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{
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"poach":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to appropriate (something) as one's own":[],
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": to attract (someone, such as an employee or customer) away from a competitor":[],
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": to cook in simmering liquid":[],
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": to encroach upon especially for the purpose of taking something":[],
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": to take (game or fish) by illegal methods":[],
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": to trespass on":[
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"a field poached too frequently by the amateur",
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"\u2014 The Times Literary Supplement (London)"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"That the Padres were able to poach Oakland\u2019s career leader in managerial victories was a thunderbolt in the moment last October, and the first signal that the A\u2019s were about to embark on another rebuilding project. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
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"When a rising wealth management star departed the bank for a senior job at cross-town rival UBS, Credit Suisse authorized surveillance to determine whether Iqbal Khan planned to poach customers and employees with him. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 21 Feb. 2022",
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"They are wearily accustomed to getting solicited by cold outreaches from recruiters and bombarded with emails and texts from competing firms trying to poach them. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
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"You\u2019ll be compelled to take it home, to toss it with hot, buttered pasta, or to bring it up to a simmer and use it to poach an egg. \u2014 New York Times , 2 May 2022",
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"His presence in Seattle is also an excellent way for Richard to figure out that Hamilton is trying to poach Meredith. \u2014 Lincee Ray, EW.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
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"Animal traders poach their horns for commercial and medical purposes, often for use in traditional Chinese medicine. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"To poach boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut the chicken in half or in thirds crosswise, depending on how large the pieces are. \u2014 Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
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"In addition, Bowlsby accused ESPN in July of 2021 of encouraging other conferences - reportedly the American - to poach teams in the Big 12, so Texas and Oklahoma can move to the SEC without paying a massive buyout. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 5 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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"1611, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English pocchen , from Middle French pocher , from Old French poch\u00e9 poached, literally, bagged, from poche bag, pocket \u2014 more at pouch":"Verb",
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"Middle French pocher , of Germanic origin; akin to Middle English poken to poke":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8p\u014dch"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072518",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"poa":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a genus of grasses that are widely distributed in temperate and arctic regions and have open panicles with 2- to 6-flowered spikelets on which the upper scales exceed the empty ones \u2014 see kentucky bluegrass , wire grass":[],
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": any grass of the genus Poa":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8p\u014d\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Greek, grass; akin to Greek pidax spring, Lithuanian pieva meadow":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170835"
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}
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} |