "synonyms":[
      "aim",
      "ambition",
      "aspiration",
      "bourne",
      "bourn",
      "design",
      "dream",
      "end",
      "goal",
      "idea",
      "ideal",
      "intention",
      "mark",
      "meaning",
      "object",
      "objective",
      "plan",
      "point",
      "pretension",
      "purpose",
      "target",
      "thing"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-161540",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "inter":{
    "antonyms":[
      "disinter",
      "exhume",
      "unearth"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": between : among : in the midst":[
        "inter crop",
        "inter penetrate",
        "inter stellar"
      ],
      ": between the limits of : within":[
        "inter tropical"
      ],
      ": carried on between":[
        "inter national"
      ],
      ": existing between":[
        "inter communal",
        "inter company"
      ],
      ": intervening":[
        "inter borough",
        "inter glacial"
      ],
      ": located between":[
        "inter station"
      ],
      ": occurring between":[
        "inter borough",
        "inter glacial"
      ],
      ": reciprocal":[
        "inter relation",
        "inter marry"
      ],
      ": reciprocally":[
        "inter relation",
        "inter marry"
      ],
      ": shared by, involving, or derived from two or more":[
        "inter faith"
      ],
      ": to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "a burial site where people have been interred for over a thousand years",
      "the soldier was interred with great honors at Arlington National Cemetery",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Emark Trucks has a model in which a driver operates the truck within city limits and then the truck does inter -city runs autonomously, which increases vehicle utilization. \u2014 Rich Blake, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "How should inter -state settling up of green subsidies work",
      "Paul Chason, adjutant for the American Legion post, said military, veteran and civic organizations will be able to inter flag ashes at the site. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "After the 1963 season, Giants coach Allie Sherman traded Huff to inter -division rival Washington. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 14 Nov. 2021",
      "At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 1 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English enteren , from Anglo-French enterrer , from Vulgar Latin *interrare , from in- + Latin terra earth \u2014 more at terrace entry 1":"Verb",
      "borrowed from Latin, prefixal use of inter \"among, between,\" going back to Indo-European *h 1 en-ter- (whence also Old Irish eter, iter \"between,\" Old Welsh ithr, Breton etre, entre, all from Celtic *enter ; Sanskrit ant\u00e1r \"within,\" Avestan a\u1e47tar\u0259 ); from a nominal derivative *h 1 enter-o- \"part located inside,\" Old Norse i\u00f0r, innr, indr \"entrails,\" i\u00f0rar (feminine plural) \"bowels,\" Greek \u00e9ntera (neuter plural) \"intestines,\" Armenian \u0259nderk\u02bc (plural), Sanskrit \u00e1ntara- \"located inside,\" Avestan antara-":"Prefix"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bury",
      "entomb",
      "hearse",
      "inhume",
      "lay",
      "put away",
      "tomb"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223507",
    "type":[
      "prefix",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interaction":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": mutual or reciprocal action or influence":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ak-sh\u0259n",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259-\u02c8rak-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "commerce",
      "dealings",
      "intercourse",
      "relation"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "she guessed from the friendly interaction that they were close to the other parents in the organization",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "From little girls to middle-aged men, everyone eagerly waited with the hopes of an interaction with Sue Bird. \u2014 Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant , 18 June 2022",
      "Some medications, like those used for heart arrhythmias and to lower cholesterol, for example, can have an unsafe interaction . \u2014 Alexa Mikhail, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
      "Personalization is table stakes in B2B. An interaction with a buyer or customer that results in a meaningful exchange of information and value must be audience-centric by design. \u2014 Forrester, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
      "In his lawsuit, Pope said Chauvin repeatedly hit him in the head with a metal flashlight during an interaction that unfolded while Chauvin was responding to domestic dispute call on September 4, 2017. \u2014 Aya Elamroussi And Andy Rose, CNN , 1 June 2022",
      "In 2020, the year George Floyd was killed during an interaction with Minneapolis police, Black murders jumped by a staggering 32% compared to 2019, according to FBI data. \u2014 Fox News , 12 May 2022",
      "In an interaction that was caught entirely on camera, Bellino never once looked at Bumgarner\u2019s hand, instead staring at him until Bumgarner said something. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, USA TODAY , 7 May 2022",
      "In an interaction that was caught entirely on camera, Bellino never once looked at Bumgarner\u2019s hand, instead staring at him until Bumgarner said something. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 6 May 2022",
      "Carroll County Sheriff Jim DeWees said members should be thoroughly vetted and anyone who has had an adverse interaction with law enforcement should not be eligible to participate. \u2014 Madison Bateman, Baltimore Sun , 21 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1832, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221108"
  },
  "interannual":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between, relating to, or involving two or more years : occurring or observed in different years":[
        "interannual changes in weather patterns"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1881, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-y\u00fc-\u0259l",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8an-y\u0259(-w\u0259)l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111216",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interbourse":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": issued simultaneously in different countries":[
        "interbourse securities"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + bourse (noun)":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135932",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interbranch":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more branches or divisions":[
        "\u2026 drowning our local librarian with inter-branch loan requests, as I read everything possible on the Caucasus.",
        "\u2014 Bruce Kirkby",
        "Courts would dismiss the suit on the grounds that the controversy over the debt is an inter-branch conflict between the president and Congress that is not for judges to resolve.",
        "\u2014 Emily Bazelon and Eric Posner"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1849, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8branch"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185443",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interbreed":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": crossbreed":[],
      ": to breed together: such as":[],
      ": to breed within a closed population":[],
      ": to cause to breed together":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Neither can interbreed with whitetail deer found in Georgia. \u2014 Parish Howard, USA TODAY , 6 Nov. 2021",
      "Where the biological species concept makes determinations based on whether organisms can interbreed , the phylogenetic view relies on histories of evolutionary descent. \u2014 Zach St. George, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2021",
      "Even organisms that are indisputably considered separate species often interbreed , especially plants. \u2014 Zach St. George, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2021",
      "It is known as the biological species concept, and posits that a species is a collection of populations of organisms that interbreed or could potentially do so. \u2014 Zach St. George, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2021",
      "Genetic analysis confirmed the two species do not interbreed . \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 25 Mar. 2021",
      "The dire wolf didn't seem to interbreed with other species \u2014 as dogs, wolves, coyotes and other canids do. \u2014 Star Tribune , 28 Jan. 2021",
      "Studying Canada goose migrations can be challenging; even bird biologists can\u2019t tell migrant and resident geese apart by appearance; the populations also mix and interbreed . \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Animals , 16 Dec. 2020",
      "The new data also show that fall-run and spring-run salmon often interbreed , Anderson says. \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 29 Oct. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1859, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8br\u0113d",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8br\u0113d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-175527",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intercalary":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": containing an intercalary period (such as a day or month)":[],
      ": inserted between other things or parts : interpolated":[],
      ": inserted in a calendar":[
        "an intercalary day"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The reflection between Sarat's private ordeal and the country's vast, ongoing calamity is sustained by a series of intercalary chapters: excerpts from history books, news reports, memoirs and speeches. \u2014 The Washington Post, OregonLive.com , 30 May 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1614, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin intercal\u0101rius, from intercal\u0101re \"to intercalate \" + -\u0101rius -ary entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-k\u0259-\u02ccler-\u0113",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ka-l\u0259-r\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051827",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intercalary meristem":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a meristem developing between regions of mature or permanent tissue (as at the base of the grass leaf) \u2014 compare apical meristem , lateral meristem":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183223",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intercalate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to insert (something, such as a day) in a calendar":[],
      ": to insert or position between or among existing elements or layers":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "between the recipes for hearty peasant dishes, the author intercalates fond reminiscences of her year in the French countryside"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin intercal\u0101tus, past participle of intercal\u0101re \"to insert (a day or month) into the calendar,\" from inter- inter- + cal\u0101re \"to announce, proclaim\" \u2014 more at low entry 3":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-k\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intercalate introduce , insert , insinuate , interpolate , intercalate , interpose , interject mean to put between or among others. introduce is a general term for bringing or placing a thing or person into a group or body already in existence. introduced a new topic into the conversation insert implies putting into a fixed or open space between or among. inserted a clause in the contract insinuate implies introducing gradually or by gentle pressure. insinuated himself into the group interpolate applies to the inserting of something extraneous or spurious. interpolated her own comments into the report intercalate suggests an intrusive inserting of something in an existing series or sequence. new chapters intercalated with the old interpose suggests inserting an obstruction or cause of delay. interpose barriers to communication interject implies an abrupt or forced introduction. interjected a question",
    "synonyms":[
      "edge in",
      "fit (in ",
      "inject",
      "insert",
      "insinuate",
      "interject",
      "interpolate",
      "interpose",
      "intersperse",
      "introduce",
      "sandwich (in ",
      "work in"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192249",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intercalibration":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": calibration between two or more instruments or sets of data":[
        "required intercalibration between all instruments",
        "an intercalibration exercise/study"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1892, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccka-l\u0259-\u02c8br\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172657",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intercameral":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between two chambers of a legislature":[
        "intercameral deadlock"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081800",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intercampus":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": between, relating to, or involving two or more campuses":[
        "intercampus transportation"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1916, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8kam-p\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082236",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intercardinal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an intercardinal point of the compass":[
        "intercardinals are four points from the cardinals and eight points from one another",
        "\u2014 H. A. Calahan"
      ],
      ": lying midway between the cardinal points":[
        "intercardinal points of the compass"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + cardinal":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"",
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074835",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intercarotid body":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": carotid body":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + carotid":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+...-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193225",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intercartilaginous ossification":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": endochondral ossification":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + cartilaginous":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+...-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232541",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intercaste":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between or involving two or more castes":[
        "intercaste marriage"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1908, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8kast",
      "also -\u02c8k\u00e4st"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091811",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intercatenated":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": chained or linked together":[
        "intercatenated ideas"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + catenated , past participle of catenate":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191742",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intercede":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to intervene between parties with a view to reconciling differences : mediate":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Their argument probably would have become violent if I hadn't interceded .",
      "When the boss accused her of lying, several other employees interceded on her behalf.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "After the mistrial, the judge presiding over the case asked the magistrate judge to intercede and mediate to determine whether the parties could agree to a settlement. \u2014 Emma Tucker, CNN , 15 May 2022",
      "Eloise goes straight to Madame Delacroix to hurl accusations, but the Featheringtons arrive in time for Pen to intercede . \u2014 Sara Netzley, EW.com , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "When teachers told him to wear a name tag the first day at school, Chesa threw such a fit that Ayers had to intercede . \u2014 Miriam Pawel, Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Mueller's final report described efforts by the Russian government to intercede on Trump's behalf but said investigators did not find sufficient evidence to establish a conspiracy with Trump's campaign. \u2014 Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Though on the agenda \u2014 but not one of the priority policies \u2014 board members also discussed a policy which would give the superintendent authority to intercede in a mandatory expulsion of a student if the youngster had special needs. \u2014 Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Patron saints are chosen to protect the interests of a country, place, group, trade or profession, or activity, and to intercede for them in heaven. \u2014 CNN , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "The international community has failed to intercede to stop mass killings, let alone genocide -- from the Turkish genocide against Armenians to the Nazi Holocaust to Cambodia to Rwanda to Darfur and to Syria, among others. \u2014 Aaron David Miller, CNN , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "For Gigi Hadid\u2014the logical one, according to Bella\u2014the wish to intercede has always been tempered by a sense that her younger sister has to be permitted to do things her way, which has sometimes meant to the point of near-collapse. \u2014 Rob Haskell, Vogue , 15 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1597, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intercedere , from inter- + cedere to go":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0113d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intercede interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf",
    "synonyms":[
      "intermediate",
      "interpose",
      "intervene",
      "mediate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065508",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interceder":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to intervene between parties with a view to reconciling differences : mediate":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Their argument probably would have become violent if I hadn't interceded .",
      "When the boss accused her of lying, several other employees interceded on her behalf.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "After the mistrial, the judge presiding over the case asked the magistrate judge to intercede and mediate to determine whether the parties could agree to a settlement. \u2014 Emma Tucker, CNN , 15 May 2022",
      "Eloise goes straight to Madame Delacroix to hurl accusations, but the Featheringtons arrive in time for Pen to intercede . \u2014 Sara Netzley, EW.com , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "When teachers told him to wear a name tag the first day at school, Chesa threw such a fit that Ayers had to intercede . \u2014 Miriam Pawel, Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Mueller's final report described efforts by the Russian government to intercede on Trump's behalf but said investigators did not find sufficient evidence to establish a conspiracy with Trump's campaign. \u2014 Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Though on the agenda \u2014 but not one of the priority policies \u2014 board members also discussed a policy which would give the superintendent authority to intercede in a mandatory expulsion of a student if the youngster had special needs. \u2014 Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Patron saints are chosen to protect the interests of a country, place, group, trade or profession, or activity, and to intercede for them in heaven. \u2014 CNN , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "The international community has failed to intercede to stop mass killings, let alone genocide -- from the Turkish genocide against Armenians to the Nazi Holocaust to Cambodia to Rwanda to Darfur and to Syria, among others. \u2014 Aaron David Miller, CNN , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "For Gigi Hadid\u2014the logical one, according to Bella\u2014the wish to intercede has always been tempered by a sense that her younger sister has to be permitted to do things her way, which has sometimes meant to the point of near-collapse. \u2014 Rob Haskell, Vogue , 15 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1597, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intercedere , from inter- + cedere to go":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0113d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intercede interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf",
    "synonyms":[
      "intermediate",
      "interpose",
      "intervene",
      "mediate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064248",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intercept":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a message, code, or signal that is intercepted (as by monitoring radio communications)":[],
      ": prevent , hinder":[],
      ": the distance from the origin to a point where a graph crosses a coordinate axis":[],
      ": to gain possession of (an opponent's pass)":[],
      ": to include (part of a curve, surface, or solid) between two points, curves, or surfaces":[
        "the part of a circumference intercepted between two radii"
      ],
      ": to intercept a pass thrown by (an opponent)":[],
      ": to interrupt communication or connection with":[],
      ": to receive (a communication or signal directed elsewhere) usually secretly":[],
      ": to stop, seize, or interrupt in progress or course or before arrival":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "Detectives have been intercepting her mail.",
      "The police intercepted him as he was walking out.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Anti-ballistic missile systems are meant to shield a country from potential attacks by using projectiles to intercept incoming missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 19 June 2022",
      "Two previously undisclosed projects: a fast armed drone that Luckey says is intended, in some cases, to replace manned fighters in the job of scrambling to intercept air-zone violators. \u2014 Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
      "They weren\u2019t built for dogfights in the air\u2014their original intent was to intercept the bombers cruising at altitude and dropping ordinance straight down from on high. \u2014 Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2022",
      "The Pentagon says Russian forces have repeatedly attempted to intercept shipments from the U.S. and NATO countries, which generally enter Ukraine over land from its western flank. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 21 May 2022",
      "Seven different Titans had at least half a sack, and safety Amani Hooker became the first defender to intercept Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow in six games. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 23 Jan. 2022",
      "The latter have to first identify a missile, then calculate a trajectory to intercept it, and finally launch and guide an interceptor (such as another missile) to destroy the incoming weapon. \u2014 Jason Sherman, Scientific American , 2 June 2022",
      "But the specter of obliteration also sparked research into missile defenses: How to intercept and destroy incoming missiles -- an effort that reached its zenith with President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program in the 1980s. \u2014 Tim Lister, CNN , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "Cappelletti still is the only pro to run and throw for a 2-point conversion, catch and intercept a pass and return a punt and a kickoff, all in the same season. \u2014 John Powers, BostonGlobe.com , 13 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "As ships are moving targets, the missile uses a radar-seeker to complete the intercept . \u2014 Sebastien Roblin, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "As short-range search-and-rescue, armed interdiction, and air- intercept assets, the units that fly these aging platforms have little to no backup. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "The intercept was credited to Security Services of Ukraine (SBU), and that identification was prominently displayed, at least in CNN's reporting of it. \u2014 David Zurawik, CNN , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Telecom equipment makers like Nokia are often required to ensure that such systems, known as lawful intercept , function smoothly within communications networks. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "The F-15s had a successful intercept on the MiG 23s and were in a position to shoot them down. \u2014 CBS News , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Before the intercept can be completed, more aircraft appear over the Arctic; an attack is originating from Russia. \u2014 Frank O\u2019brien, Ars Technica , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "The entire intercept is flown hands-off, with the pilot only adjusting the throttle. \u2014 Frank O\u2019brien, Ars Technica , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "The intercept , if successful, would take place northwest of Hawaii. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 22 June 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Verb",
      "1821, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin interceptus , past participle of intercipere , from inter- + capere to take, seize \u2014 more at heave entry 1":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccsept",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sept"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "block",
      "interdict",
      "pick off"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131305",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interception":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the action of intercepting":[],
      ": the state of being intercepted":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Noah was a sophomore last season and had an interception late in the game at Valencia. \u2014 John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2022",
      "Clark Montessori's Terrance Malone, Western Hills' Ibrahim Sidibe and Wyoming's Max Wilking also recorded sacks while North College Hill's Syncere Dubose had an interception . \u2014 Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer , 11 June 2022",
      "Elston returned the interception on Michigan\u2019s first possession of the second half 33 yards to the Panthers 18-yard line. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 12 June 2022",
      "Jaiden Francois picked off quarterback Mikey Keene in the second quarter of UCF\u2019s spring game last weekend and returned the interception for 80 yards. \u2014 Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "After last week's 67-20 drubbing of the Duke City, Merriweather returned an interception 35 yards for a score on a night when the Rattlers intercepted four passes. \u2014 Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "One of Hogsett's favorite memories in the stands was when EJ returned an interception for a touchdown against Lawrence Central High School in September 2020. \u2014 Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "He would\u2019ve been sacked on at least three plays, saw an interception between touchdown throws to Hill dropped, and saw Waddle drop a pass near the sideline. \u2014 Safid Deen, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
      "But given that the Russian military has had little success in stopping Ukrainian drone strikes inside Ukraine, a Ukrainian Gray Eagle flying low across the Russian countryside might evade detection and interception . \u2014 Michael Peck, Forbes , 2 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sep-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052630",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interceptive":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": tending to intercept":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intercept entry 1 + -ive":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190258",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interceptor":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The latter have to first identify a missile, then calculate a trajectory to intercept it, and finally launch and guide an interceptor (such as another missile) to destroy the incoming weapon. \u2014 Jason Sherman, Scientific American , 2 June 2022",
      "The title comes from the fact that the action takes place on a nuclear missile interceptor base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 29 May 2022",
      "The MiG-31 Foxhound, a Cold War-era long-range supersonic interceptor originally designed to defend Soviet airspace from incoming American bombers, acts as carrier vehicle for the Kinzhal. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "The interceptor carries that wastewater to other interceptors or to sewer treatment facilities. \u2014 Beth Mlady, cleveland , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Interceptor follows Captain JJ Collins, played by Pataky, as she's assigned to a missile interceptor base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. \u2014 Julia Moore, PEOPLE.com , 5 May 2022",
      "The United States launched an interceptor missile from a warship in 2008 to destroy a malfunctioning spy satellite. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "The idea is that even if the defender has enough interceptor missiles to go around, missiles like Sarmat can overwhelm the defender\u2019s ability to shoot down threatening missiles at a specific moment, allowing at least some to slip through. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "The kind of direct-ascent weapon that the Biden administration is committing not to fire relies on interceptor missiles that travel from the Earth's surface to strike a satellite target hundreds of miles into space. \u2014 CBS News , 19 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1598, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sep-t\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064643",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intercession":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of another":[],
      ": the act of interceding":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Those looking for saintly intercession can choose from a pantheon of holy helpers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
      "But this will not just be a Democratic problem: Barring the intercession of the courts, neither party has been able to accomplish many of its governance objectives lately. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
      "Promises and Miracles is a docu-series exploring the promises made to immaterial beings when a miracle is granted through their intercession . \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 23 May 2022",
      "But the Emira is so innately drivable you\u2019d have to be an idiot to lose the handle, with or without electronic intercession . \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Their affair inevitably grows messy, requiring the intercession of Isak (Steve Sang-Hyun Noh), a kind traveling Christian missionary. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Praise houses served as places of religious intercession , exhortation and devotion, and also as sites for conflict resolution, political development and education. \u2014 Imani Perry, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "That means they can be beatified without having to have a miracle attributed to his intercession . \u2014 Marcos Alem\u00c1n, ajc , 22 Jan. 2022",
      "Californians for Equal Rights Foundation said the curriculum\u2019s chant was invoking the names of Aztec deities and asking for their intercession . \u2014 Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Jan. 2022"
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin intercession-, intercessio , from intercedere":""
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      "Latin intercess us (past participle) + English -ive":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091444",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Those looking for saintly intercession can choose from a pantheon of holy helpers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 May 2022",
      "But this will not just be a Democratic problem: Barring the intercession of the courts, neither party has been able to accomplish many of its governance objectives lately. \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
      "Promises and Miracles is a docu-series exploring the promises made to immaterial beings when a miracle is granted through their intercession . \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 23 May 2022",
      "But the Emira is so innately drivable you\u2019d have to be an idiot to lose the handle, with or without electronic intercession . \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Their affair inevitably grows messy, requiring the intercession of Isak (Steve Sang-Hyun Noh), a kind traveling Christian missionary. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Praise houses served as places of religious intercession , exhortation and devotion, and also as sites for conflict resolution, political development and education. \u2014 Imani Perry, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "That means they can be beatified without having to have a miracle attributed to his intercession . \u2014 Marcos Alem\u00c1n, ajc , 22 Jan. 2022",
      "Californians for Equal Rights Foundation said the curriculum\u2019s chant was invoking the names of Aztec deities and asking for their intercession . \u2014 Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Jan. 2022"
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin intercession-, intercessio , from intercedere":""
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      ": existing between or involving two or more chains (as of amino acids)":[
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      "1600, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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      ": a junction of two or more highways by a system of separate levels that permit traffic to pass from one to another without the crossing of traffic streams":[],
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      "Verb",
      "We interchanged the two tires.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The changes to interchange rates -- which also include some decreases, such as certain transactions under $5, the credit card companies said -- were meant to go into effect in April 2020, but were postponed due to the pandemic. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 18 May 2022",
      "In the Hebrew language, the guttural letters ayin and chet often interchange , rendering litz\u2019ok and litzchok the same. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com , 10 Jan. 2022",
      "Indiana State Police responded to the call about a pedestrian hit near the I-465 and I-74 interchange , around 5:15 a.m. Saturday morning. \u2014 Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star , 12 June 2021",
      "The merger could allow trains traveling north and south to avoid having to interchange cars and potentially bypass Chicago, a busy and often congested hub in the U.S. freight system. \u2014 Jacquie Mcnish, WSJ , 21 Mar. 2021",
      "The mothers continued to interchange their litters for some time until one day Chilli moved into new territory, taking all the cubs with her. \u2014 Margie Goldsmith, Forbes , 11 Mar. 2021",
      "These goggles have an amazing ability to quickly interchange their high-contrast lenses protected with smudge, scratch, anti-fog, and moisture-resistant coating. \u2014 Popular Science , 23 Feb. 2021",
      "Lamps, available in a variety of designs and prices and typically scattered throughout a home, are easy to interchange . \u2014 Chris Bynum, NOLA.com , 13 Aug. 2020",
      "More than 40 acts performed on six stages, interchanging at rapid speed. \u2014 Anne Nickoloff, cleveland , 23 Feb. 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The current Route 7 /Route 15, or Merritt Parkway, is a partial interchange . \u2014 Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022",
      "The church will face demolition as the Utah Department of Transportation converts Bangerter Highway into a freeway-style interchange at 4700 South. \u2014 Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "The months-long closure is for the rebuilding of 12 Mile Road and the new diverging diamond interchange as part of the Modernize 75 project. \u2014 Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "The new interchange is planned to: Add on- and off-ramps at Lindsay Road. \u2014 Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "The fifth project \u2014 a full Beltway interchange at the Greenbelt Metro station in Prince George\u2019s \u2014 is slated to receive $3 million for engineering. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Sep. 2021",
      "For those driving past the 24-acre site southwest of the Interstate 80/Halsted interchange , the work might not be very obvious as most of it will be taking place below ground, with the installation of utility lines and similar infrastructure. \u2014 Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s part of a busy retail area next to a highway interchange - at Interstate 271 and Mayfield Road - and near the Eastgate Shopping Center. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "According to San Antonio police, an 18-wheeler transporting the cattle rolled over on its side while driving southbound at about 10 p.m. on I-37 near the Interstate 10 interchange on the South Side. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Feb. 2022"
    ],
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English entrechaungen , from Anglo-French *entrechanger , from entre- inter- + changer to change":"Verb"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ch\u0101nj",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024129",
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    "antonyms":[
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      "the concept of interchangeable parts revolutionized the mass production of manufactured goods",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The lids are all interchangeable amongst the various Rambler bottles that range in size from 12 ounces to 64 ounces. \u2014 Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping , 22 June 2022",
      "Straps have a slight iridescent glow, and are interchangeable , a must-have in the current world of ladies\u2019 watches. \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "The numerous Dodger announcers are all serviceable, interchangeable and vanilla. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 June 2022",
      "The fight for the Good Life is an interchangeable mission that works on all fronts for a better world. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 11 June 2022",
      "In my opinion trap music in the past 5 years was hijacked by dubstep and bass and now are almost interchangeable . \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 10 June 2022",
      "Our matching bright smiles and our interchangeable eyes don\u2019t compensate for our similarly receding hairlines. \u2014 Nabil Ayers, Rolling Stone , 3 June 2022",
      "Below that there\u2019s another layer of largely interchangeable joints. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 2 June 2022",
      "Resale, re-commerce, secondhand, and thrift are all interchangeable names for a rising sector in retail\u2014the indecisive naming, both a sign of its youth and potential. \u2014 Brin Snelling, Forbes , 1 June 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ch\u0101n-j\u0259-b\u0259l"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114338",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[
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      "dissever",
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      "unhitch",
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      "unyoke"
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      ": to connect with one another":[]
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      "The systems are interconnected with a series of wires.",
      "The lessons are designed to show students how the two subjects interconnect .",
      "a series of interconnecting stories",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "When a user\u2019s automation journey doesn\u2019t interconnect disparate workflows, they\u2019re left with an array of dissociated individual tasks and are unable to see at a high level how to build more advanced automations. \u2014 Tina Huang, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
      "Just as Airbnb and Uber make a marketplace out of rooms and cars owned by others, participants in the Quiet Platforms network open and interconnect their supply chain infrastructures. \u2014 Niall Murphy, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "The plan was to push the development of an energy infrastructure that would interconnect and feed solar, wind and other carbon-free sources of electricity directly into the Rocky Mountain Power system. \u2014 Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 Feb. 2022",
      "Lawrence Berkeley National Lab data shows approximately 670 GW of renewables and 200 GW of storage were waiting to interconnect to the bulk transmission system at the end of 2020. \u2014 Energy Innovation: Policy And Technology, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
      "Two Republicans are co-sponsoring draft legislation, LRB 1550/1, which would specify third-party ownership is legal and mandate utilities interconnect such projects. \u2014 Kari Lydersen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "The software also interconnect 's with Axon's Taser 7 products, further streamlining the functions of all three enforcement tools. \u2014 Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 Sep. 2021",
      "Huge systems have been built up over the years and may interconnect many departments. \u2014 Anupriya Ramraj, Forbes , 25 June 2021",
      "But first, firms must interconnect their customers, employees, data, processes, and people by using best practices and intelligent technologies. \u2014 Forbes , 6 May 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1865, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-k\u0259-\u02c8nekt"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "conjugate",
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      "hook",
      "interlink",
      "join",
      "link",
      "yoke"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232827",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
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  "intercooler":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a device for cooling a fluid (such as air) between successive heat-generating processes":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This was a necessity, as the twin-turbo V-6 requires a veritable club sandwich of heat exchangers, with an air-to-liquid intercooler and transmission and oil coolers joining the usual radiator and AC condenser. \u2014 Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver , 16 May 2022",
      "The lesser-power version has a 10.4:1 compression ratio, and its intake charge is pressurized by the twin turbos with up to 22.4 pounds of boost before being chilled by a water-to-air intercooler . \u2014 David Beard, Car and Driver , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "That\u2019s a boost of over 120 hp compared to the regular GT500, which can be attributed to a massive 3.8-liter Shelby by Whipple supercharger with a high-volume intercooler and heat exchanger, according to the shop. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "The kit includes the supercharger and necessary hardware as well as a dual-pass intercooler system. \u2014 Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver , 9 Nov. 2021",
      "Barnes\u2019 truck spent a week at Banks\u2019 garage, where a new cold air intake, a new exhaust system and a replacement intercooler was installed along with a turbocharger upgrade. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Sep. 2021",
      "Additional changes include dethrottling the intake, upgrading the dry sump oil system, and switching to an air-to-air intercooler . \u2014 Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver , 28 Oct. 2020",
      "Unlike a typical automotive turbocharging system, notably missing is an intercooler . \u2014 David Beard, Car and Driver , 14 Feb. 2020",
      "The supercharger, along with an air-to-liquid intercooler , is inverted and tucked into the V8\u2019s valley. \u2014 Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle , 14 Apr. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1899, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8k\u00fc-l\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104331",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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  "intercorporate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between, involving, or belonging to two or more corporations":[
        "intercorporate loans/investments",
        "intercorporate relationships",
        "the intercorporate trading of supposedly confidential Social Security numbers has mushroomed.",
        "\u2014 William Safire"
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1868, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8k\u022fr-p(\u0259-)r\u0259t"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085750",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": connection or dealings between persons or groups":[],
      ": exchange especially of thoughts or feelings : communion":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the unspoken rules of social intercourse",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "God told Onan to have intercourse with his dead brother\u2019s wife. \u2014 Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health , 8 June 2022",
      "If your wife doesn\u2019t feel the pressure to have intercourse , being intimate with you should help to draw you two closer. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 16 May 2022",
      "If your wife doesn\u2019t feel the pressure to have intercourse , being intimate with you should help to draw you two closer. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 16 May 2022",
      "If your wife doesn\u2019t feel the pressure to have intercourse , being intimate with you should help to draw you two closer. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 16 May 2022",
      "Fertilization does not mean pregnancy, some experts say There is little debate about the mechanics of pregnancy: After intercourse , sperm travels through the uterus and into the fallopian tubes to fertilize an egg during ovulation. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 May 2022",
      "The cozy sea-green space is where teenage Ruby, the sole hearing member of a deaf family, chides her parents for engaging in cacophonous intercourse while a crush is visiting. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "The cozy sea-green space is where teenage Ruby, the sole hearing member of a deaf family, chides her parents for engaging in cacophonous intercourse while a crush is visiting. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "However, symptoms may include a change in vaginal discharge and bleeding in between periods or after intercourse . \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 23 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English intercurse , probably from Middle French entrecours , from Medieval Latin intercursus , from Latin, act of running between, from intercurrere to run between, from inter- + currere to run \u2014 more at car":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-\u02cck\u014d(\u0259)rs, -\u02cck\u022f(\u0259)rs",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "commerce",
      "dealings",
      "interaction",
      "relation"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195756",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  "intercross":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an instance or a product of crossbreeding":[],
      ": cross sense 8":[],
      ": interbreed , hybridize":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "that pink rose is an intercross of red and white roses"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1711, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb",
      "1859, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8kr\u022fs",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8kr\u022fs",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02cckr\u022fs",
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-\u02cckr\u022fs"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
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      "crossbred",
      "crossbreed",
      "hybrid",
      "mongrel"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003134",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": dependent upon one another : mutually dependent":[
        "interdependent statistical variables",
        "\u2026 the interdependent gyrations of double suns \u2026",
        "\u2014 James Joyce",
        "\u2026 the interrelationships between social groupings were reciprocal and interdependent .",
        "\u2014 Howard P. Chudacoff",
        "In an interdependent world, every nation is dependent upon every other.",
        "\u2014 Michael Novak"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This change looks like interdependent relationships within the family and beyond, and communities that sustain themselves through mutual acts of care. \u2014 Sarah Hoenicke Flores, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
      "Russia and Europe remain energy- interdependent and gas has flowed throughout all manner of regional conflicts. \u2014 Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
      "The fate of workers, especially female mill workers, and the role of education were considered interdependent . \u2014 Helen A. Cooper, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
      "Like Howard\u2019s interdependent forest, art is not something separate from history or humanity or memory or society. \u2014 Jeff Macgregor, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 May 2022",
      "Marketing and branding are complementary, interconnected and interdependent . \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Oyamada\u2019s ecological interpretation of labor\u2014an interdependent web of strangers, siblings, animals, and nature\u2014feels especially suited to a future that will be precarious for workers as well as the environment. \u2014 Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "The financial ecosystem is sophisticated, comprising many different, interdependent players who cannot change the system alone. \u2014 Hiro Mizuno, Time , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "Over time, the hive of Stuyvesant Street businesses came to function as a world unto itself, all within a few yards of one another and all of them interdependent . \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1838, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-di-\u02c8pen-d\u0259nt"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111447",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "interdetermination":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": cause and effect operating among several factors : multiple causation":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + determination":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202350",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interdetermined":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": mutually determined":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + determined , past participle of determine":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061202",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interdialectal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1936, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccd\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8lek-t\u1d4al"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000157",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interdict":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ban",
      "bar",
      "enjoin",
      "forbid",
      "outlaw",
      "prohibit",
      "proscribe"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district":[],
      ": a prohibitory decree":[],
      ": intercept sense 1a":[
        "interdict drug shipments"
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      ": to destroy, damage, or cut off (something, such as an enemy line of supply) by firepower to stop or hamper an enemy":[],
      ": to forbid in a usually formal or authoritative manner":[],
      ": to lay under or prohibit by an interdict":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the church's controversial interdict against the use of birth control devices",
      "Verb",
      "the state legislature moved to interdict the use of radar-detection devices by motorists",
      "federal agents are able to interdict only a small percentage of the narcotic shipments into the country",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Environmental and community groups in South Africa's Eastern Cape province won an urgent interdict to stop the surveys in December last year and are now asking the court to permanently halt the operations. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 2 June 2022",
      "South African Revenue Service Commissioner Tom Moyane will seek a legal interdict against Cyril Ramaphosa if the president does not stop trying to remove him from the tax agency, according to people familiar with the matter. \u2014 Paul Vecchiatto, Bloomberg.com , 19 Mar. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "And the trucks carrying the munitions the Russians want to interdict are just a small part of a much larger flow of goods and commerce moving around in Poland and Ukraine and across the border. \u2014 Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Then there are the border crossers that agents are unable to interdict . \u2014 Washington Post , 3 June 2021",
      "Agents responded to try to interdict the boat and saw several people in the water who appeared to be in distress near Children\u2019s Pool around 5:20 a.m., Stephenson said. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 May 2021",
      "Bowman argued the administration should move to interdict arms shipments to Yemen, depriving the Houthis of a steady supply of weapons. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Mar. 2021",
      "No one was arrested, and the ultralight flew back to Mexico before federal agents were able to interdict it. \u2014 Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner , 4 Dec. 2020",
      "Large physical barriers are considered most effective in more urban areas of the border, where agents have less time to interdict someone and prevent them from getting into a vehicle. \u2014 Nick Miroff, Washington Post , 2 July 2020",
      "His ability to interdict grain shipments led to hardship inside the walls. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 9 June 2020",
      "Since closing the border between Michigan and Canada to all nonessential travel in March to limit the spread of coronavirus, U.S. Customs agents have interdicted firearms and nearly 3,000 pounds of narcotics, most of which was marijuana. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, alteration of entredite , from Anglo-French, from Latin interdictum prohibition, from neuter of interdictus , past participle of interdicere to interpose, forbid, from inter- + dicere to say \u2014 more at diction":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccdikt",
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-\u02ccdikt",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8dikt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interdict Verb forbid , prohibit , interdict , inhibit mean to debar one from doing something or to order that something not be done. forbid implies that the order is from one in authority and that obedience is expected. smoking is forbidden in the building prohibit suggests the issuing of laws, statutes, or regulations. prohibited the sale of liquor interdict implies prohibition by civil or ecclesiastical authority usually for a given time or a declared purpose. practices interdicted by the church inhibit implies restraints or restrictions that amount to prohibitions, not only by authority but also by the exigencies of the time or situation. conditions inhibiting the growth of free trade",
    "synonyms":[
      "ban",
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      "interdiction",
      "prohibition",
      "proscription",
      "veto"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064524",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interdicted":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ban",
      "bar",
      "enjoin",
      "forbid",
      "outlaw",
      "prohibit",
      "proscribe"
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      ": a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district":[],
      ": a prohibitory decree":[],
      ": intercept sense 1a":[
        "interdict drug shipments"
      ],
      ": to destroy, damage, or cut off (something, such as an enemy line of supply) by firepower to stop or hamper an enemy":[],
      ": to forbid in a usually formal or authoritative manner":[],
      ": to lay under or prohibit by an interdict":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the church's controversial interdict against the use of birth control devices",
      "Verb",
      "the state legislature moved to interdict the use of radar-detection devices by motorists",
      "federal agents are able to interdict only a small percentage of the narcotic shipments into the country",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Environmental and community groups in South Africa's Eastern Cape province won an urgent interdict to stop the surveys in December last year and are now asking the court to permanently halt the operations. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 2 June 2022",
      "South African Revenue Service Commissioner Tom Moyane will seek a legal interdict against Cyril Ramaphosa if the president does not stop trying to remove him from the tax agency, according to people familiar with the matter. \u2014 Paul Vecchiatto, Bloomberg.com , 19 Mar. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "And the trucks carrying the munitions the Russians want to interdict are just a small part of a much larger flow of goods and commerce moving around in Poland and Ukraine and across the border. \u2014 Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Then there are the border crossers that agents are unable to interdict . \u2014 Washington Post , 3 June 2021",
      "Agents responded to try to interdict the boat and saw several people in the water who appeared to be in distress near Children\u2019s Pool around 5:20 a.m., Stephenson said. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 May 2021",
      "Bowman argued the administration should move to interdict arms shipments to Yemen, depriving the Houthis of a steady supply of weapons. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Mar. 2021",
      "No one was arrested, and the ultralight flew back to Mexico before federal agents were able to interdict it. \u2014 Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner , 4 Dec. 2020",
      "Large physical barriers are considered most effective in more urban areas of the border, where agents have less time to interdict someone and prevent them from getting into a vehicle. \u2014 Nick Miroff, Washington Post , 2 July 2020",
      "His ability to interdict grain shipments led to hardship inside the walls. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 9 June 2020",
      "Since closing the border between Michigan and Canada to all nonessential travel in March to limit the spread of coronavirus, U.S. Customs agents have interdicted firearms and nearly 3,000 pounds of narcotics, most of which was marijuana. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, alteration of entredite , from Anglo-French, from Latin interdictum prohibition, from neuter of interdictus , past participle of interdicere to interpose, forbid, from inter- + dicere to say \u2014 more at diction":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8dikt",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccdikt",
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-\u02ccdikt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interdict Verb forbid , prohibit , interdict , inhibit mean to debar one from doing something or to order that something not be done. forbid implies that the order is from one in authority and that obedience is expected. smoking is forbidden in the building prohibit suggests the issuing of laws, statutes, or regulations. prohibited the sale of liquor interdict implies prohibition by civil or ecclesiastical authority usually for a given time or a declared purpose. practices interdicted by the church inhibit implies restraints or restrictions that amount to prohibitions, not only by authority but also by the exigencies of the time or situation. conditions inhibiting the growth of free trade",
    "synonyms":[
      "ban",
      "embargo",
      "interdiction",
      "prohibition",
      "proscription",
      "veto"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130813",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interdicting":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ban",
      "bar",
      "enjoin",
      "forbid",
      "outlaw",
      "prohibit",
      "proscribe"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district":[],
      ": a prohibitory decree":[],
      ": intercept sense 1a":[
        "interdict drug shipments"
      ],
      ": to destroy, damage, or cut off (something, such as an enemy line of supply) by firepower to stop or hamper an enemy":[],
      ": to forbid in a usually formal or authoritative manner":[],
      ": to lay under or prohibit by an interdict":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the church's controversial interdict against the use of birth control devices",
      "Verb",
      "the state legislature moved to interdict the use of radar-detection devices by motorists",
      "federal agents are able to interdict only a small percentage of the narcotic shipments into the country",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Environmental and community groups in South Africa's Eastern Cape province won an urgent interdict to stop the surveys in December last year and are now asking the court to permanently halt the operations. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 2 June 2022",
      "South African Revenue Service Commissioner Tom Moyane will seek a legal interdict against Cyril Ramaphosa if the president does not stop trying to remove him from the tax agency, according to people familiar with the matter. \u2014 Paul Vecchiatto, Bloomberg.com , 19 Mar. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "And the trucks carrying the munitions the Russians want to interdict are just a small part of a much larger flow of goods and commerce moving around in Poland and Ukraine and across the border. \u2014 Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Then there are the border crossers that agents are unable to interdict . \u2014 Washington Post , 3 June 2021",
      "Agents responded to try to interdict the boat and saw several people in the water who appeared to be in distress near Children\u2019s Pool around 5:20 a.m., Stephenson said. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 May 2021",
      "Bowman argued the administration should move to interdict arms shipments to Yemen, depriving the Houthis of a steady supply of weapons. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Mar. 2021",
      "No one was arrested, and the ultralight flew back to Mexico before federal agents were able to interdict it. \u2014 Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner , 4 Dec. 2020",
      "Large physical barriers are considered most effective in more urban areas of the border, where agents have less time to interdict someone and prevent them from getting into a vehicle. \u2014 Nick Miroff, Washington Post , 2 July 2020",
      "His ability to interdict grain shipments led to hardship inside the walls. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 9 June 2020",
      "Since closing the border between Michigan and Canada to all nonessential travel in March to limit the spread of coronavirus, U.S. Customs agents have interdicted firearms and nearly 3,000 pounds of narcotics, most of which was marijuana. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, alteration of entredite , from Anglo-French, from Latin interdictum prohibition, from neuter of interdictus , past participle of interdicere to interpose, forbid, from inter- + dicere to say \u2014 more at diction":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8dikt",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccdikt",
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-\u02ccdikt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interdict Verb forbid , prohibit , interdict , inhibit mean to debar one from doing something or to order that something not be done. forbid implies that the order is from one in authority and that obedience is expected. smoking is forbidden in the building prohibit suggests the issuing of laws, statutes, or regulations. prohibited the sale of liquor interdict implies prohibition by civil or ecclesiastical authority usually for a given time or a declared purpose. practices interdicted by the church inhibit implies restraints or restrictions that amount to prohibitions, not only by authority but also by the exigencies of the time or situation. conditions inhibiting the growth of free trade",
    "synonyms":[
      "ban",
      "embargo",
      "interdiction",
      "prohibition",
      "proscription",
      "veto"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100142",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interdiction":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ban",
      "bar",
      "enjoin",
      "forbid",
      "outlaw",
      "prohibit",
      "proscribe"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district":[],
      ": a prohibitory decree":[],
      ": intercept sense 1a":[
        "interdict drug shipments"
      ],
      ": to destroy, damage, or cut off (something, such as an enemy line of supply) by firepower to stop or hamper an enemy":[],
      ": to forbid in a usually formal or authoritative manner":[],
      ": to lay under or prohibit by an interdict":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the church's controversial interdict against the use of birth control devices",
      "Verb",
      "the state legislature moved to interdict the use of radar-detection devices by motorists",
      "federal agents are able to interdict only a small percentage of the narcotic shipments into the country",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Environmental and community groups in South Africa's Eastern Cape province won an urgent interdict to stop the surveys in December last year and are now asking the court to permanently halt the operations. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 2 June 2022",
      "South African Revenue Service Commissioner Tom Moyane will seek a legal interdict against Cyril Ramaphosa if the president does not stop trying to remove him from the tax agency, according to people familiar with the matter. \u2014 Paul Vecchiatto, Bloomberg.com , 19 Mar. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "And the trucks carrying the munitions the Russians want to interdict are just a small part of a much larger flow of goods and commerce moving around in Poland and Ukraine and across the border. \u2014 Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Then there are the border crossers that agents are unable to interdict . \u2014 Washington Post , 3 June 2021",
      "Agents responded to try to interdict the boat and saw several people in the water who appeared to be in distress near Children\u2019s Pool around 5:20 a.m., Stephenson said. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 May 2021",
      "Bowman argued the administration should move to interdict arms shipments to Yemen, depriving the Houthis of a steady supply of weapons. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Mar. 2021",
      "No one was arrested, and the ultralight flew back to Mexico before federal agents were able to interdict it. \u2014 Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner , 4 Dec. 2020",
      "Large physical barriers are considered most effective in more urban areas of the border, where agents have less time to interdict someone and prevent them from getting into a vehicle. \u2014 Nick Miroff, Washington Post , 2 July 2020",
      "His ability to interdict grain shipments led to hardship inside the walls. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 9 June 2020",
      "Since closing the border between Michigan and Canada to all nonessential travel in March to limit the spread of coronavirus, U.S. Customs agents have interdicted firearms and nearly 3,000 pounds of narcotics, most of which was marijuana. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 19 May 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, alteration of entredite , from Anglo-French, from Latin interdictum prohibition, from neuter of interdictus , past participle of interdicere to interpose, forbid, from inter- + dicere to say \u2014 more at diction":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccdikt",
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-\u02ccdikt",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8dikt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interdict Verb forbid , prohibit , interdict , inhibit mean to debar one from doing something or to order that something not be done. forbid implies that the order is from one in authority and that obedience is expected. smoking is forbidden in the building prohibit suggests the issuing of laws, statutes, or regulations. prohibited the sale of liquor interdict implies prohibition by civil or ecclesiastical authority usually for a given time or a declared purpose. practices interdicted by the church inhibit implies restraints or restrictions that amount to prohibitions, not only by authority but also by the exigencies of the time or situation. conditions inhibiting the growth of free trade",
    "synonyms":[
      "ban",
      "embargo",
      "interdiction",
      "prohibition",
      "proscription",
      "veto"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191204",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interdictum":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interdict , injunction":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073554",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interdiffusion":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the process of diffusing and mixing freely so as to approach a homogeneous mixture":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1872, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-di-\u02c8fy\u00fc-zh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113528",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interest":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a feeling that accompanies or causes special attention to something or someone : concern":[],
      ": something or someone that arouses such attention":[],
      ": a quality in a thing or person arousing interest":[],
      ": a charge for borrowed money generally a percentage of the amount borrowed":[],
      ": the profit in goods or money that is made on invested capital":[],
      ": an excess above what is due or expected":[
        "returned the insults with interest"
      ],
      ": right, title, or legal share in something":[],
      ": participation in advantage and responsibility":[],
      ": business , company":[],
      ": special interest":[],
      ": to engage the attention or arouse the interest of":[],
      ": to induce or persuade to participate or engage":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259st",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259rst",
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259st; \u02c8in-t\u0259-r\u0259st, -\u02ccrest",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-r\u0259st",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccrest",
      "\u02c8in-t(\u0259-)r\u0259st",
      "-\u02cctrest"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "claim",
      "share",
      "stake"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "absorb",
      "bemuse",
      "busy",
      "catch up",
      "engage",
      "engross",
      "enthrall",
      "enthral",
      "enwrap",
      "fascinate",
      "grip",
      "immerse",
      "intrigue",
      "involve",
      "occupy"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "She told us about her lifelong interest in music.",
      "The kids listened to the speaker for a little while, but then lost interest .",
      "The speaker wasn't able to hold their interest .",
      "She took an active interest in the political debate.",
      "He expressed an interest in learning more about photography.",
      "The stories about his personal life add interest to the book.",
      "I thought this article might be of interest to you.",
      "We visited many places of interest on our vacation.",
      "The price of the ticket was a matter of interest to everyone.",
      "Music is one of her many interests .",
      "Verb",
      "Military history doesn't really interest me.",
      "It might interest you to know that the woman in this photograph is your great-grandmother.",
      "It interested me to learn that she had once lived in California.",
      "The salesman tried to interest me in a more expensive computer.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "With inflation rising and the Fed raising interest rates, Freeport has fallen 26% this year. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
      "The Federal Reserve is trying to combat runaway price increases by raising interest rates. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
      "European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the bank would raise interest rates gradually over the coming months, veering from a global push toward faster rate increases as inflation broadens and intensifies around the world. \u2014 Tom Fairless, WSJ , 28 June 2022",
      "In an effort to tamp down on inflation, the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates by three-quarters of a percent, the steepest hike in nearly 30 years. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 June 2022",
      "The higher car prices, and rising interest rates, push borrowing costs higher. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022",
      "Stocks closed broadly lower on Wall Street Tuesday, after a discouraging snapshot of U.S. consumer confidence stoked investors' worries about the risk that sharply higher interest rates and pervasive inflation could trigger a recession. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
      "The ruble's rally has created some problems for Russia's central bank, which has taken steps to bring its currency closer to historic levels, including loosening capital controls and lowering interest rates. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 28 June 2022",
      "With inflation at historic highs and the Fed raising interest rates as a result, risk assets are taking a hit, and crypto markets have been crashing for months. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Start by asking some hard questions about the sectors and companies that interest you. \u2014 Aliza Knox, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
      "Simply click on \u2018Add Topic\u2019 for any subjects that interest you and they will be added to your news feed. \u2014 Subscriber Services Team, The Enquirer , 22 June 2022",
      "Kelly says stories that interest her are about humanity, not controversy. \u2014 Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
      "Another reason the teens gave for not playing in high school is that their school does not offer sports that interest them. \u2014 Fred Bowen, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
      "My concern is that all of the schools that interest me rank at or near the top in the college rankings. \u2014 Gerald Bradshaw, chicagotribune.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Google does an excellent job of surfacing quality content that may actually interest you. \u2014 Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "To lower the asking price for Raphinha, the Reds will allegedly offer Japan international Takumi Minamino in a part exchange deal that could interest Leeds. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "Most artists would choose to ignore these allegations \u2014 likely after a great deal of creative PR damage control \u2014 but that simply doesn\u2019t interest Harrison. \u2014 Maria Sherman, SPIN , 2 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, probably alteration of earlier interesse , from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, to be between, make a difference, concern, from inter- + esse to be \u2014 more at is":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4a(1)":"Noun",
      "1608, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202353"
  },
  "interested":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": being affected or involved":[
        "interested parties"
      ],
      ": having the attention engaged":[
        "interested listeners"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The listeners were all greatly interested in the lecture.",
      "students who are interested in archaeology",
      "I'd be interested to learn more about his background.",
      "I'm interested to hear what you have to say.",
      "I was very interested to learn that she had once lived in California.",
      "I asked him if he wanted to play tennis, but he said he wasn't interested .",
      "The plan will have to be approved by all interested parties .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There was speculation last summer that an impressed Ten Hag was interested in bringing Malacia to Ajax, but the deal never happened. \u2014 Sam Pilger, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
      "The tiger was not interested in eating and was reluctant to move, stand or interact with keepers. \u2014 Chantal Da Silva, NBC News , 30 June 2022",
      "The Athletic's Jason Lloyd recently reported that the Cavs, who are over the cap, are interested in a reunion with Rubio. \u2014 James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star , 29 June 2022",
      "But for decades before Gilliam\u2019s arrival on the scene in the 1960s, artists were interested in the space behind the painting and around it, and in making paintings that had no edges or bounds. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
      "There was a rumor that Anne Hathaway was interested in the role. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
      "Cavicchi was interested in conversion narratives: some of his subjects arrived at their passion gradually, but others were suddenly, irrevocably transformed. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 28 June 2022",
      "There was some talk that Irving was interested in playing elsewhere and that still could happen. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022",
      "Russo, whose kids commute to the school from northwest Indiana, said her oldest was interested in Mount Carmel because of the sports but the family was drawn in because of the school\u2019s mission. \u2014 Kinsey Crowley, Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1602, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccre-",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-",
      "\u02c8in-\u02cctre-",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-r\u0259-",
      "\u02c8in-t(\u0259-)r\u0259-st\u0259d",
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259-st\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205723",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "interesting":{
    "antonyms":[
      "boring",
      "drab",
      "dry",
      "dull",
      "heavy",
      "monotonous",
      "tedious",
      "uninteresting"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": holding the attention : arousing interest":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "This is one of the most interesting books I've read all year.",
      "It will be interesting to see how she decides to spend the money.",
      "This building has an interesting history.",
      "I don't find politics very interesting .",
      "I found it interesting to learn that she had once lived in California.",
      "Most of what he said wasn't interesting to me.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But the city continues to grow in new and interesting ways. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
      "The lengths the unnamed narrator will go to to win the 40-year-old object of her affection actually turns out to be the least interesting thing in Jonas's diamond-cut study of academia, aging, and the furious absurdity of being a woman in the world. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 30 June 2022",
      "Lane Kiffin\u2019s tweets are a sideshow masking a cerebral coach College football\u2019s most interesting coach also ranks among its most polarizing. \u2014 Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY , 30 June 2022",
      "One of the most interesting tensions of the book involves the way malls have both offered and restricted freedom. \u2014 Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 June 2022",
      "Perhaps the most interesting comments, though, came from state Sen. Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), a staunch Trump supporter. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
      "It\u2019s a very interesting thing to explore and discuss, as there are so many grey areas. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 23 June 2022",
      "But that\u2019s sort of the interesting thing about small crew, no one\u2019s super specific. \u2014 al , 22 June 2022",
      "Cl\u00e9mentine: Meredith is so interesting and surprising. \u2014 Julie Beck, The Atlantic , 10 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1768, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccre-",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-",
      "\u02c8in-t(\u0259-)r\u0259-sti\u014b",
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259-sti\u014b",
      "\u02c8in-\u02cctre-",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-r\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "absorbing",
      "arresting",
      "consuming",
      "engaging",
      "engrossing",
      "enthralling",
      "fascinating",
      "gripping",
      "immersing",
      "intriguing",
      "involving",
      "riveting"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232521",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interfascicular cambium":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": cambium located between vascular bundles \u2014 compare fascicular cambium":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140411",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interfelted":{
    "antonyms":[],
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      ": pressed closely together":[
        "interfelted fibers",
        "interfelted layers of rock"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + felted":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-102901",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interfenestral":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated between windows":[
        "interfenestral panel"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + fenestral":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074100",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": arrangement of windows with relation to the distance between them from axis to axis or from opening to opening":[],
      ": width of pier between two windows":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + Latin fenestrat us (past participle of fenestrare to provide with openings or windows) + English -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224207",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interferant":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the holder of or an applicant for a patent that conflicts with a patent granted earlier":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interfere + -ant":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)\u02c8fir\u0259nt",
      "-f\u0113r-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062617",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interfere":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to act reciprocally so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another":[
        "\u2014 used of waves"
      ],
      ": to enter into or take a part in the concerns of others":[],
      ": to interpose in a way that hinders or impedes : come into collision or be in opposition":[],
      ": to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in walking or running":[
        "\u2014 used especially of horses"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "I tried to offer advice without interfering .",
      "a strong resentment of outsiders who attempted to interfere with their traditional ways of doing things",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Open year-round, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., unless church services interfere . \u2014 Diane Daniel, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
      "Writing in The74, Lynne Munson\u2014who led the creation of a curriculum called Eureka Math and has a dyslexic child\u2014recently explained how dyslexia can interfere with math performance. \u2014 Natalie Wexler, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Citing prior holdings on similar records, the court said releasing the governor\u2019s correspondence with the commission would interfere with the ability of government officials to speak frankly. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
      "The 29-year-old called for a referee, who asked Thomas if the drain would interfere with his swing. \u2014 Riley Hamel, USA TODAY , 19 June 2022",
      "That leaves an awful lot of time for a golfer\u2019s mind to wander and interfere with the attentional demands of hitting successful shots. \u2014 Paul Christianson, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
      "Tweet Dish has been complaining about the unauthorized use since May over concerns Starlink will interfere with its own satellite TV system. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 13 June 2022",
      "The timing of the turtles' nesting is triggered in part by light from the Moon, which means that artificial lighting can interfere with the animals' reproduction. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
      "How to safely take an ice bath Cold water immersion can shock the system, cause muscle spasms, and interfere with circulation, so submerging yourself in it may not be the right choice for everyone. \u2014 Annaliese Griffin, Fortune , 11 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English enterferen , from Anglo-French ( s' ) entreferir to strike one another, from entre- inter- + ferir to strike, from Latin ferire \u2014 more at bore":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fir",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259(r)-\u02c8fi(\u0259)r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interfere interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf",
    "synonyms":[
      "butt in",
      "interlope",
      "intermeddle",
      "intrude",
      "meddle",
      "mess",
      "muck (about ",
      "nose",
      "obtrude",
      "poke",
      "pry",
      "snoop"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111349",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interfere (with)":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to stop or slow (something) : to make (something) slower or more difficult":[
        "The drug might interfere with a child's physical development.",
        "All of the noise was interfering with my concentration."
      ],
      ": to touch (a child) in a sexual and improper way":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224230",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ]
  },
  "interference":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": confusion of a received radio signal due to the presence of noise (such as atmospherics) or signals from two or more transmitters on a single frequency":[],
      ": partial or complete inhibition or sometimes facilitation of other genetic crossovers in the vicinity of a chromosomal locus where a preceding crossover has occurred":[],
      ": something that interferes : obstruction":[],
      ": something that produces such confusion":[],
      ": the act or process of interfering":[],
      ": the disturbing effect of new learning on the performance of previously learned behavior with which it is inconsistent":[],
      ": the illegal hindering of an opponent in sports":[],
      ": the legal blocking of an opponent in football to make way for the ballcarrier":[],
      ": the mutual effect on meeting of two wave trains (as of light or sound) that constitutes alternating areas of increased and decreased amplitude (such as light and dark lines or louder and softer sound)":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "We had to put up with loud noise and constant interference from the neighbors.",
      "interference in the affairs of another nation",
      "trying to avoid governmental interference",
      "It was hard to hear the radio program because of all the interference .",
      "The TV picture had a lot of interference .",
      "a hockey player receiving a penalty for interference",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Chyna had sued Kris, Kim, Khlo\u00e9 and Kylie for intentional interference with her contract at E! \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 14 June 2022",
      "People could sue for unlawful interference with their right to reproductive health care when other people or entities bring civil or criminal charges against them for seeking, accessing or providing abortions. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 13 June 2022",
      "In 2019, Maximum Security was disqualified for interference after winning the Kentucky Derby. \u2014 Stephen Edelson, USA TODAY , 8 June 2022",
      "Less than a minute later, the Lightning\u2019s Riley Nash ran into Shesterkin and was called for goalie interference , putting the Rangers right back on the power play. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
      "In 2019, winner Maximum Security was disqualified for interference after 22 minutes and runner-up Country House wore the garland of red roses. \u2014 Beth Harris, ajc , 8 May 2022",
      "In 2019, winner Maximum Security was disqualified for interference after 22 minutes and runner-up Country House wore the garland of red roses. \u2014 Beth Harris, Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
      "In 2019, winner Maximum Security was disqualified for interference and Country House wore the garland of red roses. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 7 May 2022",
      "In 2019, winner Maximum Security was disqualified for interference and Country House wore the garland of red roses. \u2014 Beth Harris, Hartford Courant , 6 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1783, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8fir-\u0259n(t)s",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fir-\u0259n(t)s",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fir-\u0259ns"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "balk",
      "bar",
      "block",
      "chain",
      "clog",
      "cramp",
      "crimp",
      "deterrent",
      "drag",
      "embarrassment",
      "encumbrance",
      "fetter",
      "handicap",
      "hindrance",
      "holdback",
      "hurdle",
      "impediment",
      "inhibition",
      "let",
      "manacle",
      "obstacle",
      "obstruction",
      "shackles",
      "stop",
      "stumbling block",
      "trammel"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223314",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interfering":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to act reciprocally so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another":[
        "\u2014 used of waves"
      ],
      ": to enter into or take a part in the concerns of others":[],
      ": to interpose in a way that hinders or impedes : come into collision or be in opposition":[],
      ": to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in walking or running":[
        "\u2014 used especially of horses"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "I tried to offer advice without interfering .",
      "a strong resentment of outsiders who attempted to interfere with their traditional ways of doing things",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Open year-round, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., unless church services interfere . \u2014 Diane Daniel, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
      "Writing in The74, Lynne Munson\u2014who led the creation of a curriculum called Eureka Math and has a dyslexic child\u2014recently explained how dyslexia can interfere with math performance. \u2014 Natalie Wexler, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Citing prior holdings on similar records, the court said releasing the governor\u2019s correspondence with the commission would interfere with the ability of government officials to speak frankly. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
      "The 29-year-old called for a referee, who asked Thomas if the drain would interfere with his swing. \u2014 Riley Hamel, USA TODAY , 19 June 2022",
      "That leaves an awful lot of time for a golfer\u2019s mind to wander and interfere with the attentional demands of hitting successful shots. \u2014 Paul Christianson, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
      "Tweet Dish has been complaining about the unauthorized use since May over concerns Starlink will interfere with its own satellite TV system. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 13 June 2022",
      "The timing of the turtles' nesting is triggered in part by light from the Moon, which means that artificial lighting can interfere with the animals' reproduction. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
      "How to safely take an ice bath Cold water immersion can shock the system, cause muscle spasms, and interfere with circulation, so submerging yourself in it may not be the right choice for everyone. \u2014 Annaliese Griffin, Fortune , 11 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English enterferen , from Anglo-French ( s' ) entreferir to strike one another, from entre- inter- + ferir to strike, from Latin ferire \u2014 more at bore":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fir",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259(r)-\u02c8fi(\u0259)r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interfere interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf",
    "synonyms":[
      "butt in",
      "interlope",
      "intermeddle",
      "intrude",
      "meddle",
      "mess",
      "muck (about ",
      "nose",
      "obtrude",
      "poke",
      "pry",
      "snoop"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071023",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interfuse":{
    "antonyms":[
      "break up",
      "dissever",
      "part",
      "section",
      "separate",
      "sever",
      "split",
      "sunder",
      "unlink"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": blend , fuse":[],
      ": to add as if by fusing : infuse":[],
      ": to combine by fusing : blend":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "comedy and social commentary interfuse seamlessly in this hilariously satirical movie",
      "an attractive cologne that interfuses herbal and woodsy scents"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1593, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interfusus , past participle of interfundere to pour between, from inter- + fundere to pour \u2014 more at found":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fy\u00fcz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "associate",
      "coalesce",
      "combine",
      "conjoin",
      "conjugate",
      "connect",
      "couple",
      "fuse",
      "join",
      "link (up)",
      "marry",
      "unify",
      "unite"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094124",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interim":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ad interim",
      "impermanent",
      "provisional",
      "provisionary",
      "provisory",
      "short-term",
      "temporary"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an intervening time : interval":[],
      ": done, made, appointed, or occurring for an interim":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "there was a brief interim in the proceedings while everyone got organized",
      "Adjective",
      "putting up some students in local motels is obviously just an interim solution to the college's housing shortage",
      "will serve as interim head of the police department until the investigation is completed",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Investors obviously want to know (1) when will all this stop, and (2) what to do in the interim ",
      "In the interim , the team now has a haul of future first-round picks, plus a moveable piece in Beverley, some young talent in Beasley and Vanderbilt, and fliers on young and unproven Kessler and Bolmaro. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 July 2022",
      "In the interim , the Revolution will look to continue getting results on the field as Arena grapples with the never-ending cycle of player movement. \u2014 Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
      "Still, there have been times when the Heat previously were interested in Kyrie, but plenty also has transpired with Kyrie in the interim . \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
      "In the interim , there are opportunities to build upon progress in synthetic biology to advance biofungicides. \u2014 Jonathan Margolis, Scientific American , 20 June 2022",
      "In the interim , what can be done for communities with masses of people who have no place to live",
      "But following both the thrashing at Houston and losing their head coach in the interim , Hines acknowledged the team has been inconsistent this year with results. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
      "Satterfield credited his new athletic director with helping to boost the Cardinals' recruiting efforts during his time as the interim . \u2014 Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal , 3 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Sharon Morrissey, a vice chancellor with the system, will serve as interim chancellor. \u2014 Susan Svrluga, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
      "About 5,000 gallons of fuel, firefighting foam and water were recovered and transferred to interim storage tanks for treatment. \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2022",
      "Mayor London Breed has not yet named an interim replacement. \u2014 Fox News , 30 June 2022",
      "The company said that Steve Bandrowczak, the president and chief operating officer at Xerox, will serve as its interim chief executive. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
      "Before he was sacked in November Solskjaer had seemingly lost faith in him, and his interim successor Ralf Rangnick was also less than impressed. \u2014 Sam Pilger, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
      "In a letter to the FDA, the coalition urged the federal government to adopt interim measures recommended in the coalition\u2019s October 2021 petition. \u2014 Ahjan\u00e9 Forbes, Hartford Courant , 28 June 2022",
      "Last October, she was named the interim chief executive of the NWSL, charged with staving off an existential threat. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
      "N\u2019sangou expects interim County Attorney Rachel Mitchell to back law enforcement actions, especially as Mitchell hopes to retain her position. \u2014 Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic , 27 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1604, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "circa 1580, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, adverb, meanwhile, from inter between \u2014 more at inter-":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-r\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "discontinuity",
      "gap",
      "hiatus",
      "hiccup",
      "hiccough",
      "interlude",
      "intermission",
      "interregnum",
      "interruption",
      "interstice",
      "interval",
      "parenthesis"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180104",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interior":{
    "antonyms":[
      "innards",
      "inside",
      "within"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a representation (as in a play or movie) of the interior of a building":[],
      ": belonging to mental or spiritual life":[
        "a simple interior piety"
      ],
      ": belonging to the inner constitution or concealed nature of something":[
        "interior meaning of a poem"
      ],
      ": lying away or remote from the border or shore":[],
      ": lying, occurring, or functioning within the limiting boundaries : inner":[
        "an interior point of a triangle"
      ],
      ": the inner or spiritual nature : character":[],
      ": the interior part (as of a country or island)":[],
      ": the internal affairs of a state or nation":[],
      ": the internal or inner part of a thing : inside":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "a large car with lots of interior room",
      "the novel's characters have plenty of adventures, but their interior lives are never explored",
      "Noun",
      "a black car with gray leather interior",
      "the interior of the house",
      "They traveled deep into the interior of Australia.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "But the interior looks to be in very reasonable shape for a nearly 20-year-old car, although the black leather seats features quite a bit of cracking and even one tear in the driver's-seat bolster. \u2014 Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver , 28 June 2022",
      "Hot weather is expected through Tuesday, with heat advisories in effect for interior areas. \u2014 Julia Wickstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 26 June 2022",
      "Farther to the east, over the past several days, southerly breezes have kicked in over the interior Southwest, AccuWeather said. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
      "Tuesday is expected to be the hottest day of the week, with widespread 90s to low 100s across the interior and upper 70s to upper 80s near the coast, with a slight breeze in the afternoons. \u2014 Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 June 2022",
      "When Six Byrd will open The Thorns are doing most of the interior work themselves, from painting to building the tables. \u2014 Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic , 16 June 2022",
      "Thereafter, another such complex could develop over the Upper Midwest or Great Lakes and shift into the interior Northeast late Wednesday into Thursday. \u2014 Jason Samenow, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
      "Very warm and dry conditions, with gusty winds, will affect the interior areas of Southwest California Tuesday through Sunday, according to the NWS. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 7 June 2022",
      "The listing did not include pictures of the interior and potential buyers were not allowed inside. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 6 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The EX-L, starting at $28,695, features a leather interior and the larger touchscreen, among other features. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 7 June 2022",
      "The 5-foot deep pool has a marine blue glass mosaic tile interior and a limestone tile surround. \u2014 Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
      "The creators of the exhibition are the founders of the architecture, interior and product design firm Storage Milano. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 June 2022",
      "Inspired by Argentine culture and cuisine, this restaurant and bar comes with a gorgeous green interior and seating along the water. \u2014 Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "The Galanz Retro Compact Refrigerator is one of our largest picks, with a roomy interior and three levels of storage plus plenty of door storage (even a can rack). \u2014 Eva Bleyer, Good Housekeeping , 2 June 2022",
      "Jordan said there was blood throughout the interior and exterior of the vehicle and on clothes found inside the Ford Eco Sport. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Choose something with a roomier interior and some pockets to keep everything organized. \u2014 Rebecca Carhart, Travel + Leisure , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Advertising space will be sold on the interior and exterior of the vehicles, and under the contract the city will receive half the net revenue from advertising. \u2014 Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1596, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French & Latin; Middle French interiore , from Latin, comparative of Old Latin *interus inward, on the inside; akin to Latin inter":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tir-\u0113-\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "cerebral",
      "inner",
      "intellectual",
      "internal",
      "mental",
      "psychological",
      "psychologic"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201837",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interior spring":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an innerspring mattress":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120855",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interisland":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing, occurring, or operating between islands":[
        "interisland trade",
        "interisland flights",
        "an interisland ferry service"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1859, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8\u012b-l\u0259nd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115828",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interjacent":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": lying or being between or among others : intervening , interpolated":[
        "interjacent remarks"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interjacent-, interjacens , present participle of interjac\u0113re to lie between, from inter- + jac\u0113re to lie":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131901",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interjaculate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to ejaculate parenthetically":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + -jaculate (as in ejaculate )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)\u02c8jaky\u0259\u02ccl\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080603",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "interjaculatory":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": thrown in : interspersed parenthetically":[
        "interjaculatory comment"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + -jaculatory (as in ejaculatory )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-t\u022fr-",
      "-r\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103427",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interject":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to throw in between or among other things : interpolate":[
        "interject a remark"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "\u201cThat's an interesting idea,\u201d he interjected , \u201cbut I don't think you've considered all of the details.\u201d",
      "She listened to us, interjecting remarks every so often.",
      "If I may interject , I have things I'd like to add.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Feinstein is almost always trailed by staffers while walking around the Capitol, and staffers frequently interject on her behalf when the senator gets questions from reporters. \u2014 Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "The cross examination became so tense that the judge had to interject . \u2014 Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "The witnesses also said that Encinas appeared to be interested in the victim and would often interject himself into conversations that the woman would be having with others, the court documents state. \u2014 Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Louisville forward Emily Engstler, listening to Van Lith's soliloquy, was moved to interject . \u2014 Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "Lopez tried to interject questions and explain his side in fits and starts but was constantly interrupted by the officer. \u2014 Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "But there never seems to be a good moment to interject . \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "With a long career as a journalist, Vieira didn\u2019t often interject her opinion into her work. \u2014 Joanne Rosa, ABC News , 14 Sep. 2021",
      "Little amuse-bouche \u2013 sorbets or soups \u2013 interject the courses, while the star attractions include pan-fried brill with dressed crab and saffron-crushed potatoes or local sea bream with king prawns and black garlic pur\u00e9e. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 21 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1588, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interjectus , past participle of intericere , from inter- + jacere to throw \u2014 more at jet":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8jekt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interject introduce , insert , insinuate , interpolate , intercalate , interpose , interject mean to put between or among others. introduce is a general term for bringing or placing a thing or person into a group or body already in existence. introduced a new topic into the conversation insert implies putting into a fixed or open space between or among. inserted a clause in the contract insinuate implies introducing gradually or by gentle pressure. insinuated himself into the group interpolate applies to the inserting of something extraneous or spurious. interpolated her own comments into the report intercalate suggests an intrusive inserting of something in an existing series or sequence. new chapters intercalated with the old interpose suggests inserting an obstruction or cause of delay. interpose barriers to communication interject implies an abrupt or forced introduction. interjected a question",
    "synonyms":[
      "edge in",
      "fit (in ",
      "inject",
      "insert",
      "insinuate",
      "intercalate",
      "interpolate",
      "interpose",
      "intersperse",
      "introduce",
      "sandwich (in ",
      "work in"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083429",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interjection":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a cry or inarticulate utterance (such as Alas! ouch! phooey! ugh! ) expressing an emotion":[],
      ": a word or phrase used in exclamation (such as Heavens! Dear me! )":[],
      ": an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as":[],
      ": something that is interjected or that interrupts":[],
      ": the act of putting in between : interposition":[],
      ": the act of uttering exclamations : ejaculation":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "interjections such as \u201coh,\u201d \u201calas,\u201d and \u201cwow\u201d",
      "a chorus of angry interjections greeted the announcement that our flight would be delayed",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Miller's interjection threw off the entire sequence. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
      "But moments like this full-bench interjection have happened this season because of previous trials and tribulations. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
      "The trustee\u2019s interjection drew laughter from the room. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "Young said in his release that the CCP\u2019s interjection with the bill would only fuel its passage. \u2014 Fox News , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "Four Hours lets its subjects speak without interjection or correction, a decision that seems to respect its audience\u2019s ability to reason out the logical gaps. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "Your interjection should be substantial, but no more than a minute or two. \u2014 Forbes , 5 July 2021",
      "With no dialogue, no subtitles or interjection , the movie is an immersive view of the animal world, with Gunda in particular emerging as an astonishing character. \u2014 Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 Apr. 2021",
      "There was a windmill dunk, a couple of Emoni Bates' trademarked stepback jumpers and even some jawing that prompted the interjection of game officials. \u2014 Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press , 8 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8jek-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "cry",
      "ejaculation",
      "exclamation"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032107",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interjection point":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": exclamation point sense 1":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134521",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interjectional":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or constituting an interjection : ejaculatory":[],
      ": thrown in between other words : parenthetical":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1761, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8jek-shn\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015823",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "interjectionalize":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to make or turn into an interjection":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-shn\u0259\u02ccl\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035231",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "interjectionary":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interjectory , interjectional":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093057",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interjectorily":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": in an interjectory manner":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195528",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "interjectural":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interjectional":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interjectura insertion (from interjectus \u2014past participle\u2014+ -ura -ure) + English -al":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-ksh(\u0259)r\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102837",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interjoin":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to join mutually : interconnect":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + join":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)\u00a6join"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165430",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "interjunction":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a joining of two or more things":[
        "interjunction of roads"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interjunct us (past participle of interjungere to join together, from inter- + jungere to join, yoke) + English -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)\u02c8j\u0259\u014bksh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004224",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interjurisdictional":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more jurisdictions":[
        "an interjurisdictional agreement",
        "interjurisdictional competition"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1888, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccju\u0307r-\u0259s-\u02c8dik-shn\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074919",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interknit":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to knit together : intertwine , interrelate":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + knit":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183044",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interknot":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to knot together":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + knot":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040955",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "interlaboratory":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or engaged in by more than one laboratory":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + laboratory":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224637",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interlace":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to cross one another as if woven together : intertwine":[],
      ": to unite by or as if by lacing together : interweave":[],
      ": to vary by alternation or intermixture : intersperse":[
        "narrative interlaced with anecdotes"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Interlace the branches and bend them into a circle.",
      "The vines interlaced with each other.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Without a barbell, interlace your fingers behind your back. \u2014 Amanda Macmillan, Outside Online , 5 Sep. 2014",
      "After a few swings to open up, touch your fingertips together at the back of the stretch or gently interlace them. \u2014 Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online , 19 May 2020",
      "The police have each of them (Samuel Thorne's face is blurred) turn around and interlace their fingers behind their backs before an officer handcuffs them. \u2014 Dakin Andone, CNN , 7 Aug. 2021",
      "The steps\u2014one of many pedestrian shortcuts that interlace the hilly neighborhoods of Silver Lake, Los Feliz, and Echo Park\u2014are named for the Mattachine Society, the first enduring American gay-rights organization. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 25 June 2021",
      "Cords on the dress enchantingly interlace together to make a net that captures people\u2019s hearts. \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 3 June 2021",
      "Another officer orders Leyva to interlace his hands on top of his head, though Leyva appears to ignore both requests and turns his back on the officers while walking back toward the house. \u2014 Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic , 16 Oct. 2020",
      "Use the palm of each hand to rub the back of the other hand, interlacing fingers. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Mar. 2020",
      "Rub your right palm over the back of your left hand, interlacing your fingers, then switch left over right. 5. \u2014 Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com , 29 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English entrelacen , from Anglo-French entrelacer , from entre- inter- + lacer to lace":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u0101s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "enlace",
      "entwine",
      "implicate",
      "intertwine",
      "intertwist",
      "interweave",
      "inweave",
      "lace",
      "ply",
      "twist",
      "weave",
      "wreathe",
      "writhe"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232508",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interlaced":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or using a method of video scanning (as for television or a computer monitor) in which the odd and even horizontal lines of each frame are drawn on alternating passes \u2014 compare progressive":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In turn, sponsors get to use official Olympic logos, such as the interlaced rings, for advertisements. \u2014 Georgi Kantchev, WSJ , 23 Jan. 2022",
      "Undoubtedly there are gaps and fabrications that cannot be resolved even by enlisting Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara as interlaced memory palaces. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "The country faces two separate but interlaced problems, according to climate and resilience experts. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Sep. 2021",
      "Not surprisingly, five big interlaced Olympic rings were produced at the end. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 23 July 2021",
      "Like many Red Rock Country trails, the routes south of Doe Mountain are short, interlaced and designed for easy customization. \u2014 Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic , 3 June 2021",
      "Some of his favorite pieces are low chairs and lightweight stools whose tops are made of interlaced rubber tires, products of the island\u2019s long shoemaking tradition. \u2014 WSJ , 24 Apr. 2021",
      "Those snaps, however, are too often interlaced with loafing and tepid run defense. \u2014 John Owning, Dallas News , 17 Feb. 2021",
      "Vince Camuto Prestetta Bootie from Nordstrom for $44.22 (Save $105.75): These booties have an interlaced detail on each ankle and a zipper on the heel. \u2014 Lindsey Vickers, USA TODAY , 30 Nov. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1935, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccl\u0101st"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090635",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interlaced scanning":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": television scanning in which each frame is scanned in two successive fields each consisting of all the odd or all the even horizontal lines":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230934",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interlacer":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that laces shoes during manufacture":[],
      ": one who makes basketry designs in shoe uppers by cutting slits and weaving in leather strips":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184646",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interlacery":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interlaced bands, lines, or fibers : interlacement":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interlace entry 1 + -ery":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-s(\u0259)r\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220013",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interlacing arches":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": usually circular arches so constructed that their archivolts intersect and seem to be interlaced":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from present participle of interlace entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001955",
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ]
  },
  "interlacustrine":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1900, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-l\u0259-\u02c8k\u0259-str\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073617",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interlink":{
    "antonyms":[
      "disconnect",
      "disjoin",
      "disjoint",
      "dissever",
      "disunite",
      "separate",
      "unchain",
      "uncouple",
      "unhitch",
      "unlink",
      "unyoke"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to link together":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "she was idly interlinking paper clips into a chain as she listened",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Omnichannel can interlink them all so everything can be treated as one interaction and one conversation without delays, awkward silences or communication siloes. \u2014 Andrea Giacomini, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
      "Ahold decided to accelerate the build out of its online channels and to interlink e-commerce with the brick-and-mortar business because of the pandemic, Ms. Knight said. \u2014 Nina Trentmann, WSJ , 17 Aug. 2020",
      "While the Trump administration has distinguished between the state\u2019s authority to set smog and greenhouse gas standards, Becerra\u2019s office argues tailpipe emissions and public health are interlinked . \u2014 Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com , 20 Sep. 2019",
      "Meanwhile Google\u2019s engineers will be working to improve their qubits to produce fewer errors\u2014potentially allowing many more qubits to be interlinked . \u2014 Neil Savage, Scientific American , 24 Oct. 2019",
      "Because the polymer fibers are not just interlinking but exchanging strands, this leads to the healing behavior. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 31 Dec. 2019",
      "But California officials have argued the state\u2019s ability to set smog and greenhouse gas standards are intertwined, and that tailpipe emissions and public health are interlinked . \u2014 Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com , 15 Nov. 2019",
      "If these companies are successful, the entire world could be suddenly interlinked as never before, with the Internet becoming truly omnipresent for essentially every human on the planet. \u2014 Jonathan O'callaghan, Scientific American , 31 Oct. 2019",
      "For instance, a significant area of Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh was approved for diversion for Ken-Betwa river interlinking project and diversion of forest area from Palamu Tiger reserve was approved for North Koel dam in Jharkhand. \u2014 Mayank Aggarwal, Quartz India , 15 July 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1587, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8li\u014bk"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "catenate",
      "chain",
      "compound",
      "concatenate",
      "conjugate",
      "connect",
      "couple",
      "hitch",
      "hook",
      "interconnect",
      "join",
      "link",
      "yoke"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075156",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interlope":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intrude , interfere":[],
      ": to encroach on the rights (as in trade) of others":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "regarded the new couple as a pair of interloping parvenus who were sure to upset the town's social hierarchy",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Corinne always unrolls her mat in the back corner, tries not to interlope . \u2014 Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine , 17 Aug. 2021",
      "Even my mother, an expert in detecting interloping odors, couldn\u2019t catch anything. \u2014 Luke Winkie, Vox , 5 Aug. 2019",
      "And so Beyonce wanting to be in that just seemed like interloping . \u2014 Joy-ann Reid, Cosmopolitan , 13 Feb. 2018",
      "Europeans are taught a history of migration from birth, of Greeks and Romans spreading over Europe, conquering lands, and interloping afar. \u2014 Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic , 3 Oct. 2017"
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      "1615, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "probably back-formation from interloper , from inter- + -loper (akin to Middle Dutch lopen to run, Old English hl\u0113apan to leap) \u2014 more at leap":""
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      "She left for a brief interlude .",
      "He has resumed his acting career after a two-year interlude .",
      "They always met in the city for their romantic interludes .",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Their romantic interlude comes to an end when they get chased off by security. \u2014 Kristina Garcia, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
      "After a decade or so, Auden felt that the possibilities of his Ischian interlude had been exhausted, that some danger hovered, some chance of descending into rote behavior or indiscipline. \u2014 Alan Jacobs, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Our cool interlude is almost over as warm air filters back in tomorrow and peaks on Christmas Day with most spots in the lower 60s! \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "After his interlude with Ferrari, Mr. Bondurant leaped to the Canadian-American Challenge Cup circuit \u2014 better known as Can-Am \u2014 in cars that went even faster than those in Formula 1. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "Not even Julia Roberts, who is currently filming a new movie with Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali in upstate New York, could resist a brief two-day interlude to the sunny Riviera to partake in the action. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 1 June 2022",
      "In that brief interlude , we are entirely liberated from the weight of thinking. \u2014 Bonnie Tsui, Outside Online , 10 Apr. 2020",
      "Individual networks were barely named, save a song-and-dance interlude devoted to Bravo convention BravoCon. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 May 2022",
      "The strange interlude lasted seven minutes, reports Business Insider\u2019s Kelsey Vlamis, and the semiaquatic anaconda most likely perished from being submerged for so long. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 May 2022"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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      "Middle English enterlude , from Medieval Latin interludium , from Latin inter- + ludus play \u2014 more at ludicrous":""
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      "1884, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "That correlates closely with other measures of assimilation, such as intermarriage and proficiency in English. \u2014 Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
      "Informal Jewish quotas seemed to vanish from college admissions, and intermarriage became more common. \u2014 Lily Meyer, The Atlantic , 24 May 2022",
      "Because the children of ethnic intermarriage often describe themselves as white regardless of their ancestry, predictions of white decline may turn out to be premature. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 18 May 2022",
      "From the beginning, intermarriage between white and Native peoples was connected to the fur trade. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "For most people here, Russians are kin, a view rooted in a common sense of history, local industries that remained intertwined until long after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and high rates of intermarriage . \u2014 Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "Around the same time, the state began advocating intermarriage between Han Chinese and Uyghur people. \u2014 Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "As both the Holocaust and the birth of Israel faded into historical memory, rising intermarriage rates were seen as a leading indicator of waning interest in a distinctly Jewish ethnic identity. \u2014 Andrew Silow-carroll, sun-sentinel.com , 11 May 2021",
      "But intermarriage has become increasingly common, many residents said, and the two communities have come to socialize together. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Oct. 2021"
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      "1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "The settlers and the native people seldom intermarried .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The people work alongside each other, gather at the Paradise Square saloon, and occasionally intermarry . \u2014 Iris Fanger, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "But, ironically, society\u2019s exclusion of chuetas proved to be the key to Judaism\u2019s revival in Mallorca, historians say: because they were not allowed to intermarry freely with the Christian population, chuetas married among themselves. \u2014 Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com , 21 Sep. 2021",
      "Later in life, the tall, shambling Scotsman (who lived from 1847 to 1922) embraced eugenics, arguing that the deaf should not intermarry lest their offspring make the general population deafer. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 Apr. 2021",
      "Typically, Sephardi and Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox communities do not intermarry . \u2014 Dina Kraft, Los Angeles Times , 25 Mar. 2021",
      "Another reason Black women may intermarry at lower rates include stereotypes that hold that Black women are less attractive and feminine than White women. \u2014 Sydney Trent, Washington Post , 23 Nov. 2020",
      "The story centers on twin sisters from a Louisiana town called Mallard, which is inhabited by Black residents who purposely intermarry so their children will be lighter-skinned. \u2014 Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Aug. 2020",
      "Douglas, whose mother wasn\u2019t Jewish and who himself is intermarried , directed his award toward projects promoting diversity and inclusiveness in the Jewish world. \u2014 Josef Federman, USA TODAY , 27 Feb. 2020",
      "As with the Palestinians to the west, these Syrians have long intermarried with neighboring Jordanians. \u2014 Andrew Solomon, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 24 July 2019"
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      "1574, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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      "New Latin, from inter- + maxilla":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114711",
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      "she can no more refrain from intermeddling than she can from breathing",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Foreign powers will intermeddle in our affairs, and spare no [expense] to influence them. \u2014 Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2019"
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Middle English entermedlen , from Anglo-French entremeller, entremedler , from entre- inter- + medler to mix \u2014 more at meddle":""
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      "1713, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In the end, the Biden administration opted instead for imposing new economic sanctions and sending a message to Tehran through an intermediary : Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. \u2014 Michael R. Gordon, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
      "Wladis went through an intermediary , the Budweiser rep for the Post Pub, which is just so perfect. \u2014 Tim Carman, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
      "As a digital bearer asset, Bitcoin can be owned without an intermediary . \u2014 Philipp Sandner, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
      "In short, without an intermediary like a bank, smart contracts can automatically execute agreements such as loans, sales, and other financial transactions, in a way that is both trackable and irreversible. \u2014 Amiah Taylor, Fortune , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Except for editor-in-chief Tony Quiroga who, through the sheer majesty of his aura, imparts his voice directly onto the Internet without the intermediary of a computer. \u2014 John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Veteran reporter Fred Heckman of WIBC radio served as an intermediary during negotiations. \u2014 Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star , 20 May 2022",
      "Using Arianespace as an intermediary , OneWeb had already paid for those six launches. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "The official repeated the Pentagon's rejection of a Polish proposal to pass its fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine by using the U.S. as an intermediary . \u2014 Matt Seyler, ABC News , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Creative executives now report directly to him, a change that led to the ouster of many executives who once held these intermediary roles. \u2014 Joe Flint, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
      "Calculating this footprint depends on multiple factors, including the Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions of the textile manufacturer, the shipping by ocean freight, the transport to the retail store and potentially other intermediary parties. \u2014 Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Perhaps Russia might detonate a nuclear weapon over the Black Sea, a kind of intermediary step that doesn\u2019t kill lots of people but would shock the world. \u2014 Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Assembly language is a low-level intermediary format that is converted to machine language that can then be run directly by the computer. \u2014 Andrew Hudson, Ars Technica , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Critics, however, said that loopholes meant that jets registered elsewhere and operated by intermediary companies were exempt from the rules. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Feb. 2022",
      "Since September, Ouigo has made intermediary stops at lively Zaragoza and Tarragona, while some Avlo trains continue on to Figueres. \u2014 Julia Buckley, CNN , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "Further, Ramkrishna and Subramanian have been restrained from associating with any market infrastructure institution or any intermediary registered with Sebi for a period of three years; for Narain, this time period is two years. \u2014 Mimansa Verma, Quartz , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "And for intermediary organizations, such as banks and retailers, this trend obviously represents a significant challenge. \u2014 Bernard Marr, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1777, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8m\u0113d-\u0113-\u02ccer-\u0113",
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      "I'm taking intermediate French this year.",
      "Noun",
      "she often used her father as an intermediate in arguments with her mother",
      "Verb",
      "if the secretary-general chooses to intermediate in this dispute, he'll need all of his diplomatic skills just to get both sides in the same room",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "His frustration is focused on an intermediate step, in which ratings firms like S&P use company information to devise an ESG score, which in turn can be cited by a fund manager. \u2014 Tim Mcdonnell, Quartz , 26 May 2022",
      "Directly exchanging Russian rubles, Indian rupees or Chinese renminbi for one another without the intermediate step of exchanging those currencies into or out of dollars will become easier. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "The data that comes back is not going to serve the professional community well, and again the move up from beginner to intermediate is well served by the cube. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "The trains traveling at speeds of up to 311 mph would connect Baltimore and Washington with a 15-minute trip and an intermediate stop at BWI Marshall Airport. \u2014 Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun , 17 June 2022",
      "Third, if the FTX model proves to be more efficient, and the intermediate banks are permitted to use it, farmers would be offered products suited to them. \u2014 M. Todd Henderson, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
      "Chase\u2019s deaf and hard of hearing programming \u2014 which serves primary, intermediate and upper-level students \u2014 began in 2015. \u2014 Tracy Swartz, Chicago Tribune , 9 June 2022",
      "Of those, 56 are considered high-risk contacts, 117 are considered intermediate risk, and 235 have low or uncertain risk. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 3 June 2022",
      "The low value of the Turkish lira makes exports from the country relatively cheap, though economists say that the country\u2019s trade deficit is likely to continue due to the high cost of intermediate goods. \u2014 Adam Taylor, Washington Post , 2 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Kids will also love the pump tracks; the smaller of the two can be handled on a Strider bike, while the other is the perfect place for an intermediate to work on riding skills. \u2014 Outside Online , 1 June 2022",
      "The digital intermediate has also been finished at 4K, so picture quality will be high on larger screens, and the IMAX DMR process will be employed took presumably to upscale any footage that might not be shot on the ARRI Alexa LF. \u2014 Benny Har-even, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "The film was shot digitally with Phantom Flex4K and Sony CineAlta digital cameras with a mixture of 4K and even 8K, but slightly disappointingly, the digital intermediate was only struck at 2K. \u2014 Benny Har-even, Forbes , 29 June 2021",
      "Conveniently, caffeic acid is an intermediate on the pathway that plants use to make lignin, a key component of plant cell walls and a major contributor to the robustness of wood. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 30 Apr. 2020",
      "Can easily throw downfield, but also chips away with shorter and intermediate throws. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Dec. 2019",
      "The price of Brent crude surged 18 percent before falling back to a 12 percent increase; the U.S. benchmark West Texas intermediate climbed 12 percent before easing to a 10 percent gain. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Sep. 2019",
      "The book is divided into three sections\u2014beginner, intermediate , and advanced/all-level dives. \u2014 Anna Mazurek, al , 8 May 2020",
      "At an elevation of 6000 feet in Colorado Springs, gasoline comes in three flavors: 85 octane (regular), 87 octane ( intermediate ), and 91 octane (premium). \u2014 Car and Driver , 18 Apr. 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Michael Doyle, a senior analyst at Edward Jones, said higher natural gas prices are making nuclear power generators more competitive in the short to intermediate term. \u2014 Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant , 31 May 2022",
      "Entry to intermediate skiing brings a handful of physical and psychological challenges. \u2014 Frederick Dreier, Outside Online , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "Each of your muscles (e.g., calves, quads, and hamstrings) is composed of three types of muscle fibers: slow-twitch, intermediate fast-twitch, and fast-twitch. \u2014 Outside Online , 25 July 2019",
      "This mountain located in coastal Maine is small but mighty with 15 trails that service mainly intermediate skiers and snowboarders, including the one-mile-long Spinnaker, which starts as a blue and turns into a green. \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 1 Dec. 2021",
      "The Ravens stuffed screens and shadowed every short to intermediate route across the middle. \u2014 Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com , 18 Oct. 2021",
      "After two weeks of not throwing, Prescott made just light to intermediate throws since, but over the last few days, his workload increased. \u2014 Michael Gehlken, Dallas News , 26 Aug. 2021",
      "Google provides several ad tech services that intermediate between advertisers and publishers in order to display ads on websites or mobile apps. \u2014 Mark Thompson, CNN , 22 June 2021",
      "Some proposals call for banks to intermediate these accounts, and others want individual customers to have direct access to their Fed accounts. \u2014 Norbert Michel, Forbes , 18 June 2021"
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      "Medieval Latin intermediatus , past participle of intermediare , from Latin inter- + Late Latin mediare to mediate":"Verb",
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      "noun"
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      "a respectful but nonreligious interment in a private cemetery",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The shooting occurred at the interment for Da\u2019Shontay L. King Sr., who was fatally shot by Racine police May 20, King\u2019s sister, Natasha Mullen said. \u2014 Chron , 2 June 2022",
      "The shooting occurred at the interment for Da'Shontay L. King Sr., who was fatally shot by Racine police May 20, King's sister, Natasha Mullen said. \u2014 CBS News , 2 June 2022",
      "The shooting occurred at the interment for Da'Shontay L. King Sr., the man fatally shot by Racine police May 20, King's sister, Natasha Mullen said. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
      "After a second interment , when a veteran and their dependant or spouse are reunited, policy requires workers to remove the original grave marker which lists only the name of the first person interred in the grave. \u2014 Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online , 29 May 2022",
      "When British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died in 2018, Vangelis composed a musical tribute for his interment that the ESA broadcast into space. \u2014 Nicholas Paphitis, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
      "When British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died in 2018, Vangelis composed a musical tribute for his interment that the ESA broadcast into space. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
      "Funeral services were held Friday at Sol Levinson & Bros. in Pikesville, with interment in the Hebrew Young Men\u2019s Cemetery in Gwynn Oak. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun , 11 May 2022",
      "The show sprawled across the city and included sculptural rejoinders to Confederate monuments, a forty-foot multimedia collage, and the interment of a father\u2019s bracelet in a local mausoleum. \u2014 Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books , 7 May 2022"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[
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      "separate",
      "unmix"
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      ": intermix":[]
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      "In her short stories, science fiction and romance intermingle .",
      "thoroughly intermingle the different kinds of candy so that each bag will get a good assortment",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Scientists from those countries, as well as Japan and South Korea, are participating in the research trip to study salmon populations that intermingle in the North Pacific. \u2014 Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "With straps sprayed with floral details and a body made up of collaged textiles (meek meadowy prints intermingle with gingham squares), the look is prairie with polish. \u2014 Christian Macdonald, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Scientists from those countries, as well as Japan and South Korea, are participating in the research trip to study salmon populations that intermingle in the North Pacific. \u2014 Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "Scientists from those countries, as well as Japan and South Korea, are participating in the research trip to study salmon populations that intermingle in the North Pacific. \u2014 Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "Scientists from those countries, as well as Japan and South Korea, are participating in the research trip to study salmon populations that intermingle in the North Pacific. \u2014 Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "Scientists from those countries, as well as Japan and South Korea, are participating in the research trip to study salmon populations that intermingle in the North Pacific. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Nov. 2021",
      "Neighbors were permitted to cook together and intermingle . \u2014 Brenna Smith, BostonGlobe.com , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "Neighbors were permitted to cook together and intermingle . \u2014 New York Times , 20 Mar. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8mi\u014b-g\u0259l"
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      "combine",
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      "commix",
      "composite",
      "concrete",
      "conflate",
      "fuse",
      "homogenize",
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      "immix",
      "incorporate",
      "integrate",
      "interfuse",
      "intermix",
      "meld",
      "merge",
      "mingle",
      "mix"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075651",
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      "verb"
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    "antonyms":[
      "continuation",
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      ": an interval between the parts of an entertainment (such as the acts of a play)":[],
      ": the act of intermitting : the state of being intermitted":[]
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    "examples":[
      "We'll return after a brief intermission .",
      "an awkward intermission between speeches",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Wilderness could have taken an ever larger lead into the first intermission , hitting a post and having a puck roll across the goal line behind Robbins late in the period. \u2014 Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
      "The Larsson goal came long after defenseman Mayo's second goal of the season, and the Coyotes took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission with both assists from Gostisbehere, who has a four-game point streak. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "Duke associate head men\u2019s basketball coach Jon Scheyer \u2014 who last week was named the coach-in-waiting successor to Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski for the 2022-23 season \u2014 sounded the first- intermission siren. \u2014 Aaron Beard, orlandosentinel.com , 8 June 2021",
      "The play runs three hours with intermission , which would feel long if not for the Reynoldses\u2019 gripping and authentic performances. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 June 2022",
      "At the end of intermission , all the lights were turned off and everyone lit a match. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Instead of continuing in the dire unsettled mood of pre- intermission , the opening of the second act is rousing and almost comical. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 1 June 2022",
      "With the 15-minute intermission ended and play about to resume, DraftKings posted another ad with the odds on the winner. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
      "Following a brief intermission with a live musical performance from the New School\u2019s School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, Walker took the stage to accept his award before exchanging his post with Derek Blasberg to introduce Santo Domingo. \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022"
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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      "Middle English intermyssyown , from Latin intermission-, intermissio , from intermittere":""
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8mi-sh\u0259n",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8mish-\u0259n"
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      "discontinuity",
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      "hiccough",
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      "interregnum",
      "interruption",
      "interstice",
      "interval",
      "parenthesis"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210009",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[
      "constant",
      "continuous",
      "incessant",
      "unceasing"
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    "definitions":{
      ": appearing and disappearing seasonally : sometimes dry":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "In the intermittent light he could make out the shape of a solitary oak tree, spreading great arms from its short tremendous trunk. \u2014 Susan Cooper , The Dark is Rising , (1973) 1999",
      "Decades of intermittent but recurring controversies with imperial authorities, and the lodestar of the glorious Revolution, disposed Americans to continue to believe that representation existed, first and foremost, to protect the rights of their communities against the abuse of executive power. \u2014 Jack N. Rakove , Original Meanings , 1996",
      "Bronchodilators continue to play an important role in asthma treatment, especially for people who have relatively mild or intermittent attacks. \u2014 Stephen Hoffmann , Harvard Medical School Health Letter , June 1991",
      "The patient was having intermittent pains in his side.",
      "The forecast is for intermittent rain.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Breezes from the southwest at 5 to 10 mph take a slight edge off the mugginess while partial cloud cover offers intermittent shade. \u2014 David Streit, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
      "In some cases, Congress will write into law the requirement that agencies provide intermittent updates on the implementation and success of new programs. \u2014 Claire Leavitt, The Conversation , 28 June 2022",
      "But as agriculture and municipal use took more of the water, the river\u2019s flow became intermittent , and by the mid-1900s only 20 percent of its flow reached the mouth. \u2014 Jim Robbins, Wired , 25 June 2022",
      "In other words, there may be a fantastic halo hydrogen hypercar on the horizon, and in theory in ten years\u2019 time hydrogen might be useful as storage for smoothing out intermittent renewables. \u2014 James Morris, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
      "Composite\u2019s top-30, Russaw and Smith have had national interest with intermittent visits. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 25 June 2022",
      "Gerrymandering has been an intermittent cause of outrage and argument since long before the word was coined in 1812 to describe the salamander-like Massachusetts state senate district created during the governorship of Elbridge Gerry. \u2014 Barton Swaim, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
      "The flashlight on my cap was feeble, its shine whittled down to intermittent smears of butterscotch against the dark fabric of night. \u2014 Okwiri Oduor, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
      "Gaza\u2019s food sources and medical supplies are intermittent and unreliable. \u2014 Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Latin intermittent-, intermittens , present participle of intermittere \u2014 see intermit":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8mit-\u1d4ant",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8mi-t\u1d4ant"
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      "continual",
      "on-and-off",
      "periodic",
      "periodical",
      "recurrent",
      "recurring"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095149",
    "type":[
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      "adverb",
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[
      "break down",
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      "unmix"
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      ": to become mixed together":[],
      ": to mix together":[]
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      "When they talk, they often intermix English and Spanish.",
      "intermixed the ingredients just until there were no more lumps in the batter",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There\u2019s another character who lives on Earth in this story, named Will, who doesn\u2019t show up until the second book, but his story is intermixed here. \u2014 Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED , 4 Jan. 2020",
      "Animal faces and eyes flash towards the audience, intermixed with galaxies and natural occurring patterns like the spiral fractal of a shell or the eye of a storm, to show the connectedness of all things. \u2014 Valerie Lee, Billboard , 4 Dec. 2019",
      "And intermixed with all that was a lot of performance and a little bit of comedy. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 18 Oct. 2019",
      "Housing will be intermixed with breweries, restaurants, a Makers Plaza for craftsmen, as well as potential office space. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2019",
      "The video is intermixed with asides to the camera from students and instructors who give lessons on how to react during a shooting. \u2014 Mahita Gajanan, Time , 6 Sep. 2019",
      "Over the next few thousand years, the groups in north and south India intermixed , leading to the modern population\u2019s complex ancestral mix. \u2014 Michael Price, Science | AAAS , 5 Sep. 2019",
      "Traditional rituals and beliefs, such as ancestor worship, were intermixed with Catholic rites. \u2014 National Geographic , 13 Aug. 2019",
      "Cutting-edge techniques such as ancient DNA analysis can also reveal a huge amount of information about how people moved and intermixed . \u2014 Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American , 11 July 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1542, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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      "back-formation from obsolete intermixt intermingled, from Latin intermixtus , past participle of intermisc\u0113re to intermix, from inter- + misc\u0113re to mix \u2014 more at mix":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8miks"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053512",
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    "antonyms":[
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      ": to become mixed together":[],
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      "When they talk, they often intermix English and Spanish.",
      "intermixed the ingredients just until there were no more lumps in the batter",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There\u2019s another character who lives on Earth in this story, named Will, who doesn\u2019t show up until the second book, but his story is intermixed here. \u2014 Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED , 4 Jan. 2020",
      "Animal faces and eyes flash towards the audience, intermixed with galaxies and natural occurring patterns like the spiral fractal of a shell or the eye of a storm, to show the connectedness of all things. \u2014 Valerie Lee, Billboard , 4 Dec. 2019",
      "And intermixed with all that was a lot of performance and a little bit of comedy. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 18 Oct. 2019",
      "Housing will be intermixed with breweries, restaurants, a Makers Plaza for craftsmen, as well as potential office space. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2019",
      "The video is intermixed with asides to the camera from students and instructors who give lessons on how to react during a shooting. \u2014 Mahita Gajanan, Time , 6 Sep. 2019",
      "Over the next few thousand years, the groups in north and south India intermixed , leading to the modern population\u2019s complex ancestral mix. \u2014 Michael Price, Science | AAAS , 5 Sep. 2019",
      "Traditional rituals and beliefs, such as ancestor worship, were intermixed with Catholic rites. \u2014 National Geographic , 13 Aug. 2019",
      "Cutting-edge techniques such as ancient DNA analysis can also reveal a huge amount of information about how people moved and intermixed . \u2014 Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American , 11 July 2019"
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      "1542, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "back-formation from obsolete intermixt intermingled, from Latin intermixtus , past participle of intermisc\u0113re to intermix, from inter- + misc\u0113re to mix \u2014 more at mix":""
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8miks"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205130",
    "type":[
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      ": space between worlds":[]
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      "New Latin, back-formation from Latin intermundia , plural, spaces between worlds, from inter- + -mundia (from mundus world)":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134651",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      "Latin intermuralis , from inter- + muralis of a wall":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054159",
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      "inter- + mutual":""
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      ": a theatrical interlude including music and usually ballet performed between the acts of a French play or opera in the 16th and 17th centuries":[],
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      "French interm\u00e8de , from Italian intermedio , from Late Latin intermedium":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-174609",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[
      "discharge",
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      "release"
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      ": internal":[],
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      "Noun",
      "After medical school, he worked as an intern at the university hospital.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Crimmins began as an intern with the show in 2012 and moved up the ranks as a board operator, phone screener, writer and producer before becoming a full-time cast member in 2018. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 14 June 2022",
      "Alberto Camargo is a sports intern with the Knoxville-News Sentinel. \u2014 Alberto Camargo, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
      "LaCedra has maintained a weighted 4.09 GPA and has been working with special education students as an intern with the Lowell High physical education department. \u2014 Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
      "Four years ago, when Wayne was a coaching intern with the Colts on Reich\u2019s staff during the summer, Ballard approached the Indianapolis legend with a piece of advice. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 6 May 2022",
      "Jenkins was an editorial research intern with CNN in summer 2020 and a news assistant with CNN Health that fall. \u2014 Laura Studley, CNN , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "One was a former intern with two children back in Vietnam who had fled her job and was working part time as an undocumented worker. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "D\u2019Anton, a former cornerback at Penn State who got his start in the NFL as a seasonal intern with the New York Jets in 2014, has worked alongside his father in the past. \u2014 Ryan Mcfadden, baltimoresun.com , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Petzold, Detroit Tigers beat writer, is a graduate of Central Michigan University who joined the Free Press as a reporting intern in 2020 after interning with The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colorado. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Upcoming Chinese designers moved their businesses back home, closely followed by a wave of fashion graduates from the likes of Parsons and Central Saint Martins, who would otherwise have stayed overseas to intern with international houses. \u2014 Margaret Zhang, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
      "Britt went on to intern for Senator Richard Shelby in 2004 as a student at the University of Alabama. \u2014 al , 9 May 2022",
      "Another path is to intern for a music supervisor or for a studio or label executive who works with supervisors. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Johnson also held volunteer positions at the YMCA, including as a study abroad intern in London in 2008, and for various political efforts, according to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Mugler moved to Paris in his Twenties to intern for a number of French fashion houses before launching his own collection in 1973. \u2014 Tim Chan, Rolling Stone , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "The hope is that students will intern at one of their facilities for a summer, establish a relationship and begin to grow their career with INL. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "The best way to do that, why not, is to intern with our coaching staff. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Courier-Journal , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "He is believed to be the first person who disclosed an autism diagnosis to intern at the White House. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 13 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1866, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "circa 1560, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "circa 1879, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1928, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French interne , from interne , adjective":"Noun",
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    "pronounciation":[
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      "immure",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213316",
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    "antonyms":[
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      ": applied or intended for application through the stomach by being swallowed":[
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      ": situated on the side toward the median plane of the body":[]
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      "the internal structure of the planet",
      "a patient who is experiencing internal bleeding",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Aaron Ambers was exonerated by an internal Professional Standards Unit investigation released in March. \u2014 Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal , 27 June 2022",
      "The existence of the grand jury subpoena was made public in February, when the results of the state\u2019s internal investigation were released. \u2014 Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant , 22 June 2022",
      "Farwell, the former patrolmen\u2019s union president, resigned from the department in April amid an ongoing internal investigation connected to a State Police probe of Birchmore\u2019s death. \u2014 Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
      "In a shocking development, Vince McMahon has temporarily stepped down as WWE Chairman and CEO in wake of an internal investigation of a $3 million payment from Vince McMahon to an ex-employee. \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "But the department opened an internal investigation after more evidence surfaced about the incident. \u2014 Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun , 15 June 2022",
      "The company\u2019s chairman and CEO both resigned in February after an internal investigation uncovered improper share purchases before the SPAC deal became public. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
      "The administration promised a swift internal investigation into the episode, but there has yet to be a public announcement regarding any findings. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
      "Walker said Sheriff Gregory Tony relayed that the Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the circumstances around how the two guns ended up on the campus last Thursday and that the incident at the school is an active internal investigation. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 11 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English internalle , from Latin internus ; akin to Latin inter between":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-\u02cct\u0259r-",
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259rn-\u1d4al",
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-n\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "inner",
      "inside",
      "interior",
      "inward"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102031",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "internal rhyme":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Joshua Bennett, an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, praised Gorman\u2019s ear for internal rhyme and alliteration. \u2014 Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com , 22 Jan. 2021",
      "Hardy even adds an internal rhyme , thrush/thus, to ornament the terminal ones. \u2014 Richard Brookhiser, National Review , 19 Dec. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1850, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122119",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interned":{
    "antonyms":[
      "discharge",
      "free",
      "liberate",
      "release"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an advanced student or graduate usually in a professional field (such as medicine or teaching) gaining supervised practical experience (as in a hospital or classroom)":[],
      ": internal":[],
      ": to confine or impound especially during a war":[
        "intern enemy aliens"
      ],
      ": to work as an intern":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "After medical school, he worked as an intern at the university hospital.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Crimmins began as an intern with the show in 2012 and moved up the ranks as a board operator, phone screener, writer and producer before becoming a full-time cast member in 2018. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 14 June 2022",
      "Alberto Camargo is a sports intern with the Knoxville-News Sentinel. \u2014 Alberto Camargo, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
      "LaCedra has maintained a weighted 4.09 GPA and has been working with special education students as an intern with the Lowell High physical education department. \u2014 Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
      "Four years ago, when Wayne was a coaching intern with the Colts on Reich\u2019s staff during the summer, Ballard approached the Indianapolis legend with a piece of advice. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 6 May 2022",
      "Jenkins was an editorial research intern with CNN in summer 2020 and a news assistant with CNN Health that fall. \u2014 Laura Studley, CNN , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "One was a former intern with two children back in Vietnam who had fled her job and was working part time as an undocumented worker. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "D\u2019Anton, a former cornerback at Penn State who got his start in the NFL as a seasonal intern with the New York Jets in 2014, has worked alongside his father in the past. \u2014 Ryan Mcfadden, baltimoresun.com , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Petzold, Detroit Tigers beat writer, is a graduate of Central Michigan University who joined the Free Press as a reporting intern in 2020 after interning with The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colorado. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Upcoming Chinese designers moved their businesses back home, closely followed by a wave of fashion graduates from the likes of Parsons and Central Saint Martins, who would otherwise have stayed overseas to intern with international houses. \u2014 Margaret Zhang, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
      "Britt went on to intern for Senator Richard Shelby in 2004 as a student at the University of Alabama. \u2014 al , 9 May 2022",
      "Another path is to intern for a music supervisor or for a studio or label executive who works with supervisors. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Johnson also held volunteer positions at the YMCA, including as a study abroad intern in London in 2008, and for various political efforts, according to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Mugler moved to Paris in his Twenties to intern for a number of French fashion houses before launching his own collection in 1973. \u2014 Tim Chan, Rolling Stone , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "The hope is that students will intern at one of their facilities for a summer, establish a relationship and begin to grow their career with INL. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "The best way to do that, why not, is to intern with our coaching staff. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Courier-Journal , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "He is believed to be the first person who disclosed an autism diagnosis to intern at the White House. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 13 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1866, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "circa 1560, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "circa 1879, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1928, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French interne , from interne , adjective":"Noun",
      "Middle French interne , from Latin internus":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-\u02cct\u0259rn",
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259rn"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "commit",
      "confine",
      "immure",
      "imprison",
      "incarcerate",
      "jail",
      "jug",
      "lock (up)"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210240",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "internee":{
    "antonyms":[
      "discharge",
      "free",
      "liberate",
      "release"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an advanced student or graduate usually in a professional field (such as medicine or teaching) gaining supervised practical experience (as in a hospital or classroom)":[],
      ": internal":[],
      ": to confine or impound especially during a war":[
        "intern enemy aliens"
      ],
      ": to work as an intern":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "After medical school, he worked as an intern at the university hospital.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Crimmins began as an intern with the show in 2012 and moved up the ranks as a board operator, phone screener, writer and producer before becoming a full-time cast member in 2018. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 14 June 2022",
      "Alberto Camargo is a sports intern with the Knoxville-News Sentinel. \u2014 Alberto Camargo, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
      "LaCedra has maintained a weighted 4.09 GPA and has been working with special education students as an intern with the Lowell High physical education department. \u2014 Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
      "Four years ago, when Wayne was a coaching intern with the Colts on Reich\u2019s staff during the summer, Ballard approached the Indianapolis legend with a piece of advice. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 6 May 2022",
      "Jenkins was an editorial research intern with CNN in summer 2020 and a news assistant with CNN Health that fall. \u2014 Laura Studley, CNN , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "One was a former intern with two children back in Vietnam who had fled her job and was working part time as an undocumented worker. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "D\u2019Anton, a former cornerback at Penn State who got his start in the NFL as a seasonal intern with the New York Jets in 2014, has worked alongside his father in the past. \u2014 Ryan Mcfadden, baltimoresun.com , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Petzold, Detroit Tigers beat writer, is a graduate of Central Michigan University who joined the Free Press as a reporting intern in 2020 after interning with The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colorado. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Upcoming Chinese designers moved their businesses back home, closely followed by a wave of fashion graduates from the likes of Parsons and Central Saint Martins, who would otherwise have stayed overseas to intern with international houses. \u2014 Margaret Zhang, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
      "Britt went on to intern for Senator Richard Shelby in 2004 as a student at the University of Alabama. \u2014 al , 9 May 2022",
      "Another path is to intern for a music supervisor or for a studio or label executive who works with supervisors. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Johnson also held volunteer positions at the YMCA, including as a study abroad intern in London in 2008, and for various political efforts, according to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Mugler moved to Paris in his Twenties to intern for a number of French fashion houses before launching his own collection in 1973. \u2014 Tim Chan, Rolling Stone , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "The hope is that students will intern at one of their facilities for a summer, establish a relationship and begin to grow their career with INL. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "The best way to do that, why not, is to intern with our coaching staff. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Courier-Journal , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "He is believed to be the first person who disclosed an autism diagnosis to intern at the White House. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 13 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1866, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "circa 1560, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "circa 1879, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1928, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French interne , from interne , adjective":"Noun",
      "Middle French interne , from Latin internus":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-\u02cct\u0259rn",
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259rn"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "commit",
      "confine",
      "immure",
      "imprison",
      "incarcerate",
      "jail",
      "jug",
      "lock (up)"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183653",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "internment":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act of interning someone or the state of being interned":[
        "His parents had never told him about the exclusion laws, or the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the subject had not come up in his textbooks.",
        "\u2014 Timothy Egan",
        "Even in the midst of betrayal and the resulting alienation experienced in the internment , there exists the unnegotiable state of human bonds and possibility for reconciliation.",
        "\u2014 Fumitaka Matsuoka",
        "\u2026 an American who spent World War II with his parents in an internment camp.",
        "\u2014 Philip Siekman"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1850, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259rn-m\u0259nt",
      "\u02c8in-\u02cct\u0259rn-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "captivity",
      "confinement",
      "immurement",
      "impoundment",
      "imprisonment",
      "incarceration",
      "prison"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010317",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interpoint":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring or existing between points (such as geometric points)":[
        "interpoint distance"
      ],
      ": the embossing of braille on both sides of the paper in such a way that the points of one side fall between points of the other side":[
        "\u2014 often used before another noun",
        "A Braille embosser is a printer that produces Braille by raising bumps on the paper when the paper is struck by the printer keys. The electronic embosser or printer takes its instruction from the computer instead of directly from a human operator to produce the same product only faster. A recent innovation in printing from a computer file is interpoint Braille, where Braille is printed onto both sides of the paper.",
        "\u2014 Ruth O'Donnell"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1906, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1926, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccp\u022fint"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114534",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interpolar":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated or extending between poles":[
        "interpolar field of a magnet",
        "interpolar wire"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + polar":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230238",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interpolate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter":[],
      ": to estimate values of (data or a function) between two known values":[],
      ": to insert (words) into a text or into a conversation":[],
      ": to insert between other things or parts : intercalate":[],
      ": to make insertions (as of estimated values)":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He smoothly interpolates fragments from other songs into his own.",
      "He interpolated a very critical comment in the discussion.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Fiction offers the unique chance to interpolate old themes in new metaphors, reinvigorating crucial conversations bogged down by clich\u00e9. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Balfe gushes, referencing the flashbacks to 1960s Edinburgh and Boston that interpolate the show's second season and beyond. \u2014 Taylore Glynn, Allure , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "The Economist\u2019s team (also stuck with the spurious 4636 datapoint) used a Machine Learning model to try to interpolate the missing data. \u2014 George Calhoun, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "One way to get out of the jam -- just interpolate right away! \u2014 Anthony Cougar Miccio, Billboard , 28 Oct. 2021",
      "But part of Sony's reputation is also due to its fantastic processing algorithms, which can interpolate frames with fewer artifacts than competing brands. \u2014 Whitson Gordon, Wired , 6 Apr. 2021",
      "The new track interpolates part of Lamar\u2019s anthemic 2015 song, which was co-produced by Pharrell and won two Grammy Awards. \u2014 Mesfin Fekadu, USA TODAY , 25 Apr. 2020",
      "Capable of scanning documents at 600 dpi (optical) or 1200 dpi ( interpolated ), this inexpensive scanner can still capture sharp documents at 8 pages per minute. \u2014 Popular Science , 9 Apr. 2020",
      "But his reputation rested equally on his abilities as a composer and arranger for large ensembles, interpolating bebop\u2019s crosshatched rhythms and extended improvisations into fulsome tapestries. \u2014 Giovanni Russonello, BostonGlobe.com , 19 Jan. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1612, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interpolatus , past participle of interpolare to refurbish, alter, interpolate, from inter- + -polare (from polire to polish)":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-p\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interpolate introduce , insert , insinuate , interpolate , intercalate , interpose , interject mean to put between or among others. introduce is a general term for bringing or placing a thing or person into a group or body already in existence. introduced a new topic into the conversation insert implies putting into a fixed or open space between or among. inserted a clause in the contract insinuate implies introducing gradually or by gentle pressure. insinuated himself into the group interpolate applies to the inserting of something extraneous or spurious. interpolated her own comments into the report intercalate suggests an intrusive inserting of something in an existing series or sequence. new chapters intercalated with the old interpose suggests inserting an obstruction or cause of delay. interpose barriers to communication interject implies an abrupt or forced introduction. interjected a question",
    "synonyms":[
      "edge in",
      "fit (in ",
      "inject",
      "insert",
      "insinuate",
      "intercalate",
      "interject",
      "interpose",
      "intersperse",
      "introduce",
      "sandwich (in ",
      "work in"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083819",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interpolater":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that interpolates":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0101t\u0259-",
      "-\u0101t\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203200",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interpolation":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an act of interpolating something or the state of being interpolated : the introduction or insertion of something spurious or foreign":[
        "\u2026 versions disfigured by the frequent and substantial interpolation of freely invented matter \u2026",
        "\u2014 Bernard Knox"
      ],
      ": something that is introduced or inserted : an insertion or addition":[
        "How can such interpolations be identified, and what literary processes led to these additions",
        "\u2014 Jan Nattier"
      ],
      ": the process of calculating an approximate value based on values that are already known":[
        "The age of tephras that were not directly dated was estimated by linear interpolation from the calibrated date.",
        "\u2014 Richard J. Payne and Jeffrey J. Blackford"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1612, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02cct\u0259r-p\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232210",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interpole":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a supplementary pole placed between the regular poles of a direct-current dynamo or motor in order to regulate commutation":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + pole":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int\u0259(r)+\u02cc-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125636",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interpolymerize":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": copolymerize":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interpolymer + -ize":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134858",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "interpone":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interpose":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interponere":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)\u02c8p\u014dn"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212554",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "interpopulation":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more distinct populations":[
        "interpopulation differences in feather color"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1943, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02cct\u0259r-\u02ccp\u00e4-py\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022921",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interportal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between ports of the same country":[
        "interportal trade"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + port + -al":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-p\u022fr-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024149",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interposal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act of interposing : interposition , intervention":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interpose + -al":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)\u02c8p\u014dz\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183911",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interpose":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interrupt":[],
      ": to be or come between":[],
      ": to introduce or throw in between the parts of a conversation or argument":[],
      ": to place in an intervening position":[],
      ": to put (oneself) between : intrude":[],
      ": to put forth by way of interference or intervention":[],
      ": to step in between parties at variance : intervene":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The new system has interposed a bureaucratic barrier between doctors and patients.",
      "He tried to interpose himself between the people who were fighting.",
      "Please allow me to interpose a brief observation.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Biden was taking a harder line with Putin, but when the two met earlier in the summer and Zelensky tried to interpose on the summit with dire warnings about the war, he was ignored. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Jan. 2022",
      "With a mask interposed close to the healthy hamsters (the equivalent of a healthy person wearing a mask), one-third were. \u2014 The Economist , 28 May 2020",
      "One clever way to avoid the restrictions of being at home, isolated \u2014 Kate and Aidy are both being interposed onto different grocery store setting backdrops. \u2014 Andy Hoglund, EW.com , 26 Apr. 2020",
      "The female-centric video showcases vintage footage of women interposed with kaleidoscopic effects and shots of the band singing in various costumes. \u2014 Danielle Garrand, CBS News , 4 Mar. 2020",
      "With the vegan protester just a few feet from her husband, Jill Biden clutched her husband's right hand and interposed her body between him and the woman lunging at him. \u2014 Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Mar. 2020",
      "The music video interposed footage of Warmbier, Kim Jong Un, President Trump and North Korean scenes, ending with a smiling photo of Otto showing the dates of his birth and death. \u2014 Eric Shawn | Fox News, Fox News , 25 Feb. 2020",
      "The claim is frivolous, and interposed solely for delay. \u2014 Time , 9 Dec. 2019",
      "Then an older rancher with a graying mustache and ruddy cheeks interposed himself between Vardaman and the protester who had interrupted her. \u2014 Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker , 29 May 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1582, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French interposer , from Latin interponere (perfect indicative interposui ), from inter- + ponere to put \u2014 more at position":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8p\u014dz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interpose interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf synonyms see in addition introduce",
    "synonyms":[
      "intercede",
      "intermediate",
      "intervene",
      "mediate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031019",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interposer":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interrupt":[],
      ": to be or come between":[],
      ": to introduce or throw in between the parts of a conversation or argument":[],
      ": to place in an intervening position":[],
      ": to put (oneself) between : intrude":[],
      ": to put forth by way of interference or intervention":[],
      ": to step in between parties at variance : intervene":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The new system has interposed a bureaucratic barrier between doctors and patients.",
      "He tried to interpose himself between the people who were fighting.",
      "Please allow me to interpose a brief observation.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Biden was taking a harder line with Putin, but when the two met earlier in the summer and Zelensky tried to interpose on the summit with dire warnings about the war, he was ignored. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Jan. 2022",
      "With a mask interposed close to the healthy hamsters (the equivalent of a healthy person wearing a mask), one-third were. \u2014 The Economist , 28 May 2020",
      "One clever way to avoid the restrictions of being at home, isolated \u2014 Kate and Aidy are both being interposed onto different grocery store setting backdrops. \u2014 Andy Hoglund, EW.com , 26 Apr. 2020",
      "The female-centric video showcases vintage footage of women interposed with kaleidoscopic effects and shots of the band singing in various costumes. \u2014 Danielle Garrand, CBS News , 4 Mar. 2020",
      "With the vegan protester just a few feet from her husband, Jill Biden clutched her husband's right hand and interposed her body between him and the woman lunging at him. \u2014 Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Mar. 2020",
      "The music video interposed footage of Warmbier, Kim Jong Un, President Trump and North Korean scenes, ending with a smiling photo of Otto showing the dates of his birth and death. \u2014 Eric Shawn | Fox News, Fox News , 25 Feb. 2020",
      "The claim is frivolous, and interposed solely for delay. \u2014 Time , 9 Dec. 2019",
      "Then an older rancher with a graying mustache and ruddy cheeks interposed himself between Vardaman and the protester who had interrupted her. \u2014 Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker , 29 May 2019"
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      "1582, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
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      "Middle French interposer , from Latin interponere (perfect indicative interposui ), from inter- + ponere to put \u2014 more at position":""
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8p\u014dz"
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interpose interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf synonyms see in addition introduce",
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      ": the action of a state whereby its sovereignty is placed between its citizens and the federal government":[]
    },
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Some degree of interposition nevertheless, is at all times and everywhere called for. \u2014 Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic , 17 Aug. 2020",
      "Without covering to hide my naked body!, in an enemy's country, without food or means to obtain any!, and among Tories more unrelenting than the devil! more perils to encounter and nothing to aid me but the interposition of heaven. \u2014 Matt Campbell, kansascity , 30 Apr. 2018",
      "Although the man who had once championed a national veto over state laws now seemed to assert the right of states to reject acts of Congress, Madison insisted that interposition meant only an appeal to public opinion. \u2014 Susan Dunn, New York Times , 1 Nov. 2017"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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      ": to act as an interpreter between speakers of different languages":[],
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      ": to explain or tell the meaning of : present in understandable terms":[
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      "We need someone to interpret these results for us.",
      "How should we interpret the law",
      "I interpreted his behavior to mean that he disliked me.",
      "Every actor interprets the role of Hamlet a little differently.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Pentagon officials flagged concerns that Moscow would negatively interpret the move as direct NATO involvement in the conflict and could escalate the war beyond Ukraine\u2019s borders. \u2014 Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News , 27 June 2022",
      "Instead, hearing aids and cochlear implants require the brain to interpret sound in a new way. \u2014 Tali Arbel, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 June 2022",
      "Just nine people get to interpret the meaning of a document written more than 200 years ago. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Glamour , 24 June 2022",
      "Chamberlain seemingly confirmed to the host that there was nothing to interpret from her and Jack's quick exchange. \u2014 Seventeen , 23 June 2022",
      "In this example, bank statements would likely show a decline in revenue as the weather turned colder\u2014and underwriters who may not have a relationship with the business could interpret the natural seasonality of the business as poor business health. \u2014 Bernardo Martinez, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
      "Although some Cuellar advocates interpret the unusual timing of the search as evidence that the Justice Department is performing a political hit on him, that argument makes no sense. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "So, too, has his swing to the right since taking office, targeting equity initiatives and school mask mandates, which many political observers interpret as a bid for national headlines. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Scholars tend to interpret these mythological creatures as representative of the powerful forces of nature in a fairly harsh environment prone to earthquakes, avalanches, volcanoes, and the like. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 24 Dec. 2021"
    ],
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
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      "Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French interpreter , from Latin interpretari , from interpret-, interpres agent, negotiator, interpreter":""
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interpret explain , expound , explicate , elucidate , interpret mean to make something clear or understandable. explain implies a making plain or intelligible what is not immediately obvious or entirely known. explain the rules expound implies a careful often elaborate explanation. expounding a scientific theory explicate adds the idea of a developed or detailed analysis. explicate a poem elucidate stresses the throwing of light upon as by offering details or motives previously unclear or only implicit. elucidate an obscure passage interpret adds to explain the need for imagination or sympathy or special knowledge in dealing with something. interpreting a work of art",
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      "explain",
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      "expound",
      "get across",
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      "spell out",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054540",
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      "verb"
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  "interpretament":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interpretation":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin interpretamentum , from Latin interpretari + -mentum -ment":""
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140915",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": interpreter":[],
      ": the disposition or readiness of an interpreter to respond to a sign":[],
      ": the response or reaction to a sign":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interpretant-, interpretans , present participle of interpretari":""
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082841",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interpretatus , past participle of interpretari to interpret":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065913",
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      "a literal interpretation of the law",
      "The truth will only be found by careful interpretation of the evidence.",
      "His remarks need further interpretation .",
      "an actor's interpretation of the role of Hamlet",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Regulations such as the Fair Credit Billing Act offer a lot of room for interpretation , which can result in first-party misuse occurring regularly. \u2014 Julie Fergerson, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
      "His singularity defies categorization, and so does Hanks\u2019 interpretation . \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
      "The dissenting opinion fundamentally disagrees with the majority\u2019s interpretation of the US Constitution, and specifically the 14th amendment. \u2014 Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz , 24 June 2022",
      "The easement, both sides argue, is open to interpretation , which is why the 1880s document is once again making a star appearance in court this summer. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
      "One side of the card has a scripture verse and the other has a short, meaningful interpretation . \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 3 June 2022",
      "Enlarge / AMD's artistic interpretation of how FSR works. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 13 May 2022",
      "But that interpretation \u2014the right to privacy, rendered in cinematic terms\u2014would be much more convincing if the rest of the film weren\u2019t so breezily dismissive of Alison\u2019s body. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 12 May 2022",
      "At one end is the modern, more familiar interpretation \u2014 where Dance Fever might mirror the Bee Gees\u2019 Saturday Night Fever \u2014 as the singer deliriously ushers a return to the live music experience, her place of comfort and prowess. \u2014 Bobby Olivier, SPIN , 12 May 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
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      "-p\u0259-",
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      "in-\u02cct\u0259r-pr\u0259-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n, -p\u0259-"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103943",
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      "transitive verb"
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      ": a clause inserted in a statute or contract declaring the interpretation that is to be put upon certain words":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182011",
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      ": the act or the result of interpreting : explanation":[]
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      "a literal interpretation of the law",
      "The truth will only be found by careful interpretation of the evidence.",
      "His remarks need further interpretation .",
      "an actor's interpretation of the role of Hamlet",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Regulations such as the Fair Credit Billing Act offer a lot of room for interpretation , which can result in first-party misuse occurring regularly. \u2014 Julie Fergerson, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
      "His singularity defies categorization, and so does Hanks\u2019 interpretation . \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
      "The dissenting opinion fundamentally disagrees with the majority\u2019s interpretation of the US Constitution, and specifically the 14th amendment. \u2014 Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz , 24 June 2022",
      "The easement, both sides argue, is open to interpretation , which is why the 1880s document is once again making a star appearance in court this summer. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
      "One side of the card has a scripture verse and the other has a short, meaningful interpretation . \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 3 June 2022",
      "Enlarge / AMD's artistic interpretation of how FSR works. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 13 May 2022",
      "But that interpretation \u2014the right to privacy, rendered in cinematic terms\u2014would be much more convincing if the rest of the film weren\u2019t so breezily dismissive of Alison\u2019s body. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 12 May 2022",
      "At one end is the modern, more familiar interpretation \u2014 where Dance Fever might mirror the Bee Gees\u2019 Saturday Night Fever \u2014 as the singer deliriously ushers a return to the live music experience, her place of comfort and prowess. \u2014 Bobby Olivier, SPIN , 12 May 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02cct\u0259r-pr\u0259-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n, -p\u0259-",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034034",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
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  },
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    "definitions":{
      ": bigamy sense 2b":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191351",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a dance depicting a story or a definite emotion rather than following an abstract pattern":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194611",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  "interpreted":{
    "antonyms":[],
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      ": having the meaning explained or translated":[
        "compared the interpreted text against the original",
        "reading through the interpreted results of the study",
        "Carefully interpreted corporate charts, proponents say, have concrete planning and predictive value for the mother company \u2026",
        "\u2014 Janine King"
      ],
      ": understood in the light of individual belief, judgment, or circumstance":[
        "Dramas, after all, like literature, are often about someone's interpreted experience \u2026",
        "\u2014 Allen Reeves Ware and Perry L. Glanzer"
      ]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1659, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-pr\u0259-t\u0259d",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132429",
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      ": one who translates orally for parties conversing in different languages":[]
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      "He has now learned English well enough that he can conduct interviews without an interpreter .",
      "Monet is generally regarded as the foremost interpreter of pure impressionism.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The school quickly devised a buddy system where each new arrival from Ukraine could be paired with another student, who serves as an interpreter and helps with acclimation. \u2014 Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022",
      "Malinche, the Indigenous girl who served as interpreter to Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s in the early days of the Spanish invasion of Mexico \u2014 and who was, for all intents and purposes, enslaved by him \u2014 has long been deployed as a symbol of betrayal in Mexico. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "At one point during his military career, Batsakes acted as an official interpreter for his aircraft carrier, the USS Bennington, during its European tour stop to Greece. \u2014 Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "Samantha Wynn Greenstone is an excellent song interpreter as Ella\u2019s crass and socially awkward stepsister Charlotte. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
      "And the right kind of interpreter can mine magic from this kind of locale and its abundant clich\u00e9s. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
      "Asma, in a program at SF International High designed for recent immigrants, hopes to be an interpreter and plans to tackle Spanish after perfecting her English. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 June 2022",
      "Raczkiewycz recounted her family\u2019s perilous two-week journey from Kyiv, speaking in a mix of English and Ukrainian, with the help of an interpreter . \u2014 Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022",
      "The current Google Translate app has an interpreter mode that works great. \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 23 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-p\u0259-",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085445",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104432",
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      "noun"
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      ": a particular adaptation or version of a work, method, or style":[],
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      ": the act or the result of interpreting : explanation":[]
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      "a literal interpretation of the law",
      "The truth will only be found by careful interpretation of the evidence.",
      "His remarks need further interpretation .",
      "an actor's interpretation of the role of Hamlet",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Regulations such as the Fair Credit Billing Act offer a lot of room for interpretation , which can result in first-party misuse occurring regularly. \u2014 Julie Fergerson, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
      "His singularity defies categorization, and so does Hanks\u2019 interpretation . \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
      "The dissenting opinion fundamentally disagrees with the majority\u2019s interpretation of the US Constitution, and specifically the 14th amendment. \u2014 Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz , 24 June 2022",
      "The easement, both sides argue, is open to interpretation , which is why the 1880s document is once again making a star appearance in court this summer. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
      "One side of the card has a scripture verse and the other has a short, meaningful interpretation . \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 3 June 2022",
      "Enlarge / AMD's artistic interpretation of how FSR works. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 13 May 2022",
      "But that interpretation \u2014the right to privacy, rendered in cinematic terms\u2014would be much more convincing if the rest of the film weren\u2019t so breezily dismissive of Alison\u2019s body. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 12 May 2022",
      "At one end is the modern, more familiar interpretation \u2014 where Dance Fever might mirror the Bee Gees\u2019 Saturday Night Fever \u2014 as the singer deliriously ushers a return to the live music experience, her place of comfort and prowess. \u2014 Bobby Olivier, SPIN , 12 May 2022"
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "explanation",
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      "illumination",
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      "road map"
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      "transitive verb"
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    "antonyms":[
      "obscure"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to act as an interpreter between speakers of different languages":[],
      ": to conceive in the light of individual belief, judgment, or circumstance : construe":[
        "interpret a contract"
      ],
      ": to explain or tell the meaning of : present in understandable terms":[
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        "needed help interpreting the results"
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      ": to represent by means of art : bring to realization by performance or direction":[
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      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "We need someone to interpret these results for us.",
      "How should we interpret the law",
      "I interpreted his behavior to mean that he disliked me.",
      "Every actor interprets the role of Hamlet a little differently.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Pentagon officials flagged concerns that Moscow would negatively interpret the move as direct NATO involvement in the conflict and could escalate the war beyond Ukraine\u2019s borders. \u2014 Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News , 27 June 2022",
      "Instead, hearing aids and cochlear implants require the brain to interpret sound in a new way. \u2014 Tali Arbel, The Christian Science Monitor , 27 June 2022",
      "Just nine people get to interpret the meaning of a document written more than 200 years ago. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Glamour , 24 June 2022",
      "Chamberlain seemingly confirmed to the host that there was nothing to interpret from her and Jack's quick exchange. \u2014 Seventeen , 23 June 2022",
      "In this example, bank statements would likely show a decline in revenue as the weather turned colder\u2014and underwriters who may not have a relationship with the business could interpret the natural seasonality of the business as poor business health. \u2014 Bernardo Martinez, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
      "Although some Cuellar advocates interpret the unusual timing of the search as evidence that the Justice Department is performing a political hit on him, that argument makes no sense. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "So, too, has his swing to the right since taking office, targeting equity initiatives and school mask mandates, which many political observers interpret as a bid for national headlines. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Scholars tend to interpret these mythological creatures as representative of the powerful forces of nature in a fairly harsh environment prone to earthquakes, avalanches, volcanoes, and the like. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 24 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French interpreter , from Latin interpretari , from interpret-, interpres agent, negotiator, interpreter":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-p\u0259t",
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-pr\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interpret explain , expound , explicate , elucidate , interpret mean to make something clear or understandable. explain implies a making plain or intelligible what is not immediately obvious or entirely known. explain the rules expound implies a careful often elaborate explanation. expounding a scientific theory explicate adds the idea of a developed or detailed analysis. explicate a poem elucidate stresses the throwing of light upon as by offering details or motives previously unclear or only implicit. elucidate an obscure passage interpret adds to explain the need for imagination or sympathy or special knowledge in dealing with something. interpreting a work of art",
    "synonyms":[
      "clarify",
      "clear (up)",
      "construe",
      "demonstrate",
      "demystify",
      "elucidate",
      "explain",
      "explicate",
      "expound",
      "get across",
      "illuminate",
      "illustrate",
      "simplify",
      "spell out",
      "unriddle"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084647",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interregnum":{
    "antonyms":[
      "continuation",
      "continuity"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a lapse or pause in a continuous series":[],
      ": a period during which the normal functions of government or control are suspended":[],
      ": the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the democratic regime proved to be a short-lived interregnum between dictatorships",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "He was nominated mostly because Democrats saw him as their best bet against President Trump, so Biden\u2019s victory marked an interregnum rather than a turning point in the history of the Democratic Party. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "So in the interregnum between his two programs, Colbert sought out Batiste to be his stage partner at CBS. \u2014 David Kamp, WSJ , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "The two-week interregnum between the conference championships and the Super Bowl brought the rest of the drama. \u2014 Ian Crouch, The New Yorker , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "As the Dolphins continue their slow journey to the scrapyard, the challenge for the Coast Guard is to keep the interregnum as tolerable as possible for the MH-65 community. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "Like an interregnum , zwischenzeitig implies a phase between more stable periods. \u2014 Nate Dicamillo, Quartz , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "Adele's endlessly lip-syncable music might be made for the more theatrical moments posted to TikTok, which caught fire and became a fresh vehicle for pop stardom in the interregnum between 25 and 30. \u2014 Maura Johnston, EW.com , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "There are two types of people that can thrive in this dark holiday interregnum : Nightmare Before Christmas goths and Mariah Carey stans. \u2014 Bethy Squires, Vulture , 1 Nov. 2021",
      "In the interregnum between Ito\u2019s directorship and Newman\u2019s, MIT released a detailed 61-page report on the $850,000 in total donations Epstein made to the university and the decisionmaking process that led to accepting it. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from inter- + regnum reign \u2014 more at reign":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8reg-n\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "discontinuity",
      "gap",
      "hiatus",
      "hiccup",
      "hiccough",
      "interim",
      "interlude",
      "intermission",
      "interruption",
      "interstice",
      "interval",
      "parenthesis"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013814",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interrelated":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having a mutual or reciprocal relation":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Williams, for example, would not have to have committed a murder to be convicted if he were found to have participated in an interrelated pattern of criminal activity. \u2014 Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
      "Created by Lena Waithe, the drama series focuses on an interrelated group of people living in the same Chicago south side neighborhood. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 4 May 2022",
      "Bingham deftly analyzes the making of at least four interrelated myths that have arisen from slavery through the lens of the ballad. \u2014 Richard H.c. Clay, The Courier-Journal , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "And because feelings are interrelated and mutually reinforcing, seeing the world through desperate eyes colors your entire outlook on life and prevents you from seeing and appreciating the positive. \u2014 Svetlana Whitener, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "My Car had appealed to Hamaguchi as material for an adaptation for an array of interrelated reasons \u2014 some practical, others more intellectual. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Through the postwar years, major national economies became more integrated and interrelated . \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "Coexistence of approaches that take both of these into account are interrelated and necessary. \u2014 Monica R. Mclemore, Scientific American , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "But the United States economy was still haunted by a series of chronic, interrelated problems: too little spending by consumers and businesses; too few jobs; and too-low inflation. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1827, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-ri-\u02c8l\u0101-t\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115950",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interreligious":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, occurring between, or existing between members of two or more religions":[
        "interreligious marriages",
        "an interreligious community"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1847, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-ri-\u02c8li-j\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012747",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interrenal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated or occurring between the kidneys":[
        "interrenal tissue"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1877, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8r\u0113-n\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022839",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interrenal body":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small body of discrete adrenal cortical tissue lying between the kidneys of certain fishes":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184212",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interrer":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that inters":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02c8t\u0259r\u2027\u0259(r) also -t\u0259\u0304r\u0259(r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030037",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interrex":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one who exercises supreme or kingly power during an interregnum : a provisional ruler":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from inter- + rex king":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int\u0259(r)\u02ccreks"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062545",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interring":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of interring present participle of inter"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-012746",
    "type":[]
  },
  "interrobang":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a punctuation mark \u203d designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1962, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interro gation (point) + bang (printers' slang for exclamation point )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ter-\u0259-\u02ccba\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060412",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interrogable":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": capable of being interrogated":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interrog ate + -able":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259n\u2027\u02c8ter\u0259\u0307g\u0259b\u0259l",
      "(\u02c8)in\u2027\u00a6t-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050509",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "interrogant":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interrogator":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interrogant-, interrogans , present participle of interrogare":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02c8ter\u0259\u0307g\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181647",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interrogate":{
    "antonyms":[
      "answer",
      "reply",
      "respond"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to give or send out a signal to (a device, such as a transponder) for triggering an appropriate response":[],
      ": to question formally and systematically":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "interrogate a prisoner of war",
      "interrogated him about where he'd gone the night before",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "So there is the scene where the detective sits down in front of the female suspect to interrogate her. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022",
      "But the Kings, especially Robert, bridled at creators who adopted more facile strategies\u2014blandly inclusive casting and writing designed to uplift rather than to interrogate . \u2014 Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
      "But asking them feels right in line with the series-long quest to interrogate the all-American project of unthinking hero worship. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
      "That remains a good summary of the challenge: to interrogate suffering without furthering it. \u2014 Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic , 16 May 2022",
      "Such comprehensive data sets can enable researchers to interrogate the relationships between many factors at once. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Some viewers might not understand how these Dalit journalists of little to no means find the courage to interrogate powerful local officials and demand answers, often at real cost to their own safety. \u2014 Yashica Dutt, The Atlantic , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "When Allonge went to interrogate Spurzem at her Cologne apartment, her teenage son grew distressed as Allonge fired question after question at his mother about the apparent fraud. \u2014 Joshua Hammer, Town & Country , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "But the incident that brings Seo-rae and the detective together is when her husband falls to his death from a mountaintop, and the detective must interrogate her as a potential suspect. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interrogatus , past participle of interrogare , from inter- + rogare to ask \u2014 more at right":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8te-r\u0259-",
      "in-\u02c8ter-\u0259-\u02ccg\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interrogate ask , question , interrogate , query , inquire mean to address a person in order to gain information. ask implies no more than the putting of a question. ask for directions question usually suggests the asking of series of questions. questioned them about every detail of the trip interrogate suggests formal or official systematic questioning. the prosecutor interrogated the witness all day query implies a desire for authoritative information or confirmation. queried a librarian about the book inquire implies a searching for facts or for truth often specifically by asking questions. began to inquire of friends and teachers what career she should pursue",
    "synonyms":[
      "ask",
      "catechize",
      "grill",
      "inquire (of)",
      "query",
      "question",
      "quiz"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090404",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interrogative":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a word (such as who, what, which ) or a particle (such as Latin -ne ) used in asking questions":[],
      ": having the form or force of a question":[],
      ": inquisitive , questioning":[],
      ": question sense 1a":[],
      ": used in a question":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "\u201cDid you go to school today",
      "an interrogative pronoun such as \u201cwho\u201d",
      "She had an interrogative expression on her face.",
      "an interrogative tone of voice",
      "Noun",
      "though she phrased it as an interrogative , it was clear that the utterance was more of a command",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Here are nine animating, searching, and interrogative titles with which to start. \u2014 Talya Zax, The Atlantic , 26 June 2022",
      "But Smaker is on a different mission in her searing film, the very existence of which often feels like a miracle and an interrogative act of defiance. \u2014 Tomris Laffly, Variety , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "There\u2019s a tendency to be interrogative or obsessive now, so instead of directing this focus at the people in your life, try to direct it into more spiritual or studious areas. \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 27 Nov. 2020",
      "But the new show\u2019s other strength is its interrogative diversity. \u2014 Wesley Morris, New York Times , 26 Oct. 2020",
      "There have been more interrogative expeditions too: traveling to Ecuador to explore the impact the oil industry was having on the rainforest and to the Brazilian Amazon on a fact finding mission related to the Belo Monte damn project. \u2014 Cnn Staff, CNN , 8 Oct. 2019",
      "One reason that Kempowski\u2019s interrogative prose has a strange air of detachment is that the words have indeed detached themselves from the characters. \u2014 Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2016",
      "The movie\u2019s superficiality perhaps embodies what Bradbury was trying to say\u2014that TV and film are stunted, two-dimensional forms of entertainment compared to the complexity, the richness, and the interrogative nature of books. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 19 May 2018",
      "Part of the role (theirs and mine) is the stylizing of language: speaking mostly in simple declarative sentences, making all discourse either expository or interrogative . \u2014 Susan Sontag, Esquire , 19 Sep. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "How about: to the huge, throbbing interrogative that is America at the end of 2019. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 10 Nov. 2019",
      "But Zuckerberg didn\u2019t reply to any hallway interrogatives . \u2014 Chad Pergram, Fox News , 11 Apr. 2018",
      "Owing either to marketing efforts or issues that can only be determined in a therapy session, the signature hits of the Canadian child star\u2019s adult career have boasted choruses as interrogatives . \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 17 Aug. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1522, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-g\u0259-tiv"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "problem",
      "question"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185629",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interrupt":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to break the uniformity or continuity of":[
        "a hot spell occasionally interrupted by a period of cool weather"
      ],
      ": to stop or hinder by breaking in":[
        "interrupted the speaker with frequent questions"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "It's not polite to interrupt .",
      "His dinner was interrupted by a phone call.",
      "We interrupt this program to bring you a special announcement.",
      "Every summer periods of cool weather occasionally interrupt the intense heat.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Suddenly losing power can interrupt work in the home office and wreak havoc on your gadgets. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 27 June 2022",
      "But researchers depend on clinics to contribute their own data, so interruptions in their operations can also interrupt the tracking of patterns like churn itself. \u2014 Theresa Gaffney, STAT , 23 June 2022",
      "One of the tracks on the album is titled Texts Go Green, which is a reference to the ugly green bubbles that interrupt Apple Messages threads when the sender is an Android device owner. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 20 June 2022",
      "But while 911 can interrupt a mental health crisis, involving the police can be traumatic for the patient in the long run, Dr. Andrews said. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
      "But her courses are often disrupted by the blast of air raid sirens there, which also interrupt the internet signal. \u2014 Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune , 29 May 2022",
      "The shutdowns could interrupt some activities of registrars, such as updating voter rolls, but should not cause lasting problems, the Youngkin officials said. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "The mental health condition is characterized by flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety and other symptoms that interrupt daily life, and an avoidance of situations that remind a person of the event. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "The law center has also called for better funding of prevention programs that interrupt the radicalization of young people by hate and anti-government groups. \u2014 Aaron Morrison, Anchorage Daily News , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In Alaska, Gibbs and McGee interrupt Sonova CEO Sonia Eberhard at the groundbreaking ceremony for the copper ore mine. \u2014 Sara Netzley, EW.com , 12 Oct. 2021",
      "Hearing their own name is a pattern interrupt that gets their attention. \u2014 Forbes , 5 July 2021",
      "Hearing that Jennifer has just called the president a misogynist on CNN, Nora has another advisor interrupt POTUS' on-camera interview. \u2014 Nick Schager, EW.com , 13 Sep. 2021",
      "Even today, when the sun is shining and Dearborn, the center of Detroit's Arab community, is bustling, planes overhead rumbling along their flight path to Metro Airport interrupt Nabhan. \u2014 Freep.com , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "The starter interrupt may allow the vehicle to start when the transmission is not in PARK. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 7 May 2021",
      "The starter interrupt may allow the vehicle to start when the transmission is not in PARK. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 7 May 2021",
      "The starter interrupt may allow the vehicle to start when the transmission is not in PARK. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 7 May 2021",
      "The starter interrupt may allow the vehicle to start when the transmission is not in PARK. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 7 May 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
      "1957, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin interruptus , past participle of interrumpere , from inter- + rumpere to break \u2014 more at reave":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8r\u0259pt",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccr\u0259pt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "break in",
      "chime in",
      "chip in",
      "cut in",
      "interpose",
      "intrude"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235907",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interruption":{
    "antonyms":[
      "continuation",
      "continuity"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a break in the continuity of something":[
        "Internet service interruptions"
      ],
      ": a stoppage or hindering of an activity for a time":[
        "Our conversation continued without interruption for over an hour."
      ],
      ": an act of interrupting something or someone or the state of being interrupted: such as":[],
      ": something that causes a stoppage or break in the continuity of something":[
        "a rude interruption",
        "watching television without commercial interruptions"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8r\u0259p-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "discontinuity",
      "gap",
      "hiatus",
      "hiccup",
      "hiccough",
      "interim",
      "interlude",
      "intermission",
      "interregnum",
      "interstice",
      "interval",
      "parenthesis"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052606",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "interseamed":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": interspersed , sown":[
        "borders of lilies interseamed with roses",
        "\u2014 Robert Greene"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "by folk etymology from Middle French entresemer to intersperse (from entre- inter- + semer to sow, from Latin seminare ) + English -ed":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)\u00a6s\u0113md"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103521",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intersect":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to meet and cross at a point":[
        "lines intersecting at right angles"
      ],
      ": to pierce or divide by passing through or across : cross":[
        "a comet intersecting earth's orbit",
        "one line intersects another"
      ],
      ": to share a common area : overlap":[
        "where morality and self-interest intersect"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "A dry stream bed intersects the trail in several places.",
      "Line A intersects with line B.",
      "The two roads intersect at the edge of town.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Their company is working to address this challenge, tapping into the rich field of user-level engagement across all the major social and video platforms in order to surface how brand audiences intersect with the entire media landscape. \u2014 Brad Adgate, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
      "Muerle, a gifted photographer in her own right, and Anderson, a gay skateboarder, explore how their identities intersect with photography and skateboarding. \u2014 The Editors, Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "The list is then assessed to see how and where those ESG issues intersect with the company\u2019s operations. \u2014 Jamie Gamble, Fortune , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "These groups might describe, for instance, how loops can intersect and be arranged in the space. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "The show grapples with fame, calls to save the world, and how those personalities intersect . \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "The inaugural recipient is author and UCLA professor Dr. Safiya Noble, who has pioneered the study of how digital technologies intersect with culture, race, and gender. \u2014 Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "The Digital Civil Rights Award\u2019s inaugural recipient will be author and scholar Dr. Safiya Noble, who has pioneered the study of how digital technologies intersect with culture, race and gender. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "The exercise was intended to expand her students thinking about how arts intersect with all aspects of society and how the arts are a core building block \u2014 not a luxury \u2014 of American life. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Feb. 2022"
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      "1615, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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      "Latin intersectus , past participle of intersecare , from inter- + secare to cut \u2014 more at saw":""
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sekt"
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      "verb"
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      "adjective"
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      ": to meet and cross at a point":[
        "lines intersecting at right angles"
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      ": to share a common area : overlap":[
        "where morality and self-interest intersect"
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    "examples":[
      "A dry stream bed intersects the trail in several places.",
      "Line A intersects with line B.",
      "The two roads intersect at the edge of town.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Their company is working to address this challenge, tapping into the rich field of user-level engagement across all the major social and video platforms in order to surface how brand audiences intersect with the entire media landscape. \u2014 Brad Adgate, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
      "Muerle, a gifted photographer in her own right, and Anderson, a gay skateboarder, explore how their identities intersect with photography and skateboarding. \u2014 The Editors, Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "The list is then assessed to see how and where those ESG issues intersect with the company\u2019s operations. \u2014 Jamie Gamble, Fortune , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "These groups might describe, for instance, how loops can intersect and be arranged in the space. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "The show grapples with fame, calls to save the world, and how those personalities intersect . \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "The inaugural recipient is author and UCLA professor Dr. Safiya Noble, who has pioneered the study of how digital technologies intersect with culture, race, and gender. \u2014 Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "The Digital Civil Rights Award\u2019s inaugural recipient will be author and scholar Dr. Safiya Noble, who has pioneered the study of how digital technologies intersect with culture, race and gender. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "The exercise was intended to expand her students thinking about how arts intersect with all aspects of society and how the arts are a core building block \u2014 not a luxury \u2014 of American life. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Feb. 2022"
    ],
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      "1615, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
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      "cut"
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    "type":[
      "verb"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104717",
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      "noun"
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      ": a place or area where two or more things (such as streets) intersect":[],
      ": the act or process of intersecting":[],
      ": the operation of finding the intersection of two or more sets":[]
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    "examples":[
      "The accident occurred at a busy intersection .",
      "two possible points of intersection",
      "the intersection of line A and line B",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "People doubted that a new bar \u2014 situated among various small businesses, at a busy intersection in Koreatown with slim parking opportunities (especially before the ride-sharing business boom) \u2014 would flourish. \u2014 Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 June 2022",
      "DeKalb County firefighters had their hands full Thursday morning, June 23, 2022 with a tractor-trailer fire at a busy intersection that shut down traffic on North Druid Hills Road and affected traffic on I-85. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 23 June 2022",
      "The Portland Bureau of Transportation classifies the street crossing as a high-crash intersection . \u2014 oregonlive , 22 June 2022",
      "At least one person died Friday morning when a pickup pursued by law enforcement crashed in a North County intersection . \u2014 City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune , 17 June 2022",
      "Two vehicles, a pickup truck and an old four-door sedan were piled up at a busy intersection . \u2014 Matt Rivers, CNN , 17 June 2022",
      "Yet there are still fair discussions to be had about the intersection of politics, personal beliefs, and corporate America. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 16 June 2022",
      "Emergency vehicles lined the entire block surrounding the church, which is near a busy intersection and shopping district. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
      "Proceeding further east, the Cedar Avenue extension would include a leg turning north to create a T intersection at Carnegie Avenue, just east of the Innerbelt. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 15 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1559, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sek-sh\u0259n",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "corner",
      "crossing",
      "crossroad",
      "crossway(s)",
      "junction"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174216",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  "intersperse":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to insert at intervals among other things":[
        "interspersing drawings throughout the text"
      ],
      ": to place something at intervals in or among":[
        "intersperse a book with pictures"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "You should intersperse these pictures evenly throughout the book.",
      "Some seagulls were interspersed among the ducks.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Rather than tell the story in a linear fashion, following Sunja\u2019s life, Hugh chose to intersperse her story with that of her grandson\u2019s. \u2014 Joan Macdonald, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Rubin, being a columnist, does intersperse some opinion and analysis into her storytelling. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
      "When ready to make the drink, intersperse the watermelon ice cubes with regular ice and cucumber wheels. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Aug. 2021",
      "Only Weir could intersperse rocket science with dad jokes and create a memorable space MacGyver in Grace, who can science his way out of any situation. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 May 2021",
      "Choose three stories that are best suited to intersperse into this project. \u2014 Esther Choy, Forbes , 11 Apr. 2021",
      "However, the wide receivers still struggled to get open deep, so the Tigers were mostly only able to intersperse short and medium passes in with the runs. \u2014 Giana Han, al , 5 Dec. 2020",
      "During the week, Noble and her fellow teachers see paying students for riding lessons and intersperse those sessions with free classes for Humble. \u2014 Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com , 30 Oct. 2020",
      "The first is to plant in large blocks, the second to intersperse them among existing perennials. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1566, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interspersus interspersed, from inter- + sparsus , past participle of spargere to scatter \u2014 more at spark":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sp\u0259rs"
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      "lace",
      "salt",
      "thread",
      "weave",
      "wreathe"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165649",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
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  },
  "interspersed":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to insert at intervals among other things":[
        "interspersing drawings throughout the text"
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      ": to place something at intervals in or among":[
        "intersperse a book with pictures"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "You should intersperse these pictures evenly throughout the book.",
      "Some seagulls were interspersed among the ducks.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Rather than tell the story in a linear fashion, following Sunja\u2019s life, Hugh chose to intersperse her story with that of her grandson\u2019s. \u2014 Joan Macdonald, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Rubin, being a columnist, does intersperse some opinion and analysis into her storytelling. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
      "When ready to make the drink, intersperse the watermelon ice cubes with regular ice and cucumber wheels. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Aug. 2021",
      "Only Weir could intersperse rocket science with dad jokes and create a memorable space MacGyver in Grace, who can science his way out of any situation. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 May 2021",
      "Choose three stories that are best suited to intersperse into this project. \u2014 Esther Choy, Forbes , 11 Apr. 2021",
      "However, the wide receivers still struggled to get open deep, so the Tigers were mostly only able to intersperse short and medium passes in with the runs. \u2014 Giana Han, al , 5 Dec. 2020",
      "During the week, Noble and her fellow teachers see paying students for riding lessons and intersperse those sessions with free classes for Humble. \u2014 Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com , 30 Oct. 2020",
      "The first is to plant in large blocks, the second to intersperse them among existing perennials. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1566, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interspersus interspersed, from inter- + sparsus , past participle of spargere to scatter \u2014 more at spark":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sp\u0259rs"
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      "interlace",
      "interweave",
      "lace",
      "salt",
      "thread",
      "weave",
      "wreathe"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115357",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interstice":{
    "antonyms":[
      "continuation",
      "continuity"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a gap or break in something generally continuous":[
        "the interstices of society",
        "passages of genuine literary merit in the interstices of the ludicrous \u2026 plots",
        "\u2014 Joyce Carol Oates"
      ],
      ": a short space of time between events":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "there's an occasional interstice in the tedium, but most of the novel is boring",
      "pesky weeds growing in the interstices between the flagstones",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Like it or not, many people fill in every interstice of their day by whipping out their phone and flicking through feeds. \u2014 Mark Van Wye, Forbes , 15 June 2021",
      "With a gray interstice , Bradley then cuts to the present day, with the Richardson family getting dressed to visit Rob at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. \u2014 Samantha N. Sheppard, The Atlantic , 17 Oct. 2020",
      "In the jargon of literary criticism, these in-between states are called interstitial \u2013 an interstice is a small space between something else, like the cracks in a sidewalk. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 June 2020",
      "In the structure of the tire, the pure cheese is acting as the interstice , bonding the sturdy and static aggregate materials together while still giving them flexibility and shock absorption. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 2 Apr. 2020",
      "Instead of drama and imagination, the movie depends on a relentless blare of music, by John Williams, which takes the place of any emotional complexity that might dare to sneak through the interstices . \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 19 Dec. 2019",
      "David Robertson, in the pit, lavished attention on the interstices of Gershwin\u2019s score\u2014the leitmotivic web that holds the big numbers together. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 7 Oct. 2019",
      "Its molten rage has dripped through the interstices of our daily lives. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 5 Oct. 2018",
      "The interstice between Jack\u2019s insides and his skin \u2014 that chasm of echoing hollow, the miserable Gas that kept him from himself, and from the world, had been closed.\u2019\u2019 Voth\u2019s situation is much less dramatic. \u2014 Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin interstitium , from inter- + -stit-, -stes standing (as in superstes standing over) \u2014 more at superstition":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-st\u0259s"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "gap",
      "hiatus",
      "hiccup",
      "hiccough",
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      "intermission",
      "interregnum",
      "interruption",
      "interval",
      "parenthesis"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092453",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intertwine":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to unite by twining one with another":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He's always telling stories in which the present and the past intertwine .",
      "His fate is intertwined with hers.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In places like Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, and the Baltics, those memories intertwine with the momentous change of becoming European Union member states. \u2014 Cristian Gherasim, CNN , 17 June 2022",
      "Trying to intertwine the two, that\u2019s really how BOBY came to be, too, by being able to intermingle all of those things. \u2014 Essence , 15 Nov. 2018",
      "Five stories on interpersonal trust and unspoken truths intertwine in Annette K. Olesen\u2019s artful, elliptical, and bittersweet relationship drama. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Madden and Ashford deftly intertwine elements of a caper with the dizzying pleasures of creating fiction as the group fills in details of not one but two complete lives, William and Pam. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Second, crews will also demolish and construct a new ramp from I-69 southbound to West Loop 610 southbound that will intertwine with the new northbound main lanes and other new features of the interchange. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "The key to successful digital transformation is to establish and seamlessly intertwine four core pillars: technology and infrastructure, business processes and models, customer experience and organizational culture. \u2014 Jonathan Cardella, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
      "But both focus more squarely on recovery assessment than typical activity tracking and aim to tell you how your activity, sleep, and recovery rates intertwine . \u2014 Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "The reason fans are still in love with the MCU after all these years is Marvel\u2019s ability to intertwine these seemingly independent movies into a major storyline. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 9 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1641, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8tw\u012bn"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "enlace",
      "entwine",
      "implicate",
      "interlace",
      "intertwist",
      "interweave",
      "inweave",
      "lace",
      "ply",
      "twist",
      "weave",
      "wreathe",
      "writhe"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230408",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intertwist":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intertwine":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "intertwisted the cables in his roommate's entertainment system just out of spite",
      "the tree's intertwisted roots seemed to extend forever"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1659, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8twist"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "enlace",
      "entwine",
      "implicate",
      "interlace",
      "intertwine",
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      "inweave",
      "lace",
      "ply",
      "twist",
      "weave",
      "wreathe",
      "writhe"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223325",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
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  },
  "interval":{
    "antonyms":[
      "continuation",
      "continuity"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a set of real numbers between two numbers either including or excluding one or both of them":[],
      ": a space between objects, units, points, or states":[
        "The posts were set up at regular intervals along the road."
      ],
      ": a space of time between events or states":[
        "a two-month interval between medical treatments",
        "There were long intervals during the game in which nothing exciting happened."
      ],
      ": intermission":[
        "There was a twenty minute interval between acts two and three."
      ],
      ": one of a series of fast-paced or intense physical exercises alternated with slower or less intense ones or brief rests for training (as of an athlete) \u2014 see also interval training":[],
      ": the difference in pitch between two tones":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a three-month interval between jobs",
      "There might be long intervals during which nothing happens.",
      "The sun shone for brief intervals throughout the day.",
      "There will be a 20-minute interval between acts one and two.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "However, over the two-year interval from 2017 to 2019, the number of kids who reported vaping marijuana over the last 30 days rose among all grades, nearly tripling among high school seniors. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
      "But again, the confidence intervals are very wide, particularly for the younger age group, where the interval ranged from -370 to 99.6. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
      "The large battery can last a lengthy 240 hours when using 10-minute interval tracking, according to Spot. \u2014 Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics , 31 May 2022",
      "Since all other primes are odd, the interval between any two successive primes has to be even, but no one knows a rule to govern this. \u2014 Alec Wilkinson, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
      "The government has been reevaluating its mask directives on a near-monthly basis, and its latest extension marks its shortest interval at two weeks in duration. \u2014 Dan Carson, Chron , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "New York City will increase its frequency of student testing to once a week instead of its current two-week interval , Mayor Bill de Blasio said. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 21 Sep. 2021",
      "New York City will increase its frequency of student testing to once a week instead of its current two-week interval , Mayor Bill de Blasio said. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "Walk for the first 10\u201315 seconds of your recovery interval , and then jog the rest of the way down. \u2014 Outside Online , 25 Nov. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English intervalle , from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French entreval , from Latin intervallum space between ramparts, interval, from inter- + vallum rampart \u2014 more at wall":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-v\u0259l",
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-v\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "discontinuity",
      "gap",
      "hiatus",
      "hiccup",
      "hiccough",
      "interim",
      "interlude",
      "intermission",
      "interregnum",
      "interruption",
      "interstice",
      "parenthesis"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110359",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intervene":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to become a third party to a legal proceeding begun by others for the protection of an alleged interest":[],
      ": to come in or between by way of hindrance or modification":[
        "intervene to stop a fight"
      ],
      ": to enter or appear as an irrelevant or extraneous feature or circumstance":[
        "it's business as usual until a crisis intervenes"
      ],
      ": to interfere usually by force or threat of force in another nation's internal affairs especially to compel or prevent an action":[],
      ": to interfere with the outcome or course especially of a condition or process (as to prevent harm or improve functioning)":[],
      ": to occur or lie between two things":[],
      ": to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events":[
        "only six months intervened between their marriage and divorce"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Twenty years intervened between their first and last meetings.",
      "The prisoner asked me to intervene with the authorities on his behalf.",
      "The military had to intervene to restore order.",
      "We will leave on time unless some crisis intervenes .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "More patrols will be going out on both sides of the river this weekend, so officers will be able to spot and intervene more quickly, spokespeople from each department said. \u2014 Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online , 2 July 2022",
      "If macOS\u2019s own security tools don\u2019t intervene first. \u2014 Barry Collins, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "Per the new ruling, the state can intervene when victims are tribal members. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 29 June 2022",
      "People at the scene did intervene , sometimes shooting the attackers, but typically physically subduing them. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "But the diocese reportedly did not intervene to stop the priest\u2019s ongoing activities \u2014 working at a nonprofit to help orphans from the genocide in Rwanda. \u2014 Chico Harlan, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
      "The Suljovics ran outside to intervene , at which point Gooding and Whack allegedly brandished knives and stabbed both father and son. \u2014 Audrey Conklin, Fox News , 16 June 2022",
      "And the earlier physicians can intervene , the better. \u2014 Erika Edwards, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
      "Why would a national organization feel compelled to intervene in a state-level fight, particularly while in the midst of a tense battle with the White House over trade policy"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intervenire to come between, from inter- + venire to come \u2014 more at come":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0113n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intervene interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf",
    "synonyms":[
      "intercede",
      "intermediate",
      "interpose",
      "mediate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064744",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "interview":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a formal consultation usually to evaluate qualifications (as of a prospective student or employee)":[],
      ": a meeting at which information is obtained (as by a reporter, television commentator, or pollster) from a person":[],
      ": a report or reproduction of information so obtained":[],
      ": interviewee":[],
      ": to participate in an interview for a position (such as a job)":[
        "One warm morning I arrived to interview for a job as an editorial assistant on a trade journal \u2026",
        "\u2014 Joseph Epstein"
      ],
      ": to question or talk with (someone) to get information : to conduct an interview with (someone)":[
        "The police are interviewing several witnesses.",
        "was interviewed on television",
        "Several strong candidates have been interviewed for the position.",
        "More than 60 staff members were interviewed for the project \u2026",
        "\u2014 Nature Conservancy",
        "Gone are the days when a language researcher had to interview subjects in a lab \u2026",
        "\u2014 Katy Steinmetz"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The company is holding interviews for several new jobs.",
      "a journalist conducting interviews with political leaders",
      "The interview will be shown on tonight's news.",
      "This library has a large collection of his interviews .",
      "He is a very entertaining interview .",
      "She's always been known as one of Hollywood's best interviews .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "One Trump adviser, Jason Miller, said the committee unfairly truncated parts of his interview . \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
      "At the time of our interview , the birth of the couple\u2019s first child was imminent. \u2014 Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2022",
      "In his sprawling interview with the fashion magazine, Pitt discusses everything from his production company and film career to his dreams and COVID-19 pandemic hobbies. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "Sarah Jessica Parker wonders aloud during our Friday afternoon interview . \u2014 ELLE , 23 June 2022",
      "Watch our exclusive video interview with the largest cast of trans contestants ever to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race above, and read on for all the highlights (including timestamps). \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
      "Barr didn't give his interview ruling out widespread fraud to the AP until Dec. 1. \u2014 Alexander Mallin, ABC News , 22 June 2022",
      "Elsewhere in his interview , Pitt opened up about quitting smoking during the pandemic to improve his health. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
      "Read his full interview here: on N-of-1 trials and precision medicine. \u2014 Aline Holzwarth, Forbes , 21 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1514, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1868, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Anglo-French entreveue meeting, from ( s' ) entreveer to see one another, meet, from entre- inter- + veer to see \u2014 more at view":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccvy\u00fc"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
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      "canvas",
      "poll",
      "solicit",
      "survey"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181111",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
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  "interweave":{
    "antonyms":[],
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      ": intertwine , intermingle":[],
      ": to mix or blend together":[
        "interweaving his own insights \u2026 with letters and memoirs",
        "\u2014 Phoebe Adams"
      ],
      ": to weave together":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a house built from poles interwoven with vines",
      "a mat of interwoven fibers",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The prime attraction is guitars\u2014including folky varieties such as Dobro, lap steel, and baritone guitar\u2014that interweave with the haphazard, rhythmic grace of rustling branches. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 28 May 2022",
      "The disparate experiences of characters living in Southern California \u2014 far from the glitz of Hollywood \u2014 gradually interweave to create a celebration of families made all the more poignant by the constant threat of separation, exile or worse. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
      "Scents of clementine, thyme, orange blossom, lavender, and musk interweave to create a fragrance that is sure to captivate and enchant. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
      "The directors interweave the commentary of activists who were around when 9 to 5 was released, including Karen Nussbaum and Ellen Cassedy, who founded the 9to5 National Association of Working Women in 1973, their work key to Fonda\u2019s research. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "The members work in close collaboration with composers, developing projects that interweave music, dance, theater, film, video and visual arts. \u2014 Fred Bronson, Billboard , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "The annual Jungle Bells celebration at the San Diego Zoo is a wild wonderland of twinkling lights, holiday music and displays that interweave 3-D projections, music and light. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Nov. 2021",
      "Sound designers Mark Mangini and Theo Green worked closely with Zimmer to interweave the sound effects with the score to create an immersive soundscape. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "Screenplay and editing smoothly interweave the disparate story threads, some of which run out quickly, others running to the end. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 20 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1598, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8w\u0113v"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "enlace",
      "entwine",
      "implicate",
      "interlace",
      "intertwine",
      "intertwist",
      "inweave",
      "lace",
      "ply",
      "twist",
      "weave",
      "wreathe",
      "writhe"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064044",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intestinal fortitude":{
    "antonyms":[
      "cowardice",
      "cowardliness",
      "cravenness",
      "dastardliness",
      "poltroonery",
      "spinelessness"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": courage , stamina":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the one person who had the intestinal fortitude to stand up and denounce the injustice of it all",
      "you'll need considerable intestinal fortitude to put up with that corporate diva, but the work experience will be worth it",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Watching Ric Flair do business in the squared circle is worth the price of admission, subscription, one-time pay-per-view fee, or any other means of watching athletic displays of intestinal fortitude . \u2014 Matt Caputo, SPIN , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "It\u2019s that cause that gives you that intestinal fortitude to prevail. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 18 Nov. 2021",
      "Batch 2, the latest release from under-the-radar Speyside producer The BenRiach, is a single malt Scotch whisky that will test the intestinal fortitude of the heartiest hooch drinkers. \u2014 Dan Dunn, Robb Report , 12 Jan. 2021",
      "Broadcasters John McEnroe and Piers Morgan raised the question of her intestinal fortitude . \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "Grenier, then, demonstrating real intestinal fortitude , proposed helping Osmani overthrow Mullah Omar if Osmani would publicly break with al Qaeda and turn bin Laden over. \u2014 CBS News , 22 Sep. 2021",
      "Others don\u2019t have the intestinal fortitude to hold on for all of eternity. \u2014 Ben Carlson, Fortune , 29 Apr. 2021",
      "Published in the summer of 1960, Seuss\u2019s literary tract of gastro-aggression vs. intestinal fortitude became his best-selling book ever. \u2014 Michael Cavna, Washington Post , 9 Nov. 2019",
      "Over 80 contestants survived the grueling 14-station obstacle course that tested the competitor\u2019s strength, speed, endurance and intestinal fortitude all in the name of being declared a fitness champion. \u2014 Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com , 18 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1937, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "euphemism for guts":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bottle",
      "bravery",
      "courage",
      "courageousness",
      "daring",
      "daringness",
      "dauntlessness",
      "doughtiness",
      "fearlessness",
      "gallantry",
      "greatheartedness",
      "guts",
      "gutsiness",
      "hardihood",
      "heart",
      "heroism",
      "intrepidity",
      "intrepidness",
      "moxie",
      "nerve",
      "pecker",
      "prowess",
      "stoutness",
      "valor",
      "virtue"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044928",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intima":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the innermost coat of an organ (such as a blood vessel) consisting usually of an endothelial layer backed by connective tissue and elastic tissue":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1873, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin, feminine of intimus":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int-\u0259-m\u0259",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-m\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112703",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intimacy":{
    "antonyms":[
      "distance"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": something of a personal or private nature":[],
      ": the state of being intimate : familiarity":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the intimacy of old friends",
      "the intimacy of their relationship",
      "He felt he achieved a certain intimacy with her.",
      "The band liked the intimacy of the nightclub.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The pandemic may have seemed like the perfect opportunity to nurture a relationship with unlimited access to your partner, nonstop togetherness and plenty of time for intimacy . \u2014 Rob Picheta And Hafsa Khalil, CNN , 1 June 2022",
      "The thirst for intimacy and a feeling of relevance is touched on numerous times. \u2014 Leah Tyler, ajc , 30 May 2022",
      "Trying to foster intimacy during a disruption is like trying to write love letters during a divorce. \u2014 Todd Sixt, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
      "The installation of a cavernous new shell in 2004, a stupefying magnification of the iconic old one, with an artificially powerful sound system and giant video screens, seemed to spell the end of any intimacy the Bowl might have still maintained. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Deep observation and intimacy are core to her process. \u2014 Jillian Eugenios, NBC News , 1 June 2022",
      "Hart and cinematographer Bryce Fortner complement our heroine\u2019s innate vibrancy with a fresh, saturated palette, while handheld shots aid the immediacy and intimacy of introspective moments. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 1 June 2022",
      "There is never any hand holding, cuddling or intimacy . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
      "There is never any hand holding, cuddling or intimacy . \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 31 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1641, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-m\u0259-s\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "belonging",
      "chumminess",
      "closeness",
      "familiarity",
      "inseparability",
      "nearness"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222246",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intimado":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an intimate friend : intimate":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably alteration (influenced by Spanish -ado , as in renegado ) of intimate entry 3":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259\u02c8m\u00e4(\u02cc)d\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171609",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intimate":{
    "antonyms":[
      "alter ego",
      "amigo",
      "buddy",
      "chum",
      "compadre",
      "comrade",
      "confidant",
      "confidante",
      "crony",
      "familiar",
      "friend",
      "mate",
      "musketeer",
      "pal"
    ],
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      ": a very close friend or confidant : an intimate friend":[],
      ": belonging to or characterizing one's deepest nature":[],
      ": engaged in, involving, or marked by sex or sexual relations":[
        "It must have been a shock for the author to realize\u2014somewhere between contract and completed manuscript\u2014that while Ms. Brickman was intimate with dozens of mobsters, she was close to none of them.",
        "\u2014 Amy Pagnozzi",
        "The father of three children by three women doesn't have a girlfriend and says he hasn't been intimate with anyone in two months.",
        "\u2014 Michael Silver"
      ],
      ": intrinsic , essential":[],
      ": marked by a warm friendship developing through long association":[
        "intimate friends"
      ],
      ": marked by very close association, contact, or familiarity":[
        "intimate knowledge of the law"
      ],
      ": of a very personal or private nature":[
        "intimate secrets"
      ],
      ": suggesting informal warmth or privacy":[
        "intimate clubs"
      ],
      ": to communicate delicately and indirectly : hint":[],
      ": to make known especially publicly or formally : announce":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "The dining room is plush and intimate , set off by some of the most extravagant floral arrangements in the city. \u2014 Thomas Matthews , Wine Spectator , 31 Mar. 2009",
      "When a little-known writer undertakes a manifesto\u2014a statement, after all, of sober purpose and principle\u2014it is likely also to be a cri de coeur, and its reasoned argument will derive from the intimate wounds of autobiography. \u2014 Cynthia Ozick , Harper's , April 2007",
      "The company would sit around after dinner in the lavishly plain living room or wander out to the pool for more intimate conversation \u2026 \u2014 Arthur Miller , Timebends , 1987",
      "They remained intimate friends throughout their lives.",
      "They are in an intimate and committed relationship.",
      "Noun",
      "Musicians \u2026 tend not, as writers do, to write hundreds of letters sharing with intimates what is going on in their hearts or heads. \u2014 August Kleinzahler , New York Times Book Review , 18 Oct. 2009",
      "She might not mind his assistance, and he was hungering for the company of an intimate to whom he could give and from whom he could receive, and who better in all the world than Nancy",
      "So this is a biography rich in information, written in a humble and tasteful way by an intimate whose aim is to put a lot of material at the reader's disposal \u2026 \u2014 Martha C. Nussbaum , New Republic , 31 Dec. 2001 & 7 Jan. 2002",
      "His coworkers knew him as \u201cRobert,\u201d but his intimates called him \u201cRobbie.\u201d",
      "usually quite aloof in public, he's actually quite relaxed with his intimates",
      "Verb",
      "Is he really\u2014as his advisers keep intimating to Western journalists\u2014a serious reformer waiting to emerge from the closet",
      "The dome tops look like pieces of the older ridged plains, intimating that the domes formed when the plains were pushed upward from below. \u2014 Robert T. Pappalardo et al. , Scientific American , October 1999",
      "He bounded on stage wearing a polo T-shirt and trousers whose sleekness intimated a large American Express bill. \u2014 Caroline Sullivan , Times (London) , 15 Oct. 1992",
      "trying to intimate that there was more going on than anyone knew",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Large communities have wider reach, but smaller groups are often more intimate . \u2014 Lindsay Ellis, WSJ , 27 June 2022",
      "While Sofar concerts are often intimate , Eaton House and its capacity of 100-150 is one of Sofar\u2019s larger sites, says Chris Baluyut, Sofar Sounds\u2019 host operations manager of the East Coast, allowing more people to discover rising talent. \u2014 Noah Lederman, SPIN , 27 June 2022",
      "Part of making something feel real is steeping it in the specificity and details that are intimate to someone who lives in a place, is from a place. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2022",
      "The entire one-hour experience is intimate and the level of service is top-notch \u2014 each cruise has a private skipper and an English-speaking guide who knows all the ins and outs of Amsterdam. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 17 June 2022",
      "Part of making something feel real is steeping it in the specificity and details that are intimate to someone who lives in a place, is from a place. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
      "Early data suggests that gay, bisexual, and other men who are intimate with men make up a higher number of cases. \u2014 Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
      "Being intimate with yourself is a final tip to try. \u2014 Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence , 10 June 2022",
      "The semicircular open-air bar is intimate , with only 12 seats and a handful of high-top tables, but there isn\u2019t a seat without a view. \u2014 Rob Duca, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The pop star married her longtime boyfriend in an intimate , at-home wedding last Thursday. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022",
      "Gracious, intelligent and blessed with boyish good looks, Mr. Hawkins became a fixture on the elite party circuit and an intimate of its prime movers. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "To kick off New York Fashion Week, Saks Fifth Avenue hosted an intimate \u2014but star-studded\u2014dinner at its sceney midtown restaurant, L\u2019Avenue. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "The conversation tacks back and forth from the intimate to the existential. \u2014 Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
      "Themes of race, religion, class, and education appear throughout this ambitious novel, but its abiding focus is on the intimate , and the way broader social forces can impinge upon it. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine , 28 Sep. 2021",
      "Under such a guise, I was granted an intimate , if narrow, view into the lives of strangers. \u2014 Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker , 25 Sep. 2021",
      "With these two venues \u2014 one intimate and indoors, the other larger and outdoors, both superior in aesthetic quality \u2014 San Diego is now home to two of the finest music venues in the nation. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 Aug. 2021",
      "Grande, 28, married Dalton Gomez on May 15 during an intimate , at-home ceremony with less than 20 people in attendance, the singer's rep told PEOPLE at the time. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 22 July 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Shugrue dos Santos says research shows criminal responses to intimate partner violence have not lessened rates. \u2014 Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
      "Over 400 chefs, beverage producers and food personalities will partake in over 90 events this year ranging from walk-around tastings to masterclasses to intimate sit-down dinners. \u2014 Cheryl Tiu, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
      "Many events from food festivals to intimate tasting sessions will be held throughout the year. \u2014 David Nikel, Forbes , 1 Jan. 2022",
      "DJs would intimate that this was a new British band. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Act 1 is the 1939 May Co. department store made over into the Saban Building, airy home for exhibition galleries, restaurant, store and intimate below-ground theater. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Sep. 2021",
      "What would truly intimate , loving and pleasurable encounters or relationships with men actually look like",
      "Public health lockdowns were the last thing the industry \u2014 from big, corporate cineplexes to intimate art houses \u2014 needed, said Jeff Bock, senior media analyst at Exhibitor Relations, which tracks the performance of films and other media. \u2014 James Rainey, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2021",
      "Not unlike the movies of Hollywood, the real world is bursting with romantic settings that range from over-the-top lavish to discreetly intimate . \u2014 Roger Sands, Forbes , 2 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1522, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb",
      "1659, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1632, in the meaning defined at sense 4a":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin intimatus , past participle of intimare to put in, announce, from Latin intimus innermost, superlative of Old Latin *interus inward \u2014 more at interior":"Verb",
      "alteration of obsolete intime , from Latin intimus \u2014 see intimate entry 3":"Adjective and Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-m\u0259t",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intimate Verb suggest , imply , hint , intimate , insinuate mean to convey an idea indirectly. suggest may stress putting into the mind by association of ideas, awakening of a desire, or initiating a train of thought. a film title that suggests its subject matter imply is close to suggest but may indicate a more definite or logical relation of the unexpressed idea to the expressed. measures implying that bankruptcy was imminent hint implies the use of slight or remote suggestion with a minimum of overt statement. hinted that she might get the job intimate stresses delicacy of suggestion without connoting any lack of candor. intimates that there is more to the situation than meets the eye insinuate applies to the conveying of a usually unpleasant idea in a sly underhanded manner. insinuated that there were shady dealings",
    "synonyms":[
      "bosom",
      "buddy-buddy",
      "chummy",
      "close",
      "especial",
      "familiar",
      "friendly",
      "inseparable",
      "inward",
      "near",
      "thick",
      "tight"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183738",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to have sexual relations with (someone)":[
        "He denies that he was ever intimate with her."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125527",
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ]
  },
  "intimately":{
    "antonyms":[
      "alter ego",
      "amigo",
      "buddy",
      "chum",
      "compadre",
      "comrade",
      "confidant",
      "confidante",
      "crony",
      "familiar",
      "friend",
      "mate",
      "musketeer",
      "pal"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a very close friend or confidant : an intimate friend":[],
      ": belonging to or characterizing one's deepest nature":[],
      ": engaged in, involving, or marked by sex or sexual relations":[
        "It must have been a shock for the author to realize\u2014somewhere between contract and completed manuscript\u2014that while Ms. Brickman was intimate with dozens of mobsters, she was close to none of them.",
        "\u2014 Amy Pagnozzi",
        "The father of three children by three women doesn't have a girlfriend and says he hasn't been intimate with anyone in two months.",
        "\u2014 Michael Silver"
      ],
      ": intrinsic , essential":[],
      ": marked by a warm friendship developing through long association":[
        "intimate friends"
      ],
      ": marked by very close association, contact, or familiarity":[
        "intimate knowledge of the law"
      ],
      ": of a very personal or private nature":[
        "intimate secrets"
      ],
      ": suggesting informal warmth or privacy":[
        "intimate clubs"
      ],
      ": to communicate delicately and indirectly : hint":[],
      ": to make known especially publicly or formally : announce":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "The dining room is plush and intimate , set off by some of the most extravagant floral arrangements in the city. \u2014 Thomas Matthews , Wine Spectator , 31 Mar. 2009",
      "When a little-known writer undertakes a manifesto\u2014a statement, after all, of sober purpose and principle\u2014it is likely also to be a cri de coeur, and its reasoned argument will derive from the intimate wounds of autobiography. \u2014 Cynthia Ozick , Harper's , April 2007",
      "The company would sit around after dinner in the lavishly plain living room or wander out to the pool for more intimate conversation \u2026 \u2014 Arthur Miller , Timebends , 1987",
      "They remained intimate friends throughout their lives.",
      "They are in an intimate and committed relationship.",
      "Noun",
      "Musicians \u2026 tend not, as writers do, to write hundreds of letters sharing with intimates what is going on in their hearts or heads. \u2014 August Kleinzahler , New York Times Book Review , 18 Oct. 2009",
      "She might not mind his assistance, and he was hungering for the company of an intimate to whom he could give and from whom he could receive, and who better in all the world than Nancy",
      "So this is a biography rich in information, written in a humble and tasteful way by an intimate whose aim is to put a lot of material at the reader's disposal \u2026 \u2014 Martha C. Nussbaum , New Republic , 31 Dec. 2001 & 7 Jan. 2002",
      "His coworkers knew him as \u201cRobert,\u201d but his intimates called him \u201cRobbie.\u201d",
      "usually quite aloof in public, he's actually quite relaxed with his intimates",
      "Verb",
      "Is he really\u2014as his advisers keep intimating to Western journalists\u2014a serious reformer waiting to emerge from the closet",
      "The dome tops look like pieces of the older ridged plains, intimating that the domes formed when the plains were pushed upward from below. \u2014 Robert T. Pappalardo et al. , Scientific American , October 1999",
      "He bounded on stage wearing a polo T-shirt and trousers whose sleekness intimated a large American Express bill. \u2014 Caroline Sullivan , Times (London) , 15 Oct. 1992",
      "trying to intimate that there was more going on than anyone knew",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Large communities have wider reach, but smaller groups are often more intimate . \u2014 Lindsay Ellis, WSJ , 27 June 2022",
      "While Sofar concerts are often intimate , Eaton House and its capacity of 100-150 is one of Sofar\u2019s larger sites, says Chris Baluyut, Sofar Sounds\u2019 host operations manager of the East Coast, allowing more people to discover rising talent. \u2014 Noah Lederman, SPIN , 27 June 2022",
      "Part of making something feel real is steeping it in the specificity and details that are intimate to someone who lives in a place, is from a place. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2022",
      "The entire one-hour experience is intimate and the level of service is top-notch \u2014 each cruise has a private skipper and an English-speaking guide who knows all the ins and outs of Amsterdam. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 17 June 2022",
      "Part of making something feel real is steeping it in the specificity and details that are intimate to someone who lives in a place, is from a place. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
      "Early data suggests that gay, bisexual, and other men who are intimate with men make up a higher number of cases. \u2014 Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune , 14 June 2022",
      "Being intimate with yourself is a final tip to try. \u2014 Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence , 10 June 2022",
      "The semicircular open-air bar is intimate , with only 12 seats and a handful of high-top tables, but there isn\u2019t a seat without a view. \u2014 Rob Duca, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The pop star married her longtime boyfriend in an intimate , at-home wedding last Thursday. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 June 2022",
      "Gracious, intelligent and blessed with boyish good looks, Mr. Hawkins became a fixture on the elite party circuit and an intimate of its prime movers. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "To kick off New York Fashion Week, Saks Fifth Avenue hosted an intimate \u2014but star-studded\u2014dinner at its sceney midtown restaurant, L\u2019Avenue. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "The conversation tacks back and forth from the intimate to the existential. \u2014 Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
      "Themes of race, religion, class, and education appear throughout this ambitious novel, but its abiding focus is on the intimate , and the way broader social forces can impinge upon it. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine , 28 Sep. 2021",
      "Under such a guise, I was granted an intimate , if narrow, view into the lives of strangers. \u2014 Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker , 25 Sep. 2021",
      "With these two venues \u2014 one intimate and indoors, the other larger and outdoors, both superior in aesthetic quality \u2014 San Diego is now home to two of the finest music venues in the nation. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 Aug. 2021",
      "Grande, 28, married Dalton Gomez on May 15 during an intimate , at-home ceremony with less than 20 people in attendance, the singer's rep told PEOPLE at the time. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 22 July 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Shugrue dos Santos says research shows criminal responses to intimate partner violence have not lessened rates. \u2014 Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
      "Over 400 chefs, beverage producers and food personalities will partake in over 90 events this year ranging from walk-around tastings to masterclasses to intimate sit-down dinners. \u2014 Cheryl Tiu, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
      "Many events from food festivals to intimate tasting sessions will be held throughout the year. \u2014 David Nikel, Forbes , 1 Jan. 2022",
      "DJs would intimate that this was a new British band. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "Act 1 is the 1939 May Co. department store made over into the Saban Building, airy home for exhibition galleries, restaurant, store and intimate below-ground theater. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Sep. 2021",
      "What would truly intimate , loving and pleasurable encounters or relationships with men actually look like",
      "Public health lockdowns were the last thing the industry \u2014 from big, corporate cineplexes to intimate art houses \u2014 needed, said Jeff Bock, senior media analyst at Exhibitor Relations, which tracks the performance of films and other media. \u2014 James Rainey, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2021",
      "Not unlike the movies of Hollywood, the real world is bursting with romantic settings that range from over-the-top lavish to discreetly intimate . \u2014 Roger Sands, Forbes , 2 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1522, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb",
      "1659, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1632, in the meaning defined at sense 4a":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin intimatus , past participle of intimare to put in, announce, from Latin intimus innermost, superlative of Old Latin *interus inward \u2014 more at interior":"Verb",
      "alteration of obsolete intime , from Latin intimus \u2014 see intimate entry 3":"Adjective and Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-m\u0259t",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intimate Verb suggest , imply , hint , intimate , insinuate mean to convey an idea indirectly. suggest may stress putting into the mind by association of ideas, awakening of a desire, or initiating a train of thought. a film title that suggests its subject matter imply is close to suggest but may indicate a more definite or logical relation of the unexpressed idea to the expressed. measures implying that bankruptcy was imminent hint implies the use of slight or remote suggestion with a minimum of overt statement. hinted that she might get the job intimate stresses delicacy of suggestion without connoting any lack of candor. intimates that there is more to the situation than meets the eye insinuate applies to the conveying of a usually unpleasant idea in a sly underhanded manner. insinuated that there were shady dealings",
    "synonyms":[
      "bosom",
      "buddy-buddy",
      "chummy",
      "close",
      "especial",
      "familiar",
      "friendly",
      "inseparable",
      "inward",
      "near",
      "thick",
      "tight"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183651",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intimation":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an indirect, usually subtle suggestion, indication, or hint":[
        "intimations that she may retire from teaching next year",
        "It can be any time from the earliest intimation of fall, when wetland maples turn a searing red, to the third week of October, when gaudy leaves carpet the forest floor.",
        "\u2014 Madeline Drexler",
        "They bored me stiff but George had expertise and gave occasional intimations of power in reserve.",
        "\u2014 Tobias Wolff"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1531, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8m\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190446",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intimidate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "He tries to intimidate his opponents.",
      "You shouldn't allow his reputation to intimidate you.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Critics have said the bill is vague, targets LGBTQ teachers and students and is intended to intimidate educators from discussing the topic. \u2014 Skyler Swisher, orlandosentinel.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Critics say the efforts can easily be abused and used as political cudgels or efforts to intimidate people from registering and voting. \u2014 Michael Wines, New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "In this scenario, Putin would keep his troops on the border to intimidate the Ukrainian government from fully responding militarily to the increased insurgency. \u2014 CBS News , 5 Jan. 2022",
      "Federal incarceration keeps notorious criminals far from their communities and thereby limits their capacity to maintain their criminal enterprises and their ability to intimidate victims and witnesses from the inside. \u2014 Tom Cotton, National Review , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled the country since the Taliban seized the capital, but the Islamist group\u2019s guards have also used violence to intimidate people from leaving. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Aug. 2021",
      "O\u2019Rourke said Senate Bill 7 would have given more leeway for partisan poll watchers to intimidate voters from communities of color. \u2014 Hojun Choi, Dallas News , 8 June 2021",
      "Despite attempts to discredit Browder, to intimidate witnesses and to buy the best legal counsel available, Prevezon ultimately lost the case, the sanctions remain in place, and Browder is not doing time in Siberia. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "In his remarks, Biden acknowledged the struggle to get a law on the books, and spoke about how lynchings were used to terrorize and intimidate Blacks in the United States. \u2014 Darlene Superville, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1646, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin intimidatus , past participle of intimidare , from Latin in- + timidus timid":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ti-m\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intimidate intimidate , cow , bulldoze , bully , browbeat mean to frighten into submission. intimidate implies inducing fear or a sense of inferiority into another. intimidated by so many other bright freshmen cow implies reduction to a state where the spirit is broken or all courage is lost. not at all cowed by the odds against making it in show business bulldoze implies an intimidating or an overcoming of resistance usually by urgings, demands, or threats. bulldozed the city council into approving the plan bully implies intimidation through threats, insults, or aggressive behavior. bullied into giving up their lunch money browbeat implies a cowing through arrogant, scornful, or contemptuous treatment. browbeat the witness into a contradiction",
    "synonyms":[
      "blackjack",
      "bogart",
      "browbeat",
      "bulldoze",
      "bully",
      "bullyrag",
      "cow",
      "hector",
      "strong-arm"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165814",
    "type":[
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intimidated":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": made to feel timid : affected or held back by feelings of fear or timidity":[
        "When you're a collector and just starting out, you do feel a bit intimidated \u2026",
        "\u2014 Robert I. C. Fisher",
        "For years, the civil rights lobby, backed by Democrats in Congress, was so strong that critics often felt intimidated .",
        "\u2014 Joseph P. Shapiro",
        "\u2026 he was a supreme boss with a thoroughly intimidated staff that yearned to see him destroyed.",
        "\u2014 Russell Baker",
        "She didn't know how to use any of the other cardio machines and was too intimidated to ask.",
        "\u2014 Sarah Bowen Shea"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1748, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ti-m\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101-t\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082539",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intimidating":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": causing a loss of courage or self-confidence : producing feelings of fear or timidity":[
        "an intimidating snarl",
        "a boss with a very intimidating manner",
        "The Red Army athletes were the most intimidating of competitors.",
        "\u2014 Ian Thomsen",
        "First jobs are intimidating for everyone, but few people have to cope with the stresses of the workplace at such a tender age as ballet dancers do.",
        "\u2014 Daphne Hurford"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "What\u2019s more, period underwear is a lot less intimidating than menstrual cups, especially for folks who are just dipping their toes into the world of reusable period products. \u2014 Sarah Madaus, SELF , 23 June 2022",
      "What show was more intimidating : Adele One Night Only in L.A. or An Audience With Adele in London",
      "While being interviewed by Vanity Fair, Stewart admitted that actually working with her partner on an entertainment project was pretty intimidating . \u2014 ELLE , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "Could the size of the audience be a bit intimidating when trying to navigate from one area to another",
      "According to news reports from the time and subsequent historical accounts, the 34-year-old harbored a grudge against Harrington for having complained to superiors about his intimidating and unwelcome behavior. \u2014 Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
      "The sight of 40-some grown men with their radar guns pointed at a senior in high school has to be a bit intimidating . \u2014 Mick Mccabe, Detroit Free Press , 20 May 2022",
      "Seeing their album make history and sit in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart not only gives Eslabon a boost of confidence, but makes co-existing with Bad Bunny less intimidating . \u2014 Griselda Flores, Billboard , 17 May 2022",
      "After you\u2019re humbled by trying to control a 2.7-gram ping-pong ball for the first time, going back to Copenhagen planks or heavy bent-over rows will feel a lot less intimidating . \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 13 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1748, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ti-m\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101-ti\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "alarming",
      "dire",
      "direful",
      "dread",
      "dreadful",
      "fearful",
      "fearsome",
      "forbidding",
      "formidable",
      "frightening",
      "frightful",
      "ghastly",
      "hair-raising",
      "horrendous",
      "horrible",
      "horrifying",
      "redoubtable",
      "scary",
      "shocking",
      "spine-chilling",
      "terrible",
      "terrifying"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231057",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "intimidator":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "He tries to intimidate his opponents.",
      "You shouldn't allow his reputation to intimidate you.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Critics have said the bill is vague, targets LGBTQ teachers and students and is intended to intimidate educators from discussing the topic. \u2014 Skyler Swisher, orlandosentinel.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Critics say the efforts can easily be abused and used as political cudgels or efforts to intimidate people from registering and voting. \u2014 Michael Wines, New York Times , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "In this scenario, Putin would keep his troops on the border to intimidate the Ukrainian government from fully responding militarily to the increased insurgency. \u2014 CBS News , 5 Jan. 2022",
      "Federal incarceration keeps notorious criminals far from their communities and thereby limits their capacity to maintain their criminal enterprises and their ability to intimidate victims and witnesses from the inside. \u2014 Tom Cotton, National Review , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled the country since the Taliban seized the capital, but the Islamist group\u2019s guards have also used violence to intimidate people from leaving. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Aug. 2021",
      "O\u2019Rourke said Senate Bill 7 would have given more leeway for partisan poll watchers to intimidate voters from communities of color. \u2014 Hojun Choi, Dallas News , 8 June 2021",
      "Despite attempts to discredit Browder, to intimidate witnesses and to buy the best legal counsel available, Prevezon ultimately lost the case, the sanctions remain in place, and Browder is not doing time in Siberia. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "In his remarks, Biden acknowledged the struggle to get a law on the books, and spoke about how lynchings were used to terrorize and intimidate Blacks in the United States. \u2014 Darlene Superville, Anchorage Daily News , 30 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1646, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin intimidatus , past participle of intimidare , from Latin in- + timidus timid":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ti-m\u0259-\u02ccd\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intimidate intimidate , cow , bulldoze , bully , browbeat mean to frighten into submission. intimidate implies inducing fear or a sense of inferiority into another. intimidated by so many other bright freshmen cow implies reduction to a state where the spirit is broken or all courage is lost. not at all cowed by the odds against making it in show business bulldoze implies an intimidating or an overcoming of resistance usually by urgings, demands, or threats. bulldozed the city council into approving the plan bully implies intimidation through threats, insults, or aggressive behavior. bullied into giving up their lunch money browbeat implies a cowing through arrogant, scornful, or contemptuous treatment. browbeat the witness into a contradiction",
    "synonyms":[
      "blackjack",
      "bogart",
      "browbeat",
      "bulldoze",
      "bully",
      "bullyrag",
      "cow",
      "hector",
      "strong-arm"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170040",
    "type":[
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "into line":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": into a state of agreement or cooperation":[
        "It was difficult to get/bring everyone into line ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090908",
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ]
  },
  "into one's own pockets":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": so as to take money for oneself":[
        "The mayor diverted city funds into his own pockets ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115733",
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ]
  },
  "intolerable":{
    "antonyms":[
      "endurable",
      "sufferable",
      "supportable",
      "sustainable",
      "tolerable"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": excessive":[],
      ": not tolerable : unbearable":[
        "intolerable pain"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She divorced him on the grounds of intolerable cruelty.",
      "this stifling heat is intolerable",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Anything else would require the state to be held accountable for its failings and actions, and that would be intolerable here. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
      "The prospect of living with endemic COVID-19 would seem much less intolerable if that's all any of us were expected to do. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Now, for the president, the cost of acceding to the public\u2019s demands to step down may seem intolerable . \u2014 New York Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "Obviously, Memorial is intolerable to the regime of Vladimir Putin. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 26 Jan. 2022",
      "But Kemp has a shred of integrity in the one area that is intolerable to some in the GOP -- the 2020 election. \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "Leo Du, 38, who works in venture capital in Beijing, said the inconvenience imposed by the measures was intolerable . \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
      "This was intolerable , both to the friend and the professional historian. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Without electricity for refrigeration, the morgue had become intolerable , and another solution was needed. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin intolerabilis , from in- + tolerabilis tolerable":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259r-b\u0259l",
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8t\u00e4l-r\u0259-b\u0259l",
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-r\u0259-b\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-r\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "insufferable",
      "insupportable",
      "unbearable",
      "unendurable",
      "unsupportable"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011606",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intolerably":{
    "antonyms":[
      "endurable",
      "sufferable",
      "supportable",
      "sustainable",
      "tolerable"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": excessive":[],
      ": not tolerable : unbearable":[
        "intolerable pain"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She divorced him on the grounds of intolerable cruelty.",
      "this stifling heat is intolerable",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Anything else would require the state to be held accountable for its failings and actions, and that would be intolerable here. \u2014 Michael Schuman, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
      "The prospect of living with endemic COVID-19 would seem much less intolerable if that's all any of us were expected to do. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Now, for the president, the cost of acceding to the public\u2019s demands to step down may seem intolerable . \u2014 New York Times , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "Obviously, Memorial is intolerable to the regime of Vladimir Putin. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 26 Jan. 2022",
      "But Kemp has a shred of integrity in the one area that is intolerable to some in the GOP -- the 2020 election. \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 13 Dec. 2021",
      "Leo Du, 38, who works in venture capital in Beijing, said the inconvenience imposed by the measures was intolerable . \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
      "This was intolerable , both to the friend and the professional historian. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Without electricity for refrigeration, the morgue had become intolerable , and another solution was needed. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin intolerabilis , from in- + tolerabilis tolerable":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-r\u0259-b\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-r\u0259-",
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259r-b\u0259l",
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8t\u00e4l-r\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "insufferable",
      "insupportable",
      "unbearable",
      "unendurable",
      "unsupportable"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091158",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intolerance":{
    "antonyms":[
      "broad-mindedness",
      "liberalism",
      "liberality",
      "open-mindedness",
      "tolerance"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality or state of being intolerant":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The 45-year-old's speech ended up being one that addressed intolerance , discrimination and her purpose as an actress. \u2014 Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
      "Economic strife, insecurity, corruption, political intolerance , unreliable internet, and poor education systems are behind the desire of many African youth to relocate to Europe or the US. \u2014 Faustine Ngila, Quartz , 20 June 2022",
      "Having supreme confidence in one\u2019s intolerance \u2014that sounds like a pretty good definition of Trumpism. \u2014 Alex Morris, Rolling Stone , 18 June 2022",
      "But Serebrennikov has made a complex movie to wrestle with, one that explores intolerance , repression and \u2014 on a fundamental level \u2014 the brutal price some are forced to pay when a culture elevates its great men. \u2014 Manohla Dargis, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
      "Cow's milk protein allergies are not to be confused with an intolerance for lactose, which is an inability to catalyze a specific dairy sugar. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 17 May 2022",
      "The government\u2019s crackdown on the July protests underscored its intolerance of organized dissent, and led Biden to postpone his plans to loosen sanctions. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 May 2022",
      "And destroying whole Ukrainian cities in blunt force, mid-20th-century-style warfare and punishing its people make a stark statement about his intolerance for the expansion of NATO -- a bloc Ukraine once hoped to join. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "Veterans point to the conservatory\u2019s cultural inwardness and intolerance of defectors as well as the leveraging of secrets, but also to Gifford\u2019s frequent invocation of Scientology teachings. \u2014 Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1765, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-",
      "(\u02c8)in-\u02c8t\u00e4l(-\u0259)-r\u0259n(t)s",
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-r\u0259ns",
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8t\u00e4l-r\u0259n(t)s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bigotry",
      "dogmatism",
      "illiberalism",
      "illiberality",
      "illiberalness",
      "intolerantness",
      "narrow-mindedness",
      "opinionatedness",
      "partisanship",
      "sectarianism",
      "small-mindedness"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003339",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intolerancy":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intolerance":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intolerantia":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114714",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intolerant":{
    "antonyms":[
      "abiding",
      "enduring",
      "forbearing",
      "patient",
      "tolerant"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": exhibiting physiological intolerance":[
        "lactose intolerant"
      ],
      ": unable or unwilling to endure":[],
      ": unwilling to grant equal freedom of expression especially in religious matters":[],
      ": unwilling to grant or share social, political, or professional rights : bigoted":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "intolerant of fools, she is not an easy person to work for",
      "intolerant people who callously deny others the very rights that they take for granted",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The 132 pallets of hypoallergenic, prescription Nestl\u00e9 Health Science formula will go to babies intolerant of a protein in cow milk in parts of the country facing the most severe shortages of infant formula, a Biden administration told CNN. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 23 May 2022",
      "The recent batch of formula is a specialized prescription and will be fed to babies intolerant of protein in cow milk, the official said. \u2014 Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 23 May 2022",
      "And then the age-old question: At what point do the intolerant become intolerable",
      "If the only formula that's available is gluten-free and your baby is not gluten intolerant , the gluten-free formula would be fine for a while, Kirkilas said. \u2014 Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic , 13 May 2022",
      "Terry Moseby felt that the Rodney King verdict transported him back to the intolerant South of his youth. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Popper\u2019s idea is that if a society \u2014 in pursuit of tolerance without limits \u2014 tolerates the intolerant , the latter will eventually destroy that society. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "The 132 pallets of hypoallergenic, prescription Nestl\u00e9 Health Science formula will go to babies who are intolerant of protein in cow milk in parts of the country facing the most severe shortages of infant formula, a Biden administration told CNN. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 23 May 2022",
      "Ninety-five percent of Asian Americans are lactose intolerant . \u2014 Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post , 11 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1735, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02c8)in-\u02c8t\u00e4l(-\u0259)-r\u0259nt",
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-",
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8t\u00e4l-r\u0259nt",
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-r\u0259nt"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202935",
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      "adverb",
      "noun"
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      ": exhibiting physiological intolerance":[
        "lactose intolerant"
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      ": unable or unwilling to endure":[],
      ": unwilling to grant equal freedom of expression especially in religious matters":[],
      ": unwilling to grant or share social, political, or professional rights : bigoted":[]
    },
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      "intolerant of fools, she is not an easy person to work for",
      "intolerant people who callously deny others the very rights that they take for granted",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The 132 pallets of hypoallergenic, prescription Nestl\u00e9 Health Science formula will go to babies intolerant of a protein in cow milk in parts of the country facing the most severe shortages of infant formula, a Biden administration told CNN. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 23 May 2022",
      "The recent batch of formula is a specialized prescription and will be fed to babies intolerant of protein in cow milk, the official said. \u2014 Alexandra Meeks, CNN , 23 May 2022",
      "And then the age-old question: At what point do the intolerant become intolerable",
      "If the only formula that's available is gluten-free and your baby is not gluten intolerant , the gluten-free formula would be fine for a while, Kirkilas said. \u2014 Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic , 13 May 2022",
      "Terry Moseby felt that the Rodney King verdict transported him back to the intolerant South of his youth. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Popper\u2019s idea is that if a society \u2014 in pursuit of tolerance without limits \u2014 tolerates the intolerant , the latter will eventually destroy that society. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "The 132 pallets of hypoallergenic, prescription Nestl\u00e9 Health Science formula will go to babies who are intolerant of protein in cow milk in parts of the country facing the most severe shortages of infant formula, a Biden administration told CNN. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 23 May 2022",
      "Ninety-five percent of Asian Americans are lactose intolerant . \u2014 Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post , 11 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1735, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-r\u0259nt",
      "(\u02c8)in-\u02c8t\u00e4l(-\u0259)-r\u0259nt",
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8t\u00e4l-r\u0259nt",
      "-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "impatient"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112138",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "definitions":{
      ": intolerant":[]
    },
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in- entry 1 + tolerating , present participle of tolerate":""
    },
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      "\u0259n\u2027+",
      "(\u02c8)in\u2027"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010620",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
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    "definitions":{
      ": intolerance":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in- entry 1 + toleration":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259n\u2027+",
      "(\u00a6)in\u2027"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191253",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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      "Definition of intomb archaic variant of entomb"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-191607",
    "type":[]
  },
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      ": that can be intoned":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02c8t\u014dn\u0259b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010358",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the finishing coat of fine plaster in fresco painting \u2014 compare arriccio":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian, from intonacare to coat with plaster, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin intunicare , from Latin in- in- entry 2 + tunica tunic, coating":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02c8t\u00e4n\u0259\u02cck\u014d",
      "-t\u022fn-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194914",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intone , utter":[]
    },
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      "the priest then proceeded to intonate the prayer's familiar opening words"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1795, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-(\u02cc)t\u014d-",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "chant",
      "intone",
      "sing"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083358",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
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  "intonation":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the ability to play or sing notes in tune":[],
      ": the act of intoning and especially of chanting":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "identical sentences, differing only in intonation",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Goman: To speak effortlessly and efficiently can take training like yours in a variety of aspects including intonation , stress patterns, volume, pausing, and rhythm. \u2014 Carol Kinsey Goman, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
      "The adagio begins with muted warmth in the strings, which Reinhardt used to highlight the winds\u2019 unity of timbre and intonation . \u2014 Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 May 2022",
      "Despite an occasional balance issue or passing blurriness of intonation , this was a vibrant and compelling performance. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
      "The Washington Concert Opera Orchestra was in largely fine form, despite some persistent intonation issues in the strings through the first act. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Emilio chimes in, his accent still rich with the rhythmic intonation of Cuba. \u2014 Brooke Mazurek, Variety , 5 Apr. 2022",
      "Taylor\u2019s presence seemed to authorize a slight relaxation of intonation across the ensemble \u2014 here a slight strain between the two violins, there a measure of scruff to the French horn. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Most of the videos are presented by students with the piercings, intonation , and hair colors of the everyday campus crusader. \u2014 Aron Ravin, National Review , 3 Apr. 2022",
      "Fluidity of gesture, intonation and blocking allow for greater dramatic velocity. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1620, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n",
      "-(\u02cc)t\u014d-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073853",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intonation pattern":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a unit of speech melody in a language or dialect that contributes to the total meaning of an utterance":[
        "one's intonation pattern in the utterance of dead may reveal one's emotional reaction to an announcement of death",
        "one intonation pattern makes leave a command, another makes it a question"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025034",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intone":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to utter in musical or prolonged tones : recite in singing tones or in a monotone":[],
      ": to utter something in singing tones or in monotone":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "\u201cComing soon to a theater near you,\u201d the announcer intoned .",
      "\u201cThe day is begun,\u201d the narrator intoned",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Occasionally, a voice-over will intone portentous, poetic, and obscure observations. \u2014 Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
      "For a cue where the little immigrant mouse Fievel first lays eyes on New York harbor, composer James Horner had the choir intone the famous Emma Lazarus poem inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty. \u2014 Adrian Daub, Longreads , 3 Sep. 2021",
      "Collier ended his Blue Note show with an impromptu choral exercise, conducting different sections of the crowd to hum and intone an improvisational tune. \u2014 New York Times , 16 July 2021",
      "Here, Meacham the historian would intone , is how Trump resembles Richard Nixon or Andrew Johnson. \u2014 Thomas Frank, Harper's Magazine , 22 June 2021",
      "Reality says that another title there would necessitate flying in Al Michaels to intone , courtside, about believing in miracles. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 28 May 2021",
      "At the first station, prayers were intoned for those in the vehicles. \u2014 Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com , 11 Apr. 2020",
      "Wandering the auditorium and stage in a gold bodysuit, the sad, funny figure of Hinrichs, who is billed as co-director, intones his laconic and disjointed soliloquy with consummate theatricality (and often without a microphone). \u2014 New York Times , 13 Feb. 2020",
      "Accompanied by piano, drums, bowed bass and fiddle that linger over slow chords, Dylan intones each line with somber clarity. \u2014 Jon Pareles, New York Times , 27 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1513, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French entoner , from Medieval Latin intonare , from Latin in- + tonus tone":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u014dn"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "chant",
      "intonate",
      "sing"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080535",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intoneme":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intonation pattern":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intone + -eme":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02c8t\u014d\u02ccn\u0113m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073739",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intonement":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act of intoning or the state of being intoned":[
        "the intonement of the service"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u014dnm\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-002444",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intoxicant":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "The use of intoxicants and stimulants is prohibited.",
      "He was driving under the influence of intoxicants .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Now, a large study of regular people shows how many have been trying binaural beats as a form of therapy or even an intoxicant . \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 17 May 2022",
      "Reports said he was found to be driving while under the influence of an intoxicant and was booked into the Avon City Jail before being released to a sober party. \u2014 Brian Lisik, cleveland , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "But Scotch was not the primary intoxicant for him that night. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Jan. 2022",
      "The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, and these early moments of Respect show a young girl awed by the polished talent around her, its mere proximity an intoxicant . \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 12 Aug. 2021",
      "The extract can be processed into delta-8 THC, an intoxicant . \u2014 Sophie Quinton, Anchorage Daily News , 12 July 2021",
      "The study also found that those who chose to imbibe with wine had lower risks of death than those whose chief intoxicant was beer or hard liquor. \u2014 Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner , 12 Jan. 2021",
      "Charges of endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon while under the influence of an intoxicant ; disorderly conduct while armed; and bail jumping are being forwarded to the Milwaukee County District Attorney\u2019s Office, police said. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 Sep. 2020",
      "There were no other details about intoxicants , and toxicology results can take weeks. \u2014 Aaron Morrison And Tim Sullivan, Houston Chronicle , 30 May 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1863, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4k-si-k\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
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      "aqua vitae",
      "ardent spirits",
      "booze",
      "bottle",
      "drink",
      "firewater",
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      "hooch",
      "inebriant",
      "John Barleycorn",
      "juice",
      "liquor",
      "lush",
      "moonshine",
      "potable",
      "rum",
      "sauce",
      "spirits",
      "stimulant",
      "strong drink",
      "tipple"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220049",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intoxicate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intoxicated sense 1":[],
      ": poison":[],
      ": to excite or elate to the point of enthusiasm or frenzy":[],
      ": to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The little bit of beer I drank was not enough to intoxicate me.",
      "the stunning spectacle of this Las Vegas show is sure to intoxicate spectators",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Add to the meal a glass of wine to softly intoxicate the senses, and relaxation is guaranteed. \u2014 Michael Alpiner, Forbes , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "The couple moved from Burgundy more than a decade ago, intoxicated by the landscape and the richness of the soil. \u2014 Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure , 25 May 2020",
      "The officer talked to the resident, who was clearly intoxicated . \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 6 May 2020",
      "This founding and intoxicating discovery needed to be perpetually confirmed, repeated. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2020",
      "Just like the book, the series follows the intoxicating romance between Marianne and Connell, two teenagers from very different backgrounds, living in a small west Ireland town. \u2014 Jessica Morgan, refinery29.com , 17 Jan. 2020",
      "Short for cannabidiol, CBD is a non- intoxicating molecule found in hemp and marijuana. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Jan. 2020",
      "Short for cannabidiol, CBD is a non- intoxicating molecule found in hemp and marijuana. \u2014 Time , 7 Jan. 2020",
      "When funneled over a chilled tube of coiled metal, these intoxicating cloudlets condense into tiny, high-proof drops that drip into a separate container. \u2014 Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com , 30 Dec. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1581, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Medieval Latin intoxicatus , past participle of intoxicare , from Latin in- + toxicum poison \u2014 more at toxic":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4k-si-k\u0259t",
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4k-s\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t",
      "-s\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "charge",
      "electrify",
      "excite",
      "exhilarate",
      "galvanize",
      "pump up",
      "thrill",
      "titillate",
      "turn on"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003647",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intoxicated":{
    "antonyms":[
      "sober",
      "straight"
    ],
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      ": emotionally excited, elated, or exhilarated (as by great joy or extreme pleasure)":[
        "\u2026 the traveler who has become intoxicated by the vision of Serengeti's exotic animals \u2026",
        "\u2014 Harold Hayes"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He appeared to be very intoxicated .",
      "Driving while intoxicated is illegal.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "No wonder there were so many intoxicated boomers dancing on the bleachers like a bunch of twentysomethings. \u2014 Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
      "An intoxicated shopper who pelted a worker with soup cans. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
      "An intoxicated and emaciated 57-year-old woman had jumped out in front of a moving No. 15 bus, shouted at the driver to stop, and then pushed her way onboard. \u2014 Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
      "In addition to the hazing charges, the two University of Missouri-Columbia students are facing misdemeanor counts of supplying liquor to a minor or intoxicated person, PEOPLE confirms. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
      "An intoxicated and emaciated 57-year-old woman had jumped out in front of a moving No. 15 bus, shouted at the driver to stop, and then pushed her way onboard. \u2014 Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
      "Parkgoers have complained about intoxicated boaters using foul language, smoking marijuana, drinking and throwing beer bottles and cans on the beach area. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 7 June 2022",
      "An intoxicated and emaciated 57-year-old woman had jumped out in front of a moving No. 15 bus, shouted at the driver to stop, and then pushed her way onboard. \u2014 Eli Saslow, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
      "In an intoxicated fever dream, Don Quixote ascends to a mythical cloudland full of dancing dryads. \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune , 3 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-s\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t-\u0259d",
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4k-s\u0259-\u02cck\u0101-t\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "besotted",
      "blasted",
      "blind",
      "blitzed",
      "blotto",
      "bombed",
      "boozy",
      "canned",
      "cockeyed",
      "crocked",
      "drunk",
      "drunken",
      "fried",
      "gassed",
      "hammered",
      "high",
      "impaired",
      "inebriate",
      "inebriated",
      "juiced",
      "lit",
      "lit up",
      "loaded",
      "looped",
      "oiled",
      "pickled",
      "pie-eyed",
      "plastered",
      "potted",
      "ripped",
      "sloshed",
      "smashed",
      "sottish",
      "soused",
      "sozzled",
      "squiffed",
      "squiffy",
      "stewed",
      "stiff",
      "stinking",
      "stoned",
      "tanked",
      "tiddly",
      "tight",
      "tipsy",
      "wasted",
      "wet",
      "wiped out"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105657",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "intoxicating":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intoxicated sense 1":[],
      ": poison":[],
      ": to excite or elate to the point of enthusiasm or frenzy":[],
      ": to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The little bit of beer I drank was not enough to intoxicate me.",
      "the stunning spectacle of this Las Vegas show is sure to intoxicate spectators",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Add to the meal a glass of wine to softly intoxicate the senses, and relaxation is guaranteed. \u2014 Michael Alpiner, Forbes , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "The couple moved from Burgundy more than a decade ago, intoxicated by the landscape and the richness of the soil. \u2014 Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure , 25 May 2020",
      "The officer talked to the resident, who was clearly intoxicated . \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 6 May 2020",
      "This founding and intoxicating discovery needed to be perpetually confirmed, repeated. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2020",
      "Just like the book, the series follows the intoxicating romance between Marianne and Connell, two teenagers from very different backgrounds, living in a small west Ireland town. \u2014 Jessica Morgan, refinery29.com , 17 Jan. 2020",
      "Short for cannabidiol, CBD is a non- intoxicating molecule found in hemp and marijuana. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Jan. 2020",
      "Short for cannabidiol, CBD is a non- intoxicating molecule found in hemp and marijuana. \u2014 Time , 7 Jan. 2020",
      "When funneled over a chilled tube of coiled metal, these intoxicating cloudlets condense into tiny, high-proof drops that drip into a separate container. \u2014 Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com , 30 Dec. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1581, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Medieval Latin intoxicatus , past participle of intoxicare , from Latin in- + toxicum poison \u2014 more at toxic":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4k-si-k\u0259t",
      "in-\u02c8t\u00e4k-s\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t",
      "-s\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "charge",
      "electrify",
      "excite",
      "exhilarate",
      "galvanize",
      "pump up",
      "thrill",
      "titillate",
      "turn on"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034420",
    "type":[
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      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intoxication":{
    "antonyms":[],
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      ": a strong excitement or elation":[
        "The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world entirely surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication \u2026",
        "\u2014 Christine Osborne"
      ],
      ": an abnormal state that is essentially a poisoning":[
        "carbon monoxide intoxication"
      ],
      ": the condition of having physical or mental control markedly diminished by the effects of alcohol or drugs":[
        "drank to the point of intoxication",
        "cocaine intoxication"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "there's a firm distinction between the moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages and overindulgence to the point of intoxication",
      "the intoxication felt by two people who have just fallen in love",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In addition to the case involving the Roque family, Weber faces criminal charges of petty theft and public intoxication in a separate case, the records show. \u2014 Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Researchers estimated that the STAR program prevented nearly 1,400 low-level criminal offenses, such as public intoxication , and increased the likelihood that potential repeat offenders were getting more assistance. \u2014 Deon J. Hampton, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
      "In 2014, Short was also arrested in two separate incidents on charges of felony battery with serious bodily injury and public intoxication . \u2014 Edward Segarra, USA TODAY , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "Officers arrested Riedel on a public intoxication charge. \u2014 Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News , 13 Jan. 2022",
      "Littering, public urination, graffiti, public intoxication and other antisocial behaviors are signals that a city tolerates neighborhood disorder. \u2014 Seth Barron, WSJ , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "During the six-month pilot, in eight Denver precincts, the STAR team responded to low-level calls related to incidents such as intoxication , well-being checks, or trespassing, as long as there was no evidence of weapons, threats or violence. \u2014 Emily Willingham, Scientific American , 9 June 2022",
      "Police took her home and cited her for disorderly conduct- intoxication . \u2014 Cheryl Higley, cleveland , 6 June 2022",
      "The legal limit for intoxication in Arkansas law is a blood alcohol content of 0.08. \u2014 Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online , 1 June 2022"
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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      "1893, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": occurring within or taking place between branches or employees of a company":[
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Bizarre intracompany artwork turns up, depicting what appears to be one department trying to eat another one. \u2014 Sara Stewart, CNN , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "Also, a third of pre-Covid corporate travel involved intracompany visits, and 20% of respondents to a recent Global Business Travel Association poll suggested these could be reduced. \u2014 Jon Sindreu, WSJ , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "The president\u2019s visa order freezes through the end of the year new H-1B and H-4 visas, widely used by technology workers and their families, as well as L visas for intracompany transfers and most J visas for work- and study-abroad programs. \u2014 David Yaffe-bellany, Bloomberg.com , 16 Sep. 2020",
      "This makes workers with L-1 intracompany transferee visas likely to be particularly productive, because they are already employed and on the payrolls of their companies. \u2014 CNN , 26 June 2020",
      "The order also halts the issuance of L visas, used for intracompany transfers, and J visas for seasonal work like camp counseling and study abroad programs. \u2014 Grady Mcgregor, Fortune , 23 June 2020",
      "Currently, for example, EU rules eliminate withholding taxes on intracompany interest, dividends and royalties that are paid within the union, Gibson Dunn said in a note to clients. \u2014 WSJ , 25 June 2016",
      "Under a trial program, Canadian managers and executives seeking intracompany transfers to the U.S. will no longer be able to have their L-1 visas processed on-the-spot at Blaine. \u2014 Lily Jamali, The Seattle Times , 24 July 2018"
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      "1926, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Doctors cited cardiovascular injuries as the leading cause of death, associated with 87.5% of fatalities, while 66.7% of the deceased patients had suffered intracranial injuries, and about half had bruised lungs. \u2014 Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Before his passing, the actor was taken to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage at his home. \u2014 Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Doctors put him in a coma to prevent brain swelling from an intracranial bleed. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Doctors put him in a coma to prevent brain swelling from an intracranial bleed. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Doctors put him in a coma to prevent brain swelling from an intracranial bleed. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Doctors put him in a coma to prevent brain swelling from an intracranial bleed. \u2014 Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Rutishauser and his team worked with 20 patients already undergoing intracranial recording of their brain activity for surgery to treat epilepsy. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "These changes point to an increase in intracranial pressure while in orbit. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 3 Mar. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1849, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143224"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210110",
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      ": not easily governed, managed, or directed":[
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      ": not easily relieved or cured":[
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      "Contrary to the idea of black holes sucking everything, even light, into inconceivable nothingness, Hawking proposed that there was one thing that could escape a black hole's intractable grip: thermal radiation \u2026 \u2014 Bruno Maddox , Discover , September 2006",
      "Sepsis, which is what happens to the body when an infection goes bad, is one of mankind's oldest and most intractable foes. \u2014 Leon Jaroff , Time , 24 July 2000",
      "But now anesthesiologists have begun turning to an herb to help treat a deadly and often intractable lung condition that affects hundreds of thousands of people a year. \u2014 Eric Nagourney , New York Times , 26 Oct. 1999",
      "a patient experiencing intractable pain",
      "an intractable child who deliberately does the opposite of whatever he is told",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Wu\u2019s announcement touched on one of the biggest challenges of her still-young mayoral tenure: an intractable housing crisis. \u2014 Danny Mcdonald, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
      "Kemp said some residents will call police on squatters, but the sheer number of vacant houses creates an intractable problem. \u2014 Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun , 7 June 2022",
      "The growing fear is that inflation is so intractable that it might be conquered only through aggressive rate hikes that imperil the economy. \u2014 Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
      "The growing fear is that inflation is so intractable that it might be conquered only through aggressive rate hikes that imperil the economy. \u2014 Paul Wiseman, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
      "Many economists fear that a recession is on the horizon if inflation proves to be intractable . \u2014 Diane Garrett, Variety , 4 May 2022",
      "So exploring all possible interacting proteins is completely intractable as a computation. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "An expert on the world\u2019s most intractable viruses, Dr. Graham had been working for months to develop a vaccine, but had gotten nowhere. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Jan. 2022",
      "The billionaire philanthropist has thrown his wealth at some of the world\u2019s most intractable problems, drawing both praise and criticism along the way. \u2014 Reid Singer, Outside Online , 24 Feb. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1531, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Latin intractabilis , from in- + tractabilis tractable":""
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      "(\u02c8)in-\u02c8trak-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intractable unruly , ungovernable , intractable , refractory , recalcitrant , willful , headstrong mean not submissive to government or control. unruly implies lack of discipline or incapacity for discipline and often connotes waywardness or turbulence of behavior. unruly children ungovernable implies either an escape from control or guidance or a state of being unsubdued and incapable of controlling oneself or being controlled by others. ungovernable rage intractable suggests stubborn resistance to guidance or control. intractable opponents of the hazardous-waste dump refractory stresses resistance to attempts to manage or to mold. special schools for refractory children recalcitrant suggests determined resistance to or defiance of authority. acts of sabotage by a recalcitrant populace willful implies an obstinate determination to have one's own way. a willful disregard for the rights of others headstrong suggests self-will impatient of restraint, advice, or suggestion. a headstrong young cavalry officer",
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      "compliant",
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      "ruly",
      "submissive",
      "tractable"
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    "definitions":{
      ": not easily governed, managed, or directed":[
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      ": not easily manipulated or shaped":[
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      ": not easily relieved or cured":[
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      "Contrary to the idea of black holes sucking everything, even light, into inconceivable nothingness, Hawking proposed that there was one thing that could escape a black hole's intractable grip: thermal radiation \u2026 \u2014 Bruno Maddox , Discover , September 2006",
      "Sepsis, which is what happens to the body when an infection goes bad, is one of mankind's oldest and most intractable foes. \u2014 Leon Jaroff , Time , 24 July 2000",
      "But now anesthesiologists have begun turning to an herb to help treat a deadly and often intractable lung condition that affects hundreds of thousands of people a year. \u2014 Eric Nagourney , New York Times , 26 Oct. 1999",
      "a patient experiencing intractable pain",
      "an intractable child who deliberately does the opposite of whatever he is told",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Wu\u2019s announcement touched on one of the biggest challenges of her still-young mayoral tenure: an intractable housing crisis. \u2014 Danny Mcdonald, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
      "Kemp said some residents will call police on squatters, but the sheer number of vacant houses creates an intractable problem. \u2014 Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun , 7 June 2022",
      "The growing fear is that inflation is so intractable that it might be conquered only through aggressive rate hikes that imperil the economy. \u2014 Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
      "The growing fear is that inflation is so intractable that it might be conquered only through aggressive rate hikes that imperil the economy. \u2014 Paul Wiseman, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
      "Many economists fear that a recession is on the horizon if inflation proves to be intractable . \u2014 Diane Garrett, Variety , 4 May 2022",
      "So exploring all possible interacting proteins is completely intractable as a computation. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "An expert on the world\u2019s most intractable viruses, Dr. Graham had been working for months to develop a vaccine, but had gotten nowhere. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Jan. 2022",
      "The billionaire philanthropist has thrown his wealth at some of the world\u2019s most intractable problems, drawing both praise and criticism along the way. \u2014 Reid Singer, Outside Online , 24 Feb. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1531, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Latin intractabilis , from in- + tractabilis tractable":""
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      "(\u02c8)in-\u02c8trak-t\u0259-b\u0259l",
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8trak-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intractable unruly , ungovernable , intractable , refractory , recalcitrant , willful , headstrong mean not submissive to government or control. unruly implies lack of discipline or incapacity for discipline and often connotes waywardness or turbulence of behavior. unruly children ungovernable implies either an escape from control or guidance or a state of being unsubdued and incapable of controlling oneself or being controlled by others. ungovernable rage intractable suggests stubborn resistance to guidance or control. intractable opponents of the hazardous-waste dump refractory stresses resistance to attempts to manage or to mold. special schools for refractory children recalcitrant suggests determined resistance to or defiance of authority. acts of sabotage by a recalcitrant populace willful implies an obstinate determination to have one's own way. a willful disregard for the rights of others headstrong suggests self-will impatient of restraint, advice, or suggestion. a headstrong young cavalry officer",
    "synonyms":[
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      "froward",
      "incompliant",
      "insubordinate",
      "obstreperous",
      "rebel",
      "rebellious",
      "recalcitrant",
      "recusant",
      "refractory",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1885, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-kyu\u0307-\u02c8t\u0101-n\u0113-\u0259s, -(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-ky\u00fc-\u02c8t\u0101-n\u0113-\u0259s"
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      "adjective"
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      "-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Shares of Zoom fell sharply on the news, finishing the day almost 6% down from intraday highs. \u2014 Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner , 24 Apr. 2020",
      "The Dow industrials first crossed 29000 on an intraday basis Friday, before pulling back. \u2014 Avantika Chilkoti, WSJ , 15 Jan. 2020",
      "Stocks surged on the news, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both hitting intraday highs and the Dow rising nearly 1% to 27,292. \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 1 Nov. 2019",
      "Use intraday highs and lows and the index was down 21.6%, for a new bear market. \u2014 James Mackintosh, WSJ , 22 Aug. 2018",
      "That compares with an intraday gain of 1.3 percent in March 9, 2006, when North Korea launched two short-range missiles. \u2014 Luzi-ann Javier, Bloomberg.com , 8 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1950, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154606"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173042",
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Zydus Cadila said its vaccine would be administered using a needle-free applicator, thus ensuring painless intradermal vaccination. \u2014 Ramakrishnan Narayanan, Forbes , 29 Aug. 2021",
      "Techniques that inject vaccine into the skin rather than the underlying muscle, called intradermal shots, offer the same protection using less than half the amount of vaccine. \u2014 Gustav Cappaert/undark, Popular Science , 25 Feb. 2021",
      "The tuberculosis skin test requires an intradermal injection of liquid \u2014 0.1 milliliter of a purified protein derivative called tuberculin \u2014 in the lower part of their arm, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 Sep. 2019",
      "Similar vaccines that can be administered through the skin have been developed, including a dissolving microneedle patch in development in Japan and the short-needle Fluzone intradermal vaccine available in the United States. \u2014 Jacqueline Howard, CNN , 27 June 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1900, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u0259r-m\u0259l",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u0259r-m\u0259l, -(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200146",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
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  },
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a test for immunity or hypersensitivity made by injecting a minute amount of diluted antigen into the skin":[]
    },
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1916, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132322",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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  "intransigence":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality or state of being intransigent":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "her intransigence on the issue was simply frustrating",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This sort of intransigence will keep Minneapolis from healing, says Don Samuels, a former city councilman, who has emerged as the leader of a criminal-justice reform movement that explicitly rejects defunding the city\u2019s police. \u2014 Nic Rowan, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
      "Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Crafting an agenda that produces legislative success, not just setups for failure to expose Republican intransigence , could be crucial for Democrats in a year with political headwinds blowing against them. \u2014 Alan Fram, ajc , 22 Jan. 2022",
      "The two meticulously unearthed the cover up \u2014 identifying false entries in logbooks, interviewing survivors and tracking down two of the men who had participated in the killing \u2014 even in the face of official intransigence and death threats. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "There is a mismatch right now fueled by intransigence . \u2014 oregonlive , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Hopelessly deadlocked, with both parties pointing fingers at the other\u2019s intransigence , the commission submitted two sets of maps to the state legislature. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "That means once the calendar rolls over to 2022, no more Sunday shows appearances griping about Manchin\u2019s intransigence , and no more public outcry from Bernie Sanders and the Squad. Serenity is not exactly the Democrats\u2019s strong point these days. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaking at a Congressional transportation subcommittee, described decades of intransigence by the Coast Guard, which is meant to regulate maritime safety. \u2014 Richard Wintonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1882, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8tran-z\u0259-",
      "in-\u02c8tran(t)-s\u0259-j\u0259n(t)s"
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    "synonyms":[
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      "opinionatedness",
      "pertinaciousness",
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      "pigheadedness",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175716",
    "type":[
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  "intransigent":{
    "antonyms":[
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      "agreeable",
      "amenable",
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      "complying",
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    "definitions":{
      ": characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an often extreme position or attitude : uncompromising":[
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        "an intransigent attitude"
      ]
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    "examples":[
      "He has remained intransigent in his opposition to the proposal.",
      "he has remained intransigent , refusing all suggestions for improvement of the process",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Russia's official line in the meantime remained intransigent . \u2014 Dasha Litvinova, Chron , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Russia's official line in the meantime remained intransigent . \u2014 Dasha Litvinova, Chron , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "China is different now\u2014more self-confident, more intransigent , and probably more militarily competent as well. \u2014 David Rieff, The New Republic , 24 May 2022",
      "Russia's official line in the meantime remained intransigent . \u2014 Dasha Litvinova, Chron , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Russia's official line in the meantime remained intransigent . \u2014 Dasha Litvinova, Chron , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Doing so would also help combat a second, intransigent problem: Most people on boards are still white men. \u2014 Cassie Werber, Quartz , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Russia's official line in the meantime remained intransigent . \u2014 Dasha Litvinova, Chron , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Russia's official line in the meantime remained intransigent . \u2014 Dasha Litvinova, ajc , 24 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1879, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
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      "Spanish intransigente , from in- + transigente , present participle of transigir to compromise, from Latin transigere to come to an agreement \u2014 more at transact":""
    },
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      "-\u02c8tran-z\u0259",
      "in-\u02c8tran(t)-s\u0259-j\u0259nt"
    ],
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      "adamantine",
      "bullheaded",
      "dogged",
      "hard",
      "hard-nosed",
      "hardened",
      "hardheaded",
      "headstrong",
      "immovable",
      "implacable",
      "inconvincible",
      "inflexible",
      "mulish",
      "obdurate",
      "obstinate",
      "opinionated",
      "ossified",
      "pat",
      "pertinacious",
      "perverse",
      "pigheaded",
      "self-opinionated",
      "self-willed",
      "stiff-necked",
      "stubborn",
      "unbending",
      "uncompromising",
      "unrelenting",
      "unyielding",
      "willful",
      "wilful"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070012",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
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      ": the quality or state of being intransigent or the policy of an intransigent":[
        "the militant intransigentism of the antislavery forces",
        "\u2014 A. C. Cole"
      ]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-n\u2027\u02ccti-",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010446",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": not capable of being crossed or passed over":[
        "an intransitable gorge"
      ]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in- entry 1 + transitable":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259n\u2027+",
      "(\u02c8)in\u2027"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021523",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "In \u201cI ran\u201d and \u201cThe bird flies,\u201d \u201cran\u201d and \u201cflies\u201d are intransitive .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Later mathematicians extended their work to show that these intransitive relationships could involve a nearly infinite number of species. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 5 Mar. 2020",
      "This is not specified \u2014 fight is an intransitive verb here, a verb without an object. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 May 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1612, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Late Latin intransitivus , from Latin in- + Late Latin transitivus transitive":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8tran(t)s-tiv",
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8tran(t)-s\u0259-tiv",
      "-\u02c8tran-z\u0259-",
      "in-\u02c8tran-s\u0259-tiv"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111227",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": to make intransitive":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105553",
    "type":[
      "noun,",
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    "definitions":{
      ": not translatable":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in- entry 1 + translate + -able":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u00a6)in\u2027+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105159",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having or utilizing the property of staining cells within a living body \u2014 compare supravital":[],
      ": performed upon or found in a living subject":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1890, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
      "-\u02c8v\u012bt-\u1d4al",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8v\u012b-t\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113736",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intravital":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1881, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin intra vitam during life":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
      "-\u02c8v\u012b-\u02cctam",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8v\u012b-\u02cctam",
      "-\u02c8w\u0113-\u02cct\u00e4m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073051",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
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  "intravitelline":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": being or occurring within the yolk of an egg":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intra- + vitelline":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "pronunciation at intra- +"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184300",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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  "intraxylary":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated within the xylem":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intra- + xylem + -ary":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070431",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
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  "intrazonal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or being a soil or a major soil group marked by relatively well-developed characteristics that are determined primarily by essentially local factors (such as the parent material) rather than climate and vegetation \u2014 compare azonal , zonal":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1927, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8z\u014d-n\u1d4al",
      "-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043532",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intrazonal soil":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a major soil group classified as a category of the highest rank and including soils with more or less well-developed soil characteristics determined by relatively local factors (as the nature of the parent material) that prevail over the normal soil-forming factors of climate and living organisms \u2014 compare azonal soil , zonal soil":[],
      ": a soil belonging to the intrazonal-soil group":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182318",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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  "intreat":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of intreat archaic variant of entreat"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-112558",
    "type":[]
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  "intrench":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to dig or occupy a trench for defensive purposes":[],
      ": to enter upon or take over something unfairly, improperly, or unlawfully : encroach":[
        "\u2014 used with on or upon"
      ],
      ": to establish solidly":[
        "entrenched themselves in the business"
      ],
      ": to place (oneself) in a strong defensive position":[],
      ": to place within or surround with a trench especially for defense":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8trench"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074842",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intrenched":{
    "antonyms":[
      "dislodge",
      "root (out)",
      "uproot"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to dig or occupy a trench for defensive purposes":[],
      ": to enter upon or take over something unfairly, improperly, or unlawfully : encroach":[
        "\u2014 used with on or upon"
      ],
      ": to establish solidly":[
        "entrenched themselves in the business"
      ],
      ": to place (oneself) in a strong defensive position":[],
      ": to place within or surround with a trench especially for defense":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "officials who have tried to entrench themselves in office",
      "a father who entrenched in our minds the belief that hard work pays off",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For the past six years the Annecy Animation Film Festival has looked to entrench VR producers within the global animation community. \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 12 June 2022",
      "Instead, tech monopolies use their power to further entrench their dominance by capitalizing off of users' personal data and ignoring privacy rights. \u2014 Evan Greer For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 10 May 2022",
      "Russian forces and their local proxies, meanwhile, have tried to entrench their hold on Melitopol. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "The city has never looked better, especially since the disruptive gash of construction to entrench the center\u2019s tram system is now gone. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Each shooting seems to entrench everyone's respective convictions. \u2014 Paul Leblanc, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "The ultimate aim was to entrench a new communist social order in Italy as comprehensively as the church had entrenched Roman Catholicism over the course of centuries. \u2014 Thomas Meaney, The New Republic , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Enjoy the scenic grounds and entrench yourself in its rich history. \u2014 Shirley Macfarland, cleveland , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Whether the management uses the poison pill for the benefit of the shareholders or to entrench themselves ultimately depends on the board. \u2014 Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1548, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8trench",
      "en-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bed",
      "embed",
      "imbed",
      "enroot",
      "fix",
      "impact",
      "implant",
      "ingrain",
      "engrain",
      "lodge",
      "root"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232052",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intrepid":{
    "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 resolute fearlessness, fortitude , and endurance":[
        "an intrepid explorer"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The heroes are intrepid small-business owners, investigative reporters, plaintiffs and their lawyers, and, of course, Nader himself and his grass-roots organizations. \u2014 Jonathan Chait , New York Times Book Review , 3 Feb. 2008",
      "Author and explorer Dame Freya Stark was one of the most intrepid adventurers of all time. (T. E. Lawrence, no slouch in the travel department himself, called her \"gallant\" and \"remarkable.\") \u2014 Kimberly Robinson , Travel & Leisure , December 1999",
      "Meanwhile, the intrepid Florentine traveler Marco Polo had been to China and brought back with him a noodle dish that became Italian pasta \u2026 \u2014 Norman F. Cantor , The Civilization of the Middle Ages , 1993",
      "an intrepid explorer who probed parts of the rain forest never previously attempted",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "An intrepid raccoon that made its way up a light post on Interstate 565 brought traffic to a standstill Saturday afternoon. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 12 June 2022",
      "Fortunately, the world is full of intrepid souls who keep running up that hill of revelation. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 4 June 2022",
      "Since then, the 3,500-square-mile park has become a favorite destination among intrepid travelers looking to explore the wild without barriers. \u2014 Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure , 4 June 2022",
      "But it\u2019s the intrepid and typically unsung YouTube cover artists that will ensure that these shows might actually happen. \u2014 Ian Cohen, SPIN , 1 June 2022",
      "But beneath his outer asceticism, there also appears to be a note of arrogance, of the proudly intrepid colonialist setting off to bring God to the primitive subjects of Danish rule. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
      "Or, in the case of the think tanks and government advisors, a few intrepid ones have in fact spoken out against the war already. \u2014 CBS News , 18 May 2022",
      "Len Deighton\u2019s intrepid British spy Harry Palmer returns in this 1960s-set espionage drama. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 15 May 2022",
      "In addition to some intrepid royal reporting, the Queen's commercial preferences can be deduced from her royal warrants. \u2014 Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country , 13 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1680, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intrepidus , from in- + trepidus alarmed \u2014 more at trepidation":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tre-p\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bold",
      "brave",
      "courageous",
      "dauntless",
      "doughty",
      "fearless",
      "gallant",
      "greathearted",
      "gutsy",
      "gutty",
      "heroic",
      "heroical",
      "lionhearted",
      "manful",
      "stalwart",
      "stout",
      "stouthearted",
      "undauntable",
      "undaunted",
      "valiant",
      "valorous"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213719",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intrepidity":{
    "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 resolute fearlessness, fortitude , and endurance":[
        "an intrepid explorer"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The heroes are intrepid small-business owners, investigative reporters, plaintiffs and their lawyers, and, of course, Nader himself and his grass-roots organizations. \u2014 Jonathan Chait , New York Times Book Review , 3 Feb. 2008",
      "Author and explorer Dame Freya Stark was one of the most intrepid adventurers of all time. (T. E. Lawrence, no slouch in the travel department himself, called her \"gallant\" and \"remarkable.\") \u2014 Kimberly Robinson , Travel & Leisure , December 1999",
      "Meanwhile, the intrepid Florentine traveler Marco Polo had been to China and brought back with him a noodle dish that became Italian pasta \u2026 \u2014 Norman F. Cantor , The Civilization of the Middle Ages , 1993",
      "an intrepid explorer who probed parts of the rain forest never previously attempted",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "An intrepid raccoon that made its way up a light post on Interstate 565 brought traffic to a standstill Saturday afternoon. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 12 June 2022",
      "Fortunately, the world is full of intrepid souls who keep running up that hill of revelation. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 4 June 2022",
      "Since then, the 3,500-square-mile park has become a favorite destination among intrepid travelers looking to explore the wild without barriers. \u2014 Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure , 4 June 2022",
      "But it\u2019s the intrepid and typically unsung YouTube cover artists that will ensure that these shows might actually happen. \u2014 Ian Cohen, SPIN , 1 June 2022",
      "But beneath his outer asceticism, there also appears to be a note of arrogance, of the proudly intrepid colonialist setting off to bring God to the primitive subjects of Danish rule. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
      "Or, in the case of the think tanks and government advisors, a few intrepid ones have in fact spoken out against the war already. \u2014 CBS News , 18 May 2022",
      "Len Deighton\u2019s intrepid British spy Harry Palmer returns in this 1960s-set espionage drama. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 15 May 2022",
      "In addition to some intrepid royal reporting, the Queen's commercial preferences can be deduced from her royal warrants. \u2014 Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country , 13 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1680, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intrepidus , from in- + trepidus alarmed \u2014 more at trepidation":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tre-p\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bold",
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      "courageous",
      "dauntless",
      "doughty",
      "fearless",
      "gallant",
      "greathearted",
      "gutsy",
      "gutty",
      "heroic",
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      "lionhearted",
      "manful",
      "stalwart",
      "stout",
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      "undauntable",
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    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181621",
    "type":[
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    ]
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    "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"
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    "definitions":{
      ": characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude , and endurance":[
        "an intrepid explorer"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The heroes are intrepid small-business owners, investigative reporters, plaintiffs and their lawyers, and, of course, Nader himself and his grass-roots organizations. \u2014 Jonathan Chait , New York Times Book Review , 3 Feb. 2008",
      "Author and explorer Dame Freya Stark was one of the most intrepid adventurers of all time. (T. E. Lawrence, no slouch in the travel department himself, called her \"gallant\" and \"remarkable.\") \u2014 Kimberly Robinson , Travel & Leisure , December 1999",
      "Meanwhile, the intrepid Florentine traveler Marco Polo had been to China and brought back with him a noodle dish that became Italian pasta \u2026 \u2014 Norman F. Cantor , The Civilization of the Middle Ages , 1993",
      "an intrepid explorer who probed parts of the rain forest never previously attempted",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "An intrepid raccoon that made its way up a light post on Interstate 565 brought traffic to a standstill Saturday afternoon. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 12 June 2022",
      "Fortunately, the world is full of intrepid souls who keep running up that hill of revelation. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 4 June 2022",
      "Since then, the 3,500-square-mile park has become a favorite destination among intrepid travelers looking to explore the wild without barriers. \u2014 Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure , 4 June 2022",
      "But it\u2019s the intrepid and typically unsung YouTube cover artists that will ensure that these shows might actually happen. \u2014 Ian Cohen, SPIN , 1 June 2022",
      "But beneath his outer asceticism, there also appears to be a note of arrogance, of the proudly intrepid colonialist setting off to bring God to the primitive subjects of Danish rule. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 May 2022",
      "Or, in the case of the think tanks and government advisors, a few intrepid ones have in fact spoken out against the war already. \u2014 CBS News , 18 May 2022",
      "Len Deighton\u2019s intrepid British spy Harry Palmer returns in this 1960s-set espionage drama. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 15 May 2022",
      "In addition to some intrepid royal reporting, the Queen's commercial preferences can be deduced from her royal warrants. \u2014 Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country , 13 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1680, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intrepidus , from in- + trepidus alarmed \u2014 more at trepidation":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tre-p\u0259d"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181623",
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      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intricacy":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": something intricate":[
        "the intricacies of a plot"
      ],
      ": the quality or state of being intricate":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She admired the composition for its beauty and intricacy .",
      "I had trouble following all the intricacies in the plot.",
      "the intricacies of English grammar",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Overall, Martin wants people to see the waves, the textures, and the levels of intricacy that is Black hair. \u2014 Emerald Elitou, Essence , 8 June 2022",
      "Paintings of great intricacy , including some by Yalti Napangati, and Rosie Nampitjinpa, another desert painter, hung from the walls, telling stories of creation, landscape and epic journeys. \u2014 Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 May 2022",
      "The intricacy of Jane Petrie\u2019s costume design and Alice Normington\u2019s production design work together to create not just historical accuracy, but vivid tableaus of the characters\u2019 most intimate lives. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 12 May 2022",
      "Considering that his method of publication prevented him from revising, the thematic and imagistic intricacy of the books is remarkable. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "In contrast to the intricacy of the movement, the watch\u2019s face is rather simple. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 23 May 2022",
      "Such a movie, in which talk provides the action, would prove that those who take the comic-book stories seriously can love the telling as much as the showing, the dramatic intricacy as well as the superspectacle, the ideas as well as their effects. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022",
      "It\u2019s this carpentry technique that is the hallmark of Sun at Six today and the backbone of designs that mix Chinese intricacy with echoes of Japanese and Scandinavian minimalism. \u2014 Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor , 9 May 2022",
      "Metallica came out of\u2014helped invent\u2014thrash metal: speed, intricacy , overload. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 1 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1602, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-tri-k\u0259-s\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "complexity",
      "complicacy",
      "complication",
      "convolution",
      "difficulty"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191214",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intricate":{
    "antonyms":[
      "noncomplex",
      "noncomplicated",
      "plain",
      "simple",
      "uncomplicated"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": difficult to resolve or analyze":[],
      ": having many complexly interrelating parts or elements : complicated":[
        "intricate machinery",
        "an intricate plot"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Filigree is an ancient technique that creates an intricate , lace-like pattern through the combination of wire swirls and shapes. \u2014 Jeanne Rhodes-Moen , Step by Step Wire Jewelry , Fall 2007",
      "Tsunami generation involves intricate interactions among earthquakes, landslides, and \"sympathetic\" vibrations between the quake and the ocean above it. \u2014 Robert Koenig , Science , 17 Aug. 2001",
      "However, other random processes can be quite intricate ; for example, the fluctuating prices of stocks are difficult to explain because there are so many variables and combinations of variables that are influencing the prices. \u2014 Lloyd Jaisingh , Statistics for the Utterly Confused , 2000",
      "The movie has an intricate plot.",
      "an intricate machine that requires some training to use it properly",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Yes, the creative designs are getting more intricate and original, yet the real value-add is found on the backend of such anomalies. \u2014 Greg Reid, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022",
      "In these memories, and in these photographs, Galli renders an experience shared by many Black families: the intricate and intimate ritual of hair care. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
      "The New York Embroidery Studio has provided incredibly intricate and beautiful embroidery and embellishments for the past 20 years to designers including Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, and Alexander Wang. \u2014 Kristen Philipkoski, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "Still, something about the setting feels unreal, slipped out of time, as if an intricate and luxurious rug might end up being pulled from underneath the reader\u2019s feet at any moment. \u2014 Philippa Snow, The New Republic , 30 Dec. 2021",
      "ChromAddiction is an eye paint and liner hybrid that can be washed all over the lid or used for intricate liner designs, similar to Jules' looks. \u2014 Kirbie Johnson, Allure , 13 May 2022",
      "Rich, bold gowns with intricate designs and textures graced all of Jeremy's famous friends. \u2014 Jasmine Washington, Seventeen , 2 May 2022",
      "There are 154 families in town involved with the project, mainly women aged 70 and older who can pick leaves to create intricate designs. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "One way the people of Sarayaku foster their connection to the forest is through Wituk painting, in which lines, dots, or intricate designs are applied to the face using the pigment from Wituk fruits. \u2014 V\u00edctor Bastidas, Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin intricatus , past participle of intricare to entangle, from in- + tricae trifles, complications":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-tri-k\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intricate complex , complicated , intricate , involved , knotty mean having confusingly interrelated parts. complex suggests the unavoidable result of a necessary combining and does not imply a fault or failure. a complex recipe complicated applies to what offers great difficulty in understanding, solving, or explaining. complicated legal procedures intricate suggests such interlacing of parts as to make it nearly impossible to follow or grasp them separately. an intricate web of deceit involved implies extreme complication and often disorder. a rambling, involved explanation knotty suggests complication and entanglement that make solution or understanding improbable. knotty ethical questions",
    "synonyms":[
      "baroque",
      "byzantine",
      "complex",
      "complicate",
      "complicated",
      "convoluted",
      "daedal",
      "elaborate",
      "involute",
      "involved",
      "knotty",
      "labyrinthian",
      "labyrinthine",
      "sophisticated",
      "tangled"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044939",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intricateness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "noncomplex",
      "noncomplicated",
      "plain",
      "simple",
      "uncomplicated"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": difficult to resolve or analyze":[],
      ": having many complexly interrelating parts or elements : complicated":[
        "intricate machinery",
        "an intricate plot"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Filigree is an ancient technique that creates an intricate , lace-like pattern through the combination of wire swirls and shapes. \u2014 Jeanne Rhodes-Moen , Step by Step Wire Jewelry , Fall 2007",
      "Tsunami generation involves intricate interactions among earthquakes, landslides, and \"sympathetic\" vibrations between the quake and the ocean above it. \u2014 Robert Koenig , Science , 17 Aug. 2001",
      "However, other random processes can be quite intricate ; for example, the fluctuating prices of stocks are difficult to explain because there are so many variables and combinations of variables that are influencing the prices. \u2014 Lloyd Jaisingh , Statistics for the Utterly Confused , 2000",
      "The movie has an intricate plot.",
      "an intricate machine that requires some training to use it properly",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Yes, the creative designs are getting more intricate and original, yet the real value-add is found on the backend of such anomalies. \u2014 Greg Reid, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022",
      "In these memories, and in these photographs, Galli renders an experience shared by many Black families: the intricate and intimate ritual of hair care. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
      "The New York Embroidery Studio has provided incredibly intricate and beautiful embroidery and embellishments for the past 20 years to designers including Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, and Alexander Wang. \u2014 Kristen Philipkoski, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "Still, something about the setting feels unreal, slipped out of time, as if an intricate and luxurious rug might end up being pulled from underneath the reader\u2019s feet at any moment. \u2014 Philippa Snow, The New Republic , 30 Dec. 2021",
      "ChromAddiction is an eye paint and liner hybrid that can be washed all over the lid or used for intricate liner designs, similar to Jules' looks. \u2014 Kirbie Johnson, Allure , 13 May 2022",
      "Rich, bold gowns with intricate designs and textures graced all of Jeremy's famous friends. \u2014 Jasmine Washington, Seventeen , 2 May 2022",
      "There are 154 families in town involved with the project, mainly women aged 70 and older who can pick leaves to create intricate designs. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "One way the people of Sarayaku foster their connection to the forest is through Wituk painting, in which lines, dots, or intricate designs are applied to the face using the pigment from Wituk fruits. \u2014 V\u00edctor Bastidas, Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin intricatus , past participle of intricare to entangle, from in- + tricae trifles, complications":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-tri-k\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intricate complex , complicated , intricate , involved , knotty mean having confusingly interrelated parts. complex suggests the unavoidable result of a necessary combining and does not imply a fault or failure. a complex recipe complicated applies to what offers great difficulty in understanding, solving, or explaining. complicated legal procedures intricate suggests such interlacing of parts as to make it nearly impossible to follow or grasp them separately. an intricate web of deceit involved implies extreme complication and often disorder. a rambling, involved explanation knotty suggests complication and entanglement that make solution or understanding improbable. knotty ethical questions",
    "synonyms":[
      "baroque",
      "byzantine",
      "complex",
      "complicate",
      "complicated",
      "convoluted",
      "daedal",
      "elaborate",
      "involute",
      "involved",
      "knotty",
      "labyrinthian",
      "labyrinthine",
      "sophisticated",
      "tangled"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171834",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intrication":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": complication , complexity":[],
      ": interrelation , intermeshing":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English intricacion , from Medieval Latin intrication-, intricatio , from Latin intricatus + -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-tr\u0113\u02c8-",
      "\u02ccin\u2027tr\u0259\u0307\u02c8k\u0101sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001755",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intrigant":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that intrigues":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1781, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French intrigant , from Italian intrigante , present participle of intrigare":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0113-\u02c8g\u00e4nt",
      "-\u02c8g\u00e4\u207f",
      "\u02ccan-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183735",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intrigante":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a female intriguer":[
        "the most fascinating woman they had ever known, but also \u2026 an intrigante of dark and winding ways",
        "\u2014 Gertrude Atherton"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French intrigante , feminine of intrigant":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115321",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intrigue":{
    "antonyms":[
      "collude",
      "compass",
      "connive",
      "conspire",
      "contrive",
      "machinate",
      "plot",
      "put up",
      "scheme"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a clandestine love affair":[],
      ": a secret scheme : machination":[],
      ": cheat , trick":[],
      ": entangle":[],
      ": the practice of engaging in secret schemes":[],
      ": to arouse the interest, desire, or curiosity of":[
        "intrigued by the tale"
      ],
      ": to get, make, or accomplish by secret scheming":[
        "intrigued myself into the club"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "Rolston's work channels the vampish intrigue of vintage Hollywood with a sense of irony and wit that makes the work truly modern. \u2014 Stephanie Sung , Picture , September/October 2008",
      "In this, as in any other enterprise where there is the promise of money, intrigues and lies and hoodwinking and bullying abound. \u2014 Alice Munro , \"Hard-Luck Stories,\" in In the Stacks , 2002",
      "The story began to take on a warm, attractive glow as a Highland romantic epic of heroism and villainy, of intrigue and bravery, complete with comely maidens such as Flora MacDonald and handsome heroes such as Bonnie Prince Charlie himself. \u2014 Arthur Herman , How the Scots Invented the Modern World , 2001",
      "a novel of intrigue and romance",
      "an administration characterized by intrigue and corruption",
      "Verb",
      "One day during math study period, after I'd finished my regular assignment, I took out a fresh sheet of paper and tried to solve a problem that had intrigued me: whether the first player in a game of ticktacktoe can always win, given the right strategy. \u2014 Martin Gardner , Scientific American , August 1998",
      "Bundy was also a man whose thinking in foreign affairs was extremely conventional \u2026 but who in the area of domestic policy was curiously more open-minded and unconventional, so that throughout the Kennedy years, friends would be intrigued by the difference in Bundy. \u2014 David Halberstam , Harper's , July 1969",
      "evidence that the leading manufacturers had intrigued to keep prices artificially high",
      "the mystery story intrigued me so that I read it in one sitting",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "But Lowry also signed with the Heat at the urging of Jimmy Butler, so there is a Butler element in play (although years back, Butler spoke of the intrigue of playing alongside Kyrie Irving). \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
      "But the intrigue over his shape continued when neither Becton nor the team would directly answer questions about the tackle\u2019s weight. \u2014 J.p. Pelzman, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
      "Increasingly, nuns are present in genres outside of comedy, horror and erotica; science fiction, fantasy, and action are capitalizing on the intrigue . \u2014 ELLE , 3 June 2022",
      "Rather than enhancing the intrigue , the genre components wind up diluting it, and when the two sides of the movie ultimately come together, the impact feels blunted. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
      "According to Petermann, the intrigue surrounding the traboules could largely be attributed to the fantastical image of the passageways in literature and film. \u2014 Lily Radziemski, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
      "The game also exemplifies what remains most compelling about AIM: Not its profitability or its user base or the corporate intrigue behind its creation, but its ability to connect people to one another. \u2014 Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine , 16 May 2022",
      "Sure, if Houston were any good, the intrigue of Deshaun Watson returning to face his former team might carry some real weight. \u2014 Dan Labbe, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
      "The intrigue comes from the crowded fields for secretary of the state and treasurer, contests linked by a desire for a balanced ticket that reflects the identity politics of gender, race and ethnicity. \u2014 Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant , 6 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "What has continued to intrigue you about exploring that process",
      "If the bottle itself doesn\u2019t intrigue you, what\u2019s hidden inside certainly should. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 May 2022",
      "Skincare and makeup prep intrigue me more, but coming to a consensus about their worthiness is even harder, given that no one\u2019s skin reacts the same to each product. \u2014 ELLE , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "And Rosemary\u2019s point is also to intrigue and entice Pat. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "But the Heat crafted a contract that could intrigue for years on the trade market. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "Jumps like that will certainly intrigue other independent acts looking to jumpstart their career with help from TikTok\u2019s promotional muscle. \u2014 Elias Leight, Rolling Stone , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "From the way our bodies work to the way that light moves through space, there\u2019s a lot that can surprise and intrigue us. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 20 Feb. 2022",
      "Mikhail and Ivan are the twin threads, the golden boys, running through the story, never colliding, never discordant, but different enough to intrigue . \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 24 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":"Noun",
      "1612, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French intricate affair, from Italian intrigo , from intrigare to entangle, from Latin intricare \u2014 see intricate":"Noun and Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tr\u0113g",
      "\u02c8in-\u02cctr\u0113g"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intrigue Noun plot , intrigue , machination , conspiracy , cabal mean a plan secretly devised to accomplish an evil or treacherous end. plot implies careful foresight in planning a complex scheme. an assassination plot intrigue suggests secret underhanded maneuvering in an atmosphere of duplicity. backstairs intrigue machination implies a contriving of annoyances, injuries, or evils by indirect means. the machinations of a party boss conspiracy implies a secret agreement among several people usually involving treason or great treachery. a conspiracy to fix prices cabal typically applies to political intrigue involving persons of some eminence. a cabal among powerful senators",
    "synonyms":[
      "conspiracy",
      "design",
      "machination",
      "plot",
      "scheme"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005429",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intrigued":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having one's interest, desire, or curiosity strongly aroused":[
        "Cricket was intrigued , but I decided it wasn't good enough for her, and we moved to the sprawling Marriott resort, a complex of pretty lawns and pools with swim-up bars on the Chao Phraya river.",
        "\u2014 Food and Wine",
        "And all the time she laughed, he watched, a smile quirking the corners of his mouth, as though he were both intrigued and delighted that he had done this, that he had made her laugh so suddenly and uncontrollably.",
        "\u2014 Rachel Joyce"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1908, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tr\u0113gd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101344",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intriguing":{
    "antonyms":[
      "boring",
      "drab",
      "dry",
      "dull",
      "heavy",
      "monotonous",
      "tedious",
      "uninteresting"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": engaging the interest to a marked degree : fascinating":[
        "an intriguing story"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The Huns are intriguing not only because of their notoriously hawkish history, but also because of their place as middlemen between Mongol and Turkic ethnicity. \u2014 Victor L. Mote , Siberia , 1998",
      "The next two phases of the Cambrian \u2026 mark the strangest, most important, and most intriguing of all episodes in the fossil record of animals\u2014the short interval known as the Cambrian explosion \u2026 \u2014 Stephen Jay Gould , Natural History , July/August 1998",
      "The folklorist Jan Brunvand has documented hundreds of \"urban legends,\" intriguing stories that everyone swears happened to a friend of a friend \u2026 and that circulate for years in nearly identical form in city after city, but that can never be documented as real events. \u2014 Steven Pinker , The Language Instinct , 1994",
      "The offer is very intriguing .",
      "an intriguing concept that should engender much debate among climatologists",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The draft is complete (JD Davison is intriguing , no",
      "To me, these details were both intriguing and repulsive. \u2014 Okwiri Oduor, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
      "Though young, his size, length and athletic ability are intriguing . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
      "The star that caused the nova is also quite intriguing . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 16 June 2022",
      "While the thought of Obi-Wan settling down with a significant other after renouncing his Jedi ways (or at least burying them with his lightsaber in the sands of Tatooine) is certainly intriguing , Chow and Harold ultimately went in another direction. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 2 June 2022",
      "Oakland also acquired outfielder Cristian Pache and pitchers Joey Estes and Ryan Cusick \u2014 was intriguing . \u2014 Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 May 2022",
      "That alone is intriguing enough to support multiple seasons of great television. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 25 May 2022",
      "The Neolithic people who built Stonehenge unknowingly created what would someday become one of the most iconic\u2014and archaeologically intriguing \u2014landmarks in the United Kingdom. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 23 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1752, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "see intrigue entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tr\u0113-gi\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "absorbing",
      "arresting",
      "consuming",
      "engaging",
      "engrossing",
      "enthralling",
      "fascinating",
      "gripping",
      "immersing",
      "interesting",
      "involving",
      "riveting"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092609",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intrinsic":{
    "antonyms":[
      "adventitious",
      "extraneous",
      "extrinsic"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": being or relating to a semiconductor in which the concentration of charge carriers is characteristic of the material itself instead of the content of any impurities it contains":[],
      ": belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing":[
        "the intrinsic worth of a gem",
        "the intrinsic brightness of a star"
      ],
      ": originating and included wholly within an organ or part":[
        "intrinsic muscles"
      ],
      ": originating or due to causes within a body, organ, or part":[
        "an intrinsic metabolic disease"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare extrinsic sense 1b":[
        "intrinsic muscles"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He is the ideal courtier. His nobility is intrinsic , and so he can drape himself in this purple cloak of tasteful modernity, make a cocktail of past and present, the cream of both. \u2014 Noah Charney , The Art Thief , 2007",
      "Subatomic particles have an intrinsic orientation known as spin, which can point in one of two directions, conventionally called \"up\" and \"down.\" \u2014 Abraham Loeb , Scientific American , November 2006",
      "Yet despite the digital culture's endless celebrations of diversity \u2026 there is a certain mindless repetition intrinsic to the Internet, where ideas and software multiply a thousandfold with one click; where the lure of wider communication drives users toward an ultimate \"interoperability\" and, hence, toward an ultimate uniformity. \u2014 Julian Dibbell , Harper's , August 2001",
      "the intrinsic value of a gem",
      "the intrinsic brightness of a star",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hierarchies are intrinsic to the social parameters in Austen\u2019s England, and Booster saw a similarity to 21st century Fire Island. \u2014 Emma Fraser, Town & Country , 9 June 2022",
      "Brutality and silly gags are as intrinsic to the show\u2019s tone as the tenderness. \u2014 Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
      "Such adaptability and scalability are intrinsic to the cloud technology that threads its way throughout Nuuly. \u2014 Matt A.v. Chaban, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
      "At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the freedom to control one's body is intrinsic to controlling one's life. \u2014 Maybelle Morgan, refinery29.com , 10 May 2022",
      "Storytelling on fabric was intrinsic to the charm of toile. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Imagine an asset that is essentially just a few lines of code with no apparent intrinsic value and no demonstrable real-world application. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 15 June 2022",
      "With an overflow of evaluations of the past few years, the fund suggests that there's a new method for investors to determine the intrinsic value and the right valuation for entry. \u2014 Carrie Rubinstein, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
      "Studies have shown that conscientiousness is strongly correlated with both extrinsic (income and occupational status) and intrinsic (job satisfaction) career success. \u2014 Heide Abelli, Forbes , 3 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1635, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French intrins\u00e8que internal, from Late Latin intrinsecus , from Latin, adverb, inwardly; akin to Latin intra within \u2014 more at intra-":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8trin-zik, -sik",
      "-\u02c8trin(t)-sik",
      "in-\u02c8trin-zik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "built-in",
      "constitutional",
      "constitutive",
      "essential",
      "hardwired",
      "immanent",
      "inborn",
      "inbred",
      "indigenous",
      "ingrain",
      "ingrained",
      "engrained",
      "inherent",
      "innate",
      "integral",
      "native",
      "natural"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023607",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intrinsic factor":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a substance produced by normal gastrointestinal mucosa that facilitates absorption of vitamin B 12":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1932, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114452",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "intrinsical":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": intrinsic":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1548, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8trin-zi-k\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8trin(t)-si-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110246",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intrinsically":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": in an intrinsic manner : by natural character : in itself":[
        "an intrinsically difficult language",
        "intrinsically evil/valuable",
        "The media do not have to go along with the pretense that there is something intrinsically virtuous about a movement with no leaders.",
        "\u2014 David Carr",
        "While etymologies of such terms are intrinsically interesting, they can also serve one of the aims of critical pedagogies \u2026",
        "\u2014 Jennifer Beech",
        "Environmentalists have tended to treat big buildings as intrinsically wasteful, because large amounts of energy are expended in their construction, and because the buildings place intensely localized stresses on sewers, power lines, and water systems.",
        "\u2014 David Owen"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1583, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8trin(t)-si-",
      "in-\u02c8trin-zi-k(\u0259-)l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "congenitally",
      "constitutionally",
      "inherently",
      "innately",
      "naturally"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113002",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
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  "intro":{
    "antonyms":[
      "epilogue",
      "epilog"
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      ": in : into":[
        "intro jection"
      ],
      ": introduction":[],
      ": inward : within":[
        "intro vert"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare extro-":[
        "intro vert"
      ]
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    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "in her intro the author offers rather precise definitions of some of the key words that she will be using throughout her book",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Some may read this intro and roll their eyes, arguing that Lawrence\u2019s patented self-deprecation and casual dorkiness are a big act. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "The thunderous intro finds Future placing the welcome mat down for old and new listeners. \u2014 Carl Lamarre, Billboard , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "The Sunday package began with a brief intro about women breaking out of traditional roles. \u2014 Ellen Goodman, BostonGlobe.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Simon rocks his boombox with an intro from Queens\u2019 finest rap gods, Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie. \u2014 Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "The new album features Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro, Myke Towers, El Alfa, Lil Jon and Pitbull, plus an epic intro by renowned boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Another idea to further engage potential hires is to set up an intro with the candidate's potential future peers. \u2014 Sarah Skillin, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "The intro recalled McKinnon\u2019s moving cold open\u2014also sung somberly\u2014shortly after Donald Trump\u2019s surprise election in 2016. \u2014 Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "Plug your iPhone intro your Mac using a Lightning cable. \u2014 Christian De Looper, BGR , 1 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1899, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from intro inside, to the inside, from Old Latin *interus , adjective, inward":"Prefix"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-(\u02cc)tr\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "exordium",
      "foreword",
      "introduction",
      "preamble",
      "preface",
      "prelude",
      "proem",
      "prologue",
      "prolog",
      "prolusion"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093958",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "prefix"
    ]
  },
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    "antonyms":[],
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      "introduction":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125414",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
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      ": to lead to or make known by a formal act, announcement, or recommendation: such as":[],
      ": to cause to be acquainted":[],
      ": to make preliminary explanatory or laudatory remarks about":[],
      ": to bring (someone, such as an actor or singer) before the public for the first time":[],
      ": to present or announce formally or officially or by an official reading":[
        "introduce legislation"
      ],
      ": to present formally at court or into society":[],
      ": to lead or bring in especially for the first time":[
        "\u2026 U.S. fishery managers have introduced exotic species into most waters in North America, largely to please sport fishermen.",
        "\u2014 Yvonne Baskin"
      ],
      ": to bring into play":[],
      ": to bring into practice or use : institute":[],
      ": to bring to a knowledge of something":[
        "introduced them to new ideas"
      ],
      ": place , insert":[
        "introduce foreign genes into crops"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8dy\u00fcs",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u00fcs"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "acquaint",
      "present"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for introduce introduce , insert , insinuate , interpolate , intercalate , interpose , interject mean to put between or among others. introduce is a general term for bringing or placing a thing or person into a group or body already in existence. introduced a new topic into the conversation insert implies putting into a fixed or open space between or among. inserted a clause in the contract insinuate implies introducing gradually or by gentle pressure. insinuated himself into the group interpolate applies to the inserting of something extraneous or spurious. interpolated her own comments into the report intercalate suggests an intrusive inserting of something in an existing series or sequence. new chapters intercalated with the old interpose suggests inserting an obstruction or cause of delay. interpose barriers to communication interject implies an abrupt or forced introduction. interjected a question",
    "examples":[
      "Let me introduce myself: my name is John Smith.",
      "They have been slow to introduce changes in procedure.",
      "The designer is introducing a new line of clothes.",
      "He introduced several issues during the meeting.",
      "New evidence was introduced at the trial.",
      "introduce a bill to Congress",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The crisis of the 2020 presidential election also reveals the broader risks to voting rights, since many state legislatures have used the lie that there was widespread fraud to introduce more voting restrictions. \u2014 Julian Zelizer, CNN , 1 July 2022",
      "Glasser and his organization hosted a community meeting in late May, with Armstrong and other city officials in attendance, to introduce the proposal to the community. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 1 July 2022",
      "Asprey also aims to introduce the tech rich to traditional establishment players creating a new symbiotic economy. \u2014 Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
      "Still, advertising executives believe that building out the business at Netflix could take time, and that the company might be able to introduce the new tier only in a handful of international markets by the end of the year. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
      "The decision to introduce a 100% CO2 emissions reduction target by 2035 for new cars and vans would effectively prohibit the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel. \u2014 Samuel Petrequin, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
      "His absence is used to the film's advantage, however, to introduce romantic tension between Lady Mary and a certain handsome movie director. \u2014 Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day , 29 June 2022",
      "Breder is traveling to the festival with his mother in order to introduce the film. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 29 June 2022",
      "Sofar has helped introduce the world to performers like Andra Day and Billie Eilish. \u2014 Noah Lederman, SPIN , 27 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin introducere , from intro- + ducere to lead \u2014 more at tow entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082755"
  },
  "introducer":{
    "antonyms":[],
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      ": place , insert":[
        "introduce foreign genes into crops"
      ],
      ": to bring (someone, such as an actor or singer) before the public for the first time":[],
      ": to bring into play":[],
      ": to bring into practice or use : institute":[],
      ": to bring to a knowledge of something":[
        "introduced them to new ideas"
      ],
      ": to cause to be acquainted":[],
      ": to lead or bring in especially for the first time":[
        "\u2026 U.S. fishery managers have introduced exotic species into most waters in North America, largely to please sport fishermen.",
        "\u2014 Yvonne Baskin"
      ],
      ": to lead to or make known by a formal act, announcement, or recommendation: such as":[],
      ": to make preliminary explanatory or laudatory remarks about":[],
      ": to present formally at court or into society":[],
      ": to present or announce formally or officially or by an official reading":[
        "introduce legislation"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Let me introduce myself: my name is John Smith.",
      "They have been slow to introduce changes in procedure.",
      "The designer is introducing a new line of clothes.",
      "He introduced several issues during the meeting.",
      "New evidence was introduced at the trial.",
      "introduce a bill to Congress",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The crisis of the 2020 presidential election also reveals the broader risks to voting rights, since many state legislatures have used the lie that there was widespread fraud to introduce more voting restrictions. \u2014 Julian Zelizer, CNN , 1 July 2022",
      "Glasser and his organization hosted a community meeting in late May, with Armstrong and other city officials in attendance, to introduce the proposal to the community. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 1 July 2022",
      "Asprey also aims to introduce the tech rich to traditional establishment players creating a new symbiotic economy. \u2014 Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
      "Still, advertising executives believe that building out the business at Netflix could take time, and that the company might be able to introduce the new tier only in a handful of international markets by the end of the year. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
      "The decision to introduce a 100% CO2 emissions reduction target by 2035 for new cars and vans would effectively prohibit the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel. \u2014 Samuel Petrequin, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
      "His absence is used to the film's advantage, however, to introduce romantic tension between Lady Mary and a certain handsome movie director. \u2014 Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day , 29 June 2022",
      "Breder is traveling to the festival with his mother in order to introduce the film. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 29 June 2022",
      "Sofar has helped introduce the world to performers like Andra Day and Billie Eilish. \u2014 Noah Lederman, SPIN , 27 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin introducere , from intro- + ducere to lead \u2014 more at tow entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u00fcs",
      "-\u02c8dy\u00fcs"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for introduce introduce , insert , insinuate , interpolate , intercalate , interpose , interject mean to put between or among others. introduce is a general term for bringing or placing a thing or person into a group or body already in existence. introduced a new topic into the conversation insert implies putting into a fixed or open space between or among. inserted a clause in the contract insinuate implies introducing gradually or by gentle pressure. insinuated himself into the group interpolate applies to the inserting of something extraneous or spurious. interpolated her own comments into the report intercalate suggests an intrusive inserting of something in an existing series or sequence. new chapters intercalated with the old interpose suggests inserting an obstruction or cause of delay. interpose barriers to communication interject implies an abrupt or forced introduction. interjected a question",
    "synonyms":[
      "acquaint",
      "present"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110838",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "introduction":{
    "antonyms":[
      "epilogue",
      "epilog"
    ],
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      ": a part of a book or treatise preliminary to the main portion":[],
      ": a preliminary treatise or course of study":[],
      ": a putting in : insertion":[],
      ": a short introductory musical passage":[],
      ": something that introduces : such as":[],
      ": the act or process of introducing : the state of being introduced":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the introduction of telephone service to the area",
      "Since its introduction last year, over a million copies of the software have been sold.",
      "the introduction of evidence at the trial",
      "the introduction of a new topic for conversation",
      "the introduction of the bill to Congress",
      "She told the audience, by way of introduction , that the research was completed a year ago.",
      "the introduction of an Asian plant species to America",
      "After a brief introduction , the performer took the stage.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The introduction of the Next Gen car for the Cup Series \u2014 with independent rear suspension and a sequential gearbox among its numerous new features \u2014 means there\u2019s far less crossover between the vehicles raced in NASCAR\u2019s top two divisions. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
      "The introduction of the internet and, later, smartphones brought data access directly into our homes and hands. \u2014 Angelia Mcfarland, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
      "All told, these were a good, if cursory, introduction to what Alsace has to offer, including the potential of the grapes and the terroirs, as well as the occasional confusion that continues to stymie consumers. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
      "American smokers trying to quit have a choice between vapes, nicotine pouches and\u2014a more recent introduction \u2014heated tobacco sticks. \u2014 Carol Ryan, WSJ , 19 June 2022",
      "The Black Panther edition opens with T\u2019Challa\u2019s introduction in Fantastic Four #52, before hopscotching into writer Don McGregor\u2019s groundbreaking expansion of the Panther\u2019s world in the early \u201970s. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 18 June 2022",
      "This followed on from Marvel\u2019s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which in April The Hollywood Reporter revealed was being banned due to the introduction of a gay character, America Chavez (played by Xochitl Gomez). \u2014 Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
      "An introduction to financial wellness and best practices for maintaining and growing your money. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 15 June 2022",
      "The tasting experience will include Happy Hour & Brunch Bites, Mix n\u2019 Match KonaMosa & Margarita Heaven Bar, and the official introduction of a new Fire Dragon Roll \u2013 Kona\u2019s flaming sushi roll. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 14 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English introduccioun act of introducing, from Anglo-French introduction , from Latin introduction-, introductio , from introducere":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u0259k-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "exordium",
      "foreword",
      "intro",
      "preamble",
      "preface",
      "prelude",
      "proem",
      "prologue",
      "prolog",
      "prolusion"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075708",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "introductory":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or being a first step that sets something going or in proper perspective":[
        "an introductory course in calculus"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "I'd like to make a few introductory remarks before we start the program.",
      "a class in introductory physics",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "No wonder Cassidy was beaming at his introductory news conference when asked the question about his contract terms. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
      "Watson had not spoken to the media since his March 25 introductory news conference. \u2014 Chris Easterling, USA TODAY , 14 June 2022",
      "Ham confirmed Wallace is a candidate to join his coaching staff at his introductory press conference with the Lakers this afternoon. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 June 2022",
      "Team president Taylor Kiel again asserted Friday, during Rossi\u2019s introductory news conference, that the incumbent Felix Rosenqvist is still in play. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 3 June 2022",
      "Payne attended Heird's introductory news conference Friday morning. \u2014 Brooks Holton, The Courier-Journal , 3 June 2022",
      "From the start of training camp \u2014 and even during his introductory news conference last summer \u2014 Udoka emphasized the importance of ball movement. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
      "Watson hasn\u2019t spoken to the media since his introductory press conference on March 25. \u2014 Jim Ingraham, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
      "At the right tackle\u2019s introductory news conference in March, Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta recalled scouting Moses and Urban at Virginia. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun , 21 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1605, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u0259k-t(\u0259-)r\u0113",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u0259k-t\u0259-r\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "beginning",
      "precursory",
      "prefatory",
      "prelim",
      "preliminary",
      "prelusive",
      "preparative",
      "preparatory",
      "primary"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210751",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "introverted":{
    "antonyms":[
      "extroverted",
      "extraverted",
      "immodest",
      "outgoing"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1657, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "past participle of introvert entry 2 , in psychological sense in part as translation of German introvertiert":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259-\u02ccv\u0259r-t\u0259d",
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259-\u02ccv\u0259rt-\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "backward",
      "bashful",
      "coy",
      "demure",
      "diffident",
      "modest",
      "recessive",
      "retiring",
      "self-effacing",
      "sheepish",
      "shy",
      "withdrawn"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041330",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "intrude":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to cause to enter as if by force":[],
      ": to enter as a geologic intrusion":[],
      ": to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome":[],
      ": to thrust or force in or upon someone or something especially without permission, welcome, or fitness":[
        "intruded himself into their lives"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Excuse me, sir. I don't mean to intrude , but you have a phone call.",
      "Would I be intruding if I came along with you",
      "The plane intruded into their airspace.",
      "Reporters constantly intruded into the couple's private life.",
      "He didn't want to intrude upon their conversation.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Painful memories intrude in flashes, until so many of them pile up at once that the present becomes difficult to see. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
      "By operating outside your control, hackers can intrude and compromise these targets\u2014which will often go undetected for a long time\u2014all the while reaping the rewards for their hacking efforts. \u2014 Ran Nahmias, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "Angry motorists and civil-rights advocates, claim the devices only serve as a moneymaker for local governments, infringe on due-process rights, and intrude on their privacy. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 19 May 2022",
      "The rural region has been largely spared the warfare raging elsewhere, but periodic reminders intrude . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Now, the trio are joined by Jupiter, and the four planets can be seen by the naked eye in a straight line for the rest of April, as long as city lights don't intrude . \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "Vibration is the enemy of any turntable, and this one is designed from the ground up to minimize the chances that vibration is going to intrude on the sound of your vinyl. \u2014 Brad Moon, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Though some readers will find the happy ending a bit wobbly as recent world events intrude , the voyage is one worth taking. \u2014 Carole V. Bell, The Atlantic , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Supernatural visions and indigenous folk myths intrude in an unpredictable and dreamlike Mexican film about a family living in the shadow of the apocalypse. \u2014 Lise Pedersen, Variety , 1 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin intrudere to thrust in, from in- + trudere to thrust \u2014 more at threat":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tr\u00fcd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "break in",
      "chime in",
      "chip in",
      "cut in",
      "interpose",
      "interrupt"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071132",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intrude (upon)":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "to thrust oneself upon (another) without invitation a man with an opinion on everything, he doesn't hesitate to intrude upon whoever happens to be standing by"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-113258",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intruding":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to cause to enter as if by force":[],
      ": to enter as a geologic intrusion":[],
      ": to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome":[],
      ": to thrust or force in or upon someone or something especially without permission, welcome, or fitness":[
        "intruded himself into their lives"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Excuse me, sir. I don't mean to intrude , but you have a phone call.",
      "Would I be intruding if I came along with you",
      "The plane intruded into their airspace.",
      "Reporters constantly intruded into the couple's private life.",
      "He didn't want to intrude upon their conversation.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Painful memories intrude in flashes, until so many of them pile up at once that the present becomes difficult to see. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
      "By operating outside your control, hackers can intrude and compromise these targets\u2014which will often go undetected for a long time\u2014all the while reaping the rewards for their hacking efforts. \u2014 Ran Nahmias, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "Angry motorists and civil-rights advocates, claim the devices only serve as a moneymaker for local governments, infringe on due-process rights, and intrude on their privacy. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 19 May 2022",
      "The rural region has been largely spared the warfare raging elsewhere, but periodic reminders intrude . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Now, the trio are joined by Jupiter, and the four planets can be seen by the naked eye in a straight line for the rest of April, as long as city lights don't intrude . \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "Vibration is the enemy of any turntable, and this one is designed from the ground up to minimize the chances that vibration is going to intrude on the sound of your vinyl. \u2014 Brad Moon, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "Though some readers will find the happy ending a bit wobbly as recent world events intrude , the voyage is one worth taking. \u2014 Carole V. Bell, The Atlantic , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Supernatural visions and indigenous folk myths intrude in an unpredictable and dreamlike Mexican film about a family living in the shadow of the apocalypse. \u2014 Lise Pedersen, Variety , 1 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin intrudere to thrust in, from in- + trudere to thrust \u2014 more at threat":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tr\u00fcd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "break in",
      "chime in",
      "chip in",
      "cut in",
      "interpose",
      "interrupt"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073326",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "intrusive":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": characterized by intrusion":[],
      ": intruding where one is not welcome or invited":[],
      ": projecting inward":[
        "an intrusive arm of the sea"
      ],
      ": having been forced while in a plastic state into cavities or between layers":[],
      ": plutonic":[],
      ": having nothing that corresponds to a sound or letter in orthography or etymon":[
        "intrusive \\t\\ in \\\u02c8mints\\ for mince"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-ziv",
      "in-\u02c8tr\u00fc-siv"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "busy",
      "interfering",
      "intruding",
      "meddlesome",
      "meddling",
      "nosy",
      "nosey",
      "obtrusive",
      "officious",
      "presuming",
      "presumptuous",
      "protrusive",
      "prying",
      "pushing",
      "pushy",
      "snoopy"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "unobtrusive"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intrusive impertinent , officious , meddlesome , intrusive , obtrusive mean given to thrusting oneself into the affairs of others. impertinent implies exceeding the bounds of propriety in showing interest or curiosity or in offering advice. resented their impertinent interference officious implies the offering of services or attentions that are unwelcome or annoying. officious friends made the job harder meddlesome stresses an annoying and usually prying interference in others' affairs. a meddlesome landlord intrusive implies a tactless or otherwise objectionable thrusting into others' affairs. tried to be helpful without being intrusive obtrusive stresses improper or offensive conspicuousness of interfering actions. expressed an obtrusive concern for his safety",
    "examples":[
      "a loud and intrusive person",
      "She tried to be helpful without being intrusive .",
      "Intrusive reporters disturbed their privacy.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Technological advancements make screening less intrusive and inconvenient for guests, said Todd McGhee, co-founder of Protecting the Homeland Innovations. \u2014 Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "Land Rover was first to develop this system, and its remains the most effective and least intrusive . \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 14 July 2020",
      "HubSpot finds that 91% of people feel that even general targeted ads are becoming more intrusive . \u2014 Michael Adair, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
      "Online risks may be exacerbated in the metaverse, where unwanted contact could become more intrusive and pervasive. \u2014 Ritwija Darbari, Quartz , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Without it, cars will be simply one more intrusive and risky mobile device. \u2014 Mike Juran, WSJ , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "Following a canine and non- intrusive imaging system examination, CBP officers discovered a total of 912.82 pounds of alleged methamphetamine within the trailer, according to the press release. \u2014 Danielle Wallace, Fox News , 12 May 2022",
      "Alarcon and her husband, John, a police detective, said in addition to funny comments \u2014 like from the nurses \u2014 some are intrusive and downright rude. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
      "Often, businesses get it wrong and drive away consumers with intrusive and irrelevant suggestions. \u2014 Amir Levi, Forbes , 4 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152304"
  },
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    "definitions":{
      ": to commit to another with confidence":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180326",
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      "verb"
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    "antonyms":[
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    "definitions":{
      ": to know, sense, or understand by intuition":[]
    },
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      "He was able to intuit the answer immediately.",
      "She intuited a connection between the two crimes.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Several years ago, the horror film Countdown imagined an app that was able to intuit , down to the second, the time of a person\u2019s death, with the user agreement serving as a deal with the devil. \u2014 Meghan O'gieblyn, Wired , 6 Jan. 2022",
      "More than her elders, Darah Lady seemed to intuit the nuance of deforestation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "How is the person able to intuit whether someone will drink or dump water",
      "Dog puppies can intuit human meanings, whereas wolf puppies cannot. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 28 Sep. 2021",
      "The math is more confusing now, a little harder to intuit . \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 8 Aug. 2021",
      "Nilofar, now eight, could intuit the rhythms of wartime. \u2014 Anand Gopal, The New Yorker , 6 Sep. 2021",
      "And finance leaders no longer have to wait for monthly reconciliations to see what employees have spent, or try to intuit what the nitty-gritty details mean in the larger business context. \u2014 Robin Gandhi, Forbes , 31 Aug. 2021",
      "The creators of to-do apps all intuit the challenge of the Zeigarnik effect. \u2014 Clive Thompson, Wired , 27 July 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1855, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8ty\u00fc-",
      "in-\u02c8t\u00fc-\u0259t"
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      "behold",
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      "comprehend",
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      "cotton (to ",
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      "discern",
      "get",
      "grasp",
      "grok",
      "know",
      "make",
      "make out",
      "perceive",
      "recognize",
      "register",
      "savvy",
      "see",
      "seize",
      "sense",
      "tumble (to)",
      "twig",
      "understand"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220804",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "verb"
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      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
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      ": of or relating to the intellect or its use":[],
      ": developed or chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience : rational":[],
      ": requiring use of the intellect":[
        "intellectual games"
      ],
      ": given to study, reflection, and speculation":[],
      ": engaged in activity requiring the creative use of the intellect":[
        "intellectual playwrights"
      ],
      ": an intellectual person":[],
      ": intellectual powers":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8lek-ch\u0259-w\u0259l",
      "-shw\u0259l",
      "-ch\u00fc(-\u0259)l",
      "-ch\u0259l"
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      "blue",
      "cerebral",
      "eggheaded",
      "geeky",
      "highbrow",
      "highbrowed",
      "intellectualist",
      "intellectualistic",
      "long-haired",
      "longhair",
      "nerdish",
      "nerdy"
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      "double-dome",
      "geek",
      "highbrow",
      "intellectualist",
      "longhair",
      "nerd"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "the social and intellectual life of the campus",
      "as the daughter of college professors, she's used to being around intellectual people",
      "Noun",
      "He thinks that he's an intellectual , but he doesn't know what he's talking about.",
      "She's a hard worker but she's no great intellectual .",
      "a caf\u00e9 where artists and intellectuals mingle",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Peter Sachs, attorney and a founding partner of the law firm, also felt there was a need for employment for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. \u2014 Sergio Carmona, Sun Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
      "The company, whose owners are mother-daughter duo Mary Clark and Kathryn Flick, provides community living support and companionship services to individuals with mental, intellectual and developmental disabilities. \u2014 Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press , 8 June 2022",
      "Their flight from Mariupol illustrated the extra layers of trauma that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as Down syndrome and autism, can experience during wartime. \u2014 Maryna Dubyna, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
      "Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and raises funds for the group dedicated to ending the economic isolation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities like autism and Down syndrome. \u2014 Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel , 2 June 2022",
      "Past winners include: The Cedar Lake Foundation, which was awarded $12,500 last year and supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the Greater Louisville area. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 1 June 2022",
      "In later proceedings in federal court, his lawyers argued that his trial lawyer had failed to investigate or present evidence about his intellectual and developmental disabilities that might have prompted the jury to show leniency. \u2014 Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
      "Beacons North County, a Carlsbad nonprofit helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is holding an Open House noon to 2 p.m. Friday May 13 at 6150 Yarrow Drive. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 May 2022",
      "Those with the disease (now that number stands at around 70) often end up with intellectual and physical disabilities. \u2014 Terry Demio, The Enquirer , 5 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "As readers might expect from the title, the influence of W.E.B. Du Bois, a leading Black intellectual and sociologist who lived from 1868 to 1963, is present throughout. \u2014 Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 May 2022",
      "Being an in-demand, and somewhat reluctant, public intellectual has left Robinson struggling to find time to start a new novel. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
      "As the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore\u2019s work has shown, Stalin was a genuine Marxist intellectual who believed in class warfare and the evils of the bourgeoisie as much as any student at the Sorbonne. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
      "Hannah-Jones wants to be taken seriously as a public intellectual who deserves her Pulitzer Prize and her university professorship and whose historical writings are taught in schools. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "The most demanding part of Mann\u2019s Princeton life, however, and that which forms the bulk of Corngold\u2019s book, must have been his activism as a public intellectual . \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "The film\u2019s drama involves her encounter with a middle-aged South Korean intellectual , Jin Lee (John Cho), who helps to awaken her nascent passion for architecture and to find a practical way of developing it. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "There are forgivable intellectual and policy errors, and then there\u2019s the self-delusion that has driven the West into its dependence on Vladimir Putin\u2019s oil and gas. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "Jack is everything Alan isn't: combat expert, casual intellectual , man of substance and advanced sleeper holds. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
      "1599, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141705"
  },
  "intellectual property":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Any song that you write is your intellectual property .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Canty said the companies paying manufacturers to make their products are very worried about cyber-attacks and getting their intellectual property and designs stolen. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 22 June 2022",
      "These days, as Hollywood milks its intellectual property for all its worth, many movie franchises have produced that one spinoff that pushed the limits of a connected film universe. \u2014 Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
      "Dozens of the startups that have been funded are expected to fail, go bankrupt or get acquired for their intellectual property . \u2014 Chloe Sorvino, Forbes , 18 June 2022",
      "Arm strikes licensing deals with partners regardless of size or geography, which has led to its intellectual property being used in the majority of chips sold worldwide. \u2014 Financial Times, Ars Technica , 31 May 2022",
      "The result, experts say, is that both poor and rich nations will have access, but countries in the middle will have to negotiate with the companies \u2014 or force the drugmakers to turn over their intellectual property . \u2014 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times , 8 May 2022",
      "But whereas a car is a tangible thing, an NFT exists only on the blockchain, but the owner also owns its intellectual property . \u2014 Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 May 2022",
      "Numerous advocacy groups and institutional shareholders are chiding Pfizer for arguing that its intellectual property is a human right and would be violated if the Dominican Republican government issues a compulsory license for its Covid-19 pill. \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 24 Apr. 2022",
      "One way that President Vladimir Putin can fight back against the crippling economic sanctions is to seize the assets of businesses hostile to Russia, including their intellectual property such as logos and slogans, Gerben said. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1769, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141746"
  },
  "interpleader":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a proceeding to enable a person to compel parties making the same claim against him to litigate the matter between themselves":[],
      ": one that interpleads":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8pl\u0113-d\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Anglo-French enterpleder , from enterpleder , verb":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1567, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1846, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143006"
  },
  "international temperature scale":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a practical temperature scale defining all temperatures above \u2212183\u00b0 C by specified formulas relating temperatures at one atmosphere pressure to the indications of instruments calibrated at six reproducible fixed points: the boiling point of oxygen (\u2212182.97\u00b0 C), the ice point (0\u00b0 C), the steam point (100\u00b0 C), the boiling point of sulfur (444.6\u00b0 C), the freezing point of silver (960.8\u00b0 C), the freezing point of gold (1063\u00b0 C)":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143355"
  },
  "interpretress":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a female interpreter":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02c8t\u0259rp(r)\u0259\u0307\u2027tr\u0259\u0307s"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143755"
  },
  "intervertebral foramen":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an opening on the left and right side of the spinal column between vertebrae that is formed by a superior and inferior notch in the pedicles (see pedicle sense 3 ) of contiguous vertebrae and gives passage to the spinal nerves from the spinal canal":[
        "Exiting from these intervertebral foramina are nerves which control many body functions, including the digestive, endocrine, vascular or circulatory, muscular, and respiratory or pulmonary systems.",
        "\u2014 Chester A. Wilk"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1849, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145231"
  },
  "internal revenue tax":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": excise sense 1b":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150016"
  },
  "integrated":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by the unified control of all aspects of production from raw materials through distribution of finished products":[],
      ": characterized by integration and especially racial integration":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccgr\u0101-t\u0259d"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "an integrated system of hospitals",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Networks are increasingly complicated and multi-dimensional, incorporating cloud services, legacy architecture, IoT devices, and different integrated systems, and rely on remote and mobile access. \u2014 Shankar Chandrasekhar, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
      "Will agencies address these issues as siloed challenges or in an integrated way",
      "That starts with shifting as many of their data processes as possible to the cloud, transitioning away from the traditional fragmented on-premises approach to something far more integrated and accessible. \u2014 Lisa Caldwell, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
      "This is roughly a Ryzen U series equivalent (the G denotes a superior integrated graphics chip but the processing power is in the same tier) and runs up to 28 watts. \u2014 Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG , 19 May 2022",
      "For even more convenience, the timepiece features an integrated EasX-Change system that makes swapping between the two straps easy. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 6 May 2022",
      "The 2020 general election was the first election in Arkansas history where all 75 counties used the same integrated voting system. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Kim Carlin loved the stimulation of her work as an executive administrator for Essentia Health, an integrated health system with 14,000 employees. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Proptech easily and seamlessly bundles these aspects together and provides an integrated , all-in-one solution to the occupants. \u2014 Morley Barr, Forbes , 13 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1922, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150600"
  },
  "interprofessional":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more professions or professionals":[
        "an interprofessional committee",
        "interprofessional collaboration"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8fe-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-pr\u0259-\u02c8fesh-n\u0259l"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1837, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151135"
  },
  "intercorrelate":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to exhibit correlation with each other":[
        "\u2014 used of members of a group of variable and especially of independent variables"
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      ": to correlate (members of a group of variables) with each other":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8k\u00e4r-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8k\u022fr-\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1866, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151723"
  },
  "inter-":{
    "type":[
      "prefix",
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb":[],
      ": between : among : in the midst":[
        "inter crop",
        "inter penetrate",
        "inter stellar"
      ],
      ": reciprocal":[
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        "inter marry"
      ],
      ": reciprocally":[
        "inter relation",
        "inter marry"
      ],
      ": located between":[
        "inter station"
      ],
      ": carried on between":[
        "inter national"
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      ": occurring between":[
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        "inter glacial"
      ],
      ": intervening":[
        "inter borough",
        "inter glacial"
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      ": shared by, involving, or derived from two or more":[
        "inter faith"
      ],
      ": between the limits of : within":[
        "inter tropical"
      ],
      ": existing between":[
        "inter communal",
        "inter company"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r"
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    "synonyms":[
      "bury",
      "entomb",
      "hearse",
      "inhume",
      "lay",
      "put away",
      "tomb"
    ],
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      "disinter",
      "exhume",
      "unearth"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "a burial site where people have been interred for over a thousand years",
      "the soldier was interred with great honors at Arlington National Cemetery",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Emark Trucks has a model in which a driver operates the truck within city limits and then the truck does inter -city runs autonomously, which increases vehicle utilization. \u2014 Rich Blake, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "How should inter -state settling up of green subsidies work",
      "Paul Chason, adjutant for the American Legion post, said military, veteran and civic organizations will be able to inter flag ashes at the site. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "After the 1963 season, Giants coach Allie Sherman traded Huff to inter -division rival Washington. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 14 Nov. 2021",
      "At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
      "At the time, the Missing in America Project had helped locate, identify and inter the ashes of more than 100 veterans nationwide. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com , 1 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English enteren , from Anglo-French enterrer , from Vulgar Latin *interrare , from in- + Latin terra earth \u2014 more at terrace entry 1":"Verb",
      "borrowed from Latin, prefixal use of inter \"among, between,\" going back to Indo-European *h 1 en-ter- (whence also Old Irish eter, iter \"between,\" Old Welsh ithr, Breton etre, entre, all from Celtic *enter ; Sanskrit ant\u00e1r \"within,\" Avestan a\u1e47tar\u0259 ); from a nominal derivative *h 1 enter-o- \"part located inside,\" Old Norse i\u00f0r, innr, indr \"entrails,\" i\u00f0rar (feminine plural) \"bowels,\" Greek \u00e9ntera (neuter plural) \"intestines,\" Armenian \u0259nderk\u02bc (plural), Sanskrit \u00e1ntara- \"located inside,\" Avestan antara-":"Prefix"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152612"
  },
  "interchurch":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between or involving two or more churches or their members":[
        "interchurch marriages",
        "interchurch relations",
        "an interchurch committee"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ch\u0259rch"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1905, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153146"
  },
  "interfraternity":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more fraternities":[
        "interfraternity associations"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-fr\u0259-\u02c8t\u0259r-n\u0259-t\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1885, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153411"
  },
  "integrated circuit":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a tiny complex of electronic components and their connections that is produced in or on a small slice of material (such as silicon)":[]
    },
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Xperi Holding Corp is a licenser of technology and intellectual property in sectors such as mobile computing, communications, memory and data storage, three-dimensional integrated circuit technologies, and more. \u2014 Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes , 10 Sep. 2021",
      "Sales of every conceivable type of integrated circuit , both cutting-edge as well as older, more mature designs, are soaring. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "Something like 75% of the world\u2019s integrated circuit manufacturing capacity is based there. \u2014 George Calhoun, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
      "The integrated circuit , or silicon microchip, in 1959. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Aug. 2021",
      "But the company has a strong future with new opportunities upcoming, including a new integrated circuit that is likely to be a cornerstone of the flagship Apple phones in fall 2021. \u2014 Q.ai - Investing Reimagined, Forbes , 17 May 2021",
      "To get the most out of the device, Astell&Kern designed a complex and highly integrated circuit that\u2019s no bigger than a pack of chewing gum. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2021",
      "Already, there's a huge national [ integrated circuit ] investment fund, which has been providing subsidies to Chinese semiconductor companies. \u2014 Veta Chan, Fortune , 10 Sep. 2020",
      "Unic is an affiliate of Sino IC Fund, which manages the $20 billion China Integrated Circuit Fund created by the Chinese government in 2014 to promote development the nation\u2019s integrated circuit and electronics industry. \u2014 Clay Chandler, Fortune , 24 Feb. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1959, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "The rise of interdisciplinary studies over the last 30 years makes for lots of intellectual overlap. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "During her tenure, Dr. Mullaney conducted scholarly research on mental health services, housing policy and interdisciplinary education. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 May 2021",
      "Aguado and her co-authors combined their interdisciplinary expertise to learn more about the new species. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "While Canadian-Colombian interdisciplinary artist, musician and curator Pimienta foregrounds Afro-Indigenous traditions and explores the wider politics of race, gender, motherhood, and identity through her work. \u2014 Cydney Lee, Billboard , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "An interdisciplinary artist whose work explores various mediums -- including public art, sculpture, installations and glass -- Scott Goss has completed numerous public art projects and commissions. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "ICA San Diego continues its solo exhibition by this interdisciplinary Mexican artist that explores the history and future of the petroleum industry\u2019s omnipresence in the world. \u2014 Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "Last year, an interdisciplinary team at University College London (UCL) led by mechanical engineer Tony Freeth made global headlines with their computational model, revealing a dazzling display of the ancient Greek cosmos. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 11 Apr. 2022"
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      ": occurring between or involving two or more observers":[
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      "Lemoine maintains that Google has been treating AI ethicists like code debuggers when they should be seen as the interface between technology and society. \u2014 Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News , 12 June 2022",
      "Lemoine maintains that Google has been treating AI ethicists like code debuggers when they should be seen as the interface between technology and society. \u2014 Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
      "But with a few fairly small changes, Twitter would stand a decent chance of becoming the basic interface between users and all their digital information. \u2014 David Gelernter, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
      "And Durn says there\u2019s ample business opportunity with Adobe's Creative Cloud (software for design), Experience Cloud (the interface between a company and its customers on the digital channel), and Document Cloud (PDFs, digital documents). \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "The Walmart tech has a sophisticated interface for store Paymentemployees that has improved delivery accuracy, and has greatly reduced curbside delivery times. \u2014 Joan Verdon, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "Enlarge / Android Automotive OS on the Polestar 3 has a totally new interface . \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 11 Jan. 2022",
      "Some may wonder why Asus chose to use the B550 chipset instead of a more advanced chipset, such as the X570, which has the newer PCIe 4 interface . \u2014 Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld , 15 Mar. 2021",
      "The weight of the watch and graphics interface were also taken into account, as the two functions factor into the overall ease of use. \u2014 John Thompson, Men's Health , 6 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The most basic way that humans use natural language to interface with machines is through search. \u2014 Rob Toews, Forbes , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "In the digital space, there are many adaptive and assistive technologies in use, some of them with frankly amazing abilities\u2014but very often the solutions are partial, or don\u2019t interface well with each other. \u2014 Eamon Mcerlean, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
      "Patterns emerge over time of how people interface with each other, machines, chatbots and applications. \u2014 Gene Chao, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "Instead of receiving annoying, boring emails or text messages, Vonage\u2019s new software creates a universe in which shoppers can interface with live agents or artificial intelligence. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 25 Oct. 2021",
      "To do that effectively, the intelligence needs to directly interface with the sensors producing the data. \u2014 Max Versace, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "Carty is working with Herr\u2019s team to improve on a bionic limb that is able to interface with these new types of amputations. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
      "For example, Vanguard could work with plan sponsors to build custom applications or intranet sites that interface with the recordkeeper and update in real time. \u2014 Patrick Moorhead, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
      "His Instagram grew to over 60,000 followers and allowed Fuller to interface with other hitting minds from inside and outside pro ball. \u2014 Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com , 29 Dec. 2021"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1872, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But David Shear, president of the international unit at Restaurant Brands International (QSR), gave some insight into Burger King's agreement in his open letter. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Lufthansa earlier this year abandoned an auction process for the international unit . \u2014 William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com , 3 June 2020",
      "In the study of respiratory illness and vitamin D, the dose was equivalent to about 3,330 international units daily. \u2014 Tara Parker-pope, New York Times , 10 Mar. 2020",
      "In the television realm, CGTN, the international unit of the state broadcaster, now has English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian channels, available in more than 170 countries. \u2014 Anna Fifield, Washington Post , 15 Jan. 2020",
      "While that\u2019s helped return the international unit to profit, margins are vanishingly thin. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Oct. 2019",
      "First, revenue from their international units will wind up looking weaker when it gets translated back into American dollars. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 30 Sep. 2019",
      "The dollar would retain its status as the international unit of account for a while \u2013 but gradually, a dwindling supply would cause more and more transactions to switch to more readily available currencies. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2019",
      "Dietary guidelines suggest most adults get at least 600 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day. \u2014 NBC News , 14 June 2018"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1921, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1862, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162906"
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      "adjective"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Theoretically, these devices could improve memory and allow direct interfacing with computers. \u2014 Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes , 17 June 2021",
      "The top that wraps around the shoulders and chest is structured with non-fusible interfacing . \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 11 June 2021",
      "These masks are made with cotton and lined with two layers of non-woven interfacing ; Amanda Perna, formerly of Project Runway, helped our experts design our own DIY sew mask guide here at Good Housekeeping. \u2014 Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping , 15 July 2020",
      "One piece of 12-inch-long and 7.25-inch-wide interfacing or lightweight, breathable, stiff fabric. \u2014 Washington Post Staff, Washington Post , 5 Apr. 2020",
      "Meanwhile the tools for more invasive\u2014and perhaps more efficient\u2014brain interfacing are developing rapidly. \u2014 Robert Martone, Scientific American , 29 Oct. 2019",
      "Ampro\u2019s efficiency comes from its clever interfacing with the user. \u2014 Matt Simon, WIRED , 14 June 2018",
      "And hand-construction (in Italy) with natural fiber interfacing (just nod) using horsehair, a.k.a. \u2014 Matt Sebra, GQ , 24 Aug. 2017",
      "Recently, successful entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk (Neuralink) and Bryan Johnson (Kernel) have announced new startups that seek to enhance human capabilities through brain-computer interfacing . \u2014 Smithsonian , 11 Apr. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1942, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162931"
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      ": occurring between, existing between, or involving two or more zones : interzonal":[
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        "In the Bering Strait, interzone between East and West \u2026",
        "\u2014 Adam Piette",
        "\u2026 these transitory spaces where human and nature intermesh are constantly in collision \u2026 But with close to 80 per cent of the UK population living in towns and cities, these interzones are also our closest green spaces \u2026",
        "\u2014 Rob Cowen",
        "\u2014 sometimes used figuratively \u2026 an elegant and witty writer comfortably at home in the \u2026 weird interzone between philosophy and scientific cosmology \u2026 \u2014 Sarah Bakewell"
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    "pronounciation":[
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      "1910, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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      ": an arbitrary line approximately along the 180th meridian designated as the place where each calendar day begins":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Only in Hawaii and Midway did the vagaries of the international date line place the event on December 7. \u2014 Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "The position of the international date line meant hitting a ball into right field was hitting it into the next day. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "Several hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor, which lay across the international date line , the Japanese landed on the beaches of northeastern Malaya and began a rapid advance toward Singapore. \u2014 Richard Collett, Smithsonian Magazine , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "The volcano is located about 40 miles north of Tonga\u2019s main island of Tongatapu near the international date line . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Jan. 2022",
      "Some maps blow continents way out of proportion; others misleadingly split the world in half at the international date line and put Hawaii on one side and Japan on the other, as if the two islands aren't only half an ocean apart. \u2014 Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "Because of where the international date line sits, countries in Asia and the Pacific region are among the first to usher in each new year. \u2014 Nick Perry, chicagotribune.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
      "This was the period when the international date line was established and when time zones were instituted. \u2014 Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic , 16 Nov. 2021",
      "Australia was among the first to ring in 2021 because of its proximity to the international date line . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 31 Dec. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1875, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163846"
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      ": a device that operates a control (as for a camera shutter) at regular intervals":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Time-lapse sequences: Nikon D90, Nikkor 60mm macro lens and custom built intervalometer . \u2014 Bruce Sterling, WIRED , 29 Aug. 2011"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1933, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164539"
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      "adjective"
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      ": lying between folds":[]
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      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164838"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": occurring between, or existing between two or more regions":[
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8r\u0113j-n\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8r\u0113-j\u0259-n\u1d4al"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1871, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164930"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": occurring between two terms":[
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        "an interterm break"
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        "took a class during the winter interterm"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8t\u0259rm",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02cct\u0259rm"
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    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1887, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164937"
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      "adjective"
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      ": intercollegiate":[]
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      "\"+"
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      "inter- + college (noun)":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165015"
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      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": occurring or existing between two or more communities":[
        "intercommunity relations"
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      ": the quality of being common to two or more members of a group":[
        "\u2026 they likewise refused all intercommunity of worship with the rest of the Protestant churches.",
        "\u2014 James Murray",
        "The character of a people is not obliterated by intercommunity with others \u2026",
        "\u2014 Robert Morrison MacIver"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-k\u0259-\u02c8my\u00fc-n\u0259-t\u0113"
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    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1892, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1597, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165300"
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    "type":[
      "preposition"
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      ": in the direction of":[
        "looking into the sun"
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      ": to a position of contact with : against":[
        "ran into a wall"
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      ": to the state, condition, or form of":[
        "got into trouble"
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      ": to the occupation, action, or possession of":[
        "go into farming"
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      ": involved with or interested in":[
        "into sports",
        "not into her music"
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      "-t\u0259",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259",
      "\u02c8in-(\u02cc)t\u00fc",
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      "She came into the room.",
      "a medicine injected into the bloodstream",
      "Please put the bowl into the sink.",
      "They were heading into town.",
      "He jumped into the pool.",
      "She was just staring into space.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Now that Wagner has moved into Mali, French authorities underlined that Wagner mercenaries were accused of human right abuses in the Central African Republic, Libya and Syria. \u2014 Joseph Wilson, ajc , 26 June 2022",
      "As the convoy moved into the farm village of Verkhniokamianske, with many of the soldiers riding on the outside of the vehicles, the first blast struck right by them. \u2014 Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
      "What begins as an innocent conversation gradually turns into experimentation with a non-monogamous approach to their relationship. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 24 June 2022",
      "Congressman Lee Zeldin of Long Island has moved into a 6.5-point lead over businessman and former Trump Administration advisor Andrew Giuliani, according to a new poll conducted by John Zogby Strategies. \u2014 John Zogby, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "The nonprofit also moved into a brand-new home of its own. \u2014 Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
      "But there\u2019s one crucial thing to take into account. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 June 2022",
      "Moreover, the display of thousands of guns in glass cases, physically separated from human beings, turns them into objects that seem almost worthy of veneration. \u2014 Brian L. Ott, The Conversation , 23 June 2022",
      "For the first time since December 2004, five planets \u2014 Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn \u2014 have moved into alignment, a rare sight visible to the naked eye throughout the month of June, but expected to reach peak visibility Friday morning. \u2014 Dia Gill, Chicago Tribune , 23 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Old English int\u014d , from in entry 2 + t\u014d to":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165339"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the practice or right of intercommoning":[]
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      "-nij"
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    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165454"
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    "type":[
      "verb"
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      ": to act upon one another":[]
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8akt"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "They're quiet children who don't interact much.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "And so being able to have a front row seat with that, being able to interact with guys who are working at this level is hugely inspiring. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, ELLE , 21 June 2022",
      "While Yamaha and Taylor will have a smaller footprint and less staffing than at recent editions of the NAMM Show, both companies share Ash\u2019s enthusiasm about the importance of being able to interact face-to-face. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 June 2022",
      "Similarly to games such as Fortnite, players may soon be able to interact with virtual avatars through their mobile, tablet or desktop devices. \u2014 Anthony Wong, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
      "AirPods Max also carry a high-quality Transparency Mode to interact with the world around you. \u2014 Kelsey Mulvey, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
      "The argument is that the thousands of talented people who developed these products used software to create always-on virtual spaces for people to interact and express themselves in real time. \u2014 Marcus Segal, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
      "This wall and the ability for shoppers to interact with sales associates is both a personal health education opportunity and a chance to learn about new products. \u2014 Brin Snelling, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "The event on June 1 allowed officers and the public to interact , even if just briefly, in an informal setting. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
      "Currently, most widgets only display static information that forces you to enter an app to interact with it. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 6 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1839, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165925"
  },
  "intervals":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a space of time between events or states":[
        "a two-month interval between medical treatments",
        "There were long intervals during the game in which nothing exciting happened."
      ],
      ": intermission":[
        "There was a twenty minute interval between acts two and three."
      ],
      ": the difference in pitch between two tones":[],
      ": a space between objects, units, points, or states":[
        "The posts were set up at regular intervals along the road."
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      ": one of a series of fast-paced or intense physical exercises alternated with slower or less intense ones or brief rests for training (as of an athlete) \u2014 see also interval training":[],
      ": a set of real numbers between two numbers either including or excluding one or both of them":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-v\u0259l",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-v\u0259l"
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      "discontinuity",
      "gap",
      "hiatus",
      "hiccup",
      "hiccough",
      "interim",
      "interlude",
      "intermission",
      "interregnum",
      "interruption",
      "interstice",
      "parenthesis"
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    "antonyms":[
      "continuation",
      "continuity"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "a three-month interval between jobs",
      "There might be long intervals during which nothing happens.",
      "The sun shone for brief intervals throughout the day.",
      "There will be a 20-minute interval between acts one and two.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "However, over the two-year interval from 2017 to 2019, the number of kids who reported vaping marijuana over the last 30 days rose among all grades, nearly tripling among high school seniors. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
      "But again, the confidence intervals are very wide, particularly for the younger age group, where the interval ranged from -370 to 99.6. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 15 June 2022",
      "The large battery can last a lengthy 240 hours when using 10-minute interval tracking, according to Spot. \u2014 Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics , 31 May 2022",
      "Since all other primes are odd, the interval between any two successive primes has to be even, but no one knows a rule to govern this. \u2014 Alec Wilkinson, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
      "The government has been reevaluating its mask directives on a near-monthly basis, and its latest extension marks its shortest interval at two weeks in duration. \u2014 Dan Carson, Chron , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "New York City will increase its frequency of student testing to once a week instead of its current two-week interval , Mayor Bill de Blasio said. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 21 Sep. 2021",
      "New York City will increase its frequency of student testing to once a week instead of its current two-week interval , Mayor Bill de Blasio said. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "Walk for the first 10\u201315 seconds of your recovery interval , and then jog the rest of the way down. \u2014 Outside Online , 25 Nov. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English intervalle , from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French entreval , from Latin intervallum space between ramparts, interval, from inter- + vallum rampart \u2014 more at wall":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170836"
  },
  "interelectronic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between electrons":[
        "interelectronic separation",
        "interelectronic repulsion"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-i-\u02cclek-\u02c8tr\u00e4-nik"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171057"
  },
  "interestuarine":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": lying between two estuaries":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + estuarine":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171146"
  },
  "interavailable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun,"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or being one of two or more forms of public transportation that service the same route and that accept tickets issued by one another for that route":[
        "interavailable routes",
        "interavailable tickets/fares"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u0259-\u02c8v\u0101-l\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1917, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171541"
  },
  "interleukin-6":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an interleukin that is produced by various cells (such as macrophages, fibroblasts, T cells, and tumor cells) and that induces the maturation of B cells and growth of myeloma cells, activates and induces the proliferation of T cells, stimulates synthesis of plasma proteins (such as fibrinogen), and plays a role in producing fever":[
        "Last year, researchers discovered that older women who were socially active had lower levels of interleukin-6 , a substance linked to chronic inflammation that is found at high levels in people with Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, and cancer.",
        "\u2014 Andrew Weil",
        "\u2014 abbreviation IL-6"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8siks",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00fc-k\u0259n-\u02c8siks"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1987, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171812"
  },
  "interdenominational":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or among or common to different religious denominations":[
        "an interdenominational prayer group",
        "interdenominational cooperation"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-di-\u02ccn\u00e4-m\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-shn\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1842, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172351"
  },
  "interfaculty":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": involving faculty (see faculty sense 3c ) from two or more departments or disciplines":[
        "an interfaculty picnic",
        "interfaculty collaboration",
        "\u2026 the journal of the interfaculty [=interdisciplinary] Arts & Science program \u2026",
        "\u2014 Daniel Galef"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fa-k\u0259l-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1901, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172614"
  },
  "interpleads":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to go to trial with each other in order to determine a right on which the action of a third party depends":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8pl\u0113d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Anglo-French enterpleder , from enter- inter- + pleder, plaider to plead \u2014 more at plead":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1567, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172818"
  },
  "interdenominationalism":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the principle of fostering intercommunion and cooperative activities among different religious denominations":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172916"
  },
  "interepidemic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between epidemics":[
        "an interepidemic interval",
        "inter-epidemic transmission"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02cce-p\u0259-\u02c8de-mik",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02cce-p\u0259-\u02c8de-mik"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1893, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173010"
  },
  "interfaith":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": involving persons of different religious faiths":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8f\u0101th"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There will be multicultural and interfaith music, dance, poetry and Sufi Art displays, along with an artist reception for the Oneness exhibition for the gallery show that is at the Encinitas Community Center through June 30. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 May 2022",
      "The resolution is being praised by Jewish groups in Michigan and nationally as a moment of interfaith unity in speaking out against hate. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "Twenty-four hours after the incident, hundreds gathered for an evening of interfaith prayer and to embrace their community. \u2014 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "Valley Beit Midrash, a nonprofit Jewish education center in Scottsdale, launched a coalition of interfaith partners to address the needs of Afghan refugees. \u2014 Neetish Basnet, The Arizona Republic , 31 Oct. 2021",
      "The Vatican has excluded the Tibetan spiritual leader from interfaith events for years to not antagonize China, and an appeal seeking to be heard by a top polluter like Beijing is no exception. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, ajc , 4 Oct. 2021",
      "Archbishop Elpidophoros sees signs of interfaith love, coexistence and cooperation, while preaching that Black lives matter. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 July 2021",
      "Imam Mohammad Elahi, an Islamic and interfaith leader with the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, has repeatedly condemned the Taliban in his sermons over the past month. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 21 Aug. 2021",
      "Archbishop Elpidophoros, Bishop Oscar Solis laud the importance of interfaith dialogue. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 July 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1932, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173012"
  },
  "intellectually disabled":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": affected by intellectual disability":[
        "intellectually disabled children/adults",
        "The academy students, ages 18 to 21, are intellectually disabled students who are at what's called a transition age and are preparing to be self-sustaining adults with the experience to land and hold down various kinds of jobs.",
        "\u2014 Juan Siliezar",
        "\u2026 lawmakers are poised to pass legislation that will put Florida on the cutting edge in education, savings and employment opportunities for the intellectually disabled .",
        "\u2014 William March"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1955, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173101"
  },
  "internationale":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": international sense 4a":[
        "a Communist internationale"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-n\u00e4l",
      "-n\u0227l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from feminine of international , adjective, from English":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173135"
  },
  "intercity":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring in or extending or operating between two or more cities":[
        "intercity travel"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8si-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1872, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173345"
  },
  "intergenerational":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between generations":[
        "intergenerational differences",
        "intergenerational communication"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccje-n\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-shn\u0259l",
      "-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1902, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173515"
  },
  "interleukin":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of various cytokines of low molecular weight that are produced by lymphocytes, macrophages, and monocytes and that function especially in regulation of the immune system and especially cell-mediated immunity":[
        "\u2014 often used with an identifying number \u2014 abbreviation IL"
      ],
      "\u2014 see also interleukin-1 , interleukin-2 , interleukin-6":[
        "\u2014 often used with an identifying number \u2014 abbreviation IL"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00fc-k\u0259n"
    ],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Doctors treated him with interleukin inhibitors to slow inflammation, along with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2020",
      "Fortuity was behind the idea of tocilizumab: When Emily Whitehead, the first child to receive CAR-T, developed cytokine release syndrome, her medical team noted that her blood contained high levels of a cytokine called interleukin 6. \u2014 Ilana Yurkiewicz, Smithsonian , 26 Oct. 2019",
      "But different interleukins have different jobs and pathways in the body. \u2014 Sarah Jacoby, SELF , 21 Oct. 2019",
      "Their movements are marshaled by signaling chemicals, such as the interleukins , which tell cells where and when to fight and when to stand down. \u2014 Claudia Wallis, Scientific American , 1 Jan. 2018",
      "And so early efforts centered on making sure the gas tank was filled\u2014priming the immune system with cytokines (such as the interleukins ) or with immune-signaling proteins like interferon to rev up the tumor-fighting response. \u2014 Clifton Leaf, Fortune , 3 Nov. 2017",
      "Convinced his patient would not survive another day, a frantic Grupp got rushed lab results that suggested a surge of interleukin 6 was causing her immune system to relentlessly hammer her body. \u2014 Laurie Mcginley, Alaska Dispatch News , 13 July 2017",
      "Convinced his patient would not survive another day, a frantic Grupp got rushed lab results that suggested a surge of interleukin 6 was causing her immune system to relentlessly hammer her body. \u2014 Laurie Mcginley, Alaska Dispatch News , 13 July 2017",
      "Convinced his patient would not survive another day, a frantic Grupp got rushed lab results that suggested a surge of interleukin 6 was causing her immune system to relentlessly hammer her body. \u2014 Laurie Mcginley, Alaska Dispatch News , 13 July 2017"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + leuk- + -in entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1979, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173639"
  },
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    ],
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02c8v\u012b-v\u014ds, -\u02c8v\u0113-",
      "-\u02c8v\u012b-",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0113-\u02ccv\u014ds"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1837, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174428"
  },
  "intervesicular":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": lying between vesicles":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + vesicular":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174453"
  },
  "interlens":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated between lens elements":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + lens (noun)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174646"
  },
  "intersensory":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more sensory systems":[
        "intersensory perception",
        "intersensory integration of visual and tactile stimuli"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sen(t)s-r\u0113",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8sen(t)s-(\u0259-)r\u0113",
      "-\u02c8sen(t)-s\u0259-r\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1929, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174840"
  },
  "interprovincial":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring or existing between or involving two or more provinces":[
        "interprovincial travel",
        "an interprovincial railroad system"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-pr\u0259-\u02c8vin(t)-sh\u0259l"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1837, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175026"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the distance between the pupils of the two eyes":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+...-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + objective":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175317"
  },
  "intersocietal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more societies":[
        "intersocietal comparisons/conflicts"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-s\u0259-\u02c8s\u012b-\u0259-t\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1899, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175627"
  },
  "interacademic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": among or between or common to schools, colleges, or universities":[
        "interacademic exchanges",
        "interacademic courtesies"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
    ],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + academic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175641"
  },
  "interzooecial":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between or among zooecia":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + zooecial":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175720"
  },
  "introceptive":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": capable of receiving within itself":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6in\u2027tr\u0259\u00a6septiv",
      "-r\u014d\u00a6-"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intro- + -ceptive (as in receptive )":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175834"
  },
  "intercouple":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to couple together":[
        "intercouples them so well that units can then be picked up as one entity and carried off without incident.",
        "\u2014 Ronald A. Provenzale",
        "The [railroad car] coupler will intercouple with all standard radial car couplers now in use",
        "\u2014 Transit Journal"
      ],
      ": occurring or existing between members of a couple or between two or more couples":[
        "Stage controversial scenes in the master bedroom with \u2026 inter-couple examinations of where it all went wrong.",
        "\u2014 Raymond Gill",
        "\u2026 the couples terrorise each other with their hilariously-mismatched social agendas. \u2026 We chart the inter-couple tensions, the petty snubs and snobberies.",
        "\u2014 Maeve Quigley"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8k\u0259-p\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1902, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1973, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175946"
  },
  "interdotting":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": dots applied to an area (as of an engraving) for producing a light shading":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+\u02cc-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + dotting , gerund of dot":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180909"
  },
  "intro-":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "prefix"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": introduction":[],
      ": in : into":[
        "intro jection"
      ],
      ": inward : within":[
        "intro vert"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare extro-":[
        "intro vert"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-(\u02cc)tr\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "exordium",
      "foreword",
      "introduction",
      "preamble",
      "preface",
      "prelude",
      "proem",
      "prologue",
      "prolog",
      "prolusion"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "epilogue",
      "epilog"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "in her intro the author offers rather precise definitions of some of the key words that she will be using throughout her book",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Some may read this intro and roll their eyes, arguing that Lawrence\u2019s patented self-deprecation and casual dorkiness are a big act. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "The thunderous intro finds Future placing the welcome mat down for old and new listeners. \u2014 Carl Lamarre, Billboard , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "The Sunday package began with a brief intro about women breaking out of traditional roles. \u2014 Ellen Goodman, BostonGlobe.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Simon rocks his boombox with an intro from Queens\u2019 finest rap gods, Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie. \u2014 Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "The new album features Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro, Myke Towers, El Alfa, Lil Jon and Pitbull, plus an epic intro by renowned boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Another idea to further engage potential hires is to set up an intro with the candidate's potential future peers. \u2014 Sarah Skillin, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "The intro recalled McKinnon\u2019s moving cold open\u2014also sung somberly\u2014shortly after Donald Trump\u2019s surprise election in 2016. \u2014 Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "Plug your iPhone intro your Mac using a Lightning cable. \u2014 Christian De Looper, BGR , 1 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from intro inside, to the inside, from Old Latin *interus , adjective, inward":"Prefix"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1899, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180929"
  },
  "interparty":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more parties and especially political parties":[
        "Democrat Bruce Babbitt and Republican Pete du Pont invented the do-it-yourself presidential debate \u2026 as a way of calling attention to their long shot candidacies. It may have been a gimmick, but their interparty face-off produced a vibrancy rarely matched in a campaign season devoid of transcendent issues.",
        "\u2014 Walter Shapiro"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8p\u00e4r-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1854, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-181413"
  },
  "intersystem":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more systems":[
        "intersystem solutions",
        "an inter-system link",
        "In a decision that largely affirmed the findings of Administrative Law Judge William Cowan, FERC addressed the general question of how fuel costs recovered from intersystem sales should be allocated through the fuel cost adjustment clause (FCAC) when the sales are market-based rate transactions.",
        "\u2014 Esther Whieldon",
        "Triplet excited-states in molecules and polymers are formed via intersystem crossing, which is a radiationless process from a singlet to a triplet state involving a spin flip of one of the electrons.",
        "\u2014 Catherine De Castro et al."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8si-st\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1889, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182234"
  },
  "into force":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": into the condition of actually working or operating : into effect":[
        "The law came/went into force last year.",
        "The regulations have not yet been put/brought into force ."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182355"
  },
  "interurban":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": going between or connecting cities or towns":[
        "an interurban road",
        "interurban commuters"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8\u0259r-b\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1875, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182805"
  },
  "internist":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a specialist in internal medicine":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-\u02cct\u0259r-n\u0259st",
      "\u02c8in-\u02cct\u0259r-nist"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Today, teams play every game under the watch of multiple orthopedists, an internist , dentist, two emergency doctors, and an X-ray technician. \u2014 Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
      "Sarah Bagley is an adult internist and a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center focused on addiction care. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Other times recommending exercise is simply absurd, says Andre Pascal Kengne, an internist and researcher at the South African Medical Research Council. \u2014 Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
      "An internist or family physician is usually the first to make a Parkinson's diagnosis. \u2014 Jocelyn Solis-moreira, Health.com , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "Although the seats were pricey at 50,000 points each, Dr. Meredith, an internist , was excited to save money by using her rewards balance. \u2014 Julie Weed, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Amol Navathe is an internist and co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. \u2014 Amol Navathe, STAT , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "He will be replaced by Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and a general internist . \u2014 Melissa Quinn, CBS News , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "One of the doctors, a Bakersfield internist , reported his primary accuser \u2014 an undocumented immigrant from Mexico \u2014 to immigration officials in a bid to prevent her from testifying against him, according to the board\u2019s records. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1894, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182828"
  },
  "interfamily":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between families":[
        "interfamily relationships",
        "an interfamily dispute"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8fa-m\u0259-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fam-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1852, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182906"
  },
  "interinstitutional":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between institutions":[
        "interinstitutional collaboration",
        "Still in its infancy, this initiative seeks to shorten the time required to translate research results into therapies by many means, including training researchers and providing them with an academic home \u2026 and fostering interdisciplinary and interinstitutional research.",
        "\u2014 N. Andrews et al."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccin(t)-st\u0259-\u02c8t(y)\u00fc-shn\u0259l",
      "-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1894, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183218"
  },
  "interclub":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more clubs (such as sports clubs)":[
        "an interclub rugby match"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8kl\u0259b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1890, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183555"
  },
  "intercompany":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring or existing between two or more companies":[
        "intercompany loans"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8k\u0259m-p\u0259-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8k\u0259mp-n\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1883, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183710"
  },
  "interdisciplinarian":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one involved in interdisciplinary studies":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interdisciplin ary + -arian":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183806"
  },
  "interspersedly":{
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in an interspersed manner":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-s\u0259\u0307dl\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184126"
  },
  "interborough":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more boroughs":[
        "an interborough bridge",
        "an interborough commute"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8b\u0259r-(\u02cc)\u014d",
      "-\u02c8b\u0259-(\u02cc)r\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1905, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184614"
  },
  "interxylary":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing among xylem elements":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + xylem + -ary":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184641"
  },
  "intersegment":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a space or region between segments":[
        "earthworm intersegments"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8seg-m\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1927, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1892, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185207"
  },
  "intercalation":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to insert (something, such as a day) in a calendar":[],
      ": to insert or position between or among existing elements or layers":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-k\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "edge in",
      "fit (in ",
      "inject",
      "insert",
      "insinuate",
      "interject",
      "interpolate",
      "interpose",
      "intersperse",
      "introduce",
      "sandwich (in ",
      "work in"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intercalate introduce , insert , insinuate , interpolate , intercalate , interpose , interject mean to put between or among others. introduce is a general term for bringing or placing a thing or person into a group or body already in existence. introduced a new topic into the conversation insert implies putting into a fixed or open space between or among. inserted a clause in the contract insinuate implies introducing gradually or by gentle pressure. insinuated himself into the group interpolate applies to the inserting of something extraneous or spurious. interpolated her own comments into the report intercalate suggests an intrusive inserting of something in an existing series or sequence. new chapters intercalated with the old interpose suggests inserting an obstruction or cause of delay. interpose barriers to communication interject implies an abrupt or forced introduction. interjected a question",
    "examples":[
      "between the recipes for hearty peasant dishes, the author intercalates fond reminiscences of her year in the French countryside"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin intercal\u0101tus, past participle of intercal\u0101re \"to insert (a day or month) into the calendar,\" from inter- inter- + cal\u0101re \"to announce, proclaim\" \u2014 more at low entry 3":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185711"
  },
  "intervaled":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having intervals : interrupted at intervals : placed at intervals":[
        "march is being made with platoons intervaled at two yards",
        "\u2014 Peter Bowman"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int\u0259(r)v\u0259ld"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interval + -ed":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185718"
  },
  "interstellar":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": located, taking place, or traveling among the stars especially of the Milky Way galaxy":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ste-l\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Voyager 1 and 2, while still hurtling through interstellar space, are beginning to shut down. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 22 June 2022",
      "The Voyager spacecraft have reached interstellar space, and their journey has been glorious. \u2014 Laura Helmuth, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
      "Yes, but the transport costs from interstellar space seem a bit high. \u2014 Michael Lynch, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "That's how long NASA's Voyager 1 probe has been exploring interstellar space. \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 21 May 2022",
      "Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 and are the only spacecraft to collect data in interstellar space. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 19 May 2022",
      "More evidence is needed to identify anomalous interstellar objects. \u2014 Andrea Morris, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
      "Any space object traveling more than about 42 kilometers per second may come from interstellar space. \u2014 Caitlin O'kane, CBS News , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "Such an upgrade would allow the SLS to send some 16 metric tons to Jupiter, about six metric tons to Neptune and one metric ton to interstellar space. \u2014 Jonathan O'callaghan, Scientific American , 12 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1626, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190447"
  },
  "intermembrane":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more membranes":[
        "intermembrane space"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8mem-\u02ccbr\u0101n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1919, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191012"
  },
  "interchannel":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between, occurring between, or involving two or more channels":[
        "clay accumulated in the slow-moving or standing waters of abandoned channel and interchannel lakes and swamps",
        "\u2014 David R. Gaylord et al.",
        "Viewers often fail to watch programmes they have been predicted to watch, and interchannel competition can make audience levels unpredictable.",
        "\u2014 Winston Fletcher",
        "In order to do a proper job of correcting interchannel phase, you need to check both speakers for absolute phase to determine which of the two speakers has incorrect internal wiring.",
        "\u2014 Greg Borrowman",
        "Inter-channel balance, the comparative gain of multiple channels, is an important parameter in stereo or surround systems.",
        "\u2014 Ian Dennis"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8cha-n\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1845, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191235"
  },
  "interbasin":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": between, relating to, or involving two or more basins (see basin sense 3 )":[
        "Interbasin transfers are simple in concept \u2026 For example, if the Sabine River basin in East Texas has an abundance of water, it makes sense for a drought-stricken region of the state to purchase water from the Sabine basin.",
        "\u2014 Paul Workman"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8b\u0101-s\u1d4an"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1872, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191412"
  },
  "intercommon":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to have dealings or association":[],
      ": to share with others : participate mutually":[],
      ": to enjoy a right of pasture together":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)\u02c8k\u00e4m\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English intercomounen, entercomenen , from Anglo-French entrecomuner , from Old French entre- inter- + comuner to put in common, share":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191736"
  },
  "intersert":{
    "type":[
      "noun,",
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": interpolate , insert":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intersertus , past participle of interserere , from inter- + serere to join, bind together":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-192545"
  },
  "interlock":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to become locked together or interconnected":[],
      ": to lock together : unite":[],
      ": to connect so that the motion or operation of any part is constrained by another":[],
      ": the quality, state, sense, or an instance of being interlocked":[],
      ": an arrangement in which the operation of one part or mechanism automatically brings about or prevents the operation of another":[
        "a safety interlock"
      ],
      ": a stretchable fabric made on a circular knitting machine and consisting of two ribbed fabrics joined by interlocking":[],
      ": a garment made of interlock":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00e4k",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccl\u00e4k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "She interlocked her fingers with his.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "When eagles undergo a courtship dance in the air, the birds will interlock talons and plummet towards the Earth before separating right at the last second and flying away, Slusher tells NPR. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "Outside the home has not one but three pools that interlock with one another. \u2014 Helena Madden, Robb Report , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "Place the item flush against the wall, slightly above the wall cleat, and slide it down to interlock the two cleats. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 22 July 2021",
      "The dispatcher told me to interlock my hands\u2014one atop the other, at the midpoint of the nipple line\u2014and get ready to start pumping up and down, hard and fast. \u2014 Brian Anderson, The Atlantic , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "The Cardinals interlocked their arms with members of the military during the anthem. \u2014 Scooby Axson, SI.com , 27 Sep. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "His vehicle could also have an ignition interlock device installed. \u2014 Faris Tanyos, CBS News , 23 June 2022",
      "Fifty years ago, the designer\u2014who, despite having never stomped a divot in his life, had named his brand Polo\u2014emblazoned a two-button cotton- interlock shirt with a galloping jockey, transforming an athletic anachronism into a sartorial touchstone. \u2014 Kareem Rashed, Robb Report , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "He is restricted to driving a vehicle with an interlock system \u2014 or in-car Breathalyzer \u2014 which police say his car did not have. \u2014 Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "His music wades in the murky waters of psychological life, showing us how depression, pleasure, fear, anger, silliness and the whole gamut of human interiority interlock to form something like joy. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Needlecraft artists use them to poke strands of wool together, causing them to tangle and interlock . \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "Accident Reconstruction Unit responded and charged Brooks with first-degree assault, DUI and failure to comply with ignition interlock device requirements. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 21 Feb. 2022",
      "Some sort of fork interlock would be a welcome addition. \u2014 Bill Roberson, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
      "Rookhuyzen said Bartels was currently required to use an interlock ignition device while driving, but did not have one installed in the vehicle that crashed. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1632, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
      "1874, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193101"
  },
  "interleukin-1":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an interleukin produced especially by monocytes and macrophages that regulates immune responses by activating lymphocytes and mediates other biological processes (such as the onset of fever) usually associated with infection and inflammation":[
        "\u2014 abbreviation IL-1"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8w\u0259n",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00fc-k\u0259n-\u02c8w\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Apart from a surge in interleukin-6, the body may also show high swirling levels of molecules called interleukin-1 , interferon-gamma, C-reactive protein and tumor necrosis factor-alpha. \u2014 Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times , 1 Apr. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1979, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193359"
  },
  "interstrain":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more strains (see strain entry 1 sense 1b ) of an organism":[
        "insterstrain variation in tumor development of experimental mice",
        "inter-strain interactions between bacteria"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8str\u0101n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1936, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193559"
  },
  "intercivic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or taking place between or among fellow citizens":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + civic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194023"
  },
  "interindividual":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": taking place between or involving individuals":[
        "interindividual variations",
        "interindividual communication"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8vi-j\u0259-w\u0259l",
      "-\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vij-(\u0259-)w\u0259l, -\u02c8vij-\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8vi-j\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8vi-j\u00fc-\u0259l",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccin-d\u0259-\u02c8vij-w\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1838, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194329"
  },
  "interest policy":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an insurance policy which requires insurable interest in the property covered only at the time of loss and not at the inception of the policy":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194747"
  },
  "interleukin-2":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an interleukin produced by antigen-stimulated helper T cells in the presence of interleukin-1 that induces proliferation of immune cells (such as T cells and B cells) and is used experimentally especially in treating certain cancers":[
        "\u2014 abbreviation IL-2"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00fc-k\u0259n-\u02c8t\u00fc",
      "-\u02c8t\u00fc"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In Paris, David Klatzmann, an immunologist at Sorbonne University, is experimenting with treating autoimmune disorders with low levels of interleukin-2 (IL-2), an immune-signaling molecule first used to treat cancer in the mid-1980s. \u2014 Karen Weintraub, Scientific American , 30 Sep. 2019",
      "Synthorx has developed a partly artificial version of interleukin-2 , a natural compound with anti-cancer activity. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 July 2019",
      "Researchers studying the immune system discovered the molecules interferon and interleukin-2 ; each was initially hailed as a promising treatment based on their dramatic effects in shrinking tumors in rodents. \u2014 Jerome Groopman, The New York Review of Books , 21 Mar. 2019",
      "Eventually, the company produced a partly synthetic DNA code that modified interleukin-2 and similar molecules to eliminate the immune-suppressing effects, Shawver said. \u2014 Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com , 30 Apr. 2018",
      "One of these proteins, called interleukin-2 , has been studied for decades as an immune-stimulating cancer therapy. \u2014 Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com , 30 Apr. 2018",
      "She was also given interleukin-2 , a substance that stimulates killer T-cells. \u2014 Denise Grady, New York Times , 7 Dec. 2016"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1979, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194810"
  },
  "introducement":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": introduction":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195121"
  },
  "intercision":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a cutting off, through, or asunder : interruption , intersection":[],
      ": a falling off : failing":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intercision-, intercisio , from intercisus (past participle of intercidere to cut apart, from inter- + -cidere \u2014from caedere to cut, strike, beat) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195141"
  },
  "interunion":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between two or more unions":[
        "More generally, interunion rivalry has been blamed for undermining labor movement solidarity \u2026",
        "\u2014 Mark Harcourt and Helen Lam",
        "an interunion council"
      ],
      ": including members of two or more unions":[
        "More generally, interunion rivalry has been blamed for undermining labor movement solidarity \u2026",
        "\u2014 Mark Harcourt and Helen Lam",
        "an interunion council"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8y\u00fcn-y\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1893, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195146"
  },
  "interclude":{
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to shut off, out, or up : intercept , confine":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intercludere , from inter- + -cludere (from claudere to close)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195334"
  },
  "intercom":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a two-way communication system with a microphone and loudspeaker at each station for localized use":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02cck\u00e4m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "I heard my name called on the intercom .",
      "His secretary's voice came over the intercom , telling him that he had a visitor.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The same announcement for the drill comes on over the intercom . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
      "Repairing the roof at Demopolis High School and updating the school\u2019s intercom system also is included in that total. \u2014 al , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Before that, one student led the Pledge of Allegiance on the school intercom , and the school\u2019s Honor s Choir and Master Singers sang the national anthem. \u2014 James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com , 16 Nov. 2021",
      "An administrator sang off-key into the intercom , extolling the program\u2019s virtues, but in the hallways, a few teachers rolled their eyes. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Sep. 2021",
      "No need to leave the car; place your order via the intercom , relax, and wait for a server to emerge with your order on a tray that clips to the window. \u2014 Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
      "Link multiple Alexa devices in your home together to use as an intercom as well. \u2014 Brittany Vincent, BGR , 3 Dec. 2021",
      "Ruiz said the teacher should have used the intercom system to request staff member assistance. \u2014 Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "The lawsuit alleges the building owners were negligent, including failing to ensure smoke detectors were working, failing to provide adequate heat, failing to have an intercom system and failing to have a sprinkler system. \u2014 Ray Sanchez, CNN , 16 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "short for intercommunication system":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1940, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195429"
  },
  "interlocking":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to become locked together or interconnected":[],
      ": to lock together : unite":[],
      ": to connect so that the motion or operation of any part is constrained by another":[],
      ": the quality, state, sense, or an instance of being interlocked":[],
      ": an arrangement in which the operation of one part or mechanism automatically brings about or prevents the operation of another":[
        "a safety interlock"
      ],
      ": a stretchable fabric made on a circular knitting machine and consisting of two ribbed fabrics joined by interlocking":[],
      ": a garment made of interlock":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00e4k",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccl\u00e4k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "She interlocked her fingers with his.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "When eagles undergo a courtship dance in the air, the birds will interlock talons and plummet towards the Earth before separating right at the last second and flying away, Slusher tells NPR. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "Outside the home has not one but three pools that interlock with one another. \u2014 Helena Madden, Robb Report , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "Place the item flush against the wall, slightly above the wall cleat, and slide it down to interlock the two cleats. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 22 July 2021",
      "The dispatcher told me to interlock my hands\u2014one atop the other, at the midpoint of the nipple line\u2014and get ready to start pumping up and down, hard and fast. \u2014 Brian Anderson, The Atlantic , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "The Cardinals interlocked their arms with members of the military during the anthem. \u2014 Scooby Axson, SI.com , 27 Sep. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "His vehicle could also have an ignition interlock device installed. \u2014 Faris Tanyos, CBS News , 23 June 2022",
      "Fifty years ago, the designer\u2014who, despite having never stomped a divot in his life, had named his brand Polo\u2014emblazoned a two-button cotton- interlock shirt with a galloping jockey, transforming an athletic anachronism into a sartorial touchstone. \u2014 Kareem Rashed, Robb Report , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "He is restricted to driving a vehicle with an interlock system \u2014 or in-car Breathalyzer \u2014 which police say his car did not have. \u2014 Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "His music wades in the murky waters of psychological life, showing us how depression, pleasure, fear, anger, silliness and the whole gamut of human interiority interlock to form something like joy. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Needlecraft artists use them to poke strands of wool together, causing them to tangle and interlock . \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "Accident Reconstruction Unit responded and charged Brooks with first-degree assault, DUI and failure to comply with ignition interlock device requirements. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 21 Feb. 2022",
      "Some sort of fork interlock would be a welcome addition. \u2014 Bill Roberson, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
      "Rookhuyzen said Bartels was currently required to use an interlock ignition device while driving, but did not have one installed in the vehicle that crashed. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1632, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
      "1874, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195758"
  },
  "interwar":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring or existing in the time between wars and especially between the First and Second World Wars":[
        "the interwar period",
        "interwar Germany"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8w\u022fr"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1930, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195834"
  },
  "intervillage":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more villages":[
        "intervillage warfare",
        "intervillage marriage"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8vi-lij"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1858, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195902"
  },
  "interspersal":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": interspersion":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259r\u02c8sp\u0259rs\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intersperse + -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-200309"
  },
  "interassociation":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more associations":[
        "an inter-association football match/tournament"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u0259-\u02ccs\u014d-s\u0113-\u02c8\u0101-sh\u0259n",
      "-sh\u0113-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1881, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-200804"
  },
  "interviewee":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one who is interviewed":[]
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      "He asked the interviewee some very personal questions.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "As a result, hiring managers end up relying on gut feel, their level of comfort with an interviewee , or the fact that the candidate likes the same music or sports teams. \u2014 Louis Montgomery Jr., Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "Mutu is an engaging if somewhat reluctant interviewee . \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Where necessary, red-carpet interviews will be pretaped in advance \u2014 something that has also been done in years past \u2014 and then aired while the interviewee is already seated inside the theater. \u2014 Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Still another interviewee had never heard of the state of Texas before. \u2014 Fox News , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "The second interviewee , however, didn\u2019t hold her fire when asked what her thoughts were on MGK. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "The Patriot Front interviewee credited his brother with exposing him to extremist ideology. \u2014 Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "One interviewee suggests the US is jealous of China\u2019s economic success. \u2014 Morgan Meaker, Wired , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Each episode of Electronically Yours is a freewheeling discussion between Ware and his interviewee about the latter\u2019s career in music. \u2014 David Chiu, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021"
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      ": reciprocal influence":[
        "The teachers and girls often came from many different parts of the country, creating opportunities for interinfluence.",
        "\u2014 Lisa Gilman",
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      ]
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8in-\u02ccfl\u00fc-\u0259n(t)s",
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      "noun"
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      ": the moving of cars from a point on one railroad line to a point on another when both points are within the switching limits of the same station or industrial switching district \u2014 compare intraterminal switching":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202145"
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      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
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      ": broken in upon : discontinuous":[
        "an interrupted stripe",
        "interrupted service",
        "an interrupted phone call",
        "interrupted sleep"
      ],
      ": not uniform : broken in arrangement or symmetry":[
        "\u2026 flowers whorled in interrupted clusters.",
        "\u2014 Charles E. Turner"
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      "noun"
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      "noun"
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      ": the act or process or an instance of integrating":[
        "the integration of art and/with technology"
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        "the integration of art and/with technology"
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        "We should not take for granted that societies will inevitably adapt to increasing diversity in ways that further social integration .",
        "\u2014 Delia Baldassarri and Maria Abascal",
        "The busing of students to achieve school integration had been used in the 1960s.",
        "\u2014 Michael L. Levine",
        "\u2014 often used with into The program works with newcomer families, and their students, to help support the transition and integration into the school system. \u2014 Chris Sumner As it is, a criminal conviction may impair a person's ability to secure employment, education and housing, thereby making re-entry into society difficult \u2026 . Depriving that person of the right to vote after they've completed their sentence may further impede their successful integration into society. \u2014 William C. Silverman Having discussed this issue with dozens of military officers, I can attest that few are silent in opposing the integration of women into frontline combat forces. \u2014 Richard Halloran"
      ],
      ": coordination of mental processes into a normal effective personality or with the environment":[
        "Assuming someone has been selected for the team but it is not you, depending on your degree of personality integration you can either accept you don't measure up, or deny that a selection has taken place.",
        "\u2014 Ilana Mercer"
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      ": the operation of finding a function whose differential is known":[],
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Tesla has also been insulated from the surging material prices to an extent due to its long-term contracts and vertical integration . \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
      "This vertical integration can expand the revenue opportunity, thus expanding the market size and growth runway. \u2014 Firoz Valliji, Fortune , 19 May 2022",
      "The efforts are part of Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk\u2019s focus on vertical integration to maintain control over Tesla\u2019s supply chain. \u2014 David Stringer, Bloomberg.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "The occasion was reflections from industry leaders on the past year, and Myers, the chairman of the Allied States Association and longtime opponent of vertical integration , was not in any mood to pull his punches. \u2014 Eric Hoyt, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "The principle features of the model\u2014scalability, financialization, vertical integration \u2014are financial. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "In recent decades, car companies have largely shifted away from vertical integration , spinning off parts-making operations and relying more on outside suppliers to provide components. \u2014 Ben Foldy, WSJ , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "Google's new flagship smartphone is its most secure yet, thanks to a little vertical integration . \u2014 Lily Hay Newman, Wired , 27 Oct. 2021",
      "Both hung on as hopeful businesses thanks to vertical integration and partnerships, until reception and content got better. \u2014 Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News , 16 Oct. 2021"
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      "1620, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203403"
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      "adjective"
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      ": existing or occurring between the offices of an organization":[
        "interoffice mail"
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      "-\u02c8\u022f-",
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      "1864, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "adjective"
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      ": occurring between or involving two or more banks":[
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      "adjective"
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      ": existing between factions":[
        "interfactional disputes"
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      ": occurring between or involving two or more dealers":[
        "interdealer bond trading",
        "an interdealer broker"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1913, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-204949"
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        "\u2014 Troy DeMond",
        "\u2026 interval training works both the aerobic and the anaerobic system. During the high intensity efforts, the anaerobic system uses the energy stored in the muscles (glycogen) for short bursts of activity.",
        "\u2014 Donna Cotnam"
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      "\u2014 see also high-intensity interval training":[
        "This challenging 45-minute routine uses a strategy called interval training \u2014alternating high-intensity activity with periods of \"active rest,\" or lower-intensity exercise.",
        "\u2014 Troy DeMond",
        "\u2026 interval training works both the aerobic and the anaerobic system. During the high intensity efforts, the anaerobic system uses the energy stored in the muscles (glycogen) for short bursts of activity.",
        "\u2014 Donna Cotnam"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1955, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "adjective"
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      ": occurring between two lives":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205445"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205630"
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": placed between others : interposed":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + located , past participle of locate":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205805"
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      "adjective"
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      ": existing or extending between oceans : interoceanic":[
        "interocean exchange of water"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8\u014d-sh\u0259n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1849, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205811"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between two or more social groups":[
        "intergroup rivalries",
        "fostering intergroup dialogue"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8gr\u00fcp"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1900, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210007"
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more clusters":[
        "The existence of hot intercluster gas has not been established in superclusters, so it is not possible to use X-ray methods to determine the masses of superclusters.",
        "\u2014 Wallace Tucker",
        "A peripheral bus connects peripherals to the I/O processor cards and provides the gateway to the intercluster communication network.",
        "\u2014 Electronics"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8kl\u0259-st\u0259r"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1936, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210413"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": one of the dark spectral lines of a star or other distant celestial body that is caused by the absorption of atoms and molecules in the intervening interstellar gas and that does not partake of the Doppler shift of the spectral lines produced in the star itself":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210458"
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      "noun",
      "verb"
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      ": to become locked together or interconnected":[],
      ": to lock together : unite":[],
      ": to connect so that the motion or operation of any part is constrained by another":[],
      ": the quality, state, sense, or an instance of being interlocked":[],
      ": an arrangement in which the operation of one part or mechanism automatically brings about or prevents the operation of another":[
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      ": a stretchable fabric made on a circular knitting machine and consisting of two ribbed fabrics joined by interlocking":[],
      ": a garment made of interlock":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00e4k",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccl\u00e4k"
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    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "She interlocked her fingers with his.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "When eagles undergo a courtship dance in the air, the birds will interlock talons and plummet towards the Earth before separating right at the last second and flying away, Slusher tells NPR. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "Outside the home has not one but three pools that interlock with one another. \u2014 Helena Madden, Robb Report , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "Place the item flush against the wall, slightly above the wall cleat, and slide it down to interlock the two cleats. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 22 July 2021",
      "The dispatcher told me to interlock my hands\u2014one atop the other, at the midpoint of the nipple line\u2014and get ready to start pumping up and down, hard and fast. \u2014 Brian Anderson, The Atlantic , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "The Cardinals interlocked their arms with members of the military during the anthem. \u2014 Scooby Axson, SI.com , 27 Sep. 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "His vehicle could also have an ignition interlock device installed. \u2014 Faris Tanyos, CBS News , 23 June 2022",
      "Fifty years ago, the designer\u2014who, despite having never stomped a divot in his life, had named his brand Polo\u2014emblazoned a two-button cotton- interlock shirt with a galloping jockey, transforming an athletic anachronism into a sartorial touchstone. \u2014 Kareem Rashed, Robb Report , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "He is restricted to driving a vehicle with an interlock system \u2014 or in-car Breathalyzer \u2014 which police say his car did not have. \u2014 Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "His music wades in the murky waters of psychological life, showing us how depression, pleasure, fear, anger, silliness and the whole gamut of human interiority interlock to form something like joy. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Needlecraft artists use them to poke strands of wool together, causing them to tangle and interlock . \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "Accident Reconstruction Unit responded and charged Brooks with first-degree assault, DUI and failure to comply with ignition interlock device requirements. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 21 Feb. 2022",
      "Some sort of fork interlock would be a welcome addition. \u2014 Bill Roberson, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
      "Rookhuyzen said Bartels was currently required to use an interlock ignition device while driving, but did not have one installed in the vehicle that crashed. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1632, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
      "1874, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210541"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a branch of history that deals with the rise and evolution of ideas : history of ideas":[]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1755, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210543"
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      ": into a state in which things are seen clearly and sharply":[
        "bringing the binoculars into focus",
        "It took him a few seconds after he woke up to bring his eyes into focus ."
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      ": into a state or condition in which something can be clearly understood":[
        "She tried to bring the important issues into focus ."
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210737"
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      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to give rational form or content to":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-ch\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8lek-ch\u0259-w\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
      "-shw\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz",
      "-ch\u00fc(-\u0259)-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "To over intellectualize the outburst would be futile, because that\u2019s just Doja. \u2014 Marjon Carlos, ELLE , 25 May 2022",
      "That, for me, is the most exciting part of it\u2014to see live music, this thing that\u2019s at times anti-intellectual in its presentation, given space to intellectualize . \u2014 Sadie Dupuis, SPIN , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "In the Mood for Love and 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film was geared in part toward cinephiles, yet those same cinephiles could be counted on to intellectualize the movie\u2019s components and predict its next moves. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Learning is great, but all too often, people tend to intellectualize information instead of taking the required action. \u2014 Ross Franklin, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
      "Like Libra, Aquarius has a tendency to intellectualize , and like Libra, Aquarius can give off a cool countenance. \u2014 Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com , 15 Oct. 2021",
      "Take care not to over intellectualize your branding decisions. \u2014 Goldie Chan, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
      "It\u2019s aimed at those feeling overwhelmed by the COVID pandemic, all of the preparations that a Seder entails, the pressure to intellectualize the holiday\u2019s themes or all of the above. \u2014 Gabe Friedman, sun-sentinel.com , 10 Mar. 2021",
      "Looking for sensible answers to one\u2019s questions about Emily in Paris is a pointless exercise, like trying to intellectualize one of those screen savers that looks like the interior of a fish tank. \u2014 Philippa Snow, The New Republic , 15 Oct. 2020"
    ],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1792, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210757"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211714"
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      "adverb"
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      ": existing, occurring, or arising between species":[
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-spi-\u02c8si-fik",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-spi-\u02c8sif-ik"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "These cultivars have been proven to be interspecific hybrids through testing and laboratory analysis. \u2014 Homes & Gardens Of The Northwest Staff, OregonLive.com , 29 July 2017",
      "The study, published Tuesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, adds a demented twist to scientists\u2019 understanding of interspecific competition\u2014 \u2014 John Hoogland, National Geographic , 23 Mar. 2016",
      "For Chernobyl birds, color is a curse [Los Angeles Times] Determinants of interspecific variation in population declines of birds after exposure to radiation at Chernobyl [Journal of Applied Ecology] \u2014 Brandon Keim, WIRED , 16 July 2007"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211936"
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      ": to grind together with : blend in grinding":[
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212251"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212604"
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      ": an exchange of gases between the cells of the body and the blood by way of the fluid bathing the cells \u2014 compare external respiration":[]
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    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212634"
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      "adverb"
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      ": among other things":[]
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      "-\u02c8\u00e4-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8\u0101-l\u0113-\u0259",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In 2020, the government also set up a task force to lay out a concrete road map to bolster India\u2019s sustainable finance architecture that inter alia includes the development of a taxonomy of sustainable activities. \u2014 Shreyans Jain, Quartz , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "After unsuccessfully seeking to reverse that punishment, B. L. and her parents sought relief in federal court, arguing inter alia that punishing B. L. for her speech violated the First Amendment. \u2014 CNN , 23 June 2021",
      "In this, as some clear-sighted post\u2013World War II writers have noted, Sade\u2019s writing was, inter alia , a harbinger of fascism. \u2014 Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books , 12 Feb. 2020",
      "The thesis of constitutional morality developed by former chief justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra to inter alia protect an individual against majoritarian opinion, although criticised for subjective potential, has buttressed plurality. \u2014 Salman Khurshid, Quartz India , 26 July 2019",
      "Counsel for the government ought be prepared to address, inter alia , (on Monday or such further time as requested by the government) the lack of basis for the foregoing issues. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2018"
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      "Latin":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212712"
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  "interspatial":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
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      "\"+"
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      "Late Latin interspati um (from Latin inter- + spatium space) + English -al":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212714"
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      ": interleave":[]
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      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)\u02c8f\u014dl\u0113\u02cc\u0101t"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212941"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": one that interacts":[]
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ak-t\u0259nt"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1949, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213150"
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      "noun"
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      ": lending between one entity (such as a bank or a library) and another":[
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        "the library's interlending program"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8len-di\u014b"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1886, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213449"
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  "interplea":{
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the plea of a defendant disclaiming any interest in the subject matter of a controversy and calling for an interpleader proceeding between the true claimants":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int\u0259(r)+\u02cc-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + plea":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213459"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a lot bounded by a street on only one side":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214524"
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      "noun"
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      ": a branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases not requiring surgery":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "a doctor who specializes in internal medicine",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ravi Gupta is an internal medicine physician, a fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program, and an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. \u2014 Ravi Gupta And Joseph S. Ross, STAT , 18 June 2022",
      "Husen was a sports and internal medicine specialist at the Warren Center. \u2014 Katie Wall, NBC News , 3 June 2022",
      "Outside Comirnaty and Paxlovid, Pfizer makes several cancer treatments, other vaccines and internal medicine drugs like Eliquis, for preventing blood clots and strokes. \u2014 Tom Murphy, ajc , 3 May 2022",
      "Outside Comirnaty and Paxlovid, Pfizer makes several cancer treatments, other vaccines and internal medicine drugs like Eliquis, for preventing blood clots and strokes. \u2014 Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune , 3 May 2022",
      "General internal medicine physicians \u2013 Annual mean salary: $239,170 3. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Because of that, Springstubb, who works in internal medicine with Hoag Medical Group in California, says a bone density exam is crucial. \u2014 Kiersten Willis, ajc , 13 June 2022",
      "Silva did his internship and residency at Harvard Medical School in internal medicine before working for medical facilities in San Antonio, according to Texas Medical Board records and his LinkedIn profile. \u2014 Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Gladwin earned his bachelor\u2019s and medical degrees from the University of Miami and completed his internship and chief residency in internal medicine at the Oregon Health Science University. \u2014 Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun , 20 Apr. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1835, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214743"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": one of the small plates intercalated between the tergites of some insects":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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      "inter- + tergite":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214923"
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      "adjective"
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      ": occurring between or involving two or more dominions":[
        "interdominion trade",
        "an interdominion agreement"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-d\u0259-\u02c8mi-ny\u0259n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1884, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215005"
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  "intercommune":{
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      "verb"
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      ": to have mutual communion or intercourse by conversation":[],
      ": to deprive of intercourse with other men : outlaw":[]
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      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)k\u0259\u02c8my\u00fcn"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration (influenced by Latin inter- ) of Middle English entrecomunen, entrecommunen , from Anglo-French entrecomuner, entrecommuner":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215038"
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  "intellectual virtue":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a virtue (as wisdom) concerned with the apprehension of rational principles":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215253"
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      "adjective"
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      ": existing or occurring between islands":[
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      "\"+"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + insular":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215301"
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  "intergrave":{
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to grave or carve between : engrave in alternate parts":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + grave":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215615"
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  "interatomic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": located or acting between atoms":[
        "interatomic bonds",
        "the interatomic region"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4-mik"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1863, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215801"
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  "interflow":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a flowing into one another : a mixing together":[],
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fl\u014d"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215915"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving biological genera":[
        "an intergeneric hybrid"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccj\u0259-\u02c8ner-ik",
      "-\u02c8ne-rik"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1921, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220003"
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  "interepimeral":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": situated between adjacent epimera":[]
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      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + epimeral":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220241"
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  "interleave":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to arrange in or as if in alternate layers":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u0113v"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "In his translation, Damion Searls has decided not to interleave the correspondence. \u2014 Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker , 26 May 2021",
      "The atmosphere is noir, and everywhere vice is interleaved with virtue. \u2014 Emmanuel Iduma, The New York Review of Books , 2 June 2020",
      "His ability to interleave aesthetic with lived social experience gives Mendelsohn\u2019s writing great richness. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Oct. 2019",
      "For example, the arrangement Ace, 5, 2, 3, 6, 7, 4 has two rising sequences interleaved : Ace, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 6, 7. \u2014 Jo Craven Mcginty, WSJ , 11 May 2018",
      "There followed an evocative short film that interleaved film clips of Robbins at work, often with his voice-over, with footage of today\u2019s company in revivals. \u2014 Alastair Macaulay, New York Times , 4 May 2018",
      "Such transgressions and regressions mean that marine and terrestrial sediments are interleaved in these mountains, and the marine sediments provided the information needed. \u2014 The Economist , 19 Apr. 2018",
      "Standing hat-box tall, its rich and fudgy cake layers are interleaved with silken chocolate buttercream and a nubbly-textured almond buttercream with caramelized crisped rice. \u2014 Kate Washington, sacbee , 12 Jan. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1856, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220650"
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  "interneuron":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a neuron that conveys impulses from one neuron to another":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8n(y)\u00fc-\u02ccr\u00e4n",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8nu\u0307r-\u02cc\u00e4n",
      "-\u02c8n(y)u\u0307(\u0259)r-\u02cc\u00e4n",
      "-\u02c8nyu\u0307r-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For example, in the human cortex, about 20 percent of the neurons \u2014 the ones called interneurons , which have inhibitory effects \u2014 migrate there from a center deeper down in the brain called the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Aug. 2017",
      "An oversimplified organoid model for the cortex would be missing all those interneurons and would therefore be useless for studying how the developing brain balances its excitatory and inhibitory signals. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Aug. 2017",
      "Picking one, MiR206, for closer examination, the two researchers created a mouse strain in which the gene for MiR206 was switched off in the parvalbumin interneurons . \u2014 The Economist , 22 Feb. 2018",
      "He and his colleague Molly Heyer therefore looked at the role of these micro-RNAs in regulating brain cells called parvalbumin interneurons , which are thought to be involved in schizophrenia. \u2014 The Economist , 22 Feb. 2018",
      "Yang and his team also found that SOM and PV interneurons had less activity. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 27 June 2017",
      "Around those pain-signaling neurons are several types of interneurons that precisely regulate and control pain signals. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 27 June 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1938, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221234"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": situated or occurring within, administered into, or involving entry by way of an artery":[
        "intra-arterial chemotherapy"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259-\u00e4r-\u02c8tir-\u0113-\u0259l",
      "-\u00e4r-\u02c8tir-\u0113-\u0259l"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221408"
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  "intersex":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an individual having the condition of intersexuality":[],
      ": intersexuality":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-\u02ccseks",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccseks"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Waters said he was nominated for the star by Outfest, a California nonprofit that provides support to LGBTQIA artists (the I and A stand for intersex and asexual) and organizes a film festival in Los Angeles. \u2014 Christina Tkacik, Baltimore Sun , 21 June 2022",
      "This fascinating sci-fi musical features an escaped miner and intersex runaway finding each other in a hacker collective set up in the hills of Burundi to battle the country's resource-stripping authoritarian regime. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
      "Another key change many Nepali activists\u2014and their allies\u2014are looking for is a recognition of trans, intersex , and nonbinary people enshrined in law. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 14 June 2022",
      "The main recipients of phalloplasty are transgender men and nonbinary people, intersex people and cisgender men with penile injuries. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2022",
      "The TransLatin@ Coalition was founded in 2009 by a group of transgender, gender-nonconforming and intersex immigrant women in Los Angeles. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "The State Department first previewed the change after Dana Zzyym, an intersex and nonbinary resident of Colorado, filed a federal lawsuit in 2016. \u2014 Nicole Sganga, CBS News , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Tonight, Thomas pulls together a variety of trans and intersex comics from across L.A. to create the first Trans Hilarious show. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "That designation intends to make federal documents more inclusive for transgender, intersex , nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "While both lawsuits and policy efforts are underway to ameliorate the conditions for transgender, non-binary and intersex people behind bars, advocates say lives are at stake. \u2014 Nora Neus, Cnn Video By Lacey Russell, CNN , 23 June 2021",
      "But more recently, intersex activists have argued that a person should have the legal right to consent to cosmetic surgeries performed on one's own body -- an ability infants do not have. \u2014 Nora Neus, CNN , 13 Jan. 2020",
      "The measure would have banned all procedures on intersex children 6 and under unless the Medical Board of California deemed them medically necessary. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Jan. 2020",
      "Equality California and other supporters argued that intersex people should be able to give consent before undergoing surgeries that carry the risk of medical complications, sterilization and psychological damage. \u2014 Alexei Koseff, SFChronicle.com , 28 Jan. 2020",
      "The ruling triggered an uproar around athletic and gender activists who felt Semenya was unfairly targeted for being a black, intersex woman. \u2014 Lindsay Crouse, New York Times , 3 Nov. 2019",
      "Or the Potomac River where sewage and fertilizer runoff has produced a new breed of intersex fish",
      "The event was organized by the Pride Circle, an organization founded in 2017 to promote the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex people in the workforce. \u2014 Rishi Iyengar, CNN , 12 July 2019",
      "Living in bodies often seen as taboo by western society and western medicine, the film looks at the relationships intersex people have with their bodies and their identities in a world that is not always accepting of those born with a difference. \u2014 Suyin Haynes, Time , 19 June 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1908, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1920, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221712"
  },
  "interposed":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to place in an intervening position":[],
      ": to put (oneself) between : intrude":[],
      ": to put forth by way of interference or intervention":[],
      ": to introduce or throw in between the parts of a conversation or argument":[],
      ": to be or come between":[],
      ": to step in between parties at variance : intervene":[],
      ": interrupt":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8p\u014dz"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "intercede",
      "intermediate",
      "intervene",
      "mediate"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interpose interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf synonyms see in addition introduce",
    "examples":[
      "The new system has interposed a bureaucratic barrier between doctors and patients.",
      "He tried to interpose himself between the people who were fighting.",
      "Please allow me to interpose a brief observation.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Biden was taking a harder line with Putin, but when the two met earlier in the summer and Zelensky tried to interpose on the summit with dire warnings about the war, he was ignored. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Jan. 2022",
      "With a mask interposed close to the healthy hamsters (the equivalent of a healthy person wearing a mask), one-third were. \u2014 The Economist , 28 May 2020",
      "One clever way to avoid the restrictions of being at home, isolated \u2014 Kate and Aidy are both being interposed onto different grocery store setting backdrops. \u2014 Andy Hoglund, EW.com , 26 Apr. 2020",
      "The female-centric video showcases vintage footage of women interposed with kaleidoscopic effects and shots of the band singing in various costumes. \u2014 Danielle Garrand, CBS News , 4 Mar. 2020",
      "With the vegan protester just a few feet from her husband, Jill Biden clutched her husband's right hand and interposed her body between him and the woman lunging at him. \u2014 Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Mar. 2020",
      "The music video interposed footage of Warmbier, Kim Jong Un, President Trump and North Korean scenes, ending with a smiling photo of Otto showing the dates of his birth and death. \u2014 Eric Shawn | Fox News, Fox News , 25 Feb. 2020",
      "The claim is frivolous, and interposed solely for delay. \u2014 Time , 9 Dec. 2019",
      "Then an older rancher with a graying mustache and ruddy cheeks interposed himself between Vardaman and the protester who had interrupted her. \u2014 Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker , 29 May 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French interposer , from Latin interponere (perfect indicative interposui ), from inter- + ponere to put \u2014 more at position":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1582, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221725"
  },
  "interstock":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": intermediate stock":[],
      ": a piece inserted between scion and stock in grafting (as to allow union of incompatible varieties or to induce dwarfing)":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int\u0259(r)+\u02cc-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221751"
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  "intercommunicability":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This Levoit air purifier is a Good Housekeeping Seal holder, thanks to it combination of value, performance and intelligent design . \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
      "This was proof of intelligent design and divine presence. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 1 Jan. 2022",
      "Teachers and administrators warn of a chilling effect, but there's little reason to think statutory mandates about discussions of race will be more effective than requirements that biology instructors give equal time to intelligent design . \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 14 July 2021",
      "The slugs\u2019 felonious feat, known as kleptoplasty, is so remarkable that it\u2019s been held up by creationists as proof of intelligent design . \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 28 Sep. 2021",
      "Caroline Heinem Spalding's chief advancement officer, said the center can even incorporate studies outside health like intelligent design to create a a full interprofessional education. \u2014 Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal , 22 July 2021",
      "This bill will allow biblical creationism or intelligent design to be taught as a scientific theory in Arkansas classrooms. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 25 Apr. 2021",
      "Another committee member, Rep. Stephen Meeks, R-Greenbrier, said intelligent design isn't necessarily just a matter of faith. \u2014 Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online , 7 Apr. 2021",
      "The inconvenient truth about both of these explanations of the fine-tuning problem\u2014 intelligent design , on the one hand, and the existence of a multiverse, on the other\u2014is that neither can be proved. \u2014 Alan Lightman, The Atlantic , 22 Mar. 2021"
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      "1990, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The show's first four episodes intercut the present-day storyline with flashbacks intended to fill in the blanks between Return of the Jedi and The Mandalorian, with Boba remembering the recent past while healing in a Bacta tank. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "The title sequence of the film features a montage of imagery from Black Lives Matter protests and other recent news events intercut with Parks\u2019 images from civil rights movement protests. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "When Riley and Maurissa eventually hit the Boom Boom Room \u2014 moans and all, remember \u2014 producers intercut scenes of Connor forlornly wandering Playa Escondida. \u2014 Ariana Romero, refinery29.com , 25 Aug. 2021",
      "Her difficult public life is intercut with joyous scenes like that of her fruitful creative life, bringing viewers into her recording studio for the first time. \u2014 Mary Sollosi, EW.com , 24 Jan. 2020",
      "Throwing back to The Larry Sanders Show, the interviews were intercut with behind-the-scenes bits of the guests, which usually ended in them expressing disappointment, jokingly, in host Fallon. \u2014 Trilby Beresford, Billboard , 26 Feb. 2019",
      "As was the case with Fox's 2016 live musical, the back-up plan called to use footage from Saturday's dress rehearsal and intercut it with live scenes. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, Billboard , 27 Jan. 2019",
      "The movie's centerpiece is the 1977 National Women's Conference, with editor Sabine Hoffman deftly intercutting footage from the actual event with Moore's Steinem watching from backstage and Midler's Abzug giving her historic address. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 Jan. 2020",
      "Morgen intercuts archival footage with rotoscoped animation to create images that are simultaneously stylized and dazzling in their verisimilitude. \u2014 Ann Hornaday, Washington Post , 23 Jan. 2020"
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      "1932, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The idea is for the boat to run without noise, so guests can enjoy the wilderness without any sign of human intrusion . \u2014 Michael Verdon, Robb Report , 3 June 2022",
      "To them, bikes were not symbols of hip urbanism but of unwelcome intrusion \u2014particularly by women riders whose clothes offended the community\u2019s religious mandate of strict modesty. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Beery, The Atlantic , 31 May 2022",
      "Appearing credible, insightful, warm, emotionally present, without allowing any real intrusion or self-revelation, is already central to her job. \u2014 Lidija Haas, The New Republic , 10 June 2022",
      "Killingly\u2019s school board, swept up in the culture wars of the Trump era, has repeatedly cast itself as a bulwark against liberalism and government intrusion . \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
      "The trees are threatened by logging, habitat loss and saltwater intrusion caused by rising sea levels. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
      "In addition, the district is updating cameras on all campuses and installing a new electronic intrusion system. \u2014 Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN , 1 June 2022",
      "Asked about a possible cockpit intrusion , China Eastern said such a scenario wasn\u2019t plausible. \u2014 Andrew Tangel, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
      "Deploying robust security technologies, including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems and antivirus software. \u2014 Michael Gargiulo, Forbes , 16 May 2022"
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      "Noun",
      "After medical school, he worked as an intern at the university hospital.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Crimmins began as an intern with the show in 2012 and moved up the ranks as a board operator, phone screener, writer and producer before becoming a full-time cast member in 2018. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 14 June 2022",
      "Alberto Camargo is a sports intern with the Knoxville-News Sentinel. \u2014 Alberto Camargo, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
      "LaCedra has maintained a weighted 4.09 GPA and has been working with special education students as an intern with the Lowell High physical education department. \u2014 Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
      "Four years ago, when Wayne was a coaching intern with the Colts on Reich\u2019s staff during the summer, Ballard approached the Indianapolis legend with a piece of advice. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 6 May 2022",
      "Jenkins was an editorial research intern with CNN in summer 2020 and a news assistant with CNN Health that fall. \u2014 Laura Studley, CNN , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "One was a former intern with two children back in Vietnam who had fled her job and was working part time as an undocumented worker. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "D\u2019Anton, a former cornerback at Penn State who got his start in the NFL as a seasonal intern with the New York Jets in 2014, has worked alongside his father in the past. \u2014 Ryan Mcfadden, baltimoresun.com , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "Petzold, Detroit Tigers beat writer, is a graduate of Central Michigan University who joined the Free Press as a reporting intern in 2020 after interning with The Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colorado. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Upcoming Chinese designers moved their businesses back home, closely followed by a wave of fashion graduates from the likes of Parsons and Central Saint Martins, who would otherwise have stayed overseas to intern with international houses. \u2014 Margaret Zhang, Vogue , 13 June 2022",
      "Britt went on to intern for Senator Richard Shelby in 2004 as a student at the University of Alabama. \u2014 al , 9 May 2022",
      "Another path is to intern for a music supervisor or for a studio or label executive who works with supervisors. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "Johnson also held volunteer positions at the YMCA, including as a study abroad intern in London in 2008, and for various political efforts, according to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Mugler moved to Paris in his Twenties to intern for a number of French fashion houses before launching his own collection in 1973. \u2014 Tim Chan, Rolling Stone , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "The hope is that students will intern at one of their facilities for a summer, establish a relationship and begin to grow their career with INL. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "The best way to do that, why not, is to intern with our coaching staff. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Courier-Journal , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "He is believed to be the first person who disclosed an autism diagnosis to intern at the White House. \u2014 Marisa Schultz, Fox News , 13 Feb. 2022"
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      "French interne , from interne , adjective":"Noun",
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      "circa 1879, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1928, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In fact, the championship itself ever-so-slightly predates the NCAA\u2019s dominion over women\u2019s intercollegiate athletics. \u2014 Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star , 14 June 2022",
      "College sports lost a singular leader on May 16, 2018, when the iconic SEC commissioner, the most powerful and personable man in intercollegiate athletics, left us at age 77 due to complications from prostate cancer. \u2014 Kevin Scarbinsky, al , 16 May 2022",
      "But the state of Mississippi had an informal ban on interracial intercollegiate sports and athletics. \u2014 Demetria Gallegos, WSJ , 14 May 2022",
      "The 170-year-old prize awarded in the first U.S. intercollegiate sports competition is going up for auction next month. \u2014 Holly Ramer, Hartford Courant , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Diaz became the school\u2019s director at age 30 and soon partnered with St. Mary\u2019s College in Moraga to create an intercollegiate nursing program. \u2014 Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "Also, intercollegiate athletics has grown in financial importance, often becoming an increasing burden on university budgets. \u2014 Richard Vedder, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021",
      "Louisville removed the interim tag and officially named Tyra the school's vice president of intercollegiate athletics and athletics director. \u2014 Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "Its intercollegiate athletic teams will immediately be known as the Beacon. \u2014 Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com , 10 Aug. 2021"
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    "type":[
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      ": relating to, involving, or occurring in the space between the cells of a multicellular organism or in the space between cells of closely associated unicellular microorganisms (such as bacteria)":[
        "\u2026 potent chemical transmitters of intercellular and intracellular signals that mediate a diversity of physiologic and pathologic functions \u2026",
        "\u2014 John A. Oates",
        "These mechanisms may provide a physical pathway for very small solutes to pass through a single endothelial cell, but the leak of larger proteins probably occurs at the intercellular junctions between adjacent endothelial cells.",
        "\u2014 Sara M. Weis et al.",
        "A biofilm is a community of bacteria that use intercellular signaling \u2026",
        "\u2014 J. Christopher Post et al."
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      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8sel-y\u0259-l\u0259r",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sel-y\u0259-l\u0259r"
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      "1835, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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      ": a therapeutic preparation containing antibodies and especially IgG antibodies obtained from the pooled blood plasma of usually thousands of blood donors that is administered via a vein especially to treat immunodeficiency , autoimmune , or inflammatory conditions (such as severe combined immunodeficiency, Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome, posttransfusion purpura, or dermatomyositis)":[
        "She was treated with steroids and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy, used to reduce the severity of infections by giving the body antibodies to protect against bacteria and viruses.",
        "Some worry that supplies of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), which is made of blood plasma from donors, may run short if a clinical trial confirms its effectiveness at slowing the progress of Alzheimer's.",
        "\u2014 Susannah Cahalan",
        "\u2014 abbreviation IVIG"
      ]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1979, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-235711"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": comparatively dry and occurring between times of greater precipitation":[
        "interpluvial age"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+",
      "\""
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    "examples":[],
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      "inter- + pluvial":"Adjective"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-235752"
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      "noun"
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      ": a person who conducts an interview : one (such as a journalist or prospective employer) who obtains information from another by asking a series of questions":[
        "\"I never thought I would live to see this day,\" John Lewis, King's former Selma ally, tells an NPR interviewer on the afternoon of my arrival.",
        "\u2014 Dave Gardetta",
        "The meeting with the interviewer had lasted 10 minutes. The man did not even open a folder in front of him to study Mr. Rucker's r\u00e9sum\u00e9.",
        "\u2014 Michael Luo",
        "The next evening, a Libyan state-TV crew came to film us. The segment, in which an interviewer asked us to describe the rebels\u2014I said \"happy,\" Manu said \"stoned,\" and Jim said \"ill-equipped\"\u2014never aired, probably because our black eyes and bruises wouldn't have played well.",
        "\u2014 Clare Morgana Gillis"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccvy\u00fc-\u0259r"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1868, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-235849"
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      "adjective"
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      ": occurring between or involving two or more fibers":[
        "interfiber bonds"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8f\u012b-b\u0259r"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1929, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "intransitive verb"
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      ": to grow among each other : grow intermixed : exhibit intergrowth":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-235930"
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      "adjective",
      "adverb"
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      ": situated or intended for use between the teeth":[],
      ": formed with the tip of the tongue between the upper and lower front teeth":[]
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      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8dent-\u1d4al",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8den-t\u1d4al"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In 2017, Waterpik became the first-ever interdental cleaner brand to gain a seal of approval from the ADA for the product\u2019s ability to help remove up to 99 percent of plaque. \u2014 Nicole Saunders, NBC News , 14 Oct. 2020",
      "In 2017, Waterpik became the first-ever interdental cleaner brand to gain a seal of approval from the ADA for the product\u2019s ability to help remove up to 99 percent of plaque. \u2014 Nicole Saunders, NBC News , 14 Oct. 2020",
      "In 2017, Waterpik became the first-ever interdental cleaner brand to gain a seal of approval from the ADA for the product\u2019s ability to help remove up to 99 percent of plaque. \u2014 Nicole Saunders, NBC News , 14 Oct. 2020",
      "In 2017, Waterpik became the first-ever interdental cleaner brand to gain a seal of approval from the ADA for the product\u2019s ability to help remove up to 99 percent of plaque. \u2014 Nicole Saunders, NBC News , 14 Oct. 2020",
      "In 2017, Waterpik became the first-ever interdental cleaner brand to gain a seal of approval from the ADA for the product\u2019s ability to help remove up to 99 percent of plaque. \u2014 Nicole Saunders, NBC News , 14 Oct. 2020",
      "In 2017, Waterpik became the first-ever interdental cleaner brand to gain a seal of approval from the ADA for the product\u2019s ability to help remove up to 99 percent of plaque. \u2014 Nicole Saunders, NBC News , 14 Oct. 2020",
      "In 2017, Waterpik became the first-ever interdental cleaner brand to gain a seal of approval from the ADA for the product\u2019s ability to help remove up to 99 percent of plaque. \u2014 Nicole Saunders, NBC News , 14 Oct. 2020",
      "In 2017, Waterpik became the first-ever interdental cleaner brand to gain a seal of approval from the ADA for the product\u2019s ability to help remove up to 99 percent of plaque. \u2014 Nicole Saunders, NBC News , 14 Oct. 2020"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1874, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000424"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "noun or adjective"
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      ": devotion to the exercise of intellect or to intellectual pursuits":[]
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      "-ch\u00fc(-\u0259)-\u02ccli-",
      "-shw\u0259-\u02ccli-",
      "-ch\u0259-\u02ccli-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8lek-ch\u0259-w\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Black was shorthand for money, intellectualism , and power. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 23 May 2022",
      "To promote classical charters, the GOP is rebranding as the party that nourishes human flourishing and intellectualism , inconsistent as this posture may be with its actual policies. \u2014 Annie Abrams, The New Republic , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "American anti- intellectualism provides a rich cultural agar for growing these theories. \u2014 Elizabeth Williamson, Wired , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "But navel-gazing intellectualism must meet realpolitik. \u2014 Andrew T. Walker, National Review , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "In contrast with Accel\u2019s patrician intellectualism , Sequoia Capital built its reputation on immigrant grit. \u2014 Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "There are framed photographs of Michelle Obama and Oprah on the walls, and gigantic storybooks on the floor\u2014a wink at the spirit of faux intellectualism . \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
      "There are framed photographs of Michelle Obama and Oprah on the walls, and gigantic storybooks on the floor\u2014a wink at the spirit of faux intellectualism . \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
      "What Youngkin\u2019s choice to raise this issue at this point in the campaign reveals is his understanding of the appeal of anti- intellectualism among a specific segment of voters. \u2014 NBC News , 26 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1800, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000659"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": occurring between or involving two or more counties":[
        "an intercounty school district",
        "an intercounty competition"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8kau\u0307n-t\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1861, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000826"
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  "interest lottery":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a lottery that issues bonds for borrowed money at less than the normal rate of interest and gives chances for prizes as the consideration for the low interest":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001011"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": occurring or existing between two or more scientific trials (such as drug trials)":[
        "effects observed during the intertrial interval"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02cctr\u012b(-\u0259)l",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02cctr\u012b(-\u0259)l"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1945, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001739"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": occurring between or involving two or more particles":[
        "interparticle forces",
        "As the soil takes on water during rainstorm (or snowmelt), the interparticle spaces often fill up faster than the water can be drained from the soil.",
        "\u2014 William A. Marsh"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8p\u00e4r-ti-k\u0259l"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1946, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001900"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more societies":[
        "an intersociety council",
        "\u2026 was chosen to represent the society against the Webster Literary Society \u2026 in the annual intersociety debate.",
        "\u2014 Dennis K. Boman"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-s\u0259-\u02c8s\u012b-\u0259-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1839, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001944"
  },
  "internecine":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group":[
        "bitter internecine feuds"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-n\u0259-\u02ccs\u0113n",
      "-\u02c8n\u0113-\u02ccs\u012bn",
      "-\u02c8n\u0113-s\u1d4an",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ne-\u02ccs\u0113n",
      "-n\u0259-\u02c8s\u0113n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "a political party that has suffered because of bitter internecine rivalries",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The story chronicles the rise and fall of the onetime Wall Street powerhouse Lehman Brothers, covering nearly two centuries of bristling ambition, greed, economic history and internecine family warfare. \u2014 Eben Shapiro, Time , 1 Dec. 2019",
      "These fighters\u2014many of them jihadists\u2014hoarded food while civilians starved, murdered those suspected of disloyalty, and waged internecine gun battles in the streets. \u2014 Robert F. Worth, The New York Review of Books , 6 Feb. 2020",
      "The party's decades-long internecine battle over Britain's membership of the E.U. precipitated the 2016 Brexit vote. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Jan. 2020",
      "The show, as concerns the internecine politics of Hollywood itself, also whiffed of regression: Gone was the anger that had animated the 2018 show. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 6 Jan. 2020",
      "He and John McDonnell, Labour\u2019s shadow Chancellor and the architect of its economic policies, are veterans of strikes and internecine Labour disputes about wealth creation and the role of the state that go back to the early seventies. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 26 Nov. 2019",
      "Since Trump has not come through on his promise of a big plan, internecine skirmishes among 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls have largely driven the health care debate in recent months. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 31 Dec. 2019",
      "Fearing the sort of internecine strife for which the SPD is known, Esken and Walter-Borjans are now going out of their way to offer an olive branch to Scholz. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Dec. 2019",
      "Even within political factions, discipline is rare, and internecine struggle is routine. \u2014 Simon Shuster / Kyiv, Time , 19 Nov. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin internecinus , from internecare to destroy, kill, from inter- + necare to kill, from nec-, nex violent death \u2014 more at noxious":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1642, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-002225"
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    "type":[
      "idiom"
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    "definitions":{
      ": into an opposite state or condition":[
        "The decrease in profit has been put into reverse ."
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-002310"
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  "interclass":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more classes (such as social or economic classes)":[
        "an interclass marriage",
        "interclass equality"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8klas"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1909, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-002501"
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  "interest group":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a group of persons having a common identifying interest that often provides a basis for action":[]
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      "interest",
      "pressure group",
      "special interest"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "agricultural interest groups are adamantly opposed to the bill",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The buildings began deteriorating, but a local interest group repaired and saved them from totally being destroyed. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 19 June 2022",
      "All that leads to an incoherent mash-up of timid half-measures or initiatives that exist to either please or avoid riling up some interest group , regardless of their effectiveness or likelihood of success. \u2014 William Neuman, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
      "In October, Kline proposed to council that the committee be dissolved and restructured as a community interest group . \u2014 cleveland , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Cheese heists, though unusual, are not unheard of, said Theo Dekker, chairman of Bond van Boerderij-zuivelbereiders, an interest group for Dutch dairy farmers. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "That is by far the biggest tax credit the state gives to any particular interest group and is the most any state in the United States provides. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "Addressing the boy crisis in the spirit of first-wave feminism requires the partnership of men and women rather than the advocacy of an interest group rooted in identity politics. \u2014 Brenda M. Hafera, National Review , 6 Mar. 2022",
      "Instead of protesting at the Capitol, protest in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest business interest group . \u2014 Katherine Goldstein, Time , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "Fifteen million people were at risk of eviction when the U.S. Supreme Court ended the Biden administration\u2019s pandemic related eviction ban last August, ruling in favor of a real-estate interest group , among other plaintiffs. \u2014 Malaika Jabali, Essence , 2 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1908, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003020"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more cultures (see culture entry 1 sense 5b )":[
        "intercultural differences",
        "an intercultural gathering"
      ],
      ": occurring during the growing period between sowing and harvesting":[
        "intercultural operations including weeding, pruning, and fertilizing"
      ],
      ": cultivated between the rows of another crop":[
        "intercultural beans"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8k\u0259l-ch\u0259-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8k\u0259lch-r\u0259l"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1878, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003145"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun,"
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    "definitions":{
      ": visible to or from one another : mutually visible":[
        "two intervisible street crossings"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8vi-z\u0259-b\u0259l"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1848, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003407"
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  "intersectionality":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups":[
        "[Kimberl\u00e9] Crenshaw introduced the theory of intersectionality , the idea that when it comes to thinking about how inequalities persist, categories like gender, race, and class are best understood as overlapping and mutually constitutive rather than isolated and distinct.",
        "\u2014 Adia Harvey Wingfield"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccsek-sh\u0259-\u02c8na-l\u0259-t\u0113"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Following three trans men of color, this short documentary explores the intersectionality between race, gender and identity and the struggles that can come with living authentically as a multiply marginalized person. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "The intersectionality component of it will be focused not only on women but Black women, Asian women, -Latinx women and Indigenous women. \u2014 Taylor Crumpton, Essence , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "Eleanor James\u2019s distressing letter about the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Jan. 26) reveals a shortcoming in intersectionality . \u2014 WSJ , 1 Feb. 2022",
      "Years before anyone used the term intersectionality , Lorraine Hansberry (1930-65) saw, wrote and spoke about the ways class, race and gender discrimination were intertwined in the United States. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Jan. 2022",
      "As a deaf person, Zander still experiences intersectionality in her everyday life and, as a result, is committed to improving diversity and inclusion in the German film and media industries. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "Because in a lot of these attacks there\u2019s an intersectionality with poverty, people experiencing homelessness with mental-health issues. \u2014 Stephen Battaglio Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Writers such as Keah Brown, Frances Ryan, and Ryan O\u2019Connell lend pride, humour, intersectionality , and truth to the realities of living in disabled bodies and neurodiverse minds. \u2014 Sin\u00e9ad Burke, Vogue , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "After the gifted teacher Mr. Smith (Dave Register) signs on as the club\u2019s faculty sponsor, prospects look good for calm discussions of intersectionality and the like. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1989, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003415"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more divisions":[
        "interdivisional games/rivalries"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8vi-zh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-d\u0259-\u02c8vizh-n\u0259l"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1899, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003844"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or being stimuli arising within the body and especially in the viscera":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint-\u0259-r\u014d-\u02c8sep-tiv",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-r\u014d-\u02c8sep-tiv"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There are links between poor interoceptive ability and depression. \u2014 Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "In relevant research, scientists have shown that being interoceptive helps regulate our emotions and therefore reduce anxiety and depression. \u2014 Modar Bakir, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021",
      "Fundamental questions remain about how interoceptive experiences arise\u2014and for whom. \u2014 Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS , 10 June 2021",
      "One form of therapy that can help with panic attacks, Gallagher said, is interoceptive exposures. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Mar. 2021",
      "Here value is a way of describing a brain\u2019s estimation of its body\u2019s state (i.e., interoceptive and skeletomotor predictions) and how that state will change as the animal moves or encodes something new. \u2014 Dean Mobbs, Scientific American , 20 Sep. 2019",
      "Work in humans with amygdala lesions has dissociated fear of teloreceptive stimuli (snakes, spiders, etc.) from fear of interoceptive stimuli (suffocation). \u2014 Dean Mobbs, Scientific American , 20 Sep. 2019",
      "The region that integrates all this interoceptive information is the insula, a fold in the center of the brain. \u2014 Helen Thomson, WSJ , 29 June 2018",
      "For one, there is some evidence to suggest that people with high anxiety sensitivity also may be unusually sensitive to interoceptive cues \u2014 that is, physiological signals, and perhaps especially those associated with anxiety, like a pounding heart. \u2014 Melissa Dahl, The Cut , 21 Aug. 2017"
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      "inter ior + -o- + -ceptive (as in receptive )":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005218"
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        "the introduction of interleague play",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1881, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005257"
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      "noun"
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      ": a relation that is involved in or essential to the nature of the thing related":[
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        "\u2014 Arthur Pap",
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005601"
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      "noun"
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    "first_known_use":{
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      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8seksh-(\u0259-)w\u0259l, -\u02c8sek-sh\u0259l",
      "-shw\u0259l",
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      "International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02cc\u02c8in-(\u02cc)d\u0259-str\u0113"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1910, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "from interfluent , after such pairs as English confluent : confluence":""
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      ": a method of integration by means of the reduction formula \u222b udv=uv\u2212 \u222b vdu":[]
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      "verb"
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      ": to insert (something, such as a day) in a calendar":[],
      ": to insert or position between or among existing elements or layers":[]
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      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-k\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
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      "edge in",
      "fit (in ",
      "inject",
      "insert",
      "insinuate",
      "interject",
      "interpolate",
      "interpose",
      "intersperse",
      "introduce",
      "sandwich (in ",
      "work in"
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    "examples":[
      "between the recipes for hearty peasant dishes, the author intercalates fond reminiscences of her year in the French countryside"
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      "borrowed from Latin intercal\u0101tus, past participle of intercal\u0101re \"to insert (a day or month) into the calendar,\" from inter- inter- + cal\u0101re \"to announce, proclaim\" \u2014 more at low entry 3":""
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      "1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "noun"
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      ": a person who believes in, advocates, or practices social integration":[]
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8gr\u0101-sh(\u0259-)nist"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "That\u2019s the case even though Still, a committed integrationist , didn\u2019t want his work to be viewed merely through a racial lens. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2021",
      "Instead of public debate and the inflamed passions of isolationists and integrationists , North Macedonia\u2019s move toward increasing NATO\u2019s ranks has been greeted with silence. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 16 Jan. 2020",
      "His En Marche party aligned itself with the ragtag set of centrist parties known in Brussels by the acronym ALDE to stir up support for his integrationist agenda. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 27 Dec. 2018",
      "In January 2010, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan established the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU), which replaced the E.U. as Russia\u2019s chief integrationist project. \u2014 Andrew Foxall, Washington Post , 18 June 2018",
      "Those experiences are a warning to Mr. Macron and other European integrationists that the bloc needs to aim for growth. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 27 Sep. 2017",
      "George Romney, a Republican, is one of the public officials in American history who most vigorously pursued an integrationist agenda. \u2014 Jake Blumgart, Slate Magazine , 2 June 2017",
      "Suddenly, there is a spring in the European integrationist 's step. \u2014 Matt Qvortrup, CNN , 12 June 2017",
      "Marriage equality was both subversive and integrationist . \u2014 Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer , 23 June 2017"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013449"
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      "noun"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "When the district needed intermediate school teachers in 2018, Reeder volunteered to teach fourth-graders and is still in that classroom today. \u2014 cleveland , 18 May 2022",
      "The intermediate school had a student enrollment of 376 students, according to the DPI, meaning about 1.3% of the students are out with COVID. \u2014 Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "Some at-home tests will be available to schools through their intermediate school districts. \u2014 Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press , 6 Dec. 2021",
      "Scripted and choreographed by Rajagopalan, the videos were released this fall and sent out to intermediate school districts. \u2014 Bridgette M. Redman, Chron , 12 Oct. 2021",
      "More:Most Wisconsin school districts have gone to referendums to beg for money; leaders say the funding system is broken The second option is a $229.3 million referendum for both the high school and intermediate school projects. \u2014 Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Oct. 2021",
      "There are about 4,000 students in five schools, including two elementary schools, one intermediate school that teaches students in fifth and sixth grades, one middle school for seventh and eighth grades and one high school. \u2014 Dallas News , 23 July 2021",
      "There are about 4,000 students in five schools, including two elementary schools, one intermediate school that teaches students in fifth and sixth grades five, one middle school for seventh and eighth grades and one high school. \u2014 Dallas News , 4 June 2021",
      "Students in the elementary school shifted to remote learning Monday after 10 students and one faculty member tested positive in the intermediate school , said Shane Patrick, the district's assistant superintendent of operations. \u2014 Lara Farrar, Arkansas Online , 10 Nov. 2020"
    ],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013536"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014911"
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      "noun",
      "verb"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8pe-n\u0259-\u02cctr\u0101t"
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      "permeate",
      "pervade",
      "riddle",
      "suffuse",
      "transfuse"
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    "examples":[
      "with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence. \u2014 Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic , 3 Feb. 2021",
      "Spaces and forms interpenetrated . Sculptural concrete projections that housed the chambers and the mayor\u2019s office protruded from a modular facade of offices. \u2014 Joseph Giovannini, New York Times , 4 Apr. 2020",
      "In very recent work, Nikolay Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov have proposed extremely clean examples involving two interpenetrating superfluids. \u2014 Frank Wilczek, Scientific American , 16 Oct. 2019",
      "Two of the figures embrace, and their bodies interpenetrate to form a new anthropomorphic \u2014 no, feminamorphic \u2014 tree. \u2014 Sharon Mizota, latimes.com , 7 July 2018",
      "Nabokov\u2019s stories and novels and autobiographical essays are the true reverse dreams, where futures pass and interpenetrate , and where the past, like John Dunne\u2019s transparent fishing lures, shines. \u2014 Nicholson Baker, New Republic , 21 Feb. 2018",
      "But things improve as the two stories, or at least the two pairs of actors, eventually start to interpenetrate . \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 2 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1810, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-015108"
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  "interlight":{
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      "transitive verb"
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        "\u2014 Edmond Taylor"
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      "\"+"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + light":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-015254"
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": located or acting between ions":[
        "the observed interionic distances",
        "the effective interionic force"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02cc\u012b-\u02c8\u00e4-nik"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1903, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-020658"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": middle lamella":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-020726"
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  "intervisitation":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the act or practice of exchanging visits : mutual visiting":[
        "Once new diseases are introduced, intervisitation among groups leads to massive epidemics.",
        "\u2014 Kim Hill and Hillard Kaplan"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccvi-z\u0259-\u02c8t\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1844, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-020856"
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  "intersocial":{
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      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + social":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-020943"
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      "noun"
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      ": the moving of cars from one place to another on the same railroad line and within the switching limits of one station or industrial switching district \u2014 compare interterminal switching":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022357"
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      ": as a matter of interest":[]
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      "\u02c8in-\u02cctre-",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259-\u02ccre-",
      "\u02c8in-t(\u0259-)r\u0259-sti\u014b-l\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Kyrie Irving trade speculation is also surging around the league and the Phoenix Suns, interestingly , are included in some odds to land the point guard. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 1 July 2022",
      "The answer, interestingly , might be in the Bay Area. \u2014 Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "But interestingly , the most affecting moments aren\u2019t necessarily the dramatic epiphanic turning points. \u2014 Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
      "Most interestingly , the survey found that more than 38 percent of all women and 49 percent of executive women considered leaving their job in 2021. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "That was a 4-3 loss to Edwardsville in the third-place game, which interestingly featured many of the players involved in a 2017 Illinois Elementary School Association state quarterfinal, which Edwardsville won 3-1. \u2014 Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
      "Brown, who is typically involved in all aspects on both ends of the court for the Celtics, interestingly scores very well after failing to record either a block or steal in his last time out. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
      "West 20th Street, a sprawling indoor-outdoor complex with a wrap-around patio, more than 50 TVs and, interestingly , a 23-and-up age policy. \u2014 Emma Balter, Chron , 6 June 2022",
      "Southwest lowered its fares by $100 to keep up \u2014 and, interestingly , airline traffic to and from Chicago rose by 30%. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 June 2022"
    ],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1811, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022813"
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      ": the ratio of the length of the whole arm to the length of the whole leg multiplied by 100":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024224"
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      "transitive verb"
    ],
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      ": right , concern , interest":[],
      ": to affect injuriously : injure":[]
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024435"
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      ": the act or an instance of animating or influencing one another : interaction":[
        "Teachers and students consider a range of ideas. If the level of interanimation is high, they pose genuine questions as they explore and work on different points of view. If the level of interanimation is low, different ideas are simply made available",
        "\u2014 Eduardo F. Mortimer et al.",
        "\u2026 Virgil Aldrich's belief that great art is that which features the interanimation of medium, form, and content.",
        "\u2014 Ralph A. Smith"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1925, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-024706"
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      "noun"
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      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + reflection":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025145"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025524"
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    "definitions":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030300"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030946"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between tribes":[
        "intertribal trading",
        "intertribal struggles"
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      ": common to or shared by two or more tribes":[
        "intertribal trading",
        "intertribal struggles"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8tr\u012b-b\u0259l"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1850, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031712"
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  "intersertal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of an ophitic texture in which the interstitial material is glass or a constituent other than augite":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "German, from Latin intersertus + German -al (from Latin -alis -al)":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031859"
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  "interset":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": set between or among other things":[],
      ": set about":[
        "hills interset with white villas"
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + set (past participle)":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031901"
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      "adverb or adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": among or between themselves":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8s\u0113",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0113, -\u02c8s\u0101",
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1845, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-032026"
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  "interchapter":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": an intervening or inserted chapter":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int\u0259(r)+\u02cc-"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + chapter":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-032505"
  },
  "interstate extradition":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": extradition from one of the states of the U.S. or one of its territories according to procedure authorized by the U.S. Constitution and by acts of Congress":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-032521"
  },
  "interocular":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated between the eyes":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + ocular":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-033402"
  },
  "interstitial area":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a transitional urban area (as between an industrial and residential district) that may be characterized by a degree of cultural isolation and consequent incidence of crime and delinquency":[]
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-033839"
  },
  "interhouse":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": taking place between dormitories, sorority houses, or fraternity houses":[
        "an interhouse track meet"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + house (noun)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-033935"
  },
  "intercomparable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": capable of being compared":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + comparable":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-034022"
  },
  "interrupted cadence":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": deceptive cadence":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1801, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-034103"
  },
  "interarticular":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated between articulating surfaces":[
        "interarticular cartilage"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + articular":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1896, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-034754"
  },
  "internal combustion engine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a heat engine in which the combustion that generates the heat takes place inside the engine proper instead of in a furnace":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "European Union countries endorsed a push to eliminate carbon emissions from new cars by 2035, effectively heralding the end of the era of the internal combustion engine . \u2014 John Ainger, Fortune , 29 June 2022",
      "Unlike its crosstown rival Ford Motor Co., General Motors will not separate its traditional internal combustion engine and battery electric development divisions. \u2014 Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Skyrocketing fuel prices will add to the popularity of electric vehicles (EV), and cut the mileage driven by the majority of drivers with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. \u2014 Neil Winton, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Ferrari might be able to maintain its internal combustion engine and hybrid lines of cars by promoting sustainable fuels\u2014the direction in which Formula 1 motor racing is headed. \u2014 Stephen Wilmot, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
      "At this point, some of you are probably wondering why anyone is even bothering to develop new internal combustion engine technology\u2014after all, isn't our future electric",
      "On Wednesday, Detroit automaker Ford announced plans to split its electric vehicle and internal combustion engine businesses into two separate units. \u2014 Benzinga, Detroit Free Press , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "With Ford no longer prioritizing its internal combustion engine (ICE) business, the investment has become less important over time to the legacy car maker. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "The internal combustion engine organization is good at body, paint and manufacturing, and would be envied by startup EV makers. \u2014 Tom Krisher, ajc , 23 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1884, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-035934"
  },
  "intrusive growth":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": differential growth of the wall of a cell resulting in projection of newly formed parts between adjacent cells or into intercellular spaces \u2014 compare gliding growth , symplastic growth":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040307"
  },
  "interlocal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between localities":[
        "interlocal cooperation",
        "City and county officials signed an interlocal agreement this fall to develop the 4-acre recreational area \u2026",
        "\u2014 Bill Dolan"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u014d-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1837, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040310"
  },
  "interconversion":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": mutual conversion":[
        "interconversion of chemical compounds"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-sh\u0259n",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-k\u0259n-\u02c8v\u0259r-zh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1865, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040455"
  },
  "into the woodwork":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
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    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-041213"
  },
  "introduced":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to lead to or make known by a formal act, announcement, or recommendation: such as":[],
      ": to cause to be acquainted":[],
      ": to make preliminary explanatory or laudatory remarks about":[],
      ": to bring (someone, such as an actor or singer) before the public for the first time":[],
      ": to present or announce formally or officially or by an official reading":[
        "introduce legislation"
      ],
      ": to present formally at court or into society":[],
      ": to lead or bring in especially for the first time":[
        "\u2026 U.S. fishery managers have introduced exotic species into most waters in North America, largely to please sport fishermen.",
        "\u2014 Yvonne Baskin"
      ],
      ": to bring into play":[],
      ": to bring into practice or use : institute":[],
      ": to bring to a knowledge of something":[
        "introduced them to new ideas"
      ],
      ": place , insert":[
        "introduce foreign genes into crops"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8dy\u00fcs",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u00fcs"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "acquaint",
      "present"
    ],
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for introduce introduce , insert , insinuate , interpolate , intercalate , interpose , interject mean to put between or among others. introduce is a general term for bringing or placing a thing or person into a group or body already in existence. introduced a new topic into the conversation insert implies putting into a fixed or open space between or among. inserted a clause in the contract insinuate implies introducing gradually or by gentle pressure. insinuated himself into the group interpolate applies to the inserting of something extraneous or spurious. interpolated her own comments into the report intercalate suggests an intrusive inserting of something in an existing series or sequence. new chapters intercalated with the old interpose suggests inserting an obstruction or cause of delay. interpose barriers to communication interject implies an abrupt or forced introduction. interjected a question",
    "examples":[
      "Let me introduce myself: my name is John Smith.",
      "They have been slow to introduce changes in procedure.",
      "The designer is introducing a new line of clothes.",
      "He introduced several issues during the meeting.",
      "New evidence was introduced at the trial.",
      "introduce a bill to Congress",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The crisis of the 2020 presidential election also reveals the broader risks to voting rights, since many state legislatures have used the lie that there was widespread fraud to introduce more voting restrictions. \u2014 Julian Zelizer, CNN , 1 July 2022",
      "Glasser and his organization hosted a community meeting in late May, with Armstrong and other city officials in attendance, to introduce the proposal to the community. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 1 July 2022",
      "Asprey also aims to introduce the tech rich to traditional establishment players creating a new symbiotic economy. \u2014 Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
      "Still, advertising executives believe that building out the business at Netflix could take time, and that the company might be able to introduce the new tier only in a handful of international markets by the end of the year. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
      "The decision to introduce a 100% CO2 emissions reduction target by 2035 for new cars and vans would effectively prohibit the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel. \u2014 Samuel Petrequin, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
      "His absence is used to the film's advantage, however, to introduce romantic tension between Lady Mary and a certain handsome movie director. \u2014 Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day , 29 June 2022",
      "Breder is traveling to the festival with his mother in order to introduce the film. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 29 June 2022",
      "Sofar has helped introduce the world to performers like Andra Day and Billie Eilish. \u2014 Noah Lederman, SPIN , 27 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin introducere , from intro- + ducere to lead \u2014 more at tow entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-041323"
  },
  "intn":{
    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "intention":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042012"
  },
  "intercurrent":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring during and modifying the course of another disease":[
        "an intercurrent infection"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8k\u0259r-\u0259nt",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8k\u0259r-\u0259nt, -\u02c8k\u0259-r\u0259nt",
      "-\u02c8k\u0259-r\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intercurrent-, intercurrens , present participle of intercurrere":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1684, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042613"
  },
  "intervening":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events":[
        "only six months intervened between their marriage and divorce"
      ],
      ": to interfere with the outcome or course especially of a condition or process (as to prevent harm or improve functioning)":[],
      ": to come in or between by way of hindrance or modification":[
        "intervene to stop a fight"
      ],
      ": to enter or appear as an irrelevant or extraneous feature or circumstance":[
        "it's business as usual until a crisis intervenes"
      ],
      ": to occur or lie between two things":[],
      ": to become a third party to a legal proceeding begun by others for the protection of an alleged interest":[],
      ": to interfere usually by force or threat of force in another nation's internal affairs especially to compel or prevent an action":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0113n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "intercede",
      "intermediate",
      "interpose",
      "mediate"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intervene interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf",
    "examples":[
      "Twenty years intervened between their first and last meetings.",
      "The prisoner asked me to intervene with the authorities on his behalf.",
      "The military had to intervene to restore order.",
      "We will leave on time unless some crisis intervenes .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "More patrols will be going out on both sides of the river this weekend, so officers will be able to spot and intervene more quickly, spokespeople from each department said. \u2014 Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online , 2 July 2022",
      "If macOS\u2019s own security tools don\u2019t intervene first. \u2014 Barry Collins, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "Per the new ruling, the state can intervene when victims are tribal members. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 29 June 2022",
      "People at the scene did intervene , sometimes shooting the attackers, but typically physically subduing them. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "But the diocese reportedly did not intervene to stop the priest\u2019s ongoing activities \u2014 working at a nonprofit to help orphans from the genocide in Rwanda. \u2014 Chico Harlan, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
      "The Suljovics ran outside to intervene , at which point Gooding and Whack allegedly brandished knives and stabbed both father and son. \u2014 Audrey Conklin, Fox News , 16 June 2022",
      "And the earlier physicians can intervene , the better. \u2014 Erika Edwards, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
      "Why would a national organization feel compelled to intervene in a state-level fight, particularly while in the midst of a tense battle with the White House over trade policy"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intervenire to come between, from inter- + venire to come \u2014 more at come":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043402"
  },
  "intergrown":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": characterized by intergrowth":[
        "intergrown knot in timber"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044217"
  },
  "interfilamentary":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between filaments":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + filamentary":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044552"
  },
  "interspace":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an intervening space : interval":[],
      ": to occupy or fill the space between":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sp\u0101s",
      "\u02c8int-\u0259r-\u02ccsp\u0101s",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccsp\u0101s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Many of the bacteria at least partially survived, which helps to test one of the parameters for the theory of panspermia\u2014that life on Earth originated somewhere else and was brought here on an asteroid or other interspace body. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 14 Sep. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1685, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-045135"
  },
  "interallied":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to, composed of, or involving allies":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8a-\u02ccl\u012bd",
      "-\u0259-\u02c8l\u012bd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1917, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050146"
  },
  "intercrystallize":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + crystallize":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050726"
  },
  "interesse":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a legal interest in property":[],
      ": interest upon money":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259\u02c8res\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051338"
  },
  "interval timer":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": timer sense 1a":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051835"
  },
  "interoceptor":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a sensory receptor excited by interoceptive stimuli":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-t\u0259r",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-r\u014d-\u02c8sep-t\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1906, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052033"
  },
  "interj":{
    "type":[
      "abbreviation"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "interjection":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052150"
  },
  "interuniversity":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing, occurring, or shared between two or more universities":[
        "interuniversity collaboration",
        "interuniversity competitions",
        "an interuniversity program"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccy\u00fc-n\u0259-\u02c8v\u0259r-s\u0259-t\u0113",
      "-\u02c8v\u0259r-st\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1860, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052923"
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      "adjective"
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      ": of or relating to intersectionality":[
        "Because the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated.",
        "\u2014 Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw"
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      ": involving members of multiple social categories":[
        "\u2026 I was near my home, in the midst of a multiracial, multigenerational, intersectional protest. I joined hundreds of others in the streets.",
        "\u2014 Kira Banks"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sek-shn\u0259l",
      "-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Both Valerie Thomas and Loie Fuller were women with intersectional identities. \u2014 Jailynn Taylor, Essence , 17 June 2022",
      "An intersectional lens that looks, for example, not only at gender but at factors such as geography and race or ethnicity helps identify the best ways to increase inclusion for particular groups of people. \u2014 David Michels, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
      "Having dedicated her professional life to providing innovative solutions for the disabled and impaired, Dowdy is happy to join Netflix and spearhead intersectional accessibility initiatives. \u2014 Essence , 19 May 2022",
      "Because of the limits census categories present, Mattos said it\u2019s also hard to tell if people of certain intersectional groups, like Afro-Latinos, are a part of the findings. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 May 2022",
      "The World of Peonies covers basic botany and cultivation history of the various types of peonies\u2014tree, herbaceous and intersectional \u2014in China, Japan, and the U.S. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 5 May 2022",
      "This intersectional invisibility means that movements that are supposed to help Black women only contribute to our marginalization and exonerate white women from the accountability of perpetuating the oppression of Black women. \u2014 Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Reis said her intersectional identity and her personal experiences are reflected in the film. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Climate change is very intersectional , from food to women's rights. \u2014 ABC News , 22 Apr. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1752, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053347"
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      "1647, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053717"
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      "noun"
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      ": a ventral median membrane bone in front of the sternum and between the clavicles in certain vertebrates (as the monotremes and most reptiles)":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054307"
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      "noun"
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      ": mutual destruction : massacre":[]
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      "Latin internecion-, internecio , from internecare + -ion-, -io -ion":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-055249"
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      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
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      ": of, relating to, or affecting two or more nations":[
        "international trade"
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      ": of, relating to, or constituting a group or association having members in two or more nations":[
        "international movement"
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      ": active, known, or reaching beyond national boundaries":[
        "an international reputation"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8nash-n\u0259l",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8na-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al",
      "-\u02c8na-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al"
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      "transnational"
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      "Adjective",
      "an international association of chemists",
      "She has achieved international fame.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "PHEICs are typically declared when urgent international action is needed. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 28 June 2022",
      "Russia hasn\u2019t defaulted on its international debts since the Bolshevik Revolution more than a century ago, when the Russian Empire collapsed and the Soviet Union was created. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
      "Contreras also enjoys being in Chicago and has been in the organization longer than any other Cub after being signed as an international free agent in 2009. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune , 27 June 2022",
      "The lawsuits over outstanding payments are piling up, with the Romanian Alliance of Film Producers estimating that more than \u20ac50 million ($52.8 million) is owed to international productions that filmed in Romania since the rebate\u2019s launch. \u2014 Christopher Vourlias, Variety , 27 June 2022",
      "Borden \u2014 currently the company\u2019s president for international operations \u2014 will replace Kevin Ozan, who is becoming senior executive vice president for strategic initiatives. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
      "For business leaders running international companies with supply chains that stretch around the world, the challenges are undeniably immense. \u2014 Christian Schuh, Fortune , 27 June 2022",
      "The country has the cash but is unable to get it to creditors because sanctions have cut Russia out of international payment systems. \u2014 Julian Duplain, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
      "Russia has not defaulted on its international debts since the Bolshevik Revolution, when the Russian Empire collapsed and the Soviet Union was created. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Because of this, the Brazil international is reportedly offering himself to other teams and cannot wait any longer to see how things pan out with Ousmane Dembele for whom he is viewed as a direct replacement in Xavi Hernandez's first team. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "The reigning world-champion U.S. women's national team trounced Paraguay in a September international friendly. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "In the 32nd minute, Daly doubled the lead after a cross sent into the area by Maria Sanchez connected with the England international , who produced a diving header to catch McLeod off her line for a goal. \u2014 Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
      "The German international is likely to cost in the region of \u00a325-30 million with three years\u2019 left on his current deal. \u2014 Liam Canning, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
      "Tillman, 19, a former U.S. youth international , was part of the German youth national team as recently as March. \u2014 Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2022",
      "The 30-year-old Swiss international , who joined the Fire this season from Lyon, has a base salary of $7.35 million and total compensation of $8,153,000, according to figures the Major League Soccer Players Association released Tuesday. \u2014 Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune , 17 May 2022",
      "The Canadian international could be called upon for this match, especially with the Lions having played two games in the past seven days prior. \u2014 Austin David, Orlando Sentinel , 13 May 2022",
      "The former England international has only taken charge of 57 Premier League games, which all came during his eighteen months at Chelsea. \u2014 Sam Pilger, Forbes , 30 Jan. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1780, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1870, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-055416"
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      "adjective"
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      ": lying or occurring between the cerebral hemispheres":[
        "an interhemispheric subdural hematoma",
        "interhemispheric communication"
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      ": extending or occurring between the earth's hemispheres \u2014 see hemisphere sense 1b":[
        "increased interhemispheric trade",
        "interhemispheric carbon dioxide exchange"
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      "-\u02c8sfer-",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1854, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-060449"
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      "noun"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1968, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-061612"
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      "idiom"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-061643"
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  "into action":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
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        "They had already put the plan into action ."
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-062414"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": an evergreen oak ( Quercus wizlizenii ) of western North America much resembling the coast live oak but occurring chiefly in the foothills of mountain ranges somewhat removed from the coast and forming an important part of the chaparral":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-062545"
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      "noun",
      "verb"
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      ": relating to, involving, or carried by two or more transportation lines":[]
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      "Middle English enterlinen , from Medieval Latin interlineare , from Latin inter- + linea line":"Verb",
      "Middle English, from inter- + linen to line":"Verb"
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1897, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063345"
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  "interagency":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between or involving two or more agencies":[
        "inter-agency communication",
        "an inter-agency task force"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8\u0101-j\u0259n(t)-s\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1907, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065444"
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  "interstrand":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between two or more strands (as of DNA )":[
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        "inter-strand conductance in multistrand cables"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8strand",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1930, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065607"
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  "into sight":{
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      "idiom"
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      ": into view":[
        "The ship came into sight ."
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065641"
  },
  "interneural":{
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      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated between neural arches or neural spines":[],
      ": one of the spiny bones that extend into the flesh of certain fishes between the neural spines and articulate with the rays of the dorsal fins":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+",
      "\""
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + neural":"Adjective"
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070059"
  },
  "internal navigation":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": navigation on inland waterways":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070323"
  },
  "intrudingly":{
    "type":[
      "adverb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": in the manner of one that intrudes":[]
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intruding (present participle of intrude ) + -ly":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071141"
  },
  "interdepartmental":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-di-\u02ccp\u00e4rt-\u02c8men-t\u1d4al",
      "-\u02ccd\u0113-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1855, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071204"
  },
  "interviewed":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a formal consultation usually to evaluate qualifications (as of a prospective student or employee)":[],
      ": a meeting at which information is obtained (as by a reporter, television commentator, or pollster) from a person":[],
      ": a report or reproduction of information so obtained":[],
      ": interviewee":[],
      ": to question or talk with (someone) to get information : to conduct an interview with (someone)":[
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        "was interviewed on television",
        "Several strong candidates have been interviewed for the position.",
        "More than 60 staff members were interviewed for the project \u2026",
        "\u2014 Nature Conservancy",
        "Gone are the days when a language researcher had to interview subjects in a lab \u2026",
        "\u2014 Katy Steinmetz"
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      ": to participate in an interview for a position (such as a job)":[
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        "\u2014 Joseph Epstein"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccvy\u00fc"
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    "synonyms":[
      "canvass",
      "canvas",
      "poll",
      "solicit",
      "survey"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The company is holding interviews for several new jobs.",
      "a journalist conducting interviews with political leaders",
      "The interview will be shown on tonight's news.",
      "This library has a large collection of his interviews .",
      "He is a very entertaining interview .",
      "She's always been known as one of Hollywood's best interviews .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "One Trump adviser, Jason Miller, said the committee unfairly truncated parts of his interview . \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
      "At the time of our interview , the birth of the couple\u2019s first child was imminent. \u2014 Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2022",
      "In his sprawling interview with the fashion magazine, Pitt discusses everything from his production company and film career to his dreams and COVID-19 pandemic hobbies. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "Sarah Jessica Parker wonders aloud during our Friday afternoon interview . \u2014 ELLE , 23 June 2022",
      "Watch our exclusive video interview with the largest cast of trans contestants ever to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race above, and read on for all the highlights (including timestamps). \u2014 Joey Nolfi, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
      "Barr didn't give his interview ruling out widespread fraud to the AP until Dec. 1. \u2014 Alexander Mallin, ABC News , 22 June 2022",
      "Elsewhere in his interview , Pitt opened up about quitting smoking during the pandemic to improve his health. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
      "Read his full interview here: on N-of-1 trials and precision medicine. \u2014 Aline Holzwarth, Forbes , 21 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Anglo-French entreveue meeting, from ( s' ) entreveer to see one another, meet, from entre- inter- + veer to see \u2014 more at view":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1514, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1868, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071603"
  },
  "intervention":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "noun or adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act or an instance of intervening":[
        "the intervention of divine providence"
      ],
      ": such as":[
        "the intervention of divine providence"
      ],
      ": the act of interfering with the outcome or course especially of a condition or process (as to prevent harm or improve functioning)":[
        "educational intervention",
        "surgical interventions",
        "Some women fear a specific intervention , such as being induced, having an emergency cesarean section or going through a forceps delivery.",
        "\u2014 Paula Spencer"
      ],
      ": the interference of a country in the affairs of another country for the purpose of compelling it to do or forbear doing certain acts":[
        "\u2026 obscures Eisenhower's decisive personal role in converting the CIA from an intelligence agency into an instrument for American intervention around the world.",
        "\u2014 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr."
      ],
      ": an occurrence in which a person with a problem (such as a drug addiction) is confronted by a group (as of friends or family members) whose purpose is to compel the person to acknowledge and deal with the problem":[
        "stage/mount an intervention",
        "Coaching colleagues and former players pleaded with him to reengage with the game, to no avail, until 1989, when a number of them prepared to stage an intervention .",
        "\u2014 Alexander Wolff"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ven(t)-sh\u0259n",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ven-ch\u0259n",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ven-sh\u0259n",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8ven-ch\u0259n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072105"
  },
  "into the breach":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072744"
  },
  "intermediate wheatgrass":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an Asiatic grass ( Agropyron intermedium ) introduced into the rangelands of western U.S. for pasture and fodder use":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072935"
  },
  "interpenetrative":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": tending to penetrate mutually":[
        "for him realism and mysticism are interpenetrative",
        "\u2014 B. R. Redman"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + penetrative":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073644"
  },
  "interbed":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to lie or settle in sedimentary layers between other existing layers":[
        "\u2026 consists of \u2026 sandstones of variable thickness that interbed with grey and greenish shales.",
        "\u2014 D. J. W. Piper"
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      ": a typically thin layer of one kind of sedimentary material located between layers of another kind":[
        "\u2026 it ranges from boulder gravel to pebble gravel, with local interbeds of sand \u2026",
        "\u2014 R. B. Morrison"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8bed"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1858, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1942, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073800"
  },
  "interculture":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the practice of simultaneously growing two or more crops on the same plot (as in alternate rows) : the practice of intercropping":[],
      ": a common set of social norms, conventions, etc. adopted by a group whose members are culturally diverse":[
        "the circum-Atlantic world of an increasingly interconnected oceanic interculture , joined by crossing patterns of trade, consumption, and colonization \u2026",
        "\u2014 Kathryn Reklis"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8k\u0259l-ch\u0259r"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1832, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080446"
  },
  "international pitch":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a tuning standard of 440 vibrations per second for A above middle C":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Many start in international pitch markets, including IDFA Forum in the Netherlands, DocedgeKolkata in India and Hot Docs Forum in Toronto. \u2014 Gregg Goldstein, Variety , 11 Nov. 2021"
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      "1904, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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      "verb"
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      "When they talk, they often intermix English and Spanish.",
      "intermixed the ingredients just until there were no more lumps in the batter",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There\u2019s another character who lives on Earth in this story, named Will, who doesn\u2019t show up until the second book, but his story is intermixed here. \u2014 Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED , 4 Jan. 2020",
      "Animal faces and eyes flash towards the audience, intermixed with galaxies and natural occurring patterns like the spiral fractal of a shell or the eye of a storm, to show the connectedness of all things. \u2014 Valerie Lee, Billboard , 4 Dec. 2019",
      "And intermixed with all that was a lot of performance and a little bit of comedy. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 18 Oct. 2019",
      "Housing will be intermixed with breweries, restaurants, a Makers Plaza for craftsmen, as well as potential office space. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Oct. 2019",
      "The video is intermixed with asides to the camera from students and instructors who give lessons on how to react during a shooting. \u2014 Mahita Gajanan, Time , 6 Sep. 2019",
      "Over the next few thousand years, the groups in north and south India intermixed , leading to the modern population\u2019s complex ancestral mix. \u2014 Michael Price, Science | AAAS , 5 Sep. 2019",
      "Traditional rituals and beliefs, such as ancestor worship, were intermixed with Catholic rites. \u2014 National Geographic , 13 Aug. 2019",
      "Cutting-edge techniques such as ancient DNA analysis can also reveal a huge amount of information about how people moved and intermixed . \u2014 Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American , 11 July 2019"
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      "back-formation from obsolete intermixt intermingled, from Latin intermixtus , past participle of intermisc\u0113re to intermix, from inter- + misc\u0113re to mix \u2014 more at mix":""
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      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8k\u00e4s-t\u1d4al",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Then Winker re-aggravated his intercostal injury on a swing in the eighth inning of his first game back. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 25 Sep. 2021",
      "When the Cincinnati Reds saw their postseason hopes fading during September, Jesse Winker cut short his rehab assignment from an intercostal strain to try to ignite the team. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 19 Oct. 2021",
      "Winker was sidelined for a month with an intercostal strain, a rib cage injury. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 18 Sep. 2021",
      "Jesse Winker, sidelined for the past month with an intercostal strain, began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Louisville on Tuesday. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 15 Sep. 2021",
      "Jeffers started both games ahead of Mitch Garver, who hit 31 homers in 2019 but had his 2020 season wrecked by an intercostal injury. \u2014 Chris Miller, Star Tribune , 1 Oct. 2020",
      "Winker has been sidelined with an intercostal strain. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 30 Aug. 2021",
      "Over the past 11 months, Wick has endured the ups and downs of an odd intercostal injury that prevented him from getting back on the mound for the Cubs until Tuesday night against the Milwaukee Brewers. \u2014 Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com , 12 Aug. 2021",
      "With Jesse Winker sidelined until likely September with an intercostal strain, Naquin has provided a huge lift at the top of the lineup. \u2014 Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer , 22 Aug. 2021"
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      "New Latin intercostalis , from Latin inter- + costa rib \u2014 more at coast":""
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      "1597, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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      "adverb"
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      ": situated within, occurring within, or administered by entry into a joint":[
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      "\u02c8in-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
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      "circa 1888, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "noun"
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      "\u2014 compare world wide web":[
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1986, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-091227"
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      "adjective",
      "adverb"
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      ": introduced into or occurring in the space under the arachnoid membrane of the brain or spinal cord":[
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      "-\u02c8th\u0113-k\u0259l",
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      "1887, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "adjective"
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      ": situated between tergites":[]
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      "inter- + tergal":""
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      "noun"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1894, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-091544"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a track for transfer of freight cars moving in interchange":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-092048"
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      "adjective"
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      ": involving or concerning some or all of the nations of North and South America":[
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8me-r\u0259-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u0259-\u02c8mer-\u0259-k\u0259n"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1854, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-092812"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
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      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8v\u0113-n\u0259s"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Blair, who has multiple sclerosis, had just finished intravenous treatment on Feb. 22 when Carlson arrived, the petition said. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Ellis said Maisie gets half of her nutrients through intravenous treatment and half through EleCare. \u2014 Parija Kavilanz, CNN , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "While intravenous treatment circulates the bloodstream before reaching respiratory pathways, inhalation allows for direct exposure to nasal and respiratory tissues. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "Another monoclonal antibody, Vyepti (eptinezumab-jjmr), was approved in 2020 as the first intravenous treatment for migraine prevention, notes the American Headache Society. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, Health.com , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "Early on, an intravenous treatment, remdesivir, became so popular that hospitals had to restrict its use. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Jan. 2022",
      "Remdesivir, an intravenous antiviral treatment is approved for hospitalized patients; two new oral antivirals, Merck\u2019s molnupiravir andPfizer's Paxlovid, have been shown to reduce hospitalizations and death in patients at risk of serious illness. \u2014 Sharon Guynup, Science , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "The single intravenous infusion treatment takes 20 to 30 minutes, officials said, followed by an hour of patient monitoring. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "Harcourt argued that Hamm\u2019s veins had become nearly impossible to access after years of intravenous drug use and Hamm\u2019s diagnosis, and treatment, of lymphatic cancer. \u2014 Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al , 28 Nov. 2021"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1849, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-093423"
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
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      ": to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome":[],
      ": to enter as a geologic intrusion":[],
      ": to thrust or force in or upon someone or something especially without permission, welcome, or fitness":[
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      ": to cause to enter as if by force":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tr\u00fcd"
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      "Excuse me, sir. I don't mean to intrude , but you have a phone call.",
      "Would I be intruding if I came along with you",
      "The plane intruded into their airspace.",
      "Reporters constantly intruded into the couple's private life.",
      "He didn't want to intrude upon their conversation.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "His reporting has transported readers around the world into the secluded homes of people who are fighting to remain removed from the civilization and industry that threatens to intrude upon their lives. \u2014 Ruby Mellen, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
      "Harris claims that turning over these records to the House Select Committee would not only intrude on her privacy but also forces her to reveal confidential sources. \u2014 Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "Painful memories intrude in flashes, until so many of them pile up at once that the present becomes difficult to see. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
      "By operating outside your control, hackers can intrude and compromise these targets\u2014which will often go undetected for a long time\u2014all the while reaping the rewards for their hacking efforts. \u2014 Ran Nahmias, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "Angry motorists and civil-rights advocates, claim the devices only serve as a moneymaker for local governments, infringe on due-process rights, and intrude on their privacy. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 19 May 2022",
      "The rural region has been largely spared the warfare raging elsewhere, but periodic reminders intrude . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Now, the trio are joined by Jupiter, and the four planets can be seen by the naked eye in a straight line for the rest of April, as long as city lights don't intrude . \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "Vibration is the enemy of any turntable, and this one is designed from the ground up to minimize the chances that vibration is going to intrude on the sound of your vinyl. \u2014 Brad Moon, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin intrudere to thrust in, from in- + trudere to thrust \u2014 more at threat":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-093954"
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  "internegative":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a duplicate photographic negative that is made from the original as an intermediate step used especially for color control":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + negative entry 2":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095705"
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  "interproximal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": situated or used in the areas between adjoining teeth":[
        "interproximal space"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8pr\u00e4k-s\u0259-m\u0259l",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8pr\u00e4k-s\u0259-m\u0259l"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-100121"
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  "interfile":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to arrange in or add to a file : file":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8f\u012b(-\u0259)l"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1950, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-100422"
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  "interrogatory":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": interrogative":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-g\u0259-\u02cct\u014dr-\u0113",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-g\u0259-\u02cct\u022fr-\u0113"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In the district court, Clinton was ordered to respond to interrogatories . \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 14 Apr. 2020",
      "Along those lines, various persons in Williamson\u2019s orbit could be forced to answer questions in depositions and through interrogatories . \u2014 Michael Mccann, SI.com , 22 Aug. 2019",
      "During it, Brown and Taylor would be required to answer questions under oath, either in depositions (in-person answers) or interrogatories (written answers). \u2014 Michael Mccann, SI.com , 11 Sep. 2019",
      "The result threw a spotlight on special interrogatories , a common feature in civil trials, according to veteran lawyers. \u2014 Dan Hinkel, chicagotribune.com , 29 June 2018",
      "This vetting will include interrogatories , a public hearing and an evidentiary hearing. \u2014 Allan Vought, The Aegis , 28 June 2018",
      "If strong enough to survive those first interrogatories , they will be interviewed by an asylum officer who will run a rough interview that emphasizes preventing fraud and often mistakenly determines that a person shouldn't receive asylum. \u2014 Luis Mancheno, CBS News , 8 June 2018",
      "Blomquist, represented by Milwaukee attorney Robert A. Levine, also hit the plaintiffs with a flood of interrogatories and requests for documents. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 May 2018",
      "The city refused to answer any interrogatories where certain records were not preserved. \u2014 Todd Lighty, chicagotribune.com , 15 May 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Minister Chiang gave the orderly a long, interrogatory look. \u2014 Elliot Ackerman, Wired , 2 Mar. 2021",
      "But Thornton had also figured out that his character\u2019s power came not from fiercely interrogatory tactics but from apparent empathy and even his warm heart. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 21 Dec. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1515, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1576, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-101318"
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  "international orange":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a vivid reddish orange that is redder and much darker than golden poppy and redder, stronger, and much darker than chrome orange":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-101627"
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  "introspection":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a reflective looking inward : an examination of one's own thoughts and feelings":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8spek-sh\u0259n",
      "-\u02c8spek-sh\u0259n"
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    "synonyms":[
      "self-contemplation",
      "self-examination",
      "self-observation",
      "self-questioning",
      "self-reflection",
      "self-scrutiny",
      "self-searching",
      "soul-searching"
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    "examples":[
      "a moment of quiet introspection",
      "not a man given to introspection , he grew impatient with his wife's constant need to discuss their relationship",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Logos of Coca-Cola and images of hamburgers on denim jeans made for a comment on the capitalistic nature of the world \u2014 and the fashion industry itself \u2014 in a nice moment of introspection . \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 24 June 2022",
      "What relationship these elements of his life bear to one another becomes an object of introspection when he is assigned to surveil John Kwang, a city councilman from Queens with mayoral ambitions. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Even without that deeper layer of introspection , Loot is a hoot. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 21 June 2022",
      "But there was also introspection about the backlash. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
      "This kind of introspection only scratches the surface of the 18 year old, who was the inaugural youth poet laureate of Indianapolis in 2019 and is now Urban Word's 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate Midwest Regional Finalist. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 16 May 2022",
      "This introspection might be a silver lining outcome of the pandemic. \u2014 Mary Meehan, Forbes , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "The initial trip is intended to trigger disruptive thinking and deep introspection . \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
      "The level of crippling introspection J\u00e9r\u00e9mie suffers from (and subjects himself to, really) merely cages him further in a trap of his own making. \u2014 Manuel Betancourt, Variety , 1 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin introspectus , past participle of introspicere to look inside, from intro- + specere to look \u2014 more at spy":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1677, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-101953"
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  "interrogator":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that interrogates":[],
      ": a radio transmitter and receiver for sending out a signal that triggers a transponder and for receiving and displaying the reply":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8te-r\u0259-",
      "in-\u02c8ter-\u0259-\u02ccg\u0101-t\u0259r"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In their headquarters, the basement of a grocery and coffee shop near the church on the main square, an interrogator scrutinized her phone. \u2014 Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Mitchell received national attention in 2018 for her role as an interrogator in a congressional hearing leading to the appointment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brent Kavanaugh. \u2014 Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "The Writer\u2019s nationalist interrogator , meanwhile, longs for when Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were united \u2014 one of many lines written some time ago that now ring as eerily prophetic. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Apple's Siri followed the Bill Bellichik interview method \u2013 deflect and hope the interrogator goes away quickly. \u2014 Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "The film\u2019s central figure is a man named Teddy Katz, who is now in his late 70s and has suffered several strokes, but is still a spry interrogator of history. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "The point of these stories, besides entertaining the listener, is to demonstrate what an amazing lawyer the storyteller is: a brilliant strategist, skilled interrogator or eloquent advocate. \u2014 David Lat, New York Times , 14 Jan. 2022",
      "The interrogator was my daughter, who was three at the time. \u2014 Jessamine Chan, ELLE , 5 Jan. 2022",
      "In a slow and measured movie that's both brutal and bleak, Isaac shines as an ace gambler and former interrogator named William Tell, who spent nearly 10 years in military jail. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 9 Sep. 2021"
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      "Anglo-French enterpleder , from enter- inter- + pleder, plaider to plead \u2014 more at plead":""
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      "Latin introductus , past participle of introducere to introduce":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103003"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103054"
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      "noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104551"
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        "\u2014 Tim Fernholz"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104643"
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      "alteration (influenced by inter- ) of French entrevisiter , from Middle French, from entre- + visiter to visit":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105007"
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      "adjective"
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      ": internecine":[]
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      "\u0259\u0307n\u2027\u02c8t\u0259rn\u0259s-",
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      "Latin internecivus , from internecare + -ivus -ive":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105400"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "On the one hand, Lacan says, this intersubjective problem is simply mass psychology, a sheer stampede that amounts to barbarism through and through. \u2014 Jamieson Webster, The New York Review of Books , 24 Apr. 2020"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1899, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105859"
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      ": substitution of the interdental sounds \\th\\ and \\t\u035fh\\ for \\s\\ and \\z\\ respectively : lisp":[],
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      "International Scientific Vocabulary interdental + -ity":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105909"
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      "noun",
      "verb"
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      ": to enter into or take a part in the concerns of others":[],
      ": to interpose in a way that hinders or impedes : come into collision or be in opposition":[],
      ": to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in walking or running":[
        "\u2014 used especially of horses"
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      ": to act reciprocally so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another":[
        "\u2014 used of waves"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8fir",
      "\u02ccint-\u0259(r)-\u02c8fi(\u0259)r",
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      "butt in",
      "interlope",
      "intermeddle",
      "intrude",
      "meddle",
      "mess",
      "muck (about ",
      "nose",
      "obtrude",
      "poke",
      "pry",
      "snoop"
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interfere interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf",
    "examples":[
      "I tried to offer advice without interfering .",
      "a strong resentment of outsiders who attempted to interfere with their traditional ways of doing things",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Open year-round, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., unless church services interfere . \u2014 Diane Daniel, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
      "Writing in The74, Lynne Munson\u2014who led the creation of a curriculum called Eureka Math and has a dyslexic child\u2014recently explained how dyslexia can interfere with math performance. \u2014 Natalie Wexler, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Citing prior holdings on similar records, the court said releasing the governor\u2019s correspondence with the commission would interfere with the ability of government officials to speak frankly. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 June 2022",
      "The 29-year-old called for a referee, who asked Thomas if the drain would interfere with his swing. \u2014 Riley Hamel, USA TODAY , 19 June 2022",
      "That leaves an awful lot of time for a golfer\u2019s mind to wander and interfere with the attentional demands of hitting successful shots. \u2014 Paul Christianson, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
      "Tweet Dish has been complaining about the unauthorized use since May over concerns Starlink will interfere with its own satellite TV system. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 13 June 2022",
      "The timing of the turtles' nesting is triggered in part by light from the Moon, which means that artificial lighting can interfere with the animals' reproduction. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 13 June 2022",
      "How to safely take an ice bath Cold water immersion can shock the system, cause muscle spasms, and interfere with circulation, so submerging yourself in it may not be the right choice for everyone. \u2014 Annaliese Griffin, Fortune , 11 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English enterferen , from Anglo-French ( s' ) entreferir to strike one another, from entre- inter- + ferir to strike, from Latin ferire \u2014 more at bore":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-111746"
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      "noun"
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      ": a usually extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's thought and feeling":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In pages-long, often dialogue-heavy sections without paragraph breaks, quotation marks or full stops, Petterson shares his character\u2019s interior monologue . \u2014 Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "There\u2019s no interior monologue in the film, so that struggle isn\u2019t quite so legible in the movie. \u2014 Jo Livingstone, The New Republic , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "Rodgers\u2019s performance deepens the unsettling mood of Feito\u2019s interior monologue , about a New York mom haunted by the success of her husband\u2019s latest mystery novel. \u2014 Marshall Heyman, Vulture , 25 Aug. 2021",
      "Liza\u2019s inner story, which is also dramatized and also features her narration (her interior monologue ), is far more troubled. \u2014 Richard Brod, The New Yorker , 20 Aug. 2021",
      "His thoughts are never directly communicated, whether by contrived narration or interior monologue . \u2014 Nicholas Quah, Vulture , 22 June 2021",
      "Ford has a gift for nimble interior monologues and a superb ear for the varieties and vagaries of human speech. \u2014 Rand Richards Cooper, New York Times , 12 May 2020",
      "Intriguingly, the two novels mirror each other in their structure, both being divided into four interior monologues . \u2014 Coco Fusco, The New York Review of Books , 24 Mar. 2020",
      "The concerto became a dramatic push-pull, the orchestra launching ideas in extroverted fashion, Altstaedt refashioning them as interior monologue . \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1922, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-111842"
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  "Internet service provider":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a company that provides its customers with access to the Internet and that may also provide other Internet-related services (such as email accounts)":[
        "\u2014 abbreviation ISP"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1990, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112743"
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  "international match point":{
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a scoring unit used in contract-bridge tournaments played in Europe and based on but not directly proportional to the winning margin of a board":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-113531"
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  "interambulacral":{
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": situated between ambulacra":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + ambulacral":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-113610"
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  "intergranular":{
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between grains or granules":[
        "intergranular stress corrosion",
        "intergranular liquid penetration"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8gran-y\u0259-l\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1848, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-113643"
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  "into the background":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
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    "definitions":{
      ": into the position of being less important":[
        "The war has pushed all other issues into the background ."
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114110"
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  "interrogatory action":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": an action in which preliminary issues are tried before litiscontestation":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114357"
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  "intercrop":{
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      "noun",
      "verb"
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      ": to grow a crop in between (another)":[],
      ": to grow two or more crops simultaneously (as in alternate rows) on the same plot":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02cckr\u00e4p",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8kr\u00e4p"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Use conservation agriculture techniques such as minimal or no-till methods, intercropping (mixing crop types in one field), and cover cropping (introducing alternative crops in successive years on the same field). \u2014 Peter Johnston, Quartz Africa , 20 Nov. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1898, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-120627"
  },
  "intervein":{
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to interlace with or as if with veins":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + vein":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121141"
  },
  "inthronization":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": enthronement , enthronization":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French intronisation , from Medieval Latin inthronization-, inthronizatio , from Late Latin inthronizatus (past participle of inthronizare to enthrone, modification\u2014influenced by Latin in- in- entry 2 \u2014of Greek enthronizein ) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121316"
  },
  "intestable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
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      ": not competent to make a will":[
        "an intestable minor",
        "insane and intestable"
      ],
      ": incompetent to be a witness":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02c8)in\u2027\u00a6test\u0259b\u0259l",
      "\u0259n\u2027\u02c8t-"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin intestabilis , from Latin, execrable, accursed, from in- in- entry 1 + testari to be a witness, make a will + -abilis -able":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121838"
  },
  "inthrow":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": ridge sense transitive sense 2b":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\""
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "in entry 4 + throw (after throw in , verb)":"Noun"
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122203"
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  "intermittent sterilization":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": sterilization by heating to boiling several times at intervals of about 24 hours in order that any resistant spores may germinate and be destroyed":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122246"
  },
  "introspectable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": capable of being observed by introspection":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122502"
  },
  "intercrescence":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a growing together of tissues":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint\u0259(r)\u02c8kres\u0259n(t)s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + -crescence (as in excrescence )":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122733"
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  "intruded":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome":[],
      ": to enter as a geologic intrusion":[],
      ": to thrust or force in or upon someone or something especially without permission, welcome, or fitness":[
        "intruded himself into their lives"
      ],
      ": to cause to enter as if by force":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8tr\u00fcd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "break in",
      "chime in",
      "chip in",
      "cut in",
      "interpose",
      "interrupt"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Excuse me, sir. I don't mean to intrude , but you have a phone call.",
      "Would I be intruding if I came along with you",
      "The plane intruded into their airspace.",
      "Reporters constantly intruded into the couple's private life.",
      "He didn't want to intrude upon their conversation.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "His reporting has transported readers around the world into the secluded homes of people who are fighting to remain removed from the civilization and industry that threatens to intrude upon their lives. \u2014 Ruby Mellen, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
      "Harris claims that turning over these records to the House Select Committee would not only intrude on her privacy but also forces her to reveal confidential sources. \u2014 Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "Painful memories intrude in flashes, until so many of them pile up at once that the present becomes difficult to see. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 June 2022",
      "By operating outside your control, hackers can intrude and compromise these targets\u2014which will often go undetected for a long time\u2014all the while reaping the rewards for their hacking efforts. \u2014 Ran Nahmias, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
      "Angry motorists and civil-rights advocates, claim the devices only serve as a moneymaker for local governments, infringe on due-process rights, and intrude on their privacy. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 19 May 2022",
      "The rural region has been largely spared the warfare raging elsewhere, but periodic reminders intrude . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Now, the trio are joined by Jupiter, and the four planets can be seen by the naked eye in a straight line for the rest of April, as long as city lights don't intrude . \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 17 Apr. 2022",
      "Vibration is the enemy of any turntable, and this one is designed from the ground up to minimize the chances that vibration is going to intrude on the sound of your vinyl. \u2014 Brad Moon, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin intrudere to thrust in, from in- + trudere to thrust \u2014 more at threat":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-123026"
  },
  "interminable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)in-\u02c8t\u0259rm-n\u0259-b\u0259l",
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-n\u0259-b\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8t\u0259r-m\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hickey bored, doodling, during an interminable panel discussion. \u2014 Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books , 8 June 2022",
      "Finally, after what seemed like an interminable wait, it was finally announced that the 8th season will premiere on PBS Masterpiece on Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 9 p.m. EST. \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 23 May 2022",
      "Cops question people for interminable stretches of time in order to break them down; Oliver explained that one study found false confessions occurred after an average of more than 16 hours of questioning. \u2014 Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "The pandemic and its ongoing effects, as well as the war in Ukraine, continue to drag down smaller brewers, who are battling climbing costs, rising rents, and seemingly interminable supply chain challenges, Watson said. \u2014 Alicia Wallace, CNN , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Everything moves but nothing goes anywhere, a furious stasis in which the novel\u2019s very language suggests the interminable lawsuit on which its plot depends. \u2014 Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "Why return to the pre-quarantine slog of deafening bars, interminable poetry readings, and awkward dinner parties",
      "Oil prices have already entered a realm of interminable volatility. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "This imaginary game opens with an interminable 80-minute cut scene, only to be followed by an energetic action sequence that recalls the original game's best moments. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 18 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
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      ": a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection \u2014 compare behaviorism":[]
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      ": the right of entry legally conferred by the demise of a leasehold estate before entry is made":[]
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      "Medieval Latin, literally, interest of term or end":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-125551"
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      ": a system of logging planned to remove in one cutting all usable timber and to separate the primary products and distribute them to industries where they will bring the highest returns":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-131107"
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      ": situated or occurring between veins":[]
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      ": situated in, occurring in, or administered by entry into a blood vessel":[
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      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8vas-ky\u0259-l\u0259r, -(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Practitioners who opt to inject using a cannula have good reason to go this route: to avoid intravascular placement. \u2014 Kaitlin Clark, Allure , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Increasing intravascular volume by hydrating can help prevent a vasovagal syncope event that can lead to fainting. \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 15 Nov. 2021",
      "Rajpaul's death is listed as a homicide due to acute cardiopulmonary dysfunction and intramuscular/ intravascular silicone injections, according to the medical examiner's office. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Sep. 2021",
      "Rajpaul's cause of death is listed as homicide due to acute cardiopulmonary dysfunction and intramuscular/ intravascular silicone injections. \u2014 Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "The diagnosis was septic shock with an intra-abdominal-wall infection and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), a life-threatening blood clotting condition. \u2014 Mark E. Bruley, Philly.com , 23 June 2017"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1876, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-132022"
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      ": an idler wheel in the driving train or the dial train of a timepiece":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-132116"
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      ": one of the areas between two ambulacra in an echinoderm":[]
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      "\"+"
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      "New Latin, from inter- + ambulacrum":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133033"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1844, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133409"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Myers, the legal aid lawyer who represents an intervenor in the lawsuit, remains skeptical that housing will ever catch up to shelter. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Nov. 2021",
      "The only pushback in the court hearing came from attorneys representing the recall\u2019s proponents and Jenner, who joined the case as an intervenor . \u2014 John Myers, Los Angeles Times , 12 July 2021",
      "Federal attorneys on the other side will defend Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, the BLM and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and intervenor defendants that include the Alaska Oil and Gas Association. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Jan. 2021",
      "The state of Indiana participated in the case as an intervenor , meaning it was granted the right to observe and submit legal documents in support of the plaintiffs. \u2014 Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star , 17 Nov. 2020",
      "The School City of Hammond and Lake Ridge Schools filed the lawsuit last year and the West Lafayette Community School Corp. joined the suit as an intervenor . \u2014 Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com , 31 Aug. 2020",
      "Attorneys for the intervenors argued that solar could be applied more broadly across Alabama Power\u2019s system with or without battery storage. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 16 Mar. 2020",
      "Finally, the plan required the district to notify the intervenors in the case of plans for constructing schools and for adding capacity to existing schools. \u2014 Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online , 28 Dec. 2019",
      "As an intervenor in the docket, the borough could challenge the final EIS or regulatory commission decision. \u2014 Larry Persily, Anchorage Daily News , 8 Jan. 2020"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
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      "1621, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133458"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133643"
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      ": to meddle impertinently and officiously and usually so as to interfere":[]
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      "she can no more refrain from intermeddling than she can from breathing",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Foreign powers will intermeddle in our affairs, and spare no [expense] to influence them. \u2014 Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2019"
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      "Middle English entermedlen , from Anglo-French entremeller, entremedler , from entre- inter- + medler to mix \u2014 more at meddle":""
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      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "introvert entry 3 + -ive":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-134223"
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      "inter- + agent":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-140028"
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      ": a map of the world at a scale of one to one million having a uniform set of symbols and conventional signs and printed in modified polyconic projection on sheets each covering an area of 4 degrees latitude by 6 degrees longitude except above the 60th parallel where the longitude covered is 12 degrees on each sheet":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-140324"
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      ": to intergrade through a series of interlocking or overlapping wedge-shaped layers : interpenetrate , interdigitate":[]
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      "inter- + finger":""
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      ": to merge gradually one with another through a continuous series of intermediate forms":[],
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8gr\u0101d",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Pure Florida's are found mostly from Gainesville, Florida, southward--those in the northern part of the state are primarily intergrades with northern strain bass, biologists say. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, AL.com , 28 June 2017"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1874, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "An inter vivos trust is one that is created and effective during the lifetime of the principal. \u2014 Dallas News , 2 May 2021"
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      "1949, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": a person whose personality is characterized by introversion : a typically reserved or quiet person who tends to be introspective and enjoys spending time alone":[
        "\u2026 introverts gain energy through solitude and quiet.",
        "\u2014 Bill Howatt",
        "His research further shows that about 70% of top executives are introverts .",
        "\u2014 Linda Grant",
        "Bill Gates is quiet and bookish, but apparently unfazed by others' opinions of him: he's an introvert , but not shy.",
        "\u2014 Steven Aitchison",
        "\u2026 she was, by other accounts, a \"shy sensitive introvert \" who was \"afraid of people and felt most comfortable when she could shut the door and withdraw.\"",
        "\u2014 Robert R. Harris"
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      "\u2014 compare extrovert":[
        "\u2026 introverts gain energy through solitude and quiet.",
        "\u2014 Bill Howatt",
        "His research further shows that about 70% of top executives are introverts .",
        "\u2014 Linda Grant",
        "Bill Gates is quiet and bookish, but apparently unfazed by others' opinions of him: he's an introvert , but not shy.",
        "\u2014 Steven Aitchison",
        "\u2026 she was, by other accounts, a \"shy sensitive introvert \" who was \"afraid of people and felt most comfortable when she could shut the door and withdraw.\"",
        "\u2014 Robert R. Harris"
      ],
      ": something (such as the retractile proboscis of some worms) that is or can be drawn in especially by invagination":[],
      ": to turn inward or in upon oneself or itself: such as":[],
      ": to concentrate or direct upon oneself":[
        "\u2026 served the purpose of introverting aggressive intentions.",
        "\u2014 Ernst Simmel"
      ],
      ": to produce psychological introversion in":[
        "\"\u2026 I had gone through some pretty hard deals, and it did introvert me. \u2026 \"",
        "\u2014 Joni Mitchell"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259-\u02ccv\u0259rt"
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      "shrinking violet",
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      "Noun",
      "although interested in the public welfare, he was too much of an introvert to consider personally running for political office",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Shakeyla Willis, of Gary, agreed after the two playfully argued over whether Willis is an introvert . \u2014 Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune , 21 June 2022",
      "In my experience, one of the biggest misconceptions is that an introvert will not make a good manager. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "For Cain, the quiet remove of the introvert belied a thoughtful form of leadership in professional and personal life. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Beard has always been an enigma: quiet where Lasso is loquacious, an introvert when his coaching partner is all extrovert. \u2014 Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
      "Yet as an introvert your true talent is for forging strong bonds with a smaller collection of chums. \u2014 Ashley Stahl, Forbes , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "Genes, obviously, and the acting industry\u2014Mann is rom-com royalty, while Apatow shines in Euphoria as introvert Lexi Howard. \u2014 Bella Cacciatore, Glamour , 6 May 2022",
      "An insomniac who wants to break out of her introvert zone, Auden meets, begins to take nightly outings with \u2013 and, of course, eventually falls for \u2013 Eli (Belmont Cameli), an enigmatic guy haunted by a tragic past. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 6 May 2022",
      "Leonard was uncannily close to his father, an introvert who had kept llamas as pets and always brought mandarin oranges for halftime snacks. \u2014 Karin Brulliard And Adria Malcolm, Anchorage Daily News , 2 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "As a sober person, the idea of staying in, introverting , and enjoying downtime isn\u2019t what\u2019s getting to me. \u2014 Carly Benson, SELF , 30 Mar. 2020",
      "Which is to say, the music and script still fuse marvelously in the account of the big lie in which introverted Evan Hansen envelops himself and the vulnerable people around him. \u2014 Peter Marks, Washington Post , 8 Aug. 2019",
      "In fact, introverts feel more alive and at an equilibrium in quiet, minimally stimulating environments. \u2014 K. Lori Hanson, Ph.d., miamiherald , 14 May 2018",
      "Being introverted \u2013 often described as a person's comfort with various levels of stimulation and the need to detach in order to recharge one\u2019s batteries \u2013 is a good thing. \u2014 K. Lori Hanson, Ph.d., miamiherald , 14 May 2018",
      "Lincecum, introverted by nature, politely declined. \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 14 Mar. 2018",
      "So help me out, readers - are any of you introverts , like me",
      "Surrounded by studio hands including Philadelphia musician Alex G on guitar, Ocean introverted himself to get in the zone. \u2014 Eve Barlow, Billboard , 23 July 2017",
      "Obama's so much colder and more restrained than that, so much more ruthlessly calculated and inward-looking, so much more mysteriously introverted even as his rhetoric explodes in flashes of fascinating brilliance. \u2014 Stephen Marche, Esquire , 17 Oct. 2012"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "(sense 2) noun derivative of introvert entry 2 ; (sense 1) back formation from introverted":"Noun",
      "borrowed from New Latin intr\u014dvertere, from Latin intr\u014d- intro- + vertere \"to turn\" \u2014 more at worth entry 4":"Verb"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1878, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
      "1652, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-142932"
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      ": being or occurring within an industry or between the independent enterprises of an industry":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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      "intra- + industry or industrial":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143823"
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": situated in or relating to the spaces between galaxies":[],
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The festival \u2014 which also hosts art installations, film screenings, sound baths and other endeavors into the intergalactic , mystic and occult \u2014 will boast DJs set from Nosaj Thing and Telefon Tel Aviv alongside sets by clipping. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 13 June 2022",
      "Following a misadventure in space, a ship with a massive crew on an intergalactic trip ends up marooned on a hostile planet. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 13 June 2022",
      "In Lightyear, Palmer voices the character of Izzy, one of Buzz\u2019s intergalactic companions. \u2014 Kathleen Walsh, Glamour , 9 June 2022",
      "Protean saxophonist Kamasi Washington and his double-drumming ensemble was a soaring, Sun Ra-like force for good grooves and ferociously free intergalactic spiritual musicality on Sunday afternoon. \u2014 A.d. Amorosi, Variety , 6 June 2022",
      "After a three-year hiatus, the long-running fan convention returned over Memorial Day weekend, with both fans and stars alike gathering to celebrate all things intergalactic . \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 31 May 2022",
      "The company is counting on a group of intergalactic scoundrels to help. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 28 May 2022",
      "Throughout the ride, which is housed in a massive structure that could fit four Spaceship Earths inside, the walls are covered in projections, showcasing the intergalactic battle guests are engaged in alongside the Guardians. \u2014 Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2022",
      "Chris Evans does the vocal honors in this intergalactic origin story. \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1928, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-144830"
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      ": occurring or existing between the crystals or crystallites that make up a substance":[
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      "also -\u02ccl\u012bn",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1901, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145701"
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  "inter-epidemic":{
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      "adjective"
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      ": existing or occurring between epidemics":[
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        "inter-epidemic transmission"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02cce-p\u0259-\u02c8de-mik",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02cce-p\u0259-\u02c8de-mik"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1893, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145725"
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "noun or adjective"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8ven(t)-sh\u0259-\u02ccni-z\u0259m"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "a proponent of aggressive economic interventionism",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "After more than a century of political corruption, U.S. interventionism , and fascist military rule, the rights of women and girls have been strategically and effectively abolished. \u2014 Jessica Hoppe, refinery29.com , 31 May 2022",
      "While the two sides often differed in their approach, both opposed the militarism and reflexive interventionism that reigned in Washington, D.C. following the Cold War. \u2014 Blaise Malley, The New Republic , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "As the American conservative movement increasingly embraces populist, anti-immigrant policies and language, many have looked to Orban\u2019s style of governing and interventionism in the areas of culture, education, and the media as a guidepost. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
      "The global war on terror made U.S. interventionism and promotion of freedom around the world unpopular at home and abroad. \u2014 Shay Khatiri, The Week , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "By Friday morning, talk of interventionism was verboten. \u2014 Laura Jedeed, The New Republic , 26 Feb. 2022",
      "In Washington, there still remains no consensus on whether the real problem was interventionism run amuck in the 2000s and 2010s or neglect of terrorism in the 1990s. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 31 Aug. 2021",
      "Proponents of Middle Eastern regimes will argue that the growing gap between the region's leadership and its people is a lesser danger to states than the risk posed by clumsy Western interventionism . \u2014 Frederik Pleitgen, CNN , 5 Aug. 2021",
      "Disillusion with the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars has also dampened public support in Britain for interventionism and fueled fierce opposition on both the populist right and the socialist left. \u2014 David A. Cowan, National Review , 20 Aug. 2021"
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      "1923, in the meaning defined above":""
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      ": occurring between or involving two or more parishes : interparish":[
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      "adjective"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1841, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-153825"
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      "noun"
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      ": a nongenic area of a chromonema thought to alternate with the genic chromomeres":[]
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    "examples":[],
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      "inter- + chromomere entry 2":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154125"
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      ": a pronoun that emphasizes a preceding noun or another pronoun (as itself in \u201cborrowing is itself a bad habit\u201d)":[],
      ": a personal pronoun compounded with -self and used in apposition with a noun or pronoun or as pronominal adjunct (as itself in \u201cthe cat looked innocence itself\u201d or himself in \u201che made it himself\u201d)":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154917"
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      "phrasal verb"
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      ": to stop or slow (something) : to make (something) slower or more difficult":[
        "The drug might interfere with a child's physical development.",
        "All of the noise was interfering with my concentration."
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      ": to touch (a child) in a sexual and improper way":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-160300"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": intra-atomic":[]
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      "\u00a6in\u2027tr\u0259\u00a6t\u00e4mik"
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    "examples":[],
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      "irregular from intra- + atomic":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-160315"
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      "adverb"
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      ": occurring in or being an interval or intervening space or segment : of, relating to, or forming an interstice":[
        "an interstitial space",
        "\u2026 the site has been running interstitial ads, which consist of a full page of advertising between editorial pages, for a little more than a year.",
        "\u2014 Carl Sullivan"
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      ": situated within but not restricted to or characteristic of a particular organ or tissue":[
        "\u2014 used especially of fibrous tissue"
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      ": affecting the interstitial tissues of an organ or part":[
        "interstitial cystitis"
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      ": being or relating to a crystalline compound in which usually small atoms or ions of a nonmetal occupy holes between the larger metal atoms or ions in the crystal lattice":[]
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sti-sh\u0259l",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "My parents started the company in 1993 to help my mother\u2019s sister, who suffered from interstitial cystitis. \u2014 Jill Griffin, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
      "The interstitial moments featuring Thede, Black, Gabrielle Dennis and Skye Townsend also get a new setting. \u2014 Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "However, there will be interstitial ads during the show. \u2014 Rs Editors, Rolling Stone , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "In 2018, Latifah lost her beloved mother, Rita Owens, to interstitial lung disease (ILD). \u2014 Serena Coady, SELF , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "The moves, volume, and interstitial corrective stretches included in the program are informed by all of the data Tonal collects across its user base. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 12 Feb. 2022",
      "When work is squeezed into four days, the human interactions that fill the interstitial time can suffer. \u2014 Caitlin Harrington, Wired , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "She has been diagnosed with interstitial lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mild traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and dystonia, a disorder characterized by uncontrollable muscle contractions. \u2014 Alex Putterman, courant.com , 17 Jan. 2022",
      "The Ioniq device measures what\u2019s called interstitial fluid, the fluid between cells that helps nourish them. \u2014 Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Dec. 2021"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-160833"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": any of the tough elastic disks that are interposed between the centra of adjoining vertebrae and that consist of an outer fibrous ring enclosing an inner pulpy nucleus":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Your spine has 23 intervertebral disks between its vertebrae that act as shock absorbers. \u2014 Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics , 22 May 2018",
      "Dogs or cats with long backs such as dachshunds or munchkins are susceptible to ruptured intervertebral disks . \u2014 Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee , 8 Dec. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1860, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-160938"
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  "interrupted current":{
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      "noun"
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      ": a pulsating electric current produced by opening and closing a continuous-current circuit in a regular manner":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-161710"
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      "adjective"
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      ": situated between hills":[]
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      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)\u00a6k\u00e4l\u0259\u0307n",
      "-\u00e4\u02ccl\u012bn"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + Latin coll is hill + English -ine":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162103"
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
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      ": to question formally and systematically":[],
      ": to give or send out a signal to (a device, such as a transponder) for triggering an appropriate response":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ter-\u0259-\u02ccg\u0101t",
      "-\u02c8te-r\u0259-"
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      "ask",
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      "grill",
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      "query",
      "question",
      "quiz"
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      "answer",
      "reply",
      "respond"
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for interrogate ask , question , interrogate , query , inquire mean to address a person in order to gain information. ask implies no more than the putting of a question. ask for directions question usually suggests the asking of series of questions. questioned them about every detail of the trip interrogate suggests formal or official systematic questioning. the prosecutor interrogated the witness all day query implies a desire for authoritative information or confirmation. queried a librarian about the book inquire implies a searching for facts or for truth often specifically by asking questions. began to inquire of friends and teachers what career she should pursue",
    "examples":[
      "interrogate a prisoner of war",
      "interrogated him about where he'd gone the night before",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "So there is the scene where the detective sits down in front of the female suspect to interrogate her. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022",
      "But the Kings, especially Robert, bridled at creators who adopted more facile strategies\u2014blandly inclusive casting and writing designed to uplift rather than to interrogate . \u2014 Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
      "But asking them feels right in line with the series-long quest to interrogate the all-American project of unthinking hero worship. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
      "That remains a good summary of the challenge: to interrogate suffering without furthering it. \u2014 Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic , 16 May 2022",
      "Such comprehensive data sets can enable researchers to interrogate the relationships between many factors at once. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Some viewers might not understand how these Dalit journalists of little to no means find the courage to interrogate powerful local officials and demand answers, often at real cost to their own safety. \u2014 Yashica Dutt, The Atlantic , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "When Allonge went to interrogate Spurzem at her Cologne apartment, her teenage son grew distressed as Allonge fired question after question at his mother about the apparent fraud. \u2014 Joshua Hammer, Town & Country , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "But the incident that brings Seo-rae and the detective together is when her husband falls to his death from a mountaintop, and the detective must interrogate her as a potential suspect. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin interrogatus , past participle of interrogare , from inter- + rogare to ask \u2014 more at right":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-163818"
  },
  "intraventricular":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated within, occurring within, or administered into a ventricle":[
        "intraventricular hemorrhage"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-ven-\u02c8trik-y\u0259-l\u0259r, -(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-ven-\u02c8tri-ky\u0259-l\u0259r",
      "-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4-"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1875, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-165454"
  },
  "international auxiliary language":{
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      "noun"
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      ": interlanguage":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-165534"
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  "intensive proposition":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a proposition stating a relation of intension between concepts or one whose meaning is to be understood in intension":[]
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-170025"
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  "internalize":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8t\u0259r-n\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "They have internalized their parents' values.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For those still looking to take the first step, internalize the lessons to be learned from these five mistakes and know that a better way of doing things is out there. \u2014 Tal Frankfurt, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
      "But women who are abused often internalize it and do not seek attention. \u2014 Daniel Arkin, NBC News , 26 May 2022",
      "Providers must internalize the complexity of weight, learn how to utilize alternative health markers and even advocate for policies that reduce food deserts. \u2014 Ashley Andreou, Scientific American , 26 May 2022",
      "Like most avant-gardists of his generation, Warhol admired Duchamp, and found his motto easy to internalize . \u2014 The New Yorker , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "In other words, try to internalize the pain of oppression and the joy of redemption. \u2014 Ron Shulman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Workers who do not feel heard or valued will not internalize your company values. \u2014 Ben Moorsom, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "And many Ukrainians internalize this idea, which originally was religious. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Young Black children can internalize racial messages from a variety of sources, including anti-Black messages from the media, interactions with peers and school practices, such as being disproportionately disciplined or suspended from school. \u2014 Toni Sturdivant, The Conversation , 9 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1794, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172208"
  },
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": one who is interrogated":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02ccter-\u0259-\u02c8g\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1919, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172328"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": interlinear":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+\u00a6lin\u0113\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "interline ar + -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172424"
  },
  "intermittently":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": appearing and disappearing seasonally : sometimes dry":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8mit-\u1d4ant",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8mi-t\u1d4ant"
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    "synonyms":[
      "continual",
      "on-and-off",
      "periodic",
      "periodical",
      "recurrent",
      "recurring"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "constant",
      "continuous",
      "incessant",
      "unceasing"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "In the intermittent light he could make out the shape of a solitary oak tree, spreading great arms from its short tremendous trunk. \u2014 Susan Cooper , The Dark is Rising , (1973) 1999",
      "Decades of intermittent but recurring controversies with imperial authorities, and the lodestar of the glorious Revolution, disposed Americans to continue to believe that representation existed, first and foremost, to protect the rights of their communities against the abuse of executive power. \u2014 Jack N. Rakove , Original Meanings , 1996",
      "Bronchodilators continue to play an important role in asthma treatment, especially for people who have relatively mild or intermittent attacks. \u2014 Stephen Hoffmann , Harvard Medical School Health Letter , June 1991",
      "The patient was having intermittent pains in his side.",
      "The forecast is for intermittent rain.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Breezes from the southwest at 5 to 10 mph take a slight edge off the mugginess while partial cloud cover offers intermittent shade. \u2014 David Streit, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
      "In some cases, Congress will write into law the requirement that agencies provide intermittent updates on the implementation and success of new programs. \u2014 Claire Leavitt, The Conversation , 28 June 2022",
      "But as agriculture and municipal use took more of the water, the river\u2019s flow became intermittent , and by the mid-1900s only 20 percent of its flow reached the mouth. \u2014 Jim Robbins, Wired , 25 June 2022",
      "In other words, there may be a fantastic halo hydrogen hypercar on the horizon, and in theory in ten years\u2019 time hydrogen might be useful as storage for smoothing out intermittent renewables. \u2014 James Morris, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
      "Composite\u2019s top-30, Russaw and Smith have had national interest with intermittent visits. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 25 June 2022",
      "Gerrymandering has been an intermittent cause of outrage and argument since long before the word was coined in 1812 to describe the salamander-like Massachusetts state senate district created during the governorship of Elbridge Gerry. \u2014 Barton Swaim, WSJ , 24 June 2022",
      "The flashlight on my cap was feeble, its shine whittled down to intermittent smears of butterscotch against the dark fabric of night. \u2014 Okwiri Oduor, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
      "Gaza\u2019s food sources and medical supplies are intermittent and unreliable. \u2014 Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intermittent-, intermittens , present participle of intermittere \u2014 see intermit":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172447"
  },
  "internal control":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a system or plan of accounting and financial organization within a business comprising all the methods and measures necessary for safeguarding its assets, checking the accuracy of its accounting data or otherwise substantiating its financial statements, and policing previously adopted rules, procedures, and policies as to compliance and effectiveness":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173046"
  },
  "interference figure":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a figure observed with a conoscope when a section of a doubly refracting crystal is in the path traversed by convergent plane-polarized light (as when a centered black cross is superimposed over a black spot at the center of a series of concentric colored rings)":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173127"
  },
  "interdigitate":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to become interlocked like the fingers of folded hands":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8dij-\u0259-\u02cct\u0101t",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8di-j\u0259-\u02cct\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + Latin digitus finger \u2014 more at toe":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1849, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174335"
  },
  "intercensal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between censuses":[
        "intercensal estimates",
        "intercensal period"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8sen(t)-s\u0259l"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1887, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174556"
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  "interesterification":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": transesterification":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + esterification":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-175448"
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  "intersexuality":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the condition (such as that occurring in congenital adrenal hyperplasia or androgen insensitivity syndrome ) of either having both male and female gonadal tissue in one individual or of having the gonads of one sex and external genitalia that is of the other sex or is ambiguous":[
        "Intersexuality , in a variety of forms, occurs in about one of every 2,000 births\u2014about the same proportion as cystic fibrosis.",
        "\u2014 Emily Nussbaum"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccsek-sh\u0259-\u02c8wa-l\u0259-t\u0113",
      "-\u02ccsek-sh\u0259-\u02c8wal-\u0259t-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Intersex persons are discriminated against because society does not have enough public information on intersexuality , says, Dr. David Segal. \u2014 Aisha Salaudeen, CNN , 21 Sep. 2019",
      "Now a lecturer at Stellenbosch University in Capetown, Mtshawu says there are many misconceptions about intersexuality . \u2014 Aisha Salaudeen, CNN , 21 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1920, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180749"
  },
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      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events":[
        "only six months intervened between their marriage and divorce"
      ],
      ": to interfere with the outcome or course especially of a condition or process (as to prevent harm or improve functioning)":[],
      ": to come in or between by way of hindrance or modification":[
        "intervene to stop a fight"
      ],
      ": to enter or appear as an irrelevant or extraneous feature or circumstance":[
        "it's business as usual until a crisis intervenes"
      ],
      ": to occur or lie between two things":[],
      ": to become a third party to a legal proceeding begun by others for the protection of an alleged interest":[],
      ": to interfere usually by force or threat of force in another nation's internal affairs especially to compel or prevent an action":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8v\u0113n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "intercede",
      "intermediate",
      "interpose",
      "mediate"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for intervene interpose , interfere , intervene , mediate , intercede mean to come or go between. interpose often implies no more than this. interposed herself between him and the door interfere implies hindering. noise interfered with my concentration intervene may imply an occurring in space or time between two things or a stepping in to stop a conflict. quarreled until the manager intervened mediate implies intervening between hostile factions. mediated between the parties intercede implies acting for an offender in begging mercy or forgiveness. interceded on our behalf",
    "examples":[
      "Twenty years intervened between their first and last meetings.",
      "The prisoner asked me to intervene with the authorities on his behalf.",
      "The military had to intervene to restore order.",
      "We will leave on time unless some crisis intervenes .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "More patrols will be going out on both sides of the river this weekend, so officers will be able to spot and intervene more quickly, spokespeople from each department said. \u2014 Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online , 2 July 2022",
      "If macOS\u2019s own security tools don\u2019t intervene first. \u2014 Barry Collins, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
      "Per the new ruling, the state can intervene when victims are tribal members. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 29 June 2022",
      "People at the scene did intervene , sometimes shooting the attackers, but typically physically subduing them. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "But the diocese reportedly did not intervene to stop the priest\u2019s ongoing activities \u2014 working at a nonprofit to help orphans from the genocide in Rwanda. \u2014 Chico Harlan, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
      "The Suljovics ran outside to intervene , at which point Gooding and Whack allegedly brandished knives and stabbed both father and son. \u2014 Audrey Conklin, Fox News , 16 June 2022",
      "And the earlier physicians can intervene , the better. \u2014 Erika Edwards, NBC News , 12 June 2022",
      "Why would a national organization feel compelled to intervene in a state-level fight, particularly while in the midst of a tense battle with the White House over trade policy"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intervenire to come between, from inter- + venire to come \u2014 more at come":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180941"
  },
  "interstimulus":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to or being the interval between the presentation of two discrete stimuli":[
        "an interstimulus interval of one minute"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8stim-y\u0259-l\u0259s",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8stim-y\u0259-l\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1926, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181255"
  },
  "intermediate host":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a host which is normally used by a parasite in the course of its life cycle and in which it may multiply asexually but not sexually \u2014 compare definitive host":[],
      ": reservoir sense 3a":[],
      ": vector":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "An intermediate host , such as an itinerant cat, might ferry the virus from humans to deer. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "From the beginning, the genomic evidence led most virologists who were investigating SARS-CoV-2 to favor a zoonotic origin involving a jump of the virus from bats to humans, possibly with the help of an intermediate host animal. \u2014 Stephan Lewandowsky, Scientific American , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "Some scientists are pushing for a more vigorous search for an intermediate host , which, if found, would be strong evidence for natural transmission. \u2014 Michael Standaert And Eva Dou, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "And the prevailing scientific opinion is that there as an intermediate host , an animal of some sort, that was infected by a bat or bats and then infected people. \u2014 Maggie Fox, CNN , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "It also could have been transmitted first to an intermediate host like a civet, for instance, if the civet drank water contaminated with bat feces. \u2014 Michael Standaert And Eva Dou, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "Some scientists are pushing for a more vigorous search for an intermediate host , which, if found, would be strong evidence for natural transmission. \u2014 Michael Standaert And Eva Dou, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "Although the origin of the virus is thought to be from a wild animal, either directly from a bat or though an intermediate host like a civet cat or a raccoon dog, domesticated and zoo animals haven\u2019t been implicated in the virus\u2019s spread. \u2014 Michelle Fay Cortez, Fortune , 16 Nov. 2021",
      "Some scientists are pushing for a more vigorous search for an intermediate host , which, if found, would be strong evidence for natural transmission. \u2014 Michael Standaert And Eva Dou, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1878, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181304"
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  "interior angle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the inner of the two angles formed where two sides of a polygon come together":[],
      ": any of the four angles formed in the area between a pair of parallel lines when a third line cuts them":[]
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Both are three-dimensional structures, but each has a very different geometry: Their layouts are different, the curvature of their exteriors is different, their interior angles are different. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Apr. 2018",
      "Both are three-dimensional structures, but each has a very different geometry: Their layouts are different, the curvature of their exteriors is different, their interior angles are different. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Apr. 2018",
      "Dehn focused on the interior angles formed where two faces of a three-dimensional shape meet. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 31 Oct. 2019",
      "Both are three-dimensional structures, but each has a very different geometry: Their layouts are different, the curvature of their exteriors is different, their interior angles are different. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Apr. 2018",
      "Both are three-dimensional structures, but each has a very different geometry: Their layouts are different, the curvature of their exteriors is different, their interior angles are different. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Apr. 2018",
      "Both are three-dimensional structures, but each has a very different geometry: Their layouts are different, the curvature of their exteriors is different, their interior angles are different. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Apr. 2018",
      "Both are three-dimensional structures, but each has a very different geometry: Their layouts are different, the curvature of their exteriors is different, their interior angles are different. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Apr. 2018",
      "The 180-degree total signifies flatness, according to a 19th-century formula called the Gauss-Bonnet theorem that relates the intrinsic curvature of a surface to the interior angles of a closed path around it. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 6 Jan. 2015"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1756, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181458"
  },
  "inter-African":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": involving, made up of, or occurring between two or more African people, groups, or nations":[
        "an inter-African committee",
        "inter-African trade",
        "inter-African travel"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "also -\u02c8\u00e4-",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8a-fri-k\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1906, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181711"
  },
  "interfret":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the interaction between two wind currents of different velocities or directions producing a wave motion of the air often of great amplitude and frequently creating special cloud effects (as mackerel sky or billow clouds)":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8int\u0259(r)+\u02cc-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + fret (network)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181846"
  },
  "international law":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a body of rules that control or affect the rights of nations in their relations with each other":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Under international law , nations are expected to take steps to address a PHEIC, though they are not compelled to act\u2014many nations took weeks to respond after the WHO sounded the alarm on Covid-19 in January 2020. \u2014 Robert Hart, Forbes , 25 June 2022",
      "In Bezruky, a town north of Kharkiv, The New York Times documented Russia\u2019s use of anti-tank land mines that can explode if picked up by humans, which means they would be banned under international law . \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
      "The primary definition of a mercenary under international law is someone fighting primarily for financial gain who is paid substantially more than local armed forces. \u2014 Maham Javaid, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
      "Under international law , prisoners of war cannot be tried for their participation in a conflict, though they can be prosecuted for war crimes. \u2014 Annabelle Chapman, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
      "Under international law , prisoners of war cannot be tried for their participation in a conflict, though they can be prosecuted for war crimes. \u2014 Claire Parker, Ellen Francis And Annabelle Chapman, Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2022",
      "The war crimes trial of a Russian soldier in Ukraine - which concluded on May 24, 2022 with a conviction and life sentence for the defendant - was permissible under international law . \u2014 Robert Goldman, The Conversation , 23 May 2022",
      "But Michael Byers, an international law professor at the University of British Columbia who studies Arctic sovereignty, said the resources are too deep and the area too filled with icebergs to make offshore drilling likely. \u2014 Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
      "But Michael Byers, an international law professor at the University of British Columbia who studies Arctic sovereignty, said that the resources are too deep and the area too filled with icebergs to make offshore drilling likely. \u2014 Ian Austen, New York Times , 14 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1789, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182221"
  },
  "interference spectrum":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a spectrum (as in a transparent film) in which the dispersion is due to interference of light":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182713"
  },
  "interterritorial":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between territories":[
        "interterritorial trade",
        "an interterritorial council",
        "interterritorial rates for freight"
      ],
      ": relating to movement between territories":[
        "interterritorial trade",
        "an interterritorial council",
        "interterritorial rates for freight"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccter-\u0259-\u02c8t\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1848, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182757"
  },
  "intra-":{
    "type":[
      "prefix"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": within":[
        "intra galactic"
      ],
      ": during":[
        "intra day"
      ],
      ": between layers of":[
        "intra dermal"
      ],
      ": intro-":[
        "an intra muscular injection"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-(\u02cc)tr\u00e4",
      "\u02c8in-tr\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin, from Latin intra , from Old Latin *interus , adjective, inward \u2014 more at interior":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183323"
  },
  "interstate":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, connecting, or existing between two or more states especially of the U.S.":[
        "interstate commerce"
      ],
      ": any of a system of expressways connecting most major U.S. cities":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8st\u0101t",
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccst\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "You'll get there quicker if you take the interstate .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Minors face restrictions in independently buying interstate bus, rail, or airline tickets. \u2014 Tracey Wilkinson, STAT , 28 June 2022",
      "The homeless who sleep under interstate overpasses will likely be affected. \u2014 al , 23 June 2022",
      "Revenue from the gas tax goes to the Highway Trust Fund, to pay for construction and interstate projects. \u2014 Ella Lee, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
      "Strikingly, however, this brewing interstate war would be something relatively new. \u2014 CNN , 21 June 2022",
      "And an interstate compact launched in 2017 has attracted relatively few participants. \u2014 David Ingram, NBC News , 19 June 2022",
      "Senator Cindy Friedman of Arlington, who proposed the measure, told the Globe last month it was written in a way that would respect interstate commerce laws and the ability of plaintiffs to bring legitimate lawsuits. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
      "In recent years, cities across the U.S. have reconfigured urban highways to repair damage caused by the first wave of interstate construction in the 1950s, \u201860s and \u201870s, when engineers plowed roadways through low-income and minority neighborhoods. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
      "Shameik Camara, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of firearm by a felon, and one count of receipt and possession of items from an interstate shipment, according to federal authorities. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 14 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Barreto guides his minivan to the interstate and then climbs out of the valley to visit Al Raczkowski, age 88. \u2014 Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American , 10 June 2022",
      "The Champlain Parkway will be a two-lane road that is designed to eventually connect Interstate 189 with with downtown Burlington, but the initial construction phase will not connect to the interstate . \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "The perimeter extended the length of Riggs Avenue as well as side streets and up to the interstate . \u2014 Fox19, The Enquirer , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "The truck, now with both men inside, chased Gibson out of Brookhaven and to the interstate , Gibson said. \u2014 Jennifer Henderson, Nick Valencia And Jade Gordon, CNN , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "The water was way up the off ramp and almost to the interstate . . . . \u2014 Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "Trucks routinely park in her local shopping center and on the side of the entrance ramp to the interstate . \u2014 David Harrison, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022",
      "All access to the interstate is closed for travel from Troutdale to Cascade Locks. \u2014 oregonlive , 6 Jan. 2022",
      "Nestled next to the interstate , the complex is expected to generate millions of dollars and the developers say the two home suburbs would get some $3 million in tax revenue with another $4 million split among numerous area communities. \u2014 Jerry Shnay, chicagotribune.com , 3 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1844, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1968, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183346"
  },
  "interservice":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between or relating to two or more of the armed services":[
        "interservice rivalry"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8s\u0259r-v\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "One received an interservice commission with the Air Force. \u2014 Nick Anderson, Washington Post , 25 May 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1946, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183538"
  },
  "intercorrelation":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": correlation between the members of a group of variables and especially between independent variables":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02cck\u022fr-\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n",
      "-\u02cck\u00e4r-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1901, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183905"
  },
  "intersexualism":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": intersexuality":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-shw\u0259-\u02ccli-",
      "-sh\u0259-\u02ccli-",
      "\u00a6in-t\u0259r-\u00a6sek-sh\u0259-w\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1927, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183942"
  },
  "interregnal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to an interregnum":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+\u00a6regn\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183953"
  },
  "intratropical":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": intertropical":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intra- + tropical":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184802"
  },
  "interlobular":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": lying between or connecting lobules":[
        "interlobular pulmonary septa",
        "interlobular bile ducts"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccint-\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00e4b-y\u0259-l\u0259r",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8l\u00e4-by\u0259-l\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1834, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-190441"
  },
  "Internet":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world":[
        "\u2014 used with the except when being used attributively doing research on the Internet an Internet search"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare world wide web":[
        "\u2014 used with the except when being used attributively doing research on the Internet an Internet search"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccnet"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1986, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-190908"
  },
  "intercommunicate":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to exchange communication with one another":[],
      ": to afford passage from one to another":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-k\u0259-\u02c8my\u00fc-n\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "brainstorm",
      "communicate"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "the two agencies will need to intercommunicate better if the nation is ever to become truly secure from international terrorism"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191051"
  },
  "intergenomal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occurring between genomes":[
        "intergenomal pairing"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+j\u0113\u00a6n\u014dm\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + genome + -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191434"
  },
  "interbehavior":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": interaction between two or more individuals : social behavior":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + behavior":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-192016"
  },
  "integrating sphere":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a spherical shell used to determine total luminous flux by means of photometric measurement of a spot of light through an aperture in the shell whose white interior produces thorough diffusion of light from a source placed at its center":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-192623"
  },
  "intratelluric":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated, formed, or occurring deep within the earth":[
        "\u2014 used especially of a mineral of an igneous rock"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or constituting the period or stage of crystallization of igneous rocks prior to eruption":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intra- + telluric ; translation of German intratellurisch":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193352"
  },
  "intensive care":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the continuous monitoring and treatment of critically ill or injured patients using special medical facilities, equipment, and services":[
        "Many of the sickest patients need intensive care , even to the point of being connected to a mechanical respirator.",
        "\u2014 Lawrence K. Altman"
      ],
      ": a designated area in a hospital providing intensive care : intensive care unit":[
        "heart patients in intensive care",
        "\u2026 short of breath and feverish, doctors isolated him in intensive care .",
        "\u2014 Elisabeth Rosenthal",
        "\u2014 often hyphenated when used before another noun an intensive-care nurse"
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      "The family would not say whether Pegula remains in the intensive care unit of a Florida hospital or specify the medical issue in asking to continue respecting their need for privacy. \u2014 John Wawrow, Sun Sentinel , 28 June 2022",
      "Ward is a nurse practitioner who works at a neonatal intensive care unit in Chicago. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "After welcoming their daughter in January, the couple revealed last month that baby Malti was finally home after more than 100 days in the neonatal intensive care unit. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 20 June 2022",
      "Both babies spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit. \u2014 Anna Werner Wernera@cbsnews.com, CBS News , 17 June 2022",
      "Doctors studied the hospital\u2019s surgery processes and determined that a large number of fatalities occurred due to problems during the handovers between the operating room and the intensive care unit. \u2014 Shane Snow, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
      "Nearly one year after he was born with a very rare genetic condition, Baby Max was finally discharged from Advocate Children\u2019s Hospital\u2019s neonatal intensive care unit. \u2014 Fox News , 9 June 2022",
      "The infant was admitted to the intensive care unit and hospital workers reported the case to police the same day. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 8 June 2022",
      "In April 2020, with the virus circulating in Downing Street, Mr. Johnson himself contracted Covid, ended up in an intensive care unit and nearly died. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 6 June 2022"
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      "interrogate a prisoner of war",
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      "So there is the scene where the detective sits down in front of the female suspect to interrogate her. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022",
      "But the Kings, especially Robert, bridled at creators who adopted more facile strategies\u2014blandly inclusive casting and writing designed to uplift rather than to interrogate . \u2014 Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
      "But asking them feels right in line with the series-long quest to interrogate the all-American project of unthinking hero worship. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
      "That remains a good summary of the challenge: to interrogate suffering without furthering it. \u2014 Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic , 16 May 2022",
      "Such comprehensive data sets can enable researchers to interrogate the relationships between many factors at once. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Some viewers might not understand how these Dalit journalists of little to no means find the courage to interrogate powerful local officials and demand answers, often at real cost to their own safety. \u2014 Yashica Dutt, The Atlantic , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "When Allonge went to interrogate Spurzem at her Cologne apartment, her teenage son grew distressed as Allonge fired question after question at his mother about the apparent fraud. \u2014 Joshua Hammer, Town & Country , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "But the incident that brings Seo-rae and the detective together is when her husband falls to his death from a mountaintop, and the detective must interrogate her as a potential suspect. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 May 2022"
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      "Latin interrogatus , past participle of interrogare , from inter- + rogare to ask \u2014 more at right":""
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      "1875, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Despite Japan's recent effort to bolster its defenses, Yoko Iwama, an international relations and security expert at the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, said the country is vulnerable. \u2014 CNN , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Sullivan also addressed a recent join statement from Russia and China, in which the two countries discussed international relations and the strengthening of their partnership. \u2014 Ronn Blitzer, Fox News , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "Few of those situations reach as deeply into international relations and human rights as Simon has in the Peng case. \u2014 Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "Oscar Rendon, a student at San Diego City College, studies international relations and pre-law. \u2014 Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "This applies to elections and the rule of law, as well as international relations and trade. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 4 Oct. 2021",
      "Vixama, who studied international relations and business management, was working in insurance at the time. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 July 2021",
      "Because people that don\u2019t care about space exploration, some of those people care a lot about international relations . \u2014 Kk Ottesen, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
      "The idealism was the attempt to trade and cooperate with Russia in the hope of bringing Moscow into the sphere of normal international relations . \u2014 Patrick Smith, NBC News , 18 May 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1914, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204131"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In most cases, EHR interoperability improves the ease in which clinicians deliver health care. \u2014 Kim Gallon, STAT , 28 June 2022",
      "The coalition of tech companies, retail outfits, and digital nonprofits announced Tuesday the formation of the Metaverse Standards Forum, an open consortium dedicated to developing metaverse interoperability protocols. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 22 June 2022",
      "From the lack of adequate interoperability , to e-commerce platforms relying on cash transactions due to the complexity of digital payment gateways, and limited fintech product offerings. \u2014 Hawi Dadhi, Quartz , 8 June 2022",
      "The current plan calls for the interoperability effort to be ready for the 2022-2023 school year. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 11 May 2022",
      "Users across a wide-array of electronic medical records (EMRs) and interoperability networks are quite familiar with the complexities and lack of quality data that crosses these platforms daily. \u2014 Seth Joseph, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
      "As entrepreneurs look to develop solutions for this marketplace, there are some key areas to keep in mind that will be requirements for potential solutions: - Device interoperability and open platforms. \u2014 Bernhard Schroeder, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
      "And from a military standpoint, the joint exercises Finland and Sweden have conducted since Russia\u2019s 2014 invasion on Crimea have erased any possible concerns about the interoperability of Nordic and NATO forces. \u2014 Ian Bremmer, Time , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "Silos still exist and the priority needs to be on insuring strong interoperability of data. \u2014 Paul Hudson, Fortune , 22 Feb. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1965, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204316"
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      "noun"
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      ": the law found in the treaties and international agreements among nations binding the parties thereto but not necessarily being a part of the body of international law binding all nations":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204806"
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      "adjective"
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      "-\u02ccr\u012bn",
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The court decision also appeared to drive interest in long-acting reversible birth control methods, such as intrauterine devices. \u2014 Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2022",
      "The Couple's Hard Path to Parenthood Chad and Amy tried to have children for two years before starting intrauterine insemination (IUI) \u2014 a fertility treatment that required Amy to take a medication that stimulated her ovaries to release an egg. \u2014 Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
      "Since the leak last month of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe, some Tri-Rivers patients have been seeking intrauterine devices, which can stay in place for up to seven years, or to stock up on emergency contraception. \u2014 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times , 13 June 2022",
      "Contraceptives like intrauterine devices, oral pills, vaginal rings, and implants work by releasing small amounts of progesterone for several months to years. \u2014 Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
      "Contraception methods like Plan B and certain types of intrauterine devices, or IUDs, could be restricted under the bill, said Cathren Cohen, a scholar of law and policy at the UCLA Law Center. \u2014 Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News , 12 May 2022",
      "After a two-year fertility journey that included intrauterine insemination (IUI) and IVF treatments, the Property Brothers star and podcast producer finally received the exciting pregnancy news in August. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 6 May 2022",
      "First, Dugger-Spalding tried intrauterine insemination, or IUI. \u2014 oregonlive , 2 May 2022",
      "In their quest to have a baby, Belle and her husband had been through three rounds of ovulation induction, a miscarriage at five weeks and two rounds of intrauterine insemination. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Apr. 2022"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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      "circa 1836, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205151"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This causes the intertropical convergence zone (or ITCZ)\u2014an area of low pressure that forms a band girdling the Earth\u2014to shift northwards from the Equator towards the Tropic of Cancer. \u2014 Anusha Krishnan, Quartz , 30 May 2022",
      "Located 1600 kilometers south of Honolulu, the atoll sits just shy of 6\u00b0 north of the equator, on the edge of the intertropical convergence zone, a band of ocean known for slack winds and abundant rainfall. \u2014 Kenneth R. Weiss, Science | AAAS , 27 Aug. 2020",
      "The intertropical convergence, or ITC, is an area of consistently severe weather near the equator. \u2014 Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics , 1 June 2020"
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      "1794, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205231"
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      "adjective"
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      ": the act of introverting : the state of being turned inward or upon oneself or itself":[
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        "\u2026 the introversion of the German policy-makers after World War II, seeking less of world limelight.",
        "\u2014 Ronald Kayanja"
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      ": the state of or tendency toward being predominantly concerned with and obtaining gratification from one's own mental life : a personality trait or style characterized by a preference for or orientation to one's own thoughts and feelings":[
        "As a corporate trainer I'd always received high performance ratings. \u2026 Introversion had made me a good listener which put people at ease.",
        "\u2014 Linda Harding-Bond",
        "For all the things shyness is, there are a number of things it's not. For one, it's not simple introversion . If you stay home on a Friday night just because you prefer a good book to a loud party, you're not necessarily shy \u2026",
        "\u2014 Jeffrey Kluger"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare extroversion":[
        "As a corporate trainer I'd always received high performance ratings. \u2026 Introversion had made me a good listener which put people at ease.",
        "\u2014 Linda Harding-Bond",
        "For all the things shyness is, there are a number of things it's not. For one, it's not simple introversion . If you stay home on a Friday night just because you prefer a good book to a loud party, you're not necessarily shy \u2026",
        "\u2014 Jeffrey Kluger"
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      "-sh\u0259n",
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "What\u2019s sure is that the world has awakened to introversion with the growing understanding of various personality types. \u2014 Karl Moore, Forbes , 26 Dec. 2021",
      "Before joining her school\u2019s robotics team, the Nautilus, Mariana was deeply shy, but competing for FIRST\u2019s Chairman Award (given to the team that demonstrates the greatest service to their community) eased her out of introversion . \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The American Psychiatric Association has considered adding introversion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. \u2014 Faith Hill, The Atlantic , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "An ambivert is a personality trait used to describe someone in the middle of the spectrum of introversion and extraversion. \u2014 Tiffany Philippou, refinery29.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "The key is to recognize that introversion is an asset, not a liability. \u2014 Caroline Castrillon, Forbes , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "There is a link between introversion and creativity. \u2014 Caroline Castrillon, Forbes , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "People sometimes use introversion as a synonym for shyness. \u2014 Ashley Stahl, Forbes , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "But that said, some of the introversion stuff stays with me. \u2014 Simon Vozick-levinson, Rolling Stone , 15 Oct. 2021"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin intr\u014dversi\u014dn-, intr\u014dversi\u014d \"a turning inward,\" from intr\u014dvertere \"to turn inward\" + Latin -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d, suffix of verbal action; (sense 2) after German Introversion \u2014 more at introvert entry 2":""
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      "1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "New Latin interax is + -ial or -al":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211752"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Additionally, our cellular shades can trap air and help maintain interior temperatures, while Roman shades and drapery can be outfitted with a cotton flannel interlining designed to improve insulation and make homes more energy-efficient. \u2014 Orange County Register , 30 Mar. 2017"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
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      "1881, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211817"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212145"
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      ": the basic monetary unit of Peru from 1985 to 1990":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Quechua, sun":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1985, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212651"
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      ": to depend upon one another : to be in a state of mutual dependence":[
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        "\u2014 Walter C. Clemens",
        "In lesson units, pupils study the Earth, the Moon and the Sun as separate bodies and as a system with interdepending relationships between them \u2026",
        "\u2014 The Brentwood (United Kingdom) Gazette"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1848, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Mulvihill begins with a focus on organic pest management, a careful mix of organic gardening, integrated pest management and attracting pollinators and birds to the vegetable garden. \u2014 Sally Peterson, oregonlive , 13 Aug. 2021"
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        "\u2014 M. W. Baldwin"
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      "Latin intermittere , from inter- + mittere to send":""
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      "You should intersperse these pictures evenly throughout the book.",
      "Some seagulls were interspersed among the ducks.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Rather than tell the story in a linear fashion, following Sunja\u2019s life, Hugh chose to intersperse her story with that of her grandson\u2019s. \u2014 Joan Macdonald, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Rubin, being a columnist, does intersperse some opinion and analysis into her storytelling. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
      "When ready to make the drink, intersperse the watermelon ice cubes with regular ice and cucumber wheels. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Aug. 2021",
      "Only Weir could intersperse rocket science with dad jokes and create a memorable space MacGyver in Grace, who can science his way out of any situation. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 May 2021",
      "Choose three stories that are best suited to intersperse into this project. \u2014 Esther Choy, Forbes , 11 Apr. 2021",
      "However, the wide receivers still struggled to get open deep, so the Tigers were mostly only able to intersperse short and medium passes in with the runs. \u2014 Giana Han, al , 5 Dec. 2020",
      "During the week, Noble and her fellow teachers see paying students for riding lessons and intersperse those sessions with free classes for Humble. \u2014 Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com , 30 Oct. 2020",
      "The first is to plant in large blocks, the second to intersperse them among existing perennials. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 21 Oct. 2020"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The failures of intestacy laws reveal the limits in how our legal system characterizes the family unit. \u2014 Michael Waters, The Atlantic , 17 May 2022"
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      "1767, in the meaning defined above":""
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        "intersesamoid ligament of a horse's fetlock"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220312"
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      "adjective"
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      ": interdenominational":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + creedal":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220337"
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      "noun"
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      ": a zone of convergence of trade winds and equatorial winds often marked by heavy rains in tropical regions \u2014 compare doldrum sense 3":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220534"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": intermittent":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intermiss us + English -ive":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-221733"
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      "adjective"
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        "Our patients were without question seriously ill. This reflects the selection of more serious, life-threatening attempts for admission to the intensive care unit .",
        "\u2014 Theodore A. Stern et al.",
        "The array of equipment that is now so familiar a part of intensive care units sustains lives that previously would have been lost.",
        "\u2014 Franz J. Ingelfinger",
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1955, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-k\u0259-\u02c8my\u00fc-n\u0259-\u02cck\u0101t"
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      "brainstorm",
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    "examples":[
      "the two agencies will need to intercommunicate better if the nation is ever to become truly secure from international terrorism"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222040"
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      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": the condition of an individual or population that intergrades":[]
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-gr\u0101-\u02c8d\u0101-sh\u0259n",
      "-gr\u0259-"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1874, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222747"
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      "adjective"
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      "\"+"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223417"
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      "noun"
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      ": a salute of 21 guns to a national flag":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224018"
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      "noun"
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      ": internality":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224619"
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    "type":[
      "verb"
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      ": to operate together":[
        "\u2026 their individual components, configurable from one interface, are designed to interoperate smoothly",
        "\u2014 Narasu Rebbapragada"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8\u00e4-\u02ccpr\u0101t",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8\u00e4-p\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1699, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224800"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + dentil":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224949"
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      "noun"
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      ": citizenship or the right to civic privileges in different bodies politic at the same time":[
        "intercitizenship in different states of the U.S."
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6int\u0259(r)+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + citizenship":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225056"
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  "interference pattern":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": an arrangement of fringes or bands (as Newton's rings) due to interference \u2014 compare optical flat":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225158"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a physician who specializes in the care and treatment of patients in intensive care":[
        "An intensivist may also be referred to as a critical care specialist. Doctors who receive training in internal medicine, general surgery, anesthesiology or pediatrics can become board-certified intensivists with the appropriate training.",
        "\u2014 R. J. Ignelzi"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8ten(t)-s\u0259-v\u0259st"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "intensive entry 1 + -ist entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1965, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225745"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing between members":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + membral":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230207"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": mutual adaptation":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + adaptation":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230240"
  },
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    "type":[
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to act upon one another":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8akt"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "They're quiet children who don't interact much.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "And so being able to have a front row seat with that, being able to interact with guys who are working at this level is hugely inspiring. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, ELLE , 21 June 2022",
      "While Yamaha and Taylor will have a smaller footprint and less staffing than at recent editions of the NAMM Show, both companies share Ash\u2019s enthusiasm about the importance of being able to interact face-to-face. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 June 2022",
      "Similarly to games such as Fortnite, players may soon be able to interact with virtual avatars through their mobile, tablet or desktop devices. \u2014 Anthony Wong, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
      "AirPods Max also carry a high-quality Transparency Mode to interact with the world around you. \u2014 Kelsey Mulvey, Men's Health , 17 June 2022",
      "The argument is that the thousands of talented people who developed these products used software to create always-on virtual spaces for people to interact and express themselves in real time. \u2014 Marcus Segal, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
      "This wall and the ability for shoppers to interact with sales associates is both a personal health education opportunity and a chance to learn about new products. \u2014 Brin Snelling, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "The event on June 1 allowed officers and the public to interact , even if just briefly, in an informal setting. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
      "Currently, most widgets only display static information that forces you to enter an app to interact with it. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 6 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1839, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230636"
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      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": arrangement in alternate strata":[
        "areas where interstratification occurs",
        "discovered various interstratifications of clay and limestone"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccstra-t\u0259-f\u0259-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1832, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-231926"
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      "adverb",
      "noun"
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      ": characterized by examination of one's own thoughts and feelings : thoughtfully reflective : employing, marked by, or tending to introspection":[
        "As a student, he was very quiet and introspective .",
        "\u2026 encouraging a balance between the fast, upbeat songs and a band's more introspective side.",
        "\u2014 David T. Lindsay",
        "There's an interesting literature that suggests that when people are sad, they tend to pay attention to themselves. They become withdrawn and introspective and very aware of their body and their mind and not very aware of the external world.",
        "\u2014 Peter Salovey"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8spek-tiv"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Saunders\u2019s short story has a bleak and introspective ending that might not have translated well to screen. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 20 June 2022",
      "On the other hand, my Type S employees tend to be more even-keeled, shyer and introspective . \u2014 Nicholas Kraus, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "Since 2020, the band has turned to a more emotional and introspective writing process. \u2014 Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Ansari has never been the type to get too personal or introspective in his specials, which leaves him in a tricky place. \u2014 Carrie Battan, The New Yorker , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "Sweet, complex and darkly golden, thought-provoking and introspective . \u2014 Jason O'bryan, Robb Report , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Over Zoom, the mood proved light and fun yet introspective , tinged with the turbulence of two years ago \u2014 live shows were Ellevator\u2019s lifeblood and driving force, honed during years crisscrossing Canada. \u2014 Beau Hayhoe, SPIN , 11 May 2022",
      "Yanya\u2019s lyrics are intimate and introspective , while her style combines lounge-jazz balladry with astringent alt-rock. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
      "Even the quiet and introspective practice of reading or reciting a prayer can be a form of stress-relief within itself \u2014 and if the verse happens to relate to your current emotions, then that's even better. \u2014 Jackie Frere, Woman's Day , 3 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1819, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232012"
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      "transitive verb"
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      ": to sow, scatter, or sprinkle among other things : intersperse":[],
      ": to intersperse (a planting) with seed of another crop":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + sow":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232902"
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  "interfruitful":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": capable of reciprocal cross-pollination":[
        "interfruitful strawberry"
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      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233832"
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      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act of introverting : the state of being turned inward or upon oneself or itself":[
        "introversion of an eyelash",
        "\u2026 the introversion of the German policy-makers after World War II, seeking less of world limelight.",
        "\u2014 Ronald Kayanja"
      ],
      ": the state of or tendency toward being predominantly concerned with and obtaining gratification from one's own mental life : a personality trait or style characterized by a preference for or orientation to one's own thoughts and feelings":[
        "As a corporate trainer I'd always received high performance ratings. \u2026 Introversion had made me a good listener which put people at ease.",
        "\u2014 Linda Harding-Bond",
        "For all the things shyness is, there are a number of things it's not. For one, it's not simple introversion . If you stay home on a Friday night just because you prefer a good book to a loud party, you're not necessarily shy \u2026",
        "\u2014 Jeffrey Kluger"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare extroversion":[
        "As a corporate trainer I'd always received high performance ratings. \u2026 Introversion had made me a good listener which put people at ease.",
        "\u2014 Linda Harding-Bond",
        "For all the things shyness is, there are a number of things it's not. For one, it's not simple introversion . If you stay home on a Friday night just because you prefer a good book to a loud party, you're not necessarily shy \u2026",
        "\u2014 Jeffrey Kluger"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8v\u0259r-zh\u0259n, -sh\u0259n",
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8v\u0259r-zh\u0259n",
      "-sh\u0259n"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "What\u2019s sure is that the world has awakened to introversion with the growing understanding of various personality types. \u2014 Karl Moore, Forbes , 26 Dec. 2021",
      "Before joining her school\u2019s robotics team, the Nautilus, Mariana was deeply shy, but competing for FIRST\u2019s Chairman Award (given to the team that demonstrates the greatest service to their community) eased her out of introversion . \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The American Psychiatric Association has considered adding introversion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. \u2014 Faith Hill, The Atlantic , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "An ambivert is a personality trait used to describe someone in the middle of the spectrum of introversion and extraversion. \u2014 Tiffany Philippou, refinery29.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
      "The key is to recognize that introversion is an asset, not a liability. \u2014 Caroline Castrillon, Forbes , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "There is a link between introversion and creativity. \u2014 Caroline Castrillon, Forbes , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "People sometimes use introversion as a synonym for shyness. \u2014 Ashley Stahl, Forbes , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "But that said, some of the introversion stuff stays with me. \u2014 Simon Vozick-levinson, Rolling Stone , 15 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin intr\u014dversi\u014dn-, intr\u014dversi\u014d \"a turning inward,\" from intr\u014dvertere \"to turn inward\" + Latin -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d, suffix of verbal action; (sense 2) after German Introversion \u2014 more at introvert entry 2":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-234922"
  },
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      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": situated within or between the axils of leaves":[]
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      "\"+"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + axillary":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-234926"
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      "noun"
    ],
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      ": a period between two academic sessions or terms sometimes utilized for brief concentrated courses":[]
    },
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      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccse-sh\u0259n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Grossmont and Cuyamaca colleges also announced a shift to remote operations for the first two weeks of intersession . \u2014 Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "In open session, the board heard a presentation on the Expanded Learning Opportunities program, which offers programming to students outside of regular school hours, such as summer school and intersession . \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "In Birmingham, the district is putting $29.5 million toward extra instruction, including after-school care, intersession periods and a recent partnership with area colleges to provide one-on-one tutoring. \u2014 al , 11 Jan. 2022",
      "Interim Chancellor Charles Robinson and other UA leaders, in a message emailed Thursday to the campus community, said in-person instruction would continue in ongoing intersession courses and at the start of the spring term. \u2014 Andy Davis, Arkansas Online , 8 Jan. 2022",
      "The winter intersession for most institutions began Monday or starts Tuesday and lasts for four weeks. \u2014 Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Jan. 2022",
      "The recommendation to go back to the regular calendar and leave it up to campuses to choose when and how to offer intersession classes was created with input from the Alliance. \u2014 Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News , 27 Dec. 2021",
      "An intersession model, which would offer nearly five weeks of optional instruction spread out across the school year, was approved at 36 campuses. \u2014 Corbett Smith, Dallas News , 16 Mar. 2021",
      "Adelle Turner, which follows the district\u2019s intersession calendar, started school on Monday. \u2014 Destine Gibson, Dallas News , 11 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1932, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235326"
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      "adjective"
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        "interpenetrant crystals"
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      "\"+"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235848"
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      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
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      ": written or printed in different languages or texts in alternate lines":[]
    },
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8li-n\u0113-\u0259r"
    ],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English interliniare , from Medieval Latin interlinearis , from Latin inter- + linea line":"Adjective"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1850, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-000056"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": capable of being introverted":[]
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      "\u00a6in\u2027tr\u0259\u00a6v\u0259rs\u0259b\u0259l",
      "-r\u014d\u00a6-"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "introvers ion + -ible":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002313"
  },
  "internal cork":{
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      "noun"
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      ": a virus disease of sweet potatoes characterized principally by the small brown to black corky spots which develop within the roots becoming prominent after harvest and storage":[],
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-003014"
  },
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the making of the parts of machines with such tolerances that any of the parts will properly function in any of the machines":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004138"
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      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": an act or instance of reciprocal stimulation":[
        "interstimulation and response between individuals"
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        "an interstimulation interval"
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      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02ccstim-y\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1884, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1922, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004815"
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    "type":[
      "noun,",
      "verb"
    ],
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      ": to unite or become united by grafting":[
        "apricot varieties that readily intergraft",
        "attempted to intergraft apple and pear stock"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8graft"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1860, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011321"
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      "verb"
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      ": to fit into a uniform or harmonious group":[
        "storage cupboard which intermembers with the vertical cabinets",
        "\u2014 Estelle B. Hunter",
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012147"
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      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": situated between or enclosed by rivers":[]
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      "\u00a6int\u0259\u00a6(r)amn\u0113\u0259n"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin interamn us interamnian (from Latin inter- + amnis river) + English -ian":""
    },
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012214"
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      "abbreviation"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012818"
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      "noun,",
      "verb"
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        "intercompared the two sets of data"
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1913, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013259"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the space between two columns":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin intercolumnium , from inter- + columna column":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014102"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one of the flat, rubbery pieces that separate the bones of the backbone":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014606"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a crime (as piracy, illicit trade in narcotics, slave trading) in violation of international law":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021137"
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
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      ": to lead to or make known by a formal act, announcement, or recommendation: such as":[],
      ": to cause to be acquainted":[],
      ": to make preliminary explanatory or laudatory remarks about":[],
      ": to bring (someone, such as an actor or singer) before the public for the first time":[],
      ": to present or announce formally or officially or by an official reading":[
        "introduce legislation"
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      ": to present formally at court or into society":[],
      ": to lead or bring in especially for the first time":[
        "\u2026 U.S. fishery managers have introduced exotic species into most waters in North America, largely to please sport fishermen.",
        "\u2014 Yvonne Baskin"
      ],
      ": to bring into play":[],
      ": to bring into practice or use : institute":[],
      ": to bring to a knowledge of something":[
        "introduced them to new ideas"
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      ": place , insert":[
        "introduce foreign genes into crops"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccin-tr\u0259-\u02c8d\u00fcs",
      "-\u02c8dy\u00fcs"
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    "synonyms":[
      "acquaint",
      "present"
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    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for introduce introduce , insert , insinuate , interpolate , intercalate , interpose , interject mean to put between or among others. introduce is a general term for bringing or placing a thing or person into a group or body already in existence. introduced a new topic into the conversation insert implies putting into a fixed or open space between or among. inserted a clause in the contract insinuate implies introducing gradually or by gentle pressure. insinuated himself into the group interpolate applies to the inserting of something extraneous or spurious. interpolated her own comments into the report intercalate suggests an intrusive inserting of something in an existing series or sequence. new chapters intercalated with the old interpose suggests inserting an obstruction or cause of delay. interpose barriers to communication interject implies an abrupt or forced introduction. interjected a question",
    "examples":[
      "Let me introduce myself: my name is John Smith.",
      "They have been slow to introduce changes in procedure.",
      "The designer is introducing a new line of clothes.",
      "He introduced several issues during the meeting.",
      "New evidence was introduced at the trial.",
      "introduce a bill to Congress",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The crisis of the 2020 presidential election also reveals the broader risks to voting rights, since many state legislatures have used the lie that there was widespread fraud to introduce more voting restrictions. \u2014 Julian Zelizer, CNN , 1 July 2022",
      "Glasser and his organization hosted a community meeting in late May, with Armstrong and other city officials in attendance, to introduce the proposal to the community. \u2014 Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal , 1 July 2022",
      "Asprey also aims to introduce the tech rich to traditional establishment players creating a new symbiotic economy. \u2014 Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
      "Still, advertising executives believe that building out the business at Netflix could take time, and that the company might be able to introduce the new tier only in a handful of international markets by the end of the year. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
      "The decision to introduce a 100% CO2 emissions reduction target by 2035 for new cars and vans would effectively prohibit the sale in the 27-nation bloc of new cars powered by gasoline or diesel. \u2014 Samuel Petrequin, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
      "His absence is used to the film's advantage, however, to introduce romantic tension between Lady Mary and a certain handsome movie director. \u2014 Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day , 29 June 2022",
      "Breder is traveling to the festival with his mother in order to introduce the film. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 29 June 2022",
      "Sofar has helped introduce the world to performers like Andra Day and Billie Eilish. \u2014 Noah Lederman, SPIN , 27 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin introducere , from intro- + ducere to lead \u2014 more at tow entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021630"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": having made no valid will":[
        "died intestate"
      ],
      ": not disposed of by will":[
        "an intestate estate"
      ],
      ": one who dies intestate":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "in-\u02c8te-\u02ccst\u0101t",
      "-st\u0259t",
      "in-\u02c8tes-\u02cct\u0101t"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "However, if a person dies and a will is not found within six months, the intestate succession laws decide which family members will inherit the estate. \u2014 Branded Content Contributor, Orange County Register , 19 Nov. 2019",
      "The laws of intestate succession typically put any children first in line, followed by parents. \u2014 Liz Weston, latimes.com , 1 Apr. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin intestatus , from in- + testatus testate":"Adjective"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1658, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021815"
  },
  "interpenetrable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": capable of being mutually penetrated":[
        "portrays good and evil as interpenetrable and relative",
        "\u2014 K. O. Myrick"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
    ],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + penetrable":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024358"
  },
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      "plural noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": producer goods":[]
    },
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024525"
  },
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      "idiom"
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    "definitions":{
      ": in a very sudden and mysterious way":[
        "My keys seem to have vanished/disappeared into thin air ."
      ]
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025130"
  },
  "interhuman":{
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      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": existing or occurring between human beings":[
        "interhuman relations",
        "interhuman contagion"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "inter- + human":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025402"
  },
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    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
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    "definitions":{
      ": to merge gradually one with another through a continuous series of intermediate forms":[],
      ": an intermediate form":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8in-t\u0259r-\u02ccgr\u0101d",
      "\u02ccin-t\u0259r-\u02c8gr\u0101d"
    ],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Pure Florida's are found mostly from Gainesville, Florida, southward--those in the northern part of the state are primarily intergrades with northern strain bass, biologists say. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, AL.com , 28 June 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1874, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1888, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025539"
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