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"rhetoric":{
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": skill in the effective use of speech":[],
": the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as":[],
": the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by critics of ancient times":[],
": the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion":[],
": verbal communication : discourse":[]
},
"examples":[
"The media almost never discuss what the sweeping dismantling of public services inherent in the rhetoric of the antigovernment movement would mean in practice. \u2014 E. J. Dionne, Jr. , Commonweal , 20 Nov. 2009",
"What they are in reality are the romantic words of a man who needs glorious rhetoric to cover up murderous reality. \u2014 Pete Hamill , Cosmopolitan , April 1976",
"No speech could have been more thoroughly honest in its intention: the frigid rhetoric at the end was as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook. \u2014 George Eliot , Middlemarch , 1872",
"Otherwise he might have been a great general, blowing up all sorts of towns, or he might have been a great politician, dealing in all sorts of parliamentary rhetoric ; but as it was, he and the Court of Chancery had fallen upon each other in the pleasantest way, and nobody was much the worse \u2026 \u2014 Charles Dickens , Bleak House , 1852-53",
"a college course in rhetoric",
"the mayor's promise to fight drugs was just rhetoric , since there was no money in the city budget for a drug program",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And for all of their rhetoric about strictly interpreting the Constitution, this Supreme Court\u2019s conservative justices seem perfectly willing to apply the Constitution in selective ways that serve their ideological purposes. \u2014 Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News , 30 June 2022",
"Having backed themselves into a corner with their earlier rhetoric , China's leaders feel unable to change tack -- even in the light of more transmissible coronavirus variants like Omicron -- without an acute loss of face. \u2014 Tara John, CNN , 29 June 2022",
"Republicans amped up their anti-Madigan rhetoric in hopes that Democrats tied even tangentially to the ex-speaker would suffer politically from any association with him. \u2014 Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"Taken with his bellicose rhetoric , these actions demonstrated that the world could no longer assume that the United States was committed to defending the geopolitical status quo. \u2014 Daniel Bessner, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"But his rhetoric and self-regard have long exceeded France\u2019s power and Mr. Macron\u2019s skills and instincts in foreign affairs. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
"The more DeSantis appeared on Fox and similarly strident platforms, the more polarizing his rhetoric became. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
"Soon after Thiel escalated his anti-China rhetoric , Zuckerberg did an about-face. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2022",
"Soon after Thiel escalated his anti-China rhetoric , Zuckerberg did an about-face. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post , 19 June 2022"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English rethorik , from Anglo-French rethorique , from Latin rhetorica , from Greek rh\u0113torik\u0113 , literally, art of oratory, from feminine of rh\u0113torikos of an orator, from rh\u0113t\u014dr orator, rhetorician, from eirein to say, speak \u2014 more at word":""
},
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"\u02c8re-t\u0259-rik"
],
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"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"oratory",
"verbiage",
"wind"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": of, relating to, or concerned with rhetoric":[],
": verbal":[]
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"examples":[
"McKinney made her name in Georgia politics as a rhetorical bomb-thrower. Colleagues in the statehouse dubbed her \"Hanoi Cynthia\" after a 1991 speech denouncing the Persian Gulf War. \u2014 Bill Turque , Newsweek , 29 Nov. 1993",
"Clinton's acceptance speech evidenced some of the classical rhetorical devices such as paronomasia, or punning, and anaphora, or repetition of key words or phrases. \u2014 Leo McManus , English Today , October 1993",
"\"Take that river down there, for instance. It conforms pretty much to the map, doesn't it",
"\u2026 he [Thomas Wolfe] crammed his novels with lavish apostrophes to Life and Death and Loneliness and Sorrow, covering page after page with grandiose rhetorical flourishes \u2026 , pseudo-Homeric epithets \u2026 , wooden dialogue and pious homilies about \"the brevity of our days.\" \u2014 James Atlas , New York Times Book Review , 2 Dec. 1979",
"My question was rhetorical . I wasn't really expecting an answer.",
"you can skip over the rhetorical passages and still get the gist of the essay",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The dismal maternal and child health outcomes in many of these states suggest this is merely a rhetorical question, and a bitterly laughable one at that. \u2014 Amanda Allen, ELLE , 24 May 2022",
"Charlotte Valuer, Founder of the Institute of Neurodiversity, asked this rhetorical question recently in a panel. \u2014 Nancy Doyle, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"Given the current situation in Belarus, a prudent approach may be to provide financial, rhetorical , and organizational support to the leaders of the pro-democracy movement beyond the borders of the country. \u2014 Alexander Vindman And Andrei Sannikov, CNN , 16 Nov. 2021",
"Her question is urgent, but for the reader, entirely rhetorical . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 30 Sep. 2021",
"While discussing the atrocity in Uvalde from the White House on Tuesday evening, President Biden indulged himself in a cynical rhetorical game. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 27 May 2022",
"The Los Angeles mayor\u2019s race has seemingly devolved in recent days into a rhetorical brawl between two of the city\u2019s richest men, Benjamin Oreskes wrote. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022",
"Liberals have been losing the rhetorical battle over guns for decades. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 26 May 2022",
"The Chinese have given the Russians all kinds of rhetorical and political support. \u2014 CBS News , 22 May 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"see rhetoric":""
},
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"ri-\u02c8t\u022fr-i-k\u0259l",
"-\u02c8t\u00e4r-"
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"bombastic",
"flatulent",
"fustian",
"gaseous",
"gassy",
"grandiloquent",
"oratorical",
"orotund",
"windy"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
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"rheumatoid factor":{
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"noun"
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": an autoantibody of high molecular weight that reacts against IgG immunoglobulins and is often present in rheumatoid arthritis":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Nearly everyone who is evaluated for psoriatic arthritis will have their blood tested for rheumatoid factor (RF), a protein produced by the immune system that attacks healthy joints. \u2014 Sara Gaynes Lev, SELF , 30 July 2021",
"The doctor on call had the presence of mind to do a rheumatoid factor test, which tests for a type of protein that your immune system produces that can attack healthy tissue. \u2014 Natasha Lavender, SELF , 15 Oct. 2020"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a substance that is present in the red blood cells of most people":[]
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"noun"
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": a usually chronic autoimmune disease that is characterized especially by pain, stiffness, inflammation, swelling, and sometimes destruction of joints":[
"\u2014 abbreviation RA"
],
"\u2014 compare osteoarthritis":[
"\u2014 abbreviation RA"
]
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"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Specialty drugs tend to be high priced and treat chronic, potentially life-threatening conditions such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis , growth hormone deficiency, and multiple sclerosis. \u2014 Maureen Testoni, STAT , 13 June 2022",
"Women are more likely to be diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis , lupus and multiple sclerosis, for instance, while men are more likely to be diagnosed with autism. \u2014 Meghan Mcdonough, Scientific American , 16 May 2022",
"The two leading types include rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, of which the latter is most common. \u2014 Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"The virus or the antibodies to it seemed to be disproportionately found in people suffering from autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis , lupus, and multiple sclerosis as well as those suffering from chronic fatigue. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The settlement is only the latest such deal in which AbbVie has successfully delayed a would-be rival from marketing its own version of the rheumatoid arthritis treatment, which generated $17.3 billion in U.S. sales last year. \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The companies sell the drug for rheumatoid arthritis treatment under the brand name Olumiant. \u2014 Fortune , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The companies sell the drug for rheumatoid arthritis treatment under the brand name Olumiant. \u2014 Naomi Kresge, Bloomberg.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The price of Xeljanz, Pfizer\u2019s rheumatoid arthritis treatment that had $1.1 billion in U.S. sales through the third quarter, went up 5.5%. \u2014 Joseph Walker, WSJ , 30 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173218"
},
"rhesus monkey":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a pale brown Asian macaque ( Macaca mulatta ) often used in medical research":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8r\u0113-s\u0259s-"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The rhesus monkey experiments contributed to research that White hoped could lead to human head transplants -- a Frankenstein-esque idea that raises endless ethical questions. \u2014 Anne Nickoloff, cleveland , 15 Mar. 2021",
"Two years before any humans flew into space, on May 28, 1959, Miss Baker and her colleague Miss Able, a rhesus monkey , were strapped into a Jupiter rocket and shot 300 miles into the sky. \u2014 Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living , 26 Mar. 2021",
"In 1970, White famously transplanted one rhesus monkey head onto the body of another monkey. \u2014 Anne Nickoloff, cleveland , 15 Mar. 2021",
"Another rhesus monkey named Albert II, for example, became the first primate to reach space, achieving an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) aboard another V2 in June 1949. \u2014 Mike Wall, Scientific American , 29 Jan. 2013",
"Bavari and other government scientists were co-authors of an article in the scientific journal Nature that described its discovery and successful tests in the government's rhesus monkeys . \u2014 Author: Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News , 27 May 2020",
"Fifty rhesus monkeys living in outdoor pens year-round were exposed to a prolonged period of wildfire smoke as infants in 2008. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Two rhesus monkeys that recovered from being infected with SARS-CoV-2 at Peking Union Medical College were resistant to reinfection 4 weeks later. \u2014 Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS , 13 Apr. 2020",
"Fifty rhesus monkeys living in outdoor pens year-round were exposed to a prolonged period of wildfire smoke as infants in 2008. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Rhesus , genus of monkeys, from Latin, a mythical king of Thrace, from Greek Rh\u0113sos":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1829, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185656"
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"adjective"
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": characteristic of or affected with rheumatoid arthritis":[]
},
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"\u02c8ru\u0307-",
"-\u02cct\u022fid",
"\u02c8r\u00fc-m\u0259-\u02cct\u022fid"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hydroxychloroquine is often used to treat lupus and rheumatoid disease. \u2014 Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner , 28 May 2020",
"In a March 31 opinion piece, researchers urged their colleagues to protect patients with rheumatoid conditions and avoid misusing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 10 Apr. 2020",
"Other drugs that helped drive Novartis\u2019s growth last year were Cosentyx for psoriasis and certain rheumatoid conditions, and Entresto for heart failure. \u2014 Denise Roland, WSJ , 29 Jan. 2020",
"Pfizer Inc. said this month that Inflectra, its version of the blockbuster Johnson & Johnson rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade brought in $94 million in the second quarter. \u2014 Jared S Hopkins, Bloomberg.com , 15 Aug. 2017",
"The 32-year-old mother and Air Force veteran said rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and the initial stages of Parkinson\u2019s disease had kept her in bed for hours a day. \u2014 Danica Coto, The Seattle Times , 11 Aug. 2017",
"The 32-year-old mother and Air Force veteran said rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and the initial stages of Parkinson\u2019s disease had kept her in bed for hours a day. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Aug. 2017",
"The rheumatoid arthritis drug etanercept, which inhibits a key cytokine that leads to inflammation, also had no effect. \u2014 Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS , 12 July 2017",
"The drugs the team used were Tocilizumab, a rheumatoid arthritis treatment, and Reparixin, which is being evaluated for cancer treatment. \u2014 Carrie Wells, baltimoresun.com , 16 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary, from rheumatism":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003242"
},
"rheumatism weed":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": any of several North American plants used especially formerly in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in the joints: such as":[],
": pipsissewa":[],
": either of two common dogbanes ( Apocynum cannibinum and A. androsaemifolium )":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021642"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080259"
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"noun"
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": any of various conditions characterized by inflammation or pain in muscles, joints, or fibrous tissue":[
"muscular rheumatism"
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": rheumatoid arthritis":[]
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"\u02c8ru\u0307-",
"\u02c8r\u00fc-m\u0259-\u02ccti-z\u0259m",
"\u02c8ru\u0307m-\u0259-",
"\u02c8r\u00fc-m\u0259-\u02cctiz-\u0259m"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"It\u2019s located in the Natural Park of the Lagunas de la Mata y Torrevieja and in addition to having exceptional color, this lake is said to have therapeutic properties \u2014 especially for rheumatism \u2014 thanks to the healing components of its salty waters. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 15 May 2022",
"One member, Yuri Yudin, turned back on January 27 because his rheumatism had flared up, and the knee and joint pain was too severe to continue. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 31 Mar. 2022",
"By 1927, Radium Sulphur Springs had changed its name to Hollywood Mineral Springs, capitalizing on the local product, and now claiming treatments \u2014 not cures \u2014 for rheumatism , high blood pressure, neuritis and sciatica, and excess weight. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
"Patients suffering from tuberculosis, rheumatism and gout flocked to the property\u2019s three turn-of-the-20th-century soaking pools, surrounded by rocks and palm trees. \u2014 Mickey Rapkin, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2021",
"When rheumatism forced him to seek treatment in Seattle, best wishes were addressed to Young Viking. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Dec. 2020",
"One woman brought her son, who suffered from a chronic illness that doctors in the region hadn\u2019t been able to identify; Shikankov quickly diagnosed the boy\u2019s rheumatism . \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 8 Dec. 2020",
"Tiger-bone wine is believed to cure rheumatism , weakness, or paralysis. \u2014 Jenni Marsh, CNN , 15 Aug. 2020",
"Not only does the infrared heat penetrate 2.5 inches into the skin to reach muscles and joints, but the special heat system also promotes detoxification, immune system support, and relief from arthritis, rheumatism , and fibromyalgia. \u2014 Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure , 25 June 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin rheumatismus flux, rheum, from Greek rheumatismos , from rheumatizesthai to suffer from a flux, from rheumat-, rheuma flux":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1670, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-091235"
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"abbreviation"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122339"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": of, relating to, characteristic of, or affected with rheumatism":[],
": one affected with rheumatism":[]
},
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"ru\u0307-\u02c8mat-ik",
"ru\u0307-\u02c8ma-tik"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"There, on a rocky, north-pointing finger of the Breton coast, rheumatic patients could come to be treated with seawater rich in algae, which is packed with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, including iodine. \u2014 Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"This week in 1968, Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States on Everett Thomas, 47, whose heart was damaged from rheumatic heart disease. \u2014 Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"Everybody who lived there became rheumatic , had chronic bronchitis and gout. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Scleroderma is a rare, autoimmune connective tissue and rheumatic disease that primarily causes inflammation in the skin, and can lead to inflammation in other parts of the body, according to the National Institutes of Health. \u2014 Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Her doctor recommended several disease-modifying anti- rheumatic drugs (DMARDs): a family of medications that help prevent the immune system from going haywire and causing inflammation, according to the Cleveland Clinic. \u2014 Natasha Lavender, SELF , 19 Nov. 2021",
"The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology COVID-19 Registry documented the experiences of 1,500 people with RA and other rheumatic diseases. \u2014 Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com , 4 Nov. 2021",
"The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology COVID-19 Registry documented the experiences of 1,500 people with RA and other rheumatic diseases. \u2014 Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com , 4 Nov. 2021",
"The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology COVID-19 Registry documented the experiences of 1,500 people with RA and other rheumatic diseases. \u2014 Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com , 2 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English rewmatik subject to rheum, from Anglo-French reumatike , from Latin rheumaticus , from Greek rheumatikos , from rheumat-, rheuma":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1711, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1738, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-170558"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": a watery discharge from the mucous membranes especially of the eyes or nose":[],
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"\u02c8r\u00fcm",
"\u02c8r\u0113-\u0259m"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Amir began wheezing at night \u2014 once so badly that an ambulance was called \u2014 and woke up most mornings to find his eyes swollen shut with rheum . \u2014 Hannah Natanson, Washington Post , 9 July 2018",
"This washes excess tear fluid that would form into rheum away into your eye\u2019s tear drainage system, Dr. Kathuria explains. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 17 Jan. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English reume , from Anglo-French, from Latin rheuma , from Greek, literally, flow, flux, from rhein to flow \u2014 more at stream":""
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-194951"
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"by shortening & alteration":""
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"-ki also r\u0259\u02c8m-",
"(\u02c8)r\u00fc\u00a6mat\u0259\u0307k\u0113",
"-at\u0259\u0307-",
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": an acute disease that occurs chiefly in children and adolescents following inadequately treated Group A streptococcal infection of the upper respiratory tract (such as in strep throat ) and is characterized by fever, by inflammation and pain in and around the joints, and by inflammatory involvement of the pericardium and heart valves":[]
},
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sitting with his wife, Mimi, playing gin rummy at a table outside Gate H, Strickland said rheumatic fever kept him away from ballparks as a child. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
"During one of those tours, Jeff came down with rheumatic fever , which went untreated for several weeks. \u2014 Mary Kekatos, ABC News , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The organization cared for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and, at the Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum, Sudan, children whose hearts were damaged by rheumatic fever . \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Aug. 2021",
"At 13, he was stricken with rheumatic fever and spent his days monitoring radio accounts of World War II. \u2014 Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times , 8 Aug. 2021",
"Timothy Irwin Means was diagnosed with rheumatic fever as a child. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 Aug. 2021",
"While those symptoms generally resolve within another few weeks\u2019 time, approximately half of all rheumatic fever patients also experience carditis \u2014 inflammation that can affect any area of the heart, potentially resulting in permanent damage. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 July 2021",
"Bedridden for a year with rheumatic fever during the second grade, Keith Wilcock spent hours upon hours drawing scenes of planes crashing. \u2014 Madison Karas, Star Tribune , 13 July 2021",
"An untreated infection may lead first to a condition called acute rheumatic fever , which typically presents with fever and arthritis weeks after the initial infection. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 1 July 2021"
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"1726, in the meaning defined above":""
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